From Dean Kuipers:

Hi all — My new book, “Operation Bite Back” is out today (June 23) and I want to let you all know about the first reading, this Saturday, June 27, 5 p.m. at Book Soup,8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Email info@booksoup.com

A far cry from the farcical and easily ignored rhetoric of green-capitalists, indigenous eco-activist Rod Coronado’s zine Strong Hearts, written entirely while imprisoned for an arson on a Michagan State animal-testing facility, is written with enough inteligence and compassion to remind any passive mind that our culture’s treatment of animals and the Earth is an undienable attrocity, and urges real action. Operation Bite Back details Coronado’s life, how his direct action against the vivisection, fur, and trapping industries helped spearhead the notoriety of the ALF and ELF, and how the movement he helped build “was ultimately forced to turn its back on him.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE_HRK5HRxs&feature=related
(Above video starts at 43 seconds)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW9ALTh1CqU

Kuiper continues his West Coast tour in July:

7/8
SEATTLE, WA
Town Hall (Seattle Science Lectures series) / reading / 7:30 p.m.
1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101-2738
(206) 652-4255

7/9

PORTLAND, OR
Powell’s (on Hawthorne) / reading / 7:30 p.m.
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
503-228-4651

7/10

OLYMPIA, WA
Orca Books / reading / 6 p.m.
509 E. 4th Ave.
Olympia, WA 98502
360-352-0123

7/11

EUGENE, OR
Cozmic Pizza / reading / 5 p.m.
199 W 8th Ave
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 338-9333

7/12

ASHLAND, OR
Stillwater / reading / time t.k.
1951 Highway 66
Ashland, OR 97520
541.482.6113

7/13

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
The Green Arcade / reading / 7 p.m.
1680 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 431-6800

7/14

OAKLAND, CA
Diesel Bookstore / reading / 7 p.m.
5433 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
510-653-9965

7/16-7/20

LOS ANGELES, CA
Animal Rights 2009 conference / details tk
Westin LAX Hotel
5400 West Century Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310.216.5858

7/28

PASADENA, CA
Vroman’s / reading / 7 p.m.
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-449-5320