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The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid
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Alexander Berkman (Contributor)
Released: 2010-03-09
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Bulletin of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia and Bulletin of the Relief Fund of the International Working Men's Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia
Reprinted here for the first time, this collection of bulletins—edited through the years by Alexander Berkman, Mark Mratchny, Milly Witcop-Rocker, ...
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Rolling Thunder: A Journal of Dangerous Living #9
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Crimethinc (Editor)
Released: 2010-03-08
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How important is legitimacy—in our own eyes, in the eyes of potential allies, in the eyes of the public? How can anarchists cultivate it? What pitfalls does it hold? Rolling Thunder #9 explores these questions while reporting on the past six months of upheavals around the US. Following up on our coverage of the 2008 convention protests, this issue assesses anarchist action at the 2009 G20 summit, mappi...
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The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-O Box: The Execution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
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Mia Partlow and Michael Hoerger
Released: 2010-03-08
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This awesome "poster zine" shows the sordid shared history between Jell-O and nuclear secrets. Wait. What? Yep, Jell-O and nuclear secrets. Packed with espionage and intrigue, this super sweet poster (featuring declassified documents!), details the not-so-well-known connections between America's favorite jiggly fruit snack and the Manhattan project, government propaganda campaigns, and executed spies (or wer...
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Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
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This shares much in common with Z Magazine. It's monthly. It's fiercely anti-capitalist, and independent. It's superb. It ought to be mandatory reading for anyone/everyone w ho cares even a teensy bit about what's going on, and how to change it for the better. Each month brings one a digest-sized, spined, 64 page magazine, typically with three lengthy essays/articles, and a plethora of reviews, and an...
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Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn
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Sasha Lilly (Editor), Howard Zinn (Interviewed), and Noam Chomsky (Interviewed)
Released: 2010-03-03
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Two of the most venerable figures on the American Left—Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky—converse with Sasha Lilley about their lives and political philosophies, looking back at eight decades of struggle and theoretical debate. Howard Zinn, interviewed shortly before his death, reflects on the genesis of his politics, from the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements to opposing empire today, as we...
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Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia 1916–1918
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Eric Hobsbawm (Foreword by), Tania Rose (Editor), and Morgan Philips Price
Released: 2010-03-03
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A special correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, Morgan Philips Price was one of the few Englishmen in Russia during all phases of the Revolution. Although his Bolshevik sympathies accorded him an insider's perspective on much of the turmoil, his reports were often heavily revised or suppressed. In Dispatches from the Revolution, Tania Rose collects for the first time Price's correspondenc...
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Prison/Culture
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Steve Dickison (Editor), Kevin B. Chen (Editor), Mark Dean Johnson (Editor), Rebeka Rodriguez (Editor), Amiri Baraka (Contributor), Angela Davis (Contributor), and Sharon Bliss (Editor)
Released: 2010-03-03
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Over two million individuals are behind bars in US prisons, living in isolation from their families and their communities. Prison/Culture investigates the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience through a compilation of stunning and often heartrending artwork by inmates as well as by artists on the outside, such as Sandow Birk and Keith Antar Mason, who address incarcer...
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Sustainable Food: How to Buy Right and Spend Less
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Elise McDonough
Released: 2010-03-03
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This down-to-earth, casual guide—small enough to be slipped into your pocket—answers these and other questions for the shopper:
* What are the differences among organic, local, fair-trade, free-range, naturally raised, and biodynamic foods?
* How affordable is it to subscribe to a CSA farm—and what are the advantages?
* What cooking oils can be sustainably sourced?<...
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Fire To The Prisons
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Fire to the Prisons Collective (Editor)
Released: 2010-03-03
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Fire to the Prisons is an insurrectionary anarchist quarterly focusing on anti-prison and prisoner support content, but also includes articles to inspire opposition to this cold world.
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The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons For All
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Peter Linebaugh
Released: 2010-03-03
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This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny—and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture—are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient right...
