CONTENTS:
NEWS
1. Volunteers needed to help with the Peace Diary
2. Your second-hand books are still wanted!
EVENTS
- ‘Meltdown The End of The Age of Greed’ with Paul Mason
Wednesday 3rd June – 7pm - Grey Hen presents: ‘Uncomfortable Poems by Older Women’
Saturday 6th June – 5pm - Shamanic Maps of How the Universe Works with Leo Rutherford
Wednesday 10th June – 7pm - ISBO present: ‘The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World’
Saturday 13th June – 5pm - ‘Clear Red Water: Welsh Devolution and Socialist Politics’ with Nick Davies & Darren Williams
Wednesday 17th June – 7pm - ‘The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism’ with Stephen Chan
Saturday 20th June – 5pm - Press Freedom – Jason N Parkinson + Marc Vallée
Saturday 27th June – 5pm - Forthcoming in July & August 2009 – ‘London’s Burning
BOOKS
‘Armed Madhouse’ by Greg Palast
‘The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power’ by Joel Bakan
NEWS
1. Volunteers needed to help with the Peace Diary
The editor of the World Peace Directory which is published in the Housmans Peace Diary each year currently needs some volunteer help with researching and sorting out material for the directory. There will also be help needed later with mailings.
Volunteers need to be methodical and thoughtful; a passing acquaintance with any major foreign languages is very useful for some of the work. If you can spare anything from an hour or two to a day or two, please contact Albert Beale on 020-7278 4474. Thanks.
2. Your second-hand books are still wanted!
Please donate your used books to Housmans Bookshop
~keep books alive, rather than sitting on the shelf
~support one of Britain’s last radical bookshops
Cash paid for uncommon and unusual titles.
We shall endeavour to collect from anywhere in the country…
Please contact Nik on 020 7837 4473 or at nik@housmans.com for more information. Thank you for your support.
EVENTS
More comprehensive details about all events can be found at www.housmans.com/events.php
3.‘Meltdown The End of The Age of Greed’ with Paul Mason
Wednesday 3rd June – 7pm
Newsnight’s economics editor Paul Mason discusses the financial crash and explains why, love it or loathe it, the neo-liberal era is over. Followed by Q&A and book signing.
4. Grey Hen presents: ‘Uncomfortable Poems by Older Women’
Saturday 6th June – 5pm
Grey Hen’s Joy Howard presents Angela Kirby, Gerda Mayer, Marianne Burton and Berta Freistadt, who will be reading poems from their popular new anthology ‘A Twist of Malice: Uncomfortable Poems by Older Women’. All welcome – wine and nibbles.
5. ‘Shamanic Maps of How the Universe Works’ with Leo Rutherford
Wednesday 10th June – 7pm
Leo Rutherford distils 30 years of study and experience of the Medicine Wheel, explaining the shamanic understanding of how the world works.
6. ISBO present: ‘The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World’
Saturday 13th June – 5pm
The International School for Bottom-up Organizing (ISBO) launch their first book, sharing their work in creating and supporting Radical grassroots projects across the Americas and building powerful relationships of solidarity. From a rural Social Action Research Centre and Palenques in Colombia, to the poor Black community of the Lower Ninth Ward in post-Katrina New Orleans, ISBO is organising and seeking out radical folk passionate and deeply committed to creating a new world from the Bottom Up!
7. ‘Clear Red Water: Welsh Devolution and Socialist Politics’ with Nick Davies & Darren Williams
Wednesday 17th June – 7pm
Nick Davies & Darren Williams of Welsh Labour Grassroots discuss how Welsh Labour continues to follow a consistently socialist path, creating a growing gulf of ‘clear red water’ between Wales and the Westminster of New Labour.
8. ‘The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism’ with Stephen Chan
Saturday 20th June – 5pm
Stephen Chan argues the case that international politics has failed because the certainties of singular traditions of philosophy fail to help us in understanding power shifts and struggles in an endlessly diverse world. Followed by Q&A and book signing.
9. Press Freedom – Jason N Parkinson + Marc Vallée
Saturday 27th June – 5pm
Journalist Jason N Parkinson and photographer Marc Vallée discuss the increasing state repression of press freedoms, particularly in reporting activism and protests. The event will include a screening of Jason’s short film on the subject, ‘Collateral Damage’.
