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  • Subject: [Internationalist Books] EVENTS: poetry, parents, banned books, & blue eyed devils!
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:33:36 -0400

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919-942-1740
http://internationalistbooks.org/

WE HAVE SO MANY GOOD EVENTS COMING UP. COLLECT ALL FIVE.

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TUESDAY, 19 SEPT @ 7PM: WHEN OUR PARENTS BECOME OUR CHILDREN

Local author Perry Thacker will be here to read from and discuss his
work, "When Our Parents Become Our Children", about the role reversal
that many people are facing: the point at which their parents need care.
More and more people are going to be senior citizens in the upcoming
years, and the good options for care at that age are decreasing rapidly.
What can children do now to deal with their new responsibility,
especially in the face of a failing health care system? The author will
also briefly discuss his role in the preservation of animal habitats in
Africa.

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WEDNESDAY, 20 SEPT @ 7PM: PAUL AARON & FRIDAY NOON POETS

Local poet Paul Aaron and other members of the Friday Noon Poets will be
here to read from and discuss their latest collection of poetry, "Always
on Friday". The Friday Noon Poets are a collective of poets who meet
regularly to discuss their work and their craft. They have met on
Fridays since 1978 and always featured prominent local poets. Their
latest book is a collection of the best works from all of them, which
makes for a great collection of local poetry.

Here's a review:

The book includes poems from winners of The North Carolina Poetry
Society's Poet Laureate Award and other awards, poets such as David
Manning (three time winner of the Poet Laureate Award), Eugene Grace,
Elizabeth Bolton, Mitchell Lyman, Richard De Los Mar, Priscilla
Webster-Williams, Joanna C. Scott and Doug Stuber. Also, Sheridan
Bushnell, creator of "Untamed – Women of the New Millennium" and Laura
Spray, who does not speak, but communicates by typing with facilitation.
There are too many more to name, but immerse yourself in this pool of
rose petals, this bathtub of jello, this emotion laden factory of
wordsmiths. You will love laughing long, letting go of leaving until you
finish the very last poem. You will cry and shake your fist, then stare
up at the sky in wonder. This is a book you will read again—will read to
your children—will pick up and thumb through occasionally—will send off
to the many deserving people in your life as the gift you have been
searching for.

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THURSDAY, 21 SEPT @ 8PM: MACHUCA, UNC STUDENT UNION 3102

Machuca is a lovely Chilean film, a work of historical
fiction that follows the lives of a group of children during the
CIA-sponsored coup in which a military dictatorship
overthrew the democratically-elected government of
Chile and "disappeared" thousands of dissidents.

That coup took place on September 11, 1973. This September,
as we think about the role the United States plays in
global justice struggles, it's worth looking back a
generation to for the broader context of our current
geopolitical situation.

Please come out to see this movie, whether to practice
your Spanish, see a moving work of art, or meet others
interested in the history of Latin America.

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FRIDAY, 22 SEPT @ 7PM: REVOLUTION IN COLOMBIA

This summer, members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (www.frso.org )
met with revolutionaries in Colombia, including members and commanders of
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP). The
FARC are the oldest insurgency in Latin America and are leading a powerful
movement for national liberation in Colombia. Colombia is the target of
large U.S. corporations that are privatizing and exploiting the country's
vast natural resources--emeralds, timber, water, biodiversity, and of course

oil.

Bush defends Colombia as "the model of South American democracy", but in
reality the country's elite use paramilitary death squads and the Colombian
military against the workers, peasant-farmers, and students who are fighting

for democratic economic and social change.

Come hear about the struggle for justice in Colombia; the history and
reasons behind the armed struggle and the movement towards national
liberation; the prospects of victory for the FARC; and the role of U.S.
anti-war activists and anti-imperialists in the Colombian people's struggle.


Kosta Harlan will be here to show a presentation a lead a discussion.

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WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPT @ 7PM: LITERATURE FROM THE AXIS OF EVIL

Join us for our recognition of Banned Books Week. "Literature From the
Axis of Evil" is a new collection of writings from countries which
America has declared its enemies: Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya, Syria,
and Cuba. Many of the works have previously not been allowed in the
states. The New Press and Words Without Borders came together to produce
a collection of short stories and poetry from these countries. Through
these works, we're now able to experience these cultures without the
often bigoted filters through which we're used to viewing them; through
these works, we can hope to gain a more humane understanding of the
world outside American borders.

