tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5522042293011182262011-11-12T15:58:17.865-05:00we're a workers' collective. this is our blog.matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126227957015837519noreply@blogger.comBlogger1471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-552204229301118226.post-86494421419532545282011-11-07T21:55:00.000-05:002011-11-12T15:57:18.575-05:00

This upcoming Saturday! Be there!

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Come listen to the ever-awesome TRGGR Radio in the company of friends and neighbors as we keep the bookstore open 'til 8:00pm on Fridays in November!

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Join us for a reading & discussion of Amy Schalet's new book Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex on November 14th at 7:00pmFor American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden, and sex is often a source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family

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This is how we roll... collectivity & consensus for the win!

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Did you know that October is National Cooperative month? What is a cooperative, anyway?Join us to learn about cooperatives, and play Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives! Drop by and take a peek, stick around and play with your friends.Co-opoly is a creative and exciting educational game designed for the growing cooperative movement. Co-opoly is more than just a board game. It is an innovative

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We are excited to invite you to a reading and discussion with noted author and journalist Christian Parenti on his new book Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence on November 11, 2011 at 7:00pm.From Africa to Latin America to Asia to North America, how is climate change fueling conflict? What impacts do rising sea levels, intensifying droughts, increasing floods,

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Join us for a reading and discussion with local author Charles Mann about his new book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created this upcoming Thursday, October 27th at 7:00pm.Mann's new book picks up where his previous work, 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas— left off and presents a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the

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Happy Birthday, Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives! We love you!

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Volunteering is a fun and easy way to support Food For Thought Books. It helps keep our costs down, frees up time for staff to work on specific tasks, and builds community around the store.Volunteers also get a sweet discount on everything in the store (bibliophiles, take note!).Click here for more details!

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A good review of Bond's upcoming memoir: TangoProblematic coverage of the book aside, I loved Tango. Kate Bornstein said it best when she wrote, “…Tango is like listening to your favorite eccentric cousin or auntie tell you hair-​raising tales…Justin Vivian spins a one-​of-​a-​kind story that you won’t be able to put down.” She nailed it on both accounts: the book feels incredibly

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You know it's true...Thanks, Rhymes With Orange & Lily Library! That was a good chuckle :)

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A call out to local artists: our right-side window is available to display your work! Click here to submit a proposal to our artists in the window series!

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Excellent interview with anarchist anthropologist David Graeber about his new book Debt: The First 5,000 YearsWhat’s been happening since Nixon went off the gold standard in 1971 has just been another turn of the wheel – though of course it never happens the same way twice. However, in one sense, I think we’ve been going about things backwards. In the past, periods dominated by virtual credit

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Welcome back students! Best of luck in this upcoming semester - remember: Food For Thought Books is here for you whether it's finding a book, helping you with a project, or just a comfy couch on a rainy day.Come by & visit us soon - we've missed you!

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read more: Bookfessions

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Check out this new cooperative board game being developed by one of our awesome volunteers, Brian Van Slyke!Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives is a creative and exciting educational game about the growing co-op movement. In order to survive as individuals and tostrive for the success of their cooperative, players make tough choices while putting their teamwork abilities to the test. This is a

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Thank you, Food for Thought Books Collective, for letting us film at your bookstore!Thank you Blurred Divide! It was fun having you here!

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Check out this article in the Amherst Bulletin about local author Charles Mann's upcoming book: 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.A consistent theme throughout Mann's work is the idea that the trade of animals and plants between the Eastern and Western hemispheres led to a series of dramatic biological changes that forged a new world, both ecologically and economically.These changes

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Michelle Tea browsing at Food For Thought Books - we love this photo.

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Excellent talk by the author of the amazing and provocative The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.We need more historians willing to re-vision the tired tropes of royal agency and the magic of the state. History doesn't need to follow the centralized lines of formal political organization and, as Scott shows, it misses so much when it does.

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For those of you who not only love books for what they contain, but books themselves as objects of beauty and artistic expression, please check out the extraordinary online collection: Publishers Bindings, 1815-1930: The Art of Books.Everything from slave narratives to suffragists, art deco to rococo revival. A feast of beautiful book design!

