{"title":"Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor our full collection visit \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Torch Song Cafe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.torchsong.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTorch Song Cafe.\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThis is the reading material we want to share with everyone. Contents may change, but the need for awareness stays the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blood-of-extraction","title":"Blood of Extraction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. 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By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLatin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernwood Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39254818029645,"sku":"BKEXT","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/3591\/products\/bloodofextraction.jpg?v=1614634625"},{"product_id":"cheap-coffee","title":"Cheap Coffee: Behind the Curtain of the Global Coffee Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy Karl Wienhold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSynopsis from roastmagazine.com:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe green coffee value chain is broken. Cheap Coffee: Behind the Curtain of the Global Coffee Trade provides a broad explanation of the economics, mechanics, and power structures that define the industry today. It is a readable and digestible synthesis of thousands of pages of academic literature and expert interviews from disciplines ranging from economics to anthropology and from environmental science to history. Change, restructuring, and conscientious participation from all stakeholders are needed if coffee farming is to be a viable livelihood for the next generation and part of the solution to the climate crisis that is upon us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roast Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39322178256973,"sku":"BKCHEAP","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/3591\/products\/image_f8fb6c3d-7eed-4f10-aa10-156ddd881d4f.jpg?v=1620162761"},{"product_id":"extractivisms-politics-economy-and-ecology","title":"Extractivisms: Politics, Economy and Ecology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy Eduardo Gudynas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSynopsis from fernwoodpublishing.ca:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open-pit mining, oil extraction in tropical areas, and the spread of monocultures. These and other such forms of natural resource appropriation are usually known as extractivisms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis introductory book on the one hand adopts an interdisciplinary and critical perspective, incorporating contributions from economics, politics, ecology, and more. On the other hand it is an exercise in the politics among humans and with the environment. Eduardo Gudnyas explores negative local impacts such as ecological and health degradation or violence, along with spillover effects that redefines democracy and justice. Significantly, presented for the first time in English is a comprehensive overview of the theoretical innovations currently being discussed in the South, such as the distinction between appropriation and production modes and a redefinition of surplus to include social and economic features or new understandings on conflict dynamics. Furthermore, Gudynas discusses the Latin American peculiarities of extractivisms produced both by conservative and new-left governments, making clear that it has very deep roots in culture and ideologies, and offers solutions for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernwood Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39351530815565,"sku":"BKEXT","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/3591\/products\/image000000_1.jpg?v=1622482294"},{"product_id":"organized-violence-capitalist-warfare-in-latin-america","title":"Organized Violence - Capitalist warfare in Latin America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Official stories say that violence in Latin America is a product of criminal activity and the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narrative serves corporate and state interests and de-politicizes events that have more to do with logistics infrastructure, social control, and the extractive industries than with cocaine. Global capital and violence reinforce conditions that fortify the current economic order, and whether it be the military, police, or death squads that pull the trigger, economic expansion benefits from repressive activities carried out under the guise of fighting crime.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003epaperback, 304 pages, published May 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eContributors: Contributors: Patricia Alvarado Portillo, Michelle Arroyo Fonseca, Paula Balduino de Melo, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Ana Del Conde, Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete, Mary Finley-Brook, Antonio Fuentes Díaz, Simon Granovsky-Larsen, Carlos Daniel Gutiérrez-Mannix, Elva F. 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In a provocative mix of polemic and on-the-ground analysis, Raul Zibechi argues that it is time for radicals in the Global North to learn from the people their governments have colonized and oppressed for centuries. Through a survey of the most marginalized voices across Latin America-feminists, the Indigenous, people of African descent, and inhabitants of urban \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003efavelas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and shantytowns-he introduces the Anglo world to a range of critical perspectives and new forms of struggle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Zibechi, real change comes from 'societies in movement,' the people already fighting for their survival using egalitarian and traditional models of world-building, without the state, without official representatives, and without vanguards of political experts. His book contributes to global geographies of autonomous and anti-state thinking, with Zibechi placing his work in conversation with the ideological theorist of Kurdish resistance, Abdullah Ocalan, for a rich and dynamic survey of global movements of decolonization. Now more urgent than ever, this translation by George Ygarza Quispe comes at a time when the global left-struggling to expand its vision in a time of climate chaos and rising authoritarianism-finds itself at an impasse, desperate to animate and renew its critical imaginary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raincoast","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51165083566311,"sku":"BKCWO","price":27.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/3591\/files\/CWO.jpg?v=1751989947"},{"product_id":"blood-capital-the-paramilitarization-of-colombia","title":"Blood \u0026 Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003eJasmin Hristov\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state's coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Hristov demonstrates how various interrelated forms of violence by state forces, paramilitary groups, and organized crime are instrumental to the process of capital accumulation by the local elite as well as the exercise of political power by foreign enterprises. She addresses, as well, issues of forced displacement, proletarianization of peasants, concentration of landownership, growth in urban and rural poverty, and human rights violations in relation to the use of legal means and extralegal armed force by local dominant groups and foreign companies. Hristov documents the penetration of major state institutions by right-wing armed groups and the persistence of human rights violations against social movements and sectors of the low-income population. Blood and Capital raises crucial questions about the promised dismantling of paramilitarism in Colombia and the validity of the so-called demobilization of paramilitary groups, both of which have been widely considered by North American and some European governments as proof of Colombian president Álvaro Uribe's advances in the wars on terror and drugs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UTP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51165115318503,"sku":"BKBAC","price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/3591\/files\/BC.jpg?v=1751989921"},{"product_id":"testimonio","title":"Testimonio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdited By Catherine Nolin \u0026amp; Grahame Russell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? 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