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Ted Nace, Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal CoalSwarm, 2009

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We all know that without stopping the production of coal, there is no way to significantly slow global warming. Ted Nace tells the little known story of the incredibly successful campaign to stop the construction of new coal plants in the US -- derailing 109 proposed plants -- organized not by the big environmental organizations but by many disparate rural groups.

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Tiny Kushner at Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Charlie Varon's Rabbi Sam at The Marsh

Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World Random House, 2005

In a new set of five one-act plays, Tony Kushner offers a number of ruminations on the value of psychotherapy, the relationship of ideas to suffering, and the uses of Dostoevsky. And playwright/performer Charlie Varon has a new passion: audio collages. Also, Mark Kurlansky shares some thoughts about student activism in 1968.

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Avery Gordon, Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power, and People Paradigm, 2004

Scraton & McCulloch, eds., The Violence of Incarceration Routledge, 2008

Does utopianism have any place in progressive and radical thinking? What happens to possibilities for empowerment and liberation when the current system becomes the dominant frame of reference? Avery Gordon assesses certain contentions made by Engels, Wallerstein and Marcuse, and elucidates her own understanding of utopia.

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California U.C. Press, 2007

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More than one in every one hundred adults in the US is behind bars. What accounts for the 450% increase in the number of incarcerated people since 1980? Is it rising crime rates, or racism, or something else? Ruth Wilson Gilmore shared her analysis, and described anti-prison activism, before an audience at The Evergreen State College.