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ASR: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
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It's been far too long since we carried this venerable journal,and it's a pleasure to have it back. Venerable it may be, but it remains perhaps the most vital, engaging, relevant and informative anarchist magazine today. The essays and articles pertain more than most, both theoretically, and practically, not just to 'everyday' concerns, but those that ought to concern anyone interested in putting the movemen...
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The Man-Made World
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary A. Hill (Introduction by)
Released: 2010-03-03
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In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole.
Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race, but rather...
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How to Make and Use Compost: The Ultimate Guide
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Nicky Scott
Released: 2010-03-03
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Composting is easy, fun, saves you money, and helps you to grow lovely plants. Whether you live in an apartment with no garden or have a family and garden that generate large amounts of food and garden waste, this book shows you how to compost everything that can be composted at home, work, or school, and in spaces big and small.
How to Make and Use Compost features an A–Z guide that incl...
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Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge
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Gordon Edgar
Released: 2010-03-03
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Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgar's unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco's worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist, Edgar bluffed his way into his cheese job knowing almost nothing, but quickly discovered a whole world of amazing artisan cheeses. There h...
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Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
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Alice Waters (Foreword by) and Carlo Petrini
Released: 2010-03-03
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More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald's wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: he helped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phenomenon, inspiring the likes of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. Now, it's time to take the work of changing the way people grow, distrib...
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Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition
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Dylan Rodriguez
Released: 2010-03-03
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Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historical, popular, and ethnographic archives, Dylan Rodríguez provides a sophisticated analysis of the Filipino presence in the American imaginary. Radically critiquing current conceptions of Filipino American identity, community, and history, he puts forth...
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Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture
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Shannon Hayes
Released: 2010-03-03
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Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps necessary to solve our global crises—drive less, consume less, increase self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local communities.
In essence, the great work we face requires rekindling the home fires.
Radical Homemakers is...
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Nontoxic Housecleaning
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Amy Kolb Noyes
Released: 2010-03-03
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When it comes to cleaning products, society often values convenience over personal and planetary health, thanks to decades of advertising propaganda from the chemical companies that market overpriced and dangerous concoctions. But awareness is changing: Not only are homemade and nontoxic cleaners strong enough for the toughest grunge (Temple of the Dog!), they are often as convenient as their commercial coun...
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Torture Taxi: On the Trial of the CIA's Rendition Flights
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Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson
Released: 2010-03-01
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It's no longer a secret: Since 9/11, the CIA has quietly kidnapped more than a hundred people and detained them at prisons throughout the world. It is called "extraordinary rendition," and it is part of the largest U.S. clandestine operation since the end of the Cold War.
In this first book to systematically investigate extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a "militar...
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Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences
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David A. Smith (Editor) and James Lardner (Editor)
Released: 2010-03-01
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Inequality Matters tells an epic story that has only recently begun to attract widespread, mainstream attention. Over the past thirty years, income and wealth in America have been flowing upward, from the many to the few. Today, economic inequality is higher than at any time since the 1930s, and higher in the US than in any other of the world's rich nations. As material differences have widened, so ha...
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Biodiesel: Basics And Beyond
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William Kemp
Released: 2010-03-01
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Using vegetable oils as a fuel for home heating and transportation is a hundred years old: Rudolf Diesel's original engine was operated on plant oils due to the lack of fossil fuels. Later, plant and animal oils were converted into a petrodiesel-compatible fuel known as biodiesel: a clean, low-carbon fuel.In the early 1980s, home brewers discovered they could transform waste restaurant fryer oils into crude ...
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Letters from Mississippi: Personal Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers of the 1964 Freedom Summer
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Julian Bond (Introduction by) and Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez (Editor)
Released: 2010-03-01
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During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights organizations sent volunteers into Mississippi to expand black voter registration in the state, to challenge the whites-only Mississippi Democratic Party, to establish "freedom schools," and to open community centers. Letters from Mississippi is a collection of moving, personal letters written by volunteers of the summer.
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The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science
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Julie Des Jardins
Released: 2010-02-24
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Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations—limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men—to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences. Exploring the lives of Jane ...
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