Breathing Problems

Literature & Fiction

Conant, Jeff

Poetry

E G Booksellers & Pub

From water quality to social inequality, from raising crops to rising temperatures, how we use natural resources affects our health and well-being. This highly-illustrated guide will help health promoters, educators, community leaders and ordinary people take charge of their communities' environmental health. In small villages and large cities, A Community Guide to Environmental Health can provide tools, knowledge, and inspiration to begin transforming the global crisis in environmental health. This book contains activities to stimulate critical thinking and environmental change, dozens of stories of communities in action, and instructions for making simple technologies to purify water, clean without toxics, get rid of pests, and more. Like all Hesperian books, this title was developed in consultation with organizations around the world, ensuring its appropriateness and usefulness for a variety of cultures and circumstances.

A Community Guide to Environmental Health

Fadem, Pam

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hesperian Health Guides

Part literary criticism, part media analysis, and part marketing handbook, A Poetics of Resistance provides a refreshingly new take on the Zapatistas. While much has been written on the history of the Zapatista insurgency and on the communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos, very little has been said about Zapatismo: the ideologies, organizing methodologies, and communications strategies of the movement. The appeal of the Zapatistas, and their survival, has as much to do with their goals as with the compelling and wildly effective language and aesthetics they’ve used to convey their vision. Weaving together varied elements of poetics and symbolism, Zapatismo has emerged as something entirely new: a resolutely radical public relations campaign for human liberation.
The first postmodern revolution” presented itself to the world through a complex and evolving web of propaganda, using a wide range of media: the colorful communiqués of Marcos; the ski masks, uniforms, toy dolls, and other accoutrements of the insurgent or sympathizer; and murals, songs, and other popular cultural forms. Employing persuasive publicity, myths, and symbols, the Zapatistas both communicated their message and developed a clear aesthetic that could contain many messages at once and self-replicate on a global scale. Jeff Conant offers an engaging and innovative tool for organizers and educators to understand how the Zapatistas' strategy works, and to continue developing and refining their effective messages of participatory, bottom-up revolution.
Jeff Conant is a writer and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health.

A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency

History

Americas

AK Press

Poetry. Jeff Conant was born in New York City and raised in provincial New England. He spent the 1990s living in Northern California and Southern Mexico working as a papermaker, printer, teacher, plumber and gardener. Smile, you're so/ wanted. Stolen// from the mouth/ of a dead man,// the teeth sing/ resonate, glow// in the dark, lifted,/ long in the face. (Zygomatacus). Jeff Conant's poetry is extraordinary, dizzying the reader with unforgettable images, and behind the eloquence of language, a set of powerful statements about the world we inhabit. --Howard Zinn.

The Evacuated Forest Papers

Fuchs, Greg

Buck Downs Books

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