South End Press
2004 New Titles Round-up
SICKNESS AND WEALTH:
THE CORPORATE ASSAULT ON GLOBAL HEALTH
EDITED BY MEREDITH FORT, MARY ANNE MERCER, AND OSCAR GISH
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
ARUNDHATI ROY
LOUDER THAN BOMBS
Interviews from The Progressive Magazine
by David Barsamian
TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE
by Mark Zepezauer
The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile:
Conversations with Arundhati Roy
Interviews by David Barsamian
KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES: DEBT, PRISON, WORKFARE
By Vijay Prashad
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 SICKNESS AND WEALTH
THE CORPORATE ASSAULT ON
GLOBAL HEALTH
EDITED
BY MEREDITH FORT, MARY ANNE MERCER, AND OSCAR GISH
"Militarization,
privatization, and unfair trade policies are in fact tightly linked to
diseases such as malaria, cholera, and AIDS. Sickness and Wealth exposes the
mechanisms of these connections."
-Paul Farmer, Partners in Health
- The HMOs that have undermined
affordable health care in the U.S. have created a health care crisis in
Latin America, too. (See Chapter 6, by Celia Iriart,
Howard
Waitzkin, and Emerson Merhy.)
- The South African
government
cuts off the clean water supply to those who can't pay. The result: a cholera epidemic
causing 300 deaths and infecting over 150,000 others. (See
Chapter 10, by Patrick Bond.)
- Infant formula can again be marketed as
"healthier" than breastmilk, thanks to WTO regulations forced by the
U.S., even in regions with limited access to clean
water. (See Chapter 7, by Ellen Shaffer and Joseph
Brenner.)
- AIDS can
be effectively treated in poor
countries-when Big Pharma and its government lobbyists are forced to
step out of the way. (See Chapter 12, by Paul Davis and
Meredith Fort.)
For SICKNESS AND
WEALTH: THE CORPORATE ASSAULT ON GLOBAL HEALTH, internationally
renowned experts-including Third World Network's Evelyne Hong and
International Forum on Globalization's Vandana Shiva-have sent in
powerful dispatches from around the world, showing how
privatization and reduced social services guarantee devastating
consequences for millions.
A groundbreaking
collection, SICKNESS AND WEALTH
also documents the pioneering work of organizations committed to the radical notion
that the right to good health is
not for sale.
Health/Political Science
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 ARUNDHATI ROY
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
Focusing on the disastrous US occupation of Iraq, Roy urges
us to recognize-and apply-the scope of our power, exhorting dockworkers
to refuse to load war material bound, reservists to refuse their
call-ups, activists to organize boycotts of Halliburton, and citizens
of other nations to mobilize against being deputized as
janitor-soldiers cleaning up the mess of the US invasion. Her
sharp critique is ever present, as is the underlying message with which
she leaves us: we can confront
awesome power. And we must.
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 LOUDER THAN BOMBS
Interviews from The Progressive Magazine
by
David Barsamian
Published just in time to
commemorate The Progressive’s 95th
anniversary, Louder Than Bombs
gathers twenty-one celebrity interviews culled from this mainstay of
the left.
In his latest release, David Barsamian,
the producer and host of Alternative Radio,
talks with luminaries of the left-activists, academics, and progressive
artists-about their passions, their hopes for the future, and the
biggest
obstacles facing today’s movements for radical social change.
Interviewees include
Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya
Sen; prison
abolitionist Angela
Davis; media critic Ben Bagdikian;
actor Danny Glover; author Edwidge Danticat; radical historian Howard Zinn; author Kurt Vonnegut; and ecowarrior Vandana Shiva. Conversations with Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Tariq
Ali, the late Edward W. Said, and the late Eqbal Ahmad are
also featured.
Lauded by Robert
McChesney as “one
of the greatest journalists of our era,” Barsamian
ignites
urgent conversations with his subjects who, in turn, open their hearts
and
minds, offering compelling personal and political insights. Readers are
invited
to listen in as he converses with some of the best minds of our time
and
skillfully weaves their analyses and wisdom into a digest of the
world’s most
pressing issues.
