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Resources about recent protests in Iran, Nobel Women's Initiative, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, calls on Iran to end violence and release political prisoners, www.nobelwomensinitiative.org. See also the Fellowship of Reconciliation's statement, made along with 35 other organizations, www.forpeace.net. For a global petition along these lines (striving for a million signatures), see avaaz.org/en/. For news about Iran and protests, see www.payvand.com/news, and one of the most comprehensive of the US aggregation bloggers on the Iranian protests, Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/nico-pitney
Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society, edited by Ozgur Heval Cinar & Coskun Usterci, 272 pp., $35.95. Richard Falk wrote, "This Turkish-oriented comparative study of conscientious objection to military service is illuminating, while exhibiting the courage of morally motivated individuals who defy coercive governments. In essence, this fine multi-authored volume challenges readers to assess the nature of good citizenship in the 21st Century." Zed books, www.zedbooks.co.uk
Contagious Love Experiment, a blog by Iraq Vet and conscientious objector Josh Stieber, as tours the country by bicycle spreading "peace and love instead of fear and violence."contagiousloveexperiment.wordpress.com/
A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World, by John Dear SJ, 440 pp., $22.95. Maireed Corrigan Maguire wrote, "This inspiring book is deeply challenging to all of us. Its author weaves together the intellectual, spiritual, and practical works of Christian nonviolence and active resistance." Loyola Press, www.johndear.org
Fit for Freedom Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, by Donna McDaniel & Vanessa D. Julye, 548 pp., $28. McDaniel told the Philadelphia Inquirer, "The push for racial justice ëwas never a mass movement among Quakers. It was the work of a courageous few.'" Study Guide also available, $18. Quaker Press of FGC, www.quakerbooks.org
Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice, by Makani Themba-Nixon & Hunter Cutting, 190 pp., $15. Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting said, "In my decades in and around media, I can't recall a ëhow to' book as smart and easy to use. I'm an old dog--this book taught me new tricks." AK Press, www.akpress.org
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy, by Rinku Sen, 288 pp., $30. How to mobilze constituencies for social change. Jossey-Bass, www.josseybass.com
Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca,
edited by Diana Denham, 382 pp., $21.99, Pat Farren Lecturer and anti-torture
activist Jennifer Harbury wrote, "These remarkable people tell us of the
historic teachers' struggle for justice in Oaxaca, Mexico, and of the larger,
hemispheric battle of all Indigenous people to end five hundred years of racism
and repression." PM Press, www.pmpress.org
The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual, by the Network of Concerned Antrhropologists, 140 pp., $12.95. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual advocated mobilizing anthropologists into a Human Terrain System Program in order to conduct "Human Terrain Mapping" studies . This manual offers a blueprint for resisting the deformation and exploitation of anthropological knowledge by the military. Prickly Paradigm Press, www.prickly-paradigm.com
