Holiday Web Sale & New Stuff from AK!
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Web Sale: 25% Off Everything!
For those of you in the Bay Area, we hope you’ll stop by our annual warehouse sale, where you’ll get 25% off anything in the warehouse and hundreds of sale titles for $1-$5! You can find the details here.
For the rest of you, don’t despair—we’re offering an online sale as well! Now through Wednesday, December 8, you’ll get 25% off any and all orders from the AK Press website! Books, DVDs, CDs, t-shirts, calendars…so many excellent giftable items (or gifts to yourself)!
Please note: discounts will be applied to all items after we receive your order but before we charge your card (unfortunately our website can’t apply discounts automatically). Does not apply to gift certificates or Friends of AK Press memberships.
New from AK Press Publishing:
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to Now
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee (eds)
In association with Exit Art
AK Press
$28.95
“If you care about social change, this may well be the most important ‘art history’ book that you will ever read.” -The Yes Men
Drawn from an exhibition at Exit Art, Signs of Change is a visual archive of more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera from more than twenty-five nations. This groundbreaking work illustrates the extraordinary aesthetic range of radical movements during the past fifty years and explores the rise of powerful countercultures that evolve beyond traditional politics, creating distinct forms of art, lifestyles, and social organizations.
Work: 2011 Calendar
Justseeds Artists’ Collective
AK Press
$16.00
From the Justseeds Artists’ Collective and AK Press comes a fun intervention into the discursive world around work. Our 2011 calendar explores the theme of what work is, and should be, through the lens of thirteen different artists, all with very different visual styles and approaches. From the pleasure of work itself, to the hard times, the fight for our rights, and the global financial system and its creep into our world of work, each page in this oversized calendar features the work of a member of the Justseeds Artists’ Collective, printed in four colors by the collectively-run Eberhardt Press in Portland.
More 2011 Calendars from AK Press Distro:
Certain Days: 2011 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
Certain Days
$12.00
The 10th annual (and still awesome!) calendar from the Certain Days collective. This year the calendar goes back to basics with the theme “Political Prisoners: Still in the Struggle.” The calendar features writings by, and information about, political prisoners-plus art by Leonard Peltier, Malaquias Montoya, Melanie Cervantes, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Favianna Rodriguez, Josh MacPhee, and more!
Solidarity Forever: Labor History Calendar 2011
IWW
$12.00
The 2011 version of the Philadelphia IWW’s annual labor history calendar! Wow! It would make a great gift for those special workers or labor buffs in your life, wouldn’t it?
Not Your Fodder: Organizing Against the Militarization of Youth, 2011 Calendar
War Resisters League
$14.95
A directory of counter-military-recruitment projects around the country, this year’s Peace Calendar serves as documentation of this vibrant grassroots movement, as well as an organizing resource. Find out how activists around the country are resisting the militarization of our youth! This is a spiral-bound desk planner laid out week by week with full-color artwork throughout.
2011 Slingshot Organizers
Slingshot Collective
Pocket Organizer – $6.00
Desk Planner – $12.00
Handy calendars (available in two sizes!) with space to write your engagements, addresses, and notes. Each week is sprinkled with historical dates, reasons to riot, radical resources, and inspirational events, all laid out in that funky Slingshot style.
…and more calendars
We wont’ list all our excellent offerings here, so check out our website for the rest (and check back soon if you don’t see the perfect one yet, there are still more coming in!)…
New Titles from AK Press Distro:
Zinester’s Guide to NYC
Ayun Halliday (ed)
Microcosm
$9.99
A top-to-bottom, on-the-cheap, warts-and-all exploration of the city that never sleeps. Whether you’re looking for a scam-able coffee or a place to grab a Japanese breakfast, art supplies, volunteer opportunities, or a four-story Korean bathhouse, the ZG2NYC has it all. Just like the popular Zinester’s Guide to Portland, the pocket-sized NYC book is divided into illustrated, user-friendly sections (bars! pizza! historic buildings! veggie options! open mics! craft supplies! the keys to low-budget NYC romance!) that give up the goods for first-timers and native New Yorkers alike.
Also new (and awesome) from our friends at Microcosm: The Book Bindery!
Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
Josh MacPhee (ed)
Feminist Press
$24.95
Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one hundred posters that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History presents these essential moments-acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles-as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today.
Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia
Andrej Grubacic
PM Press
$20.00
Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav space after the dismantling of the country. In this collection of essays, commentaries, and interviews, Andrej Grubacic speaks about the politics of balkanization—about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, neoliberal structural adjustment, humanitarian intervention, supervised independence of Kosovo, occupation of Bosnia, and other episodes of Power which he situates in the long historical context of colonialism, conquest and intervention. But he also tells the story of the Balkans seen from below: a space of pirates and rebels; a refuge of feminists and socialists, anti-fascists and partisans; a home of new social movements of occupied and recovered factories; a place of dreamers of all sorts struggling both against provincial “peninsularity” as well as against occupations, foreign interventions and that process which is now often described by that fashionable term, “balkanization.”
And also check out our other latest offerings from PM Press: Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils; Burn Collector: Collected Stories; and Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade!
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
Vandana Shiva
South End Press
$16.00
Multinational corporations, the IMF and World Bank, national governments, and humanitarian organizations regularly promote development as the only road to security—but those being “developed” know otherwise. Staying Alive makes clear why this development paradigm—implemented through enclosure, privatization, corporate piracy, marginalization, and violence—is more accurately characterized as maldevelopment, and how it is inexorably dragging the world down a path of self-destruction. This pioneering work illuminates how women, more than surviving the crises brought on by development, are creating and safeguarding vital sources of knowledge and vision on not only how to stay alive, but why we should in the first place.
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory: The Politics of Climate Change (Vol.12 #2)
Institute for Anarchist Studies
$6.00
The house journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies is back and better than ever-in a beautiful new perfect-bound paperback format. This new issue takes on the issue of climate change with articles like “Movements for Climate Action” (Brian Tokar); “Atmospheric Dialectics” (Javier Sethness); and more, plus “What We’re Reading” by John Duda, Cindy Crabb, and Joshua Stevens!
…and more new titles
Check out the other latest additions to the AK Distro catalog. We add new titles each week and there’s sure to be something for everyone on your gift list..
Not sure what to get for that special someone?
AK Press Gift Certificates
Available in all denominations
Let your friends and loved ones choose for themselves! If you don’t see the right amount listed on our website, just give us a call or send us an e-mail and we’ll be happy to help you out.
Friends of AK Press Subscription
With so many great titles being printed, there’s no time like the present to join the Friends of AK Press program! (Seriously… it’s a great deal. You won’t be sorry.) And hey, a Friends of AK Press subscription makes a great gift (as does the Friends of AK tote bag that comes with it)!