Images from last Saturday's protest

Thanks to Kim DeFranco on Facebook!









Article from the Twin Cities Daily Planet:

Foreclosed home auction draws protesters, bargain-hunters

BY MADELEINE BARAN, TC DAILY PLANET. March 29, 2009

Local activists protested the auction of hundreds of foreclosed homes at the Minneapolis Convention Center on March 28.

The Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout organized the protest to demand that the state impose a two-year moratorium on all foreclosures, including rental properties.

About thirty protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside the convention center, chanting, “Banks got bailed out! People got thrown out! Stop foreclosures now!” The group, organized by the Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout, held signs and gave short speeches in the cold, sunny weather.

“All of these homes that are being auctioned off today represent families who have been evicted and might be facing homelessness,” protester Steff Yorek said. “People’s lives are being auctioned off in there.”

The sale, held by the Real Estate Disposition Corporation (REDC), had an element of spectacle, as one foreclosed home after another went up for bid in a crowded convention room. An auctioneer stood in the front of the room, rapidly barking out prices. Most homes were sold in less than two minutes. The bidding for a three-bedroom St. Paul home previously valued at $65,000 started at just $500. Less than a minute later, it was sold for $32,500.

“You open your mouth, you might get it,” bidder Calvin Boquist said. “If you don’t you won’t.” Boquist, 53, came to the auction to buy a home for his twenty-year-old son Brandon. They hope to spend less than $35,000 on a small foreclosed home in Avon, Minnesota, close to St. John’s University where Brandon attends college.

Bidders walked past the protest quickly, but many drivers honked their horns to show support. “I understand why people see this as an opportunity,” coalition member Alan Dale said. The banks and the government, not the individual buyers, are the source of the problem, he said.

The proposed two-year foreclosure moratorium is part of a larger “People’s Bailout” bill introduced at the state legislature in January. The bill, which also includes job creation programs and a temporary halt to the five-year limit on receiving welfare benefits, has struggled to make it out of committee. But portions of the bill may pass as parts of other bills, supporters said.

Protesters said that the current economic crisis could prove worse than the Great Depression. And, as many were quick to point out, Minnesota’s Governor Floyd Olson issued an executive order temporarily halting foreclosures in 1933.

Madeleine Baran is a freelance journalist, specializing in labor and poverty issues. Her articles have appeared in The New York Daily News, Dollars & Sense, Clamor, The New Standard, and other publications.

Soulless employment

This past week, I heard a young man explain to a group of 75 community members that his job, stocking shelves with food at a local grocery store, was soul-numbing in the extreme.

And I had a huge disconnect. Because when he said that his job was stocking shelves at a local grocery store, I thought to myself, "Wow, he's doing something concrete that makes a difference in the lives of working class people." And I thought to myself, "That must be awesome, to know that the job one does contributes to one's fellow human being."

To hear this young man say that providing food to another human being is the epitome of soul depletion: well, you know, slap my up one side of the head and down another.

I live in a world that chooses to not respect individuals who contribute to the lives of other workers.

I live in a world where a man who provide the basics of live can tell himself he is doing nothing important.

Damn. That's fucked up.

Work Party

Tonight a bunch of us got together at Mayday Books to put together the posters we will pass out at tomorrow's protest against the foreclosure auction. I received the highest of praise in leftyland when Mickey told me my signs looked even better than Worker's World signs. Wow!

We re-engineered about 50 old signs from the anti-RNC rallies and stapled out new signs onto them. I sarcastically stated that with 56 signs, we probably would have twice as many signs as protesters tomorrow. I hope I am proved wrong on that.

Signs for Saturday's protest

Please feel free to steal these graphics and add your own group's name to fight against this abomination!

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All Hail Jon Stewart

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Clean Coal

75 Years



This is one of my favorite flyers. I made it to support an awesome point in US history.

