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Dade County is Coming to California: Fight the Briggs Initiative [handbill]

Dade County is Coming to California: Fight the Briggs Initiative [handbill]

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1977
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San Francisco: Coalition for Human Rights, 1977. Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill, printed one side only, toned along top edge, else very good condition. Advertises a public meeting to launch the group's campaign against the Briggs Initiative, which would have banned gay teachers in California. The title refers to a recent successful effort to repeal Dade County's gay rights… Read more about this item
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The golden door: the irony of our immigration policy

The golden door: the irony of our immigration policy

by Bruce, J. Campbell

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1954
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New York: Random House, 1954. Hardcover. 244p., previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped, shelfworn dj with a faded spine panel. "This challenging book is a biting attack on the McCarran-Walter Act and on the inept, cruel administration of that law." - dj.
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Why don't we do it in the road / Sat. May 3 / 500 Blk Mifflin, be there / off the pig / roll your own reality bring/share: food, fun, dope, drums, dogs [poster]

Why don't we do it in the road / Sat. May 3 / 500 Blk Mifflin, be there / off the pig / roll your own reality bring/share: food, fun, dope, drums, dogs [poster]

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1969
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Madison, WI, 1969. Poster. 11x17 inch poster by the countercultural Mifflin Street community in Madison Wisconsin that organized anti-war block parties; acquisition date penciled on blank verso, light middle crease, along blank verso, the crease is a bit toned, slight edgewear on top right corner, else very good. This poster was for the first Mifflin street "Miffland Community" block… Read more about this item
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An Open Letter to the Student Community

An Open Letter to the Student Community

by Students for a Democratic Society

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1962
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New York: Students for a Democratic Society, 1962. Pamphlet. [8]p., wraps. 8.5 x 7 in. Unbound; leaves nested within each other. Stain on rear cover. Very Good. Invitation to university students to join SDS in the struggle for civil rights, peace politics, and the labor movement. Includes a blank application form and list of publications (Port Huron Statement is… Read more about this item
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Repeal section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act end the tyranny of the

Repeal section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act end the tyranny of the "right-to-work" laws!

by Baker, General, Jr.

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1977
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Chicago: Workers Press, 1977. Pamphlet. 15p., pamphlet in 8.5x5.5 inch staple-fastened wraps. Entirely clean and sound within, but exteriors of both front and back covers are overwritten with notes & addresses in ballpoint pen. A reading copy. From the Communist Labor Party with a short introduction by Nelson Peery. African American authors.
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The Shed Labor Day Party's (sic) [leaflet]

The Shed Labor Day Party's (sic) [leaflet]

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1970
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San Francisco: The Shed, 1970. A very good 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet printed one side on light yellow stock. The Shed operated between 1972 and 1977 and had moved to 16th Street from Market mid-1970s and became the headquarters of the No On 6 Campaign.
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The prophets of Paris

The prophets of Paris

by Manuel, Frank E.

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1962
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Hardcover
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. Hardcover. [viii], 349p., green cloth boards in dust jacket; frontispiece portraits, dust jacket slightly toned on spine, minor handling, else in very good condition. Assumed to be signed and inscribed to Paul Sweezy based on another inscription from the same author noting Paul's wife, Nancy.
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The lesson of Germany: a guide to her history

The lesson of Germany: a guide to her history

by Eisler, Gerhart, Albert Norden, and Albert Schreiner

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1945
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New York: International Publishers, 1945. Hardcover. 222p., corners bumped, else very good condition in red cloth boards. No dust jacket. Eisler was snitched on by Louis "Men without faces" Budenz, hauled before HUAC as the Comintern's commissar of USA --"Stalin's chief agent here." He protested he was simply a German communist exile.
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Man for himself; an inquiry into the psychology of ethics
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Man for himself; an inquiry into the psychology of ethics

by Fromm, Eric

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1947
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New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1947. Hardcover. xiv, 254p., original blue cloth boards; board edges shelfworn and slightly, some minor soil on boards, lacking dust jacket, minor soil on fore-edge, else very good. From the library of Paul A. Baran with his signature penned on the front endpaper.
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[Two UFW greeting cards asking the recipient to boycott grapes, Gallo wines, and non-UFW lettuce]

[Two UFW greeting cards asking the recipient to boycott grapes, Gallo wines, and non-UFW lettuce]

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[197-]
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Keene, CA: United Farm Workers of America, [197-]. Cards. Two cards, each with a blank interior, 4.6x6.25 inches, very good. One is captioned "Merry Christmas," the other says "Give them a chance" with a depiction of children waving a UFW flag.
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Capitalism Stinks. Vol. 1 No. 9, March 27, 1969

