Possible Readings for
A. Learning about START

“Study Circle Democracy,” by Cecile Andrews, Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Winter 2003, 3 p.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=546

To believe in democracy, you need to believe in the power of people to find answers to the problems they’re facing. This includes: inspiring and motivating people to care about the common good; helping people learn to trust their own judgment and speak out; helping people think critically; and help people learn to work with others in a cooperative, collegial manner to bring about change.

“Challenging Corporate Power, Asserting the People's Rights,” 10-session study group from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), 1999.

http://www.wilpf.org/CPOWER_10sessions

Learn how corporations use their illegitimate constitutional “rights” and powers to define our law, politics, jurisprudence, work, technologies, food, and communities.

“Roots of Change,” International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC).

http://www.isec.org.uk/pages/roots.html

A study circle program with three goals: 1) to encourage a broad analysis of the origins and workings of the global economy, 2) to promote discussion of the impact of globalization on participants' own communities and communities around the world, and 3) to generate strategies for effective local action.

“Women and the Global Food Industry,” International Study Circles (ISC), 2000.

http://www.ifwea.org/isc/project4/index.html

Seeks to bring a critical understanding of how conditions of globalization affect women workers engaged in the production and retailing of food.

“Tackling Transnationals,” International Study Circles, 1997.

http://www.ifwea.org/isc/pilot01/handbook.html Pilot Project 1

http://www.ifwea.org/isc/pilot02/index.html Pilot Project 2

Seeks to provide an understanding of how transnational corporations operate and how they affect the economy, politics, and culture at local, national, and global levels.