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bell hooks and Ayo Sesheni (Narrator)
Released 2009-05-01
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery was the first nonfiction book to address the emotional needs of black women from a political perspective. With its watershed publication, bell hooks reminded us that those at the frontlines in battles against racism and sexism must take time to suture the wounds caused by oppression even as they continue to struggle. Although self-help and affirmation books have exploded as a genre, fourteen years later Sisters of the Yam remains one of the few books to theorize care of the self as an integral part of the fight for social justice. For those new to this classic as well as those who will be delighted to return to it, this audio edition of Sisters of the Yam makes the work accessible to an even wider audience. An important addition for libraries, activist organizations, book clubs, and personal stereos, Sisters of the Yam remains a vital resource for anyone who seeks to better understand the many dimensions of black women’s struggle for justice.
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George Monbiot
Released 2009-03-01
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward. Now in the long-awaited paperback.
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Vandana Shiva
Released 2008-10-01
In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity’s most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
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Frank B. Wilderson, III
Released 2008-08-01
A literary tour de force sure to spark fierce debate in both America and South Africa, Incognegro radically retells a personal and political story most Americans think we already know—not just about South Africa, but about us. Winner of the 2008 American Book Award/Before Columbus Foundation.
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Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
Released 2008-07-01
Educates city dwellers on how to create locally-based, ecologically sustainable communities, providing instructions on all types of urban production and conservation, including worm composting, humanure, rainwater collection, and raising chickens. Toolbox for Sustainable City Living is a must-read for anyone committed to creating sustainable communities in urban environments.
(This Toolbox is an outgrowth of Radical Urban Sustainability Training.)
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Jamie Bissonette
Released 2008-04-05
After the Attica massacre awoke peoples' consciousness around the world, Massachusetts prisoners, working with 1530 civilian volunteers, won control of the operation of a maximum-security prison. Their story is both proof of their deep humanity and hope for abolition.
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Released 2007-10-01
Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed harvests the work and ideas produced by thousands of communities around the world. Collectively engaged activists offer viable solutions for reversing perhaps the worst food crisis faced in human history.
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Robert Jensen
Released 2007-09-01
At once alarming and thought-provoking, Getting Off asks tough but crucial questions about pornography, manhood, and the way toward genuine social justice.
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Kristian Williams
Released 2007-08-01
More than a history of police brutality, Our Enemies in Blue examines the centrality of violence to everyday policing. From slave patrols to “community policing,” Williams traces the evolution of the modern police force as a violent guard of the social order.
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Dana Frank
Released 2007-05-01
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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Released 2007-05-01
An essential intervention into the understanding of race and space. Black Geographies maps the political development and origins of black spaces from the middle passage to dancehall and hip hop.
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George Monbiot
Released 2007-04-23
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward.
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Released 2007-04-01
Beyond questioning the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance How Nonviolence Protects the State argues that an insistence on only nonviolent tactics reinforces state power. In chapters such as “Nonviolence is Racist” and “Nonviolence is Patriarchal” Peter Gelderloos passionately calls for activist to look beyond easy answers and to mount a real challenge to power. Not a call to arms, but a call to realize that armed resistance cannot be dismissed out-of-hand.
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2007-03-01
Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an unbeholden exposé of the “nonprofit industrial complex” and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.
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South End Press Collective (editors); Afterword by Joy James
Released 2007-02-01
Short and accessible, this anthology, featuring such voices as Common Ground, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Suheir Hammad, Jordan Flaherty, and Ross Gelbspan, takes readers beyond the Superdome. It explores the complexity of this turning point in US history as representative of the nation’s direction and priorities.
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Jane Jeong Trenka (Editor), Julia Chinyere Oparah (Editor), and Sun Yung Shin (Editor)
Released 2006-10-10
Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, they unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice.
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Vijay Prashad and Teo Ballvé; Editors
Released 2006-10-10
Vital changes are taking place in the political and social landscape of Latin America. From the pages of the well-respected NACLA Report we receive the riventing reports of 28 observers who map the struggles and victories, covering 11 countries from Argentina to Mexico. All who are interested in resisting globalization should be paying attention.
