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Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture

October 21, 2011

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Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture is an important collection of in-depth interviews that prolific author Derrick Jensen conducted with a handful of radical thinkers you should become more familiar with if you’re not already.

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Targeting the Sex Buyer. The Swedish Example: Stopping Prostitution and Trafficking Where It All Begins

September 4, 2011

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“He could be your neighbor, even your best friend. Or perhaps he is a colleague at work, or someone you talked to at a party last weekend.

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Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader by Gustav Landauer

August 22, 2011

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Gustav Landauer is perhaps the most important German speaking anarchist of the late 19th and early 20th century, but he is not well known in the English speaking world. Despite four book length studies of Landauer and a few translations, there has never been a major collection of his work in English.

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Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism

August 22, 2011

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The last two generations have seen a key shift in political organizing, one in which television coverage is regarded a harbinger of success. And since the 1990s, that media-centric focus accelerated with the ascension of the Internet, social media and affordable, high-quality audio and video equipment

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Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada

August 21, 2011

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After reading Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, all I wanted to do was become a pirate. Not the kind that steals in a capitalist bent to become rich at the expense of others. I want to appropriate what is already mine: the public airways and broadcast what corporate media despise most—defiant free-form radio

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Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876

August 17, 2011

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If white supremacy was an illness afflicting America, Black disenfranchisement would be that cough that never goes away. Resonant, persistent, rattling to the bones and always that with which the sufferer writes off with excuses of other causes.

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What is Posthumanism?

August 17, 2011

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As I prepared to read Cary Wolfe’s latest book, What is Posthumanism?, I wondered how much hermeneutic effort would be required to answer the titular question. To my pleasure, Wolfe gives a clear definition of what he means by “posthumanism,” and how it contrasts with others’ usage, in the first few pages.

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