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  Comrades and not-so-comrades!

This is just your friendly weekly email to let you know about the  
goings-on at Internationalist Books in the upcoming week. Not a lot  
going on, just two events, so bear with me here and you might see  
something you like!

MONDAY OCTOBER 4 @ 7PM DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR OF "MOUNTAIN  
JUSTICE: HOMEGROWN RESISTANCE TO MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL, FOR THE FUTURE  
OF US ALL"

  Join us for a reading and discussion of Tricia Shapiro's new book  
"Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for  
the Future of Us All"!

  Mountain Justice traces the events of the past decade of resistance  
to MTR in Appalachia, through first-hand accounts from within the  
ranks of the organizing groups standing up to King Coal. Tricia  
Shapiro takes us inside the struggle to end MTR, and shows us that the  
coal companies can, and will, be defeated by combining the efforts of  
activists and the coalfield residents who are impacted and ultimately  
displaced by these destructive practices.

  Tricia Shapiro has been closely following and writing about efforts  
to end large-scale strip mining for coal in Appalachia since 2004,  
primarily as a freelance embedded reporter with the ongoing civil  
disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal. A native of  
Pittsburgh, Ms. Shapiro now lives on a remote mountain homestead in  
western North Carolina, near the Tennessee border.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 7 @ 6:30 PM DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR OF  
"REFLECTIONS FROM THE EDGE: TWO DECADES OF ESSAYS ON RACE,  
CULTURE, AND POLITICS FROM A YOUNG SOUTHERN WRITER."

  Join us for a reading from and discussion of Dr. Jonathan  
Livingston's book "Reflections From the Edge: Two Decades of Essays on  
Race, Culture, and Politics from a young southern writer." His book  
contains a collection of ten essays which have been published in  
newspapers throughout the Southeast and Midwest over a 15-year period.  
From the introduction:

  "Many of the essays are rooted in and reflective of my  
socializations, experiences, and raising. Being reared in a low-income  
African American working class southern community in the 1970s  
provided me excellent opportunities to witness the challenges and  
complexities of Black life. The columns...were influenced by the lives  
and teachings of working class African Americans, academics, Vietnam  
vets, church folks, and community activists, as well as those  
individuals from the streets living on the edge yet politically astute  
and willing to share their wisdom with youth. Their perspectives about  
a world in which they were marginalized...provided an intellectual  
context fertile with ideological and religious tensions and  
complexities."

  Dr Livingston is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina Central  
University's Psychology Department, and also Co-director of The  
Institute for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families at NCCU.

  Here is a link to his website:
http://www.nccu.edu/directory/details.cfm?id=jlivingston

  A little further out...

  Oct 13 - October Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night

  Oct 22 - William 'Upski' Wimmsat, author of "Please Don't Bomb the  
Suburbs" will be joining us! (He's also the author of "No More Prisons")

  (OH AND VOLUNTEERS: Don't forget about the ALL --yes ALL!--  
Volunteer meeting this Sunday, October 3, at 7pm. BE there or else  
Lydia will know and do something icky!)

  Thanks for reading y'all and I hope to see you at some events here!

  Laurin

  Outreach Coordinator Extraordinare!


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