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Peace

Books:

The Real AntiChrist by Michael S. Piazza

Toward a Spirituality for Global Justice: A Call to Kinship by Elaine Prevallet

The God of Peace: Toward a Theology of Nonviolence by John Dear

Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War, edited by Glen Stassen

The Powers that Be by Walter Wink

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (tells the history of the US from the side of those whose stories aren't usually told: Native Americans, women, GLBT, etc.)

Films:

Why We Fight

You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train (Howard Zinn)

A Force More Powerful (book by the same name)

Equal Rights

Books:

Queeries by Michael S. Piazza

Holy Homosexuals by Michael S. Piazza

Environment

Books:

Affluenza by John DeGraaf, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor (also PBS series)

The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

Not Buying It: My Year without Shopping by Judith Levine

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

Healthcare

Film:

Sicko (Michael Moore)

Justice for the Poor

Books:

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean (also movie)

Death of Innocents by Sister Helen Prejean

Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow

Who Owns Death? by Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchel

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• The creation of a culture of peace rather than war.
• The value of people over profits.
• Equal rights for all people, not just the majority.
• The protection of the environment before the corporate bottom line.
• Healthcare as a civil right for all, not just for the wealthy.
• The same quality of justice for the poor as for the rich.