Editor Alane Mason will join us via telephone to discuss works from the
collection, as well as the process by which she was able to create an
invaluable resource.

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WRITE FOR OUR "25 RADICAL HIDDEN HISTORIES OF CHAPEL HILL"

We need writers for our 25th anniversary project. For more information,
email daniel AT internationalistbooks.org or citizenplastic AT gmail.com.
Submissions due 13 October 2006.

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WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT @ 7PM: INGA MUSCIO: CUNT & AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLUE EYED
DEVIL

Inga Muscio will be here to read from and discuss her acclaimed first
work, Cunt, as well as her latest work, Autobiography of a Blue Eyed Devil.

Here's a review from Cunt:
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered
off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to
expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a
positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised
edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional
feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and
prostitution with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women.
Sending out a call for every woman to be the Cuntlovin' Ruler of Her
Sexual Universe, Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing all
things cunt-related. This edition is fully revised with updated
resources, a new foreword from sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, and a new
afterword by the author. "Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting,
useful, sexy...."—San Francisco Chronicle "... Cunt provides fertile
ground for psychological growth."—San Francisco Bay Guardian "Cunt does
for feminism what smoothies did for high-fiber diets—it reinvents the
oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious."—Bust Magazine

& here's more about Autobiography of a Blue Eyed Devil:
It's just called history, asserts Inga Muscio in her newest book. In
fact, the controversial author continues, the so-called history we learn
in school is no more than a brand, developed by white men who, often
unjustly, won the right to spin their stories as hard facts. With
Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil, it's Muscio's turn and she's taking
it in order to hip the masses to the truth about the American history
they think they know. Whose country is it? Has democracy ever really
existed? Why does our culture celebrate certain figures and ignore
others? Do schools teach kids to perpetuate white supremacist
ideologies? Muscio delves deep to answer these questions, marveling at
how personal history is to everyone, while challenging people to expand
their thinking on America's past and encouraging them to consider how
their own histories might read.

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THURSDAY, 02 NOV, 6-9PM: INTERNATIONALIST BOOKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY &
CAKE AUCTION

Come join us at Open Eye Café for our 25th anniversary! There will be
twenty-five cakes for you to enjoy, and many more good people and much
more fun. More information coming soon.

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THURSDAY, 09 NOV, 7PM: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT!

Local author Larry Reni Thomas, whose Associated Press photograph was
featured in a June 2006 Washington Post article on The Wilmington Race Riot
of 1898 report, is scheduled to appear at The Internationalist Book Store,
405 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, November 9, 2006, from
7 pm to 9pm, on the eve of the 108th anniversary of the Wilmington
Race/Coup of 1898, to read from and sign copies of his two books: The True
Story Behind the Wilmington Ten and Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!: A Fictional
Account of the Wilmington Ten Incident. Thomas, a Wilmington native, has
a M.A. in History from UNC- Chapel Hill and is the founder of ICROW1898,
INC. (The International Organization for Compensation and Reparations for
the Victims of the Wilmington Race Riot/Coup of 1898, Inc.). He was one of
the first to advocate compensation for the victims of that event.

THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE WILMINGTON TEN (UB&US Books) -1982 (a revised
edition was published in 1993). The book is a brief historical sketch about
the revealing relationship between The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, and
Wilmington Incident of 1971, commonly called The Wilmington Ten Incident of
1971. He contends that the Wilmington Ten Incident was "black retaliation"
for the black deaths, devastation and damage that occurred in 1898 and that
such incidents will happen again until changes are made in Wilmington.
RABBIT! RABBIT! RABBIT! : A SAGA OF THE WILMINGTON TEN INCIDENT OF 1971
is a fictional account of the incident based on interviews he conducted in
the late 1970s while a history graduate student at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. The book is an easy-to-read, exciting, chilling,
sometimes funny, imaginary tale and shows the consequences of a group of
inexperienced individuals who played with "revolution," or what some of
them thought was an organized serious effort to change the status quo of a
small, isolated Southern city. The saga takes place when most of the racial
violence of the 1960s had ceased. The incident was noteworthy, not only
because it happened late, but because it showed how a community, divided
along generational and racial lines, dealt with four days of widespread
terror that changed the course of the city's history.



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