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	Field Guide to the Global Economy Now available at The Union Shop Online™!

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BOOKS

Field Guide to the Global Economy now available at The Union Shop Online.™ What occupations are most at risk of being outsourced? What percent of the global market do each of the top 10 pharmaceutical firms control? What’s the impact of giant organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on developing nations? The revised and updated Field Guide to the Global Economy answers these questions and more through fun charts, graphics and illustrated text. Authors Sarah Anderson and John Cavanaugh of the Institute for Policy Studies and Thea Lee, assistant director of the AFL-CIO Legislation Department, also provide answers to the question: What can we do to challenge unfair globalization policies? $17.95 paperback from The Union Shop Online.™

In The Charter School Dust-Up, researchers for the Economic Policy Institute debunk the myth that charter school students scored lower on standardized tests than students in public schools because they are harder-to-teach minorities. Drawing on data provided by the Bush administration, which long has backed charter schools, the authors show charter school students overall are not more disadvantaged, yet performed no better on standardized tests than their public school counterparts. $16.95 paperback from the Economic Policy Institute or Teachers College Press.

In The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, editor Paul Rogat Loeb brings together essays, poems and stories from more than 50 activists and political leaders. The inspirational writings serve as testaments to the importance and value of fighting for a more humane world, no matter how bleak the circumstances. $15.95 paperback from The Union Shop Online.™

FILM

Hosted by global ethicist and theologian John Dalla Costa, the documentary “Forgive Us Our Debts” visits one of the world’s most impoverished nations, Nicaragua, to gauge the impact of that country’s indebtedness on the poorest members of their society. The documentary relates the powerful story of the grassroots movement’s efforts to end debt in impoverished nations. $250 from Bullfrog Films.

WEBSIGHTING

Looking for a way to combine a vacation with labor history? Check out www.laborheritage.org/landmark.htm, the Labor Heritage Institute’s “ Inventory of American Labor Landmarks,” a catalog of sites in the United States commemorating the history and heritage of America's workers. Sites include the Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Forest Park, Ill., burial site of seven of the eight Chicago union leaders who were executed after they took part in the largest U.S. demonstration for the eight-hour day; the Montgomery, Ala., home of E.D. Nixon, long-time president of the Sleeping Car Porters and the man who chose Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; and the Adelphi, Md., farm house where labor activist Mother Jones died in 1930.