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We are grateful to announce the release this month of a revised edition of Zoned Out!, a work previously published by Urban Research (UR), a project of the late, accomplished, and profoundly missed Michael Sorkin.
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Zoned Out – April Release!
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Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse frame the 2023 edition of this seminal work with a tribute to the late urbanist and architect Michael Sorkin and his progressive and revolutionary approaches to cities, as well as with a new preface about changes in city policy since Mayor Eric Adams came into office and what rights citizens need to defend. The book includes a foreword by the late, distinguished urban planning educator Peter Marcuse and individual chapters by community activist Philip DePaola, housing policy analyst Samuel Stein, and both the editors.
Paperback, 184 pages, 42 b/w illustrations, 6 x 9 inch trim
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Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City, and the city’s zoning policies are a major cause. In practice, zoning and housing policy has protected segregated neighborhoods and facilitated the displacement of low-income communities of color. Zoned Out! looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning, and develop housing in the public domain.
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"Full of insight and provocation, this volume is essential reading for those scholars, students and activists searching for alternative courses of action to widespread urban displacement, growing income inequality, and resurgent racial polarization in the United States."
—J. Phillip Thompson, MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Tom Angotti is Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and directed the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development. He is adjunct professor at Parsons/The New School and the author of New York for Sale.
Sylvia Morse is a lifelong New Yorker dedicated to advancing community planning, the solidarity economy, and housing justice. She has worked with New York City nonprofits, city agencies, and grassroots organizations on local land use struggles, development of worker-owned cooperatives, and a range of housing programs and policy issues.
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We were thrilled last Friday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pregones Theater working together with Roadside Theater and the late John O'Neill's Junebug Theater. It was also the book launch of Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, which includes scripts from their collaborations. After a storytelling session with Art in a Democracy contributors, the event kicked off with rousing song and music from Appalachia and the South Bronx. Huge thanks to Pregones Theater for producing this!
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Left: Performers from Roadside Theater, including musician and playwright Ron Short, and Pregones Theater presenting a combined showcase of music from Appalachia and Puerto Rica. Right: Nuyorican poet, playwright, actress, and activist Caridad "La Bruja" De La Cruz.
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater tells the story of a rural Appalachian theater company’s 45-year search for a form of artistic expression that advances the project of American democracy. This two-volume work features nine award-winning original play scripts, a critical recounting of the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020, and ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations exploring the plays’ social, economic, and political circumstances.
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989
Edited by Ben Fink
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays,
1990–2020
Edited by Ben Fink
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Art in a Democracy Book Events
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Monday, Apr. 10, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
School of Visual Arts
133/141 West 21st Street, New York, New York 10011
Artist and community organizer Ben Fink will discuss Art in a Democracy, his edited
two-volume series of Appalachian and intercultural grassroots plays and essays at the
Free and open to the public.
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Saturday, April 15, 6:00 PM
Hemphill Community Center
2514 State Highway 317, Jackhorn, Kentucky 41825
Join us in the Appalachian coalfields for a concert and celebration of Art in a Democracy The gathering will feature music and stories from decades of homegrown playmaking with special guests—longtime collaborators from Pregones Theater in the Bronx.
Admission is free, and dinner will be available for purchase on-site.
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Sunday, April 30, 4:00 – 7:00 PM
Milford, Connecticut
Exact address provided after registration
Leaders from the All in Project will celebrate the history and future of Art in a Democracy. The event will include a short film, a discussion with Art in a Democracy editors, and the sharing of stories on how to become more involved in local community activist efforts.
Free and open to the public.
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Bill Cleveland interviews Ben Fink and Arnaldo J. Lopez in the newest episode of his podcast Change the Story / Change the World. Their fascinating conversation explores Roadside Theater's 50-year history of creative artistic collaborations with Appalachian communities and beyond.
