Sexual Slavery and Exploitation

Articles

Sex Trafficking in the U.S. - http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/sex-trafficking-in-the-us
http://www.itemp.org/humantrafficking101/humantraffickingfacts.html

Books

Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof, Sherly Wu Dunn, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 2009
Sex Trafficking: Inside the World of Modern Slavery, Siddharth Kara, Columbia University Press, New York, 2010
Girls Like Us: Fighting For a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale, Rachel Lloyd, Harper Perennial, New York, 2012
Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective, Louise Shelley, Cambridge University Press, 2010

Videos

21st Century Sex Slaves -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajbQVwbWRg0

Activist Organizations

Half the Sky Movement - www.halftheskymovement.org
Equality Now - www.equalitynow.org
Institute for Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing Persons – www.itemp.org
End Child Prostitution, Pornography, and Trafficking -  http://www.ecpat.net/what-we-do

Gender Rights

Articles

List of Women’s Rights Activists - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women's_rights_activists
Early Men and Women Were Equal, Say Scientists, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists

Books

However Long the Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls  Triumph – Molly Melching, Harper One, New York, 2014
The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler, Harper One, New York, 1988
The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, Allan G. Johnson, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2014
The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World, Joni Seager, Penquin Books, New York, 2008

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/UNWomen

Activist Organizations

United Nations Programmes for the Advancement of Women -  http://www.un.org/esa/progareas/women.html
U.N Women Watch - http://www.un.org/womenwatch/directory/education_and_training_of_women_3002.htm
National Organization for Women  - www.now.org
Equality Now - http://www.equalitynow.org/
Vote ERA – www.voteera.org
V-Day – http://www.vday.org/
Half the Sky Movement - http://www.halftheskymovement.org/
Tostan International - http://www.tostan.org/
The Orchid Project – http://orchidproject.org/
Pathfinders International – www.pathfind.org
Marie Stopes International – www.mariestopes.org
Engender Health – www.engenderhealth.org

Political Transparency and Voter Rights

Articles

Why Corporate ‘Negative Speech Rights’  is as Dangerous as Corporate ‘Free Speech’, Simon David-Cohen, Alternet, 6/16/2014,   http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-corporate-negative-speech-rights-dangerous-corporate-free-speech Wal Mart is not a Person,  Thom Hartmann, Truth Out, 1/17/2011,  http://www.truth-out.org/wal-mart-is-not-a-person66831

Books

Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became People, Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, New York, 2010
Corporations are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations, Jeffrey D. Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, New York, 2014
Dollarocracy: How the Money Media Election Complex is Destroying America, John Nichols, Nation Books, New York, 2014
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, Ted Nace, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, New York, 2003
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, New York, 2011
A  People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial, New York, 2055

Videos

Inequality for All, http://inequalityforall.com/

Activist Organizations

Move to Amend – www.movetoamend.org
Move On – www.moveon.org

Economic Fairness

Articles

Books

Natural Capitalism,  Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Little, Brown, and Company, New York, 1999
Making Globalization Work,  Joseph E. Stiglitz. W.W. Norton, New York, 2006
Saving Capitalism; For the Many, Not the Few, Robert Reich, Knopf, New York, 2015
A Fighting Chance, Elisabeth Warren, Picador, New York, 2015
Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty, Belknap Books, New York, 2014
The Empathic Civilization,  Jeremy Rifkin, Tarcher, New York,  2009

Videos

Inequality for All, http://inequalityforall.com/

Activist Organizations

Move to Amend – www.movetoamend.org
Move On – www.moveon.org

Earth Stewardship

Articles

Leave Fossil Fuels Buried to Prevent Climate Change, Study Says, The Guardian, 1/7/2015,  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/much-worlds-fossil-fuel-reserve-must-stay-buried-prevent-climate-change-study-says

Books

Biomimicry,  Janine Benyus, Harper Collins, New York, 2009
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Lester Brown,  W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2009
Gaia: The Human Journey From Chaos to Cosmos, Elisabet Sahtouris, Pocket Books, New York, 1989
Hope On Earth: A Conversation, Paul R. Ehrlich, Michael Charles Tobias, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2014
The Hydrogen Age, Geoffrey Holland and James Provenzano, Gibbs Smith Publishing, Salt Lake City, 2007
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability; Designing for Abundance, William McDonough, Michael Braungart, North Point Press, New York, 2013
The Age of Sustainable Development, Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University Press, New York, 2015

Videos

Watch 62 Years of Global Warming in Thirteen Seconds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2stHuRMMxog
The World Water Crisis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRGZOCaD9sQ

Activist Organizations

350.org – www.350.org
Greenpeace USA – www.greenpeace.org
Friends of the Columbia River Gorge – www.gorgefriends.org

Sexual Tolerance

Articles

Feminists Need to Get Smart over the Sale of Sex, by Laurie Penny, 4/5/2010 -  https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/laurie-penny/feminists-need-to-get-smart-over-sale-of-sex
Fantasies of White Slavery: How Our Nation’s History of Sexual Oppression is Still With Us, David Masciotra, Alternet, 12/31/2014 - http://www.alternet.org/gender/fantasies-white-sexual-slavery-how-our-nations-history-sexual-oppression-still-us
The Price of Knowledge: Discrimination Against Sex Workers in Academia - http://titsandsass.com/the-price-of-knowledge-discrimination-against-sex-workers-in-academia/

Books

The Compass of Pleasure, David J. Linden, Viking, The Penguin Group, New York, 2011
Strange Times: Tales from American Strippers, Elle Stanger, Create Space Independent Publishing, 2014
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, Marc Lewis, Public Affairs, New York, 2015
Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body, Riane Eisler. Harper One, New York, 1996
When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone, Manner Books, New York, 1978

Videos

The Female Orgasm Explained, with Science Projects -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAH2w-DAHsI

Blogs

The Whorecast - http://www.thewhorecast.com/
Christopher Ryan - http://chrisryanphd.com/

Activist Organizations

Cup Cake Girls - http://www.thecupcakegirls.org/
Center for Positive Sexuality - http://positivesexuality.org/
Portland Women’s Crisis Line - http://pwcl.org/
Sex Workers Outreach Project - http://www.swopusa.org/