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General Solutions

"The revolution is in your neighborhood, it's in your house, it's in your mind."
— Bill Cosby

Moving Ideas: The Electronic Policy Network
International Policy Network
Be The Change [UK]
Speakout [dot] org
Center for A Civil Society at U.C.L.A. [est. Jan 2003]
Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights [est. 1985]
Assn. for Progressive Communications: in English or en Español
Freeway Bloggers {nationwide}
Not In Our Name
The Heifer Project [est. 1944]
Gold Star Families for Peace
Free The Slaves & Anti-Slavery Intl.
Campus Activism Network [est. 2002]
Speak Out California! - progressive activism
National Organization for Women [est. 1966]
dKosopedia online political encyclopedia [est. April 2004]
F.I.N.C.A. {Foundation for International Community Assistance} Village Banking [est. 1985]

	"How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs & The Power of New Ideas" [orig 2004, updated 2007] by David Bornstein Interviews with fellows of the Ashoka program reveal six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs and four practices of innovative organizations. Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2007] for $11.16 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2004] for $24.00
	"The Progressives' Handbook: Get The Facts & Make A Difference Now" [2006] by Heather Wokusch Vol. 1: US Weapons of Mass Destruction, Women's Issues, Education, Mainstream Media BookSurge Publng pb [9/2006] for $15.99 Vol. 2: Elections & Voting, Environment, Foreign Policy BookSurge Publng pb [9/2006] for $15.99 official booksite
	"The Politics of Small Things: The Power of The Powerless In Dark Times" [2006] by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Univ Chicago Press hardcover [4/2006] for $29.00
	"Changing The Face of Hunger: The Story of How Liberals, Conserva- tives, Republicans, Democrats & People of Faith Are Joining Forces In A New Movement To Help The Hungry, The Poor & The Oppressed" [2006] by Tony Hall W Publng Group 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2006] for $14.29 The Congressional Hunger Center [est. 1983] website
	"Crashing The Gate: Netroots, Grassroots & The Rise of People-Powered Politics" [2006] by Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zúniga Chelsea Green 8¼x5½ pb [9/2006] for $10.36 Chelsea Green 9x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $19.00
	"Democracy's Edge: Choosing To Save Our Country By Bringing Democracy To Life" [2005] by Frances Moore Lappé lauded by Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Greg Palast, Amy Domini & Howard Zinn Jossey-Bass 9½x6 hardcover [10/2005] for $16.47
	"Grassroots: A Field Guide For Feminist Activism" [2005] by Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards FS&G 8¼x5½ pb [1/2005] for $11.20
	"We The Media: Grassroots Journalism - By The People, For The People" [2004] by Dan Gillmor O'Reilly Media 9x6¼ pb [1/2006] for $11.04 O'Reilly Media 8¾x6 hardcover [8/2004] for $15.72 publisher's bookpage
	"Don't Think of An Elephant: Know Your Values & Frame The Debate - The Essential Guide For Progressives" [2004 NY Times bestseller] by George Lakoff, Foreword by Howard Dean Chelsea Green pb [9/2004] for $8.00 Recorded Books audio CD [9/2004] for $10.19 book & DVD: includes DVD "How Democrats & Progressives Can Win" Chelsea Green book & DVD [1/2005] for $15.30
	"MoveOn's 50 Ways To Love Your Country: How To Find Your Political Voice & Become A Catalyst For Change" [2004] from MoveOn.org Inner Ocean 9x6 pb [3/2004] for $8.21 Audio Partners UNABR audio CD [6/2004] for $13.57
	"Changing Minds: The Art & Science of Changing Our Own & Other People's Minds" [2004] by Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2004] for $17.79
	"The Revolution Starts ... Now" [2004] by Steve Earle Artemis audio CD [8/2004] for $13.49
	"The Democracy Owners' Manual: A Practical Guide To Changing The World" [2002] by Jim Shultz Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2002] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2002] for $59.00
	"Leading The Revolution: How To Thrive In Turbulent Times By Making Innovation A Way of Life" [2000] by Gary Hamel designed to foment & support revolutionary thinking in the workplace, these ideas are entirely useful in all arenas of life... Plume 9x6¼ pb [8/2002] for $11.20 Harvard Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2002] for $23.10 Harvard Press 9½x7 hardcover [8/2000] out of print/used Highbridge audio CD [9/2000] 2 disks for $16.47 Highbridge ABR audio [9/2000] 2 tapes for $12.89
	"The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference" [2000] by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2002] for $14.95 Little, Brown 8¼x5¾ hardcover [2/2000] for $15.72 TimeWarner ABR audio CD [1/2005] for $16.31 TimeWarner ABR audio [2/2000] for $12.23
	"The Activist's Handbook: A Primer" [1996] by Randy Shaw "...enormously valuable for anyone interested in social change." — Howard Zinn Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [updated edition 2/2001] for $13.57
	"The Populist Persuasion: An American History" [1995] by Michael Kazin Cornell Univ Press 9½x6 pb [10/98] for $19.95 Basic Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [2/95] out of print/used author homepage
	"Take Back Your Government!: A Practical Handbook For The Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy To Work" [1992] by Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88] written in 1946, published posthumously Based on Heinlein's experience in California politics in the 1930s, particularly his efforts on behalf of Upton Sinclair's EPIC Movement and Sinclair's attempt to become the Democratic Party's nominee for California governor in 1934. Baen mass pb [7/92] out of print/used
	"The Right To Protest: The Basic A.C.L.U. Guide To Free Expression" [1991] by Joel M. Gora, David Goldberger, Gary M. Stern & Morton H. Halperin Southern IL Univ Press pb [6/91] for $19.95
	"Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up The Earth" [1990] by Diane Maceachern, illustrations by Lonni Sue Johnson Dell 9x6 pb [12/91] for $15.00 Dell 8½x6¼ pb [rev 4/95] out of print/many used
	"Rules For Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer For Realistic Radicals" [1971 classic] by Saul D. Alinsky [1909-72] Vintage 8x5 pb [10/89] for $9.60 Random House hardcover [5/71] out of print/used
	"The Active Society: A Theory of Societal & Political Processes" [1968] by Amitai Etzioni "The modern sociological classic that Etzioni considers his most important sociological work, [which] extends the analysis of effective government to the broader theoretical question of how and under what circumstances society can transform itself. In this context, [it] examines the respective roles of societal knowledge, strategy and decision making, consensus building, mobilization, coalition building, and basic human needs ... [weaving] together rich and complex social theory ... with the more universally access- ible message that the people’s lives could be much improved by the systematic applica- tion of sociological theory and method to deliberate societal change." — Richard M. Coughlin, University of New Mexico Free Press hardcover [3/68] out of print/used Free Press pb [3/71] out of print/used
	"The Port Huron Statement: The Visionary Call of The 1960s Revolu- tion" [orig. 1962] by Tom Hayden Thunder's Mouth Press 8½x6½ pb [9/2005] for $10.74
	"Reveille For Radicals" [1946 classic; revised 1969] by Saul D. Alinsky [1909-72] Vintage 8¼x5¼ pb [10/89] for $13.60
	"The Higher Law: Thoreau On Civil Disobedience & Reform" [13 essays] by Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]; introduction by Howard Zinn Princeton Univ Press 8x5 pb [5/2004] for $9.71 etext of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" [1849]

