FOR NEWS PLANNING
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Contact: Julia Louise Krahe
202-225-0855
******NEWS ADVISORY******
WU LEADS EFFORT TO SUPPORT INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Subcommittee Acts to Reauthorize SBIR/STTR
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today Congressman David Wu introduced H.R. 5789, the Science and Technology Innovation Act of 2008, which reauthorizes the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program. He will lead the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation in marking up the bill tomorrow, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 2:00 pm EST.
SBIR and STTR comprise the largest source of federal support for technological innovation in the private sector, providing over $2 billion annually to small, high-tech entrepreneurial companies that are creating revolutionary new technologies.
SBIR is designed to increase the participation of small, high-tech firms in federal research and development efforts. STTR provides funding for innovative technologies that have been developed by an eligible nonprofit research institution, such as a university, and are being commercialized in partnership with a small business.
H.R. 5789 reauthorizes SBIR and STTR through 2010, increases the percentage of research and development funds set aside for the program by participating federal agencies, and increases the size of available awards.
“This legislation is a fundamental part of Congress’ innovation agenda,” said Congressman Wu. “Reauthorizing SBIR and STTR will demonstrate our commitment to promoting the fundamental science and technology components that drive our global, innovation-based economy.”
WHAT: Science and Technology Innovation Act of 2008 Markup
WHO: Congressman David Wu, Chairman, House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation
WHEN: Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 2:00 pm EST
WHERE: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
View live webcast at http://science.house.gov/
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Author Interview Assignment: Military Analyst Michael T. Klare
"Well-researched and incisive throughout, Klare provides a comprehensive but approachable overview of a complex problem, and offers promising policy alternatives to disaster." -Publishers Weekly
Dear Producer,
No longer does the possession of a powerful military guarantee the United States its dominant position in the world. A new political landscape has formed, one in which nations with colossal reserves of oil, natural gas and other sources of primary energy wield disproportionate power. Bestselling author of the now-classic Resource Wars Michael Klare argues that the struggle over energy has become the central dynamic of world affairs in his revealing new book, RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET: The New Geopolitics of Energy. Energy-rich nations such as Russia and Venezuela have begun to wield disproportionate power. As energy-scarce nations compete for depleting resources they form unlikely partnerships with countries rich in oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, providing them arms, troop deployments and dangerous military alliances.
Despite the gloomy prognosis, Klare believes that the worst can be avoided with several important national and international changes. Calling for a China-United States partnership, RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET shows that if the two world powers cooperate, they can work together to develop alternative fuels and energy-saving technologies, making all of us winners and slowing the disappearance of vital materials.
Interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air on Monday, Klare is the author of thirteen books. A regular contributor to Harper's, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Times, he is the defense analyst for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst.
Would you be interested in interviewing him about the book?
Thank you for your consideration, Kate
Kate Pruss Pinnick
Associate Director of Publicity
Shreve Williams Public Relations
kate@shrevewilliams.com
Dear Producer,
No longer does the possession of a powerful military guarantee the United States its dominant position in the world. A new political landscape has formed, one in which nations with colossal reserves of oil, natural gas and other sources of primary energy wield disproportionate power. Bestselling author of the now-classic Resource Wars Michael Klare argues that the struggle over energy has become the central dynamic of world affairs in his revealing new book, RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET: The New Geopolitics of Energy. Energy-rich nations such as Russia and Venezuela have begun to wield disproportionate power. As energy-scarce nations compete for depleting resources they form unlikely partnerships with countries rich in oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, providing them arms, troop deployments and dangerous military alliances.
Despite the gloomy prognosis, Klare believes that the worst can be avoided with several important national and international changes. Calling for a China-United States partnership, RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET shows that if the two world powers cooperate, they can work together to develop alternative fuels and energy-saving technologies, making all of us winners and slowing the disappearance of vital materials.
Interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air on Monday, Klare is the author of thirteen books. A regular contributor to Harper's, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Times, he is the defense analyst for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst.
Would you be interested in interviewing him about the book?
