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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 [...]
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots on TOUR!!
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012It’s true: the book tour for Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots is about to begin! Please spread the word, and tell your local booksellers to order the book! Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (AK Press, February [...]
An update from Eddie Conway, author of Marshall Law
Thursday, January 5th, 2012We just received this letter from our author and comrade, Marshall “Eddie” Conway, currently serving a life sentence in a Maryland prison for a crime he didn’t commit. As ever, his spirits remain high, and his work is an inspiration to activists and organizers both beyond and inside the prison walls. And, there’s hope on [...]
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore @ University of San Francisco
Monday, November 28th, 2011Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it’s an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and [...]
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore @ Pegasus Books
Monday, November 28th, 2011Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it’s an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and [...]
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore @ Powell’s
Monday, November 28th, 2011Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it’s an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and [...]
Remembering Colin Ward at Housmans, December 7
Monday, November 28th, 2011The latest issue of Anarchist Studies (‘Anarchist Studies, Vol,19, No 2, 2011) is being launched on 7th December 2011 at Housmans, to celebrate the life and work of Colin Ward. Ward was one of the best known anarchist writers of his generation and his work on children and play, urban architecture and plotlands, squatting and [...]
Lucien van der Walt at Freedom Bookshop, December 10
Monday, November 28th, 2011BLACK FLAME: The revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism DATE: 2pm, Saturday 10th of December PLACE: Freedom Bookshop BLACK FLAME: The revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism Lucien van der Walt & Michael Schmidt ‘Black Flame’ examines the anti-authoritarian class politics of the anarchist/syndicalist movement, and its 150 years of popular struggle on [...]
Two Notes from Athens
Friday, November 25th, 2011A.G. Schwarz, co-editor of We Are an Image from the Future, has sent us this fascinating update on events in Greece and the response to the book by anarchist comrades here and abroad. It’s certainly an understatement to say “the book represents an extremely complicated project undertaken over a difficult, dangerous, and highly charged year [...]
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