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One Hundred Years Of Nonviolent Resistance
BY ANNE AND PERRY SIBLEY O'BRIEN In 1908 Mohandas Gandhi spoke to a crowd of 3,000. Together they protested against an unjust law without guns or rioting. Peacefully they made a difference. Gandhis words and deeds influenced countless others to work toward the goals of freedom and justice through peaceful methods. Mother and son team, Anne and Perry Edmond OBrien, highlight some of the people and events that Gandhis actions inspired. From Rosa Parks to the students at Tiananmen Square to Wangari Maathai, these people have made the world sit up and take notice. The provocative graphics and beautiful portraits accompanying these stories stir the emotions and inspire a sense of civic responsibility.
Charlesbridge 2009 192 PP. Cloth
$24.95 (in stock)
Prayer For Ordinary Radicals
BY SHANE CLAIBORNE AND JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE "Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do." Shane and Jonathan show how prayer and action must go together. Key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like "give us this day our daily bread" and "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief. If you hope to see God change society, you must be an ordinary radical who prays - and then is ready to become the answer to your own prayers.
Inter-Varsity Press 2008 124 PP. Paper
$13.00 (in stock)
From Good Intentions To Everyday Actions
BY ELLIS JONES, ROSS HAENFLER, BRETT JOHNSON AND BRIAN KLOCKE It would be a perfect world if everyone could quit their jobs and devote themselves fully to the causes they believed in. The Better World Handbook shows ordinary, caring people how to live out their values and have a life as well! The principle behind this informative and user-friendly guide is to incorporate everyday activism into even the most mundane areas of our busy lives-like grocery shopping, banking, eating, reading the newspaper, and working.
New Society 2001 300 PP. Paper
$12.95 (in stock)
How The Largest Social Movement In History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, And Beauty To The World
BY PAUL HAWKEN Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. "This is first full account of the real news of our time, and it's exactly the opposite of the official account. The movers and shakers on our planet aren't the billionaires and the generals - they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing, revitalizing. This powerful and lovely book is their story - our story - and it's high time someone's told it. Nothing you read for years to come will fill you with more hope and more determination." - Bill McKibben
Penguin 2008 352 PP. Paper
$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)
And Other Lessons For Grassroots Organizing
BY LINDA STOUT This book is a practical and inspirational guide to overcoming barriers of class and race. Again and again social change movements have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up and lead. It can be done. Quaker Linda Stout herself grew up in poverty in rural North Carolina and went on to found one of this country's most successful and innovative grassroots organizations, the Piedmont Peace Project.
Beacon Press 1997 192 PP. Paper
$16.95 (in stock)
At Home And Abroad G - Z
BY DOUGLAS DOWD "The bitter truth is that although we have had every opportunity to become a truly wonderful society, we have failed to shed our past faults and are now evolving toward something the opposite of wonderful: The gap between our realities and our ideals, despite important changes now and again, widens to resemble the Grand Canyon."-from the preface. With 160 entries from arrogance to zoos, Douglas Dowd puts the U.S. back in its cage. The ultimate primer and reference work on what has gone wrong in our country. Biographical sketches from Kissinger to Sacco and Vanzetti, combined with solid analysis of horrific deeds provides the reader with an education like no other.
CC Press 2005 300 PP. Paper
$4.50 (in stock)
At Home And Abroad, Past And Present, An Encyclopedia For Our Times, Volume 1: A-f
CC Press 2005 378 PP. Paper
Listen To The Light Of Christ, And Then Act
BY CHERICE BOCK Part of the New Voices series of talks by young adult (18-35) Friends, this essay by Cherice Bock tells us where Quaker spirituality is centered in her life and what action that calls for. She identifies ways in which each branch of Friends could be better centered and empowered to do God's work in the world. Cherice participated in the 2005 World Gathering of Young Friends, representing Northwest Yearly Meeting (EFI).
Beacon Hill Friends House 2007 32 PP. Paper
$4.00 (in stock)
How Groups Can Work Together For A Just And Sustainable Future
BY LINDA STOUT Stout lays out the extensive and innovative prework that must be done to build trust and openness before any kind of meeting is held - a distinctive feature of collective visioning. She describes creative approaches for encouraging people to share their histories and most deeply held personal values, and she explains how understanding why each person is drawn to the work is vital in designing action strategies that build on people's particular strengths. She illustrates her points with inspiring stories of what collective vision can accomplish, drawn from her decades of committed activism.
Berrett Koehler 2011 198 PP. Paper
$17.95 (in stock)
Workers And Change In The Rural Midwest
BY DEBORAH FINK Quaker Deborah Fink draws both on interviews and on firsthand experience working on the production floor of a pork-processing plant. She weaves a fascinating account of the meatpacking industry's history in Iowa - a history, she notes, that has been experienced differently by male and female, immigrant and native-born, white and black workers. Indeed, argues Fink, these differences are a key factor in the ongoing creation of the rural working class. She looks within rural midwestern culture itself to examine the class, gender, and ethnic contradictions that allowed-indeed welcomed-the meatpacking industry's development.
