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Thursday, November 17th, 2011I first met Max Rameau, lead organizer of the Take Back the Land occupation of a vacant lot in Miami which would become known as the Umoja Village Shantytown, in 2009 at the City from Below conference in Baltimore, which I helped to organize. I remain as impressed with Max now as I was then [...]
Captive Genders launch in Montreal!
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011Prisoner Correspondence Project, Certain Days, Kersplebedeb Publishing & QPIRG Concordia invite you to the Montreal book launch of: Captive Genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex Thursday November 24th, 6:30pm QPIRG Concordia 1500 de Maisonneuve O. suite 204 metro Guy Concordia Featuring: – presentation by a trans guy incarcerated in Joliette (a Montreal area [...]
New arrival: David Porter’s Eyes to the South
Monday, November 7th, 2011It’s here! At 582 pages, and weighing almost 2lbs (yes, I weighed it), David Porter’s comprehensive treatment of six decades of Algerian resistance, and its tumultuous relationship with the French radical left is by far one of the most timely works of history AK has published in recent months. More on Eyes to the South: [...]
“It’s outrageous that someone could be held for so long for something they did not do”
Friday, November 4th, 2011Dominque Stevenson, co-author with Eddie Conway of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, speaks out about Eddie’s case, the history of the Panthers, and the continuing struggle against government repression of black activists in the United States. Thanks to Let’s Get Free for this amazing video in support of Eddie’s [...]
Angela Davis & Eric Stanley on Captive Genders!
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011Check out this video of Angela Davis and Eric Stanley’s recent talk at Penn, on Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and the connections between queer liberation and prison abolition. For those of you who haven’t been lucky enough to catch Eric and other contributors on the recent book tour, this is [...]
Vijay Prashad – Authors Meet the Critics, “That’s the Joint!” @ The Hiphop Archive
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal, editors of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (second edition) Participants: Nicole Hodges Persley, Vijay Prashad, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., Joycelyn Wilson More info: hiphoparchive.org The Hiphop Archive, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, 104 Mt Auburn St, 2R, Cambridge MA Presented by The Hiphop Archive, W. E. [...]
Vijay Prashad – “Rap Sessions: Race & Gender Politics Since Obama” @ U of Chi
Friday, October 28th, 2011Panelists: Rosa Clemente, Bakari Kitwana, Joan Morgan, Mark Anthony Neal, Vijay Prashad, and surprise special guest hip hop artist A native of Calcutta, India, and leading author on poverty, human rights and race relations, Vijay Prashad earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1994. Having previously taught history at Syracuse University [...]
Vijay Prashad – “The End of Multiculturalism” @ DePaul University
Friday, October 28th, 2011A native of Calcutta, India, and leading author on poverty, human rights and race relations, Vijay Prashad earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1994. Having previously taught history at Syracuse University and Cornell University, Prashad has served as the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor [...]
The Long Shadow of Algeria on the Arab Autumn
Friday, October 28th, 2011A new essay from David Porter, author of AK’s forthcoming book Eyes to the South: French Anarchists and Algeria. Order your copy today at a 25% discount, it ships from the printer November 4th! The Long Shadow of Algeria on the Arab Autumn While Tunisia had its first post-“revolution” election on October 23rd and Egypt [...]
ASA Book Party!
Thursday, October 20th, 2011Join us to celebrate the release of books written and edited by Chandan Reddy, Jafari S. Allen, Patricia Clough & Craig Willse, Fatima El-Tayeb, Eric Stanley, Jack Halberstam and Dean Spade. We’ll start with a reception at Red Emma’s from 8-10pm and then move on 3 blocks to drinks at Club Hippo, 1 West Eager [...]
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