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Read about Fred W. McDarrah's PRIDE! and other #lgbtq books on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion in this New York Times article:
Visual monographs commemorating a culture of resistance and resilience on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion.
“The real sort of fear, and the real danger, isn't that we can't win, it's that we're not ready to win.” —Christine Berry, author of PEOPLE GET READY!
Listen to the full interview with Politics Theory Other here:
Christine Berry discusses 'People Get Ready: Preparing for a Corbyn Government' a new book authored by Christine together with Joe Guinan. We spoke about the likely backlash a Corbyn government would
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Today on the show, Allen will be in conversation with Michael Steven Smith about his new book, Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, In the Streets, and On the Air from OR Books.
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We don't know, but we're not willing to try. Instead, we take doses of Amy Sohn's hilarious CBD! on a regular basis, and we feel just fine: http://bit.ly/SohnCBD
How one molecule from the cannabis plant came to be seen as a therapeutic cure-all.
OR Books in Saks...!? yes, right betwixt the undies: and 100% of proceeds from this edition of PRIDE: Photographs After Stonewall by Fred W. McDarrah, bought through Saks, goes to The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative.
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Eli Valley, author of Diaspora Boy, available exclusively at OR Books, www.orbooks.com, is interviewed by Middle East Eye.
Why Eli Valley's comics about Israel, Trump and white supremacy are creating a storm online.
Barney cited for wise words on the transformation of publishing...
New article on literaturhaus features "Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I fought Censorship" (OR Books) and digs deeper into the world of publishing.
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PRIDE featured in June Harper's Magazine
By Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, and Michelle Tea
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Winnie Mandela, Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, Walter Rodney, W.E.B.DuBois and other eloquent voices on black consciousness.
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"But, what this shows is [that] it’s a crisis of multiple different dimensions, and that it’s driven by an economic system, which is fundamentally destroying the terrestrial systems that we all depend on." –Ashley Dawson, author of EXTINCTION: A RADICAL HISTORY, on Democracy Now! discussing the recent U.N. report.
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An alarming new report by a panel of leading scientists warns that human activity is causing the disappearance and deterioration of wildlife at a rate that could represent an existential threat to humanity within our lifetimes. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodi...
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"I wouldn't necessarily understand that I was an icon, but I did have an alertness- a feeling that something was very, very, exciting happening in the culture." –Karen Finley, author of GRABBING PUSSY on BUST Magazine's Poptarts Podcast
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Karen Finley started out performing feminist monologues full of vitriol and fury in the punk clubs of the Bay Area in the late 70s. By the ...
"The poems collected in Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism pack a serious punch. Which is fitting for a project designed to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump and the blows his government has dealt to women.... Edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan, the collection brings together 50 diverse feminist poets and activists in a fierce, exuberant, tender, gorgeous choir of voices." –Herizons Magazine in a recent review of WOMEN OF RESISTANCE: POEMS FOR A NEW FEMINISM
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"There is no time for civility, there is no time for compromise. This is a time for rage and for acting out in the streets–based on what they are doing." –Eli Valley, author of DIASPORA BOY
Read or listen to the full interview from On the Media here: https://bit.ly/2DReGwg
An artist's biting rendition of Meghan McCain and her attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Join us Thursday eve at The People's Forum to celebrate LULA with BRADO-NY--and help take back the world's fourth largest democracy from the grip of incipient fascism.
Prefeito de Nova York, Bill de Blasio: “Jair Bolsonaro aprendeu da maneira mais difícil que os nova-iorquinos não fecham os olhos para a opressão. Nós denunciamos sua intolerância. Ele fugiu. Não é surpresa - valentões geralmente não aguentam um soco.
@jairbolsonaro Já vai tarde. Seu ódio não é bem vindo aqui.”
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PRIDE’s launch at The Stonewall Inn—thanks to Bureau of General Services-Queer Division who handled book sales
"You can't do a keystroke on your computer, or make a call on your cell phone, or even go to the doctor without the government knowing exactly what you're doing." –Michael Steven Smith, author of LAWYERS FOR THE LEFT
Learn more about Smith's upcoming book and what makes a "lawyer for the left" in this interview with Richard D. Wolff for Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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A description from the belly of the beast that is MS-13: the first book to reveal the inner workings of the most violent gang in the world, written by an anthropologist who was there. Pre-order now and get 15% off.
