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  • Subject: [Internationalist] TOMORROW: book sale/ice cream social- Prison Books benefit
  • Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:41:18 -0400

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) Tomorrow: Book sale/Ice Cream Social to Benefit Prison Books Collective!
2) Poetry Reading with Raina León!
3) G20 Protest Planning Meeting!
4) New arrivals in stock!
5) More upcoming events!


1) TOMORROW: BOOK SALE/ICE CREAM SOCIAL TO BENEFIT PRISON BOOKS
COLLECTIVE! (SAT 8/8, 2-5 PM)

Join us tomorrow, Saturday August 8th, from 2 PM to 5 PM at Wilson
Park in Carrboro, for an exciting book sale and ice cream social to
benefit the Internationalist Prison Books Collective! We'll have ice
cream (dairy and vegan options available), old time music, and a wide
selection of dirt cheap books for purchase, in a comfortable
family-friendly atmosphere. Join us for some cool treats on a hot day
and help support our Prison Books program, which sends thousands of
free books and educational materials to prisoners in Mississippi and
Alabama. For more info, call the store at 919-942-1740 or check out
www.prisonbooks.info.

Directions to Wilson Park:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Carrboro&1s=NC&1z=27510&1y=US&1l=35.9129&1g=-79.0802&1v=ZIP&2c=Carrboro&2s=NC&2z=27510&2pn=parks&2y=US&2l=35.9129&2g=-79.0802&2v=ZIP#a/maps/l:::Carrboro:NC:27510:US:35.9129:-79.0802:zip::1/l:Charles+Herman+Wilson+Park:1100+N+Greensboro+St:Carrboro:NC:27510:US:35.91899:-79.0772:address::1/m::13:35.916151:-79.079444:0:::::1:1:1::/io:1:::::f:EN:M:/e


2) POETRY READING WITH RAINA LEON! (TUES, 8/11, 7 PM)

Join us at the Internationalist for an evening of passionate poetry
with Raina León!

"Raina León is a fiery and courageous poet. The poems in 'Canticle of
Idols', her first collection, are explosions of pain and
transcendence, jagged epiphanies, surreal, haunting, erotic and
anguished by turns. Whether challenging Catholic orthodoxy or
celebrating her Afro-Puerto Rican legacy, remembering the struggles of
an addict or the touch of a lover, León's poetry sings hymns to life
in the midst of death. Listen."
?Martín Espada, author of The Republic of Poetry and Alabanza: New and
Selected Poems 1982-2002

Raina J. León, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the
Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in
The Sixers Review, The Externalist, Minglewood, The Cherry Blossom
Review, Natural Bridge, African American Review, OCHO, Spindle
Magazine, Black Arts Quarterly, Poem.Memoir.Story, Womb, Boxcar Poetry
Review, Salt Hill Journal, Xavier Review, MiPoesias, Torch, Poetic
Voices without Borders, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave
Canem's First Decade, Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from
Marginalized Spaces, AntiMuse, Farmhouse Magazine, Furnace Review,
Constellation Magazine and Tiger's Eye Journal among others with
upcoming work in Verdad Magazine and Bosphorus Art Project Quarterly.
Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for
both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andres
Montoya Poetry Prize (2006) and is now available through Wordtech
Communications. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She
headed the High School Literacy Project at the University of North
Carolina and is currently teaching English and Spanish at an American
high school in Germany.

Find out more at www.rainaleon.com.


3) G20 PROTEST PLANNING MEETING! (MON, 8/10, 7 PM)

Join other Chapel Hill-area radicals to discuss the upcoming G20
summit taking place this September in Pittsburgh, PA. Building off of
our previous meetings in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, we'll be hearing
reportbacks and making concrete plans for resistance and actions being
planned, and discuss how we can continue to build momentum locally.


4) NEW ARRIVALS!

Here at Internationalist Books we've got tons of exciting new radical
books and zines. Just a small sampling of our new titles:

Books:
-Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes
Immigrants, by David Bacon
-Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal, by
Silas House et. al.
-Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Allison Bechdel
-In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
-Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of
Femininity, by Julia Serano
-The Guide to Getting It On, 6th edition, by Paul Joannides and Daerick Gross
-Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed, by Vandana Shiva
-Instead of Prisons, by the Prison Research Education Action Project
-Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation,
by Sylvia Federici

Zines:
-Upping the Anti #7
-Cometbus #52
-Urinal Gum #8

...and many more! Come by the store and pick up some provocative
summer reading!



5) MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!

MON 8/10, 7 PM: G20 PROTEST PLANNING MEETING
See above!

TUES 8/11, 7 PM: POETRY READING WITH RAINA LEON!
See above!

THURS, 8/13, 5:30 PM: ORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER SEXUAL VIOLENCE
TASK FORCE MEETING
Looking for a way to voice your concerns about sexual violence?
Looking for a way to become an activist against rape, sexual assault,
child sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence? Join us! The
Sexual Violence Prevention Task Force of Orange County is a group of
volunteers dedicated to preventing sexual violence. Hosted by the
Orange County Rape Crisis Center (OCRCC) and Internationalist Books
(405 W Franklin St.) the task force is starting another round of
activism and needs your volunteer help! New volunteers are always
welcome. No previous experience in activism or victim advocacy needed.
Give a lot of time or just a little. Join us at the next meeting
August 13th at 5:30 PM at Internationalist Books. We'll be discussing
logos, listservs, websites, and community outreach. For more
information or just to be on our email list please email Christine
Hudelson at chudelson AT ocrcc.org, or call 968-4647.


ONGOING EVENTS:

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.

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