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A Peaceful Superpower:
Lessons from the World's Largest
Antiwar Movement
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Twenty years ago, as the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, some ten million people around the globe took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was the largest wave of antiwar protest in world history. This is the story and analysis of those dramatic events and the breadth of continuing dissent following the ill-fated invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003, told by distinguished peace scholar/activist David Cortright.
Foreword by David S. Meyer
Original paperback, 240 pages, 18 b/w illus.
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“David Cortright offers us a timeless gift in this book. A Peaceful Superpower has a relevancy for today precisely because it demonstrates that for powerful national leaders around the world war remains the political default option which in turn requires the diligent building of both a strong web of domestic anti-war mobilization and transnational response.”
~ John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
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Norman Stockwell reviews
A Peaceful Superpower for
The Progressive
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Can We Make a Difference?
"Cortright's book is the first comprehensive, book-length scholarly analysis of that effort [to stop the US war in Iraq], the work that led up to it, and the lessons that can be learned. . . . a tremendous contribution to our knowledge of the efforts to try to 'stop a war before it started.'"
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David Cortright was a special guest of the Praxis Peace Institute where he spoke on the successes and challenges facing the Russia/Ukraine war peace movement.
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Author David Cortright is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and author or co-editor of more than 20 books, including Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War. Cortright organized against the Vietnam War as an active-duty soldier, was a leader of the Nuclear Freeze movement during the 1980s and helped to found Win Without War in 2002 to oppose the invasion of Iraq.
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Vietnamese language edition of Waging Peace launches |
Lead editor Ron Carver traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate the release of the Vietnamese language edition of Waging Peace in Vietnam. The War Remnants Museum, which hosts the exhibit of the same name, has published the book together with Tre Publishing. Vietnamese TV covered it HERE.
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In the Camp of Angels of Freedom:
What Does It Mean to Be Educated?
by Arlene Goldbard
Through her evocative paintings and narrative, author Arlene Goldbard portrays eleven individuals whose work most influenced her— what she calls a Camp of Angels. She sees each as a brave messenger of love and freedom for a society that badly needs “uncolonized minds.” Readers will learn about the author’s own self education and issues of formal higher education and the damage done by a society that prizes profits over people.
Original Color Paperback • 224 pages
7" x 10" • 16 color illustrations • $34.95
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Arlene Goldbard in Ethical Schools’ podcast
Amy Halpern-Laff and Jon Moscow speak with Arlene Goldbard about her most recent book. An autodidact from a working-class background, Arlene challenges “the certainty that academic qualifications are the best measure of ability.” She interweaves the stories and portraits of her “angels,” her personal story, and a critique of standard narratives of education. Jon and Amy talk with Arlene in particular about two of her “angels,” Paulo Freire and Paul Goodman.
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ARLENE GOLDBARD EVENT SCHEDULE – ALBUQUERQUE
EXHIBITION: Thursday, April, 20, 10–6 pm MT
Opening April 20, 5:00 pm
Arlene Goldbard's paintings that appear in In The Camp of Angels of Freedom will be on exhibit at the South Broadway Cultural Center. Come for the exhibition and the following workshops and reading with the artist/author.
April 21, 2-4 pm MT, SBCC Community Room
Encountering Your Angels: An Interactive Writing Workshop with Arlene Goldbard.
The workshop asks participants to tap into the true sources of their character, knowledge, skill, and wisdom through writing prompts, drawing, and group dialogue.
May 4, 2-4 pm MT, SBCC Community Room
What Does It Mean to be an Educated Person?
Through readings, writing, and discussion, this workshop will help participants discover their own truest answers to a question that badly needs to be asked. Apart from formal education as a path to wealth or status: What does it really mean to be educated?
May 4, 6-7:30 pm MT, SBCC John Lewis Theater
In the Camp of the Angels of Freedom book reading and signing with Arlene Goldbard.
All the above Albuquerque events are free and open to the public.