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2006-10-10
Springing from the work of the nation's largest grassroots multiracial feminist organization, this collection expands understandings about violence against women, clarifying how violence operates through race, class, gender, and nationality, and exposing the state's role in condoning and furthering violence.
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bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains
Released 2006-05-19
Renowned cultural critic bell hooks and MacArthur-awarded artist Amalia Mesa-Bains explore the issues that unify—and divide—progressive African Americans and Latinos. They also grapple with feminism, the "war against terror," and popular culture.
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Kristian Williams
Released 2006-04-12
This pathbreaking study observes torture as a veteran tool of American power. Examining the racial and gender politics of torture, Williams draws powerful conclusions about the centrality of rape and white supremacy to US empire and life at home.
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Released 2005-11-01
Drawing on her experiences during the US-Contra war in Nicaragua, noted memoirist and historian Dunbar-Ortiz draws conclusions about contemporary US aggression. She recalls CIA disinformation, contra violence, and US government manipulation of human rights and solidarity organizations.
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Dana Frank
Released 2005-09-29
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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Vandana Shiva
Released 2005-09-29
A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies.
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Vandana Shiva
Released 2005-09-29
A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies.
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Dana Frank
Released 2005-09-29
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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Sisters of the Yam (audio) (audio)
Black Women and Self-Recoverybell hooks and Ayo Sesheni (Narrator)
Released 2009-05-01
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery was the first nonfiction book to address the emotional needs of black women from a political perspective. With its watershed publication, bell hooks reminded us that those at the frontlines in battles against racism and sexism must take time to suture the wounds caused by oppression even as they continue to struggle. Although self-help and affirmation books have exploded as a genre, fourteen years later Sisters of the Yam remains one of the few books to theorize care of the self as an integral part of the fight for social justice. For those new to this classic as well as those who will be delighted to return to it, this audio edition of Sisters of the Yam makes the work accessible to an even wider audience. An important addition for libraries, activist organizations, book clubs, and personal stereos, Sisters of the Yam remains a vital resource for anyone who seeks to better understand the many dimensions of black women’s struggle for justice.
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Heat (Paperback)
How to Stop the Planet From BurningGeorge Monbiot
Released 2009-03-01
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward. Now in the long-awaited paperback.
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Soil Not Oil (paperback original)
Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate CrisisVandana Shiva
Released 2008-10-01
In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity’s most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
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Incognegro
A Memoir of Exile and ApartheidFrank B. Wilderson, III
Released 2008-08-01
A literary tour de force sure to spark fierce debate in both America and South Africa, Incognegro radically retells a personal and political story most Americans think we already know—not just about South Africa, but about us. Winner of the 2008 American Book Award/Before Columbus Foundation.
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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living (paperback original)
A Do-It-Ourselves GuideScott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
Released 2008-07-01
Educates city dwellers on how to create locally-based, ecologically sustainable communities, providing instructions on all types of urban production and conservation, including worm composting, humanure, rainwater collection, and raising chickens. Toolbox for Sustainable City Living is a must-read for anyone committed to creating sustainable communities in urban environments.
(This Toolbox is an outgrowth of Radical Urban Sustainability Training.)
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When the Prisoners Ran Walpole (paperback original)
A True Story in the Movement for Prison AbolitionJamie Bissonette
Released 2008-04-05
After the Attica massacre awoke peoples' consciousness around the world, Massachusetts prisoners, working with 1530 civilian volunteers, won control of the operation of a maximum-security prison. Their story is both proof of their deep humanity and hope for abolition.
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Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed (paperback original)
Vandana Shiva (Editor), Carlo Petrini (Contributor), and Michael Pollan (Contributor)Released 2007-10-01
Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed harvests the work and ideas produced by thousands of communities around the world. Collectively engaged activists offer viable solutions for reversing perhaps the worst food crisis faced in human history.
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Getting Off (paperback original)
Pornography and the End of MasculinityRobert Jensen
Released 2007-09-01
At once alarming and thought-provoking, Getting Off asks tough but crucial questions about pornography, manhood, and the way toward genuine social justice.
