Progressive Texas

Progressive Texas

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad

Frances Moore Lappe

Small Planet Media, 2007

Yes We Can

+ making a difference
+ We need to listen
+ Getting a Grip
+ Getting a Grip

Deep Natural

Michelle Shocked

Mighty Sound, 2002

Shocked gets religion

+ A Little Sophomoric, But Very Solid Stuff
+ who is Michelle Shocked? She's incredible!

I have a very short personal list of musicians whose CDs I always buy. She was ABOUT to fall off that list until she came out with Deep/Dub Natural. In my opinion, about Shocked's only flaw is a tendency to preach and as she matured, she made that mistake a few times. Not in this album! Like her ...

Stills

Stephen Stills

Sony, 1993

an addictive, compulsively listenable collection from Stephen Stills

+ Underrated
+ Stills at his best
+ Stills Alone - and Awesome

Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity

Robert Jensen

South End Press, 2007

Excellent analysis and moving autobiographical journey.

+ Right on.
+ Good points, a painful read.
+ this is important

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America

Nick Kotz

Mariner Books, 2006

Excellent and Very Readable History

+ Difficult, But Historic Times
+ More new stuff
+ A Brilliant Synopsis of a Troubling Era
+ Fast-paced, well-written history

Dangerous

Bill Hicks

Rykodisc, 1997

Classic Hicks

+ Bill Hicks in his prime and with a good crowd
+ I man for all seasons
+ Simply great stand-up comedy, well executed. And strangely intellectual at times
+ BUY THIS CD!!!

Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire
James K. Galbraith

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

In these essays James K. Galbraith wrote the history of Bush's presidency while it happened. This work contains Galbraith's most influential writings on current affairs along with new commentary, and explores the descent to disaster in Iraq and the ongoing transformation of the American economy under the steerage of Alan Greenspan. Important contributions examine the new U.S. strategic doctrine, ...

The Life & Times of Willie Velásquez (The Hispanic Civil Rights Series)
Juan Sepulveda

Arte Publico Press, 2005

William C. "Willie" Velásquez, Jr. founded the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (SVREP) and was an influential participant in other leading Latino rights and justice groups, including the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC). From the late 1960s until his untimely death in 1988, Velásquez helped Mexican Americans and other ...

Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening: The Total Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible ...

J. Howard Garrett

Gulf Publishing, 1998

Great Book On Organic Gardening

+ This is THE BOOK!
+ Best Texas vege gardening book!

Howard covers the essentials of Basic Organic Gardening as well as the how to's. I bought the book at Rohde's for about the same price before shipping. If you can't get to Garland; but it here. We just completed our 20'x20' raised bed garden. Our front yard is the lushest greenest yard in the ...

Essential Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

Sony, 2003

Buried Alive....

+ Wow!
+ Janis Joplin
+ essential janis joplin
+ All in one package

Why We Fight

John McCain, Susan Eisenhower

Sony Pictures, 2006

"You begin to wonder... there's something wrong with the entire system.."

+ Thought provoking
+ Worth reading

Heartsick. As I should be. As any human being with a shred of humanity left should be. And no one more so than the patriotic American. "Why We Fight," Oliver Stone's stunning documentary on the real reasons behind the wars in which Americans are and have been involved, is a film every American ...

Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide

Scott Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew

South End Press, 2008

amazing new book on radical sustainability!

+ Urban permaculture DIY

Wow! I just got this amazing new book written by members of Austin's Rhizome Collective. It's full of highly practical, affordable, and simple designs that can be used by anyone to achieve sustainability in their home, neighborhood or community. There are a number of books on sustainable living, ...

Rock Crystals & Peyote Dreams: Explorations in the Huichol Universe

Peter T Furst

University of Utah Press, 2006

An unforgettable exploration of the Huichol physical and spiritual way of life

Author Peter T. Furst, whose lifelong encounter with the intellectual culture and society of the Huichol native people of Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental first begin in the 1960s, presents Rock Crystals & Peyote Dreams: Explorations In The Huichol Universe, an updated collection of numerous ...