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A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on U.S. policy in the region In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine deftly argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core principles to the oppression of Palestinians. In doing so, the authors take seriously the political concerns and well-being of both Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrating the extent to which U.S. policy has made peace harder to attain. They also unravel the conflation of advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel.Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel's growing disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics with their values.

An American Library Association Notable BookA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent until recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, to persevere, and to be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction—and their experience has given them a unique understanding of civilizational devastation.An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions, who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis, We Are the Middle of Forever brings to the forefront the perspectives of those who have long been attuned to climate change and will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face.

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These essays are a passionate intervention by Israeli citizens challenging the continued occupation of Palestinian territory and the failed policies of Ariel Sharon's government. Against a backdrop of increasing violence, they articulate practical, legal and moral objections to the occupation.

Whether reflecting on today's climate of megamedia concentration, rampant corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present.

THE UNKNOWN STORY OF THE MAN WHO LED AMERICA'S MOST EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN TO RESCUE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST Now in paperback, A Race Against Death tells the story of Peter Bergson, the man who made it impossible for American leaders to plead ignorance of German atrocities and organized America's most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust. A Race Against Death utilizes extensive firsthand interviews to present Peter Bergson's own account of his remarkable life. Facing the threat of deportation and persistent opposition to his activities, Bergson employed every conceivable method to influence policy and public opinion; he personally hounded Congressmen to support rescue; placed controversial full-page ads in major newspapers demanding action; organized a march on Washington by 400 rabbis; and drew a record-setting crowd of 40,000 to a rally and memorial pageant at Madison Square Garden. David Wyman is the definitive authority on America's action during the Holocaust. In A Race Against Death, he and Rafael Medoff return to that tragic era in American history to chronicle one of its few heroes.

The FCC's recent controversial decision to roll back restrictions on media conglomeration produced an outpouring of protest and dissent; more than 700,000 Americans personally registered complaints along with organizations as diverse as NOW and the NRA.In Our Unfree Press, Robert McChesney and Ben Scott demonstrate that, like the corporations themselves, criticism of media monopolies has a long tradition. Featuring the work of Upton Sinclair, C. Wright Mills, Walter Lippmann, Noam Chomsky, and many others, this provocative anthology charts such topics as the consolidation of ownership, the role of advertising, and the corruptions of profit. An extensive lead essay contextualizes pieces spanning the Progressive Era to the present day, making it abundantly clear that countering the media oligarchs requires more than token reforms. A must-read for anyone concerned by corporate consolidation of the media, Our Unfree Press reveals the necessity of a radical revision in our perception of the business of media.

In collecting the kind of reportage that all too rarely appears in this age of media triviality and corporate conglomeration, this anthology documents an alternative journalistic tradition, one marked by depth of vision, passion for change and bravery, from the Stamp Act to the Vietnam War.

This major new work includes more than 40 never-before-published interviews in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian elicits frank, funny, and surprising conversations about the past half century of dramatic arts.

A Village Voice Best Book of the Year that examines contemporary cultural politics.With contributions by: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh James Clifford Douglas Crimp Thomas Crow Virginia Dominguez Michael Feher Michael Fried Dan Graham Alice Jardine Silvia Kolbowski Rosalind Krauss Barbara Kruger Trinh T. Minh-Ha Craig Owens Aimee Rankin Martha Rosler Krzysztof WodiczkoDiscussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.

Recently, the media watch organization FAIR had a novel idea for a stinging response to Rush Limbaugh's reign of error: the truth. The Way Things Aren't documents and corrects over 100 whoppers like these told by The Lyin' King, pitting Limbaugh versus Reality in areas ranging from American history to the environment, health care to rock and roll. It also has features such as "Limbaugh versus Limbaugh" with examples of Limbaugh contradicting himself, cartoons by Garry Trudeau and Tom Tomorrow, seven things you can do about Rush Limbaugh, a postcard to mail to the talkshow host about his Limbecile statements, and a foreword to Limbaughland by Molly Ivins that is as scary as it is funny. If you know a dittohead who needs deprogramming or if you want to see for yourself how far out on a Limbaugh Rush really is, pick up a copy of The Way Things Aren't - it's cheaper than The Way Things Ought to Be, and it's been fact checked.

The founders of the critical race movement have collaborated to edit this collection of important writings on the subject. Included in the essays are "Whiteness as Property" by Cheryl Harris, "Race Consciousness" by Garry Peller and "Race, Reform and Retrenchment" by Kimberle Crenshaw.

A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020The MacArthur grantwinning ';Erin Brockovich of Sewage' tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America, with a foreword by the renowned author of Just MercyMacArthur ';genius' Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called ';Bloody Lowndes' because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth.Flowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West.Flowers's book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities.