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Check it out! Noalanii Karakashian (pictured) & Nathara Bailey, two valiant volunteers here at Food For Thought Books, are on the front page of the Amherst Bulletin!Race's role at Amherst Regional: How the high school is tackling a touchy subject.... Some of the students, like senior Nathara Bailey, thought teachers' expectations for students like them would rise if they were trained in dealing

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Very sad news: Black Sheep Books, a wonderful collectively-run radical bookstore and community space up in Montpelier, VT is closing up shop.On Saturday, May 28th, we will be closing our beloved bookstore. We have had a tremendous six and one-half years and we thank you for your support and involvement in this project. The fact that a radical, anti-profit organization like this has thrived

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Join us for a jazz concert with The Gary Smulyan Trio featuring Dave Arenius and Bob Weiner!Baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan is critically acclaimed as one of the major voices on the baritone saxophone today. Mr. Smulyan has recorded and performed worldwide with Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Tom Harrell. Cedar Walton, George Coleman, Joe Henderson, Joe

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Not many know the radical origins of this holiday. It was originally begun by women after the Civil War as a protest against the carnage that war wrought, all the husbands, fathers, sons & brothers taken.A good example of its original character comes from Julia Ward Howe's "Mother's Day Proclamation, 1870", written in 1870. Check it out: it has lost none of its power & poignancy.Arise then...

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Today is May Day, a.k.a. International Workers Day! Come join us today at 4:30pm to celebrate this best of all holidays!For more information on the history & significance of May Day, check out Peter Linebaugh's great essay The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of May Day.More resources & links can also be found here. Happy May Day!

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So, the Homophobic Tapist returned, with even more venom & bile than before. So, we decided to make good on our earlier promise. Voila! Our new window! Beautiful, no?When others try to silence and shame the people you love and care about, the only proper response is to make your support even more vocal and visible.Be sure to visit and support the Pride & Color blog, the folks who made these

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Huzzah! Local author Susan Stinson wins the "Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize" from Lambda Literary Foundation!Alex Sanchez and Susan Stinson Awarded Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' PrizeThis week the Lambda Literary Foundation announced the two recipients of the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize – the largest monetary prize awarded exclusively to a self-identified LGBT writer.

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A Benefit Concert for the Prison Birth Project CHARLES NEVILLE & ROGER SALLOOM April 23rd 7-9:15pm Northampton High School AuditoriumAlso Performing: V Haddad, Sugati & Chris Phillips, Rae & Devin Griffiths, Kennethia & Nancy Tolson, Ellen Clegg, Ann Sirignano, Fabiola Guiteau, Ricardo Frota, WT Funk"This Spring we are presenting 'Liberation!' a multi-cultural performance arts concert to

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well, what a surprise... (not really).Investigation throws "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson's charity work into doubtAn investigation by "60 Minutes" to be broadcast this weekend will cite multiple sources that contend some of the most inspiring stories in Greg Mortenson's books "Three Cups of Tea" and "Stones into Schools" are not true.Significantly, Mortenson's origin story -- of being

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Don't miss Ladyfest Easthampton! A three day music and arts festival with hands-on workshops, vendors, and performances in Easthampton, Massachusetts put on by the ever-awesome Flywheel Arts Collective. diy/underground ladies unite!

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Manning Marable, noted professor of history and African-American studies, passed away yesterday, April 1st, 2011. He had just completed his biography of Malcolm X, called Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, a book he had been working on for more than 15 years.Farewell, Mr. Marable. You shall be missed.

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Join us for a reading & discussion this upcoming Thursday, March 31st at 6:30pm with Rebecca Jordan-Young, author of the recent book: Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences.In this compelling book, Rebecca Jordan-Young takes on the evidence that sex differences are hardwired into the brain. Analyzing virtually all published research that supports the claims of “human brain

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After being denied a visa, and the ensuing uproar over this denial, Malalai Joya was finally granted a visa and will be coming to Umass & Smith, at the times and locations previously scheduled. It has been a struggle to bring her these several thousand miles from Afghanistan - be sure to spread the word and be there to hear her!We'll be selling her recent book, A Woman Among Warlords, for her

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Malalai Joya, author of A Woman Among Warlords, was going to be coming to the Pioneer Valley as part of a national book tour. Unfortunately, the United States government has seen fit to deny her travel visa based upon the fact that she's "unemployed" and "lives underground".We don't know about you, but we think it's pretty difficult to hold down a job & fixed address when you've been the subject

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Yes, another new crop of poster prints from papercut artist extraordinaire Nikki McClure. Please stop by & check them out. Guaranteed to brighten up that blank piece of wall you've been wondering what to do with. Here's a great interview with her where she talks about her techniques and inspiration: The cuts & complexities of Nikki McClure

