Bookstore on History & Strategy for Dismantling Corporate Constitutional "Rights" & Creating Authentic Democracy Where We Live

Here’s a list of the key books, DVD’s and CD’s that every community that is building a Community Rights effort will want to have access to. We have teamed up with 100fires.com online bookstore, owned by our Director Paul Cienfuegos, to provide this service. Paul does his best to ensure that every title on this list is always in stock and ready to ship. You can initiate your order simply by clicking directly on a title. 100fires.com will be donating back to Community Rights US 5% of every purchase that you make whenever your order originates from this page. Thank you!

We have divided this substantial book list into categories. Some books may be listed in more than one category. Brief descriptions of each book can be found at their respective links. You can ask Paul questions about these books HERE.

(Items marked with an asterisk are titles most relevant to Community Rights groups. We can arrange a bulk purchase price for your group’s reference library. Just ask.)

Community Rights vs Corporate Constitutional “Rights” History & Strategy

* Be the Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community
(This title is now out of print, and has been published in a completely new 2nd edition titled We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement. See below.)

* Building Unions: Past, Present and Future (photocopy of out-of-print booklet)

Challenging Corporate Rule: The Petition to Revoke Unocal’s Charter as a Guide to Citizen Action

* Cities Across the Country Are Exercising Their Right of Self-Governance: Will [Your Town Here] Be Next? (Speech on CD)

Citizens Over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future

* Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History and Strategy

(The) Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution

Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy

* Gaveling Down the Rabble: How “Free Trade” is Stealing Our Democracy

* How Dare We? Courageous Practices to Reclaim Our Power as Citizens

* How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property

* How to Research the Legal History of Corporations in Your State

* Is a Truly Sustainable Society Achievable as Long as Corporate “Rights” Trump the Rights of People? (Speech on CD)

* On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States

* Our Government Doesn’t Serve Us – By Design (Speech on CD)

* (The) People’s Right of Local, Community Self-Government: Grant Township v. Pennsylvania General Energy Company

* Reclaiming Democracy: How Communities Are Saying “NO” to Corporate Rights and Recognizing the Rights of Nature (DVD)

(The) Santa Clara Blues: Corporate Personhood versus Democracy

* Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation
(Out of Print, but readable online HERE.)

Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became “People” and How You Can Fight Back

* We Need Much Bolder Thinking and Action to Wrest Our Country Back From Corporate Rule (Speech on CD)

* We the People Standing Together to Protect Our Climate: Lessons From the Community Rights Movement (Speech on CD)

* We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States

We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy – A Guide to Sociocratic Principles and Methods
(Out of Print – check online bookstores for used copies.)