This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Sahar Delijani
Atria, 2013
The author was born in 1983 in a prison in Iran
where her parents were jailed for their political
activities. In this can’t-put-it-down novel, she
tells the story of several families who lived
through and emerged from those traumatic times.
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Jordan Goodman
Verso, 2013
The famous African-American singer and actor
became a leading voice for civil rights at home
and abroad in the 1930s and beyond. This biography
draws on internal government archives to
focus on harassment and repression waged
against Robeson by congressional committees,
the FBI, and other agencies.
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy
New Society Publishers, 2013
This exciting guide describes more than a hundred simple, easy-to-lead activities that use arts and crafts, creative writing, theater improvisation, storytelling, music, or dance to break down barriers and build stronger communities for social change.
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Nicolas Lampert
The New Press, 2013
A fascinating book examines the role visual images have played in activist movements throughout American history. The author was “particularly drawn to the examples . . . where the decisions made by artists were controversial and confounding” because “analyzing histories that are deeply complicated helps us learn.”
This film was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
A seventy-three-minute documentary shows twenty-two public artists who do unauthorized paintings in Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Perth, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Chicago, Austin, and Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank.
