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How Mischief-Makers Built Australia Through Pranks and Protests
In his new book How to Make Trouble and Influence People, Iain McIntyre offers readers an alternative to Australian history.
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Singing Songs of Struggle: How a Folk Music Movement Helped Elect a Marxist Reformer in Chile
“Venceremos” highlights the power of culture - whether music or other artistic modalities - to foment change, raise consciousness and heighten excitement about the possibility of a better world.
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The Poisoners and Their Accomplices
“Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” takes up where Rachel Carson left off - and the news is not good.
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Sole’s New Album “Death Drive” Takes Shots at Alienation, Capitalism and Liberals
Tim “Sole” Holland's new album “Death Drive” weaves through self-reflection, philosophy and existentialism with an anarchist perspective.
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Thirty-Five Years of Bashing Stereotypes, Tearing Down Walls, Smashing Icons and Visionary Cartooning
The beautifully designed, full-color anthology, “World War 3 Illustrated 1979-2014,” is an antidote to mindless punditry.
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DC Press Corps Part of Incestuous Culture That Worships Power
In DC, being a celebrity empowers you with the status of being able to influence people and also - if you are in the media - to raise the …
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How the Media Stokes Racism in Iowa City – and Everywhere
Media have a decisive role to play in the formation of attitudes about race, class, gender and sexuality.
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Beyond Humanitarianism: “Border Songs” and the Politics of Migration
As opposed to benefit albums created in response to high-profile natural disasters, Border Songs attempts to raise awareness about an economic disaster with grave ramifications for migrants seeking economic …
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Do Black Lesbians Have a Right to Self-Defense?
The new documentary “Out in the Night” challenges us to consider whether a black, gender non-conforming lesbian truly has the right to self-defense when her attacker is a heterosexual …
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Piketty’s Exploration of Modern Capital
Despite some predictable griping from the Right, Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the 21st Century” has reinforced the case that Western societies u2013 and especially America u2013 are concentrating wealth …