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Elaine Elinson was the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News for more than two decades. Wherever There's a Fight is the winner of a Gold Medal from the California Book Awards and a Bronze Medal from the Foreword Book of the Year Awards. She is a coauthor of Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines, which was banned by the Marcos regime. Her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Poets and Writers, and numerous other periodicals. She is married to journalist Rene CiriaCruz and they have one son.

Stan Yogi has managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California since 1997. He is the coeditor of two books,

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Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
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Shteyngart starts off this book roll-in-the-aisle funny introducing Vladimir Grishkin, Russian Jewish immigrant who works at the Emma Lazarus Society for Immigrant Absorption, a gritty nonprofit on the Lower East Side, where he wishes he could work t...more
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Mark Twain
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

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“For sailors with a desire for wind, memory is a good port of departure.”
Eduardo Hughes Galeano

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376 Literary Fiction by People of Color — 1041 members — last activity May 28, 2012 08:38pm
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