The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads Dee Brown 1977 305p 6 x 9 An often unknown and under-appreciated social history of the transcontinental railroad. Brown covers so many social tensions: from the barge workers (being displaced by railroads) and the railroad industry, to the hyper-exploitation of immigrant rail … Continue reading Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Memory of Fire Vol. I Eduardo Galeano 1982 336p 5 x 8 Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the Galeano’s words, an attempt to ‘rescue the kidnapped memory … Continue reading Genesis
A Compilation of Works by Rod Coronado Rod Coronado 2007 120p 5 x 8 For over 20 years, Rod Coronado has been at the forefront of the radical ecological and animal rights movements. Flaming Arrows is a compilation of his writing, with most of the chapters coming from the zine Strong Hearts, which Rod wrote while in … Continue reading Flaming Arrows
The Warriors and Legacy of Oka Loreen Pindera & Geoffrey York 1991 425p 6 x 9 In 1990, after the announcement to expand the local 9-hole golf course to an 18-hole one right through a Mohawk cemetery, a small band of women blocking the development and years of disappointment, manipulation, exploitation and genocide soon inspire … Continue reading The People of the Pines
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! Fredy Perlman 1983 296p 5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor. Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading
Fredy Perlman 1984 64p 5 x 8 A critique of nationalism, of both left and right. This is an essential essay for a critical understanding of nationalism. The idea that an understanding of genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle a system … Continue reading The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism