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Contributors | November 10, 2009

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Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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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 (edt) Denham
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In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and earned the admiration of communities organizing for social justice around the world. The show of international solidarity for the people of Oaxaca was the... (read more)
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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation
by Iraq Veterans Agains
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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: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now
by Murray Polner
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Antiwar Patriots brings together some of the greatest-if largely forgotten-writings of the American antiwar tradition, from the War of 1812 to the present. Featured is Daniel Webster, one of America’s great orators, denouncing military conscription... (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, People's 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: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
by Charles M Payne
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This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.... (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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The attacks of 9/11 have renewed a hunger for ideas about how to effect change. The strategies and hard-won victories of dedicated activists from global justice and community struggles can provide vision and hope, and in this collection of 33 articles... (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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