10. Forthcoming in July & August 2009 – ‘London’s Burning’
Housmans will be dedicating our July and August events programme to a celebration of radical London, a series we’re calling ‘London’s Burning’. There are already a number of events confirmed (see below), but more are still in the pipeline, so keep an eye on future newsletters and on the website.
‘Blake: London’s Visionary Anarchist’ with Peter Marshall
Wednesday 15th July – 7pm
Philosopher, historian, biographer, travel writer and poet, Peter Marshall recounts the life of one of London’s finest artists, William Blake.
‘Visionaries, Dissenters and Rebels: a walk through Islington’s history’ with David Rosenburg
Saturday 18th July – 11am
A walking tour of radical Islington. There is no fee for the walk but there will be a request for voluntary donations at the end. Limited spaces: to book a place and for more info please email nik@housmans.com
‘Michael X’ with John Williams
Wednesday 22nd July – 7pm
John Williams recounts the life of Michael X, a key figure on the landscape of radical London in the 60’s.
‘The London Perambulator’ with John Rogers and Nick Papadimitriou.
Saturday 25th July – 5pm
A rare screening of John Rogers’ film ‘The London Perambulator’, a documentary portrait of arsonist and ‘deep topographer’ Nick Papadimitriou.
Alternative Press in London
Wednesday 29th July – 7pm
A launch event for ‘Anthology’, a book celebrating small presses, self publishing and creativity in the print media. Jimi Gherkin and friends will be exploring what’s happening on the scene in London today.
‘The London Free School: Notting Hill 1966 – Counter Culture, Community Action and Carnival Roots’ slideshow and talk by Tom Vague
Wednesday 12th August 7pm
Punk fanzine editor Tom Vague will be introducing the above and also screening the ‘Notting Hill 1958 Riot Tour Westway’ TV film.
‘Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts’ with Clive Bloom
Saturday 22nd August – 5pm
Clive Bloom charts the story of London through centuries of popular insurrection and protest. It is a story of political activism expressed in street fighting and slum warfare, in assassination and bombing.
‘A Historical Walk Through The Radical Jewish East End’ with David Rosenburg
Saturday 29th August – 11am
A walking tour of radical Whitechapel. There is no fee for the walk but there will be a request for voluntary donations at the end. Limited spaces: to book a place and for more info please email nik@housmans.com
‘London Stories: Personal Lives, Public Histories’ with Hilda Kean
Saturday 29th August – 5pm
Hilda Kean debunks the melodramatic and romantic clichés that pervade popular conceptions of working-class Londoners in the 19th and 20th centuries. She will be recounting stories of muted historical figures, including an illiterate silk weaver, a grandmother in an asylum, a deserted family, an abused daughter, and a dead child, whose lives intertwine to evoke a haunting and original picture of working-class London that adds a much-needed, though bleak, facet to the city’s social history.
BOOKS
The following books are available to buy from our website at http://www.housmans.com/books.php
11. ‘Armed Madhouse’ by Greg Palast (Penguin Books)
RRP: £14.99 Housmans Special Price: £6.99
Award-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about America today. And, he’s got the documents to prove it. Here, he reveals just how scary it’s got: how the Patriot Act has sent a nation crazy with fear? How no child is left behind in the queue for jobs – cleaning toilets, that is. And, how Bush’s ‘ownership society’ means corporations buying up the planet. Plus, the story of the trillion-dollar Gulf War oil babies, why some people like to call Greg a Pinko bed-wetting freak, and how to join insurgency USA.
“We need more Greg Palasts” Will Hutton
“The journalist I admire the most” George Monbiot
“Upsets all the right people” Noam Chomsky
12. ‘The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power’ by Joel Bakan (Constable & Robinson)
RRP: £9.99 Housmans Special Price: £4.99
What would the world be like if its rulers were insane? The most powerful class of institution on earth, the corporation, is by any reasonable measure hopelessly and unavoidably demented. The corporation lies, steals and kills without hesitation when it serves the interests of its shareholders to do so.
“This fine book was virtually begging to be written. With lucidity and verve, expert knowledge and incisive analysis, Bakan unveils the history and character of a devilish instrument that has been created and is nurtured by powerful modern states” Noam Chomsky
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