Upcoming AK Events in the Bay Area!
The Bookfair/AK Press SALEabration!
This weekend, buy AK Press-published titles for 25% off! We decided that since we will be selling our own books on the cheap this weekend at the Anarchist Bookfair (see below), those of you who cannot attend should not be penalized further. Be warned: our website’s shopping cart system was created in the dark ages, so the discount won’t be reflected when you “check out,” but we’ll apply it when we download your order. Not sure which titles we publish ourselves? I did a little search for you, so now you have a list! Here.
Also, please don’t miss our online “sale” table (we marked more than 50 items to $5 or less!). It’s here.
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Saturday, March 14th & Sunday, March 15th: The Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Saturday 10–6; Sunday 11–5
FREE
Join AK Press and fifty other sellers at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair the second weekend in March. The bookfair is put on by Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore and is now in it’s fourteenth year. There’s always something for everyone—whether you’re looking for hard-to-find pamphlets, new zines, contemporary books on anarchism, or rare editions—as well as a packed agenda of speakers and some delicious baked goods, courtesy of Arizmendi in SF (a link because they do not get enough glory, as far as I am concerned). Check out the bookfair’s website frequently as they’ll be updating speakers and listing other events happening around that time.
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Friday, March 20th: Screening of Shutdown
AK Press Warehouse, 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland
7PM
FREE
On this date in 2003, San Francisco was brought to a grinding halt by thousands of protesters who occupied the streets to oppose the war. It was a mass uprising that forced the police to declare the financial district “shut down.” The filmmakers of this new AK Press DVD were members of Direct Action to Stop the War, the group that spearheaded the action. This film is a must-see for those engaged in the continuous struggle toward social justice.
We might make popcorn. No promises.
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Sunday, March 22nd: Tennessee Reed launches Spell Albuquerque
Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco
2:30PM
FREE
Join us at Bird & Beckett for an afternoon event, as Tennessee Reed launches her new book, Spell Albuquerque. The daughter of writer/choreographer Carla Blank and novelist Ishmael Reed, Tennessee was diagnosed at an early age with several language-based learning disorders. The bottom line, the experts agreed, was that she would never read or write. Spell Albuquerque is an inspiring memoir of one woman’s struggle to overcome racism and institutional authority and to achieve what everyone said was impossible. Tennessee is also the author of five books of poetry, proving them wrong all over the place.
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Sunday, March 22nd: Diana Block launches Arm the Spirit
Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th Street, San Francisco
3PM
FREE
Diana Block launches Arm the Spirit, her memoir about living a decade underground, after she and five companions—active in the struggle for Puero Rican independence—found a surveillance device in their car. The book offers insights into efforts to build homegrown clandestine resistance to US imperialism, and traces Diana’s political development on either side of her period underground. Arm the Spirit offers a history of the culture and politics of the 1960s and 1970s and an analysis of the political terrain of the 1990s, when Diana resurfaced and tried to reintegrate into a very different world.
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EVENTS ARE AT THE AK PRESS WAREHOUSE, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA
b/t MLK and San Pablo – near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980
For more info contact:
AK Press at 510.208.1700, akpress@akpress.org or visit www.akpress.org
All events at AK Press are wheelchair accessible.