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Anyone have a particular historic or political work in mind for me to spend the summer on?
I bet you've read them all, let's think:
Look in Amazon for books about the Irish Potato Famine.
Also I just ordered a ton of books about the "dirty war" in Argentina. Just search under Argentina and you'll see lots of stuff about torture and "desparecidos". How I wish Che could have been around to stop that.
Let us be judged by how we treat the least among us....Supermodel, rubia y descamisada...
try nelson mandelas long walk to freedom. it is v.long, but enjoyable and shows how much dedication is required to fight a oppressive state.
(one of the more emotional moments is when he meets his daughter for the first time in 20 years his grand-daughter who is the same age as his daughter was when he last saw her)
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children
I have one...might be a LITTLE too advanced for you tho...its titled "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" hrm the authors name is Dr.Seuss....amazing book may take more than just this summer to read tho
\"Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha\'s polishing on the brass of the Titanic. But it\'s all going down, man! So fuck off, with your sofa units and your green stripe patterns. I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let\'s evolve and let the chips f
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn. i have only read pieces of it while on break at work, but plan on reading it this summer.
"...in our kiss we taste revolution." - The (International) Noise Conspiracy
"The world is full of ideologies that claim to offer freedom, but in reality simply offer us bigger cages and longer chains. The demand for an end to cages and chains may seem idealistic to some people, but the real idealists are those who think we can carry on as we are." - Larry Law
Third World Forum
Students for Justice in Palestine - Davis
really good holocuast book: Auschwitz and After by charlotte delbo
political: against empire by Michael Parenti
Others:
The struggle to be human
No Logo
Prison Writings, My life is my sundance (Leonard Peltier)
Hitler's Willing Executioners (but if you read that you also have to read Ordinary men)
Have fun
I AM THE PERFECT ME!
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15
Treasure of the Seirra Madre Ben Traven
Ben Traven was a member of the Sparticus League and Fled germany 1919. Great film Bogie and Edward G
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Man's dearest possession is life, and since it is given to him to live but once.He must so live that dying he can say, all my life and all my strength have been given to the greatest cause in the world, the liberation of mankind
Ostrovski
Muriel Spark:
If I had my life to live over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