David
Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author, and
lecturer. He is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the
independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He
has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles
appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. He
is the author of several books, including Propaganda and the Public
Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting
Empire; The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting; Culture
and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said; and The
Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy.
Barsamian travels internationally lecturing on US foreign policy, the
media, propaganda, and corporate power. The Institute for Alternative
Journalism named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes" in 1994. He is
the winner of the ACLU's 2003 Upton Sinclair Award for independent
journalism.
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TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE
by Mark
Zepezauer
All right,
you’ve just recovered from paying your taxes. Now,
just where, how, and by whom is your money being spent, anyway? To find
out, pick
up Take the Rich Off Welfare, Mark
Zepezauer’s shocking audit of the U.S.
government. He’s detailed over $815
billion in annual government giveaways to
the wealthy. Consider one example:
“Enron
was able to get away with paying zero taxes in the United
States for four years. No, wait-less
than
zero. Enron picked up $382 million in refund checks from Uncle Sam
during that
time.” (p. 32)
But
how is that possible? Believe it or not, the practice
has a name: “negative tax rate: When
your company (or your personage) is more profitable after taxes than
before,
congratulations, you’re enjoying a negative tax rate.” (Glossary, p.
153)
Even if you got a refund this year, you
still had to pay something.
That something, along with
your neighbor’s, your cousin’s, and her neighbors', make up that $382
million
Uncle Sam handed over to Enron. And Enron isn’t alone. If all the transnational
companies had to pay their taxes, the treasury would be $137 billion
richer
every year. (p. 33) Eliminating this one handout alone would
wipe out the
current $1 trillion Social Security deficit in seven years. (p. 17) As
it
stands, the tax benefits we grant to the rich will bankrupt Social
Security and
Medicare when the Baby Boom retires. In other words, soon.
You
may be thinking, Well,
at least my taxes are going to help catch terrorists ($200 billion
worth), right? Wrong. So far, only international
police operations, which we don’t finance (p. 70), have captured any
senior al-Qaeda
suspects. And the $100 billion extra we scrimped from other programs to
hand
the military? Most goes to contractors who sell the U.S.
overpriced and sometimes obsolete weapons systems. So the military budget (before
the extras, $393 billion in 2003) that we authorize so that we’ll be
protected
is really being used to pad contractors’ pockets and secure oil in the Middle East. And it’s not the people driving
gas-guzzling hummers who pay
for this. Instead of being sanctioned for increasing our dependency on
oil,
they enjoy a $25,000 tax break. (p. 22)
Enraged? So were
we.
Pick up Take the
Rich Off Welfare. You’ll be rewarded with Zepezauer’s acerbic wit,
crystal clear
language that makes arcane federal budgets transparent, brilliant
political
cartoons and a glossary that help make sense of the daunting world of
government finance, and invaluable documentary evidence. Let’s be sure that when
we pay taxes, it’s for the public good-not the corporate bottom line.
Mark
Zepezauer, a prolific writer on
government policy and its fallout, was raised in Silicon
Valley. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz, he worked for several
newspapers in that community, creating the cartoon panel "US History
Backwards." Zepezauer now lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he published
the Tucson Comic News, a monthly compendium of political
cartoons and commentary, until 2000. He is also the author of The
CIA's Greatest Hits (1994) and Boomerang! How Our Covert Wars
Have Created Enemies Across the Middle East and Brought Terror to
America (2003).
Current Affairs / Economics
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The
Checkbook
and the Cruise Missile:
Conversations
with Arundhati
Roy
Interviews by David Barsamian
Foreword by Naomi Klein
This dynamic series of interviews captures four wide-ranging
conversations between two passionate and witty thinkers: Arundhati Roy, renowned author of
the novel The
God of Small Things, and David Barsamian,
innovative producer
and host of Alternative Radio. Beginning in
February 2001, their discussions presage
the
September 2001 attack and trace the subsequent War on Terror to the
invasion
and occupation of Iraq.
Arundhati
Roy's political essays
eloquently capture the thoughts of people worldwide whose primary
reference
points for the United States
are multinational corporations and the military. For the many
Americans who wondered after
9/11 "why do they hate us," there is no better source than Roy
for the complex answers to that question.
