Bargain Books for a Better World Benefit . Sunday & Monday, 30 - 31 Jan 05 . New College

Come browse a staggering selection of reasonably priced new books from North America's best progressive and radical independent book publishers. Featuring all things critical, artful, erotic, incendiary, photographic, visionary, rabble rousing, indigenous, and otherwise dissentingly stimulating.

Participating presses include ' South End, Manic D., Greenery, RE/Search, Common Courage, Cinco Puntos, Aunt Lute, Arsenal Pulp, Between the Lines, Feminist Press, Seal Press, Soft Skull, and AK Press.
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Bargain Books for a Better World
Sunday, 30 January - Monday, 31 Janaury 2005 . 10a - 6p
The New College
777 Valencia Street . SFCA

This event is wheelchair accessable.
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A portion of overstock will be donated to the Prison Literature Project and the Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center (LYRIC).

This is a benefit for LiP, an Oakland-based nonprofit magazine devoted to radical politics, culture, sex and humor. Your presence and your support will help LiP finsih its first challenging year of publication without debt!

LiP was nominated for a 2004 Utne Reader "Best New Title" award, and also received the East Bay Express "Best of" award for 2004.

For information call 510 689 3478 or email info [at] lipmagazine.org. LiP is online at http://www.lipmagazine.org.

PLUS

The January Retort - Sunday, 30 January 2005
a slideshow and talk by Aidan Delgado, a conscientous objector who spent 6 months at Abu Ghraib prison.

Beta Lounge Studio in SF
1072 Illinois Street at 22nd Street (where 22nd Street runs into the Bay)

We will be joined by Aidan Delgado, who will prime the conversation with a slideshow based on his experiences with the military police in Iraq. Aidan is a Florida college student who joined the Army reserve on the morning of September 11, 2001. In the ensuing months, Delgado became dedicated to Buddhism and its principles of pacifism. By April 2003, when he began his year long tour in Iraq, he was openly questioning whether he could, in good conscience, participate in the war. Having grown up in Cairo, he was well acquainted with Arab people and not steeped in the racism that drove many of his fellow soldiers. When he declared himself a conscientous objector, he was punished by his officers and ostracized by his peers. His unit, the 320th Military Police Company, spent six months in the southern city of Nasiriyah, and another six months helping to run the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. Now out of the Army, Delgado says the abuse broadcast on 60 Minutes last spring was the tip of the iceberg; brutality, often racially motivated, infected the entire prison.

Read a version of Scott Fleming's forthcoming LiP interview with Aidan Delgado at http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq.20935/.

This gathering is open to other such friends, comrades and antinomians as you may wish to invite. Just tell them to bring something to drink. Nor will dishes be unwelcomed.

A top hat will be passed around to support the host Zane Vella's new media work with children.

This event is being organized by Iain Boal and Scott Fleming.