tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55927130735553430812011-07-08T02:14:18.732-07:00CULTIVATING KNOWLEDGE: LIFE AND LITERATURE IN SALINASimls1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01507905588046015216noreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592713073555343081.post-25025311637198621672009-09-28T23:40:00.000-07:002010-07-14T11:04:38.086-07:00

Click here for KION TV REPORT! Huffingpost.com: Public Library Saved: 15,000 People Celebrate CITY OF BOOKS: Salinas library system celebrates first century Salinas Library's 100th birthday bash draws big crowd The Californian photo gallery KSBW Report w/full screen option Salinas Libraries Celebrate Birthday: Lack Of Funding Once Threatened Library

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Join Gary Soto, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Teresa LeYung Ryan, Kirk Lumpkin, Para La Gente, PBS Between the Lions, and other authors, poets, musicians, belly dancers, storytellers and more in this celebration of libraries and community. Eat some birthday cake and read to someone you care about in the Chair of Wisdom. For more information, email plf@redjellyfish.net call 831.776.1514 visit http://

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Saturday, September 19, 2009 2-3:30pmJohn Steinbeck Library350 Lincoln Ave.Salinas, CA 93901

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Apocalyptic science fiction film depicting the catastrophic effects of both global warming and global cooling—hurricanes, tidal waves, and the start of the next Ice Age. Paired with the novel:Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler.Rated PG-13. FREE!John Steinbeck Library350 Lincoln Ave., Salinas 758-7311

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Humans have destroyed Earth and left the planet, leaving the cleanup to robots. Hundreds of years later, WALL-E is the only robot left when the monotony is broken by EVE, for whom he falls head over treads!Paired with the collection of sci-fi short stories:I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. Rated G & FREE!Cesar Chavez Library615 Williams Rd., Salinas 758-7345

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The tale of an ordinary 11-year-old boy who learns he is a wizard. He soon finds that the wizarding world is far more dangerous than he imagined. This is the first title in the "Harry Potter" series of novels by J.K. Rowling, and another film based on a book in our series exploring The Hero's Journey as shown to us by myth expert Joseph Campbell in his landmark book, "The Hero with A Thousand

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A computer hacker searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix. He becomes a heroic rebel figure, but is he The One? Join us for another film screening, and discussion in our ongoing exploration of The Hero's Journey. Paired with the book Neuromancer by William Gibson. Rated R. FREE! Cesar Chavez Library 615 Williams Rd., Salinas 758-7345

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To save his swamp the ogre Shrek is sent on a hero’s quest to slay the Dragon and save the beautiful Princess who has a deep, dark secret. Based on the children’s book by William Steig.Bring the kids and take a look at the Hero's Journey through the eyes of an Ogre, and a talking Donkey!Rated PG.FREE!El Gabilan Library1400 N. Main St.Salinas, CA831-758-7302

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John Anderton is a top “Pre-Crime” cop in the late-21st century when technology can predict crimes before they’re committed, but he becomes the suspect when he’s targeted for a murder charge.Join us for another look at The Hero's Journey with this chilling look at technology run amok, and what rights people might be willing to give up in return for safety and security!Based on a short storyby

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After graduating college, Christopher McCandless gave his entire savings to charity and set out on a journey across America to the Alaskan wilderness. Was it a heroic journey, or a foolish adventure? Based on a true story as told in the book by Jon Krakauer. Rated RFREE!John Steinbeck Library350 Lincoln Ave.Salinas, CA 831.758.7311

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Twenty years have passed since Don Diego de la Vega fought oppression as the legendary hero Zorro and now he must find a successor to stop the tyrant who has a plot to buy Alta California and enslave the population to work in his mines.Based on the story, THE CURSE OF CAPISTRANO by Johnston McCulley.Rated PG-13 FREE!Cesar Chavez Library615 Williams RoadSalinas, CA 831.758.7345

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Tita is in love with Pedro but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita transfers her emotions into the food she prepares.A sumptuous fairy tale based on the book by Laura Esquivel. Spanish with English subtitles. Rated R.FREE! Cesar Chavez Library 615 Williams RoadSalinas, CA 831.758.7345

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Meet artist Rhode Montijo and hear about his hero's journey through the underworld in his graphic novel, PABLO'S INFERNO, where young Pablo gets struck by a hit and run driver and triumphs in his adventures through a pre-colombian hell. Learn about the process of comic book production, from sketches to the final artwork.This last event in our graphic novel month, and it will be a good one as you

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TALK ABOUT IT! The first half of the acclaimed artist Gilbert Hernandez' magical-realist tales of "Palomar," the small Central American town, beginning with the groundbreaking story, "Sopa de Gran Pena." Content of this program is suitable for ages 17 and older.Join us for another great look into the world of "Palomar" and it's inhabitants. This event is brought to you in partnership with CURRENT

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Neither smart nor a kid, Jimmy reunites with his long-lost Dad, finds him a great disappointment, and discovers an African-American sister he never knew about. Join us this Tuesday for another great conversation!

