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Camp Casey!
Action Alert!!
All /leftbooks.com/ proceeds from now until
Saturday, August 21st go towards Camp Casey -/ /Ouch!!
One woman after another was thrown off the bus in Montgomery, Alabama
because they dared rest their weary muscles while a white person stood
waiting for their seat. In Jim Crow Montgomery this was a white person’s
birth right. But, one too many insults against Black women turned a stir
into a rolling boil and forced one woman to represent and open up a
struggle that was a powerful spark for the civil rights movement. Her
name was Rosa Parks.
They say that history repeats itself, does it?
One working class woman after another has a son or daughter that gets
killed in U.S. wars for profit year after year. This is decided in the
capitalist Capitol of Washington, DC, where the giant monopoly owners
are the real decision makers of life, death and war – it is their birth
right. But, one too many deaths of a woman’s child turned a stir into a
rolling boil, forcing one woman here in the U.S. to represent and open
up a struggle that is becoming a powerful spark for the anti-war
movement. Her name is Cindy Sheehan.
*We’re so inspired by the Parks-like action of Cindy Sheehan that we
want to send all proceeds from now until August 21st to support Camp
Casey. That’s right, every dollar you spend at **/leftbooks.com/
**from now until August 21st goes towards
two things only: 1) our selling costs and 2) Camp Casey – Period!: Not
overhead, salaries, electricity – none of it. Ouch!!
*This is how we’re using the money:
A number of activists from various progressive organizations will be
sponsored by /leftbooks.com/ to head on to
Crawford, Texas to stand with Cindy Sheehan and bring supplies for the
camp.* *Although your money at /leftbooks.com
/ already goes towards building the movement,
these three days make it go even further./*
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We got inspired for this email by reading this featured book about the
Montgomery bus boycott. It will inspire you too, and like us, you’ll
want to put your inspiration into action. Check it out!:
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
and the Women Who Started It
The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Edited, with a foreword, by David J. Garrow
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who Started it – The Memoir of Jo
Ann Gibson Robinson
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the launching of the historic
Montgomery bus boycott.Jo Ann Gibson Robinson would become one of the
most prominent leaders of the boycott. In this 1987 book she talks about
the daily humiliations Black people faced riding the buses.
What was the role of the organizations–especially those involving
women–in this heroic boycott that won an important political concession
from the KKK-like White Citizens Council?
*”This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus
Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer, evokes
the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle. It ought to be
required reading for all Americans who value their freedom and the
contribution of Black women to our history.”
*/– Coretta Scott King
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Arlington West (DVD)
(The film that helped inspire Cindy Sheehan)
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/Arlington West
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This film is a riveting visit to a sea of crosses on the beaches of
California and other locations around the U.S. Each cross symbolizes a
fallen U.S. GI. This powerful protest is recreated every Sunday by the
Veterans For Peace. The number of crosses increases as the weeks go by.
A sign also entreats passersby to contemplate the Iraqi civilians, “If
we were to honor the Iraqi dead, it would fill this entire beach.”
The crosses provide an eloquent stage for compelling dialogue with
military families, veterans, soldiers going to and from Baghdad, and
children.
This film is an excellent tool for discussions, meetings and classrooms
to de-mystify the “glories of war.”
For the living, this film asks, “How could this have happened?” For the
dead, it asks, “Why?”
Peter Dudar & Sally Marr, Laughing Tears Productions, 2004, screening
time 56 minutes, dvd formatted for U.S.
Iraq, Inc.
A Profitable Occupation
By Pratap Chatterjee
Iraq, Inc. – A Profitable Occupation
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And We’ve Got More …
(*Get any book or video FREE with an order of $75 or more)
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*Poison DUst (DVD)*
*Directed and Edited by Sue Harris and the Peoples Video Network*
Poison Dust
/”I have seen the impact of this new poison [Depleted Uranium] when I
visited wards for young children in Iraq. Amidst the overwhelming
horrors of the bombings and the starvation caused by sanctions, the
doctors at first did not notice the huge rise in the numbers of
childhood cancers, such as leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease and lymphomas …
The United States and Britain used so much DU in weapons during the Gulf
War that 350 tons of residue permeate the ground and water, and will
contaminate the entire region for generations.”/
*- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General*
You thought they came home safely from the war. They didn’t. Poison DUst
tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get
answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit’s
2002 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent
of her child’s birth defects and the growing disability of her young
husband – a vet. Filmmaker Sue Harris skillfully weaves, through
interviews, their journey from personal trauma, to test results for
uranium poisoning, to learning what radioactive Depleted Uranium weapons
are. Their frustrations in dealing with the Veterans Administration’s
silence becomes outrage as they realize that thousands of other GI’s
have the same symptoms. An invaluable resource for all of us. **
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/Free the Cuban Five!/
**Letters of Love & Hope:
The Story of the Cuban Five.
