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Black Sheep Books, a community space and bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont, offers affordable radical and scholarly books, and hosts educational events on cultural and political topics. As an all-volunteer project, we are operated by a five-member collective hand in hand with a group of dedicated volunteers. Our principle focus is to provide access to anti-authoritarian Left ideas in a way that promotes intellectual debate and challenges today’s hegemonic culture.

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Together with horizontalist social movements and political projects, bookstores, infoshops, and publishers, Black Sheep Books works toward an egalitarian, ecological, and nonhierarchical society.

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Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer
workers' collective specializing in radical
and scholarly used books.
5 State Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906
Help support our move!

Black Sheep Books has, at long last, found a perfect new location! And we’re hoping we can count on your financial support to help make our September 1 move to 5 State Street possible.

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Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground

06/13/07 6:30pm

2007-06-13 18:30
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River lovers! Greywater plumbers!
Innovative irrigators! Water drinkers!

Join coeditors Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Oskar Cole to celebrate their new book, Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground (Soft Skull Press, 2007), on water movements, ecological sanitation, and river restoration worldwide.

This book release event will include:

* A slideshow featuring anti-dam struggles, ecological sanitation, and river restoration projects

* A discussion of local restoration work and regional initiatives

* The secrets of guerrilla greywater plumbing

* A special showing of Demise of Dam Nation, a compilation of cinematic dam failures and catastrophes

About the authors/editors:

Cleo is a Bay Area-based writer, teacher, restorationist, and agitator. In 1996, he left his native Los Angeles to study traditional agriculture and water harvesting in the Rio Grande basin, and then continued permaculture pursuits in filled-in marshes edging the San Francisco Bay. His books include Urban Wilds: Gardener's Stories of the Struggle for Land and Justice (water/under/ground, 2001), the kids' book Sink or Swim: A History of Sausal Creek (water/under/ground, 2004), and the infamous The Guerrilla Graywater Girls' Guide to Water zine (with Laura Allen). His water conservation projects have been featured in the Utne Reader, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times.

July learned to swim in the Tennessee Valley Authority lakes of Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and to identify wild plants in the forests of the Cumberland Plateau. He learned most of the rest in the deserts of the U.S. Southwest: philosophy and astronomy in the Sangre de Cristo foothills, alternative building and "charco" style greywater practices in the Rio Grande bosque, and in the Basin and Range territory more things than can be listed. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he keeps bees, designs and installs greywater treatment wetlands, and sells books. Besides coediting Dam Nation, he has also been published in ColorLines magazine and the 2006 Best Gay Erotica anthology.

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