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For each show, we provide a section in the event program that lists resources related to the show's theme. These related sites are listed here below the names of each event. For a list of recommended books and movies for activists, click here.

Get involved, stay informed, volunteer, support, and get your voice heard. Check out the following websites.

While We Were Sleeping (2017)
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Equality Now
Karma Nirvana
Panzi Foundation
Be A Sister 2 A Sister
Mentari
Safe Horizon
Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates
Foundation for Human Rights Cuba

Take Your Time (2016)
Take Back Your Time
Log Off Vacation
1 Million for Work Flexibility
Happiness Alliance

#AntiSocial: The Dark Side of Social Media (2015)
Center for Digital Democracy
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Closed: NYC Shuts Its Doors To Artists (2014)
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York

Invisible Chains: Inequality in America (2013)
American Civil Liberties Union
Center for Popular Economics
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Organization for Women

Retro-Active: 10 Years of Poetic Action (2012)
Please see resources below.

The Revolution Will Be... (2011)
Independent Media Center
Left Turn
The Nation
Mother Jones

Price Check: How We Became A Culture Of Consumption (2010)
Take Back Your Time
New American Dream
Adbusters

Tapped Out: Words About The Water Crisis (2009)
Food and Water Watch
Pacific Institute
Blue Planet Project
Alternet
Charity Water

Activism: The American Way (2008)
League of Women Voters
American Civil Liberties Union
Media Matters

Sick & Tired: A Call for Universal Care (2007)
Physicians for a National Health Program
Health Care for All
Health Care Now
Overdosed America

Raise the Wage (2006)
Brennan Center for Justice
National Committee on Pay Equity
Center for Popular Economics
National Priorities Project

Coming Clean: Poems for the Earth (2005)
Greenpeace
Earth Day
E Magazine

Voices on Voting and Democracy (2004)
The Center for Voting and Democracy
Democracy Now!
Rock the Vote
Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership

Women’s Words About War (2003)
Poets Against War
The Nation
United for Peace & Justice
Filmmaker Michael Moore

Books and Movies for Activists

Books
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Hope's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Speak Truth to Power by Kerry Kennedy and Eddie Adams
The Green Belt Movement by Wangari Maathai
The Heartless Stone by Tom Zoellner
Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn
People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Thinking Points by George Lakoff
Letters from Young Activists by Chesa Boudin, Kenyon Farrow, Bernardine Dohrn, and Dan Berger
Democracy Matters by Cornell West
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Worse Than Watergate by John W. Dean
Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf
Overdosed America by John Abramsom
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
The True Patriot by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
Water Consciousness by Tara Lohan
Water: Use Less-Save More by Jon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert
Blue Covenant by Maude Barlow
Water Wars by Vandana Shiva
Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte
Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor
The Overspent American by Juliet B. Schor
The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser
Credit Card Nation by Robert D. Manning
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Your Money Or Your Life by Vicki Robin & Joe Dominquez
No Logo by Naomi Klein
Small Acts of Resistance by Steve Crawshaw and John Jackson
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
Standing Up to the Madness by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
Share This: How You Will Change the World with Social Netowrking by Deanna Zandt
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
Occupying Privilege by JLove Calderon
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York by James T. & Karla Murray
Time and Space on the Lower East Side by Brian Rose
CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock with introduction by Hilly Kristal and afterword by David Byrne
The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media by José Van Dijck
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read, and Remember by Nicholas Carr
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Take Back Your Time edited by John de Graaf
Work to Live by Joe Robinson
A Geography of Time by Robert Levine
Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict by Heather Boushey

Movies
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
An Inconvenient Truth
Outfoxed
The Corporation
Control Room
Why We Fight
Fahrenheit 911
Bowling for Columbine
The Motorcycle Diaries
Hotel Rwanda
Blood Diamond
Syriana
Good Night, and Good Luck
Hacking Democracy
Shut Up & Sing
Flow
The Water Front
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Maxed Out
The Story of Stuff
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood
American Winter
Gideon's Army
Mirrors of Privilege
The Vanishing City
Generation Like by PBS (Netflix)
The Anti Social Network by BBC (YouTube)
The Innovation of Loneliness (YouTube)



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