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Apr. 14th, 2008 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unusualmusic_lj_archiveSo the Seal Press Saga got even worse when I was not looking and WOC Phd, has decided to girlcott them. And then, lovely woman that she is, she announced alternative presses. And I leap for joy.
Soft Skull Press, Red Bone Press, Suspect Thought Press and my absolute favorite, South End Press are the new guys in town from my point of view.
South End Press is particularly great. From the first book that hits your eyes upon opening the website:When the Prisoners Ran Walpole, an account of the time in 1971 when the prisoners were put in charge of the Walpole's Massachusetts Correctional Center, with apparently great results, to the The Toolbox for Sustainable City living: A do-it-yourself guide to Biopiracy, a report on the unethical and deeply fucked up ways in which Western corporations are stealing the resources and knowledge of the South, patenting it and then forcing the denizens of the South to pay them for their own knowledge, Food for Our Grandmothers, which is a collection of essays by Arab-Canadian and Arab-American feminists, A nice collection devoted to Native American topics, to say nothing of health, media studies, I'm having a ball. And then a rather interesting coincidence occurs.
Follow the link and click on the second video
Notice what his argument is about? The serious lack of transportation and how that affects his livelihood? I ignored it at first, wondering why he doesn't have a car (oh privilege!) And then I saw this Highway Robbery:Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity WHUT? I wondered. So I skipped down to the description:Coast to coast, equal access to healthy, reliable, and practical transportation eludes many people, the majority of them poor people and people of color. The effects of this injustice are broad and deep. Access to transportation, public and private, determines the physical and social mobility necessary for admission to larger social, economic, and civic worlds. For millions of people, exclusion from transportation networks means drastically compromised life choices. Their jeopardized health and limited economic opportunities are then compounded by the day-to-day indignities and feelings of frustration and isolation resulting from publicly funded segregation. Highway Robbery asserts that staying the current course will further polarize communities on the basis of class and color, and the powerful evidence marshaled by the authors in this anthology demands that cities and states revisit their public transportation agenda
*Blink*
Whereupon this book has leaped-frogged up to number one on the books that I MUST get as soon as money is with me.
Soft Skull Press, Red Bone Press, Suspect Thought Press and my absolute favorite, South End Press are the new guys in town from my point of view.
South End Press is particularly great. From the first book that hits your eyes upon opening the website:When the Prisoners Ran Walpole, an account of the time in 1971 when the prisoners were put in charge of the Walpole's Massachusetts Correctional Center, with apparently great results, to the The Toolbox for Sustainable City living: A do-it-yourself guide to Biopiracy, a report on the unethical and deeply fucked up ways in which Western corporations are stealing the resources and knowledge of the South, patenting it and then forcing the denizens of the South to pay them for their own knowledge, Food for Our Grandmothers, which is a collection of essays by Arab-Canadian and Arab-American feminists, A nice collection devoted to Native American topics, to say nothing of health, media studies, I'm having a ball. And then a rather interesting coincidence occurs.
Follow the link and click on the second video
Notice what his argument is about? The serious lack of transportation and how that affects his livelihood? I ignored it at first, wondering why he doesn't have a car (oh privilege!) And then I saw this Highway Robbery:Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity WHUT? I wondered. So I skipped down to the description:Coast to coast, equal access to healthy, reliable, and practical transportation eludes many people, the majority of them poor people and people of color. The effects of this injustice are broad and deep. Access to transportation, public and private, determines the physical and social mobility necessary for admission to larger social, economic, and civic worlds. For millions of people, exclusion from transportation networks means drastically compromised life choices. Their jeopardized health and limited economic opportunities are then compounded by the day-to-day indignities and feelings of frustration and isolation resulting from publicly funded segregation. Highway Robbery asserts that staying the current course will further polarize communities on the basis of class and color, and the powerful evidence marshaled by the authors in this anthology demands that cities and states revisit their public transportation agenda
*Blink*
Whereupon this book has leaped-frogged up to number one on the books that I MUST get as soon as money is with me.
