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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) Poetry Reading with Raina León!
2) G20 Protest Planning Meeting!
3) More upcoming events!


1) 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.


2) 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.


3) 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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