The Open Invitation explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and activist video. Schiwy analyzes activist videos from the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatista’s Other Campaign, as well as collaborative and community video from the Yucatán. Schiwy argues that transnational activist videos and community videos in indigenous languages reveal collaborations and that their political impact cannot be grasped through the concept of the public sphere. Instead, she places these videos in dialogue with recent efforts to understand the political with communality, a mode of governance articulated in indigenous struggles for autonomy, and with cinematic politics of affect.
Diane Becker is flipping through her mail after a long day when she comes across an envelope with a familiar return address. Although she is almost seventy, Diane is suddenly transported back to a time when she was newly single and in the middle of something that felt so right, but was unfortunately very wrong. As she opens the envelope and views an invitation to return to Honey Water, Missouri, for an anniversary party, Diane becomes lost in her memories of James Hoover, the man she loved completely for over fifteen yearsall while knowing he belonged to someone else. Now with a chance to revisit her past and achieve closure, peace, and maybe a little payback, Diane decides to take other women who also loved Jamie on a journey back to Honey Water, where it all began. As the ladies wind their way back three decades to the origin of their passionate escapades with the same man, Diane and the others reveal surprising details about their lives, loves, and transformations. But as Diane arrives in Honey Water, she has no idea James has already arranged his final act of love for her. Open Invitation is the compelling story of forbidden love as a woman journeys back into her past, with the help of others, to right a wrong and finally heal her broken heart.
Enter The Sex Club, elegant, classy, sexy, every woman’s fantasy, every man’s desire... Stacy Parrish surrounds herself with virile young men; she adores their stamina and enjoys tutoring them in the erotic arts. And they help her forget the next birthday. The last thing she wants is a monogamous relationship. But when Judson McCord, owner of The Club, issues a sexual challenge, Stacy can’t resist taking him up on it. In a battle of wills, the stakes are upped each time they’re together, the passion and pleasure between them increasing tenfold. With desire and a passion she can’t resist, Jud determines to show her how truly beautiful, amazing and ageless she is. But can he provide the ultimate pleasure that will make Stacy exclusively his? Or will her quest for ever greater sexual thrills cost Stacy the love of the man standing right in front of her? “Invitation to Passion” is a super sexy contemporary romance of approximately 28,000 words. The book contains the following bonus material: Excerpts from “Somebody’s Lover,” “Take Your Pleasure,” and “Twisted by Love.” REVIEWS FOR JASMINE HAYNES NOVELS 2006 Holt Medallion winner! “An erotic, emotional adventure of discovery you don’t want to miss.” Lora Leigh, New York Times bestselling author “Super sexy...” Bella Andre, author of The Sullivans series “Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jasmine Haynes for another sizzling, breath-stealing book. Go out and pick up your own Open Invitation, you won’t be disappointed!” 2006 Reviewers Choice Award, Single Title Reviews “Here is an erotic book that has super hot couples, rousing sex scenes and is extremely stimulating from the first page to the last! Of course, that means that I loved it!” 2006 Reviewers’ Top Pick! Romance Reader at Heart Reviews “Ms. Haynes has written a sex tome full of every girl’s fantasies all wrapped up in her very pretty prose. I absolutely loved the invitations.” Coffee Time Romance
Regional Project “Civil Participation in Decision Making in the Eastern Partnership Countries” AIMS ♦ Promote effective interaction between civil society and public authorities; ♦ Stimulate the participation of civil society actors in the democratic decision making process; ♦ Strengthen civil society in the region. ACTIVITIES ♦ Working group meetings, awareness-raising actions, workshops; ♦ Preparing two regional studies on strategic and immediate priority issues; ♦ Multilateral regional conferences on relevant issues, notably those covered by the studies; ♦ Drafting a regional strategy for promoting civil participation in decision-making.
