The Cry: A Manifesto for Change (Kindle Edition)

The Cry: A Manifesto for Change (Kindle Edition)
By Kim Venskunas

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The Cry: A Manifesto for Change written for the benefit of humanity and the Earth
offers readers a powerful message of transformation.

Simple, concise and gently confronting, yet full of optimism and hope as it puts current affairs and our western lifestyle into perspective, drawing upon global atrocities and climatic events of this time. A comprehensive, thought provoking read for the masses.

Kim Venskunas' inspirational The Cry: A Manifesto for Change is a warning shot across the bows of the developed world. Both a cry of anguish at the state of the world today and a message of hope for the future.

Venskunas suggests that, in contrast, our world can achieve its highest potential within a generation, if we as readers can only heed the call for change. Her manifesto calls us to account for our apathy in making change happen, little by little convincing us that the time is now to stand up, make a stand, and make a difference, because, make no mistake, our very survival is at stake.

Stepping into the skirmish for your point of view amongst the cacophony of aspirational marketing messages and mind-numbing media offerings, The Cry offers three strategies -- personal, local, and global -- as ways of instigating global change. It argues that our current Western lifestyles cannot continue into the future, or we face the destruction of that which we hold most dear -- our home. Each and every one of us is called to join the struggle to help the Earth save herself and, by extension, all life.

The Cry shows us that there is something we can do, right now, to effect change and begin the meaningful task of making the world a promised land and ourselves a more promising people.

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The Freedom Agenda: Why a Balanced Budget Amendment is Necessary to Restore Constitutional Government (Hardcover)

The Freedom Agenda: Why a Balanced Budget Amendment is Necessary to Restore Constitutional Government (Hardcover)
By Mike Lee

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We hear it everyday: government spending is out of control. Yet, despite all the rhetoric coming out of Washington about the need to cut spending, we continue to go deeper and deeper into debt. If we’re serious about restoring America to fiscal health, we must do something about government spending, not just talk about it. So argues U.S. Senator Mike Lee in his new book, The Freedom Agenda. Revealing how the federal government went from a limited constitutional government to the colossal spending machine it is today, The Freedom Agenda clearly explains:

• the one Supreme Court case that led to the federal government’s massive overreach
  
• the need for a balanced-budget amendment to repair the government’s broken fiscal policies
  
• the reason returning power to the states should appeal to both conservatives and liberals
  
• the simple steps we can—and must—take to slash federal spending and the federal government’s intrusion into our daily lives

Timely and powerful, The Freedom Agenda shows how to put the federal government back in its proper place, and why a balanced budget amendment is the key to reigning in spending and the federal government’s abuse of power.
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Eyes on the Prize Box Set: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (6 Video Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Eyes on the Prize Box Set: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (6 Video Set) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
By Henry Hampton

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My Animal Side (Poems) (Kindle Edition)

My Animal Side (Poems) (Kindle Edition)
By Yoav Aharony

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A collection of 30 Poems
about the modern life.
Great value for your money

Here is an example from the book
Here is the news

Good evening here is the news
The Great War has began
but we will go to commercial first
and wait till it's done
Buy some washing powder
Smear it on your corpse
It will make you feel better
It will make feel worse
Ladies and gentleman here is the news
The war has began
All the headlines later
after the commercials are done.
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Mindwalk [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Mindwalk [VHS] (VHS Tape)
By Liv Ullmann

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This strange experiment in filmed conversation finds three people--a physicist, a poet, a politician--yammering about the environment, science, art, government, and much else, all in an effort either to find or to dispute connections between disparate subjects. There is no story, as such--just lots of chatter (much of it not particularly profound) shot against a variety of picturesque backgrounds. If director Bernt Capra thought this would turn out to be another My Dinner with André, that fantasy falls on its face. --Tom Keogh Read more

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Patriot Act: A Reality Show (Paperback)

Patriot Act: A Reality Show (Paperback)
By Charles A. Duncombe

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Winner of the Fratti/Newman Award for Political Playwriting. A million dollars to the most patriotic man or woman in America—and America does the voting! Do you love your country? Do you stand united? Do you support our troops? Do you have what it takes to make it to the final round? A man reports to a testing center for his final casting interview. There are a lot of forms to fill out. Then there’s his psychological profile, his medical testing, and his background check. The questions never seem to stop. Some of them seem awfully personal, some of them almost seem like an invasion of privacy. Don’t worry, his interviewers assure him. It’s all part of the process. All part of getting selected for the most exciting new reality show in America… “Patriot Act is a very simple piece of political theater but not a simplistic one. Like the would-be contestant, we don’t realize until it’s too late that each of the man’s answers to his interviewers’ questions has clicked a lock on his freedom. The frightening thing is that no matter what replies the man (or we) supplies, the judges are likely to interpret them as unreliable and persuade their prisoner that even if he were innocent of any suspected wrongdoing, it is in the country’s best interests that he go along with whatever the government declares as truth….Patriot Act is not at all a disposable piece of agitprop likely to fade with the legislation for which it is named. It is a peculiar examination of gullible America’s trust in authority that finds us fatally incurious about the matter.” --LA Weekly Read more

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The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics (Hardcover)

The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics (Hardcover)
By Walter F. Mondale

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 Former vice president Walter Mondale makes a passionate, timely argument for American liberalism in this revealing and momentous political memoir.

For more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America’s movement for social change—in civil rights, environmentalism, consumer protection, and women’s rights—and helped to forge the modern Democratic Party. In The Good Fight, Mondale traces his evolution from a young Minnesota attorney general, whose mentor was Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, into a U.S. senator himself. He was instrumental in pushing President Johnson’s Great Society legislation through Congress and battled for housing equality, against poverty and discrimination, and for more oversight of the FBI and CIA. Mondale’s years as a senator spanned the national turmoil of the Nixon administration; its ultimate self-destruction in the Watergate scandal would change the course of his own political fortunes. Chosen as running mate for Jimmy Carter’s successful 1976 campaign, Mondale served as vice president for four years. With an office in the White House, he invented the modern vice presidency; his inside look at the Carter administration will fascinate students of American history as he recalls how he and Carter confronted the energy crisis, the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and other crucial events, many of which reverberate to the present day. Carter’s loss to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election set the stage for Mondale’s own campaign against Reagan in 1984, when he ran with Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman on a major party ticket; this progressive decision would forever change the dynamic of presidential elections. With the 1992 election of President Clinton, Mondale was named ambassador to Japan. His intriguing memoir ends with his frank assessment of the Bush-Cheney administration and the first two years of the presidency of Barack Obama. Just as indispensably, he charts the evolution of Democratic liberalism from John F. Kennedy to Clinton to Obama while spelling out the principles required to restore the United States as a model of progressive government. The Good Fight is replete with Mondale’s accounts of the many American political heavyweights he encountered as either an ally or as an opponent, including JFK, Johnson, Humphrey, Nixon, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Gary Hart, Reagan, Clinton, and many others. Eloquent and engaging, The Good Fight illuminates Mondale’s philosophies on opportunity, governmental accountability, decency in politics, and constitutional democracy, while chronicling the evolution of a man and the country in which he is lucky enough to live. Read more

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