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brought to you in partnership with ASIAN CULTURAL ENCOUNTER (ACE) OF SALINAS and CURRENT COMICS, located in Salinas and Monterey.

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July is Graphic Novels Monthat the Salinas Public Library! Salinas Stories’ summer programs focus on ways of telling stories and the Library invites people of all ages to spend July exploring the storytelling form known as the graphic novel. Programs enable people to explore, discover & talk about graphic novels (in person and online), meet graphic novel artists, and learn to tell their own

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Sunday, June 28, 2:00-3:30 pmJohn Steinbeck Library, 350 Lincoln AvenueFOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 758-7311One Salinas: Making a City Neighborhood StoriesThe National Steinbeck Center under construction in 1998 A community conversation that explores the stories of Salinas’ neighborhoods and the challenges of making one city, will take place on Sunday, June 28, from 2:00-3:30 pm at the John

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SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2–3:00 pm John Steinbeck LibraryJoin Salinas Californian Senior Editor for Local News Mike Nemeth for a retrospective of front pages and photos from Salinas’ newspaper coverage of major historical events, from the first edition of the Salinas Index in 1871 to the present.

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THURSDAY JUNE 18 6:30-8:00 pmCesar Chavez Library615 Williams Rd. in SalinasCONVERSATION:BOOKSLluvia de Oro (Rain of Gold), by Victor Villaseñor (En Español) Three generations of a Mexican-American family’s migration from revolutionary Mexico to 20th century California. JUEVES, 18 DE JUNIO, 6:30–8:00 pm Biblioteca César Chávez615 Williams Rd. en SalinasENCUENTRO DE LECTORESLluvia de Oro

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SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2–4:00 pmEl Gabilan Library 1400 N. Main St. Salinas****************Story the Map!Memory Maps Workshop for Families¡DECORE EL MAPACON SUS HISTORIAS!Mapas de Memoria Talleres para las FamiliasBE CREATIVE @ YOUR LIBRARY! Create living art out of your life in Salinas in this mixed media workshop in which participants will decorate maps with their own stories. Community maps will be

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COMING UP: Saturday June 13 2:00–3:30 pm John Steinbeck Library350 Lincoln Ave. in Salinas*************Tour History Resources at the Library:A History Methods Workshop Join Salinas Public Library’s history librarian for an informal tour of the history resources available at the Salinas Public Library, from microfilm of local newspapers from 1873 to historic artwork, to our local history

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TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 6:30–8PMEl Gabilan Library 1400 N. Main St. SalinasSpace, by James Michener. An exploration of 20th-century space development, and the lives of six men and women dedicated to it. President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans and demanded that America put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960's, and in 1969 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.Do

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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2–3:00 PMJohn Steinbeck Library 350 Lincoln Ave.This documentary film explores the Bracero Program through interviews with peopleon all sides of the controversial U.S.-Mexican government program which grantedtemporary work contracts to millions of Mexican laborers from 1942-1964.Bilingual, with subtitles.DOMINGO, 7 DE JUNIO, 2–3:00 pm Biblioteca John Steinbeck 350 Lincoln

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 6–7:00 pm National Steinbeck CenterFILM: “Vinegar in the Valley” This documentary film short explores the human story behind the UFW and agricultural business labor struggles in the Salinas Valley through interviews with people on all sides of the issue. The film was commissioned by the National Steinbeck Center and was made by students of the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

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JUNE 1-30:Conversation: Books ONLINE spotlights:The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe.In 1964, writer Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters turned America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo bus, Further, made one of the most influential bus rides of the sixties.Go to www.salinasstories.wordpress.com and check it out today!

