A list of recommended reading material. Learning more about this country and the systems we are apart of will help you make informed decisions and take more effective actions. Please feel free to add your suggestions in the comments section below.
Non-Fiction
The Constitution of the United States
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
What We Say Goes- Noam Chomsky
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army- Jeremy Schall
The Shock Doctrine-Naomi Klein
Collapse- Jared Diamond
Taking on the System- Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
A Call to Conscience: Landmark Speeches if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr-Clayborne Carson (Editor), Kris Shepard (Editor)
A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America-Ernest Drucker
Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008–09-Peter Phillips (Editor), Mickey Huff (Editor)
The Family- Jeff Sharlet
Fiction
Nineteen Eighty-Four-George Orwell
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