BAXANDALL, Rosalyn
"Women And Abortion: The Body as Battleground"
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Baxandall speaks out about sexuality, abortion and the right of all women to control their own bodies. She blasts at the right-wingÕs efforts to control womenÕs choices,and draws from her work in 1960s womenÕs liberation groups the strategies necessary for womenÕs full self determination and personal freedom in the 90s.
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"ACT UP, The AIDS War & AIDS Activism"
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Why does Washington refuse to address the AIDS crisis as a national emergency? How is it that we can suffer 120,000 deaths without establishing adequate health care facilities for people with AIDS? ACT UP activist George Carter compellingly articulates the need for AIDS care and awareness and socialised health care. Carter demonstrates how Cold War militarism, pharmaceutical profiteering, political procrastination and homophobia continue to deny us the right to a healthy life. Indispensable.
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"The Zapatistas: Starting from Chiapas "
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A superb, timely essay on the significance, and effects of the Zapatista's, along with a translation of several of their communiques. They will be back. We should learn.
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"Disarmament, Peace And Compassion"
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Military establishments are destructive not only in times of war. By their very design, they are the single greatest violators of human rights. Once an army has become a powerful force, there is every risk that it will destroy the happiness of its own country. As long as there are powerful armies there will always be the danger of dictatorship.
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"NAFTA, GATT and the World Trade Organisation"
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pam • 1 884519 04 0
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Everything you wanted to know about the economic New World Order. "...when the global economic system enters the picture, the indigenous social order is disrupted and quickly destroyed." Includes a substantial introduction, 'Notes On NAFTA' by Noam Chomsky.
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"Culture Jamming: Hacking and Slashing in the Empire of Signs"
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Cultural critic Mark Dery asks "What kind of counter-culture is emerging from America's mediaocracy?" Dery answers by looking into the underground world of "culture jammers" - hackers, billboard saboteurs, sub-vertisers and artists whose guerilla-tactics engage mass media in a battle against corporate control of public expression. Illustrated.
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"Inside Haiti"
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"For most of us who work in Haiti, it has been difficult to discern the differences in the policies of Bush and his successor". The Clinton Administration policies and actions under the spotlight. The prognosis is not good.
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"Reproductive Freedom: Our Right to Decide"
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Places women's struggle for abortion rights within the broader fight for reproductive freedom. Recognising that women of colour, low income women, and young women have born the brunt of attacks from right-wing anti-abortionists, they emphasise strategies of ACCESS AND SURVIVAL as the initiatives of the pro-choice movement. A powerful statement written in clear, down-to-earth terms.
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"Inside The World Trade Center Bombing: Sheik Abdel Rahman and the CIA"
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Exposes the links between militant Islamic cleric Sheik Abdel Rahman, the CIA, the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane, and the Soviet-Afghan war. This essay has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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"Dead On Arrival: The Clinton Health Care Plan"
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Anyone who wants to know why tens of millions of Americans are still without health insurance, and why a thousand more lose their insurance each month should read this pamphlet.
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"Selling Cyberspace: Resisting the Corporate View of Information as Real Estate"
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Speaks out in clear, down to earth terms about democracy in the Information Age. Details the scope of corporate power and sketches out an open, public interest model of the Information Superhighway, based on community libraries rather than corporate shopping malls. Essential reading.
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"Lessons From Native America"
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Key lecture from the noted American Indian elder, along with an introduction by Ward Churchill.
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"Rebuilding America: A New Agenda For Political Change"
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America is falling to pieces, as the right wing gambles away our opportunities. A conversion from a military state to a civilian economy is desperately needed. Melman has concretised a proposal for reinvesting in America's education, health care, infrastructure, housing, manufacturing and transportation. Are we still too frightened of our "enemies" to invest in ourselves?
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"Peace In The Middle East"
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Provides an in-depth analysis of the possibilities for regional peace and understanding between Western and Arab-Islamic cultures. Illustrates how US economic support to Israel has directly undermined Palestinian sovereignty, and documents the severity of Israel's human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. A landmark.
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"Information Superhighway or Corporate Monorail: The National Information Infrastructure"
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Clinton gave you NAFTA, now he's giving you the NII. This ground breaking policy statement announces Gore & Clinton's "vision" for cyberspace or the data highway "to compete and win in the global economy". Yes folks, its the New World Order through a modem. Schiller speaks out against this new "corporate pipeline into our heads".
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"A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century"
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pam • 1 884519 11 3
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It's time we read the handwriting on the wall: giving more power to business is not the way to cure the nation's ills. If the economy is to serve the people, it needs to be controlled by the people.
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"Columbus, The Indians, & Human Progress 1492-1992"
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Questions the Quincentennial celebration of Columbus' 'discovery' of America by examining the primary materials, historical records and journal entries that uncover the greed and violence involved in the colonisation of Native America and the destruction of Indian society. An invaluable guide.
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"Hiroshima: Breaking The Silence"
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pam • 1 884519 14 8
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The bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 turned into powder and ash, in a few moments, the flesh and bones of 140,000 men, women, and children. Three days later, a second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki killed perhaps 70,000 instantly. In the next 5 years, another 130,000 inhabitants of those two cities died of radiation poisoning.
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