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FOOD JUSTICE
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 MoreThe Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants
Traditional 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…
Read MoreThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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…
Read MoreChrist in Concrete
Published 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 MoreBusiness of Being Born
Executive 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 MoreThe Racoon & the Bee Tree
A curious raccoon emerges from his bed and starts hunting for food. Tempted by sticky honey oozing from a bee’s nest, the little raccoon finds trouble he did nto bargain for. Delightful illustrations in full-color by Susan Turnbull. Eastman was born a Wahpeton Dakota in 1858. by Charles & Elaine Eastman. 32 pp., 7×8.5, ages…
Read MoreFrom the Mines to the Streets
From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through…
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