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Welcome to City Lights! Co-founded by poet/painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.

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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is Howard Zinn’s major new collection of essays on American history, class, immigration, justice, and ordinary citizens who have made a difference.

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Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World
by Maureen Webb

A penetrating investigation of how governments worldwide – in collusion with corporations and advanced technologies – are monitoring us, and threatening our personal and civil liberties.

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