Thank you for your consideration, Kate
Kate Pruss Pinnick
Associate Director of Publicity
Shreve Williams Public Relations
kate@shrevewilliams.com
Story Assignment: Net Worth of the Candidates
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
___________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Net Worth of the Candidates
Interviews Available
The following is the net worth as of 2006 for each of the presidential
candidates of the two major parties:
John McCain: $27,817,187 to $45,045,011
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00006424&year=2006
Hillary Clinton: $10,360,009 to $51,021,998
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00000019&year=2006
Barack Obama: $456,012 to $1,142,000
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00009638&year=2006
For interviews, contact Massie Ritsch at press@crp.org; communication director of the Center for Responsive Politics.
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
___________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Net Worth of the Candidates
Interviews Available
The following is the net worth as of 2006 for each of the presidential
candidates of the two major parties:
John McCain: $27,817,187 to $45,045,011
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00006424&year=2006
Hillary Clinton: $10,360,009 to $51,021,998
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00000019&year=2006
Barack Obama: $456,012 to $1,142,000
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00009638&year=2006
For interviews, contact Massie Ritsch at press@crp.org; communication director of the Center for Responsive Politics.
Friday, April 11, 2008
KBOO Community Radio: The Dada Festival is Back! Call for Submissions....
The original Dada Fest in 2001 became a national sensation, with the involvement of dozens of contributors. Dada's daddy, the beloved Richard Francis, is one of my favorite radio producers because of his penchant for airing audio landscape recordings (Best Of: half an hour of simple ambient noise from a French village square on a summer afternoon, with birds, children and church bells). Here our friends are looking at any cool thing you are willing to commit to radio -- one to three minutes or so. If you're interested, email: onehundredonehours@yahoo.com .
Hi All,
I am passing this along at the request of one of our program hosts--
it's an open call to get involved in some radio surrealism. Please read on.
cheers,
ani
Hello KBOO Volunteer,
In the spring on 2001 I was on the phone with Daniel Flessas in the air room
at KBOO just as Jennifer Robin walked in the door and just as I said to
Daniel "Let's do a Dada/Surrealism festival.
In August of 2001, approximately 200 volunteer and previously non-radio
community people engaged in a KBOO radio celebration of Dada &
Surrealism which lasted over 80 hours spread over one week, won us national
recognition and eventually engaged more radio "producers" than simply Jennifer,
Daniel and myself.
We attempted to do all that we could to make it an historically-based,
content-pure event with a strong emphasis on many of the original written
texts transposed for radio mixed with locally produced, often live
contemporary material created by local and regional artists in the tradition
of Dada or Surrealism.
We are presently planning on organizing another celebration, this one
theoretically running 101 hours continuous from Thursday evening at 7p
until Monday night midnight, titled: "One hundred one hours of innumerable
small events which may or may not be related to one another." Our
Program Director, Chris has us "penciled in" for Labor Day weekend.
Richard Francis (me) and Jennifer Robin are again taking on the job of
primary producer/organizers for the event, at least at the outset. But we
hope to keep this event as open and egalitarian as the 2001 celebration
and are wide open for ideas, potential producers/engineers, artists and
proposals.
You may produce only a 1 minute reading of a poem, you might produce a
scattering of small mini-events, or you might take charge of several
hours to produce your own major mini-event within the festival.
Right now we are just looking to see who might be interested in joining in
the fun and how many of you there are who want to begin the groundwork.
This coming Thursday night, April 10 from 9-midnight Jennifer and I
will be presenting a "best of" special pledge-drive show to kick off awareness
of our upcoming festival and hopefully raise some cash. If you can't
imagine how to do Dada and Surrealism, you might want to have a listen.
If you find yourself to be among the interested, please contact this
email
address:
onehundredonehours@yahoo.com
This will enable us to contact you about any upcoming meetings and
festival
news plus it will open a channel for us to keep in touch. Or if you
are
still not internetted, contact either Richard or Jennifer through their
real
world mail boxes at the station.
I have been collecting many new translations of the historical material
which I will make available for those interested in recreating some of
the
past. And you are free to do your own research or branch out into the
latest developments in the tradition (or anti-tradition).
Please spread the word and please let us know.
Once we have collected email addresses of the interested, we will be
contacting you soon about our first meeting where we will have a large
collection of the original material for you to explore and we will be
discussing potential events and the first major steps required to
really get
things rolling.
Thanks for your time and your interest.
