Rad Mini Library

New personal care items are coming next week!  In the meantime, you can find all of this in the Rad Mini Library:   Graham crackers   Fruit snacks   Herbal teas   Kids shirts size 6-7   KN95s for adults   KN94s for kids ...and of course, Rad Books. These two are particularly rad: The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement V P Franklin (Author) The Echoing Ida Collection. Cynthia R. Greenlee (Editor); Kemi Alabi (Editor); Janna A. Zinzi (Editor); Michelle Duster (Foreword)

In Winter's Kitchen by Beth Dooley  It's part memoir, part cookbook, and part report on the state of iconic Midwestern foods. It's also about the people who deeply care about these foods and all of us who eat them. 

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin This is the seventh book by N.K. Jemisin that I have read in 2023, and it did not disappoint! My main take-aways: Trust the people. Beware of gentrifiers. Xenophobia is self-sabotage. 

Newly added to the Rad Mini Library! Snacks: Blue Diamond Almonds Low Sodium Lightly Salted Snack Nuts, 100 Calorie Packs Mott's Fruit Flavored Snacks, Assorted Fruit Kellogg's SCOOBY-DOO! Baked Graham Cracker Snacks, Made with Whole Grain, Cinnamon Kids: Crocs Kids' Rain Boots, 11 M US Little Kids Seeds: Still have some veggie seeds for guerilla or yard gardens - kale, chard, sage, peas, and beans Masks: size small KN95 masks (kids), a few KN94 small masks size large KN95 masks And...there are new treasures in the Toys & Trinkets box (slap bracelets!)

Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time by Andy Price The Echoing Ida Collection. Cynthia R. Greenlee (Editor); Kemi Alabi (Editor); Janna A. Zinzi (Editor); Michelle Duster (Foreword) From AK Press https://www.akpress.org/the-echoing-ida-collection.html Founded in 2012, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who—like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett—believe the "way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. This anthology collects the best of Echoing Ida for the first time, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Imagining a gender-expansive and liberated future, these essays affirm the powerful combination of...

  This sweet picture book by Junauda Petrus and illustrated by Kristen Uroda imagines a beautiful world in which our communities are safe and full of love and care. The world doesn't have police precincts or manufactured systems of scarcity. I want to go there! I picked up a couple of copies from the bookstore next to the liberated 3rd Precinct building. Even though the City makes residents literally pay for all of MPD's reckless and violent behavior, the City is forcing the same residents, who are MPD's victims, to tell them where they should set up shop next. It's gaslighting and uncaring and needs to stop. I'm grateful for neighbors who are crowding the community meetings to shout no place is ok for the precinct. Pick up "Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?" from the Rad Mini Library!

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns. Archie Bongiovanni (Author)  Tristan Jimerson (Author) Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets Joanne Smith (Author) Meghan Huppuch (Author) Mandy Van Deven (Author) The Italian Glass Blowers Takeover of 1910 by Odon Por The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement V P Franklin (Author) Mutual Aid Self/Social Therapy from The Jane Addams Collective

  Yes, the Little Library at The James and Grace Lee Boggs Center - their house in Detroit - is rad!

  Recently, I've thought a lot about this book "The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival" by Chris Begley, a wilderness survival instructor and archaeologist. He breaks down the popular apocalypse stories, which are usually at the least problematic, at most dangerous, and ignorant of real-life apocalypse survivors' experiences (colonization). And he names the most likely contributors to the next apocalypse: climate change, conflict, economic inequality, and the rise of authoritarianism. So how do we survive long-term? Not by stockpiling toilet paper and weapons. The author says adaptability, flexibility and community* are keys. None of us will be able to go it alone. He writes "basic traits like kindness, fairness, and empathy will be the foundation on which we build everything…to discard the inequity of the present and start anew." *Of the essentials needed for survival the author includes, "Storytellers, writers, painters, and musicians wi...

  Making the Spring shift of the Rad Mini Library - get veggie and herb seeds for yard or guerilla gardens! Pick up some kid size 6/7 tees or kid size 13 sneakers. And snag the copy of environmentalist Murray Bookchin's Remaking Society!