Books, Films and Music Reviews

Theresa Wolfwood. Yalla Press, Victoria, BC & Smallberry Press, London, UK. 2023 This is my second collection of poetry. It expresses my life experiences in condensed and intense images and emotion, from pipelines to Palestine; from red dresses to railroads; from El Salvador to Canada’s north; from love and loss to the universal longing for justice and joy.A book launch and poetry reading in Victoria are planned for the fall.For now, it is available at:Houseman’s bookstore, London, UK;Camas Books in Victoria;Ivy’s Bookshop in Oak Bay, Read more [...]

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https://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/I 2921 ISBN 978-1-909829-18-3 Cover photo by Homer Sykes, showing banners by Thalia Campbell Review and memory by Theresa Wolfwood “The Greenham banners reveal much about the campaign ‘s proponents, ideology and reach. They are also evidence in a number of braider histories: the story of women-led campaigning, including the suffrage and Women’s Liberation movements; the history of peace campaigning before, during and after the First and Second World wars; the history of women’s art; and the Read more [...]

Engler, Yves. WE STAND ON GUARD FOR WHOM?   A People’s History of the Canadian Military. Black Rose Books, 2021  Montreal QC  ISBN 978-1-55164-755-5  Review by Theresa Wolfwood “Is Canada a force for good in the world?” In Stand on Guard for Whom? — A People’s History of the Canadian Military, Engler answers his own question in this revealing history of why we have a military and who it serves. Not surprisingly, as thousands of Canadian men and women die, not to defend Canada Read more [...]

This book is a heartfelt, honest, and touching account of Marsha Linehan’s personal life, scientific research and her life-long relationship with her Catholic faith and spirituality. Linehan is a distinguished US psychologist, who has made significant contributions to the treatment of a complex psychiatric condition called ‘personality disorders’. As a psychotherapist, having worked with individuals with the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), in 2020 I was on a search to discover more about this condition in academic Read more [...]

Carpenter, Michael J. PLALESTINIAN POPULAR STRUGGLE: Unarmed and Participatory. 2019. Rutledge, London UK & New York, USA. ISBN 978-1-138-54239-6
Review and photo by Theresa Wolfwood
“This is a book about Palestinian traditions of popular struggle…”
“…Palestinian traditions of participatory organization challenge modern governance norms of large-scale organization.”
Carpenter’s in depth study of popular struggle in Palestine, mainly the West bank, is based on many months of research in Palestine and led to his doctoral thesis Read more [...]

Hagen, Erik and Mario Pfeifer, eds.,   Profit over Peace in Western Sahara: How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa .  Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany. 2018. English and Arabic.  Hardcover: ISBN 978-3-95679-405-6.    The book can be ordered h from the publisherat: http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1834&l=en&bookId=728&sort=year

Review by Theresa Wolfwood

“We hope most of all, that this little book will be a humble contribution to the people of Western Sahara as Read more [...]

Films/videos recommended by BBCF: Not a comprehensive list, these films have inspired & informed

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Two films about Western Sahara giving the historic background and the present situation of refugees and occupation.   El  Problema:   https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/el-problema   mad

Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYY2fuKMKmE

And soon to be released,  SIROCCO: Winds of Resistance. The life of Sahrawi refugees though the eyes of two woman and their grandmothers – with Read more [...]

Baroud, Ramzy. The Last Earth: A Palestrina Story. 2018. Pluto Press, UK. ISBN 978074533800 2

Review and author photo at Victoria book signing by Theresa Wolfwood

“Let me arrange my evening with that which suits my failure and her absence.”                     Mahmoud Darwish

“no east, no west, this is the uprising of the people” p.191

Baroud’s most recent book is all about Palestinians, their lives, their personal stories, told in their own voices.  Baroud, founder of www.Palestinechroncile.com   and Read more [...]