Published 22 December 2009 · Main Posts Activism Ahoy! Karen Pickering The New International Book Shop is Melbourne’s radical bookseller, supplying progressive and explicitly left-wing literature to activists, readers and thinkers worldwide. Housed in the rather splendid Trades Hall, NIBS can help you get informed, motivated, and active in progressive politics. They’re also a great friend of the magazine and a sponsor of our Subscriberthon, donating the Do Something Prize – an activist pack, including books, badges, stickers and a T-shirt, so you can make a bloody buggery difference to this world thanks to the nerve centre of activism in Melbourne. And the winner is… Lyndon Megarrity! Congratulations, sir, and a very merry raging against the machine to you. Karen Pickering More by Karen Pickering › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.