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Politics and Corporate Personhood

TED Talk by Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government [run

time: 00:17:23]

http://www.ted.com/talks/beth_noveck_demand_a_more_open_source_governmen

t.html

Al Jazeera Empire Series: U.S. Democracy: The power of money [run time:

00:47:02]

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2012/09/20129127525392941.html

David Cobb Move to Amend [run time: 28:03]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SRnHkqT6_I

TED Talk by Lawrence Lessig: We the people and the republic we must

reclaim [run time: 00:18:19]

http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_

must_reclaim.html

David Korten: from Plutocracy to Deep Democracy [run time: 00:11:45]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORqjcr1u1LA

Greg Palast on the Koch Brothers and the Road to Citizens United for the

Real News Network [run time: 00:10:27]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ybl9roaHe0

Moyers and Company: Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland [run time: 00:56:54]


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http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-plutocracy-rising/

Moyers and Company: Sheila Krumholz and Danielle Brian on How Money

Rules Politics [run time: 00:20:33]

http://billmoyers.com/segment/sheila-krumholz-and-danielle-brian-on-how-money-rules-washington/

The Story of Citizens United vs. FEC:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-citizens-united-v-fec/

Guide for Further Learning: http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-citizens-

united-v-fec/learn/

The Story of Broke:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-broke/

Guide for Further Learning:http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-

broke/learn/

Stacy Mitchell and Andrew Simms at the New Economics Institute - Rewriting

Government Policy: New Rules to Reign in Corporations and Revive LocalGovernment [run time: 00:50:58]

http://vimeo.com/47974299#

THE CORPORATION Documentary [run time: 02:24:04]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw


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Community Organizing

C.S. Mott Foundation: From the Grassroots Community Organizing:

Understanding the Strategy [run time:00:03:59]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXHRxc9q1k

Organizing and Democracy [run time:

00:04:06]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsSfZvPjMg

Tools of Effective Organizers [run time:

00:03:41]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbfb6B7WjEM

Understanding the Challenges [run time:

00:04:22]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NJlWd5-lkA

Rewards of the Work [run time:

00:03:55]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qeAnv9sIa8

The Field Today [run tim: 00:04:32]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ep4GFjIiw

The Road Ahead [run time:

00:04:09]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRWKUsapox8

Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview from the

Community Tool Box, a service of the Work Group for Community Health andDevelopment at the University of Kansas

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1053.aspx

Detailed information and instructions on submitting op-eds and letters to the

editor for major publications

http://www.ccmc.org/node/16179

Simple guidelines for writing op-eds and letters to the editor from Physicians

for a National Health Program

http://www.pnhp.org/action/how-to-write-an-op-ed-and-letter-to-the-editor


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Mass Incarceration

Bryan Stevenson on Why Mass Incarceration Defines Us As a Society for

Smithsonian Magazine

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Mass-Incarceration-Defines-

Us-As-a-Society-179994441.html

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Laws - 2013 George E.

Kent Lecture [run time: 01:10:31]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gln1JwDUI64

Angela Davis and Michelle Alexander: End Mass Incarceration, Riverside

Church, September 14, 2012 [run time: 00:12:27]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhObhSenc5s

Race vs. Justice: Mass Incarceration University of Oregon School of Law

student documentary [run time: 01:17:07]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQaMUxaUmk

Center for Constitutional Rights Resources on Criminal Justice and Mass

Incarceration

http://ccrjustice.org/criminal-justice-and-mass-incarceration

PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly - Mass Incarceration: Does the criminal

justice system in the US need reform?

http://video.pbs.org/video/2186572187/


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Al Jazeeras The Stream - Incarceration, Inc.

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/incarceration-inc-0022161

Al Jazeera Inside Story - US: A Nation of Inmates?

