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Chelsea Green Politics and Social Justice
Mission Rejected • Crashing the Gate • Don't Think of an Elephant
An Unreasonable Woman • Unembedded • America, Fascism and God
Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq
by Peter Laufer, Foreword by Norman Solomon
"Behind these bars I sit a free man because I listened to...my conscience."
—Sergeant Camilo Mejía, U.S. Army
Sergeant Mejía is one of a growing number of U.S. servicemen and women who are courageously following their conscience and refusing to fight in Iraq. Mission Rejected gives a voice to those who refuse to participate in what they believe to be an illegal and immoral war.
The drama of these human stories is intense, the pain deep and palpable. Rejected by society and isolated from their families they struggle to hold their lives together. Some, like Joshua Key suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and are haunted by what they saw and did in Iraq. “I’m not your perfect killing machine,” he admits. “I broke the rules by having a conscience.”
Peter Laufer, a Vietnam War resister, is the author of several books about conflict and migration and has won numerous journalism awards.
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas, Foreword by Simon Rosenberg
"Dead on." —Adam Cohen, The New York Times
"Markos is Moses leading Democrats to the Promised Land" —Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
Crashing the Gate, the hot new book from DailyKos founder 
Markos Moulitsas and MyDD creator Jerome Armstrong is taking the country by storm. Moulitsas and Armstrong deliver a no-holds-barred assessment of how the Democratic Party has become ineffective and failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The solution
lies with the vast progressive network of netroots and grassroots constituents who are demanding a people-powered Party. Crashing the Gate is a must-read book for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy.
Jerome Armstrong, a pioneer of the political blogosphere, 
founded one of the first political blogs, MyDD.com, in 2001. Jerome was an architect of Howard Dean's internet campaign and now works as a political strategist with his company Netroots.com .
Markos Moulitsas started DailyKos.com in May 2002. His blog has had a meteoric rise and now gets more than a million unique visitors each day, making it one of the most popular blogs in the nation.
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
by George Lakoff, Foreword by Howard Dean
A New York Times Bestsellter
"George Lakoff will be one of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement when the history of this century is written." —Howard Dean
Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing's stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. It is the definitive handbook for understating how conservative think, what their moral values really are, and how to articulate the progressive moral vision to reframe—and reclaim—political discourse. 
Author George Lakoff has become a key advisor to the Democratic party, helping them develop their message and frame the political debate.
George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a founding senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute. Since the mid-1980s he has been applying cognitive linguistics to the study of politics, especially the framing of public political debate. He is one of the world's best-known linguists.
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
by Diane Wilson, Foreword by Kenny Ausubel
"The best surprise book of the year."
—Molly Ivins
When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar 
corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes.
Wilson’s vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies.
Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq
by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson and Rita Leistner
"We crossed the lines because we believe it is more important to humanize a conflict than it is to trade in rhetorical truths, or to reinforce easy notions of enemy and friend, which are mere propaganda."
—from the Introduction, Phillip Robertson
Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war. In the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, official truth died months before the bombing of Baghdad began. Unembedded bears witness to the enduring power of independent journalism. In their unflinching look at war-ravaged Iraq, four freelance photojournalists show that life there is brutal yet poignant; that compassion co-exists with anger, hatred and fear.
The Photojournalists
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan
In the face of RFID chips, consumer tracking strategies, and illegal
government wiretapping, Jensen and Draffan are determined to show consumers how to fight back against government and industry to regain their rights, their privacy, and their humanity. In their new book, Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control, Jensen and Draffan take a hart-hitting look at the way technology is used as a machine, to control us and our environment. Their results are startling.
America, Fascism, and God: Sermons from a Heretical Preacher
Religion and politics have always been a potent mix. History is littered with times when that combination caused sweeping death and destruction, when it fueled aggression and oppression—and when it gave fascism a religious and diplomatic face. 
Reverend Davidson Loehr is afraid that we may be living in such a time in America today.
In this series of incisive and inspired sermons, Loehr takes aim at the unholy alliance of corporate money, political power, and religious fundamentalism that is threatening both our political and our economic democracy. America, Fascism, and God is a call—first to understand that religion has been hijacked and debased. And then to take it back.
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm
by Linda Faillace
In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillace had a dream: they wanted to breed sheep and make cheese on their Vermont farm. They did the research, 
worked hard, followed the rules, and, after years of preparation and patience, built a successful, entrepreneurial business. But just like that, their dream turned into a nightmare. The U.S. Department of Agriculture killed the Faillace's sheep out of fear that they carried a disease similar to mad cow disease. Mad Sheep is the account of one family’s struggle against a bullying and corrupt government agency that long ago abandoned the family farmer to serve the needs of corporate agriculture and the industrialization of our food supply.
Guantánamo: What the World Should Know
by Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray
Written by Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights President and co-consul on the case of Rasul v. Bush)and Ellen Ray (Institute for Media
Analysis President), Guantanamo is the most authoritative documentation to date on President Bush's moves toward a network of detention centers--a system without accountability, which flouts U.S. and international law.
Ratner and Ray give the definitive account of what led to the current conditions at Guantánamo and the importance of continuing to fight against the violations of U.S. and international law undertaken by the United States since 9-11. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the rule of law, liberty, democracy--and the right to dissent.