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Original Paperback • 224 pages
7" x 10" • 16 color illustrations • $34.95
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In the Camp of Angels of Freedom:
What Does It Mean to Be Educated?
Through her evocative paintings and narrative, author Arlene Goldbard portrays individuals whose work most influenced her—what she calls a Camp of Angels. She sees each as a brave messenger of love and freedom for a society that badly needs “uncolonized minds.” Readers will learn about the author’s own self education, issues of formal higher education and its discontents, and the damage done by a society that prizes profits over people.
Among Goldbard's eleven “Angels of Freedom” are James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Paulo Freire, and Jane Jacobs. Despite their many differences, each had the gift of questioning assumptions, looking beneath surfaces, and imagining without bounds.
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"This book inspires and empowers with the forthrightness of the telling and the beauty of the stories told. Arlene is a master artist in the medium of the possible."
— Eric Booth, Founder, International Teaching Artist Collaborative, author of Tending the Perennials: The Art and Spirit of a Personal Religion
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Book Launch!
Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 6 PM MT
Collected Works Bookstore will host author Arlene Goldbard in conversation with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers, for the launch of In the Camp of Angels of Freedom, Goldbard's new book about cultural democracy and the impact of credentialism on U.S. society and what we can do to set it right.
Collected Works Bookstore
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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Book Review in The Progressive
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L.M. Bogad reviews In the Camp of Angels of Freedom
"Longtime advocate for cultural democracy Arlene Goldbard’s new book is a stirring autobiographical account of her self-education and the 'angels' that lit her path. It is also an incisive polemic in defense of the autodidact in our society, and against credentialism and other forms of institutional elitism that have so entrenched class inequality and hegemony in our society."
"I am sure there are many who would, in their own book, paint a portrait of Arlene Goldbard as one of their angels of freedom, who helped them to survive, thrive and chart their own life path past the traps of oppression, marginalization and elitism."
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A Culture of Possibility Podcast
Tune into A Culture of Possibility, the podcast cohosted by Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso. In episode 24, they discuss Arlene’s new book, In The Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to be Educated. Arlene and François focus on the book’s backstory, including family drama, fifties cultural alienation, outrage at the conversion of social goods to profit centers, a visit to a psychic, and a pandemic silver lining.
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Janet Zandy reviews Talking to the Girls for the Journal of Working Class Studies
"This international anthology embraces answerability, call and response, through multiple individual voices orchestrated as a collective chorus."
". . . a book of wishful rescue and determined remembrance.The selections range in tone and voice—shouts and laments, roars and whispers, reports and elegies. Like an epic prose poem, they carry a refrain: ‘those poor girls, those poor girls.’"
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Alexander Kopytin reviews Louise Dunlap's Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind for Ecopoiesis
Russian scholar Koptytin points out Dunlap's inspiration by Robin Wall Kimmer and notes: "This position of human work in 'deep reciprocity' with the natural world proposed by Kimmerer and accepted by [Louise Dunlap] is fully congruent with the ecopoietic stance in the world . . . a way in which human beings can respond ethically and aesthetically to the needs of the earth."
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Erin Harris reviews Diane Margolis's We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons for CoHousing Solutions
Harris points out how refreshing Diane's honesty is about the victories and follies of building community. She concludes that "We Built a Village is a great read for established communities, forming communities, and professionals who want to minimize the learning curve."
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Beyond Inherited Silence: Diving deeper into ancestors and repair
Thursday, January 12
7:00 – 8:30 PM ET (4:00–5:30 pm PT) on Zoom
A virtual program with author Louise Dunlap in conversation with Hilary Giovale (Reparative Philanthropist) and Morgan Curtis (Ancestor and Money Coach). Informal discussion will explore what practices are working to transform entrenched silences, to free us for action, and to move money and land. Some interactive practices. Please join if you are interested in learning what’s happening or diving deeper with your own ancestral story.
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Screening of Truth Tellers
Thursday, January 12, 4:00PM ET
Carrabassatt Valley Public Library
A feature-length documentary film about Americans Who Tell the Truth and Robert Shetterly's portraits.
Meet filmmaker Richard Kane.
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Root Shock Reading Group
Successive Mondays, January 16 to February 6, at 6:30 PM ET
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Extended Play Dialog
On the occasion of the publication of their new books, Jan Cohen-Cruz and Aaron Landsman talked together about one of the common themes in their respective works, the “civic turn” in theater.
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Change the Story/ Change the World, #61 Rad Pereira – Healing Justice Rising
Don’t miss Bill Cleveland’s podcast with Rad Pereira, coauthor of Meeting the Moment, about creating environments to tell healing centered stories where we can feel safe to imagine the world we want.
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Host Matt Crawford speaks with author Aviva Rahmani about her book: Divining Chaos. Aviva reveals what led her to her ecoart projects and pivotal moments in history through her incisive lens.
Aviva Rahmani addresses the Princeton Conservation Society
In her lecture at Princeton University, Rahmani takes on our environmental crisis in a discussion about how changes occurs and how art can respond.
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First Project Censored Show of 2023
Ecoart in Action contributor M. Annenburg discusses the urgency of addressing climate change with Dr. James Hansen, Geoff Dembicki, and climate justice leader and Portraits of Earth Justice contributor Bill McKibben in this edited recording from the MayDay! EAARTH program.
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“Mindfulness Reminds Us What Health Care Is For”
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove and Dr. Marisela Gomez write for AMA Journal of Ethics
"The question we wish to address is this: Why, during crises, is it useful for individuals to become buddhas? A short answer is that, because crises provoke anxiety, which, in turn, impedes individual and collective decision making, mindfulness is needed to calm us to improve our thinking."
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Mindy Thompson Fullilove's concerns about health justice prompt a People’s CDC
The New Yorker recently ran a story about the emergence of the People CDC and whose health justice is at stake—“The Case for Wearing Masks Forever” by Emma Green.
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A Peaceful Superpower:
Lessons from the World's Largest
Antiwar Movement
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As the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, millions of people in the United States and around the world took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was the largest wave of antiwar protest in history. This is the story of those dramatic events and the breadth of continuing dissent following the ill-fated invasion of Iraq in 2003, told by distinguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright.
February 14, 2023. Paperback, 240 pages, 18 b/w illus.
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“A virtual handbook for activism and organizing that could not be more timely and needed.”
—Noam Chomsky
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989
Edited by Ben Fink
March 14, 2023
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays,
1990–2020
Edited by Ben Fink
March 14, 2023
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