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Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today - Chris Carlsson
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small...
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US Labor In Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform From Above, The Promise of Revival From Below - Kim Moody
U. S. Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s. Looking to the future, Moody shows how the rise of immigrant labor and its efforts at self-organization can re-energise the unions from belo...
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My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us - Jessica Mills
Jessica Mills is a touring musician, artist, activist, writer, teacher, and mother of two. Disappointed by run-of-the-mill parenting books that didn't speak to her experience, she set out to write a book tackling the issues faced by a new generation of moms and dads. The result is a parenting guide like no other. Written with humor, extensive research, and much trial and error, My Mother Wears Combat Boot...
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The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism And The Class Struggle - Howard Zinn (Introduction by) and WIlliam A. Pelz (Editor)
Trade Unionist, Socialist, Presidential Candidate, Jailed Anti-War Activist: Eugene Victor Debs was all of these and more. Hist career spanned two centuries, from the Gilded Age into the roaring 1920s. Debs' radical presence was uniquely American. More than half a century after this voice of the coiveless fell silent, the former railroad worker still has much to offer.
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The Cost Of Privilege: Taking On The System Of White Supremacy and Racism - Chip Smith
The Cost of Privilege takes readers from the creation of the white race over three centuries ago to the present-day myth of a colorblind society; from the intersections of class, gender, and race to the concrete benefits and harsh underside of the privileges white people experience every day; from the victories when people allied across the color line to the failures of some of those alliances to hold...
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More Unequal: Aspects Of Class In THe United States - Stephanie Luce (Contributor), Vincent Navarro (Contributor), Martha Gimenez (Contributor), David Roediger (Contributor), John Bellamy Foster (Contributor), and Michael D Yates (Editor)
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class and racial divisions that still exist in the United States today. Despite the stock market gains of the 1990s, which increased the ranks of millionaires and created greater wealth for those already wealthy, U.S. s...
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Got No Time - MALATESTA and Drowning Dog
Drowning Dog has teamed up with Malatesta (producer) for this new cd, Got No Time. This is the latest release from San Francisco anarchist record label Entartete Kunst.

While Drowning Dog takes center stage with her cutting rhymes about anarchism, capitalism, class, militarism, power, work and time itself, this collection is cut deep with sample collage and hip-hop rhythms (meticulously asse...
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Solidarity Forever: An Oral History Of The IWW - Deborah Shaffer (Editor), Stewart Bird (Editor), and Dan Georgakas (Editor)
The standard of living for most working Americans was grim when the IWW was founded in 1905. Wages were low, housing squalid, civil liberties limited, safety regulations nonexistent, and job security tenuous. Employers routinely denied their workers the right to unionize, much less to strike or picket. Few major labor disputes ended without death playing a hand.

In Solidarity Forever, a score o...
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Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina's Worker-Run Factories - Avi Lewis (Preface by), Naomi Klein (Preface by), and lavaca
This is the inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves.


In 2001, the economy of Argentina collapsed. Unemployment reached a quarter of the workforce. Out of these terrible conditions was born a new movement of workers who decided to take matters into their own hands.


They took over control of their workplaces, restarted p...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - INCITE! (Editor)
A massive and largely unregulated industry, the US non-profit sector is the world's seventh largest economy. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy governme...
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