November 2019 News
Announcing Our First Audiobook!
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race by African American father of the environmental justice movement, Carl Anthony, is now available as an audiobook! We are immensely grateful to Martin Nicolaus for narrating it.

This eleven-hour audio edition also includes a twenty-minute bonus interview with Carl Anthony telling, in his own voice, about his early career influences.

Get the audiobook free with an Audible trial or any new Audible subscription.

“ A n extraordinary journey of passion, learning, and an unrelenting fight for
social justice”
— African and Black Diaspora Journal
Waging Peace in Vietnam book launch, exhibit, and conference in DC, Nov 11-15
The next stop for Waging Peace in Vietnam is George Washington University. The Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia and the Elliott School of International Affairs are hosting a five-day conference, exhibit, book launch, and cultural events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Mobilization for Peace, November 11–15 at the university's Foggy Bottom campus. Programs begin with a Veterans Day book launch and includes film screenings, panel discussions, poetry workshops, and a daylong symposium— The American War in Vietnam, Then and Now .

Featured presenters will include, among others:
  • Seymour M. Hersh, author and Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist
  • Lt. Susan Schnall, Navy veteran and Vietnam war resister
  • Dr. Christian G. Appy, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
  • Ms. Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace

Other highlights:
  • Film screenings of Sir! No, Sir!, The Boys Who Said No!, and The Whistleblower of My Lai with the filmmakers
  • Panels on subjects ranging from teaching the American War in Vietnam and the continued impact of Agent Orange
  • A candlelight peace vigil

Click HERE for the full schedule of these events at George Washington University.
The exhibit will be on display November 11 thru December 12.
Praise for Waging Peace in Vietnam

" Waging Peace offers a full and extraordinarily powerful picture of the way that soldiers and veterans provided a much-overlooked but immense contribution to forcing an end to the United States invasion of Vietnam."
Media coverage of Waging Peace in Vietnam
University of Massachusetts
Click HERE to read about the impact the Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit had on UMass Amherst and surrounding campuses in Smith College's The Sophian.
Columbia University
Click HERE to watch Pix 11 News coverage of veterans telling about their resistance to the American war in Vietnam at the book launch and mini-exhibit at Columbia University.
Daniel Ellsberg donates archive to UMass
Daniel Ellsberg, one of the foremost whistleblowers in the United States who assisted in bringing an end to the American war in Vietnam, donated a private archive, including his documents on the Pentagon Papers, to UMass Amherst's W.E.B. Du Bois Library.

Ellsberg is one of 46 activists profiled in Chellis Glendinning's memoir , In the Company of Rebels . He recently spoke at UMass to Dr. Christian Appy, who will be a keynote speaker at the American War in Vietnam symposium in DC, Nov 15.
Click HERE for an interview between Daniel Ellsberg and UMass History Dept.
Waging Peace in Vietnam book launches coming to Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Book launch and mini-exhibit in Philadelphia
Sunday, November 7, 2019, 2 PM
Philadelphia Central Library (19th & Vine)

Book launch and mini-exhibit in Oakland, NJ
Thursday, December 5, 2019, 6:30 PM
Oakland Public Library (2 Municipal Plaza)

Click HERE for the latest book tour and exhibit schedule for Waging Peace in Vietnam.
Symposium on Scholar Activism
On Saturday, November 16, at 10 AM - 5:30 PM (EST) join The New School and Imagining America in critically reflecting on 100 years of Scholar Activism. Panelists will include, among others, New Village Press authors Mindy Fullilove and Ron Shiffman, and faculty director of Imagining America, Erica Kohl-Arenas.

Nadina LaSpina to present at the Commonwealth Club of California Dec. 4th!
Wednesday, December 4, 5:30 –7:00 PM (EST) at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, disability rights activist and author of Such A Pretty Girl , Nadina LaSpina will discuss why pity has been one of the most hurtful things she’s had to contend with in her life, and how the problem was not her disability but the way she was treated because of it.
Nadina LaSpina Interviews
Nadina LaSpina was interviewed by Pushing Limits and Truthout. Find out what she had to say about disability and her new memoir!
Click HERE to listen to the Pushing Limits interview on KPFA Radio.
Click HERE to read the full interview in Truthout , titled "Our Lives are not Tragedies."
Nadina will also be interviewed on these upcoming radio programs:
The Morning Show on WGVU-FM Grand Rapids, MI, November 7 at 8:20 AM EDT. NPR
UpFront on KPFA-FM Berkeley, CA, December 3 at Noon PDT. Pacifica
Letters and Politics on KPFA-FM Berkeley, CA, December 3 at 1 PM PDT. Pacifica
About the Book
Such A Pretty Girl : A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

 Nadina LaSpina’s poignant memoir traces her life from early years in Sicily, where she contracts polio, to the struggles of growing up with a disability in the United States, to eventually finding community and strength through disability rights activism.

Praise from Simi Linton, author of My Body Politic : "Nadina LaSpina's beautifully written narrative reveals a conscientious citizen and an exuberant and vibrant woman."
More on our Authors
New Review
The latest issue of the eJournal of Public Affairs includes a review of Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Strategies for Planning Sustainable Communities by Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer. Reviewer Brandy Judkins notes, "Children and youth are not just the future . . . but are also living stakeholders of their communities."
The peer-reviewed eJournal publishes work on civic engagement and education.
Click HERE to read the free downloadable review.
New Podcast with Spoon Jackson

Spoon Jackson, co-author of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives is a producer on a podcast series "Uncuffed," produced by and about incarcerated persons in the San Quentin and Solano State Prisons in California. "Uncuffed is vulnerable and personal. If you can see the humanity in us, you can see the humanity in anyone."
Watch the UNCUFFED trailer,
listen to podcasts, and subscribe!
400 Years of Inequality
Mindy Thompson Fullilove , author of three New Village Press books (and a fourth to come out in fall 2020!), collaborated with The New School to create a national observance of the 400th anniversary of the first Africans sold into bondage on U.S. soil.
the project and the events it sparked.
Panel on Feminist Art
Artist Sabra Moore, author of Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992 , and poet Margaret Randall, author of the forthcoming, My Life in 100 Objects , were among discussants at the Santa Fe Art Institute program, "Currents of Imagination: The Radicalness of Feminist Art." The Nov 1 event was part of the Ripple Series. Read more about the event and series HERE .