"I
don't know how Roy
comes up with her killer one-liners, but I'm grateful. Each one is a
gift,
capable of transforming fear and confusion into courage and conviction."
-Naomi
Klein,
from the Foreword
"Arundhati
Roy combines brilliant reportage with a
passionate, no-holds-barred commentary. I salute both her courage and
her
skill."
-Salman Rushdie
"David
Barsamian is one of the great journalists of our
era."
-Robert
McChesney
Arundhati Roy is scheduled
to speak in San
Francisco and New York in August and September 2004. She resides
in New Delhi,
India.
David Barsamian is a prolific
interviewer whose most recent
books feature conversations with Noam Chomsky
and the late Edward Said. Barsamian speaks widely throughout the US.
He resides in Boulder, Colorado.
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RELEASE FROM SOUTH END PRESS: BY VIJAY PRASHAD
KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES: DEBT, PRISON, WORKFARE
By Vijay Prashad
 In
his latest book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad
examines the contradictions of the American economy. He assesses a range
of related issues: the US economy propped up by the rising debt of the
poor and the middle-class; welfare policies that punish those attempting
to escape the grip of debt and poverty; and the ever-expanding prison
industry that regulates and houses the unemployed.
By making crystal-clear the connections between the economy, welfare
reform, and the profit-driven prison industrial complex, Prashad offers
a vision for a sustainable and vital anti-imperialist movement.
See below for ordering information
248 pages
0-89608-689-5 paper $17
VIJAY PRASHAD is
associate professor and director of International Studies at Trinity
College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of several books
including Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections
and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Beacon Press, 2001) and The
Karma of Brown Folk (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Both
were included in "25 Best Books of the Year" lists by the
Village Voice.
PRAISE FOR KEEPING UP WITH THE
DOW JONESES
"Vijay Prashad draws a compelling bottom-up picture
of the American political economy today. He shows the mesh between
the stressed economic situation of working people and our increasingly
repressive social policies. And he also points to the kinds of movement
struggles that might disrupt this fundamentalist neoliberal regime."—Frances
Fox-Piven, author of Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians
Want It That Way
"Elegant, lucid and incisive, Keeping Up With
the Dow Joneses is an invaluable resource for political and intellectual
challenges to captivity. Vijay Prashad's critique of globalization,
local policing and warfare, and his mapping of resistance waged by
women, the impoverished, the racialized, and incarcerated are fierce
and fruitful."—Joy James, author
of Resisting State Violence and editor of Imprisoned Intellectuals
"Vijay Prashad's Keeping Up With the Dow Joneses
provides the complete package-a detailed account of the ways in which
class, race, and gender inequality have played out in the United States
over the last twenty years, how they are related and get played out
in a wide range of policies, and how groups are collectively resisting
these pressures. Wrapped around the story of growth in low-wage, contingent
workforce and the opposition to these efforts, Prashad provides careful
and useful documentation on growing greed at the top and debt at the
bottom, the criminalization of poverty and the corresponding growth
in for-profit prison industry, as well as the hell-bent intent to
dissolve the safety net and force poor mothers into lousy jobs."—Randy
Albelda, co-editor of Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and
Beyond
"Some people write eloquently. Some are wonderful
researchers. Some think clearly, giving us new ideas with each new
page. Vijay Prashad manages all three achievements, and does it with
admirable passion, in his new book Keeping Up With The Dow Joneses.
Essays on debt, prison, workfare, and movement struggle are all, in
fact, really about how we can best understand our world in order to
dramatically change it. It is a fine book belonging on every radical's
bookshelf, and beyond."—Michael
Albert, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism
"Prashad expertly analyzes the linkages between
globalization, racism, and the prison industrial complex. What is
particularly noteworthy about this book is that it does not just describe
the problems we face, but provides a wide range of creative strategies
for tackling what seem to be overwhelming obstacles in the fight for
social and economic justice. In addition, he highlights the organizing
work of people of color, particularly women of color, whose contributions
in anti-globalization work are generally marginalized by other scholars."—Andrea
Smith, co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
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