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from the Daily Collegian:Pride and Color posters vandalizedBy: Tim Jones | February 23, 2011Local Amherst-based book shop Food for Thought Books has plastered its front window with posters showing images developed by Amherst College’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, and Queer Racial/Ethnic minorities (GLBTQREM) group.The group, known as “Pride and Color,” has recently been the target of

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FYI: We just discovered a nice big leak in our ceiling that, other than conveniently ruining a nice big stack of books, also seems to have somehow knocked our phones out. If you call us right now, you'll hear the phone ringing, but we won't.Seeing as how it's the weekend, we're not sure when they'll all be put right. Hopefully soon! Fingers crossed and all that.In the meantime, please email us at

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Interesting article about a Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca switching over to a co-op model. This is a possible direction Food For Thought Books might be taking.What do folks think of such a possibility? Leave us your thoughts in the comments or email us at info@foodforthoughtbooks.comBuffalo Street Books gets new hope$110,000 bolsters community buyout ideaby Liz LawyerA grassroots effort to form

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Read & join the Valley-wide discussion of The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism. This hard-hitting work of investigative research exposes the environmental consequences of US military practices.Author Barry Sanders will be speaking twice in the Pioneer Valley:February 9th at 7:30pmNeilson Browsing Room, Smith College LibraryFebruary 10th from 12:30-2:00pmSloan Theater, Greenfield

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Calendars are now all 50% off!We still have some good ones in stock so come on by & grab one before they disappear!

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Want to know something weird? For the past few weeks, someone has been coming by & covering two flyers in our window with duct tape. Check it: see more pictures on our Flickr pageThe flyers are for Pride and Color, a blog for GLBTQ Racial and Ethnic minorities in the Five College Community.Obviously, someone finds the image of two men kissing (!) or of two women lying next to each other (!!) to

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Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Rise Up Singing Sing-along Fundraiser yesterday night.We sang alot of songs, raised a bunch of money and had a wonderful time. We hope you did too. It was just another reminder of what a caring and supportive community we have at Food For Thought Books. We know that we're going to make it through this rough economic patch with all of you on our side!

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matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09126227957015837519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-552204229301118226.post-53138691705245629312011-01-07T23:14:00.003-05:002011-01-08T12:26:46.944-05:00

Food For Thought Books is now selling Google eBooks.Yes, its' true: via a partnership between the American Booksellers Association and Google, Food For Thought Books now offers you one of the largest ebook collections available with Google eBooks. From New York Times bestsellers to old favorites, shop for your next ebook and begin reading on just about any device.With Google eBooks, you can now:

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Come check out local scholar Dayo Gore's new book Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War."With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks’s 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what black women activists did prior to 1960. Perhaps this gap is due to the severe repression that radicals of any color in

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Check out this article on Food For Thought Books in the Valley Advocate!It's particularly nice to know that, in a Valley known for its leftward leanings, there are businesses that employ progressive ideas not as mere ideals but as working methods. The Valley's worker-owned, democratically run co-ops include Collective Copies, Pelham Auto, Ronin Tech Collective, Northampton's often-seen bicycle

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Stop by this Sunday for a free afternoon concert of rootsy goodness courtesy of our good friends: the fabulous Sweaty Buttons!Update: Here's a nice little video from the concert.

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As part of our Support and Sustain Campaign we are releasing this limited edition book bag, designed by fellow radical artist Ricardo Levins Morales. Only $25.00 - all proceeds go to support Food for Thought Books Collective.This printing is limited, so don't miss out on an opportunity to get this beautiful, unique bag AND support FFT at the same time. Get one for yourself and get some to give

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A thought-provoking piece in the NY Times from one of my favorite authors (and Javiera's too!), Haruki Murakami - you really should go read it right now: We often wonder what it would have been like if 9/11had never happened — or at least if that plan had not succeeded so perfectly. Then the world would have been very different from what it is now. America might have had a different president (a

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Did you know we have verrry comfy couches at Food For Thought Books? You don't have to be buying a book to hang out here. Feel free to drop by & use our free wifi, look at some awesome art books, talk with your friends, do some studying, or just take a quick snooze.

