RESISTAnCE AgAInST EmpIRE• Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in...
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Edited by Derrick Jensen A scathing indictment of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, this collection of interviews gathers incendiary insights from 10 of today’s most experienced and knowledgeable activists. Whether it’s Ramsey Clark describing the long history of military invasion, Alfred McCoy detailing the relationship between CIA activities and the increase in the global heroin trade, Stephen Schwartz reporting the obscene costs of nuclear armaments, or Katherine Albrecht tracing the horrors of the modern surveillance state, this investigation of global governance is sure to inform, engage, and incite readers. Features interviews with: Stephen Schwartz, guest scholar at the Brooking Institute and the director • of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project. Katherine Albrecht, director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against • Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering). Robert McChesney, author of seven books about the contradiction • between corporate media and the media requirements of a democratic society. J.W. Smith, author of • The World’s Wasted Wealth and director of The Institute for Cooperative Capitalism. Juliet Schor, co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, and • author of books on trends in work and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women’s issues and economic justice. Alfred McCoy, author of • The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia and winner of the Grant Goodman Prize in 2001. Christian Parenti, author of • Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, a critique of the “incipient American police state.” Kevin Bales, an expert on modern slavery and is the author of • Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Ramsey Clark, Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson and an unstinting • critic of U.S. foreign policy. Anuradha Mittal, an internationally renowned expert on trade, • development, human rights, democracy, and agriculture issues. ABOUT THE EDITOR Hailed as the philosopher poet of the ecological movement, Derrick Jensen is the widely acclaimed author of Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and Songs of the Dead, among many others. Jensen’s writing has been described as “breaking and mending the reader’s heart” (Publishers Weekly). His first book of interviews: How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization (PM Press) is a collection featuring ten activists who have devoted their lives to undermining the destructive dominant culture. Author, teacher, activist, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, he regularly stirs auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. ACCOLADES “Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States “Derrick Jensen is a man driven to stare without flinching at the baleful design of our culture... His analysis of our culture’s predilection for hatred and destruction will rattle your bones.” —Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael RESISTANCE AGAINST EMPIRE SUBJECT CATEGORY PoLItICS/ HIStoRy PRICE $20.00 ISBN 978-1-60486-046-7 PAGE COUNT 280 SIZE 9 X 6 FORMAT PAPeRBACK PUBLICATION DATE 06/10 DISTRIBUTED BY Independent Publishers Group (312) 337-0747 www.ipgbook.com ° PM PRESS ° P.o. Box 23912 oakland, CA 94623 www.pmpress.org PM Press was founded in 2007 as an independent publisher with a veteran staff boasting a wealth of experience in print and online publishing. We seek to create radical and stimulating fiction and non-fiction books, pamphlets, t-shirts, visual and audio materials to entertain, educate and inspire you. We aim to distribute these through every available channel with every available technology.
Transcript of RESISTAnCE AgAInST EmpIRE• Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in...
Edited by Derrick JensenA scathing indictment of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, this collection of interviews gathers incendiary insights from 10 of today’s most experienced and knowledgeable activists. Whether it’s Ramsey Clark describing the long history of military invasion, Alfred McCoy detailing the relationship between CIA activities and the increase in the global heroin trade, Stephen Schwartz reporting the obscene costs of nuclear armaments, or Katherine Albrecht tracing the horrors of the modern surveillance state, this investigation of global governance is sure to inform, engage, and incite readers.
Features interviews with:Stephen Schwartz, guest scholar at the Brooking Institute and the director •
of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project.Katherine Albrecht, director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against •
Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering).Robert McChesney, author of seven books about the contradiction •
between corporate media and the media requirements of a democratic society.
J.W. Smith, author of • The World’s Wasted Wealth and director of The Institute for Cooperative Capitalism.
Juliet Schor, co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, and • author of books on trends in work and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women’s issues and economic justice.
Alfred McCoy, author of • The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia and winner of the Grant Goodman Prize in 2001.
Christian Parenti, author of • Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, a critique of the “incipient American police state.”
Kevin Bales, an expert on modern slavery and is the author of • Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy.
Ramsey Clark, Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson and an unstinting • critic of U.S. foreign policy.
Anuradha Mittal, an internationally renowned expert on trade, • development, human rights, democracy, and agriculture issues.
ABOUT THE EDITORHailed as the philosopher poet of the ecological movement, Derrick Jensen is the widely acclaimed author of Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and Songs of the Dead, among many others. Jensen’s writing has been described as “breaking and mending the reader’s heart” (Publishers Weekly). His first book of interviews: How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization (PM Press) is a collection featuring ten activists who have devoted their lives to undermining the destructive dominant culture. Author, teacher, activist, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, he regularly stirs auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit.
ACCOLADES“Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived.”—Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
“Derrick Jensen is a man driven to stare without flinching at the baleful design of our culture... His analysis of our culture’s predilection for hatred and destruction will rattle your bones.”—Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael
RESISTAnCE AgAInST EmpIRE
SUBJECT CATEgORYPoLItICS/HIStoRy
pRICE$20.00
ISBn978-1-60486-046-7
pAgE COUnT280
SIZE9 X 6
FORmATPAPeRBACK
pUBLICATIOn DATE06/10
DISTRIBUTED BYIndependent Publishers Group
(312) 337-0747www.ipgbook.com
° pm pRESS °P.o. Box 23912
oakland, CA 94623www.pmpress.org
PM Press was founded in 2007 as an independent publisher with a veteran staff boasting a wealth of experience in print and online publishing. We seek to create radical and stimulating fiction and non-fiction books, pamphlets, t-shirts, visual and audio materials to entertain, educate and inspire you. We aim to distribute these through every available channel with every available technology.