Richard Francis
host of
A Different Nature
primary producer for the 2001:
Several Days of Innumerable Small Events Which May or May Not Be
Related To
One Another
Hi All,
I am passing this along at the request of one of our program hosts--
it's an open call to get involved in some radio surrealism. Please read on.
cheers,
ani
Hello KBOO Volunteer,
In the spring on 2001 I was on the phone with Daniel Flessas in the air room
at KBOO just as Jennifer Robin walked in the door and just as I said to
Daniel "Let's do a Dada/Surrealism festival.
In August of 2001, approximately 200 volunteer and previously non-radio
community people engaged in a KBOO radio celebration of Dada &
Surrealism which lasted over 80 hours spread over one week, won us national
recognition and eventually engaged more radio "producers" than simply Jennifer,
Daniel and myself.
We attempted to do all that we could to make it an historically-based,
content-pure event with a strong emphasis on many of the original written
texts transposed for radio mixed with locally produced, often live
contemporary material created by local and regional artists in the tradition
of Dada or Surrealism.
We are presently planning on organizing another celebration, this one
theoretically running 101 hours continuous from Thursday evening at 7p
until Monday night midnight, titled: "One hundred one hours of innumerable
small events which may or may not be related to one another." Our
Program Director, Chris has us "penciled in" for Labor Day weekend.
Richard Francis (me) and Jennifer Robin are again taking on the job of
primary producer/organizers for the event, at least at the outset. But we
hope to keep this event as open and egalitarian as the 2001 celebration
and are wide open for ideas, potential producers/engineers, artists and
proposals.
You may produce only a 1 minute reading of a poem, you might produce a
scattering of small mini-events, or you might take charge of several
hours to produce your own major mini-event within the festival.
Right now we are just looking to see who might be interested in joining in
the fun and how many of you there are who want to begin the groundwork.
This coming Thursday night, April 10 from 9-midnight Jennifer and I
will be presenting a "best of" special pledge-drive show to kick off awareness
of our upcoming festival and hopefully raise some cash. If you can't
imagine how to do Dada and Surrealism, you might want to have a listen.
If you find yourself to be among the interested, please contact this
address:
onehundredonehours@yahoo.com
This will enable us to contact you about any upcoming meetings and
festival
news plus it will open a channel for us to keep in touch. Or if you
are
still not internetted, contact either Richard or Jennifer through their
real
world mail boxes at the station.
I have been collecting many new translations of the historical material
which I will make available for those interested in recreating some of
the
past. And you are free to do your own research or branch out into the
latest developments in the tradition (or anti-tradition).
Please spread the word and please let us know.
Once we have collected email addresses of the interested, we will be
contacting you soon about our first meeting where we will have a large
collection of the original material for you to explore and we will be
discussing potential events and the first major steps required to
really get
things rolling.
Thanks for your time and your interest.
Richard Francis
host of
A Different Nature
primary producer for the 2001:
Several Days of Innumerable Small Events Which May or May Not Be
Related To
One Another
IPA Story Assignment of the Week: Airlines and Whistleblowers
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
___________________________________________________
PM Thursday, April 10, 2008
Airlines and Whistleblowers
Interviews Available
PAUL HUDSON, acapaviation@yahoo.com
Hudson is executive director of the Aviation Consumer Action
Project and a longtime member of the FAA's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory
Committee for air safety who represents airline passengers. He said
today: "What has in effect happened over the last several years is that
airplane safety inspections have been largely privatized.
"The government is allowing airlines to do self-policing -- that
is, airline employees are charged with doing and monitoring safety
inspections. To the extent that government workers do much of anything,
it's mostly just checking over the paperwork.
"We've been critical of this approach. At minimum, the airline
employees doing this need to have whistleblower protection and should
take an oath of office as deputized FAA inspectors. As it is, they are
conflicted and may even be offered bonuses that encourage going along
with questionable procedures."
MARSHA COLEMAN-ADEBAYO, NoFearCoalition@aol.com,
http://web.mac.com/kbstreetlevel/iWeb/nofearinstitute/Home.html
President of the No Fear Institute, which is organizing
Whistleblower Week in Washington in May, Coleman-Adebayo said today:
"The crisis within the aviation industry is just the tip of the
iceberg. ... The Environmental Protection Agency has voluntary initiatives where
industry is policing itself and public health is calculated using a
cost/benefit analysis. If the cost is too high, the public suffers.