Five years a group of local activists, including myself, put on a street festival celebrating 70 years since the 1934 Truckers Strike that made Minneapolis a union town and crushed the "Minneapolis Citizens Alliance". Today, six veterans of that struggle met again to see if we could do another festival this year. I think it might actually happen. I certainly hope so. More info to come.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

I have been a member of a women's reading group for over 20 years now. We are not the typical reading group. For one thing, we are diverse in our tastes and have NEVER found a book that we all agreed upon as good reading. We tried, at first, to all read the same book. But we also agreed that nobody should feel pressured to read a book she doesn't like. The result? You guessed it. We have never all read the same book.

However, one of our members was especially impressed by Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. So much so that she gave each of us a copy of the book for Xmas/Hannukah. So I finally got around to reading it this past month.

First, the writing is truly awesome. I felt immersed in the place and time of the book. I felt moved by the women who form the basis of this book.

Also, I was confused by the structure. The book begins telling the story of Miriam, a bastard child who lives alone in a secluded "kolba" with weekly visits from her father. Then, abruptly, the book shifts to concentrate on Laila, Miriam's neighbor. Which is weird and confusing.

I suppose authors must have to trust their readers to let them take these abrupt turns. If the characters are of interest, we will accept the change and trust that all will be resolved. But, dammit, it takes a really long time for that to happen. But, what a miracle, I was patient.

This book throttles you with the reality of war and abuse. It isn't pretty. There are no miraculous escapes. The choices are few and brutal. We have hope for these women, but we also know how foolish that hope is.

Aha! Found it!

I stumbled on this list while scrolling through all the Racefail09 comments and then could NOT find it again. Today, I have once again found it and copy it here. Plans are underway to get these into our bookstore. Links to follow when I have time.

Big List of Awesome Authors, Poets, Playwrights and Scholars

The latest edition of the POC Author list.

The Face of Another by Kobo Abé
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abé
The Box Man by Kobo Abé
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abé
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abé
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abé
Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abé
Live From Deathrow by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta
For Love of Biafra by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo

The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo
Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
10 Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
Adventures of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie

First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Old Shirts and New Skins by Sherman Alexie
One Stick Song by Sherman Alexie
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie
Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie

The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Tales of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
A Cafecito Story by Julia Alvarez
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

The Best Gift of All by Julia Alvarez

Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez
The Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia by Julia Alvarez

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Once Upon A Quinceañera by Julia Alvarez

Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
The Secret Footprints by Julia Alvarez
Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez

The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez

Bless Me Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
Being on the Moon by Annharte

La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 by Margaret L. Archuleta
The Conference of the Birds by Ibn Attar
Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom by Marilou Awiakta

Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
Those Bones Are Not My Child Toni Cade Bambara

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
The Prisoner's Wife by Asha Bandele
Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes
Not Far Away: The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig by Lois Beardslee
The Women's Warrior Society Ima Pipiig by Lois Beardslee
From the Belly of My Beauty by Esther G. Belin
Full Moon on the Reservation by Gloria Bird

For Nights Like This One: Stories of Loving Women by Becky Birtha
Lover's Choice by Becky Birtha
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Revise the World by Brenda Clough
Elderberry Flute Song: Contemporary Coyote Tales by Peter Blue Cloud

What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
Food and Spirits by Beth Brant
I'll sing 'til the day I die: Conversations with Tyendinaga Elders by Beth Brant

Ryddim Ravings by Jean Binta Breeze
The Fifth Figure by Jean Binta Breeze
Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac
Wabi by Joseph Bruchac
The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It by Percy Bullchild

The Threshing Floor by Barbara Burford
Chocolate Park by Chesya Burke

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Blood Child by Octavia E. Butler
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Popo and Fifina by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
Native Creative Process: A Collaborative Discourse between Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette Armstrong by Douglas Cardinal and Jeannette Armstrong

Black Ice by Lorene Carey
Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
So Far from God by Ana Castillo
The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Childs

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearle Cleage
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Free Enterprise: A novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant by Michelle Cliff
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyng Cha
Chronique des sept misères (Chronicles of the Seven Sorrows) by Patrick Chamoiseau
School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau
Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
Devdas by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
The Conjure Women and The Conjure Tales by Charles W. Chesnutt
Donald Duk by Frank Chin
Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon by Frank Chin
Dream On by Chrystos

