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📚 Books We Recommend 📚

• Emergent Strategy - Adrienne Maree Brown
• The Next American Revolution - Grace Lee Boggs
• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (free) - Charles Eisenstein
• This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein
• Until the Streets of Hood Flood with Green - Kelly Curry
• Black Earth Wisdom - Leah Penniman
• Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler 
• The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
• Blueprint for Black Power - Amos N. Wilson
• A Little Taste of Freedom - Emilye Crosby

✏️ Websites, Articles & Blogs We Love 🖋️

• Alternet LPE Corner - Local Peace Economy stories from our media partner Alternet/Independent Media Institute
• Movement Generation’s Just Transition Zine - powerful framework for the transition to the new economy
• Finding Steady Ground - a guide to strengthening our spirits to resist and thrive in these times  
• Time Banks - a way of giving and receiving to build supportive networks and strong communities
• Co-Op Directory - find your local food co-op
• Shareable - a comprehensive action hub and toolkit for the sharing movement
• Earth Altar - a collection of stories exploring the nature of personal and cultural healing 
• Rivera Sun: Radical is the New Sensible
• 10 Ingredients for a Local Peace Economy - Jodie Evans
• Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

🕯️Events 🌏

• Earth Hour: An annual event encouraging individuals, communities, households & businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour.
• Clean Up the World 2021: Community groups, schools, businesses, & local governments join as members & carry out activities that address local environmental issues. 
• Take Back the Night: a series of global marches, rallies & vigils intended as a protest and direct action against all forms of sexual violence.

🎬 Films 🎞️

~ Community Land Trusts ~

• Arc of Justice: The Rise, Fall & Rebirth of a Beloved Community
  
• Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street

~ Co-ops ~

• Food for Change: A Documentary about Food Co-ops
• A Silent Transformation: A film about the Transformative Power of the Cooperative Enterprise Model
• Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces
• Power and the Land (1940); Rural Electrification Administration, USDA.
• The Co-ops Are Comin' (1941); Cooperative League.
• The Rural Co-op (1950); United States Information Service.
• All Together (1950): Tennessee Valley Cooperatives.
• Milk: The Co-operative Way (1953); University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service.
• List of Co-op Films from Cultivate.Coop
• Cooperative Community of New West Jackson: a grassroots, resident--led development model that seeks to revitalize West Jackson, MS through an inventive "inside out" strategy 
• Federation of Southern Cooperatives:

~ Public Ownership ~

• Do Not Pass Go: Small Communities Battle Monopolistic Telecoms over the Right to Build Locally Owned Gigabit Networks

~ Participatory Budgeting & Finance ~

• Public Money POV
  
• Money & Life: A Story About Money that will Change your Life
  
• Time As Money: A Documentary about Time Banking

~ Film Databases & Curated Lists ~

• Films For Action - search terms like “Cooperatives,” “Community Land Trusts,” etc & upload films that may be missing too!
  
• Letterboxd: The Cowr-Kola Strategic Viewing Series
•  Letterboxd: Healthy Food Hub Strategic Viewing Series
• Letterboxd: Degrow US Strategic Viewing Series
• Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
• Freedom on My Mind

~ Other ~

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein (Film)
• Briars in the Cotton Patch: The Story of Koinonia Farm (Farming, Civil Rights)
  
• Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Solutions-oriented)
  
• The Economics of Happiness (Solutions-oriented)
  
• Fixing the Future (Solutions-oriented)
  
• Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy
  
• Gift (Gift Economy)

💕 Orgs & Movements 💕

• Transition Towns: a global network of grassroots’ projects seeking to build local resilience in response to peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
• Small House Movement: a return to houses less than 1,000 square feet in active support for downsizing and simple living.
• Mankind Project: a global network of peer-facilitated men's groups.
• Willing Workers on Organic Farms: a global network of organic farms willing to host travelers on a work-trade basis.
• Camp1Rootz: Camp 1 Rootz seeks to establish sustainable communities built from the ground up through hands on contributions from our campers and participating community. 
• Soul Fire Farm: an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.
• Venceremos Brigade:
• Highlander Center:  a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South.