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Bakunin
Mark Leier
What is anarchy? Where did it come from? And what role does it — or should it — play in the social movements of today? In this lively biography, author Mark Leier tells the story of Mikhail Bakunin and of the infamous theory for which he is known.
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The Old Garden
Hwang Sok-Yong
Undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in East Asia. — Kenzaburo Oe
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed, aggressively modernized, and Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. In The Old Garden, Hwang Sok-yong grapples with the immortal questions—the endurance of love, the price of a commitment to causes—while depicting a generation that sacrificed its youth, liberty, and often life for the dream of a better tomorrow.
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The Old Garden: First Five Chapters
“Undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in East Asia.” — Kenzaburo Oe on Hwang Sok-Yong, author of The Old Garden
A serialization of the first five chapters of Hwang Sok-yong’s The Old Garden ran on this site from September 1 to November 3, 2009. Click the book cover to read it from the beginning.
Seven Stories Spotlight 
As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial
“A great read, a groundbreaking volume of graphic literature and a political polemic of the first order.” — Ted Rall
Presenting the color webcomic edition of As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan. New pages go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays of every week.
Click the thumbnail image to read the most recent page.
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(Like what you read? Can’t wait to see what happens next? Help support this project by picking up a copy of the original graphic novel from Seven Stories Press.)
In the News 
Sonia Shah: TED conference lecturer exploits African women & children
March 9, 2010
From Sonia Shah’s article at Ms. about Nathan Myhrvold and the idea of using lasers to eliminate malaria in Africa:
… At the annual techno-hip TED conference in February, Myhrvold decided to up the ante, tapping into the misery of millions of rural African women and their families to wrap his business in a cloak of moral urgency. “Every 43 seconds a child dies of malaria,” he told the crowd. And current anti-malaria interventions, many of which target the rural African women and children who are malaria’s main victims, don’t work that well, he said. Insecticides can be environmentally dangerous and some people use anti-mosquito bednets to catch fish instead.
That’s why Myhrvold came up with his latest invention: A mini-”Star Wars” weapons system that tracks mosquitoes in the air and shoots them down mid-flight–with lasers, of course. Like a Death Ray. All you need to make one is a Blu-ray player and a laser printer, plus a few months of processing time on a supercomputer, and voila!: you’re on your way to eradicating malaria in Africa for good.
Oh. My.
Derrick Jensen: “It’s time to lead, follow, or get out of the way”
March 3, 2010
Another 120 species went extinct today; they were my kin. I am not going to sit back and wait for every last piece of this living world to be dismembered. I’m going to fight like hell for those kin who remain—and I want everyone who cares to join me. Many are. But many are not. Some of those who are not are those who, for whatever reason, really don’t care. I worry about them. But I worry more about those who do care but have chosen not to fight. A fairly large subset of those who care but have chosen not to fight assert that lifestyle choice is the only possible response to the murder of the planet. They all carry the same essential message—and often use precisely the same words: Resistance isn’t possible. Resistance never works.
Meanwhile, another 120 species went extinct today. They were my kin.
—Derrick Jensen, in Orion Magazine
Multimedia 
Ralph Nader at Montgomery College: Can Someone Super-Rich Save Us?
From February 2010, here’s Ralph Nader at Montgomery College speaking about his first work of fiction, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, about the future of activism, and about the power of imagination.
Web Spotlight
Straight Up with Jan Herman
Jan Herman’s Straight Up: a blog about books, about arts, about the media, and about the culture at large, and one that isn’t afraid to have a human voice. Herman waxes rhapsodic on Nelson Algren, finds the hidden parallels between William Burroughs and the blockbuster “Watchmen” film, and in general separates what’s true from what’s bullshit. For all their claim to individuality, blogs are often anything but individual; Jan Herman’s is an exception.
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Leonard T. Miller
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