Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?21l3r9e1svl8h9v

Description:

Privilege, Power, and Difference… is a tool for people alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways hat enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This… book was been used across the country.. to shed light on issues of power and privilege. 

Note: 1) this is a digital copy. 2) please read and if possible buy her book, this is information that all people in the west should know.

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part 1 (Intro-Chapter 6): http://www.mediafire.com/?quyqffqsxq4gw2c

part 2 (Chapter 6- end): http://www.mediafire.com/?m6g6v5yy3jjuv6w

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Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls’ schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn’t find them; she helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home providence of Farah; and at a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country’s powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She was survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses. 

Joya takes us inside this massively important and insufficiently understood country, shows us the desperate day-to-day situations its remarkable people face at every turn, and recounts some of he many acts of rebellion that are helping to change it. A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero of our times. 

Note: 1) Digital Read 2) This book covers the history of SDS as it was through the 1969 (and briefly about the Weather Underground in the 70s). It does not cover the history of the organization from 2006-present.

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Pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?l8y7sfdi0rlf2ld

Pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?9gf86ckwznkxv0x

Description:

By the late 1960s, America seemed to be teetering on the edge of a vast transformation. Helping to push it over that edge was a brigade of young radicals, the Students for a Democratic Society, who were fighting the establishment for peace abroad and equality at home. In Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, famed graphic novelist Harvey Pekar, gifted Gary Dumm, renowned historian Paul Buhle, and marvelous cast of they-were-there contributors illustrate their struggle, bringing to life the tumultuous decade that first defined and then was defined by the men and women who gathered under the SDS banner.

 With brilliant art and memorable dialogue, this collection follows the organization’s rocketing rise and fall, from the famous Port Huron Statement to the last SDS convention in 1969, which ultimately signaled the group’s dissolution. The individual stories from those on the front lines go beyond the general history, showing the revolution as it was: deeply national as well as deeply personal. Students for a Democratic Society captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to believe that even one person’s actions could help transform the world.

Note: Digital Read

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pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?wkhj9fc4rlodzy2

pt: 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?r67fmy9wd2cfc1p

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First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new Introduction and Afterword, this volume represents the fullest statement of the political philosophy and practical methodology of one of the most important figures in the history of American radicalism. Like Thomas Paine before him, Saul Alinsky, through the concept and practice of community organizing, was able to embody for his era both the urgency of radical political action and the imperative of rational political discourse. His work and writing bequeathed a new method and style of social changes to American communities that will remain a permanent part of the American political landscape. 

Note: Digital Read

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pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?d0vnbw6qql1yxje

pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?7w7mp5oto5okx0f

pt 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?ae4blle45bcag3o

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In this interdisciplinary study of gender, cross-cultural encounters, and federal Indian policy, Margaret D. Jacobs explores the changing relationship between Anglo-American women and the Pueblo Indians before and after the turn of the century. During the 19th century, the Pueblos were characterized by women reformers as barbaric and needing to be “uplifted” into civilization. By the 1920s, however, the Pueblos were widely admired by activists Anglo-American women, who challenged assimilation policies and worked hard to protect the Pueblos’ “traditional” way of life.

Deftly weaving together an analysis of the changes in gender roles, attitudes towards sexuality, public conceptions of Native peoples, and federal Indian policy, Jacobs argues that the impetus for this transformation in perception rests less with a progressively tolerant view of Native peoples and more with fundamental shifts shifts in the ways of Anglo-American women saw their own sexuality and social responsibilities. 

Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?85z32zwvyqd13up

Excerpt:

“… The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they’re supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world.”

Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?mgjtgjrlmti

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The years since Karl Marx’s death have seen the emergence of movements, organizations, and governments declaring themselves to be “Marxists.” How can we make sense of this development?

This short book is an attempt to untangle these “Marxisms,” to establish criteria for evaluating claims to stand within the Marxist tradition, to examine the conflicting claims of Social Democracy, Stalinism, and the liberation movements of the Third World an d answer the question, “What is the real Marxist tradition?”

