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Books of the Month
The Age of Acquiescence:
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power | By Steve Fraser
Do you ever wonder how the economy became so bad for the average American worker and college grad? Is it the government? Maybe, but Steve Fraser, a labor historian, shows that our current economic hardship is traced to the moral behavior of the banks, financial institutions and the elite rich in a second Gilded Age.The resulting new economy of low (slave) wages and entailing social problems where capital has no home or community, serves only the top one per cent. The government and democracy, now bought by big business, has become complicit as a “nanny state” for the wealthy corporations and individuals while the rest of us are subject to market forces. See NY Times Book Review and reviews on Amazon
A Call to Action
Women, Religion, Violence, Power | By Jimmy Carter
Calling it the number one challenge in the world today, Jimmy Carter's new book "A Call To Action," urges the end of discrimination and abuse against women. Although discrimination is not new, Carter argues the scale is historically unprecedented, from slavery to rape and infanticide to honor killings.In our modern era, where violence affects women disproportionately, Carter maintains that a commitment to universal human rights is desperately needed and both in the US and abroad. He challenges the erroneous religious interpretations of the roles of women in the Bible and Koran that facilitate violence and calls for a historical understanding of the religious text that underpins the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Read More On the Carter Center.