Other agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration, fail to
protect our food supply.
"The brave whistleblowers we've seen this week on the airlines will
likely be retaliated against once the cameras have shut down. Congress
does not protect people who testify before that body, it only allows
them minimal recourse after they've been retaliated against.
"Being a whistleblower almost certainly means the end of your
career in our system. And it frequently means the end of your life -- many
whistleblowers I've met have died from the stress and from the
reprisals.
"A 'perfect storm' composed of corruption, silencing of
whistleblowers, retaliation and discrimination has been gathering for
decades; the outcome of this storm will be devastating.
"I'm currently on leave from the EPA -- I testified twice before
Congress and been retaliated against. The EPA orchestrated a vicious
campaign to force me to take leave without pay. Even with major
congressional leaders, such as John Conyers, Sheila Jackson Lee, Tom
Davis, Henry Waxman and Chris Van Hollen [writing on my behalf], the
EPA has simply ignored them. In fact, Congress generally ignores members
who attempt to fight on behalf of whistleblowers. My situation is not an
isolated case but represents a pattern of vicious retaliation."
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
___________________________________________________
PM Thursday, April 10, 2008
Airlines and Whistleblowers
Interviews Available
PAUL HUDSON, acapaviation@yahoo.com
Hudson is executive director of the Aviation Consumer Action
Project and a longtime member of the FAA's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory
Committee for air safety who represents airline passengers. He said
today: "What has in effect happened over the last several years is that
airplane safety inspections have been largely privatized.
"The government is allowing airlines to do self-policing -- that
is, airline employees are charged with doing and monitoring safety
inspections. To the extent that government workers do much of anything,
it's mostly just checking over the paperwork.
"We've been critical of this approach. At minimum, the airline
employees doing this need to have whistleblower protection and should
take an oath of office as deputized FAA inspectors. As it is, they are
conflicted and may even be offered bonuses that encourage going along
with questionable procedures."
MARSHA COLEMAN-ADEBAYO, NoFearCoalition@aol.com,
http://web.mac.com/kbstreetlevel/iWeb/nofearinstitute/Home.html
President of the No Fear Institute, which is organizing
Whistleblower Week in Washington in May, Coleman-Adebayo said today:
"The crisis within the aviation industry is just the tip of the
iceberg. ... The Environmental Protection Agency has voluntary initiatives where
industry is policing itself and public health is calculated using a
cost/benefit analysis. If the cost is too high, the public suffers.
Other agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration, fail to
protect our food supply.
"The brave whistleblowers we've seen this week on the airlines will
likely be retaliated against once the cameras have shut down. Congress
does not protect people who testify before that body, it only allows
them minimal recourse after they've been retaliated against.
"Being a whistleblower almost certainly means the end of your
career in our system. And it frequently means the end of your life -- many
whistleblowers I've met have died from the stress and from the
reprisals.
"A 'perfect storm' composed of corruption, silencing of
whistleblowers, retaliation and discrimination has been gathering for
decades; the outcome of this storm will be devastating.
"I'm currently on leave from the EPA -- I testified twice before
Congress and been retaliated against. The EPA orchestrated a vicious
campaign to force me to take leave without pay. Even with major
congressional leaders, such as John Conyers, Sheila Jackson Lee, Tom
Davis, Henry Waxman and Chris Van Hollen [writing on my behalf], the
EPA has simply ignored them. In fact, Congress generally ignores members
who attempt to fight on behalf of whistleblowers. My situation is not an
isolated case but represents a pattern of vicious retaliation."
Wanna Interview an Author? Here's News from Haymarket Books
Haymarket is one of the juiciest radical English-language publishers worldwide. I tellya what: you look through their recent releases, send them an email describing your podcast/blog/publication/radio/public access TV show, ask for a review book and set up a date to interview the author. For a TV show, you look to see when the author is in your town, set up an interview with that person when they're there. Then you do it. It's my favorite thing, matter of fact.
Enjoy!
Visit www.haymarketbooks.org
For review copies, email info@haymarketbooks.org
P.O. Box 180165, Chicago IL 60618
NOW AVAILABLE FROM HAYMARKET
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the new paperback edition of Camilo Mejía's acclaimed Iraq war memoir, Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia. After reading this book, you'll want everyone you know to read it.
