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  • Subject: [Internationalist] support internationalist books! (& april events)
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:05:10 -0400

Internationalist Books and Community Center
405 W Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.942.1740
internationanlistbooks.org
ibooks AT internationalistbooks.org

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
Internationalist Books and Community Center relies on your support to
continue operating a non-profit community safe space for Chapel Hill,
Carrboro, UNC, and beyond.
Please think about actively supporting Internationalist Books. Please
make sure your membership is up-to-date (to renew, visit
internationalistbooks.org click on ?Membership? on the sidebar). Tell
your neighbors, family, and friends. Convince them to be members (or
to renew their membership) and supporters. As you know,
Internationalist Books is a good cause, and it's worth being active
about. So, be extra loud in your support of Internationalist Books!
Independent bookshops, especially those who don't necessarily attempt
to directly mirror Barnes & Noble's business model, are facing a tough
fight. Internationalist Books has survived that battle for 27 years
now, and I don't doubt that we can make it last at least another 27.
Because it's made up of all of your support, both monetarily and
emotionally, Internationalist Books is a great place to be. Let's keep
it up! Thank you very much.

WE HAVE SOME GREAT UPCOMING EVENTS!

BEYOND RESISTANCE: EVERYTHING!
A discussion with our neighbors at El Kilombo in Durham
Monday, 31 March @ 6pm
After two years of the Other Campaign in Mexico, and at a significant
electoral, economic, and political moment in the US, this tour also
coincides with the launching of El Kilombo's new press, PaperBoat
Press, and its first publication entitled Beyond Resistance:
Everything, a momentous interview with Subcomandante Marcos of the
Zapatista movement, created and conducted by El Kilombo, in which he
discusses Zapatismo in the context of the North American continent,
alliances with and the struggle of people of color in the US, and the
centrality and importance of the migrant political movement in the
current globalized political moment.
This event will look to the Zapatista social movement in Mexico and
their national initiative taking form in the Other Campaign as an
example of what politics from below looks like, both in Zapatista
communities and at the national level, as well as at the level of the
"intergalactic" the Zapatistas have proposed for creating a global
network. Drawing from the Zapatista model and on historical examples
and contemporary movements in the United States, what might a movement
from below look like in the US?
El Kilombo is home to a progressive bilingual bookstore and multiple
community programs involving student, working class, migrant and
people of color communities Come join us in a discussion of the book
and Zapatismo in North Carolina and beyond!

ZINE SHARING NIGHT
Wednesday, 02 April @ 6pm

Bring a friend, a snack, and your zines to share with new friends.

SEED SAVING WORKSHOP
Tuesday, 08 April @ 7pm
Join us for a workshop on the role of seed saving in creating secure
and sustainable food systems. The workshop will include some
discussion as well as hands on seed saving. Participants will be able
to take home seeds to grow and save for their own use.

GREENBRIDGE BOOK REVIEW
This month?s COLORLINES, a newsmagazine on race and politics, is an
especially well timed edition for the current political crisis on the
border of Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Framing its lead article around the
question of "who gains from the green economy", it examines several
issues in US green politics that have forced people of color into
unemployment, displacement, and other marginalized.
Although Greenbridge claims to be a beacon of green living in Chapel
Hill ? and compared to other development projects, it is an
extraordinarily well intentioned project ? it provides more than a
theoretical threat to the members of the surrounding low-income
community. Pre-Greenbridge gentrification has already split the once
vibrant community into microsegements. Most low-income families have
been forced to move to the low-income housing on Rogers Road in north
Chapel Hill...exactly where the town has been shoveling its literal
trash and waste, not just its marginalized citizens. In the face of
Green Development, then, a historically African American community
will continue to be pushed to one of the most eco-un-safe parts of town.
Thoughts? email daniel AT internationalistbooks.org





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