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DESCRIPTION:Another Inspiring Evening at Red Hill Books!!\n\nJoin us at Red Hill Books 
 Monday night as Les Leopold\nrecounts the life of the great Tony 
 Mazzocchi.\nMazzocchi's struggle to address the unconscionable\ntoxic 
 exposure of tens of thousands of workers is a\ndramatic story with plenty 
 of relevance towards led to\nthe passage of the Occupational Safety and 
 Health Act\nand included work alongside nuclear whistleblower\nKaren 
 Silkwood.\n\n"Tony Mazzocchi is one of the unsung, unnoticed heroes\nof the 
 American working class, and Les Leopold's\nbiography gives us the gift of 
 his extraordinary\nlife--from the battlefields of World War II to 
 the\npresent-day struggle for workers' rights. In that\nstruggle, Tony 
 Mazzocchi was brilliant, bold,\nimaginative, and fearless. He loved life, 
 food, fun\nand I believe his story can inspire a new generation\nof 
 activists to work for peace and economic justice."\n--Howard Zinn, author, 
 A People's History of the\nUnited States\n\n\nOne of our strengths is 
 actually the ability to\nsynthesize lessons of the past into our 
 evolving\ncounter-narrative of the current political landscape,\nand we're 
 well aware of the need to work together with\nthe labor movement both to 
 strengthen it and organize\naround issues of progressive change. Tony 
 Mazzocchi's\nstory, his vision and his experiences have many\nimportant 
 lessons we can extract in that quest, and\nLes Leopold has written a strong 
 and compelling book\nrecounting them.\nAnd it's extremely entertaining. No 
 bitter medicine\nhere.\n--Jane Hamsher, Fire Dog Lake\n\n"Les Leopold has 
 vividly brought to life an\nextraordinary man--an incorruptible fighter for 
 the\nrights of labor--an historic figure who should never\nbe forgotten. 
 Whether leading the charge for the\nOccupational and Health Safety Act, 
 protecting workers\nfrom toxic exposures, traveling the country to 
 argue\nfor health insurance, testifying before Congress, or\ninspiring a 
 generation of student activists,\nMazzocchi's fiery passion for social and 
 economic\njustice was revealed in every action he took. And in\nLeopold he 
 has found an equally passionate and\ndedicated biographer. This is an 
 important work in the\nannals of labor history."\n--Doris Kearns Goodwin, 
 Pulitzer Prize Winning\nhistorian\n\nWe can learn from him, however, as I 
 did from my\nreading of Leopold's book, to never succumb to\nbitterness 
 after a defeat. Time and again he picked\nhimself up and often won over old 
 enemies in the\ncourse of fighting a new battle. \n--Jon Flanders, Monthly 
 Review, former president of\nIAM LL 1145 \n\nPlease welcome Les Leopold to 
 Red Hill Book January\n14th, Monday evening at 7pm.\n401 Cortland 
 Ave.\nBernal Heights, San Francisco\nCortland at Bennington, 94110 
 \n415-648-5331\n\nTo read a recent article by Les Leopold for 
 Alternet:\nhttp://www.alternet.org/story/71873/\n  \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/11/18471780.php
SUMMARY:The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: Les Leopold at Red Hill Books
LOCATION:Red Hill Books\n401 Cortland Avenue\nBernal Heights\nSan Francisco, 
 Ca\n94110\n415-648-5331\nhttp:/www.dogearedbooks.com/redhill
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