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. Despite widespread public support and an all-star legal team, Mejía was eventually convicted of desertion by a military court and sentenced to a year in prison, prompting Amnesty International to declare him a prisoner of conscience.
Far from being an accidental activist, Mejía was raised by prominent Sandinista revolutionaries and draws inspiration from Jesuit teachings. In this stirring book, he argues passionately for human rights and the end to an unjust war.
As New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, "The issues [Mejía] has raised deserve a close reading by the nation as a whole. . . . He has made a contribution to the truth about Iraq."
Road from ar Ramadi
The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía: An Iraq War Memoir
Foreword by Chris Hedges
ISBN: 978-1-931859-53-0
Trade Paperback, $16
320 pages
HAYMARKET NEWS
Haymarket Books is proud to have been part of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, a historic gathering of antiwar veterans and allies that took place March 13-16 in Washington, DC. The event featured powerful testimony that exposed the realities of military occupation. You can watch Haymarket authors Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and Dahr Jamail discuss their impressions of the hearings.
Also check out Dahr's front-cover story on Winter Soldier in the April print edition of The Progressive. We will be publishing Dahr's book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist In Occupied Iraq in paperback this Fall.
This month's issue of The Progressive also features "Olympic Ruin," an eye-opening take on the upcoming Olympics by Haymarket author Dave Zirin, now a regular columnist at the magazine. Be sure to check out Dave's books, What's My Name, Fool? and Welcome to the Terrordome.
Also forthcoming from Haymarket in September is Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation, a comprehensive documentation of the Winter Soldier gathering authored by Iraq Veterans Against the War and journalist Aaron Glantz that will preserve the courageous contributions of its participants.
In the awards department, a big congratulations to Dahr for winning the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism! The award letter states that Jamail's work "has shown the depth of suffering and 'collateral damage' not readily captured in corporate media" and praises his "remarkable contribution to social justice journalism." The award ceremony will take place at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 14 at Hunter College in New York City.
We were thrilled to hear that our friend Jeremy Scahill won the prestigious Polk Award for his book Blackwater. Thoroughly well deserved!
Finally, check out Anthony Arnove's recent appearance on C-SPAN2's program BookTV. Anthony discusses Haymarket Books and the future of independent publishing with host Andre Schriffrin and Jacob Stevens of Verso Books.
Recently released from Haymarket
The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike
Edited by Helen Scott
ISBN: 1-931859-36-3
Paperback, $12, 280 Pages
One of the most important thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg is finding renewed interest among a new generation of activists and critics of global capitalism. This new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes, appendices, and introductions.
"Rosa Luxemburg's explorations of themeaning of capitalism and the need for socialist democracy still have relevance for a new century, and helen Scott's thoughtful and informative introduction will be useful for students and activists alike."
--Paul Le Blanc
Authors on the Road
Dave Zirin will be speaking in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 14th and Saturday, April 28th; he'll also be in Chestertown, MD on Thursday, April 19th. And if you can, check out Dave and Chuck D at the Schomburg Center in New York City on Tuesday, May 15. Dave's website Edge of Sports has further tour details.
Dahr Jamail continues to tour his book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. He will be touring Scotland and England this month. Here's information for the tour:
April 8th--Glasgow, Scotland
University of Strathclyde, 5.30 p.m, 5.14 Graham Hills Building
Contact: m.idrees@gmail.com
April 9th--Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier St., 6:30 pm—In a debate with RTE, moderated by Pepe Escobar
Contact: dmanning@gmail.com
April 10th--London, England
The Old Lecture Theatre, 7:00 pm, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street
Contact: david.crouch10@btinternet.com
April 11th--Totnes, England
Methodist Church, Fore Street, 7:30 pm
Contact: bill@scswebdesign.co.uk
April 12th--Taunton, England
Friend's Meeting House, 3 Bath Place, Taunton, TA1 4EP
Contact: alisonchown@aol.com
You can find further tour information at dahrjamailiraq.com.
