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Muzzling A Movement: The Effects of Anti-Terrorism Law, Money & Politics on Animal Activism - Dara Lovitz
The ability to protest peacefully and to voice unpopular opinions without being arrested and imprisoned arbitrarily are cornerstones of the U.S. Constitution, and are the reasons why, in spite of the many limitations imposed upon sectors of its society over the centuries, the dominant order has been forced to change to allow people of color, women, and others to take their place in society.

Animals ra...
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Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview - Jacques Derrida (Interviewed)
With death looming, Jacques Derrida, the world's most famous philosopher—known as the father of "deconstructionism"—sat down with journalist Jean Birnbaum of the French daily Le Monde. They revisited his life's work and his impending death in a long, surprisingly accessible, and moving final interview.

Sometimes called "obscure" and branded "abstruse" by his critics, the Derrida f...
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Tunnel People - Teun Voeten
Following the homeless Manhattanites who, in the mid-1990s, chose to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city, this book tells the stories of a variety of tunnel dwellers from the perspective of an award-winning, European photojournalist who lived and worked with them for five months. Personal accounts and a section of photographs detail the struggles and pleasures—including the government's ...
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Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, For the Future of Us All - Tricia Shapiro
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Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment?all to expose a layer of coal to be mined. In recent years, local people fighting against MTR's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, ...
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Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion).

To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India's wrecked paddy-fields a...
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Political Awakenings: Conversations with History - Howard Zinn (Interviewed), Harry Kreisler, Chalmers Johnson (Interviewed), Tariq Ali (Interviewed), Noam Chomsky (Interviewed), and Michael Pollan (Interviewed)
As a kid, Noam Chomsky handed out the Daily Mirror at his uncle's newsstand on 72nd Street, inadvertently finding himself in a buzzing intellectual and political hub for European immigrants in New York. Iranian human rights Nobelist Shirin Ebadi and her husband signed their own legal contract, attempting to restore equality to their marriage after the Iranian Revolution effectively erased the legal r...
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The View From Anarchist Mountain: Rants, Reviews and Explorations from an Anarchist Perspective - Larry Gambone
"The world as seen through the eyes of Larry Gambone is neither a distorted view through the rose-colored glasses of liberalism nor is it stunted by the blinders of statist thinking. Rather, it radiates with the directness and clarity of a lifetime of anarchist conviction."—Ron Sakolsky, author of Swift Winds and Creating Anarchy
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Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski - David Skrbina (Introduction by) and Theodore J. Kaczynski
Theodore Kaczynski saw violent collapse as the only way to bring down the techno-industrial system, and in more than a decade of mail bomb terror he killed three people and injured twenty-three
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One does not need to support the actions that landed Kaczynski in supermax prison to see the value of his essays disabusing the notion of heroic technology while revealing the manner in which it is ...
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Wind(s) From Below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible - Team Colors Collective
"In Wind(s) from Below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible, we [the Team Colors Collective] address current organizing in the U.S. in context of the class decomposition of recent decades. Following the years of fire we find ourselves circulating through winds and whirlwinds, which are struggling to intensify and connect amongst historically-specific forms of repression, infusio...
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In A Time Of Darkness - Alice Walker
Author of the perennially bestselling novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker has long been a force for sanity in a chaotic world. In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For she draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her political conviction and experience, and her literary gifts to offer a series of meditations filled with wisdom, hope, encouragement, and, at times, serenity to a world in need o...
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