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DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Book Launch for a new anthology, "Talking Back: Voices of Color" 
 (Red Letter Press, 2015), is May 3 at Marcus Books, Oakland.  Nellie Wong, 
 a widely published Bay Area poet and social justice activist, is the book's 
 editor and author of the introduction, a striking meditation on the 
 importance of "talking back" in asserting identity and power on an 
 individual and collective level. \n\nTalking Back: Voices of Color (Red 
 Letter Press, 2015), presents an unusually diverse group of writers 
 speaking out on issues affecting communities of color. Contributors share 
 tales of survival, explore little-known history, and offer insightful 
 cultural reviews. Nellie Wong, a widely published Bay Area poet and social 
 justice activist, is the book's editor and author of the introduction, a 
 striking meditation on the importance of "talking back" in asserting 
 identity and power on an individual and collective level. \n\nLike Wong, 
 the book's contributors are involved in community organizing. Based in a 
 number of locations, their identities include Asian/Pacific American, 
 Black, indigenous North American and Aboriginal Australian, Latino, 
 Palestinian, immigrant, feminist, youth, elder, LGBTQ, students, unionists, 
 former prisoners, and more. Make no mistake about it, many of the writers 
 are out-front radicals. Their aim is to communicate and mobilize. Speaking 
 from and to the grassroots, their offerings are readable, persuasive, free 
 from academic jargon, and rich with personal experience. \n\nBay Area 
 readers will find many notable local activists in addition to the 
 well-known Nellie Wong. Pioneering Asian American lesbian feminist teacher 
 Merle Woo writes about her series of landmark discrimination suits against 
 UC-Berkeley. Duciana Thomas, an African American feminist from the 
 Bayview-Hunters Point community, writes on her participation in the ongoing 
 battle to save City College of San Francisco from closure. Norma Gallegos, 
 a queer Chicana and San Francisco native, pays tribute to a pioneer of 
 socialist feminist ideas. Gay radical Moisés Moises, a participant in the 
 Berkeley Occupy and anti-apartheid movements, draws an anti-war message 
 from his family's experiences in the U.S. military. Nancy Reiko Kato 
 reviews the little-known history of Asian Pacific American radicals told in 
 Legacy to Liberation. \n\nArab American artist and writer Happy Hyder, says 
 the book's "fearless and varied voices" reveal "the true meaning of 
 political action." African American scholar, unionist, and former civil 
 rights organizer James Wright calls the book "a treasure" by a "rainbow of 
 radical authors." Sociologist Dr. Jesse Díaz, Jr. says the book will lead 
 to increased understanding of the activist of color's "toils for equality 
 and justice." Alice Goff, a Black immigrant labor leader and community 
 activist, predicts that even readers who don't share the opinions of the 
 authors may "come away with a different perspective and possibly be moved 
 to question the status quo."  Karin Aguilar-San Juan, an associate 
 professor and Filipina American lesbian, describes the writings as resonant 
 with "pain and rage… light and power and hope."\n\nBay Area book launch 
 for Talking Back: Voices of Color will be held May 3, 2:00pm at Marcus 
 Books, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland (at 39th St., two blocks 
 from MacArthur BART). Authors Nellie Wong, Norma Gallegos, Nancy Reiko 
 Kato, Moises Montoya, Duciana Thomas and Merle Woo will be present to 
 discuss and read from their contributions.\n\nFor more information, to 
 obtain a review copy or arrange an interview or reading, contact Red Letter 
 Press, 747 Polk St., San Francisco, CA 94131, 415-864-1278, 
 baFSP@earthlink.net, radicalwomen.org. Press kit with photos and more at 
 www.RedLetterPress.org/presskit.html.\n#	#	#\nTalking Back: Voices of 
 Color\nEdited and with an introduction by Nellie Wong\n$15.00, 240 pages, 
 paperback, 5.5" x 8.5", index\nRed Letter Press, 2015\nPrint version: ISBN 
 978-0-932323-32-3\nEbook: ISBN 978-0-932323-33-0\nOnline press kit: \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/27/18771566.php
SUMMARY:Bay Area voices featured in "Talking Back," a dynamic new anthology by activists of color
LOCATION:Marcus Books, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland (at 39th St., two 
 blocks from MacArthur BART). \n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/27/18771566.php
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