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It is with mixed emotion that I stand here to share my thoughts. This is a time of celebration for you - celebrating an anniversary of a beginning for the white man in America. A time of looking back, of reflection. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People.from United American Indians of New England

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Article from the Springfield Republican, featuring our very own Javiera Benavente:Internet textbook sales slam Pioneer Valley independent bookstores' bottom linesMonday, November 22, 2010, 5:37 AMBy AUBIN TYLERAMHERST - Since successfully weathering the incursion of big-box booksellers more than a decade ago, independent bookstores have been contending for some time with another threat: the

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A nice letter to the Amherst Bulletin from our longtime friend Gerry Weiss:To the Bulletin: A valuable community resource is in financial trouble. Food for Thought Books is in danger of closing unless they and we find a way to keep them going.It has been hit by the same factors contributing to the nationwide decline of independent bookstores: big box stores, Amazon, e-books, the economy and a

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Food For Thought Books Collective would like to express our profound gratitude to Sonia Sanchez for an amazing fundraiser last night.Thanks also to the lovely folks at Afro-American Studies Department at UMass for making it all happen, not to mention all the wonderful people who showed up to make it such a special evening.Please know your support in these difficult times is deeply appreciated. We

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Hell yes: Patti Smith wins the National Book Award for her recent memoir Just Kids. In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth

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Please take note of our new winter hours!Monday, Wednesday, & Friday: 10:00am to 6:00pmTuesday & Thursday: 1:00pm to 6:00pmSaturday & Sunday: 11:30am to 6:00pmRemember: you can always shop for books online at any hour, comfy, at home & in yr jammies, at our fantabulous website: www.foodforthoughtbooks.com

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Zadie Smith pens a thought provoking review of Jaron Lanier's recent You Are Not a Gadget (wrapped in a review of The Social Network, the recent movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, whom she went to Harvard with...)You want to be optimistic about your own generation. You want to keep pace with them and not to fear what you don’t understand. To put it another way, if you feel discomfort

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We've got a ton of new calendars & planners for 2011 in stock. One of our personal favorites is Nikki McClure's wonderful calendar, featuring her extraordinary papercut images combined with singular potent verbs that inspire both reflection & action. Only $16.00!Also awesome & in stock: Slingshot organizers! A bestseller for us for the past decade or more, the Slingshot organizer is packed full

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As part of our ongoing project of Artists in the Window we're currently featuring the extraordinary multilayered work of Zamont Frenkel Hassan. Be sure to stop by & check it out! Artists in the Window is an ongoing series of displays by local artists in our right-side front window. We provide this service to give our local artists a free venue to share their work with the community.

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Happy Day of the Dead everyone!

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Tara Lohan at Alternet talks with investigative journalist Michael Blanding about his new book, The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink:People ask me why I singled out Coke, and in some ways I did that because it is such an iconic brand and such a symbol of capitalism, but I think the lessons I drew from investigating Coke are not specific to Coke -- it's not

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Please take a moment and read this letter we have written to our community about the future of Food For Thought Books:Dear friends,We are writing to you today to share an important update about what is happening with us because you are part of the community that has always made our collective a special place. We are writing you today because that is what friends do when they need help: they

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Alexander Chee muses on his experiences at Amherst College teaching a seminar on graphic novels.... an Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Kuniyoshi, is one of the pieces of art that led me into my interest in the graphic novel. The visual pun at its center emits a narrative force, a dramatic irony—you are drawn into the story about to happen, the idea that the fox has cast this illusion around it and has

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Today is Spirit Day, a day when gay, lesbian and queer organizations are asking folks to wear purple in honor of the LGBT youth who have committed suicide in recent days due to homophobic abuse in their homes and schools.MakeItBetter Amherst has organized a candlelight vigil on the Amherst Common tonight to commemorate this new holiday at 6:30pm. Be there!

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From 6:00am until about 4:00pm today our main website will be down while the good folks at Indiebound give it a nice upgrade and fine tuning.Both our search engine and our shopping cart are going get some new features and tweaks and we expect them both to be even faster and easier to use than ever. Huzzah!In the meantime, check out our fabulous Flickr and Facebook pages.

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"The biggest underreported story of the 20th century" - author Isabel Wilkerson speaks with Marjorie Kehe about her new book: The Warmth of Other SunsBetween about 1910 and 1970, some 6 million blacks left the Jim Crow South and moved to cities in the north and west of the United States. This mass migration reshaped America's northern cities, forced change in the South, and helped to fuel the

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This country can be pretty much summed up by noting that we have exactly two federal holidays commemorating individuals: one for a man who dedicated himself to healing the soul wounds that have plagued this country for so long, the other a man who inflicted the first wound in what was to be a long war of extermination & bloody conquest.This Columbus Day, please reconsider what you know:More

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Hey, look who's on the cover of the recently released Food Justice from MIT Press! You got it - those are the mighty & beautiful youth of Nuestras Raíces!Only too appropriate we think. Those kids in Holyoke have been showing everyone how it's done for some time now.Click on the image to see a bigger picture.

