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Talk Softly
Cynthia O'Neal
When the AIDS epidemic hit the arts community hard, and after seeing the multitude of people facing an unfamiliar and stigmatized disease completely alone, actress, model and restaurateur Cynthia O’Neal walked into the fray. Talk Softly is the story of a life well-lived—with passion and compassion, in celebration of the joy of each moment, and with the ability to surprise yourself when you least expect to.
“Talk Softly is a beautifully written memoir of a ‘noisy life,’ intricately structured, heartbreaking as well as joyous, and tense as a thriller.” — Michael Ondaatje
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Terrorism and the Economy
Loretta Napoleoni
Economist and best-selling author of Rogue Economics Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored.
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Spring 2010 Rights Catalog
Click here to download the Spring 2010 rights catalog for Seven Stories Press.
Seven Stories Spotlight 
As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial
“A great read, a groundbreaking volume of graphic literature and a political polemic of the first order.” — Ted Rall
Presenting the color webcomic edition of As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan. New pages go up from Tuesday to Friday every week.
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(Like what you read? Can’t wait to see what happens next? Help support this project by picking up a copy of the original graphic novel from Seven Stories Press.)
In the News 
Howard Zinn’s 423-page FBI file released
July 30, 2010
Q: What is the greatest tribute an activist can be given?
A: The enmity of those in power.
To that end, the FBI has today offered a great tribute to the late, great Howard Zinn, in the form of a 423-page declassified FBI file, covering Zinn’s activities from 1949 to 1974: essentially a list — vetted by America’s “best and brightest” and their faithful assistants of the period — of everything Howard Zinn did during the McCarthy Era, the Vietnam War, and all points in between to stymie the government and promote social justice and a more open society.
Happy reading — and thanks, Howard; you will be forever missed.
Ralph Nader on California’s Proposition 14: California enshrines the duopoly
July 27, 2010
The prior public debate over Proposition 14, for those who noticed the measure, was strange. First, the Ballot Book, sent to voters, misled voters by describing the measure as one that “Increases Right to Participate in Primary Elections.” In fact, it wipes out all other candidates on other lines but the top two vote-getters in November, thereby decreasing the right to participate in the general election. Second, many of the state’s largest newspapers, except for the conservative Orange County Register, editorially endorsed Proposition 14, saying it would reduce “partisan bickering.”
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Ballot access obstacles are not enough for the monetized minds of corporations. Better, they say, to abolish election day altogether for minor parties and independent candidates. What’s next for the corporate supremacists, who misled and lied to the people to get their vote for Prop 14? When will the people awake and repeal it? — Ralph Nader on California Proposition 14
Multimedia 
Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges on totalitarianism and resistance
On July 5, Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges talked with Royal University professor Michael Truscello about totalitarianism — about the point at which ordinary people start to realize that they have been deliberately and systematically disenfranchised by the systems that control them — and about what people can and must do to resist. Watch by clicking below.
Web Spotlight
Straight Up with Jan Herman
Jan Herman’s Straight Up: a blog about books, about arts, about the media, and about the culture at large, and one that isn’t afraid to have a human voice. Herman waxes rhapsodic on Nelson Algren, finds the hidden parallels between William Burroughs and the blockbuster “Watchmen” film, and in general separates what’s true from what’s bullshit. For all their claim to individuality, blogs are often anything but individual; Jan Herman’s is an exception.
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Between the Fences
Tony Hefner
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Terrorism and the Economy
Loretta Napoleoni
Economist Loretta Napoleoni traces the links between financing the war on terror and the global economic crisis.
