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America, My Brother, My Blood América, Mi Hermano, Mi Sangre This is a stunning book of poetry and art by Pablo Neruda and Oswaldo Guayasamín. Bilingual in English and Spanish. MORE INFO |
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A Young Peoples History of the United States Volume Two by Howard Zinn Class Struggle to the War on Terror. In Volume Two, Howard Zinn's lively, clear prose takes the reader through the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century. MORE INFO |
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A Little Piece of Ground By Elizabeth Laird with Sonia Nimr An extraordinary book about war and peace through the eyes of a young Palestinian boy MORE INFO |
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The Shame of the Nation The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America By Jonathan Kozol. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of Black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the Black community, this book directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. MORE INFO |
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army By Jeremy Scahill Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the "global war on terror," with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty thousand troops at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies ... MORE INFO |
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Strange Liberators Strange Liberators goes from global sweatshops to Iraq to
Korea to Yugoslavia to Zimbabwe before a concluding chapter on
global warming. In every case, Elich exposes the lies spread by
the bourgeoisie, which are so often echoed by those in the
progressive movement. MORE INFO |
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What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States This book aims to recall moments of resistance past and rescue the underreported shows of struggle and humanity by athletes of the present, so we can appreciate the beauty of sports independent of the muck and fight for a future where skill, art, glory, and the joy of play belong to all of us.
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A Right to be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury Here’s the first big book of The Boondocks, more than four years and 800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial, and scathingly funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper.
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Manifesto: Three Classic Essays On How To Change The World If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to "do something," you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.
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Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro Fidel Castro writes with great candor and emotion about a historic revolutionary partnership that changed the face of Cuba and Latin America. MORE INFO |
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DVD: Poison DUst Radioactive DU Weapons in Iraq You thought they came home safely from the war. They didn't.
Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disablity of her young husband —a vet. MORE INFO |
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Self-Portrait: Che Guevara Unique among the many books about Che Guevara, Self-Portrait has been compiled in close collaboration with Che’s family, using exclusive material from his family’s private archives. Revealed for the first time is Che Guevara’s personal world, unveiling his extraordinary candor, irony, dry humor and passion. MORE INFO |
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Sélavi—A Haitian Story of Hope Children long to become capable and to show how much they can care for each other. This book helps them begin to think and to find ways of doing this, even as children. Especially as children.
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Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces por Ignacio Ramonet Sociólogo, teórico de la cultura, periodista y una de las voces más representativas del movimiento altermundista, Ignacio Ramonet ha logrado desvelar —tres semanas de intensas conversaciones— las claves de la Revolución cubana a través de la biografía humana y política del último monstruo sagrado, de la política internacional: el polémico Fidel Castro. MORE INFO |
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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg This is the breakthrough novel that people are talking about.
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up during the "Ozzie and Harriet" McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. MORE INFO |
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The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti Many of us go through our years trying to make sense of the world we live in. ... Trying to make sense of things is what makes us truly human. And it has its rewards by sometimes bringing us to a closer approximation of the truth, to something better than the song-and-dance act that is often foisted upon us by those who populate the dominant arena of discourse. ...
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Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky Recommended reading by Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez!
