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Roe at Risk
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcaDtjwOuY&w=560&h=315] This film was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue www.afj.org, 2013 A fifteen-minute film urges Americans to get involved to preserve a woman’s right to choose about abortion.
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Children of the Jacaranda Tree
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…
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Paul Robeson: A Watched Man
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…
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Catch the Fire
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue By Peggy Taylor and Charlie MurphyNew Society Publishers, 2013This 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…
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