The Vashon-Maury Island Green Party's "Progressive Book Club" holds monthly meetings at the Vashon Tea Shop on the 4th Sundays of every month, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

The Book Club is a social event designed for members to get to know each other while discussing progressive book selections. Green Party membership is not a requirement.

Books are generally available at Vashon bookstores and a discount is offered to participants.

Upcoming Books

• June 24, 2007:  "Peace is the Way" by Deepak Chopra
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• July 22,2007: "Democracy matters: winning the fight against imperialism" by Cornell West
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• Aug 26,2007: "American fascists: the Christian right and the war on America" by Chris Hedge

Recent Readings

• May: "Nemesis" by Chalmers Johnson
   
• April: "The Impossible will take a little while: a citizen's guide to hope in a time of fear" by Paul Loeb
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• March:  "Mountains beyond mountains" by Tracy Kidder

 

         Here's a list  of other books we finished:

                "An ordinary person's guide to empire" by Arundhati Roy

                "Confessions of an economic hit man" by John  Perkins

                "A war against truth" by Paul William Roberts

                "Armed madhouse" by Greg Palast

                "The great turning" by David Korten

                "Cochabamba" by Oscar Olivera and Tomas Lewis

                "The kite runner" by Khaled Hosseini

                "Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature,and climate change" by Elizabeth Kolbert

                "The European dream" by Jerome Rifkin

 

For More Information

Contact Ivy Sacks at 463-9579 or Ivys@centurytel.net