In Her I Am by Chrystos

Not Vanishing by Chrystos
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Segu by Maryse Condé
The Children of Segu by Maryse Condé
I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
Desirada by Maryse Condé
The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper
April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Breath Eyes Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Eu Nasci Uma Mulher Negra (I Was Born a Black Woman) by Benedita da Silva
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J. Deloria
Playing Indian

American Indians, American Justice by Vine Deloria Jr

Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties by Vine Deloria Jr

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr

Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths by Vine Deloria Jr

God is Red by Vine Deloria Jr
Power and Place by Vine Deloria Jr

Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact by Vine Deloria Jr

Spirit & Reason by Vine Deloria Jr

We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf by Vine Deloria, Jr

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Drown by Junot Diaz

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Guests by Michael Dorris
Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
Souls of Blackfolk by W.E.B Dubois
The Between by Tananarive Due
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Tower of Nesle (La Tour de Nesle) by Alexandre Dumas

The Sun, The Sea, A Touch of Wind by Rosa Guy Dutton
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
Towelhead by Alicia Erian
Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain by Minister Faust
The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women ed by Connie Fife
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Saipan: Suicide Island by Guy Gabaldon
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
Don't Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi
Ego-Trippin' and Other Poems for Young People by Nikki Giovanni
Racism 101 by Nikki Giovanni
Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy
Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer
Introducing... Sister NoBlues by Hattie Gossett
Potiki by Patricia Grace
Nigger by Dick Gregory
Up from Nigger by Dick Gregory
Callus on My Soul by Dick Gregory
The Epic of Sundiata by Mandika Griots
Measuring Time by Helon Habila
Waiting for An Angel by Helon Habila

Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
Mama Flora's Family by Alex Haley
Born Black, Born Palestinian by Suheir Hammad
Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
First Indian on the Moon by Joy Harjo

In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo
Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America ed by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
The Full Matilda by David Haynes
Dog Road Woman by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Who Am I?: The Diary of Mary Talance by Anita Heiss
Locas by Jaime Hernandez
The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
The Book of Medicines by Linda Hogan

Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
Power by Linda Hogan

Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks
Brown Girl in The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Miko Kings by LeAnne Howe
Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes

The Ways of White Folk by Langston Hughes
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Zuni Artist Looks at Frank Hamilton Cushing by Phil Hughte

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Seth and Samona by Joanne Hyppolite
Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Rain God by Arturo Islas
Behind Closed Doors: Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School by Agness Jack

The Black Jacobins by CLR James
A Free Life: A Novel by Ha Jin

In the Pond by Ha Jin

Waiting by Ha Jin
War Trash by Ha Jin

Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Ojibway Tales by Basil Johnstone
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Poem About My Rights by June Jordan
Dusk by F. Sionil Josè
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Cotillion by John Oliver Killens
Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Medicine River by Thomas King
Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King
Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Medicine River by Thomas King
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King

China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer by Dany Laferrière
Dining with The Dictator by Dany Laferrière and David Homel

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
When Fox Is a Thousand by Larissa Lai
The Tao Teh King by Lao-Tse
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Passing by Nella Larsen
Native Speaker by Changrae Lee
A Gesture Life by Changrae Lee
Aloft by Changrae Lee
Natif-natal by Félix Morriseau-Leroy
Plénitudes by Félix Morriseau-Leroy
Do Not Go Gently by Judith Smith Levin
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
Zami by Audre Lorde
Twilight in Jakarta by Mochtar Lubis
The Color of Water by James McBride
The First Century after Beatrice by Amain Maalouf
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
Mother Tongue by Demitria Martinez
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
Memories of My Meloncholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
All I Asking for Is My Body by Milton Maruyama
Raj by Gita Mehta
The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
Wild Ginger by Anchee Minn
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Monkey King by Timothy Mo
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
The Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
In the Bear's House by N. Scott Momaday
The Man Made of Words by N. Scott Momaday
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color ed by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