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The prosecution of Assange is all about his publishing--nothing else.
The US government has disregarded due process and elemental honesty in pursuing its vendetta against Julian Assange. “We are complicit in crimes against humanity when we know about them and when we don't stop them.”
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"That situation has remained the same, not only for the period that the Times has been publishing material saying the arrangement might someday add up to apartheid, but since 1967." –Greg Shupak, author of THE WRONG STORY, on NYT's coverage of apartheid in Israel for Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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The New York Times acknowledges that governing millions of Palestinians but denying them the vote is a form of apartheid.
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Killer review for EXILE in CounterPunch!! We're thrilled, and congrats to Belén Fernández.
2019 Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World Belén Fernández OR Books. In the interests of full disclosure, I confess at the outset that Belén Fern
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The Guggenheim Museum has just announced it is resuming work on the 450,000 sq. ft., $800 million branch museum (twelve times larger than the NYC museum, according to Artforum) in that citadel of workers' rights and freedom, the United Arab Emirates. We at OR stand with Gulf Labor in opposing this outrage--for more info, http://bit.ly/GulfLabor
Months have passed since the Guggenheim broke off six years of negotiations with the Gulf Labor Coalition over migrant workers's rights in Abu Dhabi.
Come to the event we're holding together with BRADO-NY and enter in a raffle to win a copy of TRUTH WILL PREVAIL--signed by Lula himself! May 9, The People's Forum: https://www.facebook.com/events/970859716440902/
Savage satire with pen and ink - no-one does it like Eli Valley. Here he is taking on Donald Trump. Valley's Diaspora Boy is available exclusively at www.orbooks.com
Meet the political cartoonist who was attacked by both Chelsea Clinton and Meghan McCain.
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"Trump [is] increasingly saying that the Democrats are anti-Semites — when in fact Trump incited the most horrific pogrom in our history," Valley said. "And so I drew him with an assault rifle outside the Tree of Life Synagogue."
Eli Valley's provocative comics have recently gotten him into trouble with Meaghan McCain and Chelsea Clinton.
"Tackling contentious questions about rock and pop music, forcing us to look deeper into our relationship with music; how we shape it, and how it shapes us." —Showcase on Seth Kaufman's METAPHYSICAL GRAFFITI
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What is the coolest song you've never heard? What do you call a drummer in a three-piece suit? And, is there a connection between rock 'n' roll and the meani...
Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK: Women For Peace seek to block handover of Venezuelan embassy to opposition: "“Like it or not, the Maduro government is actually the government in power in Venezuela..."
Code Pink joins the battle for the country’s future being waged in capitals around the world.
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Cover of the Norwegian edition of BOWIE by Simon Critchley, published in March 2019 by Flamme Forlag (original publisher: OR Books) #makebookstravel #foreignrights
As the magnificent Extinction Rebellion protests have shown, people are not prepared to stand by and see our planet go down without a fight. Ashley Dawson’s book explains not just how bad things are, but what’s needed to put them right. https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/extinction-is-alive-and-well
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Quanto spesso scegliamo i libri in base alla copertina? Per quanto mi riguarda molto spesso.
Per questo motivo, molte case editrici si affidano a grafici eclettici con idee originali.
La designer inglese Jenny Greenaway ha confezionato per la casa editrice inglese OR Books tre copertine mozzafiato per un libro su #JFK.
Questa tre serie di copertine sono state create in occasione del 50esimo anniversario dell'assassinio del presidente John F. Kennedy.
I libri hanno ciascuno una sovraccoperta in acetato trasparente su cui sono stati stampati degli elementi di design che riecheggiano la censura e la segretezza dell'affare #Kennedy..
"Now open Michael Steven Smith’s smart and compelling Lawyers for the Left, and you’ll find yourself plunged into the contradictions and swirling through the vortex where that question—what is the law?—is on everyone’s mind all the time." –Bill Ayers for Portside
Read the full review here: https://bit.ly/2Zp6igo
“We were partying hard and having a great evening, and then the law arrived and spoiled everything.” “She tries to keep the books accurately—squeaky clean, she says—but always just this side of the law.” “I studied international law at Cambridge.” “That just proves the law of gravi...
