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Sam Pizzigati talks about his book, “The Rich Don’t Always Win”

November 21, 2012

“The Rich Don’t Always Win,” book by Sam Pizzigati

Sam Pizzigati, Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses his new book, “The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970.”

In The Rich Don’t Always Win, Pizzigati examines how average Americans took down plutocracy in the middle of the 20th century and how we can emulate their success and harness today’s simmering discontent to return America to the stability that comes with a more equal distribution of wealth. Barbara Ehrenreich calls The Rich Don’t Always Win a “lively, engrossing new book” that deserves a spot “on your bookshelf right next to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.”

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Project Censored celebrates the launch of Censored 2013

November 15, 2012

Contributors to the latest volume of Project Censored’s annual publication of the top 25 underreported news stories, Censored 2013: Dispatches From the Media Revolution celebrated the launch at Moe’s Books in Berkeley on Saturday, November 3rd.

At the launch party were Censored 2013 editors/contributors Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff; contributors Tara Dorabji on Kashmir; Angel Ryono on Iraqi refugees, Victoria Pacchiana-Rojas on Banned Books Week; Kenn Burrows on the Creative Tension of the Emerging Future; PC intern Mike Kolbe on Junk Food News; Almerindo Ojeda on dry boarding and GuantanamoSpeak; Susan Rahman and Liliana Valdez-Madera on women/gender and race/ethnicity; Adam Bessie on corportization of education, Anthony Fest and Arlene Engelhardt from KPFA/Pacifica radio and Media Freedom Foundation President Peter Phillips.

Photo by Tara Dorabji.

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Billionaires & Ballot Bandits OUT NOW!

September 24, 2012

A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts—an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year.

To learn more about the dark art of election theft, check our the book trailer for Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, by Greg Palast, on sale now.

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Subhanker Banerjee on Democracy Now

July 24, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0nWO2GYCYA

Democracy Now hosts Subhanker Banerjee, renowned photographer, writer, and activist who has spent the past decade working to conserve the Arctic and raise awareness about human rights and climate change.

“Arctic Alaska has become the most contested land in recent U.S. history. But in addition to oil, natural gas and coal, the arctic is rich in biodiversity, and has been home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years.” —Democracy Now

Banerjee is editor of the newly published book, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (Seven Stories Press), and has just won the 2012 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award.

Watch footage of Banerjee’s talk here

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