Sales Track: Lighting the Fires of Freedom has sold over 5,200 copies across all formats.Reception for Previous Book: Lighting the Fires of Freedom was awarded the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize in 2018 and was nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award.Experienced Publicist: Bell is an activist with background in commercial television, public radio, and several premier national social justice organizations. She is an experienced publicist and actively promotes her work.Author Platform: Bell serves on the boards of the Southern Center for Human Rights, Demos, Teaching Matters, CancerCare, and the Women's Media Center. Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed her to the Advisory Board of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, a public/private partnership. She will use all of these channels to get the word out about Blackbirds Singing.Website: The author's website will be updated to create a special section for Blackbirds Singing.

A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming's impacts around the worldOur planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don't have a clear sense of how the interconnected crises in our ocean are affecting the climate system, food webs, coastal cities, and biodiversity, and which solutions can help us co-create a better future.Through a rich combination of place-based storytelling, clear explanations of climate science and policy, and beautifully rendered maps that use a unique ink-on-dried-seaweed technique, The Atlas of Disappearing Places depicts twenty locations across the globe, from Shanghai and Antarctica to Houston and the Cook Islands. The authors describe four climate change impactschanging chemistry, warming waters, strengthening storms, and rising seasusing the metaphor of the ocean as a body to draw parallels between natural systems and human systems.Each chapter paints a portrait of an existential threat in a particular place, detailing what will be lost if we do not take bold action now. Weaving together contemporary stories and speculative ';future histories' for each place, this work considers both the serious consequences if we continue to pursue business as usual, and what we can dofrom government policies to grassroots activismto write a different, more hopeful story.A beautiful work of art and an indispensable resource to learn more about the devastating consequences of the climate crisisas well as possibilities for individual and collective actionThe Atlas of Disappearing Places will engage and inspire readers on the most pressing issue of our time.

A sweeping history of luxury‿from the pharaohs to the plutocrats‿celebrating the quintessential role of opulence in human evolutionFrom diamonds to Daimlers, a garden planted with porcelain roses, a mantle sewn with 45,000 feathers, a staircase fashioned of crystal, and tea served in a $36 million cup, here is luxury as pleasure, luxury as splendor, and luxury as beyond. Across fourteen chapters longtime Vogueeditor Jill Spalding chronicles what luxury entailed for such of history‿s icons as Cleopatra, Charlemagne, Kublai Khan, Montezuma, Elizabeth I, Marie de‿ Medici, Louis XIV, Shah Jahan, and the Emperor Qianlong. Discover how luxury flourished the table, the arts, travel, and architecture; how luxury drove fashion, marked politics, and advanced religion. Holding that luxury remains a global pursuit, Spalding links its evolution and impact to modern-day aspiration. How did luxury define the Rothschilds, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan, and William Hearst? What has luxury meant to Coco Chanel, Elizabeth Taylor, Valentino, Daphne Guinness, and Leonardo DiCaprio? Find them all in this panoramic new survey. Informative, entertaining, and illustrated with more than 300 iconic archival images, Luxury: A History is a stunning, essential read for history lovers, fashion enthusiasts, art aficionados, and more.

An urgent, provocative collection of essays from Latinx thought leaders heralding a more inclusive vision of America's future Latinx people make up the second-largest ethnic and racial group in America, with a population of over sixty million. They have been integral to shaping the country's economy, culture, and politics, and their influence and power continue to grow at all levels of civic life. Yet their diversity remains misunderstood, their contributions ignored, their concerns overlooked.If We Want to Win brings together twenty leading figures involved in issues that affect the Latinx community, to lay out a vision for the future of American democracy, drawing on their experience and expertise in areas ranging from the arts, juvenile justice, women's rights, and education, to environmental justice, racism, human rights, immigration, technology, and philanthropy.Each contributors tells his or her own story alongside stories of the resilience and hope they have encountered over the course of their careers, debunking the stereotyping and scapegoating that continue to plague the Latinx community and seeking a more accurate portrayal of themselves and their communities. While questioning what it means to be Latinx and what it means to be American in the twenty-first century, this inspiring, visionary collection offers a blueprint for moving the United States toward a more inclusive and just democracy.

A provocative, strategic plan for a humane immigration system from the nation's leading immigration scholars and activistsDuring the past decade, right-wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation's foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset.Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy. It brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community, along with fresh solutions to vexing questions of so-called ?future flows? that have bedeviled policy makers for decades. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation's identity, its economy, and progressive movements for social change. Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers' rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement.The perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age, Immigration Matters makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future.

A crucial indictment of widely embraced ';alternatives to incarceration' that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance';But what does it meanreallyto celebrate reforms that convert your home into your prison?' Michelle Alexander, from the forewordElectronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under physical control by the state.As mainstream public opinion has begun to turn against mass incarceration, political figures on both sides of the spectrum are pushing for reform. Butthough they're promoted as steps to confront high rates of imprisonmentmany of these measures are transforming our homes and communities into prisons instead.In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.

