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Shout Your Abortion on The Daily Show, in Bitch Magazine, Salon, Broadly, and more!

"Bonow believes in the importance of acknowledging that people have abortions for different reasons. This is a reality strongly reflected in the pages of the book, which highlights abortion stories from cisgender women as well as gender-nonconforming and trans people and stories of people having the procedure before Roe v. Wade. The book features people of all ages who are living all over the country and abroad, including people who are religious, punks, sex workers, or mothers already. There are people for whom the abortion decision was hard, and others for whom it was easy; and people who are speaking openly and clearly about their abortions, and those who have chosen to remain anonymous. All these perspectives and more create a living, breathing, sparkling manifestation of the truth that people who have abortions are not a monolith; and that in and of itself speaks to the normalcy of abortion and the absurdity of its stigma."—Caroline Reilly, Bitch Magazine

Shout Your Abortion named one of 2018's Best Books We Read in Broadly/VICE

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Excerpt: Salon
Review: SeattlePI
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Jenny Brown and Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work in The Nation & Jacobin

"In Birth Strike, Brown argues that the crackdown on women’s reproductive rights is a response, on the part of US policy-makers, to our declining birth rate. The ruling class worries that when women stop having babies, the smaller workforce will mean rising labor costs. Instead of improving the conditions for parenthood through universal child care and health care, free college tuition, more generous family leave, and higher wages, our elites have seized on what is, for them, a far less expensive solution: forced procreation." —Liza Featherstone, The Nation

Oddly specific Booklist Recommendation: Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats

For your friend who always gets distracted by the paperback spinners in thrift stores

You know the type, always hissing across the aisles at Goodwill or Salvation Army while you’re trying on that vintage sport coat. “Look at this one!” they say, giggling in disbelief and holding up a dog-eared 1960s paperback featuring a lurid and tastelessly illustrated cover designed to titillate readers of yore. This large-format book features hundreds upon hundreds of those fascinating covers, from Beatnik Wanton and Marijuana Girl to A Kiss a Day Keeps the Corpses Away and Jazzman in Nudetown. Even better, this is actually an entertaining and almost scholarly treatise on the phenomenon of “youthsploitation” novels, meaning your friend will learn a lot about the lurid literature written about and for juvenile delinquents, beats and bohemians, disaffected British youth, hippies and other counterculture types, musicians and groupies, and bikers and wannabes. With a resource this rich, there’s no need to face the sights, smells, and textures of “Sally Ann” to get your paperback kicks.

Buy Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980

This is Not a Witch Hunt-- Silvia Federici in the Boston Review

"Trivializing the death of those convicted of witchcraft—mainly women—is a form of violence, and Federici challenges us to consider that “denouncing the commerce made of women’s bodies and their death to boost tourism” is an important step in toppling patriarchal domination. By extension, one could argue that the flagrant misuse of the term “witch hunt” as a political meme also abuses the memory of those who were actually hunted as witches..."— Jonathan Beecher Field, Boston Review

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Every Woman Is a Working Woman: Silvia Federici in The Boston Review j. stephanie pasvankias
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The Yellow Vests Movements, an update 1/15/19 Richard Greeman
The Yellow Vests Movement in France: Richard Greeman Reports from Montpellier to the Future Historians group on 1/15/19. For more information visit www.futurehistorians.org

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DEAR TRUMP DIARY,7:34 a.m., Tuesday. I just signed another online petition. One of the 250 social-change outfits I connect with shot me an urgent text 45 seconds ago, so away I clicked.... How often must I do this, before I die of despair?

Seasons Greetings from France's Yellow Vests: "We are not tired" Richard Greeman
(Montpellier, France, Dec. 29) Is the Yellow Vest rebellion, now in its seventh week, “petering out?” Such was the near-unanimous pronouncement of the mainstream media, when I returned home to Montpellier, France, eager to pa...

"The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse" ed. Marjorie Cohn JJ Amaworo Wilson
"Experience, we are told, is a great teacher. If this is so, then my classroom was a clandestine prison and my teachers, experts in the commission of crimes against humanity." (Sister Dianna Ortiz, from Preface)

Who are the main killers of football? Gabriel Kuhn
An interview about "Soccer vs. the State" for a Russian book that might have come out or not.

