Archive for February, 2012
We Are Many: Call for #Occupy Movement Stories
Friday, February 24th, 2012You knew it was coming, right? We have all been swept up in the incredible wind that is #Occupy. We’ve contributed, as a movement publisher, but also as movement actors, to the growth and development of this unique instant in history with zines, reading lists, blog posts, and our bodies out in the streets and [...]
Great plug for BIFO’s book …
Saturday, February 18th, 2012I was just looking at the Left Bank Books website, and reading their staff picks, and I noticed that someone’s selected BIFO’s After the Future as one of their picks, with this awesome disclaimer: “WARNING: Don’t read a book about the end of the future if you’re suffering depression or seasonal affective disorder. Actually, maybe [...]
Accumulation of Freedom video promo
Friday, February 17th, 2012The Accumulation of Freedom has been making its way into readers’ hands the last few weeks. The editors and contributors have a number of events scheduled to promote the book and further discuss the contours of an anarchist economics. The topic has been largely ignored in anarchist circles of late, which makes this volume all [...]
Check Out the New, Improved Big Idea Bookstore & Cafe in Pittsburgh!
Thursday, February 16th, 2012Earlier this week I had the pleasure of visiting with some of our comrades at The Big Idea in Pittsburgh. (For more on their project, see this store profile I did a couple years back). Right now they’re in the midst of a very exciting expansion—those of you who have been in their old space [...]
Captive Genders Panel @ Mills College
Friday, February 10th, 2012Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived [...]
Dean Spade & Eric Stanley on Prison Abolition & Trans Politics @ UCSC
Friday, February 10th, 2012Join Eric Stanley and Dean Spade in celebration of their recently released books: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press) and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (South End Press). The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by College 9, College 10, [...]
Captive Genders panel @ SF State University
Friday, February 10th, 2012Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived [...]
The next generation of the Friends of AK Press
Friday, February 10th, 2012If this isn’t the world’s best advertising photo, I don’t know what is: Thanks Milo (and Milo’s parents) for sending us this pic to brighten our day! Here’s to the next generation of AK Press readers, rabble-rousers, anarchists, black bloc’ers and beyond!
Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: An Open Letter to Chris Hedges
Thursday, February 9th, 2012Another one of our authors, David Graeber, has written a response to Chris Hedges’ controversial article “The Cancer in Occupy.” This piece was published this morning over at n+1 and is excerpted here; please head over to n+1 to read it in its entirety. Thanks to David for this thoughtful contribution to the important conversation [...]
To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012One of our lovely authors, wrote the following response to Chris Hedges’ recent, sadly misinformed attack on anarchists… — To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc By Don Gato It was a little weird to wake up today to an article by Chris Hedges on [...]