Organizing in cyberspace
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There is a new Web site where books and videos from the
International Action Center can be purchased on the Internet.
Leftbooks.com is a place
where progressive books, videos and gifts can be ordered.
Leftbooks.com is a
Web site that, like some of the most well-known on-line books
stores, can accept credit cards for payment.
"Now progressive people can go to leftbooks.com and purchase the
books they want at a discount without waiting six or more
weeks," said Deirdre Sinnott, the web site's creator. The big
book sellers on the Internet like amazon.com, bn.com and
borders.com refuse to stock these titles and when they do sell
them they make customers wait as long as two months or more to
receive their order.
"The IAC book `NATO in the Balkans: Voices of Opposition'
was the only book that explained the history of U.S. and German
intervention in Yugoslavia and the root causes of the civil war
that has devastated so much of Yugoslavia. But you couldn't buy
that book from Barnes and Noble while Amazon and Borders refuse
to stock it, making you wait six weeks for delivery. Now that
book, and many others, can be ordered with the click of a mouse
and delivery is right away," Sinnott said.
"Every week we are adding new materials that can be used as
tools for the struggle. Right now we are ready to ship the
books that the IAC has published. Plus we have videos that have
told the world the truth about the U.S. bombing of the Al-Shifa
pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan or the terrible price of the
U.S./UN sanctions against Iraq," continued Sinnott.
"If there is anyone who hasn't gotten these materials or if
you want to give a friend or family member some thing
progressive to help them understand some of the most important
issues of the day, come to leftbooks.com."
Two new books--"A Voice from Harper's Ferry" by Osborne P.
Anderson, a Black revolutionary who was there and "Market
Elections: How Democracy Serves the Rich"--are both available
to purchase at leftbooks.com. "All orders will
be shipped out in 48 hours and we can even gift wrap and send
the book, video, or Peace for Cuba Calendar 2000 wherever you
want. We can even handle international orders," said
Sinnott.
"People have asked me if the name leftbooks.com stands for
`left-wing.' I say, you're damn right it does."
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