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New Village dedicates this issue of our newsletter to peace. As activists we want to help bring about peace in the world. How can peace become a sacred value? How can nations unlearn war and leave behind the huge profits made from making and trading weaponry? War is not sport. War does not bring justice. Everyone loses in war—except those who sell it.
We wish to honor authors David Cortright, Ron Carver, and Mayumi Oda who have dedicated their lives to peace and disarmament. We also wish to recognize our authors who build community across deep differences and indifference, among them Lily Yeh, Mindy Fullilove, and Carl Anthony. And praise goes to those who encourage us to work for our higher values and the rights of others, including Robert Shetterly, Louise Dunlap, Margaret Randall, and Leigh Sugar.
May we all think of peace . . . read, speak, dance, and sing of peace this season.
With love for all and tears for those who suffer,
Lynne Elizabeth
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Daniel O'Connell at UC Davis
December 1, 3–5 PM PST
Join Daniel O'Connell, Dean MacCannell, Mary Louise Frampton, and Janaki Anagha for a discussion of In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California at UC Davis. The discussion will center around the history of radical social science research and how it can support agrarian justice. It will be hosted by the Community Development Graduate Group / Human Ecology and the Center for Regional Change.
3rd floor Hart Hall, Risling Room UC Davis.
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New Village Press at Howard Zinn Book Fair
Dec 3, 10 AM–6 PM PST, San Francisco
Come say hi to director Lynne Elizabeth at the New Village Press exhibit at the Howard Zinn Book Fair this Sunday! Authors Daniel O’Connell, Janaki Anagha, and Laura Roberto will be presenting and have their respective books featured. The book fair is a free, public event that will be in-person.
1125 Valencia Street, Room 260
San Francisco, CA 94110
Event info HERE
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Margaret Randall's 87th Birthday Celebration at Collected Works
Dec 6, 6:00 pm MT, Santa Fe
Join New Village and Margaret Randall in celebrating her 87th birthday at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse! Randall’s birthday retrospective will feature eight of her friends including Greg Smith, Lauren Camp, and Billie Parker, reading from her works to celebrate her life. Margaret has authored or translated nearly twice as many books as she is years old. Four of those books are with New Village Press, including her latest one, Luck!
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Event info HERE
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Luck
Margaret Randall
MARGARET RANDALL’s most keen essays to date will prompt readers to rethink topics of death, lies, memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, war, pandemics, violence, feminism, imagination, power, identity, and of course luck.
This singular book is complemented by drawings of artist BARBARA BYERS.
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That's a Pretty Thing to Call It
Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions
Edited by Leigh Sugar
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LEIGH SUGAR has brought together more than fifty extraordinary writers who give us a rare window into prison, including Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jill McDonough, E. Ethelbert Miller, Idra Novey, Joy Priest, Paisley Rekdal, Christopher Soto, and Michael Torres; the late arts-in-corrections pioneers Buzz Alexander and Judith Tannenbaum; and award-winning choreographer Pat Graney
As a disabled and chronically ill person, Leigh Sugar is committed greater justice for all. She is donating all her royalties from this anthology to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts to people imprisoned in solitary confinement.
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Drama Therapy Review reviews
Meeting the Moment
“…Reading it [Meeting the Moment] requires a humility that welcomes accountability for one’s own struggles. It required me to decenter my hard-earned feelings of self-righteousness, in favor of meeting this moment with a full heart and an open mind, shoulder to shoulder with everyone else who is making meaning of it through this work.”
In his introspective review for Drama Therapy Review, Mauricio Salgado commends authors Rad Pereira and Jan Cohen-Cruz on their research and deep insight into the field of theater and performance in Meeting the Moment, which encourages artists to pause and think deeper about their work.
Read the full review HERE
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Nashim Journal reviews
Talking to the Girls
“All of the essays are evocative and interesting in their own way,” notes Melissa Klapper in her review of Talking to the Girls, a series of intimate essays on the triangle shirtwaist factory fire in Greenwich Village. Klapper discusses how editors Edvige Giunta and Mary Trasciatti dissect commentary, accounts, and history of the Triangle Fire in a way that bears witness to important universalities.
Read the full review HERE
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ItalicsTV interviews Mary Anne Trasciatti
Mary Anne Trasciatti, president of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, professor, and coeditor with Edvige Giunta of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire, is interviewed by ItalicsTV. She details how the lack of workplace safety practices and care by the factory owners led to this entirely preventable tragedy in 1911. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, most of them Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls.
Watch the full interview HERE
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New York Foundation for the Arts awards
grant to Blued Trees opera
The Blued Trees opera is about ecocide and generational conflict brings together the human element of ecocide, the people and their decisions. Within the human drama is a court trial of the pipeline company executive being tried for his destruction of trees to build the pipeline. Artist Aviva Rahmani conceived the Blued Trees opera. She is the author of Divining Chaos and coeditor Ecoart in Action.
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Underground West Gallery
Norlin Library
1720 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO 80309
Exhibit info HERE
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Waging Peace at University of Colorado Boulder
Thru December 15th
The powerful exhibit and concurrent programming for Waging Peace in Vietnam is now running at the University of Colorado Boulder. The exhibit, curated by Ron Carver, depicts the important, but largely unknown, role of U.S. active duty military and returning veterans in opposing the American war in Vietnam. Ron Carver also coedited the book of the same name, Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War, based on the exhibit.
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Americans Who Tell the Truth
Artist, activist, and author Robert Shetterly has painted over 260 portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth. These exquisite paintings of inspiring activists are exhibited in dozens of communities—see current shows below.
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Thru December 8
BALE, South Royalton, Vermont
More exhibit info HERE
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Thru December 22
York Public Library, York, Maine
More exhibit info HERE
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Thru December 29
Thomas College Lunder School of Education, Waterville, Maine
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