MELBOURNE BOOK LAUNCH AND EXHIBITION Friday 18th October 6-8PM Friends of the Earth Food Co-op & Cafe 312 Smith street, Collingwood (Crn of Smith and Perry Streets) HOW TO MAKE TROUBLE AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE Pranks, Protests, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia (Second Edition) With talks by: Iain McIntyre (book author) Tom Civil...
The expanded Second Edition of How to Make Trouble and Influence People co-published with amazing US radical publishers PM PRESS is here! This book reveals Australia’s radical past through more than 500 tales of Indigenous resistance, convict revolts and escapes, picket line hijinks, student occupations, creative...
This website is all over the place at the moment. Bit by bit we’ll get there… :) PRINT: “BROKEN BUT BEAUTIFUL” Hand-printed woodcut print by Ned Sevil (printed by me in February, 2012). Just to also let people know I’ve been making a small...
Hi folks. We’ve kinda dropped off the radar of late, and will be for a while we think… Tom’s brother Ned died suddenly from cancer late 2010 on Boxing Day and we’ve been on the road, mentally and literally, since. We hope to resume...
The first print run of How to Make Trouble and Influence People has almost sold out and we have no more mailorder copies available from our website. However, it is still available from some bookshops. So if you didn’t get yourself a copy call...
Come celebrate the 32-page broadsheet featuring a powerful collection of 30 posters for peace. 2–4pm Saturday 31st July, 2010 Exhibition Launch upstairs at BRUNSWICK BOUND 361 Sydney Road, Brunswick VIC 3056. This is a FREE event. Come collect your free copies of the publication!...
The Peace Posters is a 32 page BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER which unfolds to 30 posters and available for FREE … Released very soon! Help us get them out into the world. To obtain copies of this Free Broadsheet for bedroom walls, workplaces, street poles, community...
We have decided to extend the deadline for POSTER submissions for The Peace Posters until the 21st May. We have received some amazing contributions from Australian and International artists and designers and the publication is already shaping up to be a powerful collection of...
Australian cultural identity is evolving & diversifying at breakneck pace and no where is this more evident than the Preston Market. For 40 years it has been one of the first ports of call for new arrivals, cutting across socio-economic divisions and now it...
Hi everyone out there … spread the word. We’re putting together another Breakdown Poster Series! And this time we’re seeking posters about PEACE. It’s an interesting time to be reflecting on Australia’s role in international politics, particularly in light of the upcoming visit by...
Friendly Stores selling “How to Make Trouble and Influence People”. If you would like to sell copies of the book through your bookstore, community organisation or distro email us at distro@breakdownpress.org VICTORIA: STICKY, Degraves St Subway under Flinders St, Melbourne THE BRUNSWICK STREET BOOKSTORE,...
Book launch THURSDAY the 3rd December 2009 - upstairs at the Berkelouw Cafe and Bookshop Newtown, 6-8 O’Connell St, Newtown, 6pm-8pm. Entry is free and speakers include the book’s author Iain McIntyre as well as Dr Meredith Burgmann, Mother Inferior (Order of Perpetual Indulgence) and...
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