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Black Sheep Books, a community space and bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont, offers affordable radical and scholarly books, and hosts educational events on cultural and political topics. As an all-volunteer project, we are operated by a five-member collective hand in hand with a group of dedicated volunteers. Our principle focus is to provide access to anti-authoritarian Left ideas in a way that promotes intellectual debate and challenges today’s hegemonic culture.

We see print media and public talks as necessary for the development of critical consciousness and ultimately social change. Such engagement with the transformative power of ideas connects us to each other, helps us to understand our historical context, and guides us in action. This linking of past to present, theory to practice, is a crucial precondition for the emergence of a free and directly democratic society.

By creating this space in public, we strive to contest the depoliticization and alienation rampant under statist and capitalist social relations. We also aim to generate visibility for identities marginalized by normative values and systems of domination through providing community resources and a welcoming space in the context of our rural location.

Together with horizontalist social movements and political projects, bookstores, infoshops, and publishers, Black Sheep Books works toward an egalitarian, ecological, and nonhierarchical society.

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Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer
workers' collective specializing in radical
and scholarly used books.
5 State Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906

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Thursday October 19, 2006
Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:45 pm

Join Scott Kellogg of the Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas, for a crash course in urban ecological survival skills, as he explores the cross-section of permaculture and social activism. He'll give a short presentaion on the organization's history, plus explanations of low-tech, low-cost food, water, energy, and waste systems.

Featuring:

* Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment,
low-tech bioremediation (plus a report on
bioremediation efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans)
* Aquaculture: fish, plants, algae, ponds
* Rainwater harvesting
* Passive solar, DIY bicycle windmills

Saturday October 21, 2006
Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:01 pm

featuring:
Ghada Ageel (Khan Younis, Palestine)
Shireen Khamis (Beit Jala, Palestine)
Rela Mazali (Herzlia, Israel)

These three women--a Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim--are living the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian situation: the loss of family, the demolition of homes, persecution, occupation, violence, the separation barrier currently being constructed in the West Bank, Israel’s unilateral "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip, recent escalations in Gaza and Lebanon, and more. They are touring the United States for three weeks to demonstrate that a just peace, while difficult, is possible. As working professionals, activists, mothers, daughters, and partners, these women live the hardships of the conflict and the tragedy of occupation in unique ways.

Saturday November 18, 2006
The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm

Join filmmaker Bernadine Mellis for a showing of her "The Forest for the Trees," an intimate, behind-the scenes documentary that looks at an unlikely team of young activists and old lefties who come together to battle the U.S. government.

Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham, who started out his career representing the Black Panthers and the Weathermen.

Judi Bari was an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as much importance on the legacy and future of the trees as she did on timber workers' lives and families. But that strategic relationship was too much of a threat. Her car was bombed in 1990, and three hours later, she was arrested as a terrorist--charges that were later dropped. Convinced it was a ploy by the FBI to discredit her and Earth First! Judi decided to sue.

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