Catch Haymarket at the following events:
V to the Tenth
April 11 and 12, New Orleans
Labor Notes 2008 Conference
April 11-13, Detroit, Michigan
London Book Fair
International Rights Center (via Roam Agency)
April 15-16
Historical Materialism
April 24-26, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
April 26-27, Los Angeles
Book launch for Howard Zinn's A People's History of American Empire
May 3, New York, Cooper Union Great Hall, 1pm
Chicago Green Festival
http://www.greenfestivals.org/content/view/230/200/
May 17-18, Chicago
Book Expo America
June 1-3, New York, NY
Save the Date!
Socialism 2008
A Weekend of Politics, Discussion & Debate
Featuring:
Jeremy Scahill
Amira Hass
Laura Flanders
John Carlos
Sharon Smith
Jeffrey St. Clair
June 19-22, Chicago, IL
Check for updates at www.socialismconference.org
Forthcoming from Haymarket Books
Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
Joe Allen
As the United States now faces a major defeat in its occupation of Iraq, the history of the Vietnam War, as a historic blunder for US military forces abroad, and the true story of how it was stopped, take on a fresh importance. Unlike most books on the topic, constructed as specialized academic studies, The (Last) War the United States Lost examines the lessons of the Vietnam era with Joe Allen’s eye of both a dedicated historian and an engaged participant in today’s antiwar movement.
9781931859493 | $14 | 240 pages | May 2008
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is To Be Done? in Context
Lars T. Lih
In this impressive work, Lih presents an innovative challenge to the prevailing perspectives on one of Russian revolutionary V. I. Lenin's most important essays. While conventional wisdom has been contented to caricature What is to Be Done? as the definitive example of Lenin's authoritarian and elitist method, Lih traces this document's roots in the social and political debates of Russia's emerging socialist movement, and reinvigorates the debate unfolding today by introducing a comprehensive new translation of Lenin's original text.
9781931859585 | $50.00 | Paper | 880 pages | May 2008
The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain
Pierre Broué and Emile Témime
In the 1930s, Spanish workers and peasants captured the world's attention, bursting out in rebellion against poverty, oppression, and a monarchy frequently dependent on military repression for its survival. But the Spanish revolution quickly encountered critical challenges-from its leadership's confusion over their final goal to the rising of a fascist army led by Francisco Franco. In their unparalleled study, Broué and Témime detail the internal dynamics and the external obstacles that led one of the world's most promising movements for human liberation to fascist defeat.
9781931859516 | $50.00 | Paper | 700 pages | May 2008
Visit www.haymarketbooks.org
For review copies, email info@haymarketbooks.org
P.O. Box 180165, Chicago IL 60618
Enjoy!
Visit www.haymarketbooks.org
For review copies, email info@haymarketbooks.org
P.O. Box 180165, Chicago IL 60618
NOW AVAILABLE FROM HAYMARKET
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the new paperback edition of Camilo Mejía's acclaimed Iraq war memoir, Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia. After reading this book, you'll want everyone you know to read it.
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. Despite widespread public support and an all-star legal team, Mejía was eventually convicted of desertion by a military court and sentenced to a year in prison, prompting Amnesty International to declare him a prisoner of conscience.
Far from being an accidental activist, Mejía was raised by prominent Sandinista revolutionaries and draws inspiration from Jesuit teachings. In this stirring book, he argues passionately for human rights and the end to an unjust war.
As New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, "The issues [Mejía] has raised deserve a close reading by the nation as a whole. . . . He has made a contribution to the truth about Iraq."
Road from ar Ramadi
The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía: An Iraq War Memoir
Foreword by Chris Hedges
ISBN: 978-1-931859-53-0
Trade Paperback, $16
320 pages
HAYMARKET NEWS
Haymarket Books is proud to have been part of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, a historic gathering of antiwar veterans and allies that took place March 13-16 in Washington, DC. The event featured powerful testimony that exposed the realities of military occupation. You can watch Haymarket authors Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and Dahr Jamail discuss their impressions of the hearings.
Also check out Dahr's front-cover story on Winter Soldier in the April print edition of The Progressive. We will be publishing Dahr's book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist In Occupied Iraq in paperback this Fall.
This month's issue of The Progressive also features "Olympic Ruin," an eye-opening take on the upcoming Olympics by Haymarket author Dave Zirin, now a regular columnist at the magazine. Be sure to check out Dave's books, What's My Name, Fool? and Welcome to the Terrordome.
Also forthcoming from Haymarket in September is Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation, a comprehensive documentation of the Winter Soldier gathering authored by Iraq Veterans Against the War and journalist Aaron Glantz that will preserve the courageous contributions of its participants.