By Alice Walker, Nancy Morejon and the Cuban prisoners and their
families****
Letters of Love & Hope: The story of the Cuban Five
**Introduced by Alice Walker, with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy
Morejon, this book includes excerpts from diaries, letters from and to
children, wives and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United
States for “espionage,” providing a glimpse of how ordinary families
strive to maintain connections in extraordinary circumstances.
It also includes a succinct legal analysis of the case by attorney
Leonard Weinglass, outlining how it has significantly violated both
international law and the U.S. Constitution.
**Cuba and the United States
a chronological history
By Jane Franklin
****Cuba and the United States – a chronological history
**
From the cover: This chronological history is an invaluable resource
for sholars, teachers, journalists, legislators, and anyone interested
in international relations, offering an unprecedented vision of
U.S.-Cuba relations.
Based on exceptionally wide research, U.S. historian Jane Franklin
relates day by day, year by year, the developments involving the two
neighboring countries from the 1959 Cuban revolution through 1995. An
introductory section chronicles the history of Cuba from the time of the
arrival of Christopher Columbus.
“Whether one reads this as a history, or keeps it handy as a ready
reference, this is a book that no serious student of U.S.-Cuba relations
can afford to be without.” – – *Philip Brenner, American University*
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****Fidel: My Early Years
Autobiography with introductory essay by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
****Fidel: My Early Years
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Fidel Castro reflects on his childhood, youth and student activism. In
this unprecedented and candid collection, the Cuban leader describes his
family background, his education and the religious and moral influences
that led to his involvement in politics from a very early age.
These autobiographical sketches, updated with previously unpublished
material, describe the young rebel’s student days at the University of
Havana, his early thoughts about armed struggle, his travels in Latin
America as an international student organizer, his participation in the
1948 popular uprising in Colombia and his experiences as a young lawyer
and political activist.
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**Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue***
**by Leslie Feinberg***
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue by Leslie Feinberg
/*/Trans Liberation/*/* is an inspiring collection of speeches and new
writings from Leslie Feinberg, author of //Stone Butch Blues// and
//Transgender Warriors// and winner of the ALA Gay and Lesbian
Literature Award and the 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for
Non-Fiction*
More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic
question I’m hit with every day of my life: “Are you a man or a woman?”
Trans Liberation is the phrase that has come to refer to all those who
blur or bridge the boundary of the sex or gender expression they were
assigned at birth: cross-dressers, transsexuals, intersex people, Two
Spirits, bearded females, masculine females and feminine males, drag
kings and drag queens. In this inspiring collective of speeches and new
writing, **Leslie Feinberg** argues passionately for the acceptance of
all trans peoples–and for the absolute necessity of building coalitions
between all progressive political groups.
Topics include the similarities among trans, bi, gay and lesbian
communities in their struggles to break down the closet doors of shame
and silence, Feinberg’s passionate arguments for the acceptance of all
trans peoples, and for the necessity of building coalitions between all
progressive political groups, and with self-portraits by Gary Bowen,
Cheryl Chase, Michael Hernandez, Craig Hickman, William (Peaches) Mason,
Linda Phillips, Cynthia Phillips, Sylvia Rivera, Deirdre Sinnott (Al
Dente), and Dragon Xcalibur.
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/FREE MUMIA!
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/**/**We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party***
**by Mumia Abu-Jamal***
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther
Party – By Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal provides the world with an important history of the
founding of the Philadelphia Black Panther Party in his new book //We
Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party.//
Mumia, known to the world as a wrongly convicted political prisoner held
for 22 years in Pennsylvania’s death row, is exacting and luminous in
his history and his analysis of the Black liberation struggle.
An important book for anyone learning about one of the most important
groups in the on-going struggle for the liberation of African-Americans.
**Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America (DVD)**
**by Aleida Guevara**
Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America – by Aleida Guevara
In February 2004 Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, conducted an
extended, exclusive interview with Hugo Chavez, president of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, exploring Venezuela’s explosive
revolutionary terrain post-April 2002 – when Chavez survived a coup
attempt instigated by the United States. Featuring a dramatic interview
with Jorge Garcia Carneiro, newly appointed head of the Venezuelan Armed
Forces, and vox-pops with Venezuelans involved in the country’s many
social programs, this film affords a rare opportunity to glimpse through
the blockade of information imposed by the United States and into a
country rich with hope, dreams and…oil.
And there’s much, much more –
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