Chapel Hill 1998 235 PP. Paper
$32.95 (in stock)
TERESA RODRIGUEZ SECONDHAND BOOK -as new in dustjacket. Subtitled "A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border" Terrible harrowing book. Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile: young, slender, and poor, fueling the premise that the murders are not random.
Atria 2007 314 PP. Cloth
$8.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST
BY CHRIS HEDGES The Death of the Liberal Class examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues there are five pillars of the liberal establishment - the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party-- and that each of these institutions, more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress, sold out the constituents they represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.
Nation Books 2011 248 PP. Cloth
The Map Model For Organising Social Movements
BY BILL MOYER This activist tool offers a theoretical model for ensuring that social movements are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health and globalization movements. Written by a Friend (NOT Bill MoyerS!)
New Society 2001 240 PP Blank
The Diaries Of Dorothy Day
EDITED BY ROBERT ELLSBERG Dorothy Day was the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. After being sealed for twenty-five years, the publication of her diaries offers a uniquely intimate portrait of her daily struggles and concerns. For almost fifty years, through her tireless service of the poor and her courageous witness for peace, she offered an extraordinary example of the gospel in action. These daily musings recount her story from 1934 to 1980. She displays a rare balance between radicalism and tradition, action and contemplation, the transcendent and the everyday. Ellsberg was a member of the Catholic Workers community in New York and is a careful and skilful editor.
Marquette University Press 2008 700 PP. Cloth
$42.00 (in stock)
Perspectives On British Quaker Work In The World Today
EDITED BY BRIAN PHILLIPS, JOHN LAMPEN From William Penn's time to now, Quakers have been influential with a continuing tradition of work for justice and peace in the world, arising out of their religious experience. This book's contributors represent a wide range of experience as Quakers at work. Together they suggest there is still a crucial gap to be filled by projects such as theirs, and offer some criteria for running them.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2006 127 PP. Paper
$15.00 (in stock)
Quaker Social Testimony
ESSAYS BY JONATHAN DALE AND OTHERS Where do we stand on lived witness, on social testimony? Both in the essay by Jonathan Dale and the short contributions from many Friends, we get a glimpse at other people's experience of the living truth. As Jonathan Dale says, "The more the Light is followed, the deeper the joy and the readier we may be for the next step." This book will inspire readers to think about how we live out our testimonies in our lives, develop a culture of mutual accountability, and share the lessons from our journeys. When we say God is love, the integrity of our claim is known by the degree to which it is lived out in our lives.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 292 PP. Paper
$20.00 (in stock)
BY JOEL BEST SECONDHAND, as new in dustjacket. While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such as open classrooms, quality circles, and multiple personality disorder are constantly making the rounds, promising astonishing new developments--novel ways of teaching reading or arithmetic, better methods of managing businesses, or improved treatments for disease.
Univ California 2006 201 PP. Paper
$6.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST
Leading As An Ordinary Radical
BY SHANE CLAIBORNE AND JOHN PERKINS Shane Claiborne and John Perkins know the hopes and longings of this age. One is young; the other is decades older. One is a self-proclaimed reformed redneck who now lives in the inner city and has become a voice for compassionate change; the other is an evangelical African-American voice for civil rights who once was almost beaten to death by police in Mississippi, and went on to counsel three presidents and launch a reconciliation movement. You would be hard pressed to find a more unlikely duo, yet Claiborne and Perkins now lead the way toward freedom for all. In a world hungry for radical hope, their stories will guide as we walk down the rugged road to another world.
Regal 2009 224 PP. Paper
$14.99 (in stock)
Bringing Creative Change To A Turbulent World
BY DAVID PEAT Gentle Action argues that traditional forms of action (aid programs, government policies, social interventions, etc) are often ineffective or even socially disruptive. The book proposes a radically new approach of working from within a system in gentle and intelligent ways. It discusses how businesses can be creatively reorganized, emphasizes the importance of trust in society and provides a number of practical examples of Gentle Action.
Pari 2008 174 PP. Paper
An Introduction
BY KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS Professor Kimberly Hutchings presents an introduction to the study of global ethics for those without much experience, and applies those ideas to pressing global issues from war to aid and development. Includes reflection questions and book lists.
Polity Books 2010 244 PP. Paper
$22.95 (in stock)
The Society For Universal Inquiry And Reform, 1842--1846
BY THOMAS HAMM Growing out of the radical fringes of the abolitionist movement, the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform set out to found a new social order based on the principles of nonresistance. The Society founded eight utopian communities, which, though short-lived, were the setting for the most radical questioning of antebellum American society. The members of the Society renounced all forms of coercive relationships. They attempted to live without government or private property and to model new visions of work, education, religion, economics, women's rights and roles, and community. This book tells the story of their attempt to transform the world and begin the "Government of God."
Indiana Univ Press 1995 344 PP. Cloth
$59.95 (in stock)
Why The Right Gets It Wrong And The Left Doesn't Get It
BY JIM WALLIS God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition -- that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians). Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God.
