With the sudden change we all have had to make to our lives due to the Covid-19 crisis, we have decided to pivot our Seeing Systems Discussion Forum and attempt to deliver value to you all at home, and continue the conversation about Peace, Justice, and Sustainability.
To help anyone who seeks to continue their education around these subjects, we have put together a Read & Watch list, containing books and movies relating back to the theme of Peace, Justice, and Sustainability. We will be reaching out to the community for some feedback and responses to some of the titles listed below.
Have you seen or read any of these titles? Let us know in the comments, or on our facebook page: http://go.iu.edu/2n9D
Watch List:
Dark Waters
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world’s largest corporations.
Rent: Apple iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Video, YouTube
The True Cost
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
Stream: Amazon Prime Video
Rent: Apple iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, YouTube
World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
Public school teacher John Hunter and his students participate in an educational exercise that he created entitled the World Peace Game. This interactive experience triggers a transformation of the students from children of a neighborhood school to citizens of the world.
Rent: Vimeo On Demand
No Impact Man
Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.
Streaming: Hoopla, Kanopy
Rent: Apple iTunes, Google Play, YouTube
Cowspiracy
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.
Streaming: Netflix
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from various walks of life.
Streaming: Netflix, Hoopla, Kanopy
Rent: Apple iTunes, Google Play, YouTube
13th
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.
Streaming: Netflix
Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea
In this documentary, Chelsea Handler explores how white privilege impacts US culture – and the ways it’s benefited her own life and career.
Steaming: Netflix
A Plastic Ocean
A documentary focused on plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.
Streaming: Netflix
Rent: Apple iTunes, Google Play, YouTube
Blackfish
Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
Streaming: Hulu, Hoopla
Rent: Apple iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Redbox
Before the Flood
A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native communities across the planet.
Streaming: Prime Video, Disney+
Rent: Apple iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Redbox
Reading List:
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
By: Nadine Burke Harris
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle.
ISBN: 9780544828704
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By:Gred Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
Overprotection is having a negative effect on university students and that the use of “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” does more harm than good
ISBN: 978-0735224896
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
By: Muhammad Yunus
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today’s most trenchant social critics.
ISBN: 978-1541767928
Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence
By: Barry Spector
As the post-modern world lurches toward the disasters and bereavements that signal the end of an age, we turn to myth to comprehend the elemental forces that move through our lives, to know who we are, to understand which stories inform our consciousness.
ISBN: 978-1587901737
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
By: David Brooks
Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it?
ISBN: 978-0812993264
A People’s History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
Zinn presents what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional “fundamental nationalist glorification of country.”
ISBN: 978-0060838652
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people.’
ISBN: 978-0807047415
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
A speech delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony.
ISBN: 9780979905216
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
While it is a fictional work, it is loosely based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young black man sentenced to death by the electric chair twice in Louisiana, in 1945 and 1947
ISBN: 978-0375702709
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
By: Jane Hirshfield
Hirshfield’s current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova.
ISBN: 978-0060925765
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
By: Marie Kondo
ISBN: 978-1607747307
Radical Honesty : How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
By: Dr. Brad Blanton
Dr. Brad Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert on stress management, explored the myths, superstitions and lies by which we all live.
ISBN: 978-0970693846