Capitalism Stinks. Vol. 1 No. 9, March 27, 1969

by Callison, Bill and Susan Ker (editors)

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1969
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Berkeley, CA: New World Vision and Action Committee, a Committee of Opposition, 1969. Newspaper. [4]p. Folded once horizontally. A few small tears to edges. Very Good. Edited by Bill Callison and Susan Ker. Includes an excerpt from Victor Perlo's The Vietnam Profiteers, a report on a strike at General Electric over surveillance cameras, news on the conflict in Vietnam,… Read more about this item
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Summary: 16th constitutional convention, 1957, of the International Union United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), April 7-12, 1957, Atlantic City Auditorium, Atlantic City, NJ

Summary: 16th constitutional convention, 1957, of the International Union United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), April 7-12, 1957, Atlantic City Auditorium, Atlantic City, NJ

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1957
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Detroit: United Automobile Workers, 1957. Pamphlet. 29p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn, else very good condition.
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Toward a saner America

Toward a saner America

by Rubin, Philip

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1937
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Willow Grove, PA: Willow Grove Printing Co, 1937. Paperback. [6], 99, [1]p., map, wraps. Author's presentation inscription opposite title page. Very Good. "an outline of fundamental social reform." Reforms include stronger public education and worker co-operatives, a Prime Minister, and fewer states (reproduces a hand-drawn map showing 28 states in the continental USA).
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Party! Mifflin street / Sunday afternoon / For God's sake hold thy tongue and let us love [poster]

Party! Mifflin street / Sunday afternoon / For God's sake hold thy tongue and let us love [poster]

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1969
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Madison, WI: [Mifflin Street Community?], 1969. Poster. 11x17 inch poster by the countercultural Mifflin Street community in Madison Wisconsin that organized anti-war block parties; poster is a bit rubbed and handled, slight surface abrasion along lower edge from being posted, a closed one-inch tear near top left corner, some slight edgewear, else good.
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History of the National Economy of Russia to the 1917 Revolution
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History of the National Economy of Russia to the 1917 Revolution

by Lyashchenko, Peter I.

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1949
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New York: Macmillan, 1949. Hardcover. xiii, 880p., green cloth boards; illustrated with fold-out maps, no dust jacket, corners slightly bent, else very good. From the library of Stanford professor and Marxist economist Paul A. Baran.
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La causa; the California grape strike. Photographed by Paul Fusco, written by George D. Horwitz

La causa; the California grape strike. Photographed by Paul Fusco, written by George D. Horwitz

by Fusco, Paul and George D. Horwitz

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1970
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New York: Collier Books, 1970. 158p. paperback, minor shelfwear, foxed edges.
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A brief history of U.S. Asian labor

A brief history of U.S. Asian labor

by Yoneda, Karl

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1976
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New York: Political Affairs Reprints, 1976. Pamphlet. 16p. pamphlet, very good, signed by Yoneda. Reprint from the September 1976 issue of POLITICAL AFFAIRS. Yoneda, a Communist activist with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, had been interned at Manzanar before joining the Army.
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...This Union is More Than the Engine of Equity in the Shop

...This Union is More Than the Engine of Equity in the Shop" Theodore Bikel Addresses the UAW Convention

by Bikel, Theodore

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nd
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Detroit: UAW Education Department, nd. Pamphlet. Four panel brochure, 6x9 inches, light handling wear, else very good condition. Transcript of a 1966 speech.
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Poverty and Health: The Problem / Roots of Change

Poverty and Health: The Problem / Roots of Change

by English, Joseph T., Alice Lipscomb, Rev. James G. Jones, Jose L. Gonzalez, Harold N. Weiner, Harold Wise, Nancy Doyle, Charles T. Sweeny, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Fisher, and Mortimer Frankel

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1969
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New York: National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, 1969. Pamphlet. 31p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus. with b&w photos, offsetting to verso of front wrap and first page, else very good condition. Reprints of articles and speeches from 1968 and 1969. Includes articles on health issues in African American and Mexican American communities.
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Nuclear Policy for War and Peace

Nuclear Policy for War and Peace

by Murray, Thomas E.

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1960
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Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1960. Hardcover. 241p., very good first edition in an unclipped dust jacket with a chip on the rear panel. Dust jacket subtitle: "A forthright challenging analysis by a pioneer in the field of nuclear-energy affairs and long-time Atomic Energy Commissioner (1950-1957).
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