Solutions: U.S. Politics & Elections

Political Science Page
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

Selected Books on U.S. Politics & Elections
at Spirit of America Bookstore

National Political Index: Contact Federal Elected Officials
National Political Index: Contact State & Local Officials
Directory of the U.S. Senate
Directory of the U.S. House of Representatives

2008 U.S. National Elections Page
Fighting Dems: Iraq War veterans running for Congress as Democrats

"Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide To Voting" [2008]   by Steven Rosenfeld FREE book (pay $4 for s/h) from AlterNet AlterNet Publng 8¾x5¾ pb [9/2008] for $9.95

Working Minds 'Boycott W-9 Project' { begun February 2006 )

Common Good: Reforming America's Lawsuit Culture
Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy Tour
The Color of Money Project: campaign finance reform
'Smart Women Vote' non-partisan campaign
Campaign Legal Center in Washington, DC
Anti War .com website
Campaign for Corporate Reform
Network America
National Committee for Voting Integrity
The Progressive Portal - easy online activism [est. 5/2001]
Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources Catalog
Draft Resistance website

See your candidates on the issues U.S. Citizens: register to vote!

subscribe: 6 issues/year for $10.00 magazine website

direct subscription: 24 issues/6 months for $18.00 magazine website The Nation Institute: Dedicated to an independent, free press [est. 1967]

subscribe: 12 issues/year for $32.00 magazine website

subscribe: 4 issues/year for $24.00 magazine website

subscribe: 12 issues/year for $19.95 magazine website

Solutions: Economics

'Economics or Else!' Pages
at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

Selected Books on the Subject
of Class War & Economics

'WMail' Issue #23: "The Class System of America"
'WMail' Issue #35: "Debt & the Working Mind"
'WMail' Issue #40: "Capitalism"
'WMail' Issue #42: "The Oligarchy"
'WMail' Issue #51: "The Three Economies"

Working Minds 'Boycott W-9 Project' { begun Feb 2006 )

Responsible Wealth Project
United for a Fair Economy
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy [est. 1994]
ONE.org - The Campaign to Make Poverty History
Economists For Peace & Security [est. 1989]

"The Blue Pages: A Directory of Companies Rated by Their Politics & Practices" [2006] by Editors of PoliPointPress 8½x3¾ pocket directory [2/2006] for $9.95 publisher's bookpage

Solutions: Labor Movements

links, timeline, and more links consolidated to the
'Labor, Capitalism & the Working Mind' Page

fiction, non-fiction, music & film on the
American Labor Movements Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

Solutions: Internet Issues
The internet went live in October 1969 between U.C.L.A. and Stanford Research Institute;
it was expanded in 1990 by the National Science Foundation, and became available to the public in 1992.

