-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 6th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair (3/24) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:18:12 -0800 From: radman <resist at best.com> Reply-To: radman <resist at best.com>
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Bound Together Books presents:
6th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair Saturday March 24th, 2001, 10am-6pm County Fair Building, in Golden Gate Park @ 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way Free admission.
Approximately 60 anarchist groups and alternative book, magazine, and publishing people will be represented at tables selling and distributing materials and examples of their work.
Included are a cafe, films, spoken word presentations, a panel discussion and a gallery exhibit. [See below for list of speakers (with bios/reviews), and exhibit description.]
For more info call Bound Together @ 415 431 8355, or email <akpress at akpress.org>.
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PAUL KRASSNER
--Yippie! co-founder; author of 'Psychedelic Trips for the Mind'; 'Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut!'; and spoken word CDs, 'Sex, Drugs And The Antichrist...', & 'Campaign In The Ass'
'Psychedelic Trips for the Mind': Sequel to the Firecracker Award-winning Pot Stories for the Soul, 'Psychedelic Trips for the Soul' includes funny, wild, and illuminating tales by and about such mind-altered luminaries as Timothy Leary, John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Groucho Marx, Jerry Garcia, Eldridge Cleaver, Squeaky Fromme, Wavy Gravy, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, and even Hollywood's "million-dollar mermaid" Esther Williams, among many others.
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ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ
--author, 'Red Dirt: Growing up Okie'; 'Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self Determination'
'Red Dirt: Growing up Okie': An exquisite memoir of growing up dirt poor in Oklahoma. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, writer and journalist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz bears witness to a family and community that still clings to the dream of America as a republic of landowners. Drawing deeply on the stories, often biblical parables, she heard in her early years, Dunbar-Ortiz brings to life one of the least understood groups in US history: poor rural whites. They are the backbone of the national campaigns against abortion and for prayer in school. They are also the soldiers of the militia movement. Red Dirt takes us into the minds of these people, allowing us to feel both their grievous sense of loss and their battered but still-clung-to faith.
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ELIZABETH MARTINEZ
--author, 'Five Hundred Years of Chicano History in Pictures'; & (with Angela Davis) 'De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century';
'De Colores Means All of Us': The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice, and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means All of Us will appeal to readers and activists seeking to organize for the future and build new movements for liberation.
"Elizabeth Martnez's work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era. . . . [Martnez is] inimitable. . . irrepressible. . . indefatigable."-From the foreword by Angela Y. Davis. "Elizabeth Martnez is a beautiful and courageous person. She is also a writer of great depth, power, and compassion, a longtime activist who speaks eloquently about class, race, identity, and the problems of achieving real 'democracy' today. Her essays in this book are perceptive, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and often humorous, too. They are fierce and touching and profoundly educational. . . . Surely she is one of our great teachers. She's certainly been one of mine."-John Nichols, author, Milagro Beanfield Wars. "Elizabeth Martinez has played a unique and extraordinary role as chronicler of Chicana-Chicano history, and De Colores beautifully captures her passion, her intelligence, her powerful commitment to universal human values. I am very happy this volume exists, and hope it will be widely read."-Howard Zinn
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M.A. JAIMES-GUERRERO
--A leading Native American scholar, writer and researcher. Her most recent work examines the ethical and legal questions raised by the Human Genome Diversity Project and its severe implications for Indigenous Peoples. Jaimes-Guerrero exposes the patenting and commodification of human life through genetic engineering. She is editor and contributor of the 'The State of Native North America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance' and author of 'Native Womanism: Blueprint for a Global Revolution' (both South End Press). She has worked with Women of All Red Nations, the Indigenous Women's Network, and the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council. She has taught classes on environmental justice, American Indian and Ethnic Studies and is currently an associate professor of Women Studies at San Francisco State University
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RUTHIE GILMORE
--leader in the No Prisons Movement; 'Critical Resistance'; 'California Prison Focus'; 'Prison Activist Resource Center'; 'California Prison Moratorium Project' ; Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley
Ruthie Gilmore was catapulted into thinking about the politics of race, crime and prison in 1969, when, she says, "my cousin was murdered and his wife subsequently arrested in the context of the FBI Cointelpro war against the Black Panthers." Gilmore's research led her to challenge the conventional wisdom that economically depressed areas can't resist prison-produced benefits. Her study of the town of Corcoran, where two new prisons were built between 1988 and 1998, demonstrated that the population below the poverty level nearly doubled while the town barely grew.
