With spring in full swing, check out these new and recent releases
recommended by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. To build
progressive power we all need ideas that will sustain us in the fight to
save democracy. Relax with a good book and get inspired!
Every book purchase helps support our work saving democracy and helps
independent bookstores across the country – a win-win!
[ [link removed] ]Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future
of a World-Changing Idea
By Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor
From leading organizers and activists Leah
Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor comes an
exploration of the past, present, and future
of solidarity. From Ancient Rome to Black
Lives Matter, solidarity across identity and
class has the power to fundamentally change
the world.
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We must ask ourselves, “How can we build
solidarity in an era of staggering inequality,
polarization, violence, and ecological
catastrophe?”
Through their examination of how solidarity
has shaped the modern era, we come away
learning more about how to build, sustain,
cultivate, and institutionalize solidarity so
we can build the future we so desperately
need.
Purchase from [ [link removed] ]PCCC's Bookshop.
[ [link removed] ]The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and The Struggle for a New
American Politics
By Joshua Green
From #1 New York Times Bestselling author Joshua
Green comes a look inside the progressive uprising
within the Democratic Party led by national icons
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez.
[ [link removed] ]The Rebels Book
Cover For years post-Reagan, Democrats allowed Wall Street
and Big Tech to write policy priorities in exchange
for campaign contributions. After the 2008 crisis,
income inequality exploded and the Democratic Party
came to be defined by the ideological battles
between its centrists and its progressives. Telling
the political history of Warren, Sanders, and
Ocasio-Cortez in the defining political battle of
our time, Green explores where the Democrats go from
here, “in the face of the most violently deranged
political landscape since the Civil War”.
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[ [link removed] ]Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of
America's Food Industry
By Austin Frerick
Austin Frerick (a former PCCC champion in Iowa!)
writes the personal and political history of
American agricultural consolidation. Meet the
tycoons and titans that built their wealth by
[ [link removed] ]Barons Book Cover hollowing out the American food economy. From
deregulation to blatant corruption, Frerick
explores how monopolies have damaged our farms,
rural communities, and democracy.
Frerick also shows us how a different future is
possible, one with a thriving food industry that
benefits people and the planet.
Purchase from [ [link removed] ]PCCC's Bookshop.
[ [link removed] ]The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and
How We Can Prosper Together
By Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee's New York Times BESTSELLER offers a
powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson
that generations of Americans have failed to learn:
Racism has a cost for everyone--not just for people
[ [link removed] ]The Sume of Us of color. Racism is the common denominator of our
Book Cover most vexing public problems and the core dysfunction
of our democracy.
The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of
how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message,
delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman
to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new
vision for a future in which we finally realize that
life can be more than a zero-sum game.
Purchase from [ [link removed] ]PCCC's Bookshop.
[ [link removed] ]Filibustered! How to Fix the Broken Senate
and Save America
By Senator Jeff Merkley and Mike Zamore
From Senator Jeff Merkley and his longtime chief
of staff Mike Zamore comes the insider’s guide to
how the Senate became paralyzed by the
filibuster.
The abuse of a fifty-year-old reform has turned
[ [link removed] ]Filibustered Book the Senate from a deliberative and open body into
Cover the dysfunctional and secretive place America is
forced to watch very popular (and progressive)
legislation go to die. This book tells the story
from the first filibuster of 1841 to Mitch
McConnell’s transformation of the Senate into a
tool for Republican gridlock.
“If we want to fix what ails America, we have to
fix the Senate. And if we want to fix the Senate,
we must fix the broken filibuster.”
Purchase from [ [link removed] ]PCCC's Bookshop.
[ [link removed] ]The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for
America's Next Economy
By Natalie Foster
Natalie Foster has had a front-row seat to the
dramatic leaps forward in government
guarantees over the past decade, from student
debt relief to the child tax credit expansion.
Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new
Guarantee Framework suggests that an America
[ [link removed] ]Inside the Fight for where housing, health care, a college
America's Next Economy education, dignified work, family care, an
Book Cover inheritance, and an income floor for everyone
are all but guaranteed, by our government, is
possible – if we are ready to sieze that
future.
The Guarantee is the rare book that will shift
the terms of debate, moving us from the
expired and defunct assumptions of
no-guardrails capitalism to a nation that
works for all of its people.
Purchase from [ [link removed] ]PCCC's Bookshop.
Ordering these titles also supports our work building progressive power
and electing progressive heroes!
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fighting for progressives in 2024.
Happy reading, and thanks for being a bold progressive!
-- The PCCC Team
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