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"FARMWORKER STRUGGLE DISSECTED"Here's a link to an article in today's issue of The Monterey Herald on the panel discussion, then talk by United Farmworkers co-founder Dolores Huerta held yesterday afternoon at Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas.Nearly 150 people came to listen to and ask questions of the panel members, and Dolores Huerta including Salinas City Councilman Sergio Sanchez. General

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SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1:30 pm Cesar Chavez Library COMMUNITY STORIES: THE STRUGGLE IN THE FIELDSHear personal stories of the unionization struggles in Salinas from 1960-1985: The farmworkers movement and Cesar Chavez, growers, and the farmworkers themselves. (Spanish translation available)*If you can't make it on May 31 you can still be a part of Salinas Stories. Tell us your story by leaving a comment

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La Casa en Mango Street (The House on Mango Street) by Sandra Cisneros (En Español) THURSDAY, MAY 21, 6:30–8:00 pm Cesar Chavez LibraryEsperanza Cordero, coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to recollect her life on Mango Street. Join one of our librarians for a fun conversation about this book, and whatever it may inspire in you!

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MAPS WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2–4:00 pm John Steinbeck LibraryCreate living art out of your life in Salinas in this mixed media workshop in which participants will decorate maps with their own stories. Community maps will be shown in libraries.

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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2:00 PM!CESAR CHAVEZ LIBRARY!El Teatro Campesino comes to the Salinas Public Library! Come on out this Saturday for a lively, interactive time with members of this legendary theatre company! Bring the whole family and celebrate El Teatro’s years of achievement since its first performances in the fields in 1965, on the back of flatbed trucks. A great time will be had by all!

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Coming to Cesar Chavez Library on 5/14/09 at 5:00PM for FREE, a screening of the HBO film "WALKOUT", and a chance to talk with teacher Sal Castro after the film, whose experience as a young Chicano teacher in East L.A. affected AMERICA, and the way it looked at it's Latino population from 1968 on. Click here to read an article From the May 12 issue of the Monterey Herald, and check out the May

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& TUESDAY, MAY 12, 6:30–8:00 PMConversation: Books – The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan Four young Chinese women born in America and their mothers born in feudal China explore their difficult mother-daughter relationships. Join us for another in our series of book talks where we use books as the starting point for enlightening conversations. It doesn't matter if you've read the book or not because

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MAY 9, 20093:30-4:30 PM Cesar Chavez Library· FILM: “BRACERO STORIES” This documentary film explores the Bracero Program through interviews with people on all sides of the controversial U.S.-Mexican government program which granted temporary work contracts to millions of Mexican laborers from 1942-1964. Bilingual, with subtitles.

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&MAY 1-31, 2009 CONVERSATION: BOOKS ONLINEThe Spook Who Sat by the Doorby Sam Greenlee An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the

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& MAY 4, 20096:30–8:00 PM  John Steinbeck LibraryThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre Alec Leamas, a British agent in Cold War Berlin, is given a final, scary assignment: go deep into Communist territory to checkmate the bad-guy spies on the other side. Join us for another intriguing discussion of a masterpiece!

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MAY 1, 20096-7:00 PM National Steinbeck Center· FILM: “BRACERO STORIES” This documentary film explores the Bracero Program through interviews with people on all sides of the controversial U.S.-Mexican government program which granted temporary work contracts to millions of Mexican laborers from 1942-1964. Bilingual, with subtitles.

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CLICK HERE FOR THE CALENDAR!

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&March 1-31, 2009Native Son by Richard Wright CONVERSATION: BOOKS ONLINERight from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s,

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February 21:1:30–3:00 PM THE HOME FRONT: MEMORIES OF WW II SALINASLocal World War Two veterans and community members share stories and personal experiences of Salinas during World War II. LIFE DURING THE WAR: LIFE IN WW II SALINAS From rationing and Victory gardens to blackouts and dancing at the USO we'll hear what life during wartime was really like in Salinas from people who were there. 3:30–5

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February 19, 6:30–7:00PMCesar Chavez LibraryScenes from “The World of the Word,” an original play about the founding in1909, and growth, of the Salinas Public LibraryWritten and performed by The Alvarez High School Thespian Society. Everett Alvarez High School, Salinas, CA

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Hi everyone!Please enjoy this short video. It's the first of many we plan to make available online to the public. It's a few minutes of a Community Conversation we had on February 15, 2009 at Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas. This conversation was moderated by one of our program managers, Lori Wood, and featured our honored guests: Al Baguio, past president of the Monterey Historical Society, Bill

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February 22,  2–3:30 PMCesar Chavez LibraryBook Discussion:"North From Mexico: The Spanish speaking People of the United States" by Carey McWilliams This classic 1949 survey of Chicano history is a major influence on studies of the Mexican-American experience today. Carey McWilliams defined southern California the way Newton defined physics. People credit his writings for sparking the Chicano

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Exhibit lets residents peekinto Salinas' past-The Californian  Thursday February 12, 2009

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FEBRUARY 17, 6:30–8:00 PM John Steinbeck Library                         Book Discussion: On The Roadby Jack Kerouac  This 1957 cross-country bohemian odyssey penetrated the deepest levels of American culture and influenced a generation. Join us for a conversation about the book and it's effects on our culture, then and now.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2–3:30 PM Cesar Chavez LibraryCOMMUNITY STORIES:THE GREAT DEPRESSION  & THE OKIE MIGRATION IN SALINAS  Hear community stories of Salinas and Alisal during the Great Depression from residents who lived throught it. Join us for a greater understanding of what our parents and grandparents went thru and how it relates to us today. Plus you can enjoy Depression-era snacks & music!  

