A great place to browse about, if you're starting a frantic dash towards 25th December, is the "shop" section of the New Internationalist website.The obvious gift is a subscription to the magazine itself, which is exceptionally strong on international and development issues.
But, they also have a range of books, t-shirts, music, stationery and food, notably:
- "Don't Shoot The Clowns" by Jo Wilding -- Wilding gave a reading from this at this year's Green Party conference in Hove. The blurb from NI reads: "This amazing book is one woman's account of living with Iraqi people during the war and its aftermath. She tells what daily life is really like in a country coping with invasion and occupation, and how she and a hastily recruited troupe of circus performers brought clowns, laughter and some moments of respite to the children of Iraq.
"Jo was the only one of us foreigners in Iraq who I was absolutely sure was doing something useful. She made thousands of children happy." - Naomi Klein
- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" A t-shirt based on a quotation from Martin Luther King, -- it comes in 100% unbleached organic cotton
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