The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry – and What We Must Do to Stop It – Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda, has given us one of the best books ever written about the oil industry. In the tradition of Ida Tarbell, The Tyranny of Oil exposes the insidious inner workings of the global oil cartel. Juhasz begins with an overview of Big Oil’s origins and how they have evolved into what they are today. The author looks at how Big Oil buys politicians, causes major health problems and devastates eco-systems around the world. The Tyranny of Oil is an important contribution for anyone interested in a world that respects people and the planet.

Crude: The Real Price of Oil – Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, exploring a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

Come by and access resources or purchase some of our used books, buttons, and patches. We will also have handcrafted Zapatista items from Chiapas, Mexico for sale, with the money going to support their cooperatives. Plus, we will also be selling prints by local artist Alynn Guerra.

Or just stop by for some hot tea and conversation!

Please stop by and check out some materials during our new hours!

Also the Bloom Collective is a radical resource with information about the U.S. occupation in Iraq as well as tactics and ideas on ways to end it. Here are some of resources!

Books:

* Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda
* Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation
* The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
* Iraq Inc.: A Profitable Occupation
* Crimes of War: Iraq
* Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation
* In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
* Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War
* Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal
* Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq
* The Best War Ever: Lies, Damn Lies,and the Mess in Iraq
* A People’s History of Iraq: The Iraqi Communist party, Workers Movements, and the Left 1924-2004
* Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War
* The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq
* Target Iraq: What the News Media Don’t Tell You
* Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation
* The Freedom: Shadows and hallucinations in Occupied Iraq
* Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq
* When News Lies: Media Complicity and the Iraq War

Movies:

* Uncovered the whole truth about the Iraq War
* The War Tapes
* Where we stood: Chicago’s resistance to the US war on-Iraq
* Noam Chomsky: Why Iraq?
* My Country My Country
* The Ground Truth
* Caught in the Crossfire
* Stan Goff: is the U.S. Military liberating Iraq?
* Falluja-Fall and Fall Out, City of Ghosts
* Iraq for Sale-the war profiteers