In the awards department, a big congratulations to Dahr for winning the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism! The award letter states that Jamail's work "has shown the depth of suffering and 'collateral damage' not readily captured in corporate media" and praises his "remarkable contribution to social justice journalism." The award ceremony will take place at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 14 at Hunter College in New York City.
We were thrilled to hear that our friend Jeremy Scahill won the prestigious Polk Award for his book Blackwater. Thoroughly well deserved!
Finally, check out Anthony Arnove's recent appearance on C-SPAN2's program BookTV. Anthony discusses Haymarket Books and the future of independent publishing with host Andre Schriffrin and Jacob Stevens of Verso Books.
Recently released from Haymarket
The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike
Edited by Helen Scott
ISBN: 1-931859-36-3
Paperback, $12, 280 Pages
One of the most important thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg is finding renewed interest among a new generation of activists and critics of global capitalism. This new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes, appendices, and introductions.
"Rosa Luxemburg's explorations of themeaning of capitalism and the need for socialist democracy still have relevance for a new century, and helen Scott's thoughtful and informative introduction will be useful for students and activists alike."
--Paul Le Blanc
Authors on the Road
Dave Zirin will be speaking in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 14th and Saturday, April 28th; he'll also be in Chestertown, MD on Thursday, April 19th. And if you can, check out Dave and Chuck D at the Schomburg Center in New York City on Tuesday, May 15. Dave's website Edge of Sports has further tour details.
Dahr Jamail continues to tour his book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. He will be touring Scotland and England this month. Here's information for the tour:
April 8th--Glasgow, Scotland
University of Strathclyde, 5.30 p.m, 5.14 Graham Hills Building
Contact: m.idrees@gmail.com
April 9th--Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier St., 6:30 pm—In a debate with RTE, moderated by Pepe Escobar
Contact: dmanning@gmail.com
April 10th--London, England
The Old Lecture Theatre, 7:00 pm, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street
Contact: david.crouch10@btinternet.com
April 11th--Totnes, England
Methodist Church, Fore Street, 7:30 pm
Contact: bill@scswebdesign.co.uk
April 12th--Taunton, England
Friend's Meeting House, 3 Bath Place, Taunton, TA1 4EP
Contact: alisonchown@aol.com
You can find further tour information at dahrjamailiraq.com.
Catch Haymarket at the following events:
V to the Tenth
April 11 and 12, New Orleans
Labor Notes 2008 Conference
April 11-13, Detroit, Michigan
London Book Fair
International Rights Center (via Roam Agency)
April 15-16
Historical Materialism
April 24-26, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
April 26-27, Los Angeles
Book launch for Howard Zinn's A People's History of American Empire
May 3, New York, Cooper Union Great Hall, 1pm
Chicago Green Festival
http://www.greenfestivals.org/content/view/230/200/
May 17-18, Chicago
Book Expo America
June 1-3, New York, NY
Save the Date!
Socialism 2008
A Weekend of Politics, Discussion & Debate
Featuring:
Jeremy Scahill
Amira Hass
Laura Flanders
John Carlos
Sharon Smith
Jeffrey St. Clair
June 19-22, Chicago, IL
Check for updates at www.socialismconference.org
Forthcoming from Haymarket Books
Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
Joe Allen
As the United States now faces a major defeat in its occupation of Iraq, the history of the Vietnam War, as a historic blunder for US military forces abroad, and the true story of how it was stopped, take on a fresh importance. Unlike most books on the topic, constructed as specialized academic studies, The (Last) War the United States Lost examines the lessons of the Vietnam era with Joe Allen’s eye of both a dedicated historian and an engaged participant in today’s antiwar movement.
9781931859493 | $14 | 240 pages | May 2008
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is To Be Done? in Context
Lars T. Lih
In this impressive work, Lih presents an innovative challenge to the prevailing perspectives on one of Russian revolutionary V. I. Lenin's most important essays. While conventional wisdom has been contented to caricature What is to Be Done? as the definitive example of Lenin's authoritarian and elitist method, Lih traces this document's roots in the social and political debates of Russia's emerging socialist movement, and reinvigorates the debate unfolding today by introducing a comprehensive new translation of Lenin's original text.
