“The rupture in the cycle of life has become the market opportunity… and that is why at this point the real contest is between the economy of life and the economy of death.”
—Dr. Vandana Shiva in an amazing, prescient lecture (Seattle, WA, July 2002)
1 ::: Kristian Williams, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy (Microcosm Publishing, 2012)
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Th 3/29/12, 6:30pm, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus): Honoring the Earth, Transforming Our Communities: Winona LaDuke on Environmental Justice. Free but RSVP encouraged.
F 3/30/12, 7:30pm, Haverford College (Haverford, PA): Recovering the Sacred: Religion, Faith and the Land from a Native Perspective. Free
More talks coming up in April. Check out Honor the Earth, SpeakOut and/or follow South End Press for updates.
P.S. From Honor the Earth:
“A 3-day conference, “Rights of Mother Earth: Restoring Indigenous Life Ways of Responsibility and Respect,” has been scheduled at Haskell Indian Nations University, in Lawrence, Kansas, April 4-6, 2012, with Indigenous Peoples together from the North and Global South to learn more and to have a discourse about this Rights of Mother Earth, Rights of Nature movement.
“We invite humanity to come together to improve our collective human behavior so that we may develop a more sustainable world. We can preserve, protect, and fulfill our sacred duties to live with respect in this wonderful Creation. We have the power and responsibility for change.
“Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nation University”
This year Brown College’s ViEWS Lecture Series welcomes Richard Tucker, Kate Rigby, Sean Borton, and Vandana Shiva.
Read & Resist, Donate & Download: Or, Making Books “Unbannable”
The fight to erase our histories and disempower our communities didn’t begin in Tucson, or in 2012, and it doesn’t end there. We stand in solidarity with the students, educators, authors, activists, families, and communities affected by—and rising up against— this injustice, and ask you to join us in supporting the converging resistance movements in Tucson and far beyond. (More on the “how to donate & download” rundown, below.)
“Luckily,” as bell hooks recently observed during a lecture at Arizona State University, “we’re not dependent on Arizona.”
As part of this effort by Librotraficante and this growing movement, and in honor of both Small Press Month and Women’s Herstory Month, we are now making downloadable eseeds available of two titles from the banned book list: Zapata’s Disciple, by Martín Espada, and De Colores Means All of Us, by Elizabeth Martinez (for a limited time only).
Your sliding scale donation (starting at $20, see below) will help ensure that we can continue to make these books available in both digital and print formats, be it to a banned books caravan, underground libraries, or beyond. To you.
How To Donate & Download!
- Donate $20 and we’ll email you a downloadable eseed of either Zapata’s Disciple or De Colores Means All of Us. When making your donation, just be sure to (1) include your email address and (2) note which banned title you want in the Designation field e.g., “for Zapata’s Disciple.” After we receive your donation, we’ll email you with a link.
- Donate $40 and we’ll email you a downloadable eseed of either Zapata’s Disciple or De Colores Means All of Us, OR we’ll ship you a print copy of another SEP title from this brave list of banned books, Feminism Is for Everybody, by bell hooks. AND you’ll not only be building your own personal library, but also seeding a larger radical library movement: We’ll ship a paperback edition to one of the underground libraries, aiming to donate at least one complete set of the three banned titles to each of the four named libraries. When making your donation, just be sure to (1) include your email address and (2) note which banned title you want to download & donate in the Designation field e.g., “for De Colores.” After we receive your donation, we’ll email you with a link or, if you elect the print edition of Feminism Is for Everybody, follow up for your shipping info.
- Donate $100? We’ll email you links for Zapata’s Disciple and De Colores Means All of Us in downloadable eseeds, send you a print edition of Feminism Is for Everybody, AND we’ll donate all three banned SEP books, in paperback editions, to an underground library. Once each underground library has a full set, we’ll donate the books to the libraries in your neighborhoods and communities, large or small. (If your donation arrives after we’ve supplied full sets to the underground libraries, we’ll email you to ask what library you’d like the books sent to!) When making your donation, just be sure to include your email address. After we receive your donation, we’ll email you with your links and follow up for your shipping info.
We just reprinted Feminism Is for Everybody and Zapata’s Disciple, and De Colores Means All of Us is at the printer now. Please help us put into action our mission to both nurture radical literature and make it accessible to the movements it comes from and advances. We can’t do this without you, nor would we want to. So, donate and download today! (Psst…see above for donate & download instructions.)
We’re in this fight for the long haul, and it’s going to take a movement. So please, pass this appeal on, and, as always THANK YOU for all your efforts toward radical peace, justice & liberation.
Strength and joy,
the South End Press collective
Read. Write. Revolt.
Find out more about & join the Librotraficante movement!
“Download & Donate” quicklinks! 
On Friday, February 17, 2012, at noon, The Abriendo Brecha Activist Scholarship Conference opens with a keynote address by Frank B. Wilderson III, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. Following Dr. Wilderson’s keynote, entitled “The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents,” an activist research panel including scholars from The University of Texas at Austin will convene from 2-4 p.m. Location: John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, ISESE Gallery (JES A230)
As Contraceptives Rule Enters GOP Race, Will Reproductive Rights Affect 2012 Election?
Obama’s new rule for health insurance plans to include free birth control methods and the recent Komen controversy both highlight the public concern about low-income women’s access to services. Loretta Ross of SisterSong, and coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, explains, “Let’s not lose sight that there are women being damaged by this political football men are making of our lives.”
(Source: Democracy Now!, 2/8/12)
(Source: youtube.com)
As Contraceptives Rule Enters GOP Race, Will Reproductive Rights Affect 2012 Election?
Obama’s new rule for health insurance plans to include free birth control methods and the recent Komen controversy both highlight the public concern about low-income women’s access to services. Loretta Ross of SisterSong, and coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, explains, “Let’s not lose sight that there are women being damaged by this political football men are making of our lives.”
(Source: Democracy Now!, 2/8/12)
(Source: youtube.com)
As Contraceptives Rule Enters GOP Race, Will Reproductive Rights Affect 2012 Election?
Obama’s new rule for health insurance plans to include free birth control methods and the recent Komen controversy both highlight the public concern about low-income women’s access to services. Loretta Ross of SisterSong, and coauthor of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, explains, “Let’s not lose sight that there are women being damaged by this political football men are making of our lives.”
(Source: Democracy Now!, 2/8/12)
(Source: youtube.com)
