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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012I remember sitting in Minneapolis last November chatting with a dear friend, talking about upcoming book projects, and him asking: So who do you have doing an AK Press book on Occupy? It was a good question. I thought about it, weighed the options, talked to authors, activists, and organizers, and came to the conclusion [...]
New sale titles & ebooks from AK Press!
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012Join the AK Press mailing list to get announcements of sales and special items just like this in the future! New E-books from AK Press! Some of you may have noticed that we’re going a bit e-book crazy lately. We’ve been producing e-books for a while now, but finally with our awesome new website, we [...]
Friends of AK Press: Now available as DRM-free ebooks!!
Thursday, June 14th, 2012There’s never been a better time to join the Friends of AK Press program … Now featuring ebooks! Every single book we publish, delivered straight to your door. Or your email. Automatically. Every month. Sign up before September 1st and get a free copy of any previously-published AK Press book you [...]
People’s Pension has arrived in Baltimore
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Whew! Good news folks! copies of Eric Laursen’s People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan just arrived in the Baltimore office. Be sure to pre-order and get 25% off Advance Praise for People’s Pension: “Drawing on research and interviews with economists, politicians, and social scientists who shaped the early development of Social [...]
Intimate Bureaucracies: A new tactical media release!
Monday, April 16th, 2012Intimate Bureaucracies is a history from the future looking backward at our present moment as a turning point. Our systems of organization and control appear unsustainable and brutal, and we are feeling around in the dark for alternatives. Using experiments in social organization in downtown New York City, and other models of potential alternative social organizations, [...]
Baltimore Radical Publishing Happy Hour
Thursday, April 5th, 2012Help us welcome Christa*, the newest addition to AK Press, at our spring installment of the Radical Publishing Happy Hour! Join us for rousing rounds of drinks, fine conversation and book browsing. Learn about two of Baltimore’s most exciting collectively operated media projects and drink to help sustain our efforts! We will also be celebrating [...]
Did we mention the AK Press beer coozies?
Thursday, March 29th, 2012Decked out in true Baltimore fashion. You know you want one. (Beer not included with purchase.)
Captive Genders is a finalist for the 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards!
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Just received some fantastic news: Eric Stanley and Nat Smith’s Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex has been named a finalist for the 24th annual Lambda Literary Awards in TWO categories – GLBT Studies and Transgender Non-Fiction. We are absolutely thrilled! Sponsored each year by the groundbreaking Lambda Literary Foundation, the awards [...]
MOBConf: June 1-3!
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Mobilizing and Organizing from Below June 1-3, 2012 | at The 2640 Space in Baltimore, Maryland Mobilizing and Organizing from Below will be a gathering of activists and organizers, workers and parents, revolutionaries and militants and radicals and dissenters, dedicated to increasing our ability to come together and challenge the systems of exploitation and oppression [...]
We Are Many: Call for #Occupy Movement Stories
Friday, February 24th, 2012You knew it was coming, right? We have all been swept up in the incredible wind that is #Occupy. We’ve contributed, as a movement publisher, but also as movement actors, to the growth and development of this unique instant in history with zines, reading lists, blog posts, and our bodies out in the streets and [...]
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