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  • Subject: [Internationalist] Upcoming Events 9/28-10/7
  • Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:43:26 -0400



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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