What with personal taxes and other
non-fun items, there hasn’t been too much going on in the Just Third Way
movement this week. Of course, what is
going to happen at the Rally at the Federal Reserve on Friday, April 22, 2016
is important (and we tell you about it), but that’s an announcement, not a news
item per se. Still, some things are
happening:
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| Rally at the FEDERAL RESERVE. Make a NOTE. |
• Mark Your Calendar:
Gather with students, grassroots leaders and
concerned citizens on Friday, April 22, 2016 in
Washington, DC, for the 12th annual demonstration at the Federal Reserve in
Washington, D.C. Co-hosted by the Coalition for Capital
Homesteading and the Center for Economic and Social
Justice, the rally will run from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM,
starting on the mall side across the street from the Constitution
Ave. entrance of the Federal Reserve Building (between 20th and
21st Streets, NW).
• Amazon Smile
program. To participate in the
Amazon Smile program for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• The Big News this week is that we got the proof copy of Easter Witness: From Broken Dream To A New
Vision For Ireland (official publication/release date of April 24,
2016). We can modestly say it looks
great, in large measure due to the cover design (and the new title, which came
from a chance comment by the graphic artist who designed the cover). Bulk orders for this first printing can be
placed now; we’re accepting them on a case-by-case basis . . . meaning until
the official release date you can only purchase books by the case and not sell
or otherwise distribute them until noon on April 24, 2016. There are 26 to a case, and
non-institutional/non-vendor purchasers get a 20% discount off the $20 cover
price on wholesale lots ($416/case).
Shipping is extra. Individual
prepublication copies should soon be available on Amazon and Barnes and
Noble. We think that means they will
take your order and your money, and then ship on the official release
date. Or sooner; it wasn’t clear, and we
didn’t want to waste time on a minor point.
Send enquiries to publications@cesj.org. An additional discount may be available for
institutions such as schools, clubs, and other organizations as well as
retailers.
• NEWS FLASH! Amazon just put up Easter Witness — no cover image yet, but that should appear in a few days.
• NEWS FLASH! Amazon just put up Easter Witness — no cover image yet, but that should appear in a few days.
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| Close enough . . .? |
• The same terms apply to CESJ’s other titles, except that
you can order individual copies on Amazon and Barnes and Noble right now, and
you don’t have to wait until April 24, 2016 to sell or distribute. Freedom
Under God, A
Plea for Peasant Proprietors, and The
Emigrant’s Guide — in addition to Capital
Homesteading for Every Citizen, of course — should be of particular
interest to everyone . . . especially as it becomes increasingly evident that
none of the candidates for the office of President of the United States appear
to have the vaguest idea how to solve the problems of today without creating
more for tomorrow.
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| Irish going into battle ... or surfing. It's hard to tell. . . |
• We submitted a list of ideas to the Acquisitions Editor of
a major Catholic publisher last week, and he responded almost immediately. He was very positive about all of them, but personally
liked most the idea about turning the award-winning series of articles on
Ireland during the Wars of the Roses into a one- or two-volume popular history
. . . from a Just Third Way perspective, of course. He thought the idea about turning the recent
blog series on G.K. Chesterton, Msgr. Ronald Knox, and Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
into a book would be attractive to the rest of the editorial staff. We’ll probably be having another conversation
next week to see what might fly. Good
sales for Easter Witness will greatly
enhance our attractiveness to the publisher.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 49 different countries and 52 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “A Field Guide for Heroes,” “Aristotle on Private Property,”
“The Crisis That Need Not Be, I: A System Designed to Fail,” and “Are Rights
for Everyone?”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that
we know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next “issue.” If you have a short (250-400 word) comment on
a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog — do not send them
to us to post for you. All comments are
moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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