The Center for Democracy & Technology
domain name privacy controversy
Electronic Privacy Information Center [est. 1994]
'Save The Internet' petition at MoveOn.org
Conference on Email & Anti-Spam [July 2006 = #3] in Mountain View, CA
Microsoft® official instructions for keeping spam emails out of your inbox
U.S. Federal Trade Commission tips for reducing & reporting spam emails
Association for Computing Machinery [est. 1947]
petition to stop domian name parking ('cybersquatting')
petition to keep the internet tax free
recycling of computers & e-waste

Internet Crime Complaint Center of the F.B.I.

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	"The History of Wireless: How Creative Minds Produced Technology For The Masses" [2008] by Ira Brodsky Part I covers Volta, Faraday, Maxwell, Lodge & Hertz; Part IIA covers the tele- graph, the telephone, Marconi, Fessenden, de Forest & Armstrong {not Tesla?}; Part IIB covers the birth of broadcast radio & TV, Sarnoff, Farnsworth & Zworykin; Part III is a comprehensive history of mobile radio, cellular & digital cellular. Telescope Books 8¾x6 pb [1/2008] for $17.95
	"Greetings In Jesus Name!: The Scambaiter Letters" [2006] by Michael Berry An expert in internet 'scam-baiting' relates his hilarious adventures in turning the tables on fake Nigerian bank presidents and terminal 'Christian' cancer victims Harbour Books 7½x5 pb [10/2006] for $12.54
	"Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy" [2006] by David H. Holtzman Jossey-Bass pb [10/2006] for $16.47
	"Who Controls The Internet?: Illusions of A Borderless World" [2006] by Jack Goldsmith & Tim Wu Oxford Univ Press hardcover [3/2006] for $18.48
	"The Cathedral and The Bazaar: Musings On Linux & Open Source By An Accidental Revolutionary" [1999] by Eric S. Raymond O'Reilly Media 8½x5½ pb [1/2001] for $11.53 O'Reilly Media 9x5¾ hardcover [10/99] out of print/used author's official website
	"Navigating In Cyberspace: Roadmaps To The New Millennium" [1995] by Frank Ogden Macfarlane, Walter & Ross 9½x6¼ hardcover & CD-ROM [10/95] out of print/used author's website

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PlanetLab article at ZDnet [from C|net June 2003]

Solutions: Environment

Selected Books on the Subject
of Earth's Biosphere

N.C.P.A. Idea House E-Team
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Environmental Prize [est. 1990]
Appalachian Center For The Economy & The Environment
EarthJustice: Because the earth needs a good lawyer [est. 1971]
Fight Global Warming website
envirofinder search engine
EnviroLink Network [est. 1991]
EarthWatch Institute [US, Europe, Australia, Japan]
nifty tools to measure garden hose output
Ducks Unlimited: World leaders in wetlands conservation [est. 1937]
Trout Unlimited [est. 1959] + Trout Unlimited Canada [est. 1972]
The Nature Conservancy [est. 1951]
Sustainable Forest Initiative [est. 1995]
Campaign for America's Wilderness in Washington, DC
The Wilderness Society [est. 1935]
Earth Day Network [est. 1972]
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance [est. 1997]
Oceana: protecting the world's oceans [est. 2001]
Earth Share [est. 1988]
Negative Population Growth [est. 1972]
Ocean Alliance [est. 1970]
National Public Lands Day [last Saturday in Sept; est 1994]
Save the Manatee Club, Inc. [est. 1981] in Florida
EarthWise Productions
Environmental Yellow Pages
California's Climate Choices Project
'Living On Earth' radio program on N.P.R.
High Country News [est. 1970]
Air America's weekly EcoTalk Show with Betsy Rosenberg
Stop Global Warming's Virtual March
"An Evangelical Declaration On The Care of Creation"
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Citizens For Pennsylvania's Future
EarthShare Network
Maricopa County [AZ] 'Running Out of Air' clean air campaign [est. 2/2008]

	E: The Environmental Magazine 6 issues/12 month subscription for $20.00 [USA only] magazine website
	"Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook For Taking   Action In Your Community" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [10/2007] for $10.40

Solutions: Media & The Bill of Rights

"A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way [that] they ought to be."
— Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911]

The media are both a concern and the means to spread the Revolution. The Oligarchy owns the majority of media outlets in America (and around the world) and operates them inside an anti-Reason, religionist-fascist mindset. The news is propaganda, entertainment is mindless drivel, and sex & violence are the order of the day. Independent, progressive media are struggling to take back ground, and are quietly succeeding. Working Minds / Solutions / Alternative Media Page

Selected Books On These Subjects
Earth's Biosphere • Class War & Economics • Healthcare
Energy>/a> & Global Warming • Education • International Politics
Corporations vs. America

Books on U.S. Politics & Elections Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

American Labor Movements Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

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