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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) Steal Something From Work Day!
2) Prison Books benefit - Drag Bingo at Nightlight!
3) Spring Skillshare: How to Hold Your Own in a Political Debate
4) New books in stock!
5) More upcoming events!


1) THURSDAY, APRIL 15TH: STEAL SOMETHING FROM WORK DAY!

 From http://www.stealfromwork.crimethinc.com/...

"Getting robbed by the boss? April 15th is Steal Something From Work Day!

Does your boss work less than you but take home a bigger paycheck? Is  
somebody zipping around in a private jet at your expense? If the  
corporation is making money at the end of the day, that means they?re  
not paying you the full value of your labor ? that?s where corporate  
profit comes from! So if you need something in your workplace, take  
it. You earned it!

It could be a paper clip, or some cash out of the register, or full-on  
embezzlement. If you?re a barista, grab a bag of coffee; if you work  
at a garage, get a wrench set. If you?re unemployed, take something  
from someone else?s workplace! Unemployment works for the bosses, too  
? it forces people to take any job they can, and sends the message to  
other workers that if they don?t knuckle under they?ll be in for it too.

You could share it with your friends, or give it to your family ? the  
family you never see because of your job. You could use it yourself,  
to do something you?ve always dreamed of ? maybe something making use  
of all that potential you would fulfill if only you didn?t have to  
work for someone else all the time.

Steal something from work! Break down the divisions that separate you  
from your co-workers. Work together to maximize your under-the-table  
profit-sharing; make sure all of you are safe and getting what you  
need. Don?t let the boss pit you against each other ? in the end, that  
only makes all of you more vulnerable. Build up enough trust that you  
can graduate from taking things from work to taking control of your  
workplace itself!

Chances are you already steal from your work ? if not physical items,  
at least time on the clock. Good for you! But don?t stop there ? think  
of how much more you could take, how much more you deserve."


2) PRISON BOOKS BENEFIT: DRAG BINGO AT NIGHTLIGHT! (THURS, 4/15, 8 PM)

It's time for another BLINGO BANGO BINGO!
Come out for a night of performances, prizes, fabulous outfits, and  
ridiculous frenzied gambling, all hosted by your favorite local prison  
abolitionists.  It's a benefit for the Chapel Hill Prison Books  
Collective- more info at
www.prisonbooks.info.

This event will take place at Nightlight, located at 405 1/2 W.  
Rosemary St. in Chapel Hill.


3) SPRINGTIME SKILLSHARE: HOW TO HOLD YOUR OWN IN A POLITICAL DEBATE

Announcing Springtime Skillshares!
This spring, every Thursday, the Internationalist will host a series  
of skillshares! This Thursday will focus on skills for effectively  
articulating your values and opinions when in the midst of a political  
debate.

Other upcoming skillshares:

April 22: How to: DIY
April 29th Street Art


4) NEW BOOKS IN STOCK!

Here's a small sampling of our recent arrivals:

*Lots of books exploring diet, animals, and the environment, including  
The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith (see events below!), Eating  
Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, and The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael  
Pollan.

*Graphic novels such as the DMZ comics, World War 3, Cristy Road's  
Indestructible, and Nate Powell's Sounds of Your Name

*Cutting edge political theory from Giorgio Agamben to Christian  
Marazzi, Guy Hocquenghem's The Screwball Asses, and Gender Trouble by  
Judith Butler

*Fascinating accounts of history including Greg Grandin's Fordlandia,  
A People's History of Science, Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo  
Galeano, and of course the late Howard Zinn's People's History of the  
United States.

*and so much more!  Swing by to check out the new titles and enjoy our  
wide selection of political and cultural books, plus magazines,  
stickers, buttons, and more!


5) MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!

-READING INSURRECTION: WEEKLY READING GROUP
*Reading Insurrection* is a facilitated reading group meeting every  
Wednesday from 8 to 10 PM, exploring contemporary insurrectionary  
anarchist and critical theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local  
radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes  
ranging from biopolitics to rupture to  small-c communism to global  
social war. For more information or details on readings, email  
reading.insurrection.nc AT gmail.com.

