Find the closest Bradley Manning support event to you! This Saturday, Feb.23rd

55 protests show enormous public support for Bradley Manning as his 1,000th day in prison approaches. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. 1,000 days without trial. Attend one of 58 events in support of Bradley! Join the international call to action in support of Bradley Manning, the heroic soldier who has been persecuted for doing the right thing - for exposing war crimes to motivate worldwide discussions, debates and reform. An enormous outpouring of support for Bradley Events include protests, rallies, hip-hop performances, concerts, and art. We ask you attend an event near you this weekend to educate others about Bradley, and also to show the military authorities that people worldwide support him. Soldiers are supposed to have the right to a speedy trial, not only under the US Constitution but also under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Yet Bradley's court martial has been delayed as the military has continuously created roadblocks in the defense's way to access important evidence and offer a whistle-blower plea. On June 3, 100 days from Saturday, the military prosecution will pursue a truth-chilling life sentence at Bradley's long-overdue court martial. Public demonstrations are the best way to give this young whistle-blower a fighting chance at freedom. There has never been a more important time to broadcast our support for exposing war crimes, international justice, and people’s right to know what the government does in our name. Find an event in your area, or host your own! U.S. Events Tucson, AZ Feb 23, 11am-5pm Tempe, AZ  Feb 23, 5:30-6:30pm Guerneville, CA Feb 23, 12-1pm Cahuenga (L.A.), CA Feb 23, 9-11am Los Angeles, CA Feb 23, 5:30-6:30 Long Beach (L.A.), CA  Feb 23 at 1pm until Feb 24 at 2pm Montrose (L.A.), CA Feb 23, 5:30-7pm Studio City (L.A.), CA Feb 22, 6:30-7:30pm San Francisco, CA Feb 23, 1-4pm San Diego, CA Feb 23, 7-9pm Denver, CO Feb 23, 12-3:30pm Washington, DC Feb 24, 6:30-9pm Ft. Lauderdale, FL Feb 23, 12-1:30pm Pensacola, FL Feb 23, 5:30-6:30pm Tallahassee, FL Feb 23, 12-1pm Honolulu, HI Feb 22, 4-5:30pm Chicago, IL Feb 23, 12-1:30pm Ft. Leavenworth, KS Feb 23, 1-3pm Boston, MA Feb 23, 1-2pm Augusta, ME Feb 23, 11:30am-12pm Portland, ME Feb 23, 12pm Detroit, MI Feb 23, 3-8pm Eatentown, NJ Feb 23, 12-1:30pm New Orleans, LAFeb 23, 2-6pm Minneapolis, MN Feb 23, 9:30am-12pm Wilmington, NC Feb 23, 12-1:45pm Albuquerque, NM Feb 23, 10am-12pm New York, NY Feb 23, 2-4pm Rochester, NY  Feb 23, 10am-12pm Toledo, OH Feb 23, 12pm Corvallis, OR ongoing Philadelphia, PA Feb 23, 2-4pm Newport, RI Feb 23, 1-2pm Austin, TX Feb 23, 10:30am Houston, TX Feb 23, All Day Bristol, VT Feb 23, 10am-12pm Seattle, WA Feb 23, 12-4pm   International Events Melbourne, Australia Feb 22, 2-4pm Sydney, Australia Feb 23, 11am-2pm Vancouver, Canada Feb 23, 1-5pm Paris, France Feb 23, 3-5pm Berlin, Germany  Feb 23, 12:30-3pm Brussels, Belgium Feb 23, 1-2pm Kaiserslautern, Germany Feb 23, All Day Rome, Italy  Feb 23, 4-5pm Oslo, Norway Feb 23, 10am-12pm Oporto, Portugal Feb 23, 3-6pm Seoul, South Korea Feb 23, 11am Kampala, Uganda Feb 23, 10am-12pm Dublin, Ireland Feb 23, 1-3pm Birmingham, UK Feb 23, 2pm London, UK Feb 23, 2pm Peterborough, UK Feb 23, 12-2pm Yorkshire, UK  Feb 23, 11am Fairford UK Feb 23, 9:30am-12pm Bangor, Wales Feb 23, 11am-2pm Cardiff, Wales Feb 23, 10:30am-2:30pm Wales/Ireland/Scotland/England ongoing Slovakia If you attend an event, please take photos and e-mail them toowen@bradleymanning.org Thank you for supporting Bradley Manning Help us continue to cover 100% of Bradley's legal fees! Donate today.

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Check out Xperience's video for his song 60/40, partly shot at Last Word Books!

Hell yeah, now he's on tour with Macklemore.

Maybe they'll make our bookstore famous-er!

Stoked they put Don't Stop Printing's post-apocalyptic graffiti boom-box in at the end.

Mark Sargent reading at Last Word

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. Lillian Hellman

February 15, 1980: In the final stroke of a legendary 20th century literary feud, playwright Lillian Hellman sued novelist Mary McCarthy for libel. Hellman died before the case went to court.

