Set the Night on FireL.A. in the Sixtiesby Mike Davis and Jon WienerVerso (April 14, 2020) 800 pages Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm…
Category: Book Recommendations
LJDC June Book and Film Recommendations
This Month’s Book and Movie RecommendationBy Marcia Bookstein Why You Should Be A Socialistby Nathan J. RobinsonAll Points Books (December 10, 2019)336 pages I finished Capital in the 21st Century on Wednesday the 13th, at 11:03 a.m. I celebrated in…
LJDC April Book Recommendations
This Month’s Book Recommendation Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth by Margaret Klein SalamonNew Society Publishers (April 21, 2020) 160 pages Face the truth of climate change, accept your fears, and become the hero that…
LJDC – MArch Book Recommendations
This Month’s Book RecommendationsThe Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America, by Charlotte AlterViking (February 18, 2020) 368 pagesA new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress–a fivefold increase gained…
LJDC January 2020 – Book and Movie Recommendations
This Month’s Book and Movie Recommendations The Great Hack, by Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim If you’d rather not think about how your life is locked in a dystopian web of your own data, don’t watch the new Netflix documentary *The Great Hack*.But…
LJDC November 2019 – Book and Movie Recommendations
This Month’s Book and Movie Recommendations WOMAN AT WARFilm by Benedikt ErlingssonHalla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by…
LJDC October 2019 – Book Recommendations
This Month’s Book Recommendations Permanent Record, by Edward SnowdenMetropolitan Books (September 17, 2019) 352 Pages Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his…
LJDC September 2019 – Book Recommendations
This Month’s Book Recommendations Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul HawkenPublisher: Penguin Books (April 18, 2017) 256 PagesThe 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and…
August’19 Books
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,by Anand Giridharadas Knopf; First Edition, First Printing edition (August 28, 2018) 304 PagesThe New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status…
LJDC Monthly Meeting – July
The LJDC Monthly MeetingSunday, July 14, 2019 2 – 4:30 pm PROGRAM: The Case Against Expanding the San Diego Convention Center SPEAKER: Cory Briggs The initiative to expand the convention center will be on the Primary Ballot in March, in…
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