Archive for November, 2010
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Friday, December 3 from 4-10PM AK PRESS HOLIDAY SALE! AK Press Warehouse / 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland Come out and browse our stacks, see what’s new, stock up on holiday gifts (if you’re into that sort of thing), take advantage of a 25% discount on EVERYTHING IN THE WAREHOUSE, and check out our tables full [...]
Online auction to benefit Dara Greenwald!
Monday, November 29th, 2010Just got this from the support network for AK friend and author Dara Greenwald, who has been battling cancer since the summer: If you’re looking for holiday gifts and/or you’ve been wanting to help out artist/activist Dara Greenwald (and her partner Josh MacPhee) in their financial/emotional/medical battle against cancer and expensive chemotherapy bills, now is [...]
Class War in Barcelona: Chris Ealham’s Anarchism and the City
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010Nice mini-review of Chris Ealham’s tremendous book, Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937 from our friends at the Kate Sharpley Library. Check it out! Class War in Barcelona: “Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937″ by Chris Ealham [Review] M. Bookunin Anarchism is more than just the idea [...]
Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010I recently had the pleasure of tabling at the Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair. (I love to table. I am a tabling robot. I am speaking in a robot voice.) I flew out of Baltimore on Friday 10/8 to head to Edmonton. My flight got in at 11:30 or something ridiculous like that, and bookfair organizers Sean [...]
Left Forum 2011
Monday, November 22nd, 2010We just received the call for participation for Left Forum 2011! Check it out … and, hey all you AK authors: you should really think about proposing a panel for this year’s conference! It’s a great event, and we’ll be there tabling, as always! It would be nice to see a larger anarchist presence this [...]
WORK: A 2011 Calendar by Justseeds and AK Press
Friday, November 19th, 2010Hi friends! Today is technically my day “off” so I’m going to take a bit of a cop-out on blogging today and leave you with a bit of text, and some lovely images from the inside of AK’s brand-new wall-calendar WORK, a collaboration with the wonderful folks over at the Justseeds Artists Collective. Friend of [...]
Holy shit: Signs of Change is here!
Thursday, November 18th, 2010It’s here! We thought this day would never come, but Signs of Change, the stunning visual archive of over five decades of social movement art edited by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee (in association with NYC’s Exit Art gallery) has arrived, and it looks phenomenal. Worth the wait, if we do say so ourselves. As [...]
Kolya Abramsky on Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Don’t know if I mentioned it in a recent post or not, but out here in Baltimore, we’re right in the middle of a run of five AK Press related events co-hosted with Red Emma’s. We started on November 4 with Raúl Zibechi on Dispersing Power, and then followed that up with Kolya Abramsky on [...]
Join us for cocktails in Baltimore!
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010.
Dancing with Dynamite: Ben Dangl’s latest journalistic adventure
Monday, November 15th, 2010It’s been a good year for new titles on Latin America at AK Press: in addition to Jeff Conant’s Poetics of Resistance (on the Zapatista mythos) and Raul Zibechi’s Dispersing Power (on the Amarya struggles against the state in Bolivia), we’re tickled pink to have just recently released Dancing with Dynamite: States and Social Movements [...]
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