Important reissue and strong sales track: Remembering Jim Crow is of one of The New Press"s best-selling books, with over 38,000 copies sold in all editions.Strong reviews and reader response: Remembering Jim Crow garnered national review attention and scores of positive ratings on Goodreads and Amazon.New relevance: Speaks directly to present moment of resistance to racist public policies and policing.High-profile foreword: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Princeton professor, New Yorker contributing writer, and National Book Award finalist with a major social media following (over 106,000 followers on Twitter).Strong curriculum angle: First-person narratives ideal for classroom settings as major school systems around the country seek to enhance Black history offerings.

Outstanding sales track: Remembering Slavery has sold over 50,000 copies in all editions.Timely: The history of slavery is back in the news and public consciousness with the stunning success of the 1619 project.Unique first-person history: This is the only history of slavery told through the voices of people who lived through slavery and emancipation.New Press shortlist: One of our top backlist titles and an early success, we are giving this title a major relaunch for a new generation of readers.New package: We are developing new jacket art and are soliciting a full slate of blurbs from author Ira Berlin's many close friends and admirers including: Eric Foner, David Blight, Smithsonian President Lonnie Bunch, Edward Baptist, and others.Top credentials: Ira Berlin was the leading historian of slavery before his death in 2018; Annette Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize for her history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winner2018 John Hope Franklin Prize Finalist2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Winner2018 American Book Award Winner2018 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalist2018 Merle Curti Social History Award Winner2018 James A. Rawley Prize Co-WinnerA New York Times Editor's Choice selection If many Americans imagine slavery essentially as a system in which black men toiled on cotton plantations, Miles upends that stereotype several times over.New York Times Book Review The prizewinning, nationally celebrated account of the slave origins of a major northern cityA brilliant paradigm-shifting book that ';transports the reader back to the eighteenth century and brings to life a multiracial community that began in slavery' (The New York Times), The Dawn of Detroit reveals for the first time that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city. Hailed by Publishers Weekly in a starred review as ';a necessary work of powerful, probing scholarship,' The Dawn of Detroit meticulously uncovers the experience of the unfreeboth native and African Americanin a place wildly remote yet at the center of national and international conflict.Tiya Miles has skillfully assembled fragments of a distant historical record, introducing new historical figures and unearthing struggles that remained hidden from view until now. ';In her eloquent account,' the Washington Post declared, ';Miles conjures up a city of stark disparity and lives quashed.'A message from the past for our troubled present, The Dawn of Detroit is ';an outstanding contribution that seeks to integrate the entirety of U.S. history, admirable and ugly, to offer a more holistic understanding of the country' (Booklist, starred review).

Imagine if you felt out of step with every other member of the parent association at your kid's school, your quilting circle, or even your workout group. What if casual conversations revolved around Fox News and the decline of American values? How would you feel if you were afraid to put a political bumper sticker on your car or had to think twice about what liberal posts you liked on Facebook? These are just some of the experiences shared by liberals across twenty states and five time zones who tell their stories with honesty, warmth, and humor.Most of us have to "e;talk across the aisle"e; once or twice a year-when we're seated next to our conservative out-of-town uncle at Thanksgiving, say. But millions of self- identified liberals live in cities and towns-particularly away from the East and West Coasts-where they are regularly outnumbered and outvoted by conservatives.In this uplifting and completely original book, Justin Krebs, the founder of the national Living Liberally network, speaks with and tells the stories of atheists, vegetarians, environmentalists, pacifists, and old-fashioned liberals-a term he is intent on rehabilitating-from Texas to Idaho, South Carolina to Alaska. Krebs weaves these stories together to create a provocative and rollicking taxonomy of strategies for living in a diverse society, with lessons for every participant in our great democratic experiment.

Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You're living in it. If the consequences weren't so serious, it would be funny.A concise handbook designed as a fact-filled companion to the forthcoming PBS documentary starring political satirist and commentator Mo Rocca, Electoral Dysfunction illuminates a broad array of issues, including: the Founding Fathers' decision to omit the right to vote from the Constitutionand the legal system's patchwork response to this omission; the battle over voter ID, voter impersonation, and voter fraud; the foul-ups that plague Election Day, from ballot design to contested recounts; the role of partisan officials in running elections; and the antidemocratic origins and impact of the Electoral College. The book concludes with a prescription for a healthy voting system crafted by leading voting-reform experts, whose agenda for change includes a call for universal voter registration and unform national standards.Published in the run-up to the 2012 election, Electoral Dysfunction is for readers across the political spectrum who want their vote to count.