This 240-page book uses text and comics to explain in simple terms what capitalism is, how it works, why it's irredeemable, and what we can do to end it. Oppression, ecocide, inequality, and exploitation can't be voted away or escaped. We can't get rid of them through consumer or lifestyle choices. To end the atrocities, we need to build a worldwide fight against capitalism! Part 1 of the book explains the economic mechanisms of capitalism, and why the growth imperative is built into it. Part 2 explains the kind of organizations we need to build and support, in order to have a fighting chance against this ruthless global system. Throughout, cartoons make the points even more clear (and might make you laugh as well). Stephanie McMillan, winner of the 2012 RFK Journalism Award, is the creator of the comics "Minimum Security," "Code Green," and six previous books (including two graphic novels plus "The Beginning of the American Fall," comics journalism about the Occupy movement, Seven Stories Press 2012). Her cartoons have run in hundreds of publications including the "Los Angeles Times," "South Florida Sun-Sentinel," Yahoo news, Daily Beast, "Yes!" magazine, "San Francisco Bay Guardian," and "The Occupied Wall Street Journal."She distills 30 years of experience in organizing against capitalism into this book, with the hope that people will not only read it, but also use it as an organizing tool to ultimately defeat this omnicidal system, and build a classless and sustainable way of life.***To view more of Stephanie's work, visit: stephaniemcmillan.org. ***Testimonials about Stephanie's work:“McMillan’s expressive style, pared down to the basics and intensified over the years, allows for instant communication of thoughtful rage.”– Comics Journal“Very talented.”– Washington Post“This is social satire at its wittiest and most engaging.”– Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States“Her politics are perfect, her drawings sly and subtle, and her dialog funny as hell.”– Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame“Visionary and honest.”– Ted Rall, president of Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, author of Anti-American Manifesto and To Afghanistan and Back“Minimum Security is like oxygen for our suffocating times.”– Vandana Shiva, author of Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis” Razor-sharp critique packaged as cute-kid-and-funny-animal cartoon.”– Booklist“The cartoon generated a huge amount of filth, intolerable filth.”– Senator Bill Napoli, sponsor of abortion ban, South Dakota (Rapid City Journal)

Capitalism Must Die!: A Basic Introduction: What Capitalism Is, Why It Sucks, and How to Crush It

Business & Money

McMillan, Stephanie

Economics

Forward Spiral

"Code Green" is the award-winning editorial cartoon about the global environmental emergency. During its 3-year run, it was the only editorial cartoon in the US devoted solely to ecological issues. Topics include pipelines, oil spills, radiation, pollution, species extinction, and global warming. The individual cartoons have been reprinted in hundreds of venues worldwide; this is the complete collection all in one place.

Code Green: Editorial Cartoons about the Environmental Emergency

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic novel about a small group of friends who try to save the world from being destroyed by capitalism, using various strategies and tactics.

Resistance to Ecocide

Literature & Fiction

Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to saving the world from both of its enemies (and it isn't by using energy-efficient light bulbs or biodiesel fuel). As the World Burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before it’s too late.

As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial#A Graphic Novel

Jensen, Derrick

Graphic Novels

Seven Stories Press

In this darkly comic novel, the six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to talk, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. The easy-going circle undergoes a drastic change when the members realize they are all the survivors of rape—worse still, that none of their attackers suffered consequences—and the group becomes the vengeful Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad, taking punishment into their own hands via their knitting needles. As the women take their revenge, groups of men issue statements against the vigilante ladies, from the Chamber of Commerce to the sinister Men Against Women Against Rape (MAWAR), plotting to stop and punish the Knitting Circle. Featuring strong female characters, this satirical piece explores love, revenge, feminism, violence, and knitting.

The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad (Flashpoint Press)

Humor & Satire

PM Press

Can a cartoonist and millions of random strangers change the world? The initial stages of their attempt are chronicled in this book of comics-journalism and written observations. Stephanie McMillan, long-time activist and cartoonist, has waited her entire life for the American people to rise up. Sparked by uprisings around the world, a new movement bursts onto the national scene against a system that denies the people a decent life and puts the planet at risk. With delightful full-color drawings, interviews, dialogue, description, and insightful reflections, this book chronicles the first several months of the fragile and contradictory movement. It situates detailed personal experiences and representative narratives within the broad context of a truly unique and historical global conjuncture. This book will stand as a record of the emerging movement in accessible comics form.

The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement

History

From the winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a character-driven tale about our threatened environment and the practicality of putting contemporary revolutionary strategy into action. In The Minimum Security Chronicles, the latest long-form narrative from Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award–winning cartoonist Stephanie McMillan, lifelong friends Kranti and Bananabelle are rounded up during a protest and locked in a pen by a faraway railroad track. After their escape, when trying to gain proof of their capture, Kranti discovers the future site of a nuclear power plant. After attempting to shut it down, she learns of an even more ecologically dangerous enterprise: a massive geo-engineering project scheduled to begin in a matter of weeks. And so begins the tale of a group of friends—among them an apolitical computer programmer, an aspiring musician who joins the Occupy movement, a lovestruck community gardener, a militant bunny and a guinea pig theorist—who try to halt the plans of evil corporate overlords bent on destroying the earth for profit.

The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide

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