New Book Club Announcement: Vandana Shiva and Stolen Harvest
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Welcome to the inaugural book club event for
03:09 pm | By Karen M. Gagne I am here with Yusef Bunchy Shakur, author of “Window 2 My Soul: My Transformation from a Zone 8 Thug to a Father and…
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09:01 am | In light of the popular movements of today and the debate on democracy they triggered, we don’t even know if traditional party politics will be the most adequate…
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07:43 pm | ““Solidarity not Charity” is a way of feeding people while addressing the underlying problems that cause hunger. The way this manifested itself in Common Ground was to immediately…
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10:13 am | “The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism” offers a broad, well informed and accessible account of why neoliberal ideas and those who gain from them have so far emerged unscathed…
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10:42 am | History aficionados will find “Conquistadora” a fascinating text with detailed views of a Puerto Rican sugar cane plantation in the mid-19th century. By Rafael Ocasio Esmeralda Santiago was born in…
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12:04 pm | “Jam packed with shocking statistics and revealing interviews with interns and those that employ and coordinate them, “Intern Nation” provides an inside view into the topic and a…
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10:29 am | “A proposal for a better understanding of the global justice movement.” Geoffrey Pleyers, author of “Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age”, writes: I usually really appreciate your…
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02:38 pm | “I felt we needed a language that explained the effects of the War on Drugs and placed them within the broader political culture of the United States, while…
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07:32 pm | Scholarship that fails to analyze the motivations and strategies of most actors in a social movement and instead exalts a group of self-proclaimed “experts,” who the author…
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06:06 am | It is a testimonial to the power and potential of the sustainable food systems movement to transform not just the lives of the Whole Foods set, but of…
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Reviews
Do Social Democratic Parties Have a Future? »
09:01 am | In light of the popular movements of today and the debate on democracy they triggered, we don’t even know if traditional party politics will be the most adequate vehicle to address the challenges…
Jan 8 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »Do Civil Society and Corporate Social Responsibility Provide the Best Hope for the Re-Regulation of Big Business? »
10:13 am | “The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism” offers a broad, well informed and accessible account of why neoliberal ideas and those who gain from them have so far emerged unscathed from a crisis of their…
Nov 13 2011 / No Comment / Read More »New Novel Explores Life on a 19th Century Plantation in Puerto Rico »
10:42 am | History aficionados will find “Conquistadora” a fascinating text with detailed views of a Puerto Rican sugar cane plantation in the mid-19th century. By Rafael Ocasio Esmeralda Santiago was born in the working-class neighborhood of Villa…
Oct 23 2011 / 3 Comments / Read More »Working to Learn? Internships and the New Spirit of Capitalism »
12:04 pm | “Jam packed with shocking statistics and revealing interviews with interns and those that employ and coordinate them, “Intern Nation” provides an inside view into the topic and a welcome break from the hordes…
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News Blog
Some Notes on the Year in Left Books »
05:52 pm | Lists of the best books of the year are an exercise in hubris. Even if I was to narrow…
Jan 17 2012 / 5 Comments / Read More »A Year in News Blog Posts »
06:15 pm | Looking back on our first year of blogging, we got some things right and some things wrong. Most notably,…
Jan 2 2012 / 2 Comments / Read More »Growing Pains in the Labor Occupy Alliance »
04:31 pm | Although labor unions and Occupy groups are beginning to work together, differences in their approaches and attitudes are creating…
Dec 17 2011 / No Comment / Read More »What do Social Movements Accomplish? And How? »
02:24 pm | A recent panel discussing what is next for Occupy Wall Street was diverse in ethnicity and age of the…
Dec 9 2011 / No Comment / Read More »New Books Examine the Trajectory of Labor in the United States in the Seventies »
03:56 pm | Beyond nostalgia for polyester leisure suits, disco and “Charlie’s Angels,” the ’70s are emerging as a subject of serious historical…
Dec 7 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »Pick of the Day: “The Barbarian Nurseries” by Hector Tobar »
05:41 pm | “The Barbarian Nurseries” is the second novel of Hector Tobar; he is author of “Translation Nation” and, according to his…
Dec 6 2011 / No Comment / Read More »Pick of the Day: “Midnight Rising” by Tony Horowitz »
05:33 pm | Tony Horowitz, author of numerous books including “Confederates in the Attic,” turns to a historical subject in his new…
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"Christine Shearer's Kivalina: A Climate Change Story is a fast and bumpy ride that begins with the history of outrageous corporate deceptions through public relations and legal campaigns, continuing with building of the coal-and-oil empire to fuel progress in the United States, leading to the horrendous politics of climate crisis, and finally arriving at its destination, a ground-zero of climate refugee, Kivalina—an Inupiat community along the Chukchi Sea coast of arctic Alaska. I was angry when I turned the last page. I urge you to get a copy, read it, share the story, and join the new global climate justice movement."
—Subhankar Banerjee, photographer, writer, activist, and author of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
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