Posted on July 22nd, 2013 in AK Authors!, Events
Tuesday August 6th, 7pm
The Public School
951 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
COIN functions as the underlying logic that intersects with a number of key political realities currently: community policing / police brutality and the prison industrial complex, Global War on Terror, boarder militarization, the NSA / Snowden scandal and government spying, and repression of social movements. This talk will explore the domestic application of counterinsurgency strategy and community policing methods, which are predominantly directed at poor communities of color in the US.
Kristian Williams will provide an overview of policing and the domestic application of COIN. COIN has its origins in police / FBI operations against social movements in the 1960s and 70s as well as various post-Vietnam conflicts. Drawing on various pieces in the collection and his prior work (in Our Enemies in Blue), Williams will describe how a military logic has been used by police forces and other state apparati over the past three decades. By extension of Williams’s talk, Kevin Van Meter will explore the currently campaign of repression directed at radical environmentalists, animal rights activists, and others, referred to as the “Green Scare”. Drawing on a particular case from 2001-2004, Van Meter will describe this cycle of government repression and the efforts of activists to combat it.
Posted on July 22nd, 2013 in AK Authors!, Events
Sunday August 4th, 2pm
Revolutionary Grounds
606 N 4th Ave
Tucson, AZ 85705
COIN functions as the underlying logic that intersects with a number of key political realities currently: community policing / police brutality and the prison industrial complex, Global War on Terror, boarder militarization, the NSA / Snowden scandal and government spying, and repression of social movements. This talk will explore the domestic application of counterinsurgency strategy and community policing methods, which are predominantly directed at poor communities of color in the US.
Kristian Williams will provide an overview of policing and the domestic application of COIN. COIN has its origins in police / FBI operations against social movements in the 1960s and 70s as well as various post-Vietnam conflicts. Drawing on various pieces in the collection and his prior work (in Our Enemies in Blue), Williams will describe how a military logic has been used by police forces and other state apparati over the past three decades. By extension of Williams’s talk, Kevin Van Meter will explore the currently campaign of repression directed at radical environmentalists, animal rights activists, and others, referred to as the “Green Scare”. Drawing on a particular case from 2001-2004, Van Meter will describe this cycle of government repression and the efforts of activists to combat it.
Posted on July 17th, 2013 in AK Authors!, Events
Geoff Mann author of “Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism” will be speaking at Orca Books in Olympia, WA on July 27th.
Orca Books
509 E 4th Ave
Olympia,
Washington
98501
Capitalism is a complex, dynamic, and extraordinarily robust way of organizing human life; it is also a system that achieves prosperity for the few, impoverishes the many, and depletes the commons for all. We know that capitalism is a broken system, in desperate need of change. But, to imagine a different system, we first need to understand how capitalism actually exists today —and be able to explain to others how it works, and why change is needed.
Posted on July 2nd, 2013 in AK Distribution, AK News
AK Press is giving away a set of our five latest releases: Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism, Anarchism and Workers’ Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain, In the Shadow of the Sabertooth, Anarchists Against the Wall, and Stay Solid! (Total value: $78)!
For your chance to win this set of books, just sign up for our e-mail list! Everyone who signs up between now and July 15 will be automatically entered to win. Visit this link to join our e-mail list and enter the contest: http://bit.ly/15gJUSc
If you are already on our e-mail list, you’re also eligible; just see our next e-mail update for more information on how to enter.
Posted on July 1st, 2013 in Current Events
As of the time of writing this, anarchist grand jury resistor Jerry Koch has been incarcerated for more than a month and ten days, just for refusing to collaborate with the State. If you aren’t familiar with grand juries or with Jerry’s case, you can read more at jerryresists.net. AK Press stands in solidarity with Jerry and all political prisoners. We have offered to help Jerry’s support committee out by coordinating the effort to get him some much-needed reading material while he is locked up.
Here’s how it works: we’ve gotten a list of titles that Jerry has requested (below). We’ll keep this list updated as we send him books, and as we learn of new requests. If you would like to send a book to Jerry, just order it via the AK Press website and list him as the recipient. As with any order being sent to a prisoner, we will apply a 30% discount to your order after we receive it.
The books Jerry has requested so far are:
-Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
-We the Anarchists: A Study Of The Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937
-The Story of the Iron Column: Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War
-Italian Anarchism 1864-1892
-Rage and Reason
Jerry’s address (to use on your order, or to send him other mail) is:
GERALD KOCH #68631-054
MCC NEW YORK
METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER
150 PARK ROW
NEW YORK, NY 10007
We are willing to post book lists for other political prisoners, as well—if you’re on a support committee or working with someone else who is locked up, please get in touch!
Posted on June 21st, 2013 in Events
It’s that time again—time for our annual summer warehouse sale! Get 25% off EVERYTHING, plus check out our tables of sale titles (lots of newly discounted GOOD stock!!) marked down to just $1-$5! Plus complimentary snacks and beverages, and all the festivities you’ve come to expect… Come on out, and invite your friends!
Posted on June 13th, 2013 in AK Authors!, Events
New York launch featuring Victoria Law, Lee Naught, Seth Tobocman, and many more contributors
It ain’t easy being a kid these days. For the first time in generations, today’s teens have worse prospects ahead of them than their parents did, and the pressure to toe the line and be a success is heavier than ever…and so is the temptation to just give up. But there are things in the world worth fighting for!
This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes, forget their ethical objections to dominant life, soothe their rage, and accept their fates. From dealing with the cops to dealing with your peers, from school and community to drugs and sex, from race and class to money and mental health, Stay Solid! provides essential support for radically inclined teens who believe that it’s possible for all of us to hang on to our values and build a life we believe in.
June 17th, 5pm
Bluestockings
172 Allen St
New York, NY 10002
Posted on June 3rd, 2013 in AK Authors!, Events
We all know that capitalism sucks, and we need a mass, systemic, sustainable change to save our planet and the people on it. But how did we get to where we are, and what, precisely, are the frameworks that we have to dismantle before we can build something new in ther place? From our friends at AK Press comes a new look at the ins and outs of capitalism … written from an explicitly anti-capitalist perspective. In Disassembly Required, Vancouver-based critical geographer Geoff Mann unpacks capitalism from start to finish, in clear and accessible language, pointing out the ways that capitalism is structured to maintain standards of inequality, and suggests the ways that we can begin the long project of disassembling neoliberalism. Yet he doesn’t dumb it down either; this isn’t a “For Beginners Guide,” but it’s not overly pedantic and dogmatic either. Mann’s writing, and especially his discussions of the book are as useful for those just beginning to wonder if alternatives exist as they are for those who already consider themselves to be in the know. An incredibly useful discussion for anyone fighting against capitalism.
Red Emma’s will have copies of the book available for sale at the event! Don’t miss it!
Posted on May 29th, 2013 in AK Authors!, Events
Capitalism is a complex, dynamic, and extraordinarily robust way of organizing human life; it is also a system that achieves prosperity for the few, impoverishes the many, and depletes the commons for all. We know that capitalism is a broken system, in desperate need of change. But, to imagine a different system, we first need to understand how capitalism actually exists today —and be able to explain to others how it works, and why change is needed.
June 10th 7pm
The Wooden Shoe
704 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
Posted on May 29th, 2013 in AK Allies, Events
Geoff Mann and Eric Laursen authors of Disassembly Required and The People’s Pension respectively will be speaking with Heather Rogers at Left Forum on Sunday June 9th.
More information at the panel here
12pm-1:50pm
Left Forum
Room W510
Pace University
New York, NY
