Beef up your activist bookshelf with five books from Beacon Press including:

1.  "They Take Our Jobs!" And 20 Other Myths About Immigration by Aviva Chomsky.

2.  Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World by Sue Hyde.

3.  American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment by Sasha Abramsky.  

4.  Big Box Swindle:the True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses by Stacy Mitchell.

5.  The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America by Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen.