*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 other Chapel Hill-area radicals to discuss the upcoming G20 summit taking place this September in Pittsburgh, PA. We'll be sharing info about the G20 and why protests will happen, what sorts of actions are being planned, and how we can build momentum locally.

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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.

The Internationalist Prison Books Collective invites you to attend our monthly reading group exploring the theory and practice of the prison abolition movement. Together we read and discuss issues relating to the prison industrial complex in the US and internationally, histories of prisoner resistance, and strategies for organizing against ever-expanding rates of incarceration.

Looking for a way to voice your concerns about sexual violence? Looking for a way to become an activist against rape, sexual assault, child sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence?

Join us for a discussion of local Appalachian resistance to mountaintop removal as we read from the inspiring oral history collection "Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal", featuring former Kentucky coal miner Nathan Smith and Lora Smith, a former organizer with Kentuckians For the Commonwealth.

North Carolina has a very dense farmworker population: over 150,000 in this state alone. These workers, who are largely migrants from Central and South America, frequently live in extremely difficult circumstances and face multiple forms of exploitation. On July 29th, the Internationalist will host an event featuring to build awareness and concrete solidarity with the workers in our state whose faces we rarely see but whose efforts allow us to eat every day.

Join other Chapel Hill-area radicals to discuss the upcoming G20 summit taking place this September in Pittsburgh, PA. Building off of our previous meetings in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, we'll be hearing reportbacks and making concrete plans for resistance and actions being planned, and discuss how we can continue to build momentum locally.