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[Internationalist Books <ibooks AT internationalistbooks.org>]

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC  27516
919-942-1740
http://internationalistbooks.org/
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DEAR, DEAR FOLKS...  The doldrums of summer have hit us full force this 
month and we could really use your business!  Despite the slowness of 
the season we continue to get in new books and zines every week so come 
in and get your beach (or air-conditioning) reading.  Thank you so much 
to everyone who has renewed their memberships this month.  Want to renew 
yours?  http://www.internationalistbooks.org/about/members/

ALSO, thanks to everyone who has brought in books for the prison books 
project this month.  We've gotten A TON and appreciate all your generosity.	
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JULY 15-22: FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN JACKSON, MISS.!

For more info contact ashevilleara AT hotmail.com

Jackson, Misssissippi has a single abortion clinic.  It is the last in a 
state which once had seven.  All others have been shut down by the 
actions of the right-wing zealots.  This summer such groups plan on 
closing down Mississippi's last clinic.  We intend to dissappoint them. 
 The Deep South is a practical war zone for those who dare to stand up 
for choice.  We must lend our direct support and solidarity to our 
allies in the heart of this war.  We call on anyone who values autonomy 
and freedom for all people to converge on Jackson and fight for 
reproductive freedom.
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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 7:30pm -- "Say No to Jim Crow:  Resistance to 
Segregation Laws in North Carolina, 1900-1954", a talk by Paul Ortíz

Durham County Main Library Auditorium, 300 N. Roxboro St., Durham
Free and open to the public

Paul Ortíz, an expert on the Jim Crow era in the South, will give a talk 
entitled "Say No to Jim Crow:  Resistance to Segregation Laws in North 
Carolina, 1900-1954" at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 27, in the 
auditorium of the Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St. in downtown Durham. 
The program is co-sponsored by the Durham County Library's North 
Carolina Collection and the Duke University Libraries.  Ortíz, an 
associate professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has 
spent the month of July in Durham doing research at Duke's Special 
Collections Library for a sequel to the award-winning book Remembering 
Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South. 
Ortíz will write a chapter for the sequel, which will be a synthesis of 
the final fifty years of de jure segregation.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 7pm -- SCREENING 'THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: HOW CUBA 
SURVIVED PEAK OIL' @ INTERNATIONALIST

This may not sound like a permaculture video but it is.  Permaculturists 
came to Cuba and helped with urban farming. So this video is a success 
story of how permaculture and organic farming techniques were 
implemented to feed a nation. Cuba was suddenly shut off from oil 
shipments when the Soviet Union broke up in the early 90s and then the 
US implemented an embargo preventing shipments of many goods and 
supplies to Cuba.  The conventional farming techniques which relied 
heavily on oil, chemical fertilizers and pesticides could not continue. 
 The country was forced to adopt and develop new strategies.  This film 
tells their story.

The website describing the video is at www.communitysolution.org/cuba. 
The following is a review from the website:
"Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film. Cuba 
survived an energy famine during the 1990s, and how it did so 
constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past 
few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of 
the collective mobilization of an entire society to meet an enormous 
challenge. Lest the point be missed, I will underscore it: this 
particular challenge – the problem of energy scarcity is one we will all 
be facing very soon."
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THE PRISON BOOKS COLLECTIVE NEEDS YOUR BOOKS...
FOR OUR BOOKSALE! (AND TO SEND TO PRISONERS!)

The Prison Books Collective will be holding a book sale at the end of
the summer and we need your books!  All book donations will be sorted
for content (some books we'll hang on to and ship to prisoners, others
we'll put out for sale).  All profits go towards postage for shipping
books to prisoners.  We're accepting all sorts of books for the book
sale, but we're also attempting to collect specific genres to send to
prisoners.  Most requests we recieve are for world, political, & U.S.
history, self-help/how-to, and black history/lit.  Donations of all
kinds can be dropped off at Internationalist Books.

The Prison Books Collective is a new prisoner support group forming in
the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area.  Like the dozens of other similar groups
around the country, it will provide thousands of free books, at request,
to prisoners throught the southeast.  By providing educational,
political and legal resources, we can support people behind bars, show
solidarity with their struggles, and fight against the alienating and
destructive effects of the US prison system.

But we need your help!  We currently have a space to work out of, but
are in need of books and money for shipping.  We're also going to need
lots of eager volunteers to help package and mail books.  If you would
like to help organize or support this great project please go to
www.prisonbooks.info.

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