Over 50 years ago the U. S. Department of Defense started using depleted uranium metal in weapons because of its dense nature. Today the Pentagon relies on DU as the main raw material for its penetrator shells and bullets. Why? Because it just keeps on killing -  first on impact, then by poisoning a population with radiation, having a far deadlier impact on children. It's the weapon of choice for those wanting to try and terrorize and demoralize a population into submission and modern-day colonialism.

Why should you see this new DVD Poison Dust offered by leftbooks.com? Well, just as exposing the horrors of Agent Orange was vitally important to saving lives and helping to end the Vietnam War it is of utmost urgency that we learn about and disseminate information on this genocidal weapon being used by the U.S. today in Iraq and other U.S. occupied countries. Veterans, anti-war organizers, environmentalists and health care providers will find this wake-up call to today's GIs invaluable.

And, finally, how can we fit this very serious topic into a Father's Day, gift buying plug? It's simple: after all, Mother's Day or Father's Day is really about honoring those who struggle day in and day out to raise healthy, happy children. What parent wouldn't appreciate having information about a weapon which has its worst effect on children. And, once empowered with that information, imagine the feeling of knowing that you could be a part of the movement to stop such  weapons, a movement which is integral to building a world where no child need even know the meaning of war. What a gift, and here it is:

Poison DUst (DVD)
 Directed and Edited by Sue Harris and the Peoples Video Network.

You thought they came home safely from the war. They didn't. Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2002 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disability of her young husband - a vet. Filmmaker Sue Harris skillfully weaves, through interviews, their journey from personal trauma, to test results for uranium poisoning, to learning what radioactive Depleted Uranium weapons are. Their frustrations in dealing with the Veterans Administration's silence becomes outrage as they realize that thousands of other GI's have the same symptoms. An invaluable resource for all of us.

 Book: Metal of Dishonor: Depleted Uranium, How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with DU Weapons
by Various Authors



A devastating exposé of the Pentagon's new weapons comprised of Depleted Uranium. This is the book you've heard about, but won't see in most bookstores. Now in it's second printing you can read scientists; Gulf War veterans; leaders of environmental, anti-nuclear, anti-military and community movements discuss: the connection of Depleted Uranium to Gulf War Syndrome and a new generation of radioactive conventional weapons.

Understand how the bizarre Pentagon recycling plans of nuclear waste creates a new global threat.

Authors include former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Dr. Jay M. Gould, Dan Fahey, Sara Flounders, Manuel Pino and many others.

Essentials any time, especially on LGBT Pride Month:

Stone Butch Blues,
by Leslie Feinberg

Winner of the American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award
and the Lambda Literary Award

This is the breakthrough novel that people are talking about

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing during the “Ozzie and Harriet” McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town.

Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
by Leslie Feinberg

Trans Liberation is an inspiring collection of speeches and new writings from Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues and Transgender Warriors and winner of the ALA Gay and Lesbian Literature Award and the 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Non-Fiction

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I’m hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?"

Trans Liberation is the phrase that has come to refer to all those who blur or bridge the boundary of the sex or gender expression they were assigned at birth: cross-dressers, transsexuals, intersex people, Two Spirits, bearded females, masculine females and feminine males, drag kings and drag queens. In this inspiring collective of speeches and new writing, Leslie Feinberg argues passionately for the acceptance of all trans peoples--and for the absolute necessity of building coalitions between all progressive political groups.

Signed by author!

Here's a ground breaking classic:

The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression: A Marxist View
By Bob McCubbin

This ground breaking pamphlet originally published as the Gay Question in 1976, during the first flush of the modern lesbian and gay movement. Its unparalleled achievement was to offer a historical analysis of when, where, why and how lesbian and gay oppression developed.

That achievement still stands. With all that has happened since-- the growth of the movement, victories and setbacks, the AIDS crisis -- Bob McCubbin's contribution is as relevant today as ever.

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We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
by Mumia Abu-Jamal

 

Mumia Abu-Jamal provides the world with an important history of the founding of the Philadelphia Black Panther Party in his new book We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party.

Mumia, known to the world as a wrongly convicted political prisoner held for 22 years in Pennsylvania's death row, is exacting and luminous in his history and his analysis of the Black liberation struggle.

An important book for anyone learning about one of the most important groups in the on-going struggle for the liberation of African-Americans.

Negroes With Guns
by Robert F. Williams

First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Under the leadership of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), Monroe became the test case of the right of blacks to armed self-defense.

Haiti: A Slave Revolution

The Haitian Revolution is a singular event in history. Never before or since has an enslaved people risen up, broken their chains, and established a new state. Haiti was a beacon of hope and inspiration to the enslaved Africans of the United States.

Haiti's history has been turbulent, but not for the reasons given by mainstream historians. Racism underlies their charges that the first black republic lacks "democratic traditions" and is prone to violence.

Drawing from a wide range of authors, experts, and historical texts, this book challenges these stereotypes and counters 200 years of cultural myths. Authors include: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ramsey Clark, Pat Chin, Edwidge Danticat, Frederick Douglass, Greg Dunkel, Ben Dupuy, Sara Flounders, Stan Goff, Kim Ives, Fleurimond Kerns, Paul Laraque, Maud LeBlanc, Sam Marcy, Franz Mendes & Steve Gillis, Felix Morriseau-Leroy and Johnnie Stevens.

 

Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America
by Aleida Guevara

In February 2004 Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, conducted an extended, exclusive interview with Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, exploring Venezuela’s explosive revolutionary terrain post-April 2002 – when Chavez survived a coup attempt instigated by the United States. Featuring a dramatic interview with Jorge Garcia Carneiro, newly appointed head of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, and vox-pops with Venezuelans involved in the country’s many social programs, this film affords a rare opportunity to glimpse through the blockade of information imposed by the United States and into a country rich with hope, dreams and…oil.

 

Self-Portrait Che Guevara by Ernesto Che Guevara edited by Victor Casaus

 

Self-Portrait, an intimate look at the man behind the icon, is a remarkable photographic and literary memoir, drawing on the rich seam of diaries, letters, poems, journalism and short stories Che Guevara left behind him in Cuba. Unique among the many books about Che Guevara, Self-Portrait has been compiled in close collaboration with Che’s family, using exclusive material from his family’s private archives. Revealed for the first time is Che Guevara’s personal world, unveiling his extraordinary candor, irony, dry humor and passion. Published by Ocean Books in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center (Havana). Rare, intimate photos of a great revolutionary.

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