BAsics Bus Tour

It’s time to get on the Bus!

New Arrivals In Store

A Talk by Sunsara Taylor

Sunsara Taylor, 3/4/2012 from Revolution Books on Vimeo.

Watch/listen to this powerful talk by Sunsara Taylor:

"A Talk on the Occasion of International Women's Day:  "From the Expanding Porn Industry to the Aggressive Religious Patriarchs: End the Enslavement & Degradation of Women!"

Join the movement to Stop Patriarchy! March 8 is International Women's Day. Speak out at work and at school. Post materials. Chalk.

Join us at Revolution Books on Sunday, March 11 for an afternoon of sharing. Come having seen this talk. Let's talk about it and figure out how we're going to be part of this movement! Bring some food to share if you're able. 5-7 p.m.

Welcome to 2012

Fill a request for BAsics from a prisoner! 700 copies have been sent to prisoners, and 1,300 requests are still unfilled. Revolution Books Honolulu has fulfilled more than 80 requests. Buy a copy of BAsics for a friend (or for yourself if you haven't read it), and match it with a copy to a prisoner. Buy a copy at the store and we'll send it directly to a prisoner, or you can make a tax-deductible donation on-line at www.prlf.org.

New Books...
and some Favorites!

Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal): Written with the future in mind, for a vastly different society and government than now exists. It sets forth a basic model, and fundamental principles and guidelines, for the nature and functioning of a vastly different society and government than now. If you have a friend who's moaning and groaning about the future, give them this to lift their sights!

Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh. This is a saga about a ship that sails across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. The cast is a diverse group of Indians and Westerners. A historical adventure that is made more complex by issues of race and class.

About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War, featuring voices from the Courage to Resist Audio Project. "When new soldiers swear to support and defend the U.S. Constitution by following lawful orders, what are they to do when they are given unlawful orders? About Face provides raw examples of precisely what soldiers are doing who take their oath seriously." [From a review by Dahr Jamail]

BDS: Boycott - Divestment - Sanctions. The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, by Omar Barghouti. "For the first time, we have in front of us a succinct and poignant case made for the BDS strategy vis-a-vis Israel...This is a must read for anyone interested in, and committed to, the Palestine cause, regardless of their particular stance on the BDS strategy." From a review by Ilan Pappe.

Essays, by Wallace Shawn. This is a staff favorite. From a review by Michael Moore: "Shawn's essays are both powerful and riveting. How rare to encounter someone willing to question the assumptions of class and the disparity of wealth that grows wider every year in this country. To have such a gentle and incisive soul willing to say what others may be afraid to is considerably refreshing." And by Toni Morrison: "Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought provoking."

Leche, by R. Zamora Linmark. "Leche is a combustible comedy, a nightmare, a fever dream that with humor and horror somehow captures the fractured Philippine identity. Eye-opening hilarious, and relentlessly seductive. Linmark's newest novel holds the reader until the very last page." From a review by Sabina Murray

Walking With the Comrades by Arundhati Roy. After being challenged for her unsubstantiated negative remarks against the a Maoist Rebel Group in India in her book, "Field Notes on a Democracy", Arundhati Roy spent several weeks traveling with them through the deep forests. In this book she chronicles the weeks she spent living with the forest guerillas resisting assaults by the Indian government and concluded that governmnent soldiers are committing "unspeakable atrocities daily". A fascinating read, and further exposure of the crimes of global capitalism.

The Kitchen House, a novel by Kathleen Grissom. Alice Walker's review of this book says: "I recommend The Kitchen House. This novel, like 'The Help' does important work." It tells the story of a young, white Irish woman who comes to the south as an indentured servant.

What We Leave Behind, by Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay. From a review by the late Howard Zinn: "Reading What We Leave Behind makes me think of Thoreau, of Lewis Mumford, of Tolstoy, who asked us to rethink our most deeply embedded beliefs in order to live clean, modest, thoughtful lives, to return to that natural world we have forsaken. Jensen and McBay are those rare thinkers who challenge all the accepted norms of habits of 'civilizaiton' and ask us to get back to our naked selves."

No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, edited by Jane Kelsey. For those looking for an understanding of APEC's proposed Transpacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (TPP), this raises questions about the political future of independent nations, about sovereignty, democracy and indigenous self-determination, and, above all, the people's right to know what governments are doing. A rigorous read, but divided into bite-sized pieces.

The week of January 9-13 will be the first week of the UH Spring semester and will be insanely busy. We need volunteers to help... no experience needed!  Please call the store if you can volunteer. The number is 944-3106.