Community & Resistance National Tour

“With a new flood threatening life on the Gulf Coast—this time made of oil, not water, but powered, as always, by greed and neglect—these remarkable stories of injustice and resistance must be heard.”
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

Featuring Jordan Flaherty, author, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6, Victoria Law, Jesse Muhammad, and other activists, performers, writers and organizers who "seek to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from nooses hung in Jena to women organizing inside prisons, from resistance to school privatization to post-Katrina community organizing."

Read more at http://www.haymarketbooks.org/2010/08/25/Community-Resistance-National-Tour

The Legacy of Zinn (1922-2010)

Amy Goodman, David Zirin and others discuss the intellectual and popular influence of Howard Zinn, Brooklyn born historian, author, anarchist, socialist, activist, and playwright with an introductory dramatic reading from the 423 page file on Zinn kept by the FBI and recently released through the Freedom of Information Act.

Part of the Brooklyn Book Festival,
Sunday, September 12 at 12:00 PM
Hosted by the Brooklyn Historical Society
209 Joralemon St
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Featured releases

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
By Jordan Flaherty

A firsthand account of New Orleans that weaves together the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists.

Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky

“In Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky's gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate." —Foreword magazine

The Political Economy of Racism
By Melvin Leiman

“An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy of racism evolved in the United States."—Science & Society

The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's
By Tom Engelhardt

Tracing developments from 9/11 to late last night, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end.

The Case for Socialism
By Alan Maass, Afterword by Howard Zinn

"This is a vivid, fluent, and rare book about socialism for those uninterested in tracts and excited by new prospects" —John Pilger, author of Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire

The Lean Years:

A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
By Irving Bernstein, Foreword by Frances Fox Piven

Bernstein recaptures the social history of the 20s and sheds light on the long-forgotten struggles that form the prelude to the great labor victories of the 1930s.

North Star: A Memoir
By Peter Camejo

This is the autobiography of a remarkable life. As the New York Times wrote, "A first generation Venezuelan-American . . . Mr. Camejo [spoke] out against the Vietnam War and for the rights of migrant workers. He marched in Selma, Alabama, with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King."

Breaking the Sound Barrier
By Amy Goodman, Foreword by Bill Moyers

These collected essays from award-winning independent journalist Amy Goodman break through the corporate media’s lies, sound-bites, and silence.

Live Working or Die Fighting:

How the Working Class Went Global
By Paul Mason

"This is micro-historical writing at its best."—Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination