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Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader - Tom Hayden
For the last fifty years, Tom Hayden has been an outspoken advocate for civil rights, social justice, environmental protection and peace. He has also been a prolific writer, documenting and exploring a profound and constant search for alternatives to the injustices of modern America.


It was Martin Luther King who first encouraged Hayden, a young writer, to cross the line from observation to direct...
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A History of U.S. Feminisms - Rory Dicker
A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, A History of U.S. Feminisms will provide historical context of all the major events and players since the late nineteenth century through today.

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White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son - Tim Wise
From his experiences as a white anti-racist activist and white American, Wise has crafted the first history of what it means to be part of the "majority" in America. Combining the emotion of personal stories with insights gleaned from 15 years as an educator, White Like Me examines the ways in which whites reap the benefits of "racial preferences" - whether or not they actively engage in racism. By criticall...
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Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners - Ashanti Alston (Afterword By), Lynne Stewart (Afterword By), Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Foreword by), and Matt Meyer (Editor)
Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements t...
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Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936–1945) - Paul Sharkey (Translator), Martha A. Ackelsberg (Introduction by), and Ingrid Strobl
Common perception of women during wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history—working in munitions factories, or waiting for their men to return. The truth is that much of the resistance to fascism should be chalked up to the people whom official accounts have nothing to say. Partisanas excavates the history of women who planted bombs, shouldered guns, and were among the most active parti...
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Move Into the Light: Postscript to a Turbulent 2007 - Turbulence Collective
Whether it's the G8 summit at Heiligendamm or experiments in Latin
America, the politics of climate change or uprisings in the French
banlieues, questions of visibility and illumination crop up again and again. But our experiences create their own luminosity, and their own areas of darkness. How can we overcome our night-blindness once we move beyond the familiar?
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Behind The Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals - Steven Best (Contributor), Ingrid Newkirk (Contributor), Shannon Keith (Director), Ramy Hassan (Producer), Sandra Mohr (Editor), and Rod Coronado (Contributor)
Animal Rights activist lawyer goes "behind the mask" in this fascinating documentary, exploring the history, and current activities of the Animal Liberation Front, and associated illegal animal liberation activities. She mixes never-before-seen underground footage of liberation, with interviews with the likes of Keith Mann, Rod Coronado, John Feldmann, John Curtin, Ingrid Newkirk, Kevin Jonas, Melanie Arnol...
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Upping The Anti: A Journal Of Theory And Action
An excellent attempt to engage, address, and discuss the unresolved questions and dynamics within the struggles of anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism - while moving beyond the party building of the sectarian left, and the dead end of social democracy. The debut issue comes out strong, with lengthy interviews with Grace Lee Boggs and Ward Churchill; an extended essay on autonomist Marxism;...
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Young, Jewish and Left - Konnie Chameides (Director) and Irit Reinheimer (Director)
A celebration of diversity, Young Jewish and Left weaves queer culture, Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, antiracist analysis, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multilayered tapestry of Leftist politics. Personal experiences from many of today's leading Jewish activists reframe the possibilities of Jewish identity. It presents a fresh and constructive take on race, spirituality, Zionis...
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Beyond Chutzpah: On The Misuse Of Anti-Semitism And The Abuse Of History - Norman Finkelstein
In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus amo...
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