Inspiration

This is a collection of interesting books, articles, films, and music that are shaping my ideas about social and environmental justice.  Message me if you have any suggestions!

Books
The Country Under My Skin - Gioconda Belli
The Long Haul: An Autobiography - Myles Horton
Development as Freedom - Amartya Sen
The Wayfinders - Wade Davis
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World - Tracy Kidder
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization - Thomas Homer-Dixon
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo Galeano
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
Unbowed: A Memoir - Wangari Maathai
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East - Sandy Tolan
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert Putnam
With Our Own Eyes - Don Mosley with Joyce Hollyday
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical - Shane Claiborne
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World - Doug Saunders
Articles
Applied Hope by Amory B. Lovins

Talks
Art for Life's Sake: A Roadmap from One Citizen Artist by Yo-Yo Ma

Films
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Surviving Progress
Waste Land
Tocar y Luchar
Frida
Gandhi
City of God
Hotel Rwanda
Crash
Water on the Table
Farmingville
Life and Debt
El Contrato
Food, Inc
And the Band Played On
The Motorcycle Diaries
Peace One Day
Freedom Writers

Music
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Mercedes Sosa
Victor Jara
Bob Dylan
Manu Chao
Pete Seeger