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Come check out Movable Feast next Tuesday, October 5th! They'll be parked right in front of Food For Thought Books from 4:30 to 7:00pm.The centerpiece of the Movable Feast project is a retrofitted mobile food service trailer that serves as an advocacy tool for healthy eating, local food production and sustainability. At each of its stops, informational presentations, informal performances, and

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All Those Years Shopping At Independent Bookstore WastedReacting to news that independent outfit Shaker House Books had closed Monday, longtime customer Stephanie Brear said she couldn't believe she "flushed seven years down the toilet" patronizing the local store. "I put so much time into supporting my quirky local bookshop, with its charming window displays and us-versus-the-world attitude,

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Just wanted to note a nice scholarly smackdown by local author & science journalist Charles Mann over at MediaIndigena.In this guest post, author Charles C. Mann responds to Frances Widdowson’s criticism of his book,1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Widdowson delivered her critique as part of a rebuttal to Niigonwedom Sinclair’s negative review of her book, Disrobing the

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Textbook rush is upon us so don't be surprised to see boxes & boxes & more boxes piled up everywhere in the store. We don't have a real backroom or basement or anything so you get to see the whole process in all its transparent glory.New students! Welcome to the valley! Returning students! Welcome back! We look forward to the life and vitality you bring to our little town. Feel free to come and

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Check out this beautiful photo essay (part 1, part 2) of people reading books all over the world...Photographer Steve McCurry remarks: We are familiar with words describing images, but not so familiar with images describing words and the impact reading has on our lives.via the ever superlative metafilter

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The folks at underclassrising have an interesting interview with Noam Chomsky in which he discusses, among other things, his recent book Hopes & Prospects:Your latest book is called Hopes and Prospects. What are the hopes?The first part of the book is about South America, and in South America there are many quite hopefu developments. For the first time in 500 years, since the Conquistadors,

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Anna Lappé has an article in the recent issue of Edible Pioneer Valley that's worth checking out and serves as a nice introduction to her new book Diet for a Hot Planet. If you're local, you can pick up free copies all over the Valley, or check out their free online edition.In 2006, Henning Steinfeld and colleagues at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization published a dense 390-page

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We are writing to invite you to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) Modern-Day Slavery Museum exhibit. The museum exhibit will be traveling around the Northeast for the next few weeks, and will be in Northampton at Pulaski Park on Main & Masonic on this upcoming Tuesday, August 10th.The centerpiece of the museum exhibit is a box truck outfitted as a replica of the trucks used to enslave

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Are you a carpenter? Maybe you know someone who is? We need some help with building some new shelves for our children's book area, as well as some tables for our sale books.Here's the catch: it's been a super slow summer & we have little to no extra money at the moment. We can probably scrounge enough for materials but we'll only be able to offer store credit for the labor.So, if you know someone

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If you've been to our store, you've no doubt noticed our love for Nikki McClure's wonderful papercut artwork. We've got a whole new crop of her poster prints in stock (only $9.00 each!), so please stop by & check them out. Guranteed to brighten up that blank piece of wall you've been wondering what to do with.

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Joe Sacco, author of the recent Footnotes in Gaza, observes the treatment of African migrants in his homeland of Malta in his new work: Not In My Country: A Tale of Unwanted Immigrants.

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Sad news: Harvey Pekar, a pioneer of autobiographical comics, passed away last night. Harvey self-published & self-distributed his American Splendor from the mid-70s to the mid-90s, providing a raw and insightful working-class perspective on everyday life in middle America. As Harvey used to say "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff". Someday, please find yourself a copy of the American

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INCITE! Reading Group. First Tuesdays of the month. 7-9 pm. Food For Thought Books Collective, Amherst. Suggested donation $5.00, absolutely nobody turned away for lack of funds.Dear Western Mass. Community,As you may know, this past Tuesday marked our first INCITE! reading group time and I wanted to share with you that we had a lovely, inspirational, inter-generational group. It was a pleasure

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Check out this excellent animation by the RSA of David Harvey's recent talk The Crises of Capitalism.