Included in this new edition is Leon Trotsky’s brilliant defense of the politics and practice of Bolshevism, Stalinism and Bolshevism. Trotsky makes the case that the rise of Stalin- and Stalinism- was not the inevitable consequence of Leninism, but rather its negation. 

note: Digital Read

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pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?zxfzyyyvtaz

pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?mjnuueuo1ml

Note: 1) Digital/Printed Read. 2) I have a habit of highlighting, underlining, and braketing things that stick out to me at the time that I read them. I hope everyone’s ok with that… cuz that’s what you’re getting. :) 3) probably the first “radical” book I read.

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Chapter 1/intro: http://www.mediafire.com/?m35mnmgddyn

Chapter 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?jmzu4mzmmzm

Chapter 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?iimwniftzfm

Chapter 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?zdqmwwzmvzg

Chapter 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?znmdch0njo0

Chapter 6: http://www.mediafire.com/?tfkvjhjenwn

Chapter 7: http://www.mediafire.com/?3ymou3loozm

Chapter 8: http://www.mediafire.com/?t35mtroi4zj

Chapter 9: http://www.mediafire.com/?gggkjwnm4mr

Description:

Timely, illuminating, and urgently needed, this volume of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing U.S. policies in the increasingly unstable post-9/11 world. In these exchanges, appearing for the first time in print, Chomsky offers his frank, provocative, and informed views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of preemptive strikes against so-called rogue states, and the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history.

From No Logo by Naomi Klein 

Note: *Digital Read **I will soon be uploading the book in its entirety.

URL: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/fiaYdi

Opening:

“A democratic system of education… is one of the surest ways of creating and greately extending markets for goods of all kinds and especially those goods in which fashion may play a part.” -Ex-adman James Rorty, Our Master’s Voice, 1934

Although the brands seem to be everywhere - at kids’ concerts, next to them on the couch, on the state with their heroes, in their on-line chat groups, and on their playing fields and basket ball courts - for along time one major unbranded youth frontier remained: a place where young people gathered, talked, sneaked smokes, made out, formed opinions and, most maddeningly of all, stood around looking cool for hours on end. That place is called school. And clearly, the brands had to get into the schools.

“You’ll agree that the youth market is an untapped wellspring of new revenue. You’ll also agree that the youth market spends the majority of each day inside the schoolhouse. Now the problem is, how do you reach that market?” ask a typically tantalizing brochure from the Fourth Annual Kid Power Marketing Conference.

As we have just seen, marketers and cool hunters have spent the better part of the decade hustling the brands back to high school and pouring them into the template of the teenage outlaw. Several of the most successful brands had even cast their corporate headquarters as private schools, referring to them as “campuses” and, at the Nike World Campus, nicknaming one edifice “the student union building.” Even the cool hunters are going highbrow; by the late nineties, the rage in the industry was to recast oneself less as a trendy club-hopper than as a bookish grad student. In fact, some insist they aren’t cool hunters at all but rather “urban anthropologists.”

And yet despite their up-to-the-minute outfits and intellectual pretensions, the brands and their keepers still found themselves on the wrong side of the school gate, a truly intolerable state of affairs and one that would not last long. American marketing consultant Jack Myers described the insufferable slight like this: “The choice we have in this country [the U.S.] is for our educational system to join the electronic age and communicate to the students in ways they can understand and to which they can relate. Our schools can continue to use outmoded forms of communications and become the daytime prisons for millions of young people, as they have become in the inner cities.” This reasoning, which badly equates corporate access to the schools with access to modern technology, and extension to the future itself, is at the core of how the brands have managed, over the course of only one decade, to all but eliminate the barrier between ads and education. It was technology that lent a new urgency to nineties chronic underfunding: at the same time as schools were facing ever-deeper budget cuts, the costs of delivering a modern education were rising steeply, forcing many educators to look to alternative funding sources for help. Swept up by the info-tech hype, schools that couldn’t afford up-to-date text books were suddenly expected to provide students with audiovisual equipment, video cameras, classroom computers, desktop publishing capacity, the latest educational software programs, Internet access - even, at some schools, video-conferencing.