Memories of Drop City follows a group of people and their radical movement, in the Southwest and on both coasts, in a decade that shaped the rest of the century. "John Curl's characters in Memories of Drop City aspire to be '100 years' ahead of the rest of us, but Curl shows, through his highly crafted and brilliant novelistic memoir, that they often succumb to the same social flaws as the rest of us. This might be the most balanced memoir or novel yet published about the Sixties." Ishmael Reed, National Book Award nominee "With this compelling evocation and portrayal of breathing people, John Curl unpacks the boxed lunch myth of America's alternative lifestyle Sixties, and restores the day to day flavor of a deeply fabled era still key to understanding the way we live (and don't live) now." Al Young, poet laureate of California "Memories of Drop City is an extraordinary book which brings the Sixties back to life in vivid detail and conveys the spirit of the Sixties better than almost anything else I've read." Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe "Memories of Drop City brings vibrantly to light the flower children who returned to the land seeking peace and by that act were committing revolution. John Curl captures the idealism of a generation and their demonstrations against war in a revolution with a smile.." Floyd Salas, author of Tattoo the Wicked Cross

Memories of Drop City: The first hippie commune of the 1960ýs and the Summer of Love

Curl, John

Religion & Spirituality

iUniverse

History of Work Cooperation in America

Business & Money

Economics

Homeward Pr

History of Collectivity in the San Francisco bay Area: From Indian Times to the Present

Homeward Press

An adult novel about the world of children. In McCarthy-era New York City, fourth graders find a forgotten room in the foundations of a building, where they struggle to live their dreams. As the social oppressions of postwar America envelop their school, they become radicalized. "A well-crafted tale with a retro style." — Kirkus Reviews

The Outlaws of Maroon: a novel

Literature & Fiction

A poetic approach to the history of "what really happened" after Columbus.

Columbus in the Bay of Pigs

Softcover book on the 500th anniversary of the Columbus invasion. Long narrative poem with many illustrations gives a reappraisal of this country's relationship to Native Americans.

Poetry

Poetry. "In an age of information's uprooting of everything, John Curl's SCORCHED BIRTH creates, through a fusion of data and metaphor, a magical poetry that resonates with classical American (Mayan) simultaneity. This is a book of wonders"-Jack Hirschman. "The tensile lines of these poems are a strong loom holding the strength of an interwoven theme of Social Justice making deliberate design through the poet's understanding of actions and attitudes. John Curl show us the undersides of clouds and cultures but also shows immutable order in chaos. He can, in a single poem, give at least 15 ways of changing personal, social, political darkness, including purification by fire. Though some are seemingly surreal, strange and new, your intellect tells you each line is someone's reality at the core"-Mary Rudge, author of Water Planet, from the Foreword.

Scorched Birth

Beatitude Press

This anthology contains the word visions and ideas brought forth on November 15, 2014, when over 40 poets, speakers, and musicians gathered in collaboration and celebration on the theme Overthrowing Capitalism, organized by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade in conjunction with the World Poetry Movement. at the Emerald Tablet Gallery in San Francisco. We hope you will agree with us that this anthology is filled with sophisticated and inspiring insights, ideas, exposés, and analyses from poets who are serious about the work ahead. Words that unmask capitalism and raise our consciousness to hopefully lead the world into a more co-operative society. What is capitalism? Might it be reformed into a constructive force, or can we move beyond it only by overthrowing it? What does overthrowing capitalism look like? How do we know when it's overthrown? What might a post-capitalist world look like? This century is issuing in an era of unprecedented planetary crises, and we have only a short time to transform these many looming disasters into a powerful movement for a constructive revolutionary future.We call on all poets and all people to join us in making a new beginning, to reach deep into your center and bring forth the energies that can lead humanity and the natural world into a bright future, and we call on you all to become visionaries.

Overthrowing Capitalism: A Symposium of Poets (A Revolutionary Poets Brigade Social Justice Anthology)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In 1992 Berkeley, California became the first city in the world to officially celebrate October 12 as Indigenous Peoples Day. This book is for people everywhere who want to know more about Indigenous Peoples Day, where it came from, what it’s all about, and who want to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in your part of the world. This is both a documentary history and an oral history, a compilation of how we did it, and a practical manual or guidebook of sorts, with some cautionary tales. Over 70 other U.S. cities and states have since joined, including Seattle, Minneapolis, San Francisco, St. Paul, Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Spokane, Santa Fe, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Santa Cruz, Bangor, Grand Rapids, Akron, Olympia, Anadarko, Tulsa, Sebastopol, Nevada City, Madison, Richmond (Ca), Ann Arbor, Vermont, Minnesota, and Alaska. Indigenous Peoples Day is also celebrated in numerous communities by groups, organizations, schools, tribes, and friends. Indigenous Peoples Day is a fast growing movement. In addition, South Dakota celebrates Native American Day and Hawaii now honors the Polynesian explorers. 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the first Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day, and the 525th anniversary of the European invasion of the Americas, 1492-2017. “This book is a treasure, a collective project of both oral and documentary history of a quarter of a century organizing, which continues. Every activist and engaged teacher will find the Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day book indispensable.” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. “Reading this book is like multi-tasking reviewing the past, evaluating the present and planning and plotting for the future. Let this book serve you as you move forward to building a movement of resistance. After you read it, share it with your family and friends. It could change our world!” Nina Serrano, poet, KPFA radio producer, and participant in the first Indigenous Peoples Day "This is the first authentic history of Indigenous Peoples Day, a detailed history by those who lived it, and an invaluable "how-to" handbook for other communities who want to do the same. It is a must-read for all indigenous activists." Nanette Deetz (Dakota, Cherokee) poet, writer, journalist with Bay Area News Group, Native News Online, and Tribal Business Journal.

Indigenous Peoples Day: A Handbook for Activists & Documentary History

History

Americas

Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, the expansive analysis documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, the chronicle considers Native American times and follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future.

For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America

PM Press

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Books by Curl, John

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Memories of Drop City: The first hippie commune of the 1960ýs and the Summer of Love

History of Work Cooperation in America

History of Collectivity in the San Francisco bay Area: From Indian Times to the Present

The Outlaws of Maroon: a novel

Columbus in the Bay of Pigs

Columbus in the Bay of Pigs

Scorched Birth

Overthrowing Capitalism: A Symposium of Poets (A Revolutionary Poets Brigade Social Justice Anthology)

Indigenous Peoples Day: A Handbook for Activists & Documentary History

For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America