2006 Reading List:
February
What’s the Matter With
Confessions of An Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (American corporatocracy of
countries that can’t repay their burdensome loans.)
March / April
Blue Gold by Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke (Researching the crisis and corporatization of the world’s water supply.)
May
Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution by Richard Gott
June
Film presentation: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (documentary on the attempted 2002 coup to remove Hugo Chavez from office.)
July
Continued discussion on the Latin American Socialist Movement
August
Plan B 2.0 Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown (Effective management solutions offered for the current global economic path that is environmentally unsustainable.)
September /October
Last Child in the Woods, Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv (Making a case for linking ADHD with our disconnect from nature.)
November
Topic for discussion: Electronic Voting Machines / Election Fraud
December
Jimmy Carter, choice of books:
Non-fiction; Our Endangered Values, Hour Before Daylight, Talking Peace, Keeping Faith, Blood of Abraham
Fiction; Hornet’s Nest
2007 Reading
January
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (blue collar job seeking reality)
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (white collar job seeking reality)
February
Bill Moyers, any and all books, essays, and speeches.
March
Film presentation: Loose Change (was 9/11 an inside job?)
April/May
American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips (Bush family)
American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips (influence of the religious right)
June
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962 bestseller about our ravaged environment)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert (today’s environmental account)
July
Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva (a perspective on justice, sustainability, and peace by one of
August
Film presentation: !Salud! (
September
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (the story of a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures)
Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (the quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, an American doctor, his life and mission in
Summer issue of Yes! Magazine.
October
Continued discussion of Health Care Systems
November
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (one man’s mission to promote peace, one school at a time, in
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, (a novel, coming of age in Afghanastan)
December
Film: Charlie Wilson’s War (1980’s U.S. Congressman orchestrates covert funding of the mujahedin in
2008 Reading List
January
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (a family’s journey away from the industrial food pipeline to a rural life of growing and buying local food)
February
Deep Economy, The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben (exploring the consequences of economic growth, more no longer equals better)
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