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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Those of you attending the Left Forum this year in New York should, as always, stop by the AK Press table and say hi. You’ll also have a chance to check out several AK authors who are giving talks. Here’s the lowdown:
Left Forum 2010
THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD:
Rekindling the Radical Imagination
March 19-21
Pace University
One Pace Plaza
New York, [...]
We Are an Image from the Future tour disrupted
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010As many of you know, some of the editors of AK’s amazing new book on the Greek Insurrection of 2008 are here in the US this month (and next) on a tour to promote the book and build solidarity between activists and anarchists in Greece and the United States.
Last night, the window of their borrowed [...]
AK Press authors on parade!
Saturday, March 13th, 2010It’s shaping up to be a great spring; we’ve got authors out on the road promoting their new books every month from now through the fall … so stay tuned for tour details for Seth Tobocman, Ben Dangl, AK Thompson, Tricia Shapiro, Cindy Milstein, Jeff Coant, Void Network, Team Colors, and more!
In the meantime, our [...]
AK Press authors at the SF Anarchist Book Fair, 2010
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Book fair time again in San Francisco. Another year, another whirlwind weekend. We thought we’d take a break in our preparations to let you know which AK authors will be presenting this year at Bound Together’s 15th annual event. For a full list of speakers go to the official site.
AK Authors who are speaking solo:
Margaret [...]
Orca Resistance at Sea World
Thursday, March 4th, 2010By now most folks have heard the story about Tilikum, an orca currently held in captivity at Florida’s Sea World, who seized his trainer, Dawn Brancheau, and drowned her at the end of a performance early last week. Sea World has largely described the incident as a tragic accident, defending the practice of keeping wild [...]
Mountain Justice Dispatch #2
Sunday, February 28th, 2010(The next installation in our ongoing series of dispatches from the mountains of West Virginia, where the battle against mountaintop removal continues to escalate. AK Press will publish Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All, by journalist Tricia Shapiro, this Fall.)
Escalating Sanctions against Mountaintop Removal Protesters
“Protesters Occupy Marfork Coal [...]
Colin Ward
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The Guardian printed another obituary of Colin Ward earlier this week. A nice tribute to a wonderful man.
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Colin Ward obituary
by Ken Worpole
Writer, social theorist and anarchist who believed in self-sufficiency, allotments and better town planning.
Colin Ward, who has died aged 85, lived with the title of Britain’s most famous anarchist for nearly half a century, [...]
Colin Ward, 1924–2010
Monday, February 15th, 2010Sad news from our friends at Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham: Colin Ward, the great British anarchist, scholar, and journalist passed away on the evening of February 11.
Ward was always attentive to the ways society already works cooperatively, and pushed us to understand these impulses and experiments as a latent potential for anarchism. Some of [...]
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 Common [...]
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 [...]
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