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OR Books OR Books is a new type of publishing company. It embraces progressive change in politics, culture an It points to a new future for book publishing.

It embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business. Our list is highly selective: we publish just one or two books a month, combining established authors with new discoveries. Our editorial standards are fastidious; our design clear and elegant. We employ exciting promotion with highly creative use of video and the Internet. To avoid the waste of unsold stock and return

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“This careful, informed, judicious study is an invaluable guide to understanding Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, ...
12/22/2022

“This careful, informed, judicious study is an invaluable guide to understanding Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, and most crucially, how we can act to help bring this terrible tragedy to an end.” —Noam Chomsky

WAR IN UKRAINE: MAKING SENSE OF A SENSELESS CONFLICT

MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES

Preface by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL

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12/19/2022

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A Present for Protestors. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/a-present-for-protestorsAn all-purpose guide and toolbox for ...
12/15/2022

A Present for Protestors. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/a-present-for-protestors

An all-purpose guide and toolbox for creative action packed with contemporary and historical case studies and best practices from dozens of seasoned activists and artists around the world.

Buy THE ART OF ACTIVISM at 40% off in OR Books' Holiday Sale.

Decolonize with Deep Discounts - https://www.orbooks.com/decolonize-that/OR Books is proud to announce a new series: Dec...
12/09/2022

Decolonize with Deep Discounts - https://www.orbooks.com/decolonize-that/

OR Books is proud to announce a new series: Decolonize That! Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas. From Warscapes magazine editor Bhakti Shringarpure, these are inventive, page-turning polemics of resistance and creative regeneration.

Meticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lob...
12/06/2022

Meticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as leader of the Labour Party.

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EXAMINING THE CARCERAL COSTS OF CAR USE AND OWNERSHIP.American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a “freed...
11/28/2022

EXAMINING THE CARCERAL COSTS OF CAR USE AND OWNERSHIP.

American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a “freedom machine,” consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state.

This book investigates that paradox ...

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Imprisoned by US imperialism.Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from sou...
11/09/2022

Imprisoned by US imperialism.

Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant, effervescent and highly original journalist Belén Fernández, offers a different and wholly original take.

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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE LITIGATEDEdited by KATIE REDFORD and MARK GEVISSERHere, 25 of the world’s most accomplished m...
10/27/2022

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE LITIGATED

Edited by KATIE REDFORD and MARK GEVISSER

Here, 25 of the world’s most accomplished movement lawyers and activists become storytellers, reflecting on their experiences at the frontlines of some of the most significant struggles of our time. Their stories capture the complex, and often-awkward dance between legal reform and social change in a highly readable and original anthology.

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CHOMSKY AND ME: A MEMOIR by BEV BOISSEAU STOHLBev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic No...
10/26/2022

CHOMSKY AND ME: A MEMOIR by BEV BOISSEAU STOHL

Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her funny and charming account of those years, working next to a man described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.”

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https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/noam-chomsky-up-close-and-personable-1608252

A CREATURE WANTING FORM by LUKE O'NEIL is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wr...
10/21/2022

A CREATURE WANTING FORM by LUKE O'NEIL is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life.

Filtered through the lens of a writer and characters who are horrified by the earth’s looming mortality, and their own, but still compelled to carry on, O’Neil interweaves science fiction, allegory, fables, poetry, and reflections on the deeply grounded indignities of modern life.

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Can places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Museum of Natural History, packed with artefa...
10/19/2022

Can places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Museum of Natural History, packed with artefacts plundered from empires around the world, escape their racist, colonial past? In this spirited, page-turning polemic, Shimrit Lee punctures the fantasies peddled by today’s museums, scrutinizing their true meaning. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/palaces-of-plunder-1608236

This week, please join us at The People's Forum to celebrate the launch of THE WORK OF LIVING! Author Maximillian Alvare...
10/03/2022
The People's Forum

This week, please join us at The People's Forum to celebrate the launch of THE WORK OF LIVING! Author Maximillian Alvarez will sit down with Alex Press and Luis Feliz Leon to discuss covering worker struggles during COVID. Details and registration at the link below.

📅 Wednesday, October 5th
⏰ 6:30PM ET
📍 In-person and online

Join us for an in-person book talk with Maximillian Alvarez on his latest book, The Work of Living. Comprised of interviews Alvarez conducted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Work of Living captures a critical moment in the lives of working people nationwide: from Kyle, a sheet metal work...

💥 Happy publication day to THE DEAD CENTER! 💥 In his timely new book, writer Luke Savage brilliantly skewers centrist li...
09/27/2022

💥 Happy publication day to THE DEAD CENTER! 💥

In his timely new book, writer Luke Savage brilliantly skewers centrist liberalism and its pathologies, tackling Joe Biden's flailing administration, the subversion of Bernie Sanders' movement, and much more.

