I want to thank my son Sebastian for his patience while I was working on the translation instead of paying attention to him. I want to thank my parents, Ad and Marieke for always stimulating my curiosity, although I realize it sometimes must have driven them crazy…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Teun Voeten, who originally studied Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy in the Netherlands, is an award-winning photojournalist and author. He has worked covering the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza. His work has been published in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, among others. Voeten is also a contributing photographer for organizations such as the International Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations.
He has published three books: Tunnel People, which originally appeared as Tunnelmensen in Amsterdam, 1996; A Ticket To, a collection of Voeten’s hard-hitting war photography along with a much-cited essay on war photography was released in 1999; How de Body? Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone, was published by Meulenhoff, Amsterdam in 2000 and came out in translation at St. Martin’s Press, 2002. It is a book about his first trip to Sierra Leone to photograph a project on child soldiers that nearly ended in disaster when he was hunted down by rebels intent on killing him. Currently, Voeten is working on a photo book and a video documentary about the drug violence in Mexico. He lives alternately in New York and Brussels.
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From Here to There
The Staughton Lynd Reader
From Here To There collects unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist historian Staughton Lynd.
The first section of the Reader collects reminiscences and analyses of the 1960s. A second section offers a vision of how historians might immerse themselves in popular movements while maintaining their obligation to tell the truth. In the last section Lynd explores what nonviolence, resistance to empire as a way of life, and working class self-activity might mean in the 21st century. Together, they provide a sweeping overview of the life, and work—to date—of Staughton Lynd.
Both a definitive introduction and further exploration, it is bound to educate, enlighten, and inspire those new to his work and those who have been following it for decades. In a wide-ranging Introduction, anarchist scholar Andrej Grubacic considers how Lynd’s persistent concerns relate to traditional anarchism.
Staughton Lynd
edited by Andrej Grubacic
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978-1-60486-215-7
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The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became a member of the Black Panther Party while in Angola State Penitentiary, successfully organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In return, prison authorities beat him, starved him, and gave him life without parole after framing him for a second crime. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six by nine foot cell for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. In 2001, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free.
The conditions in Angola almost defy description, yet King never gave up his humanity, or the work towards justice for all prisoners that he continues to do today. His story strips bare the injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.
Robert Hillary King
introduction by Terry Kupers
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978-1-60486-039-9
224 pages
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A Novel of Crime, Sex, and Transport
A novel of crime, transport, and sex, I-5 tells the bleak and brutal story of Anya and her journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California.
Anya is the victim of a deep deception. Someone has lied to her; and because of this lie, she is kept under lock and key, used by her employer to service men, and indebted for the privilege. In exchange, she lives in the United States and fantasizes on a future American freedom. Or as she remarks to a friend, “Would she rather be fucking a dog…or living like a dog?” In Anya’s world, it’s a reasonable question.
Much of I-5 transpires on the eponymous interstate. Anya travels with her “manager” and driver from Los Angeles to Oakland. It’s a macabre journey: a drop at Denny’s, a bad patch of fog, a visit to a “correctional facility,” a rendezvous with an organ grinder, and a dramatic entry across Oakland’s city limits.
Summer Brenner
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978-1-60486-019-1
256 pages
$15.95
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