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Glenn MurcuttThe Department of Architecture will be celebrating the publication of Glenn Murcutton Friday, June 19 at Peter Miller Books. The time will be determined soon. For more details, see Peter Miller Books. |
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Greetings!
Our Fall/Winter 2009 catalog is now available! The cover features art from Tony Angell's forthcoming book, Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye, which will be published in October. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch!
All the best,
Rachael
(206) 221.4995 / remann@u.washington.edu
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 Solidarity Stories: An
Oral History of the ILWU
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, born out of the 1934
West Coast maritime and San Francisco general strikes under the
charismatic leadership of Harry Bridges, has been known from the start
for its strong commitment to democracy, solidarity, and social justice.
In this collection of firsthand narratives, union leaders and
rank-and-file workers -- from the docks of Pacific Coast ports to the
fields of Hawaii to bookstores in Portland, Oregon -- talk about their
lives at work, on the picket line, and in the union.
Workers
recall the backbreaking, humiliating conditions on the waterfront
before they organized, the tense days of the 1934 strike, the
challenges posed by mechanization, the struggle against racism and
sexism on the job, and their activism in other social and political
causes. Their stories testify to the union's impact on the lives of its
members and also to its role in larger events, ranging from civil
rights battles at home to the fights against fascism and apartheid
abroad.
Solidarity Stories is a unique contribution to the
literature on unions. There is a power and immediacy in the voices of
workers that is brilliantly expressed here. Taken together, these
voices provide a portrait of a militant, corruption-free, democratic
union that can be a model and an inspiration for what a resurgent
American labor movement might look like. The book will appeal to
students and scholars of labor history, social and economic history,
and social change, as well as trade unionists and anyone interested in
labor politics and history.
Harvey Schwartz is an oral historian
at the Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State
University, and curator of the Oral History Collection, ILWU Library.
Join Harvey on
Monday, June 8, at 6 p.m. at University Book Store, Tacoma
Saturday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Elliott Bay Book Company
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Tim McNulty
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 Olympic National Park:
A Natural History,
Revised Edition
In this thoroughly revised edition, Tim McNulty returns his gaze to the
Olympic National Park: 1,400 square miles of rugged mountains and
wilderness in the heart of the Olympic Peninsula. By examining the
effects of global warming and its rapid changes throughout the region
alongside current archaeological discoveries that shed new light on the
early people of the peninsula, McNulty brings together our past and
future.
McNulty also tells the stories of the Olympic National
Park's animal populations. From marmots and black bears to the prospect
of reintroducing wolves, he then looks at the resurgence of bald
eagles, peregrine falcons, and the burgeoning sea otter populations
rejuvenating the coastal ecosystems. Finally, the restoration of the
Elwha River, the removal of salmon-blocking dams, and salmon recovery
efforts across the peninsula are bringing wildlife back to the
wilderness.
Tim McNulty is a poet and nature writer living in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains.
Join Tim on
Saturday, June 20, time TBD at Elliott Bay Book Company
Friday, June 26, at 7 p.m. at Raymond Carver Reading Room, Port Angeles Library, with Port Book and News
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| Lynda Mapes |
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 Breaking Ground:
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
In 2003, the excavation site for a massive dry dock in Port Angeles was discovered to be atop one of the
largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet
the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and
unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the
heart of the long-buried homeland of the Klallam people.
Excitement
at the archaeological find of a generation gave way to anguish as
tribal members working alongside state construction workers encountered
more and more human remains, including many intact burials. Finally,
tribal members said the words that stopped the project: "Enough is
enough."
Soon after, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe chairwoman
Frances Charles asked the state to walk away from more than $70 million
in public money already spent on the project and find a new site. The
state, in an unprecedented and controversial decision that reverberated
around the nation, agreed.
This beautifully crafted and compassionate account,
illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, illuminates the collective
amnesia that led to the choice of the Port Angeles construction site.
Lynda V. Mapes is an
award-winning journalist with a twenty-year career in newspaper
reporting, much of it with the Seattle Times. She is the author of
Washington: The Spirit of the Land.
Join Lynda on
Thursday, June 25, at 6 p.m. at Orca Books, Olympia.
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