From Publishers Weekly: In this highly readable, heavily footnoted critique of U.S. foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, Chomsky argues that current U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Iraq are not a specific response to September 11, but simply the continuation of a consistent half-century of foreign policy—an imperial grand strategy ... MORE INFO |
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The Annexation of Mexico: From the Aztecs to the I.M.F. by John Ross From a 1995 winner of the American Book Award (Rebellion From the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas) comes a rip-roaring review of Mexico's 500-year resistance to annexation. MORE INFO |
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I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti Translated from Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif
"An important literary event....One of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement that we now have." —Edward W. Said, from the Foreward
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The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf War by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General This new edition of the groundbreaking work by Ramsey Clark tells the truth about U.S. war crimes against the Iraqi people in the 1991 war. With a special new introduction: After September 11th, an assessment of the U.S./Iraq conflict. MORE INFO |
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Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
New Foreword By Isabel Allende
First published in 1971, Eduardo Galeano's analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America presents a clear, passionate account of almost 500 years of Latin American history. Open Veins continues to speak to generations of people who want to understand capitalism and exploitation in Latin America, and in the rest of the world. MORE INFO |
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Chile: The Other September 11 — An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup Most people associate September 11 with the World Trade Center tragedy. But before 2001, September 11 was already a day of infamy for Latin America and Chile in particular. On that day in 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a U.S.-backed coup against the popularly elected government of Salvador Allende, and began his repressive 17-year dictatorship. ... MORE INFO |
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Haiti: A Slave Revolution The Haitian Revolution is a singular event in history. Never before or since has an enslaved people risen up, broken their chains, and established a new state. Haiti's history has been turbulent, but not for the reasons given by mainstream historians. Drawing from a wide range of authors, experts, and historical texts, this book challenges the stereotypes and counters 200 years of cultural myths. MORE INFO |
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Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier In this remarkable memoir, Leonard Peltier invites us into his world inside Leavenworth, where he had been wrongfully imprisoned for over twenty years. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain provides access to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his own suffering and the insights it has borne him.
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Walking Back Up Depot Street Walking Back Up Depot Street is an epic journey, in the original sense of epic as a story that poets invented to remind people of their own history—where they came from and where they are going. MORE INFO |
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Birth of the Communist Manifesto Edited, With Introduction by Dirk J. StruikThe Communist Manifesto appeared in February 1848. Although The Manifesto is over 150 years old, it is as invigorating and as topical as on the day it was written. To understand how the Communist Manifesto came to be written, you have to go back in history. This book contains that history, the text of the Communist Manifesto, all prefaces by Marx and Engels, early drafts by Engels, and other supplementary material. MORE INFO |
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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Of all the great classics in the treasury of Marxism, The Communist Manifesto unquestionably stands out as the most popular and widely read throughout the world. It presents the materialist conception of history in clear, brilliant language. The Manifesto's diagnosis of capitalist society is at the same time a prognosis of the destruction of capitalism at the hands of what the Manifesto calls the "grave diggers" of capitalism—the revolutionary proletariat. MORE INFO |
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Rebel Lives: Helen Keller Revolutionary activist, better known for her blindness than her radical social vision. "Poor little blind girl" or dangerous radical? MORE INFO |
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Rebel Lives: Albert Einstein This book takes a new, subversive look at Time magazine's 'Person of the Century,' whose passionate opposition to war and racism and advocacy of human rights put him on the FBI's files as a socialist enemy of the state MORE INFO |
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Chávez: Un Hombre Que Anda Por Ahí Aleida Guevara, médico pediatra e hija mayor del Che Guevara, entrevistó al Presidente Hugo Chávez en febrero del 2004. MORE INFO |
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Chile: El Otro 11 de Septiembre "No es la primera vez. Para mí y para millones de otros seres humanos el Once de Septiembre viene siendo hace veintiocho años una fecha de duelo..." —Ariel Dorfman Editado por Pilar Aguilera y Ricardo Fredes MORE INFO |
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CD: Imagine by Pam Parker New Music by the incomparable Pam Parker. Her many fans will enjoy this new offering! R&B º Women º Blues º Peace º Unionism º Social Justice º Jazz º Truth
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Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia by Ramsey Clark and Various Authors
Confused about why the U.S. bombed Yugoslavia? That's because you never heard about the hidden agenda to dismember this multiethnic country.
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Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster "[Mike Davis'] genius lies in divining the connections between social injustice and ecological distress ..." —Susan Faludi, author of Backlash MORE INFO |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan "Embodied in this irresistible, picaresque journey through America's food world is a profound treatise on the hidden politics of our everyday life." —Mark Danner, author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror MORE INFO |
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DVD: SiCKO A film by Michael Moore Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore returns with this scathing indictment of the U.S.' failing health system. If you didn't see it, you must, if you saw it, buy it to show it to doubting friends and family! MORE INFO |
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A People's History of the United States 1492 - Present By Howard Zinn. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. MORE INFO |