Come send a birthday card to these political prisoners. It's an easy way to help remind these freedom fighters that they aren't forgotten. We'll be writing to prisoners like:

Steve Murphy, courageous eco-warrior

Sekou Kambui, incredible civil rights and black panther activist

Leonard Peltier, Native writer and warrior

Sean Swain, Indigenous anarchist and former union organizer

and Brian McCarvill, anarchist and prison censorship opponent.

Writers Elwin Cotman and Chris Fox will read from their published work at Internationalist Books on Saturday, August 7th, 2010, at 7pm. Admission is free

RSVP HERE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147592058588855

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Cotman is a self-described “traditional storyteller” who has read at venues across the country. His performances often include music, dance and song. Following a “do-it-yourself” mentality, he recently completed a 14-city tour by car through the Midwest, and is currently embarked on the 4-city “Southern Bard Tour.”

Join us at the Internationalist in welcoming gay vampire novelist Damian Serbu!

Damian Serbu lives in the Chicago area with his partner of seventeen years and two dogs. After earning a Ph.D. in history (2001), he now teaches at the collegiate level. His love for vampires – and all things horrific – fused together with his academic training to inspire his first novel, The Vampire’s Angel. A childhood nightmare led to his second novel, Secrets in the Attic, forthcoming summer 2010.

Discuss the role of storytelling in the anarchist movement! Learn about novelist assassins, post-colonial African squatters, writers who fought in revolutions and went on to write childrens’ stories! Find out what Tolkien, Camus, Orwell, and Kafka have to say about anarchism! Join us at the Internationalist for all this and more as we welcome Margaret Killjoy, editor of the new AK Press anthology "Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction."

Join us for an author reading with Bearta Powell, whose compelling memoir "Orphans of War" provides a gripping autobiographical account of a young life lived in war-torn Lebanon. The story unfolds with the life of the author and the lives of her siblings, who, despite losing their parents at a tender age, they found the courage to live through the perils of war, hunger, abandonment, fear, and hopelessness.

*To The Bone* is a literary journal based out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina with a focus on raw, personal writing that whispers in your ear and leaves the hair on the back of your neck standing up. Please join us for the release of our first issue, with readings by authors from across the state. Visit http://www.tothebone.net for samples and additional information.

Join us for this exciting literary event as Chapel Hill resident and longtime Internationalist supporter James Protzman reads from his brand new novel, "Jesus Swept".

The unlikely tale of hope lost, found and lost again on the North Carolina coast, "Jesus Swept" celebrates a philosophy of life you can put on a bumper sticker, with Hook, Sinker, Liz, Frank, Dog, and Jesus himself, six souls twisted in a tangle of family threads that will make you cry until you laugh - or until you try dying.

Join Internationalist Books for an exciting and evocative reading with acclaimed poet William La Riche, as he reads from his latest work, "To the House of Collateral Damage: Centuries of the Civilian Dead."

Renowned poet and Hillsborough resident Jeffery Beam will bring his latest collection of riveting, passionate poems to Internationalist Books! "The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969-2007" brings together more than three decades of lyrical, metaphysical Gay poetry from native North Carolinian Jeffery Beam. The vast majority of these poems are unpublished in any of his previously published books, but were originally published in many of the most important gay magazines & anthologies of the latter half of the 20th century.

Join us for our monthly Ralph Waldo Emerson reading group, the first Wednesday of every month at 7pm. For more information, please email Adrian at damion4895@yahoo.com