Staying Active

For each show, we provide a section in the event program that lists resources related to the show's theme. These related sites are listed here below the names of each event. For a list of recommended books and movies for activists, click here.

Get involved, stay informed, volunteer, support, and get your voice heard. Check out the following websites.

Activism: The American Way (2008)
American Freedom Campaign – www.americanfreedomcampaign.org
League of Women Voters – www.lwv.org
American Civil Liberties Union – www.aclu.org
Democracy In Action – www.democracyinaction.org
Media Matters – www.mediamatters.org

Sick & Tired: A Call for Universal Care (2007)
Physicians for a National Health Program – www.pnhp.org
Health Care for All – www.hcfama.org and www.healthcareforall.org
The Access Project – www.accessproject.org
Health Care Now – www.healthcare-now.org
Overdosed America – www.overdosedamerica.com

Raise the Wage (2006)
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn) – www.acorn.org or www.livingwagecampaign.org
Brennan Center for Justice – www.brennancenter.org
National Committee on Pay Equity – www.pay-equity.org
Economic Policy Institute – www.epinet.org
Center for Popular Economics – www.populareconomics.org
National Priorities Project – www.nationalpriorities.org

Coming Clean: Poems for the Earth (2005)
Greenpeace – www.greenpeace.org
Grist Magazine – www.grist.org
Earth Day – www.earthday.net
Earth Speaks – www.earthspeaks.com
E Magazine – www.emagazine.com

Voices on Voting and Democracy (2004)
The Center for Voting and Democracy – www.fairvote.org
Democracy Now! – www.democracynow.org
Rock the Vote – www.rockthevote.org
Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership – www.woodhull.org

Women’s Words About War (2003)
Poets Against War—www.poetsagainstthewar.org
The Nation—www.thenation.com
Refuse and Resist—www.refuseandresist.org
United for Peace & Justice—www.unitedforpeace.org
Filmmaker Michael Moore—www.michaelmoore.com

Below is a working list of books and movies for activists. To recommend that a book or movie be added, email info@poeticpeoplepower.com

Books and Movies for Activists

Books
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Hope's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Speak Truth to Power by Kerry Kennedy and Eddie Adams
The Green Belt Movement by Wangari Maathai
The Heartless Stone by Tom Zoellner
Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn
People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Thinking Points by George Lakoff
Letters from Young Activists by Chesa Boudin, Kenyon Farrow, Bernardine Dohrn, and Dan Berger
Democracy Matters by Cornell West
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Worse Than Watergate by John W. Dean
Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf
Overdosed America by John Abramsom
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
The True Patriot by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer

Movies
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
An Inconvenient Truth
Outfoxed
The Corporation
Control Room
Why We Fight
Fahrenheit 911
Bowling for Columbine
The Motorcycle Diaries
Hotel Rwanda
Blood Diamond
Syriana
Good Night, and Good Luck
Hacking Democracy
Shut Up & Sing