9781931859585 | $50.00 | Paper | 880 pages | May 2008
The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain
Pierre Broué and Emile Témime
In the 1930s, Spanish workers and peasants captured the world's attention, bursting out in rebellion against poverty, oppression, and a monarchy frequently dependent on military repression for its survival. But the Spanish revolution quickly encountered critical challenges-from its leadership's confusion over their final goal to the rising of a fascist army led by Francisco Franco. In their unparalleled study, Broué and Témime detail the internal dynamics and the external obstacles that led one of the world's most promising movements for human liberation to fascist defeat.
9781931859516 | $50.00 | Paper | 700 pages | May 2008
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Media Interview Assignment: Mother Jones on Black Ops on Green Groups
Date: 11 April 2008
Contacts:
Dan Schulman, dschulman@MotherJones.com
Steve Katz, skatz@motherjones.com
EXCLUSIVE:
Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups
Meet the private security firm that spied on Greenpeace and other environmental outfits for its corporate clients. A tale of intrigue, infiltration, and dumpster-diving.
A Mother Jones exclusive (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/04/firm-spied-on-environmental-groups.html) has exposed that a security firm run by ex Secret Service agents spied on Greenpeace, Fenton Communications, the Center for Food Safety, and others.
James Ridgeway, the Mother Jones senior correspondent who obtained the never-before-published internal company documents now available on the Mother Jones website, revealed in today's story that a private security company organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. The smoking gun documents show that Beckett Brown International (BBI), collected confidential records�donor lists, detailed financial statements, the Social Security numbers of staff members, strategy memos�from these groups and produced intelligence reports for public relations firms and major corporations
involved in environmental controversies.
BBI also conducted background checks for the Carlyle Group, the Washington-based investment firm; provided "protective services" for the National Rifle Association; handled "crisis management" for the Gallo wine company; engaged in "information collection" for Wal-Mart. It conducted background checks for Patricia Duff, a Democratic Party fundraiser then involved in an acrimonious child custody battle with billionaire Ronald Perelman. And for Mary Kay, BBI mounted "surveillance" and vetted Gayle Gaston, a top executive at the cosmetics company (and mother of actress Robin Wright Penn), retaining an expert to conduct a psychological assessment of her. Also listed as clients in BBI records: Halliburton and Blackwater.
Senior Correspondent James Ridgeway and Washington Bureau Chief David Corn are available for interviews on this or other Mother Jones stories by emailing dschulman@motherjones.com or Steve Katz, at skatz@motherjones.com.
Contacts:
Dan Schulman, dschulman@MotherJones.com
Steve Katz, skatz@motherjones.com
EXCLUSIVE:
Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups
Meet the private security firm that spied on Greenpeace and other environmental outfits for its corporate clients. A tale of intrigue, infiltration, and dumpster-diving.
A Mother Jones exclusive (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/04/firm-spied-on-environmental-groups.html) has exposed that a security firm run by ex Secret Service agents spied on Greenpeace, Fenton Communications, the Center for Food Safety, and others.
James Ridgeway, the Mother Jones senior correspondent who obtained the never-before-published internal company documents now available on the Mother Jones website, revealed in today's story that a private security company organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. The smoking gun documents show that Beckett Brown International (BBI), collected confidential records�donor lists, detailed financial statements, the Social Security numbers of staff members, strategy memos�from these groups and produced intelligence reports for public relations firms and major corporations
involved in environmental controversies.
BBI also conducted background checks for the Carlyle Group, the Washington-based investment firm; provided "protective services" for the National Rifle Association; handled "crisis management" for the Gallo wine company; engaged in "information collection" for Wal-Mart. It conducted background checks for Patricia Duff, a Democratic Party fundraiser then involved in an acrimonious child custody battle with billionaire Ronald Perelman. And for Mary Kay, BBI mounted "surveillance" and vetted Gayle Gaston, a top executive at the cosmetics company (and mother of actress Robin Wright Penn), retaining an expert to conduct a psychological assessment of her. Also listed as clients in BBI records: Halliburton and Blackwater.
Senior Correspondent James Ridgeway and Washington Bureau Chief David Corn are available for interviews on this or other Mother Jones stories by emailing dschulman@motherjones.com or Steve Katz, at skatz@motherjones.com.
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