Sezione: words...films...books...music
December 16, 2002--Dispatch
Book Review: Beneath the Burqa-Afghan Women Rise-Up
Words by Antonino D'Ambrosio, La Lutta NMC
On February 15th and 16th, cities around the world rallied, marched, and demonstrated against the impending US war on Iraq. The estimated 11 million people who gathered spoke to the magnitude of the current anti-war movement, letting the Bush Administration know in no uncertain terms that senseless war mongering must end and if they are serious about stopping terrorism they must stop participating in it...
July 17, 2002
-- An Oldie But Goodie On The Pacific
NorthWest: The Good Rain, (1991) by Timothy Egan.
Book Review by Brian Diedrick
Driving West down Interstate 84 into Portland, Oregon, during my first
trip to the Pacific Northwest, I was jolted up from a road-weary stupor
by a horizon's-eye view of Mt. Hood looming out over my dashboard. At
first glance from sixty miles out, the well-known peak appeared as a giant,
snow cone-shaped cloud. To me this picture verged on the surreal, given
the fact that I was riding on a savagely...
January 4,
2002 -- A Letter To Any Young Contrarians
Who CanÈt Afford Christopher HitchensÈ "Letters To A Young Contrarian"
A book review by Brian Diedrick
My Dear X, ....This past week, IÈve been working through the good Dr.
Hitchens' latest offering: Letters to a Young Contrarian. Since I know
your admiration (and often emulation) of The Hitch is equal to my own,
I am writing to you first with my initial impressions...
August 15, 2001 -- Scorch
By A.D. Nauman. Soft Skull Press. A Book Review by Brian
Diedrick
"Move over Big Brother: After a comprehensive market study, the inner
party is replacing you as the spokesperson of dystopian oppression. In
A.D. Nauman's new novel Ms. Dolla Dare is the well-tanned new face of
society gone bad. Blonde, busty and quick with an insult, the leggy TV
personality looms omnipresent over the action, much as her Orwellian predecessor
did - a clever update to be sure - but it begs the question: how much
more mileage is left in fictional electronic surveillance?"
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May 5, 2002 -- Africa World Press
May 5, 2002 -- Digital Grammo Internacional
May 5, 2002 -- Underground Press in Michigan
May 3, 2002 -- Dona Licha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico, by Alfredo Lopez
May 2, 2002 -- The Zapatista Reader, Nation Books
May 2, 2002 -- O Books May 1, 2002 -- Once There Was A Village, by Yuri Kapralov
April 30, 2002 -- Days and Nights of Love and War, by Eduardo Galeano
April 27, 2002 -- Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
April 27, 2002 -- EPC Small Press Alcove--Little Magazines
April 23, 2002 -- Detroit I Do Mind Dying, by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
April 20, 2002 -- How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, by Manning Marable
April 15, 2002 -- Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education, by David F. Noble
April 3, 2002 -- Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, by Michael Marqusee
March 23, 2002 -- The New Urabn Frontier, by Neil Smith
March 26, 2002 -- Scoiety of the Spectacle, by Guy DeBord
March 30, 2002 -- Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, by Luc Sante
March 23, 2002 -- Artaud: The Screaming Body, by Stephen Barber
March 26, 2002 -- Resisting the Virtual Life : The Culture and Politics of Information, eds. James Brook & Iain Boal
March 20, 2002 -- The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apratheid, ed. Roane Carey
March 17, 2002 -- Notes from the underground: Zines & the Politics of Alternative Culture, by Stephen Duncombe
February 23, 2002 -- God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
February 21, 2002 -- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, by Peter Biskind
February 19, 2002 -- Democracy for the Few, by Michael Parenti
February 14, 2002 -- Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
February 11, 2002 -- Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America, by Randolph Lewis by Dinitia Smith, The New York Times
February 1, 2001 -- A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Holywood Left, by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner Sense of Cinema
January 30, 2001 -- Hideous Dreams: A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti, by Stan Goff Soft Skull Press