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Indie Press of the Month Party featuring Monthly Review Press!
John Bellamy Foster, The Great Financial Crisis
Steve Early, Embedded With Organized Labor
Minqi Li, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
Nancy Rose, Put to Work: Relief Programs in the Great Depression
Martin Hart-Landsberg, Korea: Division, Reunification and U. S. Foreign Policy
- Tuesday, June 9
- 7:00 PM
For over fifty years, Monthly Review Press has published important works of left scholarship from an independent socialist perspective. Monthly Review Press’ distinctive contributions to the world of ideas has advanced an analysis that works to explain the tendency of contemporary capitalism toward slow growth and stagnation, the growing importance of debt and the financial sector, the central role of technological innovation, and the continuing and deepening economic inequality between the rich and poor nations, and between the rich and poor everywhere. It has paid special attention to questions of imperialism, ecological degradation under capitalism, Marxist theory, and published important works on the labor movement, feminism, and history, many of which are used heavily by schools and libraries. Today, Monthly Review Press continues to publish books that are scholarly but accessible and speak to the realities of workers, educators, and activists around the world.
ALL MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS TITLES 15% OFF FOR ENTIRE MONTH OF JUNE!
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Big Bend
L.E. Leone
- Wednesday, June 10
- 7:00 PM
When Oaklandette L.E. Leone wasn't writing the popular Cheap Eats column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian over the past 15 years, she was nonchalantly publishing fantastic short stories, a splendid collection of which were gathered in one handy location last year in the anthology Big Bend (the title story of which won the Malahat Review's novella contest in 2002). Also a singer-songwriter, Leone performs as Sister Exister and has been known to thrill audiences with ukuleles, steel drums and other musical devilry. (Sparkle Street)
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Viva Loss
Sarah Fran Wisby
- Thursday, June 11
- 7:00 PM
Viva Loss sits in the delicious gray area between prose and poetry. This slim volume merges fables, prose, poems, and reflections into a hybrid of irrefutable power and wonder. This is a beautiful little book that we are very pleased has been unleashed on the world. Special guest readers include Kirk Read, Horehound Stillpoint and Mimi Lok. (Small Desk Press)
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Vegan Soul Kitchen
Bryant Terry
The Vegan Table
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
- Tuesday, June 16
- 7:00 PM
Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow Bryant Terry and Compassionate Cooks founder Colleen Patrick-Goudreau are taking the food justice movement to a new level by connecting issues of structural racism and animal rights to food insecurity and empowering people to make informed food choices. And to boot, they are both fantastic chefs! The authors will celebrate the recent releases of their new cookbooks in an evening of analysis and discussion of current food justice issues and samples of some of their new recipes that demonstrate how deliciousness need not be lost for food to be ethical! (Da Capo Press and Fair Winds Press)
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The Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent
Marjorie Cohn
- Wednesday, June 17
- 7:00 PM
In Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent, president of the National Lawyers Guild Marjorie Cohn, examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and discusses their acts of resistance to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan —and what readers can do—to help end illegal orders and illegal wars. (Polipoint Press)
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Manic D Press Anniversary Party!
Featuring Beth Lisick, Matt Cook, Alvin Orloff, Jon Longhi and Stephanie Rosenbaum
- Thursday, June 18
- 7:00 PM
Holy smokes—Manic D Press is turning 25! You are invited to come help blow out the candles with Manic D publisher Jennifer Joseph and authors including Matt Cook—darling of NPR's Writers Almanac who also appeared in the award-winning PBS documentary, The United States of Poetry; beloved Beth (Lisick, of course) of Best American Poetry fame; the original Gutterboy, Alvin Orloff; literary synthesis of comic noir, Jon Longhi; and Stephanie Rosenbaum—author of The Astrology Cookbook—who will be serving up cosmic treats for the occasion! (Party hats encouraged!)
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Spanish Book Group / Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español
- Tuesday, June 23
- 7:00 PM
Join us for our Spanish language book group on the fourth Tuesday of each month. A mix of native speakers and advanced level hablantes, the group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for nine years. In June the group will discuss Purgatorio by Tomás Eloy Martínez and is available at a 10% discount for all book group participants.
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Risk
Elana Dykewomon
- Wednesday, June 24
- 7:00 PM
Risk is Elana Dykewomon's third novel—a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Exploring the affects of war, chronic gambling and life in Oakland's lesbian community, Dykewomon reveals changing times and values in America with depth and humor. (Bywater)
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PS Comics
Minty Lewis
Just So You Know
Joey Alison Sayers
- Thursday, June 25
- 7:30 PM
PS Comics by Minty Lewis collects her work from the past five years and prominently features terriers and talking fruit who are just trying to get ahead in life. (Secret Acres) Just So You Know is Joey's self-published autobiographical comic about coming out as transgender and transitioning to living as a woman. Special guest cartoonists Tessa Brunton, Hellen Jo, Calvin Wong and Jason Shiga.
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Queer Open Mic
- Friday, June 26
- 7:00 PM sign-up for performers
- 7:30 PM start time
The Queer Open Mic features poetry, creative writing, music and more. $3-5 optional
donation. All kinds of queers welcome. For more info, visit http://queeropenmic.com.
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The Burger Queen Social
- Saturday, June 27
- 5:30 PM
From the minds that brought about Gay Shame and Ships in the Night comes the Burger Queen Social—a fun and exciting opportunity to meet other radical queer, trans, and genderqueer folks to hook up with for political witchery and discussion. With free vegan eats and a wildly engaging DJ!
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Gay Shame Weekly Meetings
- Saturdays
- 5:30 PM
Gay Shame seeks nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. Come to a general meeting: all are welcome.
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