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FEBRUARY 11, 6:30–8:00 PMEl Gabilan LibraryBook Group and Haiku Reading:  May Sky: There is Always Tomorrow; An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku and Poetic Reflections of the Tule Lake Internment Camp 1944  by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo In these collections Salinas Poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo recounts her experience of Japanese American internment camps through

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FEBRUARY 7, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Conference: Recordings: The African American Legacy Project ConferenceExplore African Diaspora histories and California regional histories of African American communities and contributions.Keynote speaker:Dr. Quintard taylor, Jr., Professor of American History, University of Washington, who will speak about “The African American Search for the California Dream.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 10 AM – 5:00 PMNational Steinbeck CenterAfricano Cultural Celebration & Community Free Day Learn about Africano culture of our region as vendors sell African-influenced clothing, art, textiles and soul food from Noon to 5:00 PM, with a special performance at 1:00 PM of Africano art & music.-free admission for Monterey County residents-

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STORYCORPS at the National Steinbeck CenterFEBRUARY 23–MARCH 22 With the help of a trained facilitator, ordinary Salinas residents can record a 40-minute conversation in this nationally touring MobileBooth. Salinas community members are invited to record a conversation, in any language, with their loved ones—a friend, family member, mentor or co-worker. Stories will be archived in the Library of

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FEBRUARY 7, 2–4:00 PM John Steinbeck LibraryThe Neighborhood Book: A Book-Making Workshop for Families Explore the importance of honoring our neighbors and our neighborhoods.

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Here is our calendar of IMLS grant events thru March 2009. Please click here if you would like to download and print out the calendar in english. Click here for a spanish language version!

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FEBRUARY 6, 5–8:00 pm   National Steinbeck Center  (Show extends through April) Renderings: The African American Legacy Project Exhibition Early California art works, memorabilia, family and archival photos and reflections from oral history narratives from our regional community. Also presents student work from CSUMB focused on local African American history.   Opening concurrent with Salinas

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FEBRUARY 1-28, 2009   Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison  This 1952 classic chronicles the travels of a young, nameless black man as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Join the conversation by posting your comments on the book. Share your thoughts with the community, and hear what others have to say. To check it out, and post your comment, just click on

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Be a Community Stakeholder in Salinas Stories! See our Community Stakeholder Invitation, an abstract that explains the grant we've recieved, and our Stakeholder Fax-Back Form here. If you would like to take part, please click on the fax-back form, print it, fill it out and send it to us. We'll then be in touch to get you, and your group or organization involved!     

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JANUARY 27, 6:30–8:00 PM El Gabilan LibraryBook Discussion: Animal Farm by George OrwellThe controversial fable about an uprising of farm animals against their human masters reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Considered a searing and insightful look at a very volatile time in world history, our librarians will consider how it may relate to our world today

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JANUARY 25, 2–3:30 PMCesar Chavez LibraryBook Discussion: Y No Se Lo Tragó La Tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him by Tomás Rivera, translated by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon An original and ground-breaking work about the lives of Mexican-American migrant workers of the 40s and 50s. Join our librarians for a discussion of this seminal book. Take a look with us at the state of migrant workers today

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JANUARY 24, 2–4:00 PM El Gabilan LibraryFamily Spirit Portraits: An Arts Workshop for Families Painting workshop for the whole family will celebrate family as the source of strength in challenging times.

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JANUARY 24, 2–3:30 PM  John Steinbeck Library Book Discussion: In Dubious Battle  by John Steinbeck The NY Times called it “the best labor and strike novel to come out of our contemporary economic and social unrest.” Published in the year of the 1936 Lettuce Strike in Salinas, which California’s governor blamed on “The Reds. (communists)” Join our librarians for a conversation about the book that

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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JANUARY 1-31, 2009Nineteen Eighty-Four  by George Orwell  The classic 1949 novel famous for its portrayal of society’s increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual. Post your thoughts online as to how this book published decades ago relates to our own post- 9/11 world where issues of privacy, surveillance, and the eroding of Americans rights and freedoms through government intervention

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