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Beacon Weekly Report

July 3, 2007

Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

60 on Up, Lillian B. Rubin, cloth, September 2007, $23.95, 978-0-8070-2928-2

  • O Magazine, review forthcoming

Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9

  •  Diane Rehm Show/NPR; Thursday, July 5th; 11:00 – 12:00pm, live
  • Midday Utah/ KCPW (NPR); Tuesday, July 10th; 9:40 -10:00am Mountain; live by phone
  • Interfaith Voices (syndicated to 40 plus radio stations); Tuesday, July 10th; 3:00pm; taped via ISDN from Chicago; air date to come
  • Brian Lehrer Show/WNYC Radio (NPR New York); Thursday, July 19th; 10:40 -11:00am, live in-studio
  • Talk of the Nation/NPR; Thursday, July 19th; 2:00pm; live via remote from New York
  • Tavis Smiley Show/PBS; Monday, July 23rd; taped interview airs nationally on PBS stations.

Courting Equality, Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn, cloth, $34.95, May 2007, 978-0-8070-6620-1

Inheriting the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, cloth, $25.95, January 2008, 978-0-8070-7281-3

  • “Exploring the links between a grand Rhode Island mansion and dungeons in Ghana, Tom DeWolf traces the infernal trade that gave his family, and this country, great wealth and power. His journey into the past forces painfulquestions to the surface, and illuminates our present.”

    — Henry Wiencek, Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

"Best of the Best" from Beacon Press:

Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son and Epic Journeys of Freedom received Outstanding ratings from both the AASL and PLS and will be part of the “Best of the Best” Program at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference. The program will be aired on C-Span’s Book TV; air date to come.

Beacon Press and the Pentagon Papers:

In response to the “Beacon Press and the Pentagon Papers: Then and Now” panel discussion, which included Senator Mike Gravel, Daniel Ellsberg, and former UUA President Robert West, panel moderator Amy Goodman wrote about the relevancy of this famous story to today’s tumultuous times. The panel event was also aired on Democracy Now!.

Broadcast:

Democracy Now! panel event aired July 2nd:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/02/1331255

Web:

TruthDig, posted article by Amy Goodman about the event, posted June 26th:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070626_time_is_right_for_new_pentagon_papers/

News Sites and Blogs who picked up the TruthDig article:

Seattle Post Intelligencer online, Opinion:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/321502_amy28.html

Alternet:

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/55389/

Common Dreams:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/27/2131/

The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topics/Amy+Goodman

Cascadia Weekly:

http://www.cascadiaweekly.com/cw?/features/

Colbert Nation:

http://www.colboard.com/viewtopic.php?p=582415&sid=866abc4232f2bd54c51dc6d3c8267ebe

The Union:

http://www.theunion.com/article/20070627/OPINION_NATIONAL/106270088

Daylife:

http://www.daylife.com/story/09Mu6Yj7op1MJ/1?lead_article=101000000023573219

AfterDowningStreet.org:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24041

Care2Connect:

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=1972&pst=745834&archival=&posts=1

Progressive Independent.com:

http://progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=69837

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (Palo Alto, CA):

http://peaceandjustice.org/article.php?story=20070628084656902

Netscape, Politics section:

http://politics.netscape.com/story/2007/06/27/time-is-right-for-new-pentagon-papers

ChimpsterNation:

http://www.chimpsternation.com/forum?c=showthread&ThreadID=1042

Free the Media:

http://mediafreedoms.net/node/1890

Donkey O.D.:

http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/time-is-right-for-new-pentagon-papers/

Topix:

http://www.topix.net/business/publishing/2007/06/time-is-right-for-new-pentagon-papers

Democratic Underground:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x290944

Tribe:

http://uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/90a3ea78-39a9-4b22-9f8d-39e82a794467#12bd4486-dfe1-41b9-9b6d-434aa3cedc00

True Blue Liberal:

http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2007/06/27/time-is-right-for-new-pentagon-papers/

Digg:

http://www.digg.com/political_opinion/Time_Is_Right_for_New_Pentagon_Papers/who

Free the Media:

http://mediafreedoms.net/node/1871

911Movement:

http://forum.911movement.org/index.php?showtopic=221

News Corps:

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=488

Deep Journal:

http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/812.html

Daily Camera:

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/jul/01/time-is-right-for-new-pentagon-papers/

Ashland Daily Tidings:

http://www.dailytidings.com/2007/0630/stories/0630_oped_goodman.php

Information Clearing House:

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1812/2/

The Southern Journal:

http://thesouthtoday.wordpress.com/

The Rag Blog:

http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/time-for-new-pentagon-papers.html

ReBelle Nation:

http://rebellenation.blogspot.com/2007/07/time-is-right-for-new-pentagon-papers.html

The Liberal Journal:

http://liberaljournal.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-pentagon-papers.html

US Indymedia:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/02/18432187.php

Political Opinions:

http://us.politicalopinions.co.uk/page/article/articleid/11558

Other Blogs and Media about the event:

Mike Gravel’s website, material pulled from Beacon’s site:

http://www.gravel2008.us/?q=node/1522

Portland Independent Media Center, blog about the event posted June 28th:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/361599.shtml

ePluribus Media, blog responding to the event posted June 27th:

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/6/27/181550/503

Daily Kos, blog posted June 27th:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/27/153624/928

Daily Kos, blog posted June 24th:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/24/14753/1741

Fort Boise, blog posted June 19th:

http://fortboise.org/blog/200706.html#p06250

UUSC Hot Wire, blog posted June 24th:

http://www.uusc.org/blog/2007/06/where-is-everybody.html

 

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