Prof. Gilmore's main interests include race and gender, labor and social movements, uneven development, politics and culture, the U.S., California, and the African Diaspora. Recent publications include: "'You have dislodged a boulder': Mothers and Prisoners in the Post Keynesian California Landscape," in Transforming Anthropology (March 1998); "Public Enemies and Private Intellectuals," in Race and Class (1993); "Terror Austerity Race Gender Excess Theater," in Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising; and "Decorative Beasts: Dogging the Academy in the Late Twentieth Century," in California Sociologist (1991).
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MICHELLE TEA
--author, 'The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America'; 'Valencia'
"Twenty-three-year-old Michelle is too passive to quit her many short-lived jobs; she just calls in sick until she's fired, then hops to another job. She also bar-hops and bed-hops, from place to place, woman to woman, developing obsessive and hopeless crushes on unattainable women, loving the people who cannot or will not reciprocate her love. She likes to get drunk in the middle of the day, admittedly has no work ethic, and is delighted to multiply her earnings at a courier service by turning to prostitution. Ever the well-rounded young woman, she also runs a traveler's check scam for good measure. If all of this sounds just too self-serving if not mind-numbingly self-indulgent, it can be. Yet Tea, who is cofounder of Sister Spit, the traveling girl-poetry road show, on occasion manages to lift this a-year-lived-in-San-Francisco narrative out of anomie and into an edgy, supercharged, supersurreal, reality."
'Valencia': Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris's ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart. Valencia conveys a blend of youthful urgency and apocalyptic apathy.
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CINDY MILSTEIN
--Cindy Milstein is currently on the board and a faculty member at the Institute for Social Ecology, where she teaches each summer and works with degree students year round. Then, too, she is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, a nonprofit organization that provides grants to radical writers, and coorganizer of the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, which attempts to create a scholarly space for a new generation of libertarian left theorists. Ms. Milstein also writes for antiauthoritarian periodicals, including a regular column in Arsenal magazine. An editor and graphic designer as well, she put together and wrote for the booklet Bringing Democracy Home, which has been widely distributed at recent direct actions, and produces the Institute for Social Ecology's print promotional materials. Ms. Milstein has long been active in a variety of anarchist political organizations, counterinstitutions, alternative publications, community organizing projects, and social movements, including the current one. She has also participated in numerous study groups, including one with social theorist Murray Bookchin, exploring a range of radical theory and revolutionary history, and recently lived in Berlin, Germany, for two years studying Nazism and the Holocaust, plus attending present-day antifascist demonstrations. Alongside her own ongoing studies in political and social theory, Ms. Milstein copyedits books as a freelancer for Duke University Press for a living.
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CHRIS CRASS
[Chairing a panel discussion on anarchism, race, and organizing.]
--an anarchist organizer with the Direct Action Network in San Francisco and a student at SFSU majoring in "Race, Class, Gender and Power Studies". .
See some of his writings here: <http://www.infoshop.org/rants/crass.html>
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"Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era"
Official portraits (mugshots) of all offenders executed by the state of Texas since 1982, when the death penalty was reinstated after an 18 year hiatus. As of Feb. 15, 2001, 243 individuals have been executed by the state of Texas. The exhibit accompanies the publication of the book "Texas Death Row: Executions In The Modern Era". The book present photos and factual data form the files of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice regarding the first 222 offenders executed in Texas since 1982. Each entry includes biographical data, the record of what the individual was sentenced to death for, last meal, last words, and details of the execution.
"... Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era is a must-read. Edited by the members of the SunRiver Cartel, the book contains two hundred and forty-six pages of gruesome details recounting the crimes, jail sentences, and last moments in the lives of inmates killed on Texas's death row since the death penalty was reinstated. In October, the local art gallery Projex displayed an exhibit of the mugshots of each of these inmates. For those who oppose capital punishment, it provides further evidence to support the argument that our government is one which exercises its legal right in an racist and biased manner. Included are records of the last meal requested by each of the inmates and any final words muttered before the injection of the lethal medication. Also included are the amount of time each prisoner spent on death row, the time of death, and the date on which each inmate began his or her stay in the Texas Prison System. Such records are provided by the files of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, giving what seems to be accurate and true representations of the events depicted."
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