Yellow Vests Richard Greeman
Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France.

Who is this man? Part 1 Saku Pinta
What a black and white photograph of an unidentified man found in the Lakehead University Archives tells us about violent class relations in the twentieth century.

State Repression in India Gabriel Kuhn
Support political prisoners and anticapitalist resistance!

Max Zirngast Gabriel Kuhn
Austrian journalist detained in Turkey.

Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet, Good Old Boys Are Hunting Susie Day
In a recent New York Times column titled "White Male Victimization Anxiety," Charles Blow described how President Trump publicly apologized to Justice Brett Kavanaugh for "the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endu...

FDA Investigates Feminist Abortion Pill Site Aid Access Jenny Brown
As U.S. states restrict abortion, more people are going online to get abortion pills. For years, the Netherlands-based feminist organization Women on Web has been mailing abortion pills (a combination pack of mifepristone and misoprostol...

Food Not Bombs Activists Murdered in the Philippines Gabriel Kuhn
President Rodrigo Duterte’s hardhandedness directly affects the country’s anarchist community.

Islamic Anarchism Gabriel Kuhn
An updated version of Anthony T. Fiscella’s zine “Varieties of Islamic Anarchism: A Brief Introduction” has been made available.

Theodor Herzl - Visionary or Antisemite Leon Rosselson
Herzl is everywhere in Israel. It would be difficult to find a town without a street named after him. He is memorialised in the names of boulevards, parks, squares, a city (Herzliya), a forest, a sprinkling of restaurants, a museum and even a ...

Sneak Peak of Slaughterhouse Prayer John King
Little Michael Tanner is shocked to discover that the adults are killing animals and that he has been eating their bodies.

"Best to Do What We Can" Gabriel Kuhn
A review of "Can the Working Class Change the World?" by Michael D. Yates.

Matthew N. Lyons at the Peace and Justice Studies Association 2018 Matthew Lyons
The theme of this conference is “revolutionary nonviolence in violent times.”

Muehsam Goes Graphic Novel Gabriel Kuhn
A new graphic novel about the life of German anarchist Erich Mühsam has been released.

For Brett Kavanaugh: Beer and Sympathy Susie Day
Dear Brett,Now that you’re a confirmed Supreme Court justice, it must be a huge relief to realize that whatever you did or did not do to Christine Blasey Ford never really mattered.

French Labor's Historical Defeat; U.S. Teachers' Surprising Victories Richard Greeman
As the French get ready for the “rentrée” – the annual back-to-school/back-to-work day following the August vacation – social peace appears to reign in the land.

The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky & Jeffrey Wilson JJ Amaworo Wilson
How about this for a hybrid: take an 80-something professor, sit him down for a conversation, and turn it into a graphic novel. It really shouldn't work, but it does.Noam Chomsky has long been the world's foremost intellectual, an unrivaled author...

The Other 9/11: Chile in the time of Pinochet JJ Amaworo Wilson
A few days ago, my 10-year-old son asked me why I’d scheduled an event on 9/11. “Bad timing!” he said. He knew about the Twin Towers. But he didn’t know about 9/11/73, a date of infamy in Latin America.9/11/73 was the day...

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: "The scars of history are on every writer" JJ Amaworo Wilson
The great Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is known for at least four things: writing a series of superb novels such as The River Between and A Grain of Wheat while still in his twenties;writing the novel Devil on the Cross on toilet paper wh...

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWERLESSNESS: THE MAD ACTIVIST GOES PUNDIT Susie Day
"But, Mabel, you really think The New York Times will review my book? Masha Gessen will write a blurb? WOW!"

Bartolomeo Vanzetti: The Immigrant Writes! Steven
By Jon Curley, New Jersey Institute of Technology. A requiem for Sacco and Vanzetti on the ninety-first anniversary of their execution in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday, August 22nd.

The Guardian hack, lies and distortions Leon Rosselson
Though we resist oppression, still our dream is peaceTheirs is the mask of hatred, ours the human face

How One Woman Became an Activist With the Hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion j. stephanie pasvankias
Founder Amelia Bonow started a movement with just one post.

Punks Boycotting Punks Gabriel Kuhn
An open letter to the coordinators of Maximumrocknroll (MRR), who have decided to no longer feature Israeli punk bands, citing the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement.

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