Recommended Readings
Readings (updated April 2021)
Environmental, Economic, Historical and Sociological Readings for the Times We Are Living In
Robin Kelley - Freedom Dreams
Isabel Wilkerson - Caste
The Political Mine by George Lakoff
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
People's Guide to Capitalism - Hadas Thier
Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
Our Revolution, Bernie Sanders
Maurizio Lazarato, Capital Hates Everyone
The Combahee River Collective Statement
People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn (freely available through History is a Weapon)
Winning the Green New Deal
Mutual Aide, Dean Spade
Blueprint for the Revolution - Srđa Popović
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
Communism For Kids - Bini Adamczak
Manufacturing Consent - Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Bigger than Bernie - Megan Day and Micah Uetricht
The Socialist Manifesto - Bhaskar Sunkara
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
Why Marx was Right - Terry Eagleton
Critique of the Gotha Program - Karl Marx (Free PDF)
The Deficit Myth - Stephanie Kelton
The Case for Job Guarantee - Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Understanding Modern Money - Randall Wray
Debt - David Graeber
Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care - Scott Ferguson
Further Reading
- Green Market Hustlers
- Climate Knowledge and Power: Tales of Skeptic Tanks, Weather Gods, and Sagas for Climate (In)justice by Michael K. Dorsey
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- An Examination Of A High School Horticulture Curriculum, Melanie Overstreet, Gary S. Straquadine
- The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel by Ralph L. Roys
- Popol Vuh: Literal Translation by Allen J. Christenson
- Understanding New York City (Various)
- The Natural World of New York City (Various)
- Internship Program Student Handbook
Great Bookstores
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Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
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Left Bank Books, Seattle
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Powell's, Portland
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City Lights, San Francisco
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Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