HarperSanFrancisco 2006 384 PP. Paper
$14.95 (in stock)
The Courage To Create A Politics Worthy Of The Human Spirit
BY PARKER PALMER Friend Parker Palmer builds on his own extensive experience to examine the personal and social infrastructure of American politics. What he did for educators in The Courage to Teach he does here for citizens by looking at the dynamics of our inner lives for clues to reclaiming our civic well-being. He points the way to a politics rooted in the commonwealth of compassion and creativity still found among "We the People." He proposes practical and hopeful methods to hold the tensions of our differences in a manner that can help us restore a government "of the people, by the people, for the people."
Jossey Bass 2011 240 PP. Cloth
Why We Must Share The Story Of The Movement
BY VINCENT HARDING An impassioned call to community activists, and educators to remember and keep alive the story of the black-led freedom movement. Harding argues the importance of knowing for ourselves, incorporating into our lives, and teaching to others the events and goals of this historic movement.
Orbis 2010 223 P. Paper
$16.00 (in stock)
Keeping The Faith In Difficult Times
COMPILED BY STUDS TERKEL An alternative, more personal history of the `American century.' For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion, to the now-retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who hope for a better world. Terkel's subjects express with grace and warmth their secret hopes and dreams, combining to tell an inspiring story of optimism and persistence that resonates with the eloquence of conviction.
New Press 2005 360 PP. Paper
Social Entrepreneurs And The Power Of New Ideas
BY DAVID BORNSTEIN David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world - what Bornstein calls social entrepreneurs. These men and women are bringing innovative, and successful, grass roots approaches to a wide variety of social and economic problems, from rural poverty in India to discrimination against gypsies in Central Europe; from industrial pollution in the United States to child prostitution in Thailand. Like business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs are creative, driven, and adventurous. They embrace change, exploit new opportunities, and think big. Bornstein provides vivid profiles of many such individuals.
Oxford Press 2007 368 PP. Paper
$15.95 (in stock)
A Citizen's Guide To Hope In A Time Of Fear
BY PAUL ROGAT-LOEB What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we act to create a more humane world, no matter how hard it seems? How do we offer models of involvement for our students when many feel their actions cannot matter? The Impossible Will Take a Little While gathers stories and essays of engagement that range across nations, eras, and political movements. These visionary and eloquent voices include Maya Angelou, Marian Wright Edelman, Jim Hightower, Jonathan Kozol, Tony Kushne r, Nelson Mandela, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Parker Palmer , Howard Zinn, Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Walter Wink, Jim Wallis, Joanna Macy, Amos Oz, and Desmond Tutu.
Basic Books 2004 422 PP. Paper
Conversations With Spiritual Social Activists, Revised Edition
EDITED BY CATHERINE INGRAM, FOREWORD BY ARUN GANDHI, AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL NAGLER In the spring of 2003 there was a worldwide demonstration for nonviolence that was the largest in history. At a time when eloquent and inspiring voices for peace are relevant more than ever, In the Footsteps of Gandhi, profiles contemporary leaders in this struggle. Here are people whose positive work has been part of international news for decades-in topics ranging from AIDS, to apartheid, to the Israeli-Palestine conflict-all of whom embody the understanding that violence is not stopped by violence. The book contends that violence is only ended by love. This revised edition of Catherine Ingram's book features interviews with Mubarak Awad, Joanna Macy, Thich Nhat Hahn and others.
Parallax Press 2005 272 PP. Paper
Living As An Ordinary Radical
BY SHANE CLAIBORNE, FOREWORD BY JIM WALLIS In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. "For me, The Irresistible Revolution embodies the most exciting, radical potential of what it might mean to truly live the teachings of Jesus in today's world. Shane Claiborne, a young Christian activist, addresses issues of social and economic justice in a way that is richly spiritual, humorously down-to-earth, and incredibly passionate. This book never fails to energize and challenge me to live my faith in deeper, more authentic ways." - Kody Hersh
Zondervan 2006 368 PP. Paper
The Work That Reconnects
BY JOANNA MACY This 2-DVD set presents the teachings and methods of The Work That Reconnects, empowering people to respond with truth and creativity to the overwhelming social and ecological crises facing our planet. A powerful visual tool building on Macy's book Coming Back to Life, this valuable resource is a light in the political darkness of our time. The lively, personal presentation of Macy's work will appeal to workshop facilitators and participants alike, as well as to anyone with an interest in personal transformation.
New Society Press 2007 2 DVD'S Dvd
$25.00 (in stock)
Healing The Heart Of Democracy Parker Palmer
Quaker Witness As Sacrament Daniel Snyder
Kindling A Life Of Concern Jack Kirk
Radical Witness Sarah Spencer
Revolutionary Quaker Witness Doug Gwyn
Liberty, Equality, And Justice
Why Do They Call It Business (3443)
A Worker Justice Reader Joy Heine
Oppose And Propose Andrew Cornell
Hope And History Vincent Harding
