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Bilingual/Spanish Language [more...]
UPSET THE SET UP: CJNY'S TOOLKIT TO JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM ACCOUNTABILITY
From the Community Justice Network for Youth
Many communities are working to stop the growth of the criminalization of youth, especially youth of color who are tracked mercilessly into the criminal justice system. This great tool kit maps out step by step approaches to how systems are treating young people by researching how they gather and analyze data intelligently, provide services to improve the lives of young people, and spend money wisely. DVD included. 2008 $30.00
ALTERANDO EL ESTADO EXISTENTE DE LAS COSAS: HERRAMIENTAS DE CJNY PARA LA RENDICIÓN DE CUENTAS DEL SISTEMA
De la Red de Justicia Comunitaria para Jóvenes (CJNY)
Muchas comunidades están trabajando para poner alto al aumento en la criminalización de la juventud, especialmente jóvenes no blancos que son encaminados sin piedad al sistema de justicia criminal. Este juego de herramientas le indicará paso a paso cómo los sistemas están tratando a gente joven por investigar como ellos colecten y almacene información de una manera inteligente, proporcionen servicios para mejorar los servicios a la juventud, y gasten los fondos de una manera sabia. El DVD que se ha incluido. 2008 $30.00
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY: BUILDING ALTERNATIVES FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
Edited by Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson, and Julie Matthaei
The Solidarity Economic Network is an international global grassroots movement creating forms of economic structural reform locally and globally. This book contains papers, discussions and debates on the topic from the U.S. Social Forum of 10,000 people in Atlanta in the summer of 2007. Changemaker Publications, Paperback, 441 pages, 2008. $25.00
NEW EDITION!
TEACHING ECONOMICS AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED
Tamara Sober Giecek with United for a Fair Economy
New edition with updated income and wealth statistics.
Field-tested by high school teachers, this innovative and accessible economics curriculum looks at the human implications of economic policies. Twenty-one lesson plans are designed to stimulate dialogue and encourage active student participation in the classroom. Also suitable for college courses, formal and informal adult education, and self study. Paperback, 182 pages, 2007. $20.00.
Fighting Racism [more...]
ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
This book takes you to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches, where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed. Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), knows the journey intimately. He guides us through Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee (including Highlander), back to the real grassroots of the movement. He pays tribute not only to the men and women etched into our national memory but to local people whose seemingly small contributions made an impact. n essential piece of American history, this is also a useful travel guide with maps, photographs, and sidebars of background history, newspaper coverage, and firsthand interviews. Algonquin Books, paperback, 388 pages. $18.95
UNDERGROUND UNDERGRADS: UCLA UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT
University of California Labor and Education Center
This student publication comes out of the growing movement around access to higher education from undocumented students. These student stories are unique and diverse, but they all demonstrate the pain, financial hardship, and emotional distress these students face as well as their ultimate triumph when they graduate from UCLA. Underground Undergrads also serves as an educational and research tool by providing a summary of the history of legislation impacting undocumented students in higher education as well as a resource guide of organizations that advocate for student rights. Featuring stories from: Mario Escobar, a former child soldier from El Salvador who recently attained asylum in this country, Grace, a Korean student who gave up her student visa to qualify for AB 540 so she could attend UCLA, and Antonio, a Mexican immigrant who came to the U.S. at the age of four, who struggled to finance and complete his college education. $10.00
Popular Education & Organizing [more...]
THE CRITICAL CLASSROOM: EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION AND MOVEMENT BUILDING
Project South
This toolkit is based in the struggle to link our classrooms and our communities in the larger struggle for freedom. Included are essays about the history of the academy and radical community-based pedagogies, plus socio-political history and examples of political practice. New timelines & workshops! 2008, $20.00
IT'S MY LIFE - A GUIDE TO ALTERNATIVES AFTER HIGH SCHOOL
From the American Friends Service Committee
Are you almost out of high school? Have you been out for awhile but still not figured out what to do with your life? You're not sure what's next, but you know you're in for some changes - a temporary job, different school, even taking a year off from college or a career to explore. You may even be thinking about the military. Whatever you're thinking about doing, each choice means a choice NOT to do something else. So it's a good idea to get a big picture of the options you have before making any decisions. It's My Life has information on what it feels like to make a big change, what you might consider doing as your next step and how you can start thinking "outside of the box". $9.95
LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: ORGANIZING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
Edited by Joe Szakos and Kristin Layng Szakos
A new collection of essays by organizers, brought to you by Social Policy Magazine, Lessons from the Field captures the unique nature of organizing in rural communities and outlines successful campaigns and strategies with national impact. The essays include hard-earned stories of reflection and experience from lifelong organizers, bringing together a diverse range of voices from across America to examine the challenges and opportunities for building progressive movements in the "red states.ontributors include: Steve Brooks, Diana Bustamante, Mandy Carter, Allen Cooper, Mike Edera, Lauren Hall, Burt Lauderdale, Margaret MacDonald, Ellen Ryan, Gary Sandusky, Kristin Layng Szakos, Joe Szakos, and Marcy Westerling. Published 2008 by American Institute for Social Justice/Social Policy, 128 pages, $10.00
PROBLEM POSING AT WORK: ENGLISH FOR ACTION
Elsa Auerbach and Nina Wallerstein
This student book contains 30 lessons that focus on workplace themes and issues related to the working lives of immigrants and refugees. This book invites learners to share their experiences, to acquire language, skills and information needed to change their circumstances and ways to strategize together for change. Also included is a focus on the effects of globalization on workers' lives, and includes information about the U.S. and Canada. The text is intended for intermediate to advanced ESL students in workplace, vocational, community and labor education programs. Grass Roots Press, 335 pages. $29.95
PROBLEM-POSING AT WORK: POPULAR EDUCATOR'S GUIDE
Nina Wallerstein and Elsa Auerbach
This is a new book exploring Freirian approaches to adult education. It is for educators from diverse fields - English as a Second Language and literacy, public health, labor, community organization, high school and other educational programs. The guide presents rationale for the 'problem-posing" teaching approach, strategies for various settings, a case study of a problem-posing cycle, and an extensive resource list. Grass Roots Press, 112 pages. $21.95
NEW EDITION OF A CLASSIC!
SING FOR FREEDOM
Guy and Candie Carawan
Two collections of freedom songs by historians Guy and Candie Carawan, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition. Sing for Freedom includes a major new introduction by the editors, as well as words and music to original songs from the civil rights movement. The book also offers documentary photographs and scores of firsthand accounts by participants in this key movement which reshaped U.S. history, making this volume an important historical resource. New South Books, 2008. 288 pages, $21.95
 THE CLINTON 12
Written and directed by Keith McDaniel
Narrated by award-winning actor James Earl Jones, The Clinton 12 tells the compelling story of one of the first integration of a public high school in the Southern U.S. following the historic Brown vs. the Board of Education Court decision. The title refers to 12 black teenagers who, in the fall of 1956, attended the all white high school in Clinton, Tennessee for the first time. This film portrays not only the courage of 12 young Americans who faced violent racial opposition, but also the determination of a small, predominantly white southern town that stood to confront bigotry and fear. Secret City Productions. DVD. $19.95
Justice Has No Borders
Baldemar Velasquez and Aguila Negra Band
Baldemar Velasquez, the founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, sings songs with the Aguila Negra Band about immigration, justice and farmwork in this wonderful musical collection. CD, 2006 $20.00
2009 Peace Calendar
Highlander is honored to be included in the 2009 Peace Calendar produced by the Syracuse Cultural Workers.
The calendar celebrates life, progressive values, and resistance. A collage about Highlander is the picture for the month of February.
For more information, click here.
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