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

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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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BANNED BOOKS WEEK 23-30 SEPTEMBER

The banning of books isn’t only done in faraway countries and small town libraries. It’s being done right down the road. In Wake County, a newly founded organization, Called2Action, is calling for the removal of books from the Wake County Public Schools Reading List. The books on the chopping block are not unused to being censored:

- “Beloved” / Toni Morrison: sexual scenes
- “The Color Purple” / Alice Walker: sex & language
- “The Chocolate War” / Robert Cormier: the movie version of the book was rated R
- “Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peaky, Spying” / Barbara Park
- “Reluctantly Alice” / Phyllis Reynolds: teenage sexuality
- “In The Night Kitchen” / Maurice Sendak: dark

www.called2action.org
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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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