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Green Living
Activism
As
Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela €16.50
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas is one of the UK`s most
effective and best-known political activists, as well as being
a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, The Mark
Thomas Product, ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel
Four. Amazingly, this is his first book.
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela is
a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark`s rampage
through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and
with the use of some worryingly poor accents, Mark set off
on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers,
torture victims, politicians, cops, crusties and geeks. The
result is a shockingly entertaining read. managed to set himself
up as an arms exporter. His account of his encounters, adventures
and discoveries as he attempted to change the law provide
a shockingly entertaining read.
Embedded within the sharpness of his humour
is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency
and greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill, maim and displace,
but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer.
Hard-hitting, laugh-out-loud funny and extremely unsettling,
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela is never anything less
than compulsive.
352pp 2006 135x215
island
Journal Vol 1 No 1 Summer 2006 €10.00
island is a new publication written
by and for people involved in communities across Ireland,
and abroad
island focuses on the myriad community
struggles that embrace emotional, ethical and moral issues
as well as social, environmental and ecological campaigns
and protests
island reports, investigates and analyses
these issues and how they are affecting and changing communities
island debates the common threads that
are uniting communities in struggle against undesirable development
island highlights methods of empowerment
and engagement among the people in both rural and urban Ireland
island features the ways in which inspired
communities and empowered individuals are coming together
to share their art in the form of ballad, prose, song, theatre
and verse
island launched Summer 2006 as a quarterly
journal
152pp 2006 172x245
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