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Newsletter December 2007

December 2007
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Books to Read,
Books to Give [Books On A Shelf]

Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports
by Dave Zirin

Zirin presents a progressive, anti-racist, engaging and provocative look at the world of sports. A real Terrordome emerged in the New Orleans Superdome in the horrifying aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - a gruesome collision of sports and politics as thousands sat stranded in a sports arena where most could never have afforded even the cheapest ticket. Today the "Terrordome" is a twenty-first century sports world that is frightening, ridiculous, horrifying, and inspiring...all before the next commercial break. Dave Zirin looks past the shiny surface to what's really happening in the locker room, the boardroom, the arena, and the stands.

Targeting Iran
by David Barsamian with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari

Iran is in the United States' crosshairs. The U.S. is operating within a preemptive strike doctrine, and war is on the table. As Washington escalates its threats against Iran, it's urgent for the movement and everyone impacted to be informed, to answer the lies and misrepresentations that the U.S. will use to launch a war against Iran. In a question/answer format, David Barsamian examines the issues with three scholars who discuss the political complexities of the conflict.

¡Zapatistas! Making Another World Possible
by John Ross

This volume continues the journey begun by John Ross in The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles 1994 - 2000 with a front line account of the past six years of the insurgency, and a brilliant eyewitness portrayal of the battle of the Mexican left to thwart the stealing of the fraud-marred 2006 presidential election. Ross intercuts the Zapatista struggle with the larger events of the period: The global grassroots fight against the corporate domination of the planet, and the exhaustion of the neo-liberal machine in Latin America.

The Scar of David
by Susan Abulhawa

The 2007 Winner of National Best Book Awards in Historic Fiction has written an impassioned history of the Palestinian people's struggle for their homeland. It is an intricate tapestry, a living quilt of five generations of Palestinian families, their lives and deaths, their pain and suffering and most importantly their love for their homeland - Palestine. The reader experiences firsthand the "catastrophe" of Nabka, the forced removal of the Palestinian people from their homes, and finishes with the Israeli siege of the city of Jenin.

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
by Jonathan Kozol

Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the Black community, The Shame of the Nation directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.

The Revolution Will Not be Funded Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

INCITE! learned the hard way that the revolution would not be funded. Their $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation was reversed because of INCITE!'s support for Palestinian liberation. Their book tells the history of foundations, the origins, who really benefits, where the money comes from, who it really belongs to, what strings are attached.

The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers
by Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson

As the immigrant rights movement continues to assert itself in greater numbers and impact, taking it's place on the stage of great historical movements, the reaction of those who benefit from keeping immigrants and all workers down intensify their propaganda. With convincing arguments and hard facts, this books sweeps away the lies and gives ammunition to the struggle to raise the living standard of immigrant workers and all workers by tearing down the arguments used to divide immigrants from the rest of the working class.

One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century
preface by Eduardo Galeano

This book presents a thrilling ride through the 20th Century - 100 years of revolution, reaction and resistance!

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan

"Eating is an agricultural act," as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological and a political act. How and what we eat determines to a great extent how we use the world - and what is to become of it. Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them. There are things in it that will ruin their appetites. But in the end this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kinds of pleasure that are only deepened by knowing. "One of the 10 best books of the year" - The New York Times Book Review

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