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Our Enemies in Blue
Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)Kristian Williams
Released 2007-08-01
More than a history of police brutality, Our Enemies in Blue examines the centrality of violence to everyday policing. From slave patrols to “community policing,” Williams traces the evolution of the modern police force as a violent guard of the social order.
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El Poder de las Mujeres Es Poder Sindical (paperback original)
La Transformación de los Sindicatos Bananeros en América LatinaDana Frank
Released 2007-05-01
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
Katherine McKittrick (Editor) and Clyde Woods (Editor)Released 2007-05-01
An essential intervention into the understanding of race and space. Black Geographies maps the political development and origins of black spaces from the middle passage to dancehall and hip hop.
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Heat (cloth)
How to Stop the Planet From BurningGeorge Monbiot
Released 2007-04-23
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward.
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Purchase for $22.00
How Nonviolence Protects the State (paperback original)
Peter GelderloosReleased 2007-04-01
Beyond questioning the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance How Nonviolence Protects the State argues that an insistence on only nonviolent tactics reinforces state power. In chapters such as “Nonviolence is Racist” and “Nonviolence is Patriarchal” Peter Gelderloos passionately calls for activist to look beyond easy answers and to mount a real challenge to power. Not a call to arms, but a call to realize that armed resistance cannot be dismissed out-of-hand.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial ComplexINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2007-03-01
Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an unbeholden exposé of the “nonprofit industrial complex” and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.
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What Lies Beneath
Katrina, Race, and the State of the NationSouth End Press Collective (editors); Afterword by Joy James
Released 2007-02-01
Short and accessible, this anthology, featuring such voices as Common Ground, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Suheir Hammad, Jordan Flaherty, and Ross Gelbspan, takes readers beyond the Superdome. It explores the complexity of this turning point in US history as representative of the nation’s direction and priorities.
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Outsiders Within (Paper)
Writing on Transracial AdoptionJane Jeong Trenka (Editor), Julia Chinyere Oparah (Editor), and Sun Yung Shin (Editor)
Released 2006-10-10
Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, they unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice.
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Dispatches from Latin America (Paperback original)
On the Frontlines Against NeoliberalismVijay Prashad and Teo Ballvé; Editors
Released 2006-10-10
Vital changes are taking place in the political and social landscape of Latin America. From the pages of the well-respected NACLA Report we receive the riventing reports of 28 observers who map the struggles and victories, covering 11 countries from Argentina to Mexico. All who are interested in resisting globalization should be paying attention.
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Color of Violence (Paper)
The INCITE! AnthologyINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2006-10-10
Springing from the work of the nation's largest grassroots multiracial feminist organization, this collection expands understandings about violence against women, clarifying how violence operates through race, class, gender, and nationality, and exposing the state's role in condoning and furthering violence.
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Homegrown (Paper)
Engaged Cultural Criticismbell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains
Released 2006-05-19
Renowned cultural critic bell hooks and MacArthur-awarded artist Amalia Mesa-Bains explore the issues that unify—and divide—progressive African Americans and Latinos. They also grapple with feminism, the "war against terror," and popular culture.
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American Methods (Paper)
Torture and the Logic of DominationKristian Williams
Released 2006-04-12
This pathbreaking study observes torture as a veteran tool of American power. Examining the racial and gender politics of torture, Williams draws powerful conclusions about the centrality of rape and white supremacy to US empire and life at home.
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Blood on the Border (paper)
A Memoir of the Contra WarRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Released 2005-11-01
Drawing on her experiences during the US-Contra war in Nicaragua, noted memoirist and historian Dunbar-Ortiz draws conclusions about contemporary US aggression. She recalls CIA disinformation, contra violence, and US government manipulation of human rights and solidarity organizations.
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Bananeras (paper)
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin AmericaDana Frank
Released 2005-09-29
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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Earth Democracy (cloth)
Justice, Sustainability, and PeaceVandana Shiva
Released 2005-09-29
A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies.
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Earth Democracy (paper)
Justice, Sustainability, and PeaceVandana Shiva
Released 2005-09-29
A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies.
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Bananeras (cloth)
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin AmericaDana Frank
Released 2005-09-29
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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