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Dear Members,

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In this email You will find info on these events:
*Thursday, Dec. 13th-“Debunking the Techno-fix”
*Friday, Dec. 14th- Puppet Extravaganza: DINOSAUR SAINTS & HUMBLE ROBOTS
*Saturday, Dec. 15th- Against Democracy- a talk with Peter Gelderloos
*Tuesday, Dec. 18th, Author Tour Featuring Fiction, Poetry and Comic Art
*Tuesday, Dec 25th, Christmas Caroling at Central Prison
*Friday, Jan. 18th @ 6pm: “Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and
Community” Author Event with Editor Rosalie Riegle

Thursday, December 13th 7pm @ Internationalist Books Croatan Earth First!
Presents “Debunking the Techno-fix”
Can industrial technologies fix the problems industrial technologies have
created for the environment and human communities? Can individual
technologies with positive qualities be separated from the
larger system of industrial capitalism? What are the possibilities for a
truly sustainable future on this planet?
A multimedia presentation by Croatan Earth First followed by a discussion
and snacks.

FRIDAY, December 14, 7 pm @ I-Books, Puppet Extravaganza: DINOSAUR SAINTS
& HUMBLE ROBOTS $8-12 Sliding scale (no one turned away)
with: Poncili Puppet Company (Puerto Rico) and
Jawbone Puppet Theater (Brooklyn, NY/Taiwan)

The Shows: Poncili Company will perform several short, surreal, whimsical
shows:  a robot, a giant crow, a moose!  Jawbone Puppet Theater, father
and son act from Brooklyn, NY & Taiwan will perform original puppets shows
with toy dinosaurs, Peruvian saints, folk tales and Kafka.  The house band
playing Loretta Lynne heartbreak songs & Mariachi songs about drinking
yourself to death over lost love–and we put our hearts and souls into it!
And we have cheap art for sale–hand made monster prints, comics and paper
mache sculptures

Saturday, December 15th 7pm @ Internationalist Books- Against Democracy- a
talk with Peter Gelderloos
Visiting writer, Peter Gelderloos will share historical and personal
accounts illustrating how the rhetoric of democracy is used to obscure
truly non-hierarchical ways of building our collective strength. He’ll
focus on his experiences of the centralization of power within the Plaza
Occupations in Barcelona that in many ways paralleled the Occupy Movement
here.

Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist from the south who has spent the last
five years living and organizing in Barcelona, and is the author of How
Nonviolence Protects the State.

Tuesday, December 18th, Multi-Author Tour Featuring Fiction, Poetry and
Comic Art: Join Elwin Cotman, Ben Passmore, and Luca Miro for a night of
comics, fiction, poetry, and music, and hear debut readings from their
newest works.
They will be performing at 7:00 pm at Internationalist Books and Community
Center.
Author, performance artist, and storyteller Elwin Cotman is the author of
the acclaimed story collection The Jack Daniels Sessions EP (Six Gallery
Press, 2010), and of the upcoming collection Hard Times Blues.  He has
built a reputation as a dynamic and engaging reader, having toured across
the United States. He will be on-hand with the updated third edition of
The Jack Daniels Sessions EP. The Jack Daniels Sessions EP is a collection
of fabulist stories, many based out of Afro-American folklore. It was
nominated for two 2011 Carl Brandon Society Awards.
Joining Cotman is New Orleans-based graphic artist Ben Passmore, who will
do readings and projections from his newest DAYGLOAYHOLE full-color
release, It’s All Over, as well as maybe some soulful music to sadden the
soul. Luca Miro will be sharing poetry from their most recent collection,
Cane Break.

Tuesday, Dec 25th, 10am Christmas Caroling Outside Central Prison-
Hello numerous codefendants, friends and supporters. All are invited to
the Fr. Charlie Mulholland Catholic Worker House annual Christmas morning
witness and caroling at Central Prison at 10 A.M. (We meet under the
railroad trestle on Western Blvd. Enter Boylan Heights through Boylan
Ave.) We hold a big Merry Christmas sign and bring the only cheer the
inmates get on Christmas (The warden does not allow visiting on Christmas
to give more guards the day off). Peace and Blessings, Patrick O'Neill

Friday, January 18th @ 6pm: “Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and
Community” Author Event with Editor Rosalie Riegle

About “Doing Time for Peace”:

“In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five
peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way
possible–by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in
jail or prison. These courageous resisters leave family and community and
life on the outside in their efforts to direct U.S. policy away from its
militarism. Many are Catholic Workers, devoting their lives to the works
of mercy instead of the works of war. They are homemakers and carpenters
and social workers and teachers who are often called “faith-based
activists.” They speak from the left of the political perspective,
providing a counterpoint to the faith-based activism of the fundamentalist
Right.
The voices range from a World War II conscientious objector to those
protesting the recent war in Iraq. The book includes sections on resister
families, the Berrigans and Jonah House, the Plowshares Communities, the
Syracuse Peace Council, and Catholic Worker houses and communities.”

Solidarity,
Internationalist Books and Community Center


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