September 2019 News
Waging Peace in Vietnam launches in Boston, New Bedford, and Amherst!
Edited by Ron Carver, David Cortright ,

Resistance from within all branches of the military made a critical difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. Yet this history is largely unknown. This oversize book, illustrated with 200 visuals shows how the GI movement unfolded, with first-hand accounts, oral histories, underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photos, plus original essays by renowned scholars and activists.
Order your copy here
SEPTEMBER LAUNCH EVENTS

Wed, Sept 11, 6pm, New Bedford, MA
First Unitarian Church, 71 Eighth Street

Thurs, Sept 12, 4pm, U. Mass, Boston Grossman Gallery, 5th Floor, Healey Library
100 Morrissey Blvd.

Friday, Sept 27, 4:30pm, U. Mass, Amherst
Room N151, Integrated Learning Center
Friday, October 11, Symposium 


Exhibition Tour
The Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibition is touring the United States and Vietnam together with book events and symposia.
Additional stops this fall include New York City & Washington DC.

Exhibit and book t our details here!
Waging Peace in Vietnam in the media
Inland Journal, Aug. 20, 2019: Battling the Vietnam War From the Inside
Spokane Public Radio blog with a fabulous podcast within. Hear stories from key veterans featured in "Waging Peace in Vietnam." Interviews hosted by Doug Nadvornick.
Such a Pretty Girl in the media
Excerpt in Salon
Salon magazine ran an adapted excerpt of Nadina LaSpina's Such a Pretty Girl on September 8th. "How the Disability Rights Movement saved my life"

Radio Interviews with Nadina LaSpina on WPR and KPFA
Wisconsin Public Radio's NPR program, Central Time, interviews Nadina LaSpina in "Disability Rights Activist Reflects on a Life of Struggle and Empowerment"

Nadina spoke about her new book on KPFA's "Pushing Limits" a half-hour Pacifica Radio show on critical disability issues and the disability movement.

C-SPAN BookTV captured Nadina LaSpina's powerful book launch reading and discussion of disability rights issues at Pen & Brush, New York City.



Disability rights activist Nadina LaSpina wrestles with pity, ableism, and sexuality in her poignant memoir.

Upcoming with Nadina LaSpina
Saturday, October 12, Nadina will read at the New York Public Library,
Mulberry Street, for the Italian American Writers Association.
Chellis Glendinning's memoir reviewed
A Generational Memoir of Bohemians,
Deep Heads, and History Makers
by
Chellis Glendinning

We love this new book review in Knox Book Beat by Wyndy Knox Carr for The Berkeley Times, which ends:

"Wow. Politico-Social Movements 101, two-thirds of the “underground” movers and shakers of the U.S.A. since the 1950s. Here’s your guide…"



Forthcoming
A Man of the Theater
Survival As an Artist in Iran
by Nasser Rahmaninejad
The personal story of a theater artist caught between the two great upheavals of Iran: the White Revolution of the 1960s and the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Rahmaninejad’s memoir describes his fraught creative life in Tehran, founding a theater company and directing plays under increasing pressure of censorship and the Shah’s secret police. After arrest, torture, and years in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison, Rahmaninejad is freed by the Revolution of 1979. But his new-found freedom is short-lived; progressive intellectuals soon find themselves subject to terror and exile.
More Author Programs & Events
Public Lecture
Wed, October 16, 7pm

Mindy Thompson Fullilove will deliver the 2019 Lefkowitz Lecture, "Urbanism is a Participatory Sport" in the Theresa Lang Theatre, Marymount College Manhattan.
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Cultural Activism in the Classroom
Mat Schwarzman , coauthor of Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts is offering a 50-hour online professional development class for teachers and teaching artists who work with teenagers. Through College Unbound, October 30 – Dec 17.
Green Schoolyards America Conference
Sharon Gamson Danks , author of Asphalt to Ecosystems and founder of Green Schoolyards America, has organized a conference, Sept 27–28, featuring the work of Susan Humphries, one of the international founders of the green schoolyard movement. The event will be hosted by Golestan Education in El Cerrito, CA. Details here.