Friday, October 28, 2005

To Do List: 1. Save dates 2. Read interview 3. Buy 50AR 4. Expose Exxon 5. Fight corruption in Ohio

Those in the NYC area might wanna save these dates:
Nov. 18 & Dec. 6

I’ll be speaking at two different downtown venues...with at least one event likely to be filmed by C-Span Book TV. (more soon)

Journalist Greg Elich just interviewed me for Monthly Review.

Greg: Any list of “fifty American revolutions” is inevitably bound to be personal. Part of the fun of reading your book is comparing your list with one’s own candidates, and dwelling on the reasons behind your choices. I found it refreshing that your book went beyond overtly political struggles and included social and cultural events as well. What are your thoughts on the role of social and cultural “revolutions” in transforming society?

The Mick: You’re right, the “revolutions” that ended up in my book are shaped by personal preference, and part of who I am is the wide range of interests I enjoy. I think it is crucial to recognize how powerful and pervasive the attempts at indoctrination are in U.S. Outside a very small “radical” community, most Americans are not receptive to positive stories about, say, violent insurrections. However, the same folks who reflexively dismiss such episodes as “anti-American” admire the rebellious spirit of a Katherine Hepburn or Lenny Bruce or Charlie Parker or Public Enemy. From such admiration can grow a greater openness to challenging the cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all formula being sold to us by corporate pirates. It certainly worked that way for me.

To read the complete interview, please click here:
http://tinyurl.com/8qy3b

Wanted

If you haven’t already ordered 50AR, why not do it right now? If you’ve already got yourself a copy, why not get one for someone you know?

It’s right out of the headlines

Rosa Parks just passed away? Well, read about Lizzie Jennings’s 1854 bus ride in 50AR.

Good Night, and Good Luck has brought McCarthyism back into the spotlight? Read about Salt of the Earth, a movie made by a blacklisted director.

Media blackout on Gitmo? Learn about Dorothea Lange and how her photos of Japanese-American internment camps during WWII were confiscated.

...and that’s just a small taste. There’s also I.F. Stone, Ida Tarbell, Jackson Pollock, Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, John Robbins, Angela Davis, and much, much more.

The only way a book like this can reach a wide audience is by word of mouth...and I need your help. If you have an e-list, please send out a 50AR alert. If you have a website or blog, tell your visitors about 50AR. Got a few minutes to spare? Write a rave review at Amazon or post something on your local IndyMedia or Craig’s List site. Any and all help is appreciated.

50AR can be found in bookstores, across the Web, or can be ordered here: http://tinyurl.com/dxk4y

If you like what you see on this site, click here to donate $1.00 (or more):
http://tinyurl.com/7nkwk

Thanks.

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For those about to (Web)Surf:

ExxonMobil announced its 3rd quarter profits - a windfall $9.9 billion - but instead of using these earnings to help pay for the cost of rebuilding after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - catastrophes that help fuel ExxonMobil’s record profits - ExxonMobil will spend millions of it on lobbyists working to cast false doubt on the facts of global warming and pushing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and along our coasts.


http://www.exxposeexxon.com

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“A federal grand jury has indicted Tom Noe — the former Toledo-area coin dealer at the center of a state investment scandal — on three counts for allegedly laundering money into President Bush’s re-election campaign.”
For more, please click here:
http://tinyurl.com/9jfnf

To take action, please click here:
http://www.reformohionow.org

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