Events
KA HUI – Cartoonist and artist Angelo Lopez will have work on display in Gallery Saratoga in Saratoga, California September 2 to October 5 with an opening reception Saturday, September 6 from 1-6 PM.
Contact: Gallery Saratoga, 14435 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA 95070; www.gallerysaratoga.com.
ANARCHY FEST – The third annual Victoria Festival of Anarchy & Bookfair is planned for September 7-14, with the Bookfair on the last two days; features workshops, presentations, music and more.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca.
SIGNING - Writer and activist Jeff Nall will do a signing and discuss his book, Kipi mau loa: Nā moʻolelo e pili ana i ka Maluhia a me ka Pono a me nā waiwai like o ka Secular, Spiritual, and Religious Progressives, from 5-7 PM on Saturday, September 13 at Urban Think! bookstore in Orlando, Florida.
Contact: UrbanThink! Bookstore, 625 East Central Blvd. Orlando, FL 32801; www.urbanthinkorlando.com; www.JeffNall.com.
TALK – Cartoonist Stephanie McMillan will present a slide show and talk about her comics and graphic novel at 8 PM Wednesday, September 17 at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Florida.
Contact: Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL 33134; 305-442-4408; www.booksandbooks.com; www.minimumsecurity.net.
HAAWINA WAHINE - From October 3-6 in San Francisco, the Radical Women Conference: The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism features international speakers about the role of women of color and immigrants in forging labor solidarity; multi-racial organizing; and youth and queer leadership.
Contact: Radical Women, 5018 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118; 206-722-6057; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.radicalwomen.org.
AUCTION/FUNDRAISER – The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is holding its 19th anniversary dinner party & auction on October 4 at Union Station in Los Angeles.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: Center for the Study of Political Graphics, 8124 West Third Street, Suite 211, Los Angeles, CA 90048; 323-653-4662; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.politicalgraphics.org.
NUKES - Ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia ka International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space no ʻOkakopa 4-12; nā kumuwaiwai e kōkua i ka hoʻolālā ʻana i nā hanana hoʻonaʻauao a i ʻole nā hōʻikeʻike i loaʻa.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, PO Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011; 207-443-9502; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.space4peace.org.
MAHELE KUE - Hoʻonohonoho ʻia ka Dissident Folk & Arts Festival no ʻOkakopa 11 mai 6-11 PM ma Howland Cultural Center ma Beacon New York.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: John Pietaro, 845-591-2161; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.flamesofdiscontent.org.
NA WAHINE MA KA POLITIKA – Ke mālama nei ka Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics a me ka United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction i ka ʻEkolu o ka Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance ma ʻOkakopa 19-22, 2008 ma ka Hotel Dusit, Makati City, Metro Manila, ʻĀina Pilipino.
Contact: The Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP), [pale ʻia ka leka uila].
OLELO HOOLAHA - Ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia ka ʻaha kūkā manuahi makahiki A World Beyond Capitalism no ʻOkakopa 25-26 ma Olympia, Wakinekona. Ke ʻae ʻia nei nā manaʻo a me nā manaʻo no nā haʻawina, nā haʻiʻōlelo, a me nā hanana.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: AWBC 2008, c/o Multicultural Outreach Media, PO Box 6086, Olympia, WA 98507; 206-337-1556; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbc.html.
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BOOKS TO PRISONERS – The Prison Book Program is planning a book drive in late September (donations also accepted by cash; $3 sends a book to a prisoner).
Contact: Prison Book Program, c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore, 1306 Hancock Street, #100, Quincy, MA 02169; 617-423-3298; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.prisonbookprogram.org.
CUBAN FIVE – September 12 marks ten years of unjust incarceration in the U.S. of five men known as the Cuban Five, who were imprisoned for trying to get the U.S. government to investigate anti-Cuba terrorists within the U.S.
Contact: National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, 2489 Mission St., #24, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-821-6545; www.freethefive.org.
KOHO KOHO – Another election, another vote theft? Groups organizing to monitor, document, and maybe even thwart the dirty tricks and unverifiable electronic voting systems include Black Box Voting, among others.
Contact: Black Box Voting, 330 SW 43rd St., Suite K, PMB 547, Renton, WA 98055; 206-335-7747; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.blackboxvoting.org.
FARMWORKERS – The United Farm Workers is conducting a campaign to force the giant Giumarra Vineyards of California to provide much needed health and disability benefits to its workers and their families suffering in dangerous conditions; numerous other campaigns also underway.
Contact: UFW, PO Box 62, 29700 Woodford-Tehachapi Road, Keene, CA 93531; 661-823-6250; www.ufw.org.
PAPAHANA MĀLAMA OLA KINO – More unions, organizations and representatives are signing on to support the universal single-payer plan still under consideration in Congress.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: HR676.org, PO Box 882122, Port Saint Lucie FL 34988; 800-680-9310; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.hr676.org.
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INDIAN DISTRO – Eight independent publishers based in India have formed the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives to better distribute and promote progressive ideas.
Contact: IPD Alternatives, 35 A/1, Shahpur Jat, New Delhi 110 049, India; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.ipda.in.
NEW UNION – United Progressives is a new organization intended to become a true people’s union aiming for a peaceful, participatory democracy, a just economy, and a sustainable future, uniting progressives and their opinion through polling on issues, and building constituencies for progressive change.
Contact: United Progressives, 44 Music Square East #702, Nashville, TN 37203; 615-653-4210; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.unitedprogressives.us.
