PRAXIS BOOK CLUB

Praxis Book Club - Next Meeting Online: Sunday,  December 17, 2023. We are reading:

The Identity Trap by Yascha Mounk

*The Coming Wave by Moustafa Suleyman

* A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall

Currently, the Praxis Book Club is full, but If you are a Praxis member and are interested in joining us, please e-mail georgia@praxispeace.org. Since we have members who are located in other areas, all meetings are on Zoom.
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                              Ten-Year Anniversary Programs

Tom Hayden's presentation November 15, 2012 in San Rafael Click here to download.
Models for a New Economy Panel, April 1, 2012 - Vimeo presentations. Click here!
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                                     Previous Books Read in the Praxis Book Club:

* Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
* Donut Economics by Kate Raworth
*The Spoils of War by Andrew Cockburn
* Confessions of an Economic Hitman (3rd Edition) by John Perkins
*Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation by Paul Hawken
*No Miracles Needed by Mark Z. Jacobson
*The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
* Chip Wars by Chris Miller
* Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff
*War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin & Nicholas J.S. Davies
*The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
*A Bigger Picture by Vanessa Nakate
*The Hidden History of Neoliberalism by Thom Hartmann
*Existential Physics by Sabine Hossenfelder
*American Phychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn
*Shadow Network by Anne Nelson
* We Own the Future by Kate Aronoff
*Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
* Captured by Sheldon Whitehouse (U.S. Senator)
*Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman
*The Climate Coup by Mark Alizar
*Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
*Humane by Samuel Moyn
*Russia Without Putin by Tony Wood
* The 1619 Project by N. HRannah-Jones, C. Roper, I. Silverman and J. Silberstein
*Deep Adaptation - Edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read
*The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
* Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Colbert
* The Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael Mann
*The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
*The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom by Jeremy Lent
*By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution
     by David Talbot and Margaret Talbot
* The Theft of History by Jack Goody
*Out of the Ether by Matthew Lessig
* The Trouble With Diversity by Walter Benn Michaels
*Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilderson
* The Origins of Totalitarianism or The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
*Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
*Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
* The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
*The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
* Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
* Learning From the Germans by Susan Neiman
* Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley by Rob Larson
* Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen
* Targeted by Brittany Kaiser
* The Green New Deal by Jeremy Rifkin
* Against the Web by Michael Brooks
* The Lewis Powell memo
* Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
* Mindf•ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plan to Break America by Christopher Wylie
* The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitations" by Seth Donnelly
* The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
* Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America by Ian Haney López
* The All New Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
* The Socialist Manifesto by Bashkar Sunkara
* Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot
* The Browns of California by Miriam Pawel
* Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
* Falter by Bill McKibben
*Fault Lines by Gus diZerega
* The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
*The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. by David Wallace Wells
* Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
* The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
*America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
*Winning Richmond: How a Progressive Alliance Won City Hall by Gayle McLaughlin
*Post Capitalsim: A Guide to the Future by Paul Mason
*Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War by H. Bruce Franklin
*Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
*War on Peace by Ronan Farrow
* Comeback California by Narda Zacchino
*How Democracies Die by Stephen Levitsky
* Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
* Against Charity by Julie Wark and Daniel Raventós
* The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
*The Village Against the World by Dan Hancox
* Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
* The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
*Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
*The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning By Jeremy Lent
* No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
* Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, Edited by Paul Hawken
* Green Capitalism: The God that Failed by Richard Smith
* The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
* Roles for Revolutionaries by Becky Bond and Zack Exley
* Dark Money by Jane Mayer
* An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 
* Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders
* The Moral Equivalent of War by William James
• Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A Primer by Phylliss Bennie 
• Daybreak by David Swanson
• War is a Lie by David Swanson
* New Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins (Pub. 2016)
* Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
* The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot
*Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff
* Blowing the Roof Off the 21st Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy by Robert W. McChesney
* Listen Yankee: Why Cuba Matters by Tom Hayden
* This Changes Everything: The Climate versus Capitalism by Naomi Klein
* Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
* Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
* The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity by Ellen Brown
* The Crash of 2016 by Thom Hartmann
* What Then Must We Do by Gar Alperowitz
* The "S" Word by John Nichols
* Articles on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
* Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism, Ed. Georgia Kelly, co-authors: Ben Boyce, Nick Colby, Gus diZerega, Julianne  Maurseth, and Barry Spector.
* The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford
* A Shared Market Economy: A Classical Liberal Rethinks the Market System by Dwight Murphy
* The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws in an Obselete System by Jerry Mander
* Transition to Peace by Russ Faure-Brac
* Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank
* Participatory Democracy: From Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street by Tom Hayden (an article published in The Nation magazine)
* This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement
* The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs
* Eros & Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
* Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
* New Paths to Socialism by Carl Davidson
* Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence by Barry Spector
* The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges
* Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
* The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin
* The Future is up to us by Nelson Peery
* Salmon Economics by Andreww Kimbrell
* The End of Money and the Future of Civilization by Tom Greco
* The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos by Ravi Batra
* Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten
* Web of Debt by Ellen Hodgson Brown
* The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
* Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
* The End of America by Naomi Wolf
* Is There no Other Way? The Search for a Non-Violent Furture by Michael Nagler
* The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman