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Peace, Land, and Books AND ALSO TEACH THEM TO READ by Sheryl Hirshon with Judy Butler Lawrence Hill & Company, 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880. $9.95. Shortly after coming to power,...
...2.50 plus $1.50 mailing...
...This intimate and sharply-focused book will interest anyone curious about Nicaragua or concerned about the U.S...
...Nor, they point out, can either superpower depend on civil defense procedures or expect to disarm the other in a first strike...
...Shortly after coming to power, Nicaragua's Sandinista government launched a remarkable literacy campaign, which succeeded in reducing the country's illiteracy rate from 55 per cent to 12 per cent...
...Celebrating the tenth anniversary of 9 to 5, the authors reflect on the long strides forward that women have made in the last decade of organizing...
...This is far more, however, than just a how-to primer...
...Sheryl Hirshon joined the literacy campaign in 1980 and went to a village in rural Nicaragua with twenty-four other brigad-istas to teach 123 peasants to read...
...Organizing the Office 9 TO 5 THE WORKING WOMAN'S GUIDE TO OFFICE SURVIVAL by Ellen Cassedy and Karen Nussbaum Penguin Books, 40 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010...
...Though it stands by itself, this booklet is intended to accompany "The Nuclear Arms Race," a striking wall poster also distributed by Social Graphics (for an additional $5.00...
...With chapters on how to obtain respect, better pay, fair advancement opportunities, and a decent pension, the book speaks to traditional bread-and-butter concerns...
...For anyone interested in teaching in a developing country, this will be an extremely valuable resource, for Hirshon explains how the Sandinistas adapted the techniques of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire to the special conditions of post-revolution Nicaragua...
...What has changed dramatically is our ability to win respect and fair treatment," they say...
...This is the fascinating account, told in a rich, narrative style, of one American's involvement in the program...
...She does this not at an abstract level but with specific reference to the teaching formulas and actual lessons used...
...The Primer goes into greater detail, of course...
...David Gold and Stephen Rose (assisted by Barbara Koeppel, a contributing editor to The Progressive) shatter five myths used by the Pentagon "to buttress its case for new and more destructive weaponry...
...They find that, contrary to widespread belief, the Soviet Union does not surpass the United States in military expenditures, possess a stronger war machine, or violate the terms of arms agreements...
...5.95...
...This handy paperback, written by two founders of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women, is a popular introduction to the issues confronting women office workers, a self-help manual, and a union organizing primer all rolled into one...
...Hirshon introduces the reader to the people in her village...
...It is not a book about upward mobility—about how to get out of office work," the authors say...
...the threat from office automation, and the difficulties of juggling family and work responsibilities...
...we get to know them as individuals—their concerns, their joys, their progress...
...But it also addresses such issues as health hazards, particularly those posed by video display terminals...
...Using a myriad of examples from the experiences of women employed by hospitals, universities, banks, and the Government, Ellen Cassedy and Karen Nussbaum succeed in personalizing the issue while at the same time politicizing the reader...
...It is a book for those of us who hold 9 to 5 office jobs, as well as the similar service, sales, and factory jobs that most women perform for the whole of their careers...
...policy of subverting the Sandinista revolution...
...And Hirshon describes at a local level the significant changes being brought by the Sandinista government and the harrowing pressures it feels from the United States...
...The poster and the report each provide a clear, basic description of the crisis we face, examining the evolution of atomic weapons and the thinking that rationalizes their existence...
...Target: Earth A PRIMER ON THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE by David Gold and Stephen Rose Social Graphics Company, 1120 Riverside Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21230...
...The authors have put together a highly readable book designed primarily for women office workers...
...It is a sophisticated and moving social history...
...Along with this new climate, our growing numbers give us strength, and our urgent economic needs give us a compelling reason to take action...
Vol. 48 • February 1984 • No. 2
