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Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.942.1740
Open 11 AM to 8 PM, Mon-Sat; 12 to 6 PM Sun
www.internationalistbooks.org

IN THIS EMAIL:

1) 2009 Slingshot organizers in stock!
2) Political Prisoner letter writing night!
3) Buy Nothing Day!
4) more upcoming events at the store!


1) 2009 SLINGSHOT ORGANIZERS NOW IN STOCK!
 From the creative minds and hands of the Berkeley, CA-based Slingshot  
Collective, everyone's favorite radical calendar and organizer is back  
for 2009!  The Slingshot Organizer, available in pocket-size ($6) and  
large ($12) in a variety of exciting colors, features daily radical  
history facts, quirky graphics, DIY info about everything from mental  
health to resisting to police repression, a directory of radical  
spaces around the globe, and so much more!  Terrific as holiday gifts  
for your favorite activist.  Get 'em while you can, because they sell  
out fast!


2) TUESDAY, NOV. 25, 7 PM: POLITICAL PRISONER LETTER WRITING NIGHT!
Join us at the Internationalist to support political prisoners from a  
variety of radical struggles including black freedom, earth and animal  
liberation, and other social movements.  Info and addresses will be  
available and snacks, envelopes, and stamps provided.


3) FRIDAY, NOV. 28th: BUY NOTHING DAY!
Are you sick of the bloated spectacle of "Black Friday", the national  
consumerist binge the day after Thanksgiving?  Do you want to find  
meaning and connection in your community outside of corporate  
consumption?  This Friday, November 28th, join Adbusters magazine,  
Internationalist Books, and hundreds of other activists around the  
globe as we celebrate Buy Nothing Day celebration, where nothing is  
for sale and everything is shared.  We'll participate in this global  
boycott on consumer spending by opening up for our regular hours from  
11 AM to 8 PM; but instead of business as usual, we're covering up the  
shelves and featuring stuff-swapping, potluck meals, skill sharing,  
and hanging out and revelry.  The wasteful, greed-driven consumer  
economy of the US leaves us feeling empty even as it drives the world  
to the point of ecological collapse - let the solution start with you!


4) MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!

All events take place at the Internationalist (405 W. Franklin St.)  
unless otherwise noted.

TUES, 11/25, 6 PM: POLITICAL PRISON LETTER WRITING NIGHT
See above!

FRI, 11/28: BUY NOTHING DAY!
See above!

SAT, 12/13: VOLUNTEER SHOWCASE!
This exciting event will feature performances by Internationalist  
Books and Community Center volunteers!  There will be everything from  
music played on piano, banjo, and guitar to various other  
performances.  More info coming soon!

TUES, 1/26, 7 PM: "TO THE HOUSE OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE"- WILLIAM LA  
RICHE READING!
Join Internationalist Books for an exciting and evocative reading with  
acclaimed poet William La Riche, as he reads from his latest work, "To  
the House of Collateral Damage: Centuries of the Civilian Dead."

This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern  
problem of war. The poem's great achievement is that it situates our  
own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and  
brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty  
of the language that can be found to describe and understand that  
brutality, and perhaps to change it. Homer's *Iliad* and Virgil's  
*Aeneid* allow us, two and a half millennia later, to experience the  
complexity and contradictions of the ancient world. La Riche proposes,  
boldly, to observe and judge our own world through the contradictions  
of our relationship to war.  Read more at  
http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100785310.

William La Riche was a Fulbright Scholar and has lectured at New York  
University and Princeton University in art and architecture over the  
years. His previous book *Alexandria: The Sunken City* is about the  
largest underwater excavation of all time. He lives in New York City.


ONGOING EVENTS:

RADICAL MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE
Join us every Sunday at 6 PM for the weekly meeting of the Radical  
Mental Health Collective, Sundays at 6pm. This group provides  
discussion and support for people around mental health issues, based  
on a model developed by the Icarus Project (theicarusproject.net). For  
more information, please email rileysparkles AT gmail.com.

INTERNATIONALIST PRISON BOOKS COLLECTIVE
The Internationalist sponsors a program that sends free books and  
literature to people incarcerated in Mississippi and Alabama.  Since  
2006 the Books to Prisoners collective has mailed educational  
materials to thousands of prisoners, building solidarity with networks  
of activists inside and out of prison agitating for justice and  
alternatives to the prison system, while meeting a direct and urgent  
need.  There are many ways to get involved:

-Come fill requests at the weekly book-wrapping, which takes place  
every Sunday from 1-4 PM at 218 N. Graham St. in Chapel Hill.

-DONATE books by dropping them off at the Internationalist!   
Particularly in demand are dictionaries, thesauruses, African-American  
history, culture, and fiction, self-help, Spanish language,  
GED/education, and more (paperbacks only).

For more information, check out www.prisonbooks.info.

NEW LOCAL SKILLSHARE / FREE SKOOL!

Do you like to make stuff, learn things, and teach others? A local  
Skillshare/DIY/Art Collective, Free Skool, Radical Event Bulletin, and  
Space/Material/Tool Share is being formed.  This is a way for local  
creative types to find each other to make and do stuff together. There  
are a lot of innovative, skilled, and imaginative people in this area.  
Let's pool our knowledge, skills, and resources to exponentialize our  
creative input and output.  So if you want to make masks or soap or  
vegan liqueurs or a rope ladder or a mud oven or collaged formal wear  
or tamales or hula hoops or pretty much anything else, or find others  
to play soccer or practice tai chi with, or host a workshop on blowing  
glass or screen-printing, or organize a potluck or salon, or just put  
out an idea to the community; check this thing out. This is a way to  
get your desires out of your head and into the awareness of lots of  
other like-minded local people. Let's get together for the artistic  
and practical.  This is completely non-commercial and local.  The  
website is http://people.tribe.net/papokha.  (Please email  
papokha AT gmail.com to make postings or with any questions.)




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