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  • Subject: [Internationalist Books] Hiring + Book Club + Desert City + New Books + more
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:05:55 -0400 (EDT)

Internationalist Books // Oct. 15, 2004 // since 1981 // Unless noted
otherwise, all activities and events are free and will take place at the
store, 405 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill. Call us at 919-942-1740 or
email if you have any questions.

If you are not a member, please consider becoming a member or just making
a donation to help keep your favorite bookstore happy and healthy.
<http://internationalistbooks.org/about/members/>


INTERNATIONALIST BOOKS IS HIRING
Internationalist Books & Community Center is hiring a part-time volunteer
coordinator to start early November 2004. This is an awesome opportunity
to work in a non-hierarchical, flexible, and challenging environment
advocating and strengthening social, environmental and economic justice;
to meet and work with incredible and inspirational individuals and groups
within the community and nationwide; and to gain valuable experience
managing a volunteer-run non-profit collective. The two-year position is
for 20 hours/week at $10/hr. Women and people of color are strongly
encouraged to apply. Applications are due by Wednesday, October 20.
<http://internationalistbooks.org/hiring/>

MILLION WORKER MARCH
Sunday October 17 in Washington D.C. -- Thousands of working class people
from throughout the US will be Marching in Washington, DC on October 17,
2004 to protest the injustices they face in the economy and in the society
in general. Bus tickets ($30) available at The Know Bookstore, the
Regulator Bookstore and Internationalist Books. For more information email
OTSNorth AT aol.com or phone 682-9575.

BOOK CLUB: What's The Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart
of America by Thomas Frank
Kansas native Thomas Frank is a founding editor of The Baffler and a
contributor to The Nation and Harper's magazines. Here he examines the
"thiry-year backlash" of conservative populist revolt against the
"liberal" establishment. How did the Republican Party build an alliance
between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street corporate interests?
We'll be discussing the book in depth at an Internationalist Book Club
meeting on October 18 at 7 PM.

DESERT CITY POETRY SERIES with AARON MCCOLLOUGH and TONY TOST
Saturday, October 23 at 8 PM -- Aaron McCollough is a NC State grad and
author of two books of poetry, Welkin & Double Venus. He's also the man
behind the Flowers that Glide web log,
<http://aaronmcollough.blogspot.com>. Tony Tost lives in Carrboro and won
the Walt Whitman Award for Poetry in 2003 for his book Invisible Bride.
He is the editor of Octopus Magazine and man behind The Unquiet Grave web
log, <http://unquietgrave.blogspot.com>. This is Desert City reading
number two.

THAT'S REVOLTING!
Friday, November 5 at 7 PM -- Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore,
editor of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation,
will read at Internationalist Books on October 5. That’s Revolting! is
both blueprint and call to action, bringing the post-identity politic of a
new generation of queer visionaries to a wider audience. The anthology
consists of personal histories, rants, interviews, conversations, activist
struggles, practical advice and, of course glamour. Contributors include
early gay liberation rabble-rousers, counterculture demons, fringe
artistes, renegade academics, the dispossessed, the obsessed and various
other enemy combatants.

GLOBALIZE LIBERATION with DAVID SOLNIT
Monday, November 8 at 7 PM -- Popular Education Theater and Discussion
with Globalize Liberation Editor David Solnit -- an organizer of the
successful shutdowns of the WTO in Seattle in 1999 and of San Francisco's
financial district on March 20, 2003, after the US invaded Iraq; and a
cofounder of Art and Revolution, which popularized street theater in mass
actions across North America. <http://www.GlobalizeLiberation.org/>


SELECTED NEW ARRIVALS: BOOKS

Jon Thompson - The Book Of The Floating World

Meredith Fort and Mary Ann Mercer - Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate
Assault on Global Health

Timothy B. Tyson - Blood Done Sign My Name

Caetano Veloso - Tropical Truth

Art Spiegelman - In The Shadow Of No Towers (restock)

Thomas Frank - What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the
Heart of America (restock)

Edward Larson - Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

Michael Moore - The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader

Highwater Press - art & comic books by Ron Rege Jr., James Kochalka, Mat
Brinkman and others

George Lakoff - Don't Think Of An Elephant: Know Your Values & Frame The
Debate
Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their
arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that
progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks
down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides
examples of how progressives can reframe the debate.

Mark Danner - The Road To Illegitimacy
Danner, a staffer for both The New Yorker and New York Review of Books,
goes to Florida to report on the final, tense counting and recounting of
the actual ballots mandated after the Supreme Court decision.

Dennis Loy Johnson - The Big Chill
Provides a gripping first person account of the enormous protest on
inauguration day, 2001, which included scenes of violence and the most
massive police and military presence ever in the capital -- yet went
largely unreported.


SELECTED NEW ARRIVALS: MAGAZINES ETC.

Slingshots are here!! Calendar/planners in two styles and many colors

New issues of Adbusters, Bitch, Skyscraper, Cabinet, Covert Action
Quarterly, Red Pepper, Grooves, Juxtapoz and more

Work Magazine (debut issue)

Sweet Action - Porn For Girls (second issue)

New T-Shirts from local screenprinters The Merch

New Bumper Stickers


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thankyou.

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