Upcoming Schedule:
4/14, 4/21, 4/28: Rupture & Party/Violence (Benjamin, Deleuze,  
Guattari, Schmitt, Baudrillard)


MON, 4/19, 7 PM: POLITICAL PRISONER LETTER/CARD WRITING NIGHT
Join us for the latest in our monthly series of Political Prisoner  
Letter Writing night events, as folks gather to write letters and send  
birthday cards to some of the political prisoners locked up in the US  
whose birthdays take place in April. Come out and show your support  
for folks on the inside. Here are some of the prisoners whose  
birthdays come this month:

*Chuck Sims Africa
*Janet Holloway Africa
*Janine Phillips Africa
*Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald
*Marshal Eddie Conway
*Mumia Abu-Jamal

Did we miss a birthday? Do you have a birthday you want to make sure  
we include? Contact us for any reason: ppbirthday AT riseup.net


MON 4/26, 7 PM: READING GROUP - "THE VEGETARIAN MYTH"
Join us at Internationalist Books as we discuss Lierre Keith's  
controversial new book "The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and  
Sustainability" (PM Press, 2009). Derrick Jensen says this book "saved  
his life", while Alice Walker calls it "one of the most important  
books we can read" - yet radical vegans delivered a cayenne pie to the  
face of the author during her reading at the 2010 San Francisco  
Anarchist Bookfair! What's all the fuss about?

 From the author's website: "We've been told that a vegetarian diet  
can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre  
Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a  
vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we've been led  
astray--not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by  
our ignorance.

The truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the  
planet, and more of the same won't save us. In service to annual  
grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless  
species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil--the  
basis of life itself. Keith argues that if we are to save this planet,  
our food must be an act of profound and abiding repair: it must come  
from inside living communities, not be imposed across them.

Part memoir, part nutritional primer, and part political manifesto,  
The Vegetarian Myth will challenge everything you thought you knew  
about food politics."

What do you think? Come by the Internationalist to discuss and debate  
Keith's arguments. Vegans, omnivores, and folks of all dietary  
persuasions are invited. Copies are for sale at the store for $20.00  
each - just $18.00 if you're a member! Don't miss this chance to  
debate key contemporary political issues of ecology, diet, animal  
rights, and freedom with other passionate radicals!


MON, 5/10, 7 PM: READING GROUP- "WE ARE AN IMAGE OF THE FUTURE: THE  
GREEK RIOTS OF DECEMBER 2008"
Following up on our exciting presentation and discussion by the  
authors of this book back in February, the Internationalist welcomes  
all interested in the recent riots in Greece to join us for a reading  
group to discuss "We Are an Image From the Future: The Greek Revolt of  
December 2008" (AK Press, 2010).

What causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? How did one  
neighborhood's outrage over the tragic death of one teenager transform  
itself into a generalized insurrection against State and capital,  
paralyzing an entire nation for a month?

This is a book about the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis  
Grigoropoulos, killed by the police in the Exarchia neighborhood of  
Athens on December 6th, 2008, and of the revolution in the streets  
that followed, bringing business as usual in Greece to a screeching,  
burning halt for three marvelous weeks, and putting the fear of  
history back into the bureaucrats of Fortress Europe and beyond.

We Are an Image From the Future delves into the December insurrection  
and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed and  
participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that  
circulated through the networks of revolt. It provides the  
on-the-ground facts needed to understand these historic events, and  
also dispels the myths activists outside of Greece have constructed  
around them. What emerges is not just the intensity of the riots, but  
the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strategy  
and tactics: a desperately needed examination of the fabric of the  
Greek movements that made December possible.

The book will be available for sale soon at the Internationalist for  
$17.00 - just $15.30 if you're a member of the bookstore. Check out  
more about the book at  
http://akpress.org/2010/items/weareanimagefromthefuture. You can read  
more about the VOID Network in Athens, Greece at  
http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com/.

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