I fucking hate you eBay

MC999 eBay Listing Removed: Encouraging Illegal Activity (736487378) Dear earthlit (earthlightbooks@gmail.com), You recently listed the following listing: 250786704624 - NEW - How To Make A Silencer For A .45 (Silencers) 360535249515 - NEW - The Poor Man's James Bond Strikes Again DVD Unfortunately, we had to remove your listing because of the following: You listed an item that eBay feels promotes, encourages, or instructs a person in illegal activity. eBay prohibits the sale of items or links to items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activities. In addition, eBay may remove listings as requested by law enforcement agencies to cooperate with any investigation or to prevent harm to eBay and its members. Please do not relist. eBay prohibits the sale of items or links to items that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We urge our Community members to comply with all governmental laws and regulations. For more information on this eBay policy, please visit: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/encouraging-illegal-activity.html All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has been canceled. Please note: violation of this or other eBay policies may result in forfeit of eBay fees on cancelled listings, limits on account privileges and account suspension. You can review our list of prohibited and restricted items here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html If you have any more questions, contact our policy experts. Get started by clicking the link below. http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ContactCS&Query=1338&Domain=Homer_EOA&From=163954 We appreciate your understanding. Thanks, eBay Why did eBay remove my listing? http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/questions/listing-ended.html Knowing the rules for sellers: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/policies.html Please don't reply to this message. It was sent from an address that doesn't accept incoming email. H5171 Learn More to protect yourself from spoof (fake) emails. This administrative email was sent to earthlightbooks@gmail.com from eBay. Your account is registered on www.ebay.com. As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. If you would like to receive this email in text format, change your notification preferences. eBay will periodically send you required emails about the site and your transactions. Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions. Copyright © 2013 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. eBay Inc. is located at 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. James Joyce

February 14, 1921: Influential literary magazine The Little Review brought James Joyce’s Ulysses to America, but 92 years ago today, it was convicted for publishing “the work of a disordered mind.”

James Joyce. Scratchboard portrait by Mark Summers, whose work you will recognize from Barnes & Noble shopping bags, among other places.

Sky found this at:

 http://landay.tumblr.com/post/10852818973/james-joyce-scratchboard-portrait-by-mark

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. --Mark Twain

Julian Assange Book, 'Cypherpunks,' Skirts Mainstream

Here's an article from the HuffPost back in December, which is fitting given our tendency towards lateness as a socio-cultural, fashion statement. Enjoy.

Julian Assange Book, 'Cypherpunks,' Skirts Mainstream On Its Way To Market

By Jason Cherkis 

WASHINGTON -- Julian Assange is wasting little time while shut inside Ecuador's embassy in London. The WikiLeaks founder has recently released a book called Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet. The book consists chiefly of the transcript of a conversation between Assange and three others. In a nod to openness, he has chosen not to offer the ebook version on Amazon. Instead, the book is being sold exclusively on reKiosk, a self-described uncensored portal.

In a way, reKiosk is a perfect fit for Assange. The site operates like an open-source version of Amazon. "If amazon.com is like a Walmart, reKiosk is like a covered bazaar," reads a statement on the site, which notes that it's comprised of "a network of user-curated digital storefronts where anyone can sell music, books, and other digital files, of their own designs or of someone else's."

Assange's book, which was released in late November, explores the Internet's possibilities both to expose or enforce corruption, as a tool for more open communication and for government surveillance. In an excerpt posted on Salon, Assange argues "we now have increased communication versus increased surveillance."

Assange would know. He has been holed up at the embassy for months in an attempt to avoid questioning on allegations involving sexual assaults in Sweden. Ecuador hadgranted Assange asylum in August. But law enforcement authorities say he will be arrested if he tries to leave the embassy. Assange fears that if he does leave the embassy, he risks being brought to the U.S to face espionage charges.

His circumstances seem to have influenced his book. In an introduction also available online, Assange wrote, "This book is not a manifesto. There is no time for that. This book is a warning."

Old Fashioned, Mind-numbing Math for Book Layout in the Middle of the Night

Ever since that wild, late night with a pterodactyl flying over Venice, we haven't been able to sleep at night. What keeps us awake (aside from bills, the Buffalo Bills and more fucking bills than a duck convention in Wyoming)? Grand dreams of a universal imposition to every book ever printed.

So we draw out amateur scribblings of page layouts to satisfy our tendencies towards neurosis, searching for the perfect equation for quarter legal-sized books with pencil nubs and a cold coffee.

We are always the same age inside. Gertrude Stein

The author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was born on this day in 1874.

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was a noted American art collector of seminal modernist paintings and an experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays, which eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th century literature. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, raised in Oakland, California, and moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life. For some forty years, the Stein home on the Left Bank of Paris would become a renowned Saturday evening gathering place for expatriate American artists and writers, and others noteworthy in the world of vanguard arts and letters. Entrée and membership in the Stein salon was a sought-after validation, signifying that Stein had recognized a talent worthy of inclusion into a rarefied group of gifted artists. Stein became combination mentor, critic, and guru to those who gathered around her. A self-defined "genius", she was described as an imposing figure with a commanding manner whose inordinate self-confidence could intimidate. Among her coterie she was referred to as “Le Stein” and with less laudatory deference as “The Presence.” ^[1][2][3]

In 1933, Stein published the memoirs of her Paris years titled The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which became a literary bestseller. The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure, into the light of mainstream attention.^[4]

Near the end of her life Stein pronounced: "I always wanted to be historical from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it..." ^[4]

Recent Poster Design and Printing

Here's a little taste of what we've been up to in the print shop when you all thought we'd crawled off to hide in a dark hole. It may still be Winter but you can almost taste Spring slipping into the sheets to warm you at night. Things are slowly churning (as they always do) here at Last Word and our lethargy will soon give way as we begin working on several projects, including another edition of Slightly West for the fine freaks at The Evergreen State College. Stop by and see us soon.

Pacific Legal Foundation = Koch brothers. Beware/Be Aware/Share

Don't trust these schmucks. They're conservative billionaire interests disguised as conservative upper middle class attack dogs.

Wait... that's not a disguise at all!

About Pacific Legal Foundation

Donor-supported Pacific Legal Foundation (www.pacificlegal.org) is the leading legal watchdog organization that litigates for limited government, property rights, free enterprise, individual rights, and a balanced approach to environmental regulations, in courts across the country.