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April 2006
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 Earth Day

 New and Noteworthy Books

 ** A Call For Writers **

 Truth Out!

 Spirit in Business

Greetings Indigo People!

Spring is finally here! On April 22, and all this month, we celebrate Mother Earth. Take a walk in the woods, go to an Earth Day event, or help save coral reefs or Congo wildlife by donating through the Domini Global Giving Fund. (Direct donations are matched 50%!) We are also having a sale on books about the environment here at Indigo!

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New and Noteworthy Books

Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
Articles of Impeachment
Against George W. Bush

by Center for Constitutional Rights
Retail Price: $9.95
(Trade Paperback)
IS THERE REALLY A LEGAL CASE AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH?
Saying aloud what’s being said behind the scenes in the corridors of power ...
The startling revelation of the President’s warrantless wiretapping campaign may be the straw that broke the camel's back: In the halls of Congress and on the front pages of a growing number of mainstream periodicals, impeachment is being discussed more and more openly. And many leading constitutional scholars agree: there has never been so strong a case for impeachment since Richard Nixon.

In Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush, the experts at one of our nation's leading institutions of constitutional scholarship, the Center for Constitutional Rights, set out the legal arguments for impeachment in a clear, concise, and objective discussion.
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The Covenant with Black America
The Covenant with Black America
by Tavis Smiley, Editor
Retail Price: $12.00
(Trade Paperback)
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This week "The Covenant" is No. 3 on the New York Times Bestselling list!
Established publishing house, Third World Press, Inc., joins noted author and broadcaster, Tavis Smiley, to create The Covenant with Black America, a step-by-step how-to manual for taking action against the political, economical, physiological and medical issues threatening black society. The Covenant addressing 10 of the most pressing issues facing black America, providing provocative breakdowns of each issue, as well as specific directions on how politicians, corporations and individuals can make important changes necessary for the survival of black people.
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Failed States
Failed States
The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
by Noam Chomsky
Retail Price: $24.00
Our Price: $20.40 — save 15%!
(Hardcover)
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“Failed states” Chomsky writes, are those “that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and that suffer from a ‘democratic deficit,’ having democratic forms but with limited substance.” Exploring recent U.S. foreign and domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington’s escalation of the nuclear risk; the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; and America’s self-exemption from international law. He also examines an American electoral system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus impeding any meaningful democracy.
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Crashing the Gate
Crashing the Gate
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
by Jerome Armstrong of MyDD.com
& Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of DailyKos.com
Retail Price: $24.95
Our Price: $21.21 — save 15%!
(Hardcover)
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Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America. This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in their critique of Republican ideologues who are now running—and ruining—our country.

Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement—of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors—that is the antidote to old-school politics as usual.
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Apex Hides the Hurt
Apex Hides the Hurt
A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
Retail Price: $22.95
Our Price: $19.51 — save 15%!
(Hardcover)
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From the MacArthur and Whiting Award–winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry

When the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did what anyone would do—they hired a consultant.

The protagonist of Apex Hides the Hurt is a nomenclature consultant. If you want just the right name for your new product, whether it be automobile or antidepressant, sneaker or spoon, he’s the man to get the job done. Wardrobe lack pizzazz? Come to the Outfit Outlet. Always the wallflower at social gatherings? Try Loquacia.
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Stories from Blue Latitudes
Stories from Blue Latitudes
Caribbean Women Writers
at Home and Abroad

by Elizabeth Nunez, Editor
Retail Price: $16.95
(Trade Paperback)
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Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace their stories of life at home and abroad. But whether writing about childhood or adulthood, life in the islands or life abroad, the writers express their particular concerns with a passion that comes from lived experience, and with a love of place and a feminist sensibility that are accessible to new readers of Caribbean literature as well as to an academic audience. "What matters is how well we have told our tale, how well we have drawn pictures of the people and places we write about, " Nunez says.
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*** A Call For Writers ***

Interested in writing a book review, film review, or opinion article? Good. Because we're interested in hearing from you! We are looking for writers to create short, lively reviews and op-ed articles for our site. Send your articles to columns@indigocafe.com. The reviews must be related to an available, published book and information about the book must be included (title, author, ISBN, and publisher). If we like your review, we will publish it on our site!


Truth Out!

  • On April 29, 2006, here in NYC, there will be a large anti-war protest sponsored by groups including the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the National Organization for Women, and Friends of the Earth. Go to april29.org to learn more.

  • On April 30, 2006, in Washington D.C., concerned people will gather for a large rally to help stop the ongoing genocide in the Sudan and Chad.
    Go to www.darfurgenocide.org to learn more.

  • Sometime in June of this year a large nuclear test will be performed in Nevada. This is possibly in preparation for a war in Iran. Scary stuff. Just thought you should know. Go to www.globalsecurity.org to learn more.



  • We donate a percentage of our sales every quarter to organizations that stand up for justice and human rights. The more you buy, the more we donate!

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