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Upcoming AK events, including December 1st sale and Ward Churchill!!!
winter sale, and more
WINTER SALE!
Thursday, December 1 - 4-10pm
AK Press Warehouse / 674-A 23rd St. / Oakland
Mark your calendar NOW, and stop by for our annual winter sale.
Everything in the warehouse (including brand new stuff) will be 25% off.
And check out our sale tables with items priced as low as $1!! That's
right...$1!! As always, refreshments served. Bring your friends and family!
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OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
---EVENTS IN THE BAY AREA---
WARD CHURCHILL "SINCE PREDATOR CAME" BOOKLAUNCH
Friday, December 2 - 8 pm (doors at 7 pm)
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Hall / 1924 Cedar St. (at
Bonita) / Berkeley
Tickets $5-$10, available only at the door - PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY.
Join us for an evening with Ward Churchill to celebrate the launch of
SINCE PREDATOR CAME. Ward, a prolific writer and lecturer, will speak
about contemporary issues of Native American people, and will put these
struggles into their historic context.
THE FUTURE OF THE STRUGGLE: MOVEMENT VETERANS DISCUSS YESTERDAY'S
LESSONS FOR TODAY
Sunday, December 4 - 6:30 pm (doors at 6 pm)
First Unitarian Church of Oakland / 685 14th St. / Oakland
Tickets $15 - Advance tickets available now at City Lights or Modern
Times in San Francisco; at Cody's, Walden Pond and Black Oak Books in
the East Bay; or better yet, online at
http://www.akpress.org/2005/items/futureofstruggleticket
A moderated panel discussion featuring movement veterans Ward Churchill
(American Indian Movement), Kathleen Cleaver (Black Panther Party), Bo
Brown (George Jackson Brigade), Russell Means (American Indian
Movement), Yuri Kochiyama (Civil Rights Activist), Mike James (SDS,
Rising Up Angry), Barry Romo (Vietnam Veterans Against the War), and
Elizabeth Martinez (Chicana activist & author).
ROXANNE DUNBAR ORTIZ LAUNCHES "BLOOD ON THE BORDER: A MEMOIR OF THE
CONTRA WAR"
Friday, December 9th - 7pm
AK Press Warehouse / 674-A 23rd St. / Oakland
In this long-awaited book, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz vividly recounts
on-the-ground memories of the contra war in Nicaragua, chronicling the
US-sponsored terror inflicted on the people of Nicaragua following their
1981 election of the Socialist Sandinistas that ousted Reagan darling
and vicious dictator Somoza. Anyone interested in Latin American
history, or in better understanding the violent turmoil of our world
today should relish this chance to hear Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speak.
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Somoza was reelected President in the 1974 election, although the Catholic church had begun to speak against his corrupt and brutal regime. By the late 1970s, human rights groups were condemning the record of the Somoza government, while the support for the Sandinistas was growing in the country. The Sandinista Front, named after Augusto Cesar Sandino, began its guerrilla war against the Somozas in 1963. After gaining popular support, and military and political victories, the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza on July 17, 1979. The Somozas fled to Miami, Florida. Anastasio Somoza Debayle was assassinated in Asunción, Paraguay, at the age of 54, by a commando team presided by the Argentinian Enrique Gorriaran Merlo. A few months before his death, his memoirs, Nicaragua Betrayed was published, in which he blamed the Carter Administration for his demise. His son, Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, went into exile in Guatemala.
The statement was not erroneous in spirit. The whole Somoza dynasty was a US ruling class darling
"Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." - FDR quote
"Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." - FDR quote
because that's what all these puppet assholes think once their abuses get so insane the US has to distance itself for reasons of international public relations. Pinochet, Marcos, and Suharto all said the same thing. It IS a betrayal, really, in that they're usually doing a gung-ho 24-7 job of being the US Empire's local head-smasher, and yet they get fired anyway. Fuckin ey, nobody said the mafia was nice
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