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The Apple: A Delicious History

by Sally Coulthard (Goodreads Author)

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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

by Benjamin Nathans

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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

by Dean Spade

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Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

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Perhaps you are thinking responsibility is fifty-fifty. The woman just needs to insist that the man use a condom. But hold up a minute. If the woman has to insist a man use a condom, haven’t you just described an irresponsible man? How is ...more

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“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

tags: anti-war, poetry, poets

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“Stronger the military,
stupider the citizens.
Louder the ammunition,
lousier the education.

More titanic the tanks,
more pathetic the primates.
World in trance of arms,
is a planet of the apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator