Library News & Updates
In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front– a group the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.” For years, the ELF—operating in separate anonymous cells without any central leadership—had launched spectacular arsons against dozens of businesses they…
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Show is still up at Studio West–but on June 23rd we’re packing it up to make room for the next show. We aren’t done celebrating Art & Resistance! Come enjoy refreshments and participate in a discussion about Art & Resistance. Event is 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Studio West 516 West MLK St. Ithaca,…
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During our Celebrate People’s History Art Show May 4th – June 23, we have acquired a special new collection of books about art & resistance. Currently these books are featured at Studio West until the show closes. Then, they will be back on the “new items” shelf here at the library. Besides these new items,…
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How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community by Heather Flores Foreword by Toby Hemenway “Food Not Lawns is a wonderful book expanding on the idea that we can do more than just protest but that we have the power to create the world we want. Food Not Lawns…
Read Moreby Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton Illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact. Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father…
Read MoreOmakayas and her family live on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the “chimookoman,” white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has: every summer they build a new birchbark house; every fall they go to ricing camp to harvest and feast;…
Read MoreThe first encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault — heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single — who want to reclaim their sex lives. While most books on the topic broach sexuality only to reassure women that it is all right to say “no” to unwanted sex, Healing Sex encourages women to…
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