Archive for February, 2010
Next Entries »Learning from Vancouver: Matt Hern, in conversation with Theodore Hamm
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Theodore Hamm of The Brooklyn Rail recently interviewed Matt Hern about his excellent new book, Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future. We repost the piece here with the kind permission of The Brooklyn Rail. Learning from Vancouver: Matt Hern, in conversation with Theodore Hamm In his new book [...]
What a Great Time to be a Friend of AK!
Friday, February 12th, 2010Hi folks, We are happy to announce that there’s three new AK Press books at the printer right now. We sent them all off over the last few days and they will be trickling in in mid-March. So all those lucky Friends of AK subscribers will hit paydirt when their April shipment arrives. First up [...]
AK Press Says, “Eat Shit, Olympics!”
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010First of all, you know the drill…another month, another awesome package deal from AK. This month, in honor of the resistance to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, we have put together a special one for you. This “snack pack” is basically a buy-two-get-one-free deal (you get about $60 worth of stuff for $39.95, and [...]
Fighting for mountain justice in Appalachia
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010As most of you know, the fight to halt mountaintop removal in Appalachia is an ongoing campaign. Just two weeks ago, Climate Ground Zero rallied forces together for a tree-sit on Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia, and independent journalist (and forthcoming AK Press author) Tricia Shapiro was there to help document the action, [...]
New Durutti Book — Nuevo libro acerca de Durruti
Monday, February 8th, 2010Novedad editorial Durruti “el héroe del Pueblo”. 1896-1936 Autor: El Seta “En forma de collage se recogen citas, textos, canciones, fotos, carteles…en torno a la figura del anarquista leonés, dotando a la obra de una gran frescura y dinamismo sin perder por ello en rigor histórico”. 21 x 30 cms., 103 páginas, color Fundación Anselmo [...]
Distro Top Ten — February 2010
Friday, February 5th, 2010Hello AK Bloggers! How you livin’ out there? Hope everyone is doing well. Below are some books to help you make it through this month without going mad, killing your neighbor, giving away your cat, or smashing into a cop car. To all my fellow Aquariuses out there, Happy Birthdays! 1. The Screwball Asses — [...]
Signs of Change opens in PDX
Thursday, February 4th, 2010For all of you in the Portland area over the next six weeks, make sure to stop by and see Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald’s Signs of Change show. And for those lonely souls in Portland looking forward to an evening with Facebook, get out of the house and head down to the opening tonight [...]
Event Reportback: Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010For your reading pleasure: a joint reportback from the two AK collective members who went down to the Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair last weekend. —– Macio: Last Sunday, January 24th, AK Press attended the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair. Suzanne and I were the collective members tasked with hauling the books and ourselves down [...]
Learning from the Movement for a New Society: An Interview with George Lakey
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Learning from the Movement for a New Society: An Interview with George Lakey In 1971 a group of Philadelphia-based activists formed the Movement for a New Society, a network of collectives dedicated to radical pacifist, feminist, and libertarian socialist politics. Over the next 18 years the organization grew to a peak of approximately 300 members [...]
Wendy-O Matik Spreads the Radical Love this Thursday
Monday, February 1st, 2010I’m willing to wager that most readers of this blog have read or at least heard tell of Wendy-O Matik’s classic guide, Redefining Our Relationships. This is a book we’ve carried a number of years, and sent out countless copies of. It’s clear that a lot of people out there are interested in building more [...]
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