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/02/20132207165

0496567.html

Climate Change

Bill McKibben - Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, Rolling Stone

Magazine

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-

20120719

Bill McKibben Do The Math at Rutgers University, February 4, 2013 [run

time: 1:26:00]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D88x7CeC6M

Global Warming Basics from the National Resources Defense Council

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/f101.asp

TED Talk by James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate_c

hange.html


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The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Limit Climate Change: Distinguished

Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville [run time: 00:59:00]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Q271UaNPo

300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cJ-J91SwP8w

The Story of Cap and Trade:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-cap-trade/

Guide for Further Learning:http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-cap-

trade/learn/

TED Talk by Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk

http://www.ted.com/talks/naomi_klein_addicted_to_risk.html

Nonviolence

Nonviolence: An Introduction by Thomas Weber and Robert J. Burrowes

http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/seasia/whatis/book.php#reading

The Class of Nonviolence: An 8 Lesson Course developed by Colman

McCarthy, founder of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C.

http://salsa.net/peace/conv/

TED talk by Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence [run time: 00:15:48


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http://www.ted.com/talks/scilla_elworthy_fighting_with_non_violence.html

TED talk by Julia Bacha: Pay attention to non-violence [run time: 00:10:52]

http://www.ted.com/talks/julia_bacha.html

Democracy Now! Interview with Norman Finkelstein, author of What Ghandi

Says: About Nonviolence, Resistence, and Courage [run time: 00:17:46]

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/6/5/part_2_norman_finkelstein_on_what_

gandhi_says_about_nonviolence_resistance_and_courage

Summary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy and principles of non-

violence

http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-philosophy

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is the most powerful weapon [run

time: 00:08:13]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74XJJ3Tq5ew

Consumerism and Waste

The Story of Stuff:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/


stuff/learn/

The Story of Electronics:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-electronics/


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electronics/learn/

The Story of Cosmetics:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-cosmetics/


cosmetics/learn/

The Story of Bottled Water:

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-bottled-water/

Guide for Further Learning:http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-bottled-

water/learn/

The Effects of Consumerism by Anup Shah on Globalissues.org

http://www.globalissues.org/article/238/effects-of-consumerism

Social and Economic Justice

TED Talk by Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story [run time:

00:18:49]

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations on

December 10, 1948

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/


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Historical overview of the development of the concept of international human

rights [run time: 00:10:35]

http://www.internationalbillofrights.org/media/10

Robert Reich: Economic Inequality Teach In Keynote Presentation at UC

Berkeley 2012 [run time: 00:34:00]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-xzeMqpbM&noredirect=1

Money And Life - Documentary on the historical concept and purpose of

money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0xRkaJCs5g

Moyers and Company: Martin Luther King Junior's Dream for Economic

Justice [run time: 00:56:47]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8-uMyCqiI

Moyers and Company: The United States of Inequality [run time: 00:13:34]

http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-moyers-essay-the-united-states-of-inequality/

Eyes on the Prize: 1954-1985 - History of the Civil Rights Era [each part

approximately one hour]

Part 1: Awakenings (1954-1956) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVB2AlVpt0I

Part 2: Fighting Back (1957-1962) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a32Uc1oP7s

Part 3: Aint Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwz5-OFYmA

Part 4: No Easy Walk (1962-1966)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7k4wMdV5g


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Part 5: Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgSitIXiP5Y

Part 6: Bridge to Freedom (1965)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvmBuxPLZWs

Part 7: The Time Has Come (1964-1965)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16xtgaFhg4

Part 8: Two Societies (1965-1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmg1JBZPYQ

Part 9: Power! (1966-1968) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtEw83us8hk

Part 10: The Promised Land (1967-1968) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wgL-

xQMWwE

Part 11: Aint Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrIWacqu13E

Part 12: A Nation of Law? (1968-1971)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwXiEyHz8Qs

Part 13: The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZoa4tLmEE

Part 14: Back to the Movement (1979-mid 80s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUTfLhPE5I

Before and After Stonewall - History of the fight for LGBTQ Rights

Before Stonewall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v2qPdd9TyI[run time:

01:26:24]

After Stonewall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0osCx7aZxnQ[run time:

01:26:10]

MAKERS: Women Who Make America [run time: 00:57:43]

http://www.pbs.org/makers/home/


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