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Books by Kalamu ya
Salaam
The Magic of JuJu: An Appreciation of the Black Arts
Movement /
360:
A Revolution of Black Poets
Everywhere Is Someplace Else: A Literary Anthology
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From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
Our Music Is No Accident /
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
My Story My Song (CD)
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ACTION:
all out to stop the war--
demonstrate,
saturday, march 15, 2003
folks,
in new orleans we are demonstrating beginning at congo square,
12noon on saturday, march 15, 2003. on feb. 15th, we had a
demonstration of approximately 800, with less than 20 black folk
in the crowd. our goal on march 15th is to mobilize 200 black
people.
wherever you live, i encourage each and every e-drummer to get
involved and to participate in your local effort to stop the
war. the last few days have not been encouraging--bush &
company seem determined to go to war, with or without a united
nations security council resolution, with or without the
participation of england. the news media in the united states is
pitiful--they often refuse to report what is going on. their
general capitulation to and regurgitation of bush administration
viewpoints notwithstanding, the new york times came out with an
editorial against the war on one day, and on the following days
it was back to normal, which means no information,
disinformation and diversions.
if we were sitting on saturn watching this madness from afar, it
would be a comic tragedy. but we are part of the world community
and there is the potential for hundreds of thousands of people
to die in this war. no one knows what is going to happen. it
could be over in a matter of a few days or it could drag on for
weeks, for sure, world politics will change drastically.
here in the united states, the changes will be dramatic.
remember that nearly every state government as well as the
federal government are running unprecedented deficits. as the
consolidation of global capitalism grows without restraint,
whole sectors of american business are going under or being
marginalized. again, i do not understand economics well enough
to make specific predictions, however, i do know we are not
looking at a pretty picture.
under these conditions, it is hard to keep our heads up. now
more than ever we need artists to encourage the people. not to
sugar coat our conditions or engage people in mindless
diversions, but rather to help us all face the realities of our
time, find ways to survive and build stronger community as we
struggle with this new world order brought to us by the
unelected president of the united states who wants nothing less
than to run the world.
please join us on saturday, march 15th. join millions of people
around the world who will demonstrate their opposition to war.
all out to stop the war--demonstrate, saturday, march 15, 2003!
kalamu
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March 15, 2003 Worldwide Protests!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations to Stop the War:
Demonstrations
in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Around the
World, Saturday
March 15, 2003
Los Angeles
Assemble 12 Noon at Olympic and Broadway
March to the Downtown Federal Building
San Francisco
11 am at Civic Center Plaza
Washington, DC
12 noon @ the Washington Monument
Constitution Ave. between 15th and 17th Sts. NW
The people of the world CAN stop the war. The Bush
administration has set a
count-down to a war of unimaginable suffering for the innocent
people of
Iraq, but THIS IS NOT INEVITABLE. Millions have demonstrated,
World Leaders
have denied the push to war, The Holy Father Pope John Paul II
has called on
Bush to stop his warmongering -- it is clear that the world
wants PEACE!
As was done last month on February 15 In cities around the
world, this
Saturday March 15 people are mobilizing massive demonstrations
to stop the
war. Between 20 and 30 million people worldwide participated in
last month's
rallies; this month must be larger!
Join us for a united massive demonstration for peace, not war.
Express your
solidarity with the men, women, and especially the children of
Iraq.
War will further debilitate already crumbling structures that
provide for
basic human needs in our own country as well... health care,
education,
environment, civil liberties, workplace protections, retirement
pensions...
all are suffering from the lack of prioritization of these
concerns given by
a government bent on war at any price.
For more information in Los Angeles, contact the Sponsors:
ICUJP:
www.icujp.org / Coalition for World Peace
www.coalitionforworldpeace.org
International ANSWER Coalition
www.answerla.org / Not in Our Name Project
www.notinourname.net/la
For San Francisco
go to www.internationalanswer.org.
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.—WashingtonPost |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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