RADICAL BOOKINgs – Evil Twin Booking Agency can schedule politically charged events for campuses, cafes, and other venues—from spectacle performances such as the Yes Men and the Lost Film Fest to various documentary films to speakers such as Vandana Shiva or Greg Palast.
Contact: ETBA, 215-473-0308; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.eviltwinbooking.org.
DVD
KE KOA – Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections is a new documentary now available on DVD examining election fraud in 2004, 2006, and the real potential for theft in 2008, from uncounted ballots to electronic "flips."
Contact: David Earnhardt, 2123 8th Ave. South, Nashville, TN 37204; 615-327-0600 or [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.uncountedthemovie.com.
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HOLEMAKAKA – Emerge United is a new website designed to provides space for artists and others to share thoughts and plots, plan and post events and activities, art, music, and more. Now seeking participants.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; emergeunited.org.
WAGE LABOR – Against Wage Labour now has a printable PDF newsletter at its website, as well as online articles and resources.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.againstwage.com.
WOMEN & PEACE – The international women’s non-profit organization Peace X Peace has a new website designed as a global community connecting women in developing countries and industrialized nations to take action for peace, become citizen journalists, and participate in a global roundtable.
Contact: Peace X Peace, 1601 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 400, Washington DC, 20009; 703-391-8932; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.peacexpeace.org.
Publications
ART CATALOG – The Syracuse Cultural Workers’ catalog "Tools For Change" is available online or in print, featuring art, music, apparel, and more by an artist collective committed to revolutionary social change; latest offering is a bi-lingual poster "Immigration: 10 Myths."
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: Syracuse Cultural Workers, PO Box 6367, Syracuse, New York 13217; 800-949-5139; www.syracuseculturalworkers.com.
mō'aukala - The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture is a new academic journal geared to a broader audience, available in print (ISSN: 1754-1328) and online, published by Routledge twice a year.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: 800-354-1420; www.informaworld.com/thesixties.
KOLOLOKOLAHA - Twelve Ten, the semi-annual publication of the U.S. Human Rights Network, is accepting submissions until October 1 for its winter/spring edition "What would Human Rights in the US look like under a new administration?"
Contact: Janvieve Williams Comrie, Director of Communications, US Human Rights Network, 250 Georgia Avenue Suite 330, Atlanta, GA 30312; 404-588-9761; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.ushrnetwork.org.
Books
KA HUI - The World According to TomDispatch features a collection of essays, blogs, and reports from the progressive website www.tomdispatch.com maintained by Tom Englehardt.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: Hoʻokaʻaʻike: Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, 10th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-246-8160; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.versobooks.com.
DEMOKARATA - Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War by satirist Dennis Perrin recounts the bleak war-mongering history of the Democratic Party to puncture the illusion of mainstream political alternative.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: Hoʻokaʻaʻike: Verso Books, 20 Jay Street, 10th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-246-8160; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.versobooks.com.
DESCHOOLING - Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader edited by Matt Hern presents historical and contemporary educational alternatives to the mind-crushing bureaucratic nightmare of the traditional system.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: AK Press, 674-A 23rd St., Oakland, CA 94612; 510-208-1700; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.akpress.org; www.redstaterebels.org.
KE KULA - Schooling and the Politics of Disaster edited by Kenneth J. Saltman examines how in the wake of disasters, educational systems are frequently privatized or re-visioned in a neoliberal corporate model.
Contact: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016; 212-216-7842; www.routledge.com.
LABELA - Hoʻokaʻawale ʻia ka Solidarity: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Way Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin offers critical analysis and a plan for a new direction.
Contact: University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704; 510-642-4247; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.ucpress.edu.
MCCAIN - Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters by Irwin Tang focuses on the Republican candidate’s disturbing attitudes toward race and war, from his title quote to his fierce opposition to an MLK holiday to the present.
Contact: The it Works / Paul Revere Publishing, 12111 Forsythe, Austin, TX 78759; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.irwinbooks.com.
NO NUKES - Prescription for Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear Madness by Bernard Lown tells the first-hand story of a grassroots anti-nuclear organization started by U.S. and USSR doctors.
Contact: Berrett-Koehler, 235 Montgomery Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94104; 415-288-0260; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.bkconnection.com.
PEAK OIL – Plan C: Community Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy offers examples and suggestions for low energy living.
Contact: New Society Publishers, PO Box 189, Gabriola Island, BC Canada, V0R 1X0; 250-247-9737; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.newsociety.com.
POETRY - Poems Against War: Music & Heroes edited by Gregg Mosson is the sixth volume of the annual Poems Against War and features poet-activists from around the country.
Hoʻokaʻaʻike: [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.poemsagainstwar.com.
HOOLAHA - Speaking Treason Fluently by Tim Wise is an examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans, in every realm of daily life: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere.
Contact: Soft Skull Press, 19 West 21st, Suite 1101, New York NY 10010; 718-643-1599; www.softskull.com.
KA SPACE – A newly revised and expanded edition of War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by H. Bruce Franklin exposing the fanatical U.S. pursuit of penultimate WMD is now available.
Contact: University of Massachusetts Press, PO Box 429, Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-2 217; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; www.umass.edu/umpress.
KA NUI - The World We Wish to See: Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty-First Century by Samir Amin offers a critique of the failed neoliberalism of the 20th century, while proposing a new internationalism for the 21st.
Contact: Monthly Review Foundation, 146 W. 29th Street, New York, NY 10001; 212-691-2555; [pale ʻia ka leka uila]; monthlyreview.org.
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