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Study reveals who's ruling our communities
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| Who Rules Cincinnati? argues that seven corporations have dominated the City of Cincinnati’s economy, society and politics leading to “distorted development” and “grotesque contrasts between rich and poor” with “a particularly damaging impact on the African American population.” |
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VIDEO: The Story of Stuff
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| The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. |
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Building the Green Economy
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| Global Exchange's exciting book, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots, shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies.
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Online Guide to Power Structure Research
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| Power structure research is an approach to the study of power that highlights the unequal distribution of resources upon which power is based (e.g., wealth, political office, control of the mass media) and the importance of formal and informal social networks as the means by which power is concentrated and institutionalized. |
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Resources on buying local
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| Big box stores like Wal-Mart and the Gap are steamrolling their way into cities and towns throughout the country, pushing down wages and forcing small, local businesses to close because they can’t compete with these mega-companies’ predatory practices. But there’s something we can do! |
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Tools for local organizing
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| How to organize a demo, pass a resolution, lobby, write a letter to the editor, write a press release. |
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