Posted on May 21st, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Javier Sethness-Castro will premier his new AK Press title “Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe” at the Humanist Hall in Oakland, CA Saturday May 28th 7:30pm.
Humanist Hall
390 27th St
Oakland, CA 94612
Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster.
The fourth title in our Anarchist Intervention Series, co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies!
Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory.
Posted on May 21st, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Javier Sethness-Castro will premier his new AK Press title “Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe” at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland, CA Saturday May 27th 1pm.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94609
Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster.
The fourth title in our Anarchist Intervention Series, co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies!
Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory.
Posted on May 21st, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Javier Sethness-Castro will premier his new AK Press title “Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe” at SubRosa in Santa Cruz, CA Saturday May 26th 6pm.
SubRosa Anarchist Cafe
703 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster.
The fourth title in our Anarchist Intervention Series, co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies!
Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory.
Posted on May 21st, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Javier Sethness-Castro will premier his new AK Press title “Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe” at The Holdout in Oakland, CA May 25th at 7pm.
The Holdout
2313 San Pablo Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster.
The fourth title in our Anarchist Intervention Series, co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies!
Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory.
Posted on May 21st, 2012 in AK Allies, Current Events, Recommended Reading
ADIOS, NATO
AND DON’T COME BACK!
“Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of NATO.”
—Nelly Kaplan
What is NATO? A gangster bunch of high criminals and traitors profiteering off of war-mongering. An International Whitewashing Organization dis-guising the dirty deeds of the ever expansionist Empire. Sugar coating on a poison pill. Jobs for murderers and their bureaucratic entourage. Illusionists having us believe that living in peace is not only impossible but an irresponsible utopian dream. Purveyors of endless war.
Who would miss you? War-mongering has had its day. Were through being your cannon fodder, your targets and/or your patsies. Leave your gated communities, your weird alternative prisons you have built for yourselves, forget your perverted desires to have and to rule. Embrace real community and real happiness.
This is our future, our Freedom Now, and NATO, you have no place in it. You’re not welcome in Chicago or anywhere.
End the Endless War! Open the Prisons, Disband the Army! Restore the Natural World!. We are The Surrealist Movement in the U.S. and these are our demands.
May 20, 2012
(This statement issued on the occasion of the 2012 NATO talks in Chicago by the Surrealist Movement of the United States.)
Posted on May 16th, 2012 in Events, Uncategorized
A discussion of anarchist economics and book launch of The Accumulation of Freedom from AK Press in collaboration with Miami Autonomy and Solidarity.
Posted on May 16th, 2012 in Events, Uncategorized
Book talk for Truth and Revolution by Michael Staudenmaier!
Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled SDS, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities. Through the influence of founding members like Noel Ignatiev and Don Hamerquist, STO took a Marxist approach to the question of race and revolution, exploring the notion of “white skin privilege,” and helping to lay the groundwork for the discipline of critical race studies.
Michael Staudenmaier is a twenty year veteran anarchist and student of revoutionary movements and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois.
Sponsored by Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation (Providence).
Posted on May 16th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Current Events
Eric Laursen was recently a guest on Fire Dog Lake’s Book Salon discussing his recently released title The People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan.
Moderated by Ellen Schultz, she began by stating, “A real eye-opener to me was Laursen’s material on how right leaning Democrats in Congress and the Obama Administration are an unrecognized threat, given their willingness to reduce the deficit by taking an axe to Social Security. In the guise of preserving the system, they’ve called for reducing benefits by raising the retirement age, introducing means testing, and reducing cost-of-living increases. At the same time, many staunchly oppose raising payroll taxes, or raising the cap on income subject to payroll tax, which is currently $110,000. Raising, or eliminating the cap Laursen writes, would close a lot of the funding gap, and he points out, without pulling the rug out from under those who need it the most.
I’d like to start by asking Eric: What else could improve the system, and whether these moves –as well as raising the income cap—are being seriously considered?”
Read the Salon
Posted on May 16th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Reviews
We’re very excited to see David Swanson’s review of Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion on his blog War is a Crime.
Hopelessly Devoted
by David Swanson
You’d never know it from watching television, but there are many thousands of people in the United States who take peace, justice, environmental protection, and government of the people so seriously that they don’t censor themselves whenever the president is a Democrat.
While many others are still debating whether it would be appropriate to criticize or protest President Obama after a mere three and a half years of disaster, the people I have in mind have been openly and honestly resisting the latest Wall Street war monger since before he was elected.
Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank have collected 56 essays from prior to, from early on in, and from quite recently during the Obama presidency. The collection, just published as Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, has a consistent approach to its topic. The authors, including Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeremy Scahill, Chris Floyd, Sibel Edmonds, Franklin Spinney, Kathy Kelly, Marjorie Cohn, Chase Madar, Michael Hudson, Medea Benjamin, Charles Davis, Ray McGovern, Dave Lindorff, Bill Quigley, Tariq Ali, Andy Worthington, Linn Washington, Jr., and many more, don’t agree on everything. A few try to urge serious progressive plans on Obama that they would never have proposed that Bush champion, not even rhetorically, not even for laughs. The book is not organized by topic; it’s a random, if chronological, ride through a catalog of catastrophes. But it’s united by the theme of horrendously bad government in the age of Obama. It ignores the mythology and treats Obama based on his actual performance.
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Posted on May 15th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Current Events, May Day
Written by our lovely author and comrade Cindy Milstein, author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations.
May Day Matters
By Cindy Milstein
Every since this occupy “movement” began, it has surprised me. Like a package I didn’t order appearing on my doorstep, gifting me some sweet little zines written by a near stranger I met long ago. And just when this occupy thing seems to stall or become tired—or as Take Back the Land’s Max Rameau put it so well recently, begins to feel like the film Groundhog Day—it surprises me yet again. Another package unexpectedly arrives, this time with hand-screened political posters from some anonymous friend.
May Day was one of those surprises.
Truth be told, though, the day itself was underwhelming.
Part of the reason for that, at least for me, lies in the fact that I had expectations. Great expectations. I went into May Day with the anarchist equivalent of “day-before-Christmas” excited anticipation, with all sorts of preconceived notions of what could or should happen swirling around in my head. Nothing ever lives up to such fantasies.
Yet the reason goes deeper than that: along with so many others, I keep thinking of occupy as a social movement—that is, an organized attempt at achieving a political goal. I’m not talking about the “What do they want?” straw argument leveled against us. I’m speaking of all the manifold hopes, desires, and aspirations that “we, as a movement,” articulate in innumerable actions and artifacts—and sometimes put into a day of action.
One of the biggest surprises of occupy, however, time and again, is that it defies categorizing or capturing, no matter how much those individuals who want to make a name off occupy keep trying to name it, or occasionally take credit for it; no matter how law enforcement, politicians and pundits, or the mainstream media try to label it; no matter how much well-meaning activists and agitators and anarchists try to give voice to it—or valiantly try to create processes and platforms to give many voices to it. Indeed, the more I dwell on it, the more I’m still not even sure what the “it” of occupy actually is, and that’s another surprise, and a beautiful one at that.
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