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“Free Radicals” Celebrates Subversive Science
(Image: Profile Books) With his book, "Free Radicals," British physicist and journalist Michael Brooks seeks principally to provide a counternarrative to popular interpretations of the scientific world …
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Thirty Queer Writers Explore What Divides LGBTQ Communities
(Image: AK Press) Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore …
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Successful Defense of Poor, Black Tenant in Landlord’s Shooting Shows Strength of Unlikely Coalitions
(Image: Haymarket Books) "People Wasn't Made to Burn" by journalist Joe Allen reads like a lively, creative work of fiction with its abundance of larger-than-life characters and …
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Oral History Collection Gives Voice to Incarcerated Women
(Image: McSweeney's Books) "Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons" Waldman, Ayelet and Robin Levi San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2011. …
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Black Mask: Trip Through an Anarchist Turf War
(Image: PM Press) "Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Complete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea and the Black Mask Group" Oakland: …
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Corporations Are Not People
(Image: Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Most Americans don't realize that the idea that "corporations are people" and "money is speech" are concepts that were never, ever considered or promoted …
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An “Incredibly Close” Screening
(Image: © 2011 Warner Bros. Ent.) A preview of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" turns into group therapy for post-9/11 New Yorkers. I knew all …
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The Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised
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Why a Woman of Color Risked Her “Honorary White Man” Status to Blow the Whistle at EPA
(Photo: Emydidae / Flickr) I met Marsha Coleman-Adebayo in 1990 in Washington, DC. She was working for the World Wildlife Fund, an international environmental organization. Coleman-Adebayo was …
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“The Harvest/La Cosecha” Reveals Hardships of Child Farmworkers (2)
The Harvest/La Cosecha Director: U. Robert Romano Executive Producer: Eva Longoria 80 minutes $24.95 The conventional wisdom tells us that eating fruits …