Posted on November 7th, 2014 in Events
About the book: Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since precolonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today’s “Drug Wars”—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism’s woes, cracking open new territories to privatization and foreign direct investment. Combining on-the-ground reporting with extensive research, Dawn Paley moves beyond the usual horror stories, beyond journalistic rubbernecking and hand-wringing, to follow the thread of the Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America and all the way back to US boardrooms and political offices. This unprecedented book chronicles how terror is used against the population at large in cities and rural areas, generating panic and facilitating policy changes that benefit the international private sector, particularly extractive industries like petroleum and mining. This is what is really going on. This is drug war capitalism.
Dawn Paley is a freelance journalist who has been reporting from South America, Central America, and Mexico for over ten years. Her writing has been published in the Nation, the Guardian, Vancouver Sun , Globe and Mail, Ms. Magazine, the Tyee, Georgia Straight, and NACLA, among others.
See the book here: http://www.akpress.org/drug-war-capitalism.html
Posted on November 7th, 2014 in Events
About the book: Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since precolonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today’s “Drug Wars”—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism’s woes, cracking open new territories to privatization and foreign direct investment. Combining on-the-ground reporting with extensive research, Dawn Paley moves beyond the usual horror stories, beyond journalistic rubbernecking and hand-wringing, to follow the thread of the Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America and all the way back to US boardrooms and political offices. This unprecedented book chronicles how terror is used against the population at large in cities and rural areas, generating panic and facilitating policy changes that benefit the international private sector, particularly extractive industries like petroleum and mining. This is what is really going on. This is drug war capitalism.
Dawn Paley is a freelance journalist who has been reporting from South America, Central America, and Mexico for over ten years. Her writing has been published in the Nation, the Guardian, Vancouver Sun , Globe and Mail, Ms. Magazine, the Tyee, Georgia Straight, and NACLA, among others.
See the book here: http://www.akpress.org/drug-war-capitalism.html
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in About AK, AK News, Recommended Reading
We have a different, somewhat split sense of time here in the AK Press warehouse. While we’re packing and shipping and promoting brand new books (Drug War Capitalism will be arriving any day now), we’re also copyediting and proofing books for further down the road, and helping even more distant projects take initial shape. Sometimes it’s hard to remember what season we’re in.
We’d like some company, so here’s a list of forthcoming books—near and slightly far—for you to let sink into your brain. Click on the covers to get more info.
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I Belong Only to Myself:
The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli
Andrea Pakieser
180 pp. / isbn: 9781849351959 / $16.95
NOVEMBER
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Underground Passages:
Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011
Jesse Cohn
375 pp. / isbn: 9781849352017 / $22.95
DECEMBER
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Storm in My Heart:
Memories from the Widow of Johann Most
Helene Minkin, edited by Tom Goyens
180 pp. / isbn: 9781849351973 / $17.95
JANUARY
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The Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol III:
A Long and Patient Endeavour—The Anarchist Socialism of L’Agitazione, 1897–1898
Errico Malatesta, edited by Davide Turcato
500 pp. / isbn: 9781849351478 / $24.95
FEBRUARY
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Militant Anti-Fascism:
A Hundred Years of Resistance
M. Testa
320 pp. / isbn: 9781849352031 / $18.95
FEBRUARY
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Octavia’s Brood:
Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown
285 pp. / isbn: 9781849352093 / $18
APRIL
[published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies]
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Addicted to War:
Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism (Revised Edition)
80 pp / 978- 1- 84935- 217- 8 / $12
APRIL
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Dixie Be Damned:
300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford
280 pp. / isbn: 9781849352079 / $20
MAY
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We Do Not Fear Anarchy—We Invoke It:
The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement
Robert Graham
275 pp. / isbn: 9781849352116/ $21
MAY
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Proletarian Days:
A Hippolyte Havel Reader
edited by Nathan Jun
250 pp / isbn: 978- 1- 84935- 213- 0 / $20.00
JULY
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Our Enemies in Blue:
Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)
Kristian Williams
420 pp / isbn: 9781849352154 / $21.00
AUGUST
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Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
AK Press will be tabling at the annual Boston Anarchist Bookfair! Yes, it really is on a Sunday & Monday. And yes, we will have lots of good books. Please come!
Author James Tracy will be speaking on his new book DISPATCHES AGAINST DISPLACEMENT on Sunday, 11/23 at 11:15am.
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
AK Press will be the conference bookseller for Facing Race, which is taking place in Dallas this year! We’ll have the latest AK Press published and distributed titles as well as books by this year’s conference speakers.
For more information and a complete conference schedule, see: https://facingrace.raceforward.org/
If you’re attending the conference, join us for some special author signings:
john a. powell – Friday 11/14, 12:30pm at the book tables
Jeff Chang – Friday 11/14, evening book release celebration (details TBA)
Dave Zirin – Saturday 11/15, 3:20pm at the book tables
Victoria Rowell – Saturday 11/15, 3:20pm at the book tables
Van Jones, Ian Haney Lopez, & Rinku Sen – Saturday, 5pm at the book tables
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
The Howard Zinn Bookfair is a celebration of the books that make us rethink our roles in the world and connect people with hidden histories. AK Press will have tables of books, and don’t miss these talks on new AK Press books:
Dawn Paley / DRUG WAR CAPITALISM at 11am in the Carlo Tresca Room
Deric Shannon / THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT? at 12:15pm in the Carlo Tresca Room
Plus talks on a number of our distributed titles, and lots of other good stuff! You can find more information and a complete schedule here: http://howardzinnbookfair.com/
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
AK Press will be tabling at the New Orleans Bookfair! Stop by to check out our latest and greatest titles.
More information and a complete schedule can be found at: http://www.neworleansbookfair.com/
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
At this event, Tracy will be in dialogue with Picture the Homeless, Poverty Initiative, and Retail Action Project members.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/1490173067916877/
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
This event is “Community, Migration, and Displacement”: a joint book reading with Marta Effinger-Crichlow and Benjamin Shepard. Sponsored by the Human Services Club.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/376259429198142/