With Labour ahead in the pools and the Tories in meltdown it’s time to get ready for a Corbyn government. https://mailchi.mp/orbooks/it-wont-be-long
PEOPLE GET READY! : Preparing for a Corbyn Government
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Check out VICE News Tonight--HBO, tonight at 7:30, for a feature on OR's own Eli Valley, the scourge of Netanyahu-boosters around the world!
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“A timely and must-read guide to a changing world.” —Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism
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In his latest play, “Godot, the Musical,” author Seth Kaufman gives “Mad props and apologies to Samuel Beckett.” Erupting with existential rap, newcomers Yohance Barton and James Mahoney play Gogo and Didi, two hilarious down-and-out hypemen. Together, they await the arrival of “The Master G”—an elusive, celebrated rapper who has “more flow than the motherf*cking Yangtze” — and, eventually, fate itself. The full screenplay is included in Kaufman’s latest book, Metaphysical Grafiti: Rock’s Most Mind-Bending Questions, out now from OR Books. Watch the full video on YouTube. ***LINK IN BIO***
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a sneak peek at PRIDE: Photographs After Stonewall by Fred W. McDarrah.
"The people of the United States don't support continued US involvement in the wars in the Middle East" - Medea Benjamin on the Iran deal, the threat to peace posed by Donald Trump and John Bolton, and the need for an honest portrayal of Iranian society. Read more about 'Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran' here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/inside-iran-medea-benjamin/
INSIDE IRAN by Medea Benjamin: in stores in May!
What stories make a city, and what stories can be told by those who've just arrived? Claire Armitstead talk these and other questions with Sky News to introduce Tales of Two Londons (http://bit.ly/2q2xXTD)
"Basically all it did was ruin my life" Here, a first look at the only insider account to emerge from Trump University. From Stephen Gilpin, a self-taught expert at leveraging properties, who unwittingly found himself at the center of one of president's greatest cons. Find out more about the book: https://goo.gl/3wsfrL
if this poem is the only thing that survives me tell them i grew a new tongue tell them i built me a throne tell them when we discovered life on another planet it was a woman & she built a bridge, not a border got god & named gravity after herself. —Denice Frohman
POEMS FOR A NEW FEMINISM: announcing WOMEN OF RESISTANCE. Contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Beasley, Jericho Brown, Mahogany L. Browne - Writer, Danielle Chapman, Tyehimba Jess, and so many more! Edited by Iris Mahan and Danielle Barnhart. Find out more: https://goo.gl/fYtNQ3
Britain's next Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the launch of 'For the Many: Preparing Labour for Power'. Contributors to the book include: Jon Lansman, Hilary Wainwright Ken Loach, Malia Bouattia, Jeremy Gilbert, Ewa Jasiewicz, and Chris Williamson MP. Read more about the book here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/for-the-many-preparing-labour-for-power/
"How could they all be so wrong?" Alex Nunns's The Candidate, coming soon. https://goo.gl/k6msC2
Pamela Anderson speaks at the Women, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks launch. Buy the book here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/women-whistleblowing-wikileaks/
Laura Newman sings the table of contents of Beautiful Rising at last night's launch party at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center.
"What matters here is why you've got a grudge against America, Mr. Dorfman" http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/homeland-security-ate-speech-ariel-dorfman/
Old Demons, New Deities is the first anthology of contemporary Tibetan literature in the English language. http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/old-demons-new-deities/
"As a function of growing up in an exile community trying to reroot itself into foreign soil, we were cut off from our historical past, from our historical literature and culture" — Tenzin Dickie on finding Tibetan literature in the diaspora > http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/old-demons-new-deities/
In the wake of her commutation this week, we remember this bold testimony from whistleblower Chelsea Manning's closed trial. With illustrations by Clark Stoeckley. Find out more: https://goo.gl/tt7l0q
New all-original speculative fiction stories from some of the best in the business—on the theme of climate change. Edited by Gordon VanGelder and with a foreword by Elizabeth Kolbert
Looking for something to fill the cold, dark days of the Christmas holiday? Or a more original present for a loved one than a box of handkerchiefs? We may have just the thing you need - a drone warfare coloring book! Available now! https://goo.gl/nj7gRR
Norman Finkelstein enters the luxury gift market in the British/French TV series The Tunnel.
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