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A Pair of Recommended Reads from Flobots' Jonny 5

by Jonny 5 01-13-2009 | 4:00pm
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090112-when-corporations-rule-the-worldWhen Corporations Rule the World, by David Korten.
In 1999, I participated in protests that shut down the WTO meeting in Seattle. In 2008, I read this book and finally understood why!

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Borges: Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges.
Layers of interlocking worlds abstracted into short stories, in which concepts are the main characters. This book reads like a summary of everything.

portrait-johnny-5Jonny 5 is an emcee with The Flobots and a board member of Flobots.org. He lives in Denver, Colorado, and attends Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church.

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