Upcoming EventsSaturday, March 13, 5:00pm - 7:00pm Contributors Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo, Ma'at Sincere Earth, and Angelique Surya Shofar will be reading from Sistah Vegan. Sisterspace will provide space for discussion and good food. Saturday, March 20, 6:00pm The PETA Oakland office opens to public with wine & food on offer. Come ask Bruce Friedrich, co-author of The Animal Activist's Handbook, all the questions you've been holding. Sunday, March 21, 12:00pm - 1:50pm Tuesday, March 23, 6:45pm - 9:00pm Andy Stepanian, former SHAC 7 prisoner, and Dara Lovitz, lawyer and author of Muzzling a Movement, describe the money, power, and politics behind animal enterprise terrorism laws. Wednesday, March 24, 6:00pm - 7:30pm Breeze Harper will be discussing Sistah Vegan at the San Francisco State University Women's Career Center. Wednesday, March 31, 7:00pm Bruce Friedrich, co-author of The Animal Activist's Handbook, will be participating with the Yale Debate Association about whether meat eating is ethical. Thursday, April 8, 7:00pm - 9:00pm Come and celebrate the launch of Sistah Vegan with the editor, A. Breeze Harper, and writers. Saturday, April 10, 9:00am - 7:00pm Dara Lovitz, author of Muzzling a Movement, and Norm Phelps, author of The Longest Struggle (and other books), will be participating in this conference about abolition, liberation, and the intersections of social justice. Make sure to stop by the Lantern table! Saturday, April 10, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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It is one thing to want to act; it is another thing to take action; and it is an another thing still to act consciously to bring about lasting change. Now Available
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Edited by A. Breeze Harper, with an Afterword by pattrice jones
Sistah Vegan
Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans. By kicking the junk-food habits, the more than thirty contributors all show the way toward longer, stronger, and healthier lives.
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Steven Best, Ph.D., Anthony J. Nocella, II
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, from a multitude of perspectives. With a foreword by Ward Churchill, and containing articles by Karen Davis, Tom Regan, Ingrid Newkirk, Rod Coronado, Kim Stallwood, pattrice jones, Kevin Jonas (of the recently convicted SHAC 7), Paul Watson, and many others.
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Wangari Maathai
The Green Belt Movement
2004 Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Wangari Maathai's book offers a compelling insight into the internationally acclaimed tree-planting movement founded by Kenyans and run by and for Kenyans.
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Mark Mathew Braunstein
Radical Vegetarianism
"This is a rare, inimitable book, one to savor and turn to, time and again. … It is thick with thought."—Vegetarian Times
Read the revised and updated veg classic for yourself.
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pattrice jones
Aftershock
Aftershock is about the real war against terror—the struggle for a world in which nobody lives in fear of atrocities perpetrated by human beings. It is for survivors of all kinds of trauma, for therapists who treat trauma, and for anyone who hopes to reduce the amount of terror in the world.
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User's Guide
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Craig Rosebraugh
Burning Rage of a Dying Planet
Former Earth Liberation Front spokesperson Rosebraugh charts the history and ideology of ELF and explores their tactics, successes, and limitations. An essential guide to the history of direct action from both the Animal Liberation Front and the ELF.
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Read author's writing about Political Violence.
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Edited by Margo DeMello
Teaching the Animal
Teaching the Animal promises to be the definitive handbook for all teachers of Human-Animal Studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the disciplines in question, as well as the philosophical and practical issues involved in discussing the intersections of human and nonhuman animals in society.
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Hector Aristizábal, Diane Lefer
The Blessing Next to the Wound
The story of a torture survivor from Colombia who has dedicated his life to healing the pains of others. Shockingly honest, heartbreaking, and vibrantly told, The Blessing Next to the Wound is a passionate and evocative memoir that, amid enormous suffering and loss, is a full-throated affirmation of life.
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Editor Prof. Donald W. Mitchell, Editor Fr. James A. Wiseman
Finding Peace in Troubled Times
Featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Bhikshuni Thubten Chödrön, Fr. Thomas Keating, Joseph Goldstein, Abbot John Daido Loori, Rev. Heng Sure, Stephanie Kaza, and Zenkei Blanche Hartman on the nature of suffering. |
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Around here, we love nuns. That may be because two that we know are such lovely people. Meg Funk and Yifa are both Lantern authors, and are both interested in integrating their religious knowledge with the larger world openly and in order to bring peace. Meg Funk, pictured above, is the author of the newly updated Islam Is..., a result of her interfaith dialogues.
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