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Guests | January 12, 2012

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Welcome to the War Resisters League Bookshelf at Powells Books! A portion of your purchase will go directly towards our work to end this war and all wars. For more books and organizing resources, go to www.warresisters.org

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Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society
by Ozgur Heval Cinar
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Refusing to take part in war is as old as war itself. This wide-ranging and original book brings together four different bodies of knowledge and practice: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious objection; feminist, LGBT and queer... (read more)
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Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca
by Diana Denham
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Current Events. Social Justice. "Once you learn to speak, you don't want to be quiet anymore," an indigenous community radio activist said. Accompanied by photography and political art, TEACHING REBELLION is a compilation of testimonies from longtime... (read more)
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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations (08 Edition) Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations (08 Edition)
by Iraq Veterans Against The War
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The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.--Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War In spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hearings... (read more)
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We Who Dared To Say No To War (08 Edition) We Who Dared To Say No To War (08 Edition)
by Murray Polner
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We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition—speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more—from people throughout our history who have... (read more)
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Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
by Matt Meyer
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Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, Peoples Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their... (read more)
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Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death
by Daniel Berrigan
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For years, Daniel Berrigan has been offering an alternative to the bad-news morning headlines with the good news of his life and poetry. He looks the culture of death in the eye and names its deadly games of war and destruction as sin and idolatry. Here... (read more)
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Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Chardon Press Series) Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Chardon Press Series)
by Rinku Sen
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If social change organizations— local, regional and national— are to succeed they must go beyond traditional grassroots organizing efforts and develop systematic, comprehensive organizing practices that will change public policy and practice.... (read more)
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I've Got the Light of Freedom : Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Rev 07 Edition) I've Got the Light of Freedom : Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Rev 07 Edition)
by Charles Payne
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"With this history of the civil rights movement focusing on Everyman-turned-hero, the commoner as crusader for justice, Payne challenges the old idea that history is the biography of great men."--Kirkus Reviews "Remarkably astute in its judgments and... (read more)
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Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World
by David Solnit
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A post-9/11 look at the new radicalism that has captured the imagination of activists worldwide. We live in an era of a new radicalism, a worldwide challenge to global empire that has inspired millions to flood the streets in resistance and to take... (read more)
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Walking with the wind :a memoir of the movement Walking with the wind :a memoir of the movement
by John Lewis
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Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. The ideals of nonviolence which guided that critical time of American history established him as one... (read more)
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