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as requested… From www.foodjusticebook.org Food Justice (MIT Press, October 2010) addresses the enormous inequities and injustices of today’s increasingly globalized industrial food system. It tells of the increasing disconnect between food and culture; of the horrific conditions faced by farmworkers and those who work the meatpacking and poultry plants; of low income neighborhoods that lack access…
Read MoreTraditional herbalists or wise women were not only good botanists or pharmacologists; they were also shamanic practitioners and keepers of occult knowledge about the powerful properties of plants. Traveling back to the healing arts of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners takes readers deep into this world, through…
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As the United States celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community…
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The Alternatives Library is starting an archive of social movement art, but we need your help! We want to document the work of activists and activist struggles through collecting posters, graphics, and other artwork that these movements produced. This spring the library held a Celebrate People’s History Art Show which showcased posters from the Just…
Read MorePublished in 1939, Pietro DiDonato’s Christ in Concrete examines the American experience for hard-working Italian immigrants living in New York City’s Lower East Side shortly before the Great Depression and focuses on a family’s struggle against harsh economic realities and tenement living. The novel was inspired by the death of DiDonato’s father in a…
Read MoreExecutive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary, The Business of Being Born, with an all-new, four part DVD series that continues their provocative and entertaining exploration of the modern maternity care system. More Business of Being Born, available on November 8th, 2011, offers a practical look at birthing options as…
Read MoreThat’s right, the mobile circulation desk will be set up in the Greenstar Foyer the next 2 wednesdays from 4 – 6pm. We’ll bring a selection of new materials and favorites for folks to browse through. We’ll be sitting around chatting, showing off the library, and making new connections, so stop on by! You can…
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