Loving in the War Years by Cherríe Moraga
Richard trajo su flauta y otros argumentos by Nancy Morejon
My Place by Sally Morgan
Love by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Easy Rawlings series (Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, Black Betty, White Butterfly) by Walter Mosley
Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley
Always Outnumbered by Walter Moseley
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee

Turning Japanese by David Mura
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray
The Conquest, by Yxta Maya Murray
Dis Poem by Mutabaruka
Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe

Blanche Cleans UP by Barbara Nealy
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oe
Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe
A Squatter's Tale by Ike Oguine
Zarah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri
Stars of the New Curfew by Ben Okri
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez
Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Pérez

Fresh Girl by Jaira Placide
Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington and Nugi Garimara
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
The Negro of Peter the Great by Alexander Pushkin
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
Catechism of D Neoamerican HooDoo Church by Ishmael Reed

Conjure: Selected Poems

Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
The Free-Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed

Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Reckless Eyeballing by Ishmael Reed

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Defending the Spirit - Randall Robinson
The Debt - Randall Robinson

The Reckoning - Randall Robinson
The Sano Ichiro Mysteries series by Laura Joh Rowland
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Midnight’s Children by Sir Salman Rushdie
The Rose Garden by Saadi
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development by Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo's
Push by Sapphire
America's Dream by Esmeralda Santiago
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Almost A Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago
Betsy Brown by Ntozake Shange
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
A Suitablle Boy by Vikram Seth
Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
If I Can Cook You Know God Can by Ntozake Shange

Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter by Ntozake Shange
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikobu
The Black and White of It by Ann Allen Shockley
Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
Say Jesus and Come to Me by Ann Allen Shockley
Conquest by Andrea Smith
Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore
Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
Relationships by Rabindranth Tagore
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Let the Circle Be Unbroken Mildred D. Taylor
The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor
Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
Devil on a Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
The Buru Quartet (This Earth of Mankind, Child of all Nations, Footsteps, House of Glass) by Pramoedya Ananta Toe
Raise the Red Lantern by Su Tong
Rice by Su Tong

Living Pidgin by Lee Tonouchi
Swerve: Reckless Observation of a Post-Modern Girl by Aisha Tyler
Naked Ladies by Alma Luz Villanueva
Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Viramontes
Waiting for Saskatchewan by Fred Wah
Age Ain't Nothing but a Number: Black Women Explore
Midlife by Alice Walker
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
The Third
Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker
Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington
A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
Me, A Book of Remembrance by Onoto Watanna
Miss Numè of Japan by Onoto Watanna
Miss Spring Morning by Onoto Watanna

The Old Jinkrikisha by Onoto Watanna
Tama by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)

The Kadaitcha Sung by Sam Watson
Sons for the Return Home by Al Wendt
The Wedding by Dorothy West
Blues Dancing by Diane McKinney Whetstone
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley
Religious and Moral Poems by Phillis Wheatley
Native Son by Richard Wright
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson
America, through the Spectacles of a Diplomat by Ting-fang Wu
Na Han (Battle Cry) by Lu Xun
Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Lu Xun
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Blu's Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Heads By Harry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
The Dahomean by Frank Yerby
The Girl From Storeyville by Frank Yerby
The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto

Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto


NP by Banana Yoshimoto
Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft, Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Legalized Robbery by Zitkala-Sa

SPEAK! Women of Color Media Collective



Check out the new website for SPEAK! Women of Color Media Collective! I met some of these awesome women at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit last year. Here's the details from their front page:

BUY THE CD! YOU'LL LOVE IT!

Speak! is a women of color-led media collective. In the summer months of 2008, they created a CD compilation of spoken word, poetry, and song. After months of hard work, they are excited to finally share their first self-named album with the world!

With artists and poets from all over the country, the Speak! CD is a testament of struggle, hope, and love. Many of the contributors are in the Radical Women of Color blogosphere and will be familiar names to you. Instead of just reading their work, you’ll be able to hear their voices.

Proceeds of this album will go toward funding mothers and/or financially restricted activists wanting to attend the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, MI this July. This is our own grassroots organizing at its finest with financial assistance from the AMC. Here it is, ready for your purchasing!