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$34.95 Hardcover w dustjacket
128 pages • 8.5 x 11.0 inches
50 color images
Date: 10/08/2024
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-61332-256-7
Essays, portraits, and profiles of fifty American peace activists
This third volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly’s striking color portraits and profiles of fifty peace activists as well as essays by Chris Hedges, Kali Rubaii, Paul K. Chappell, Medea Benjamin, Alice Rothchild, and David Swanson. The people honored in this book approach peacemaking in manifold ways. They have told the truth about the lies enabling war, they have protested, they have gone to jail for peace, made art imbued with the suffering of war, the stupidity of war and its cruelty, taught the curricula of peace, exposed the unspeakable wounds and trauma visited on children in war, and shown how environmentally, historically, and psychologically wars never end. They have also shown how warmongers promote and profit obscenely from the business of industrial killing, how atrocity is celebrated as heroic. They resist, resist, resist. They act with love.
$16.95 Hardcover w dustjacket
40 pages • 6.9 x 8.1 inches
Color illustrated throughout
Date: 04/09/2024
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-61332-228-4
A Parable of Hope and Peace for All Ages
With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing “we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves,” this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea that “we are all in the circle together,” and presents a timeless parable for readers of all ages. In the playful style of 12th century Japanese picture scrolls, Mayumi Oda’s art depicts humans as animals who lose their way when their leaders become confused and drawn to violence. The message of this book is the realization that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty.
A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement
By David Cortright
A definitive analysis of the impacts of the Iraq antiwar movement
$22.95 Paperback
240 pages • 5.50 x 8.50 inches
18 black and white images
Date: 02/14/2023
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-203-1
As the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, millions of people in the United States and around the world took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was the largest wave of antiwar protest in history. This is the story and analysis of those dramatic events, told by distinguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright.
$40.00 Paperback
144 pages • 7.5 x 9.25 inches
Color throughout
Date: 11/02/2021
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-134-8
Also available as hardcover
Healing from Genocide in Rwanda demonstrates the power of art in the service of healing and is a testimony to responsive community process in a highly sensitive environment. The work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide. It tells of the horrific tragedy each survived, the courage necessary for surviving, and the humanity they embody. Their stories are framed by two chapters chronicling the transformation, in the Rugerero Survivors’ Village, of a concrete burial slab into a powerful Genocide Memorial with its bone chamber, designed by artist Lily Yeh and built by the villagers. An essential theme of the book is the importance of the dead for the living, of honoring the dead, of remembrance.
$35.00 Paperback
320 pages • 8.5 x 11 inches
200 black & white photographs
Date: 09/10/2019
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-106-5
Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance.