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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) Street Art Skillshare! (Thurs, 4/29, 6 PM)
2) Gay vampire novelist reads at I-books! (Fri, 4/30, 7:30 PM)
3) More upcoming events!


1) STREET ART SKILLSHARE!  (THURS, 4/29, 6 PM)

This spring, every Thursday, the Internationalist has hosted a series  
of skillshares on topics ranging from political debating to herbal  
gynecology.  Our final skillshare, this Thursday 4/29, at 6 PM, is  
about "Street Art".  You'll learn about how to make stencils, wheat  
paste, using spray paint, and a variety of other street art  
techniques.  Depending on interest, we'll also have the chance to  
watch a documentary about the history of graffiti.  Don't miss it!


2) GAY VAMPIRE NOVELIST READS AT I-BOOKS! (FRI 4/30, 7:30 PM)

Join us at the Internationalist in welcoming gay vampire novelist  
Damian Serbu!

Damian Serbu lives in the Chicago area with his partner of seventeen  
years and two dogs. After earning a Ph.D. in history (2001), he now  
teaches at the collegiate level. His love for vampires and all things  
horrific fused together with his academic training to inspire his  
first novel, The Vampire's Angel. A childhood nightmare led to his  
second novel, Secrets in the Attic, forthcoming summer 2010.

Set during the French Revolution, The Vampire's Angel traces the lives  
of three
characters: Xavier, a Parisian priest, Catherine, his noble sister,  
and Thomas, a vampire from America. The priest and vampire fall in  
love but hardship ensues as they struggle with separate demons. Thomas  
resists his impatience and temper, while hiding his undead nature from  
the man he loves. Xavier combats a devotion to the church and societal  
obligation, both of which speak against following his heart. As France  
crumbles around them, Catherine fights to maintain the family's  
fortune, even as she falls prey to the schemes of a witchdoctor who  
casts a spell upon her. Will the death, danger, and catastrophes of  
revolution doom these three, or will they find solace from one another  
and ultimate harmony?

In Secrets in the Attic, Jaret Bachmann travels with his family to his  
beloved grandfather's funeral with a heavy heart and, more troubling,  
premonitions of something evil lurking at the Bachmann ancestral home.  
But no one believes that he sees ghosts, and no one else saw his  
grandfather's ghost warning him to stay home except his dog, Darth.  
Grappling with his sexuality, a ghost that wants him out of the way,  
and the loss of his grandfather, Jaret must protect his family and  
come to terms with powers hidden deep within himself.

Find out more at http://www.damianserbu.com/.


3) MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!

SAT, 5/1, 7 PM: MAY DAY! AND REALLY REALLY FREE MOVIE
Come celebrate the original anarchist-inspired labor holiday this May  
1st at the Internationalist! Following up the Really Really Free  
Market (see below), we're screening a Really Really Free Movie in the  
spirit of radical labor struggles.

"The Wobblies" (1979, 89 minutes) documents the history of the  
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the radical labor union founded  
in 1905. Unlike most unions at the time, the IWW organized all  
unskilled workers and refused the racial and gender segregation that  
dominated the labor movement, fighting for improved wages and  
conditions while never losing sight of the ultimate goal of  
overthrowing the bosses and abolishing wage labor. The film  
usesinterviews with surviving veterans of early 20th century union  
struggles in lumberyards and silk mills alongside songs, cartoons,  
posters, live footage, and other archival materials to trace the  
trajectory of the "One Big Union". The result is a compelling,  
well-organized portrait of industrial exploitation in the United  
States and the courageous resistance of labor revolutionaries against
it.

Preceded by...

The Really Really Free Market!
Saturday, May 1st, 2-4 pm
Carrboro Town Commons

Bring something to share, take something you need! Carrboro's  
legendary community event, now five and a half years running,  
demonstrates the viability of an economy based on sharing rather than  
competition. Give and receive Clothes, home furnishings, hot food and  
groceries, games, books, and so much more...


MON 5/10, 7 PM: READING GROUP- "THE VEGETARIAN MYTH" BY LIERRE KEITH
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 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!

Check out SubMedia's excellent interview with Lierre Keith:
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2010/03/21/shut-your-pie-hole/

MON, 5/17, 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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