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 How and Why: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
Matte Resist
Microcosm
$14.00
Following in the footsteps of the popular Making Stuff & Doing Things (and charting all-new DIY territory!), this essential new handbook explores a wide range of simple and advanced projects, with the underpinning notion that anyone is capable and qualified with a little encouragement. Includes step-by-step instructions for projects such as building your own musical instruments, making your own solar panel out of soda cans, building a bicycle sidecar (or doing simple bike upgrades), making greywater improvements to your home, seed saving and gardening… and countless other ways to lead a simpler, more sustainable life!
 Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified U.S. History
Mia Partlow & Michael Hoerger
Microcosm
$10.00
What do top-secret CIA assassination plots, Black Panther arrests, and Reaganomics have in common? Food, of course! For the first time ever, a collection of declassified government documents with food as a theme! Over 500,000 memos, debriefings, and transcripts were combed to uncover some of the most important and iconic people and narratives from U.S. history. These documents are like reality TV for politicos and foodies-assassinations by milkshake, subliminal popcorn cravings, Reagan’s love of hydroponics, and what could be Fred Hampton’s most radical action, giving ice cream to small children.
 Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Kersplebedeb
$20.00
Follow the author’s odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves-and us as well-on Marxism and Maoism, the five-percenters, dialectical materialism, Dead Prez, capitalism, racism, imperialism, class struggle, revolutionary nationalism, New Afrikan independence, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments.
 The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
Gord Hill
Arsenal Pulp
$11.95
A powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the European colonization of the Americas beginning with the Spanish invasion under Christopher Columbus and ending with the Six Nations land reclamation in Ontario in 2006, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book presents the story of Indigenous resistance in a far-reaching format. Events depicted include the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico; the Inca insurgency in Peru from the 1500s to the 1780s; Pontiac and the 1763 Rebellion & Royal Proclamation; Geronimo and the 1860s Seminole Wars; Crazy Horse and the 1877 War on the Plains; the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s; 1973’s Wounded Knee; the Mohawk Oka Crisis in Quebec in 1990; the 1995 Aazhoodena/Stoney Point resistance; and more.
 All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons
Jay Walljasper
New Press
$18.95
The commons is everything we inherit or create together and must pass on, undiminished, to future generations. An ancient idea with pressing relevance in our own time, the commons is many things. At times invisible and unnoticed, the commons makes modern life possible. In an accessible field-guide format-replete with illustrations, charts, and other visual materials-veteran journalist Jay Walljasper frames each chapter around a single concept from the commons movement, with additional contributions by other distinguished activists, politicians, and writers such as Vandana Shiva, Peter Linebaugh, Ivan Illich, Winona LaDuke, Maude Barlow, and more!
 New World of Indigenous Resistance Noam Chomsky and voices from North, South, and Central America
Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado & Lois Meyer (eds)
City Lights
$18.95
Indigenous societies today face difficult choices: how can they develop, modernize, and advance without endangering their sacred traditions and communal identity? To explore these issues in depth, editors Meyer and Maldonado conducted a series of dialogues with Noam Chomsky, and invited numerous organizers and intellectuals from indigenous communities of resistance to comment. Three in-depth conversations offer poignant lessons and trace numerous parallels between peoples who have resisted state power while attempting to sustain their unique community identity and tradition.
Also new from City Lights, check out The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane!
 Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now
James D. Cockcroft
Monthly Review
$14.95
The definitive introduction to one of the most important events of the twentieth century provides readers with the historical context within which the revolution occurred; explains how the revolutionary process has played out over the past ten decades; tells us how the ideals of the revolution live on in the minds of Mexico’s peasants and workers; and critically examines the contours of modern Mexican society, including its ethnic and gender dimensions. Well-deserved attention is paid to the tensions between the rulers and the ruled inside the country and the connected tensions between the Mexican nation and the neighboring giant to the north. Cockcroft also explores the possibility of Mexico’s revolutionary history finally bearing the fruit long hoped for by the country’s disenfranchised-a prospect kept alive by the unyielding struggle of the last one hundred years.
 Lickin’ the Beaters 2: Vegan Chocolate and Candy
Siue Moffatt
PM Press
$17.95
Chocolate, candy, and even “ice cream”-all in one fun vegan dessert cookbook! With quirky illustrations, useful hints, and a handy “Quick Recipe” indicator, vegan renditions of tantalizing delicacies, both traditional and original, are included. Recipes include carmel corn, saltwater taffy, pralines, cookies, cakes, and fudge, plus some brave, new gluten-free recipes, such as the Fabulous Flourless Chocolate Torte and the Toll-Free Chocolate Chip cookies. These decadent temptations allow treats for dairy-free or wheat-free diets as well as for anyone who loves sweets. And look, we also have the original Lickin’ the Beaters-get both for that special vegan on your list!
Also new from PM Press, check out Global Slump by David McNally! |
