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Friday, February 10th, 2012If this isn’t the world’s best advertising photo, I don’t know what is: Thanks Milo (and Milo’s parents) for sending us this pic to brighten our day! Here’s to the next generation of AK Press readers, rabble-rousers, anarchists, black bloc’ers and beyond!
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 [...]
Surrealism in 2012!
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011If you should happen to find yourself in the mid-Atlantic or the Northeast in January or February, I strongly recommend you make time for a detour to Reading, Pennsylvania for the improbably located Surrealism in 2012 exhibition: a never-before-exhibited-together collection of surrealist material created since 1960. NO, surrealism didn’t die out in the 50s with [...]
AK Press is hiring!
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011AK Press has an immediate opening for a new collective member. More specifically, we’re looking to expand our publishing department by hiring someone who has a passion for books and ideas, requires little sleep, and knows the difference between Lucy Parsons and Lady Gaga. Read on for more explanation. The publishing department at AK Press [...]
AK Press Holiday Sale
Friday, December 9th, 2011Our annual holiday sale is back, but we’re trying out something new this year and having it on a Saturday! Everything else is the same as always: 25% off EVERYTHING in the warehouse, tables of sale items (GOOD ones!) priced at just $1–$5, free snacks and beverages, and a festive atmosphere for all your last-minute [...]
On #Occupy: Max Rameau on Occupation and Liberation
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 [...]
Friends of the Imagination, UNITE!
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011A new call to action from our surrealist comrades in Chicago and elsewhere. Please circulate widely! Friends of the Imagination, Unite! The Chicago Surrealist Group and friends of the imagination everywhere stand in solidarity with the Teamster Local 814 art handlers locked out by Sotheby’s. In Sotheby’s last auction, the obscenely high prices paid for [...]
“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 [...]
On #Occupy: Margaret Killjoy on the Oakland General Strike
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011AK’s Oakland crew was excited to see our friend & AK author Margaret Killjoy (editor of Mythmakers and Lawbreakers, and author of the new choose-your-own adventure novel What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower) in the streets alongside us at yesterday’s general strike. Margaret posted one of the earliest and most hopeful reports on the events [...]
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