Pick up your copy today: bit.ly/TheDeadCenter

🎉 POWER CONCEDES NOTHING is OUT NOW! 🎉With the midterms fast approaching, this must-read book offers an essential roadma...
09/20/2022
POWER CONCEDES NOTHING: Grassroots Organizing in Elections | OR BOOKS

🎉 POWER CONCEDES NOTHING is OUT NOW! 🎉

With the midterms fast approaching, this must-read book offers an essential roadmap to winning elections, building progressive power, and achieving long-term change.

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POWER CONCEDES NOTHING tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts that mobilized a record-breaking turnout by registering new voters and motivating an electorate...

BLOOD SPLATTERS QUICKLYThe Collected StoriesEDWARD D. WOOD, JR.“To me, Ed Wood was a crazy genius. Way ahead of his time...
09/16/2022

BLOOD SPLATTERS QUICKLY
The Collected Stories

EDWARD D. WOOD, JR.

“To me, Ed Wood was a crazy genius. Way ahead of his time. Everybody was afraid to do the things that he would do. He was the most prolific writer I’ve ever known. And the fastest. He could write better drunk than most writers could sober.”
—Bernie Bloom, magazine publisher

“[an] incredibly unique book.”
—The LA Times

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✨ Happy publication day to THE WORK OF LIVING! ✨ Maximillian Alvarez's stirring new book chronicles the lives of workers...
08/23/2022
THE WORK OF LIVING: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke | OR BOOKS

✨ Happy publication day to THE WORK OF LIVING! ✨

Maximillian Alvarez's stirring new book chronicles the lives of workers at the height of the COVID pandemic, offering a deeply human history of one of the defining events of our time.

Pick up your copy here: bit.ly/WorkOfLiving

In late 2020 and early 2021, at the height of the COVID pandemic, Maximillian Alvarez conducted a series of intimate interviews with workers of all stripes, from all around the US. He talked to them about their lives, their work, and their experiences living through a year when the world itself seem...

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDERIn this highly informative and accessible primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies expe...
07/27/2022
WAR IN UKRAINE: Making Sense of A Senseless Conflict | Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies | OR BOOKS

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

In this highly informative and accessible primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies expertly document the historical and political context of the war in Ukraine, offering a clear-eyed look at the origins of this crisis and how it might be resolved.

Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin ...

Today is Crime Day, the most profitable day of the year for Amazon’s billionaire overlord Jeff Bezos and the most danger...
07/13/2022
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Today is Crime Day, the most profitable day of the year for Amazon’s billionaire overlord Jeff Bezos and the most dangerous one for his underpaid warehouse workers.

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OR Books is a new type of publishing company. It embraces progressive change in politics, culture, and the way we do business.

💥 OPERATION MINDF**K is out now 💥Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive resear...
07/05/2022
Operation Mindf**k: QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey | OR BOOKS

💥 OPERATION MINDF**K is out now 💥

Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research, political analysis, and firsthand notes, Robert Guffey’s freewheeling new book journeys into the underbelly of QAnon and insists that we’ve seen it all before.

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In Operation Mindf**k, Robert Guffey argues that this is not as mysterious as QAnon’s anonymous “drops” of cryptic directives seem to be. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research, political analysis, and firsthand notes from QAnon’s underbelly...

Che Guevara was born 94 years ago today.WHO KILLED CHE? recounts the extraordinary life of the world’s most storied revo...
06/14/2022
Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder, Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith - OR Books

Che Guevara was born 94 years ago today.

WHO KILLED CHE? recounts the extraordinary life of the world’s most storied revolutionary—and presents an irrefutable case that the CIA was responsible for his murder.

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“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and ...
05/19/2022

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”

Remembering Malcolm X, who was born on this day in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska.

“This complex, moving poem captures both the determined resistance and the fatalism of women trying to get control of th...
05/17/2022
“Women afraid of dying while / they are trying to find their life.” Poetry of Abortion by Alissa Quart

“This complex, moving poem captures both the determined resistance and the fatalism of women trying to get control of their lives in a milieu that doesn’t particularly want them to have any.” — Katha Pollitt introduces a poem from Alissa Quart's THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS in Literary Hub.

Read more from Quart here: bit.ly/Thoughts-Prayers

This week’s leak of the Supreme Court vote to strike down Roe v. Wade decision caused waves of outrage across the land: The 1973 decision provided federal constitutional protections of abortion rig…

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Our very own Ryan Greenwood has a chapter included in the new book out from OR Books, POWER CONCEDES NOTHING. The book is an inside account of the grassroots mobilization that defeated Trump and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. Find it here: https://bit.ly/PowerConcedesNothing
can you thinkk of places that might publish this? dave A review of It Runs in the Family by Frida Berrigan, published by OR books, 2014. (in progress)- Dave Eberhardt- Baltimore 4 draft action member [email protected]

Phil’s oldest daughter, Frida has written a wonderful book- in a spare prose with tons of wit. It is not preachy- you are learning from some one who is interesting and insightful about her unique childhood , and especially about community, childbirth and parenting..

