BOOK NOTICES

The Children of NAFTA:
Labor Wars on the US/Mexico Border,
by David Bacon
UC Press

"David Bacon has put a human face on the devastating impact of NAFTA on workers here and abroad. Our economic future as a nation depends on the knowledge contained in this book. A must read! Si Se Puede!"

Dolores Huerta

"David Bacon represents the fine old tradition of American working class journalism at its best. He's gone everywhere--from tiny Mexican villages to the baking hot fields of California agribusiness--to get the real lowdown on NAFTA's effects on the blue collar people who hardly ever get a hearing in the mainstream press. "The Children of NAFTA" should be high on the reading list of anyone interested in globalization and trade issues."

Barbara Ehrenreich

People and Nature Before Profits!:
Toward a Sustainable Society

Choices we make in our private daily lives make a huge cumulative impact on the environment. Do we re-use and recycle items at home? Do we drive to work alone, carpool, or take a bus? How do we manage pesticides, waste oil, and other harmful substances? All these choices and many more impact environmental health.

Yet, if we are to be good stewards of this island Earth, we cannot ignore what goes on in society, beyond our immediate personal lives. To be effective in the struggle to safeguard, restore, and enhance a healthy environment, we must take a balanced approach and work on two fronts: the personal and the political.

People and Nature Before Profits isn't another one of those "50 Things You Can Do to Save the Earth" pamphlets. The emphasis here is on the other factors in the equation: the "big-picture" questions such as pollution, racism, and social, economic, and environmental issues and how they relate to each other. it's about the choices we have to make on the societal level if we are to protect what's left of our planet's life-support system.

This pamphlet is the Communist Party USA's new environmental program, and is intended for environmentalists and union and community activists who want to be more effective in their work, and all concerned citizens who want to understand environmental problems, their causes and solutions, and how they connect at a deep, systemic level.

For a copy of the pamphlet People and Nature Before Profits, send $4 to Chelsea Fund for Education, c/o CP of WA State, PO Box 24806, Seattle WA 98124.