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Mar.18.2012
Bread & Roses "The Singing Strike" Centennial Celebration 1912-2012- with song, spoken word and film
Bread & Roses: "The Singing Strike" Centennial Celebration in Los Angeles
Next Sunday I'm going to do read poetry at
Bread & Roses "The Singing Strike" Centennial Celebration 1912-2012- with song, spoken word and filmA Benefit for the Garment Worker Center & the United Service Workers...
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May.23.2011
Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom celebrates the middle class liberal as environmentalist crank in a novel that is a bad imitation of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
The middle section of Franzen's novel were quite entertaining like a good sit com focusing on the triangle of Walter Berglund,...
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Mar.12.2011
L.A. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 100th Anniversary Commemoration Events March 2011
SCHEDULE
Sundays March 13, March 20, March 26 8:30 AM THE LABOR REVIEW, with Henry Walton, host. Interviews and short excerpts of upcoming Triangle Fire Commemoration events. KPFK...
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Feb.16.2011
C. C. Marimbo announces the premiere publication of 2011:
"Walking Through the River of Fire: 100 Years of Triangle Factory Fire Poems"Edited by Julia Stein with an introduction by Jack Hirschman
This anthology remembers a turning point in U.S. history when on March 25, 1911, a...
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Jul.13.2010
I went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a few days right after the November election in 2004.
I went to hear Pat Smith at the Zimmerman Library of the University of New Mexico (UNM) do American Indian storytelling. Pat along with her husband John Crawford, my publisher, were my hosts. Pat is...
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May.23.2010
At first Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children seems a satiric novel about three old friends--Julius, Marina, and Daniella- from Ivy League college who at thirty strive for scintilating New York intellectual careers but deal with various career and romantic fiascos. Julius is prone to comparing...
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May.10.2010
Leslie Evans' recently released memoir Outsider's Reverie: A Memoir (Boryana Books) is a fascinating look at how American radicals in the post World War II generation and also a wonderful Los Angeles memoir.
The first seven chapter wonderfully captures Los Angeles and the 1950s and early...
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Apr.24.2010
I think that there is no difference between "legal" and "illegal" immigration regarding Mexico as well as Canda. I think since NAFTA all Canadian and Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are legal.
The hideous NAFTA treaty, at the heart of the immigration debate, was negotiated by...
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Feb.14.2010
Submitted by msquitieri on January 19, 2010 - 18:11
This call to action issued by students and educators of the California Coordinating Committee (below)...
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Jan.20.2010
We'll find out in the next few days whether Obama can listen to the rising criticism of his administration. Polls showed that 65% of U.S. citizens were against his socalled health care reform bill but he, his administration, and Democrats in Congress didn't listen and kept pushing this pro-...
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Jan.02.2010
Margaret Mascarenha's novel The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos is a fascinating tale about two girls and thirty years of recent Venezuelan history. In the first chapter Lily tells her story which seems like a girl-growing-up-story and but is in reality a Dickens-like novel about all of Venezuela...
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Jan.01.2010
A few days ago in the afternoon I was stumbled upon PBS and saw the marvelous documentary "The Civilian Conservation Corps" (CCC) about this jobs program started by FDR in 1933 that had 3 million men and lasted until 1940. In the begining of the film FDR asks his radio audience, "...
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Dec.29.2009
These were the best films I saw in 2009 but not all were released in 2009:
1. Bright Star (2009)- Wonderful film about poet Keats and the young woman he loved directed by wonderful Australian director Jane Campion. Brings alive Keats, his circle, his brilliance, and his tragedy.
2. Julie and Julia...
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Dec.27.2009
The film Revolutionary Road based on Richard Yates novel is the only masterpiece of American cinema I saw in 2009. The film is about American men giving up their dreams in the 1950s and one woman's refusal to let go of those dreams. Most critics being men fail to look at gender roles in the film...
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Dec.26.2009
I just saw the movie Ghandi directed by Richard Attenborough for the second and third time in the last couple nights. It's a beautiful movie. In this I saw the impact of the great Indian filmmaker Satijit Ray on the British director Attenborough in many of the scences, particularly the scenes of...
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About Julia
Julia Stein is a poet, fiction writer, and critic.
Her books of poetry are
Under the Ladder to Heaven (West End Press)
Desert Soldiers (California Classics)
Shulamith (West End Press)
Walker Woman (West End Press)
Connections
Causes Julia Stein Supports
Amnesty International
Doctors Without Borders
ACLU
Workman's Circle
Julia’s Favorite Books
War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Moby Dick, Golden Notebook,
God of Small Things, Bleak House, Links by Nuruddin Farah