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On Saturday, July 24th at 7pm the Food For Thought Books Collective joins forces with local artist Denise Beaudet to celebrate the life and work of twelve women activists from around the world and raise funds for her most recent art and activism project: Roots To Resistance.Join us for an evening of art, storytelling, music, food, and activism and contribute to this critical and inspiring project

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WESTERN MASS SAYS NO WAY!FFT Collective is organizing against SB1070 in coalition with IWRC/ Western Mass. AFSC. For more information about these efforts check out: http://www.afscwm.org/boycottaz/about/Please check out this statement and look below for upcoming organizing efforts:What We Believe:We believe that the law recently passed in Arizona (SB1070) is not merely about Arizona it is about

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641 West St. (116 S). Amherst MA (map) Saturday, May 29, 2010 from 8:00am to 2:00pmCome get your tag sailing done AND support your community to get to the Allied Media Conference (AMC) & the United States Social Forum (USSF).There will be all sorts of goodies and lemonade!Come early for the best selection (8 am!)And, while you're out, head over to the WESTERN MA. SAYS NO TO SB 1070! Rally (12pm -

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Today is May Day! International Workers Day! The Return of Spring!So, please stay home from work. Eat a feast with good friends. Dance and Sing and make all manner of Merry.And don't forget to raise a toast to the thousands, the millions, who have gone on before, struggling for freedom & equality in the face of violence & oppression.Hooray for May Day!

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As you know, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona (the same state that a few years ago denied a holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) just passed SB 1070 -- which permits law enforcement to question people about their citizenship, based on "reasonable suspicion".As Presente.com explains: "(the law) will authorize officers to pull over, question, and detain anyone they have a “reasonable suspicion”

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We are very sorry to note the passing of a dear friend & comrade of many of us here at Food For Thought Books - Julie Graham.Farewell, Julie. You shall be missed.Please check out this online memorial for Julie (don't miss the comments section).

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This week, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation named Sherman Alexie's War Dances the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. War Dances triumphed over close to 350 novels and short story collections by American authors published in the U.S. during the 2009 calendar year. Submissions came from over 90 publishing houses, including small and academic presses.Among Alexie's previous honors are a

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Please join us this Thursday, March 25th at 7:00pm, to celebrate the release of Eve Shapiro's first book: Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age. We will toast its completion and hear excerpts from this new work exploring the intersections of gender and technology.Read more about this event on our main website...Hope to see you there!

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We just unpacked some more great new books from some of our favorite small presses, and we couldn't wait to share! Click on any of the titles below to get more information on the books, and to order directly from our website (you did know you could do that, right?). But of course, we'd rather see your smiling faces in the store, so come check them out soon.Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in

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Food For Thought Books is having a 10% day on Saturday March 27th, during which 10% of our sales will go to the Lyman Street Relief Fund created by the Centro de Restauracion Emanuel and administered by New Alliance Bank in Holyoke, MA. We encourage others in the Amherst and Northampton communities to organize and host similar fundraisers to support our neighbors in Holyoke.(Funds can also be

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Join Food For Thought Books Collective, Arise for Social Justice, OutNow, To Tell You The Truth, the Center for Popular Economics, and other local activists and organizers for information sharing and dialogue about the U.S. Social Forum II, taking place in Detroit on June 22-26th, 2010.There will also be information available about the Allied Media Conference taking place in Detroit June 18-20th

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Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher EducationWe used to be state-supported, then state-assisted, and now we are state-located.—DR. JAMES J. DUDERSTADT, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANOnce upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone. Intensified admissions

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We just received some great new books from some of our favorite small presses, and we just couldn't wait to share! Click on the links for more info and then stop by the store and check them out in person, as well as all the other great books we have in stock.The Farm to Table Cookbook: The Art of Eating LocallyThe Red Sox and PhilosophyCollege Boys: Gay Erotic StoriesSometimes She Lets Me: Best

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In support of our extended community Food For Thought Books is offering our space for a fundraiser for the family of Justin Gordon, 17, who was recently murdered in Springfield this Saturday, February 13th, 2-4:30pm. We very much hope you can make it.For more information, see our main website.

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We are so proud to present this evening of powerful voices that join us as we honor the legacy of resistance & survival in the Haitian community. We very much hope to see you there!Featuring: Djola Branner, Myriam Chancy, Dee Dee Desir, Martín Espada, Jean Dany Joachim, Lenelle Moise and Patrick Sylvain with the soul-stirring music of REBIRTH.read more about this fundraising event on our main

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