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Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films
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and Culture is the country's only national not-for-profit organization
promoting progressive voices on campuses and in communities. Speak Out
works with 200 speakers and artists who represent the breadth of social
movements as well as critically-acclaimed exhibits and films which inform
and empower young people to take action for peace and social justice.
Website: www.speakoutnow.org.
Email at info@speakoutnow.org
Books
From Seven Stories Press www.sevenstories.com
• 9-11
by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky comments on the new war on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy,
media control, Afghanistan, and the long-term implications of America's
military attacks abroad.
• Terrorism and War
by Howard Zinn' interviewed by Anthony Arnove.
New interviews conducted since the tragic events of September 11 and the
bombing campaign against Afghanistan, Terrorism and War provides Zinn’s
most up-to-date thinking on war, terrorism, and the new global order.
• Terrorism: Theirs & Ours
by Eqbal Ahmad
"Terrorist." "Freedom fighter." What do these terms
mean? Where do they apply? One of the major activist scholars of this
era discusses the Taliban, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Muslim
Fundamentalism, US foreign policy, and the shifting lexicon of international
politics.
• Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New “War
on Terrorism”
by As ‘ad AbuKhalil
Arab-American scholar As’ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the
present crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and
the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world.
• Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and
the Threat to Democracy
by Barbara Olshansky
The U.S. will soon hold military tribunals to try non-citizens suspected
of terrorism. The tribunals are permitted to withhold from the suspect
evidence and charges, and an entire trial and execution may be conducted
in secret. Olshansky's brilliant analysis opposes the measure.
• Israel/Palestine: How to End the 1948 War
by Tanya Reinhart
"Tanya Reinhart's informative and chilling analysis could hardly
be more timely. It should be read and considered with care, and taken
very seriously." —Noam Chomsky
• Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11
Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties
by Nancy Chang
"This analysis by Nancy Chang should be read by everyone concerned
with a free society. It reports a chilling set of rules, now the law,
which directly affect millions of Americans..." —Howard Zinn
• Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit
After the Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
by Alice Walker
Through political commentary, poetry, and and personal wisdom, Pulitzer
Prize winner Alice Walker shares her art and ideas on what it means to
be a human being in violent times.
• Weapons In Space by Karl Grossman
Weapons in Space examines how the Bush administration is moving forward—in
violation of international treaties—to militarize space with a "missile
defense" plan, aka, "Star Wars."
From South End Press www.southendpress.org
• The Political Economy of Human Rights: Vol. 1 &
2
by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Analyzes the forces that shape U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and
Africa, as well as the role of the media in misreporting these policies
and their motives.
• Rogue States: The Rule of Force in Current Affairs
by Noam Chomsky
In Rogue States, Noam Chomsky holds the world’s superpowers
to their own standards of the rule of law—and finds them appallingly
lacking.
• Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and
War
by Anthony Arnove
"Here is a brilliantly collated body of unrelenting, undeniable evidence
of the horrors that the U.S government sanctions are visiting upon the
people, in particular the children, of Iraq. For ordinary citizens sanctions
are just another kind of dictatorship. Remote-controlled, seemingly civilized,
they actually, literally, squeeze the very breath from babies' bodies."
—Arundhati Roy
• Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention After
the Cold War
by Stephen R. Shalom
Looking at Iraq, Libya, Grenada, Panama, Biafra, the Dominican Republic,
Burundi, and other post Cold War hot spots, Shalom carefully documents
the pretexts for U.S. intervention.
• Fateful Triangle
by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has added several chapters, bringing his classic study of
Mideast politics completely up to date. He assesses the ongoing peace
process between Israel and the PLO, while tracing the continuities in
U.S. foreign policy. With a new preface and three new chapters by Chomsky
and a new foreword by Edward W. Said.
From Common Courage Press www.commoncouragepress.com
•Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum
With a special post 9/11 update: What has the U.S. done to provoke such
hatred? Learn about decades of ubiquitous U.S. cruelty, kept -- remarkably
-- from penetrating world consciousness or shocking world conscience.
• Killing Hope
by William Blum
From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum provides a comprehensive
study of the ongoing American holocaust.
• The Obstruction of Peace. The United States, Israel,
and the Palestinians
by Naseer Aruri
"Aruri's book is the first of its kind: an indispensable, hard-hitting,
well-documented account of why the tragic unrest in Gaza is a portent
of what is yet to come. No student or scholar of the Middle East, and
no concerned citizen, should pass up the opportunity to read this remarkable
work of scholarship and intellectual courage." --Edward Said
Other Books of Interest
• The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism
in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Herman J. Ruether (Fortress Press)
An excellent history of the conflict, originally completed in 1988, during
the first Intifada, and updated for reissue in 2002. Of special interest
to Muslim, Jewish and Christian readers.
• The Politics of Dispossession : The Struggle for Palestinian
Self-Determination : 1969-1994
by Edward Said, (Pantheon)
Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine,
Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian
self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also
our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving
not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous
relations with the West.
• The End of the Peace Process
by Edward Said (Pantheon)
Edward Said demonstrates why he is considered the preeminent observer
and critic of the Middle East peace process in this collection of fifty
essays, written mostly for Arab and European newspapers in the last five
years and previously not readily available to American readers.
• The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military
Industrial Complex
by Dr. Helen Caldicott (The New Press www.thenewpress.com)
The world-renowned antinuclear activist looks at the indebtedness of the
current Bush administration to the nuclear arms industry and warms of
the enormous dangers inherent in allowing weapons manufacturers to dictate
foreign policy.
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