Publisher: OR Books / AK Press
Format: Book
Binding: pb x 2
Released: October 29, 2024
Around here, we are big fans of Sue Coe's work. For decades, she has been steadfast in her fight against cruelty and injustice. To celebrate the release of her forthcoming book on OR Books (October 29), we decided to offer you, dear reader, a discount on this horrifying but essential little bundle:
A Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
This fierce, smart interweaving of punch-packing illustration and punctilious text lays bare the authoritarianism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny fueling Donald Trump's political rise, the fervor of MAGA extremism, and the alarming political landscape we are travelling through, notably the upcoming 2024 presidential election campaign.
Designed especially to inform and activate younger readers, it pays particular attention to the attempted stealing of the 2020 election, including the harrowing Capitol insurrection on January 6th 2021, and Trump's efforts to evade its legal consequences. Beyond the crimes of Trump, Coe and Eisenman explore the threads of fascism in U.S. history and in today’s foreign policy under President Biden, including the proxy war against Russia, support for genocide in Gaza, and the brutal treatment of asylum seekers along the U.S./Mexican border.
Zooicide
In Zooicide, Sue Coe employs her bold artistic style to confront the institution of zoos, showing that they are inherently cruel and why the solution is not to reform them, but to abolish them. Coe’s visual journalism investigates the mental anguish inflicted upon animals—including cases where they have killed themselves to end their torture. Zoos may pay lip service to education, enrichment, and conservation, but their depravity is systemic and ubiquitous; it is built into the very idea of animals as commodities. As long as they are considered property, animals will be treated as things, with no rights—things that can be caged, bred, abused, or killed for profit and entertainment. It’s time to end this cruelty.
