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May 4 is the birthday of the late urbanist Jane Jacobs. It will be celebrated this weekend with citizen-led Janes Walks in cities throughout the world. In Jane's hometown, Scranton, you can take a Walk in Jane's Shoes or in New York City get to know any neighborhood better on one of the self-organized walks listed through MAS.
Learn about the foundational influences on Jane's beliefs about healthy communities in Glenna Lang's beautifully researched book, Jane Jacobs's First City.
In appreciation of our New Village community, we give a shout-out to loyal friends: Sherry Gorelick, Cornelia Cotton, Michael Terrin, Harriet Tubman Wright, and Bernard Marszalek. Your warm encouragements mean a lot!
Don't miss May 4 events for authors Arlene Goldbard and Louise Dunlap in news below.
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Art in a Democracy – Doings
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Series editor for the two volumes of Art in a Democracy, Ben Fink, met with leaders from the All In project and the Naugatuck Valley Project in Connecticut this week, who are working in the legacy of Roadside Theater to make a future where everyone has a place to live, food to eat, and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives. The event included a short film screening, a discussion of Roadside’s work, and stories about how we can continue this work in all of our communities.
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Art in a Democracy contributors were in Appalachia for a concert and celebration of their new books at the Hemphill Community Center, located in the coal camp of Jackhorn, Kentucky. The gathering featured music and stories from decades of homegrown playmaking. Members of Roadside Theater’s original ensemble were joined by longtime collaborators from Pregones Theater in the Bronx.
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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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John O’Neal and Junebug Jabbo Jones: Theater from the Rural South
Art in a Democracy chapter published in The Daily Yonder
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Did you know that Zoned Out! wasn’t originally intended to be a book at all? The research started as part of a potential legal challenge to New York City zoning policy that organizers and public interest lawyers were exploring on Fair Housing grounds. It set out to understand the racial impacts of the city’s neighborhood rezonings. The lawsuit did not move forward, but the organizers thought their research could be useful to communities and policymakers in zoning decisions. And it is!
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Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City. 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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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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Angotti and Morse frame this 2023 edition with a tribute to the late urbanist and architect Michael Sorkin and his progressive and revolutionary approaches to cities. They also offer a significant 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 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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A Peaceful Superpower – Reviews
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A Peaceful Superpower
Lessons from the World's Largest
Antiwar Movement
by David Cortright
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This is the story and analysis of the largest wave of antiwar protest in world history when ten million people around the globe tried to stop the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is 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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No Blood for Oil: Examining the Movement Against the Iraq War
Charles Howlett offers an exceptionally thoughtful review of A Peaceful Superpower in the History News Network.
"Cortright’s book shows how mobilization for social change can work and why it is so critical in building political power for change."
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Converting War to Peace
Tom Hastings writes about A Peaceful Superpower in the LA Progressive
"David Cortright, antiwar activist since his days in the US military in Vietnam, and professor emeritus from Notre Dame University, has written a new book—A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World's Largest Antiwar Movement—describing in granular detail the mass effort to stop the US from invading Iraq. His magisterial sweep through the many coalitional partners from many perspectives, his examination of media strategies, and much more make this an outstanding history of a time, an effort by millions, and yet we failed to stop that invasion."
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Can We Make a Difference?
Norman Stockwell reviews A Peaceful Superpower in the May issue of The Progressive.
"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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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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Author, activist, and organizer Ron Carver is interviewed in this feature program on Talk Vietnam TV about the historical movement within the US military to end the American War in Vietnam. The 45-minute show (in ENGLISH with Vietnamese subtitles) honors the GIs who built a powerful peace movement within the U.S. military that helped end the war and the loss of life on both sides.
Learn more about the GI peace movement and the exhibit and book Waging Peace in Vietnam:
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In the Camp of Angels – Media & Events
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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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May 12: Miaaw Live video conversation about In the Camp of Angels of Freedom.
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ARLENE GOLDBARD EVENT SCHEDULE – ALBUQUERQUE
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.
Exhibition thru May 25
Arlene Goldbard's paintings from the book are on exhibition thru May 25th at the Center
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
"Sustaining Arts Labor: Past and Present"
Panel: Arlene Goldbard, Ximena Garnica, Patrice Walker Powell
Moderator: Tom Finkelpearl
Presented by Artists Alliance Inc, City Lore, & Creatives Rebuild New York
Wheelchair accessible. Masks required. Income-based sliding scale ticketing
Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore, 116 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
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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 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. The interview will explore that history, and effects of that colonization, and ideas for healing.
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Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti, editors of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire have been awarded the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book In Feminist Studies In Popular and American Culture.
This annual literary award of the Popular Culture Association honors feminist literary historian Susan Koppelman and recognizes groundbreaking feminist work in popular culture.
The first anthology on the Triangle fire, Talking to the Girls is a collection of original personal essays by 19 writers, artists, activists, scholars, teachers, and family members of Triangle workers who explore the intersection of gender, class, nationality, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
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Ecoart in Action – Provocations to Creative Engagement
Don't miss the series from Climate Cultures. In their third collaborative post reviewing Ecoart in Action, artists Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter explore the provocations this book offers for ecoart practices and discourse — complementing their earlier discussions on the book’s activities and case studies.
"In a sense perhaps, the book acts as one of its own provocations: a collaborative practice that has brought together a mix of approaches in theories and examples that offer valuable insight and stimulus."
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Americans Who Tell the Truth Exhibits & Film |
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Thru May 15
Thru May 10
Thru May 27
3 Harris St, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Thru May 31
Bernstein Gallery
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Robertson Hall, Princeton University
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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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Truth Tellers – The Film
Truth Tellers is a documentary film about the more than 250 courageous Americans that artist/activist Robert Shetterly has painted and honored.
Find out how to bring it to your community:
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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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