South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102
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ARLENE GOLDBARD EVENT SCHEDULE –
NEW YORK CITY
Tuesday, May 23, 5:30 pm ET
Arlene Goldbard – In the Camp of Angels of Freedom author event with Bob Holman
City Lore, 56 East First Street, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, May 25, 5:30-7:00 pm ET
Arlene Goldbard – Art and labor CETA panel discussion
Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore, 116 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
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Friday, April 14 at 4:00 pm PT – On Zoom
Diane Margolis
The Joys of Cohousing
Diane Margolis is the author of We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons. Her book is both a memoir and a sociological analysis that probes the differences between the commons and markets. It is unique among books about cohousing and describes the process of planning and building a co-housing community. She is a founding member of Cambridge Cohousing where she has lived for more than twenty years. The program will explore cohousing as a practical alternative to single family housing and the type of community it creates.
Tickets: $20 ($15 for Praxis members)
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Thursday, May 4 at 4:00 pm PT – On Zoom
Louise Dunlap
Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind
Louise Dunlap's new book, Inherited Silence, is an insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may heal the harm done to the earth and indigenous people. Dunlap tells the story of her beloved land in California's Napa Valley -- how the land fared during the onslaught of colonization and how it fares through drought, flooding, development, and wildfires that resulted from the colonial mind. In this interview, we will explore that history, and effects of that colonization, and ideas for healing.
Tickets: $20 ($15 for Praxis members)
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Margaret Randall discusses Nicaragua
We highly recommend this recording of Georgia Kelly's thoughtful interview for Praxis Peace Institute with author Margaret Randall about her ties to comrades in Nicaragua and the new edition of her book of interviews with Nicaraguan writers, Risking a Somersault in the Air. Margaret offers an update on the lives of influential Nicaragua's writers and poets, many of whom have recently been deported.
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Ancestors as Earthholders
Earth Holders Community Online Sangha
Author Louise Dunlap introduces ecotherapist J. Phoenix Smith to the Plum Village community and discusses issues of listening to the land from her book Inherited Silence.
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Ecoart in Action featured in
Art & Education
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Our congratulations go to ecoartist Aviva Rahmani for receiving a major grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation to support her work on the Blued Trees Opera-in-progress about resisting ecocide, which is based on the groundbreaking 2018 mock trial for The Blued Trees Symphony! Rahmani is the author of Divining Chaos: the Autobiography of an Idea.
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Altreitalie, the international journal of studies on Italian migrations in the world, has a beautiful review of Talking to the Girls in its most recent issue. "Often emotionally moving in narrative content, and crucial in historical detail, Talking to the Girls is a vital contribution to cross genre and intersectional women's labor history." —Roseanne Giannini Quinn
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April 6 – May 15
April 10 – May 10
The film Truth Tellers – documenting the story of artist Robert Shetterly, and the work of his portrait subjects – will be shown April 11 at 6 pm ET.
Thru May 27
3 Harris St, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Thru May 31
Bernstein Gallery
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Robertson Hall, Princeton University
Each volume of the Americans Who Tell the Truth book series, Portraits of Earth Justice and Portraits of Racial Justice, features fifty color portraits by Robert Shetterly, profiles of his subjects, and original essays by inspiring activists.
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Stuff
Instead of a Memoir
Lucy R. Lippard
Colorfully written and illustrated "anti-memoir" of the activist art writer Lucy Lippard
Hardcover, 144 pages, 300 color illustrations,
8 x 8 inch trim
September 12
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Skyscraper Settlement
The Many Lives of Christodora House
Joyce Milambiling
The roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms.
Paperback, 288 pages12 b/w illustrations, 5.5 x 8.5 inch
September 19
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That's a Pretty Thing to Call It
Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions
Leigh Sugar, Editor
Frank, breath-taking writing by more than fifty
arts-in-corrections educators
Paperback, 304 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, 6 x 9 inch
October 3
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Luck
Margaret Randall
Fearless personal essays from treasured feminist poet
and activist, Margaret Randall
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Seventeen full-page line drawings by Barbara Byers
Paperback, 256 pages, 17 b/w illustrations, 5.83 x 8.27 inch
October 17
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