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NoZone
| September 19, 2008

NoZone is a graphic-based political zine, created by Nicholas Blechman. Recent issues include "Empire" and "Forecast".

NoZone Magazine
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Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
| September 19, 2008

At 292 heavily illustrated pages, CrimethInc.'s flagship book is the perfect size for any knapsack and the perfect reference manual for anyone seeking a life of passion and revolt. AK Press calls it "an underground bestseller," but as it says in the preface:

CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective Books
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
| September 19, 2008

Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour?

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
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No Logo, No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, by Naomi Klein
| September 19, 2008

No Logo uncovers a betrayal of the central promises of the information age: choice, interactivity, and increased freedom. And as job security disappears, the respectful reverence which corporations enjoyed as engines of the economy is also dissipating - as is their protection from worker and citizen rage.

No Logo, Naomi Klein
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First Things First Manifesto
| August 11, 2008
An update to the manifesto penned in 1964:

"We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it..."
Emigre Essays: First Things First