Mobilizing 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 […]
Another one of our authors, David Graeber, has written a response to Chris Hedges’ controversial article “The Cancer in Occupy.” This piece was published this morning over at n+1 and is excerpted here; please head over to n+1 to read it in its entirety. Thanks to David for this thoughtful contribution to the important conversation […]
One of our lovely authors, wrote the following response to Chris Hedges’ recent, sadly misinformed attack on anarchists… — To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc By Don Gato It was a little weird to wake up today to an article by Chris Hedges on […]
We 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 […]
I 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 […]
A 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 […]
Dominque 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 […]
You guessed it! AK Press is all out for tomorrow’s General Strike called by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly. We were there in the wee and late hours on October 25th and we’ll be out on November 2nd. And keep an eye on the AK Press Tactical Media portion of our blog. We’ve already made […]
In the spirit of the movement against corporate capitalism that’s sweeping the world (including our bases in Oakland and Baltimore), the AK Press collective has been working extra hard doing what we do best: spreading the written word about the evils of capitalism, histories of grassroots working class resistance, and the potential for truly transformative […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education printed the following, pretty interesting and pretty anarchist-friendly, article about the Occupy movement. It prominently features AK author David Graeber, who help plan the Occupy Wall Street actions. —— Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in Academe Movement’s principles arise from scholarship on anarchy Occupy Wall Street protesters have […]