The Compensation Bureau
ARIEL DORFMAN
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Conceived in response to the shocking violence observed in humankind, the project identifies people who have wrongfully died at the hands of others—whether victims of war, hate crimes, or random brutality—and attempts to compensate for the cruelty and pain they faced in life and death.The Compensation Bureau explores the power of individual and collective action, from a writer hailed by The Washington Post as “a world-novelist of the first category.”
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Julian Assange In His Own Words
Edited by KAREN SHARPE
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Julian Assange In His Own Words provides a highly accessible survey of Assange’s philosophy and politics, conveying his views on how governments, corporations, the military, and the press function. As well as addressing the significance of the vast trove of leaked documents published by WikiLeaks, Assange draws on a polymathic intelligence to range freely over quantum physics, Greek mythology, macroeconomics, modern literature, and empires old and new.
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Checkpoint Zipolite
Quarantine in a Small Place
BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ
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Since leaving her American homeland in 2003 Belén Fernández had been an inveterate traveler. Ceaselessly wandering the world, the only constant in her itinerary was a conviction never to return to the country of her childhood. Then the COVID-19 lockdown happened and Fernandez found herself stranded in a small village on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
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Above the Law
How “Qualified Immunity” Protects Violent Police
BEN COHEN
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Above the Law recounts 12 cases in which justice was denied because of QI. The stories are accompanied by infographics, timelines, and contextualizing background to create a concise and compelling indictment of an outrageously unjust legal principle that must be changed
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Hate Inc. (2nd Edition)
Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
MATT TAIBBI
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In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.
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Moving The Bar
My Life As a Radical Lawyer
MICHAEL RATNER
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In a career that spanned five decades up to his death in 2016, Michael Ratner was involved in a wide range of high-profile cases. From working with William Kunstler in pursuing justice after the notorious prison massacre at Attica, to representing the revolutionary governments in Cuba and Nicaragua and prisoners interned at Guantanamo Bay in the wake of 9/11, through to being Julian Assange’s principal US lawyer, Ratner never shied away from taking on difficult, controversial cases.
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Decolonize Hipsters
GRÉGORY PIERROT
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Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes and ready-made meme.
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The Fascination of What’s Difficult
A Life of Maud Gonne
KIM BENDHEIM
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Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the greatest poets of the age, William Butler Yeats. Born into tremendous privilege, she allied herself with rebels and the downtrodden and openly defied what was at the time the world’s most powerful empire. More
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The Center Did Not Hold
A Biden/Obama Balance Sheet
ROBERT EISENBERG
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The Center Did Not Hold weighs the progressive—and not so progressive—contributions of the Obama-Biden White House across more than a hundred issues involving international relations, domestic cultural and economic matters, and social justice.
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Lockdown in Hell World
Luke O’Neil
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Foreshadowing a subsequent exodus, Luke O’Neil and his wife moved from the city to the suburbs just prior to the lockdown. Isolated not only by a virus but also by the alienation of a neighborhood where social distancing meant more than just geographical separation, O’Neil faced trials on numerous fronts.
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Pandemic! 2
Chronicles of a Time Lost
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, Žižek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing—and the increasingly unruly opposition to them by “response fatigued” publics around the planet.
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Rediscovering Earth
Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature
ANDERS DUNKER
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The gap between what we know and what we do has haunted the field of moral philosophy since antiquity, and is at the center of today’s environmental crisis. Put simply: if we know that we are destroying the planet, our habitat, why do we continue to do it? The ten dialogues collected here investigate this question, and propose how we might salvage the planet and save our own lives. More
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
An Almost True Account
MATT TAIBBI & “ANONYMOUS”
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison. More
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Objection!
The People Vs. Amy Coney Barrett
MICHAEL RIPS
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Following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and with the presidential election weeks away, Donald Trump had the opportunity to place a new justice on the Supreme Court. Attempting to stabilize his eroding support among white evangelicals, he handed over the selection of the nominee to a small group of evangelical leaders and in doing so, breached the religious test clause of the Constitution.
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Everything Must Change!
The World After Covid-19
Edited by RENATA ÁVILA & SREĆKO HORVAT
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Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. More
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We Are Millions
THE COURAGE FOUNDATION
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This book is part of the Courage Foundation’s #WeAreMillions, an arts project demonstrating the global support for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange as he fights extradition to the United States. #WeAreMillions features striking black and white images of supporters holding signs that express simply and clearly why they are standing up for Julian Assange. The supporters are young and old, well-known and anonymous, and from all around the world.
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American Monstrosity
Donald Trump: How We Got Him • How We Stop Him
NATHAN J. ROBINSON
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Nathan J Robinson has emerged in recent years as one of the most eloquent and engaging voices in a new cohort of young left-wing journalists who are transforming the American media landscape. Here he sets his unsparing gaze and biting wit on the greatest grotesquery in a competitive field let loose on a hapless public by an American political system lurching out of the control of all but the super-rich: Donald J. Trump. More
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Beautiful Trouble Strategy Card Deck
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This box of more than 100 cards from the celebrated activist group Beautiful Trouble provides both invaluable information on the key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered political victories and a series of games you can play with fellow protestors. Use the cards to learn and teach organizing, free up creativity when planning grassroots actions, or just entertain your dinner party guests. More
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Pen Pal
Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row
TIYO ATTALLAH SALAH-EL
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Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters that make up this book, an extraordinarily eloquent correspondent. More
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The Sinking Middle Class
A Political History
DAVID R. ROEDIGER
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Drawing on rich traditions of radical social thought, Roediger disavows the thinly sourced idea that the United States was, for much of its history, a “middle-class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swathes of middle-income America, only accelerated by the current pandemic, nails a fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressive change. More
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People’s Power
Reclaiming the Energy Commons
ASHLEY DAWSON
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People’s Power provides a persuasive critique of a market-led transition to renewable energy. It surveys the early development of the electric grid in the United States, telling the story of battles for public control over power during the Great Depression. More
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