She writes: “At some level it is not so strange that I should think kids could seamlessly integrate with my life. That is how my parents dealt with the surprise of children. Pack the bottle and keep going to meetings, demonstrations and to the courthouse. All our family photos from our early years are pictures snapped at demonstrations. There are no portraits taken against fall foliage backdrops at Sears, there are no p;hotographs where we all cozy up next to the Christmas tree with mugs of steaming cocoa in ironically awful seasonal sweaters. We did not go to Disney World or water parks or the zoo or baseball games or on vacation. The Berrigans didn’t do stuff like that. We resisted.”

Is there a tinge of sadness here? Jonah House was not that far from the Baltimore Zoo,

For some one like myself, brought up in the church with a father a minister and professor of philosophy and author of The Bible and Making of Ministers, also heavily influenced by the music of church hymns and the 5th apostle, Bach, her books is just heartwarming.

It speaks of the joy in changing the world and service to others!

She writes of her parents: “They were not burdened or haunted by the ills of the world. My dad was joyful. My mom still is, in spite of everything they knew and experienced, Why? Because they saw themselves as part of the dynamic that is trying to change the world.. With that belief-and lived experience- they endowed us with a moral cheerfulness that is both sustaining and infectious.”

I was glad to be near Frida’s father only briefly- for- to stay near him was dangerous. He was risky! We do not stand nxt to prophets easily! They can get you arrested. Gary Wills, in the New York Review of Books, reviews the Berrigan Letters but mostly talks about Jesuits.

When you think about the time Phil and Liz spent in prison and contrast the tortures of Jesuit Thomas Campion under the realm of Elizabeth? It’s not that much! Think 0of dismemberment or inserts to the “quick” beneath your nails? Think about being “racked” until your appendages are dislocated? (No wonder Shakespeare was quiet about his Catholicism).
Frida’s dry sense of humor: “Growing up; we always asked our dad what he wanted for Father’s Day. We’d get a raised eye brow and a look that read something like, “What I want more than anything for Father’s Day are children who know better than to ask me.” What do you buy a man so ascetic that he reuses dental floss? One year, we got Phil Berrigan- priest, peace activist, hardcore non violent resister- a tie!”

Frida is wise : re how to talk to the enemy? Or many of her p;eers whose parents work at Electric Boat- the submarine manufacturer where she lives in Connecticut. Not “How do you sleep at night, or, Don’t you see the contradictions between your life and your work, or her favorite when demonstrating at the Pentagon, “You can’t run from a nuclear war….such conversation starters actually kill dialogue…they tell me that empathy, compassion, and mutual aid are more effective. And so I am letting go of judgement and conversion and starting with real conversation”.
curious- how do you pick the bks you print? am enjoying Frida Berrigan'd bk so much best David Eberhardt
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Dave Eberhardt was born March 26, 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system. As a peace protester, he was incarcerated at Lewisburg Federal Prison for pouring blood on draft files in 1967 with Father Phil Berrigan and two others to protest the Vietnam war. He has published three books of poetry: The Tree Calendar, Blue Running Lights, and Poems from the Website, Poetry in Baltimore. He has completed a peace movement memoir, For All the Saints: A Protest Primer. In 2020 he won the Enoch Pratt Library/ Little Patuxent Review prize for poetry.
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Gearing up for Twelve Days of Christmassing? For moments when day-after-day of seasonality starts to sag our Philosophy Football guide to twelve brilliant new books, reads guaranteed for brightening up thoughts and spice up plans for '22.

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Shopping for books and magazines this holiday season? Don't miss these discounts from Lampblack Lit, Litmus Press, Lookout Books, Milkweed Editions, OR Books, Passager, Rose Metal Press & more!
We wrote a little guide to help with your holiday gift list. Card deck divination meets radical politics meets wildly beautiful and useful products. You’re welcome!

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2021/11/forget-amazon-give-real-progressive-gifts-this-holiday-season/

“Amidst the politically pendulous year we’ve all had, we’re thinking with gratitude of the people in our lives who are holding it down and getting s**t done in so many ways — and scratching our heads for holiday gifts that will convey that appreciation and solidarity. Are you also grappling with a holiday shopping list amidst battling capitalism and its discontents?

To help us out with the act of radical redistribution that holiday gift giving can and should be, we turned to our trusty Beautiful Trouble strategy card deck to divine the future. (ICYMI, the Beautiful Trouble book and online toolbox of key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories are now available in a deck of more than 100 cards you can play!) While we know a single consumer choice won’t change the future of the world, small change adds up, and where we put our resources matters…”

By Nadine Bloch & Rae Abileah with editorial support from Chelsea Lee Byers and Dave Mitchell

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DECOLONIZE HIPSTERS

By Grégory Pierrot

“Grégory Pierrot’s fiercely illuminating short book dissects the political complacency and racial delusions of hipsterism, but it does so with a verve, swagger and irreverence. Pierrot provides us not only an anatomy of hipsterism’s past, but a vision of its possible future.” – Adam Shatz, editor of Prophets Outcast

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