If you’re interested in reading (or watching) info related to our mission, take a look at the list below. From fiction to sociology, this is the place to find it!
| Fiction, Folklore, and Humor | |||
| Dime Store Adventures | Henry | Humorous podcast of New England folklore. YouTube @dimestoreadventures | |
| Radio Free Vermont : A Fable of Resistance | Bill McKibben | A band of Vermonters use their wits and their pirate radio station to outfox their oppressors and build an independent Vermont. | 2017 |
| The Full Vermonty : Vermont in the Age of Trump | Bill Mares and Jeff Danziger | Essays and humor from Vermonters about their reactions to the first Trump presidency. | 2017 |
| Activism | |||
| Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World | Srdja Popovic | Describes the creative ways that activists across the world have outwitted the raw power they’re fighting against. An entertaining read that will give you lots of ideas. | 2015 |
| From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation | Gene Sharp | A practical guide for fighting repressive regimes. Explains how nonviolent resistance and strategic planning can overcome raw power. Contains a multitude of ideas for protesting injustice. | 2012 |
| I Want to Break Free: A practical guide to making a new country | Matt Qvortrup | Explains the practical steps involved with creating a new nation-state, including referendums, national and international law, borders, currency, constitutions, etc. Concise and readable with many examples from history and the author’s experience. | 2022 |
| Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest | Zeynep Tufekci | Discusses the use of social media in activist movements and the importance of real-life action for a movement to be successful. With global examples. | 2017 |
| Collapse | |||
| Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse | Jem Bendell | Describes in detail the many ways in which civilization is collapsing: economic, monetary, energy, biosphere, climate, food, and social. Includes an interesting discussion of the monetary system. Lots of factual information in this very readable book. | 2023 |
| The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells | Urgently discusses the current climate collapse. | 2019 |
| Philosophy | |||
| A Theory of Secession | Christopher Heath Wellman | A philosophical discussion of the right to secede, arguing that people have a moral right to determine their political status. With examples of historical secession movements and critiques of other viewpoints on secession. Interesting chapter refuting Abraham Lincoln’s arguments on the Civil War. | 2005 |
| Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau | Advocates for being true to one’s moral conscience over obedience to an unjust government. | 1849 |
| History and Sociology | |||
| Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History | Peter Turchin | Describes the causes of social upheaval from a demographic viewpoint, describing the “overproduction of elites” in various periods of US history. Asserts that the current time period is analogous to just before the American civil war of the 19 th century. | 2016 |
| American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America | Colin Woodard | This illuminating book shows how the attitudes and customs of the very first European settlers differed radically in various sections of the early US, and how those differences continue to shape public attitudes today. Radically divergent national cultures co-exist uneasily in the U.S. political entity due to our deep-seated historical opposition. | 2011 |
| Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union | Richard Kreitner | Talk and acts of secession have been part of our history since the 1600s. Secession didn’t start and end with the U.S. Civil War. Acts of disunion have been part of our history from the initial European settlements through the colonial period, the early U.S., and westward expansion, up until the present. | 2020 |
| Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild | A sociologist tries to understand why so many people voted against their own interests in 2016. Many humanizing interviews illuminate the lives and concerns of right-wing voters. | 2018 |
| The Nine Nations of North America | Joel Garreau | Redivides North America into nine powers which are seen as the continent’s emerging realities, and explains the distinct cultural, ethnic, and geographic identities of each. | 1981 |