RTP-area local music and culture

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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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THURSDAY, 05 OCT @ 12PM: STOP THE WAR

Join the UNC SDS in the Pit during lunch on Thursday to protest 
Anglo-American aggression and terrorism in Iraq.
More information: pdowd AT email.unc.edu

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SATURDAY, 07 OCT: THE REALLY FREE MARKET

Come to and support the Really Really Free Market, Saturday, 07 October 
at the Carrboro Town Commons.
More information: b AT crimethinc.com

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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.