Posted on April 30th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Michael Staudenmaier will be doing a reading for his new AK Press title, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986.
Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse
May 28th time tba
800 St. Paul St
Baltimore, MD 21201
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.
Posted on April 30th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Michael Staudenmaier will be doing a reading for his new AK Press title, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986.
Uncharted Books
May 17th 6pm
2630 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
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.
Posted on April 30th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Michael Staudenmaier will be doing a reading for his new AK Press title, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986.
May 22nd, 6pm
Encuentro 5
33 Harrison Ave (Unite-Here 5th Floor)
Boston, MA 02111
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.
Posted on April 30th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Michael Staudenmaier will be doing a reading for his new AK Press title, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986.
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier
2450 rue Workman 3pm
Montreal, Canada
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.
Posted on April 30th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
Michael Staudenmaier will be doing a reading for his new AK Press title, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986.
The Wooden Shoe
May 27th time TBA
704 South Street
Philadelphia, PA
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.
Posted on April 30th, 2012 in Events
Back in Canada for a jam-packed weekend of workshops, speakers, debates, discussions, distros, good fun, good friends, good food, and of course good reads at the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair! This year, Kate will hold down the fort, and encourages everyone to come by and visit, and bring her a delicious snack!
Visit http://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com for more info!
Posted on April 30th, 2012 in Events
Mobilizing and Organizing From Below
June 1st – 3rd, 2012
Baltimore, Maryland * 2640
Brought to you by the fine folks at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse.
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 that have taken hold of the world. The conference will be a weekend of intensive, horizontally-organized political education, in which we can share skills, analyze the problems we face, and pose difficult questions. It will also provide a space for people from different traditions to come together and recognize the depth of our similarities and the richness of our differences; a space for reflection and discussion, distinct from both the chaotic excitement of spontaneous mass actions and the intense demands of long-term organizing work.
We’ll be there tabling and workshopping – can’t wait! http://www.mobconf.org for more info or to register.
AK Authors Presenting:
Cindy Milstein – “Paths Towards Utopia: Asserting the Commons Against Enclosures” Saturday June 2nd 10am-11am
C.B. Daring & Abbey Volcano – “Queering Anarchism”(Forthcoming Title) Sunday June 3rd 10am-11am
Deric Shannon – “Anarchist Economics” Sunday June 3rd 3pm-4pm
Posted on April 30th, 2012 in Events
Time for the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, one of our favorite tabling events of the year. We don’t get to visit lovely Montreal that often, and we always enjoy this one. This year, Michael Staudenmaier’s Truth and Revolution will have its Canadian launch, and Suzanne and Christa will hold down the bank of AK tables. It’s worth the trip! Don’t miss it!
Posted on April 26th, 2012 in AK Authors!, AK News, Recommended Reading
Whew! Good news folks! copies of Eric Laursen’s People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan just arrived in the Baltimore office.
Be sure to pre-order and get 25% off
Advance Praise for People’s Pension:
“Drawing on research and interviews with economists, politicians, and social scientists who shaped the early development of Social Security, Laursen analyzes how American economics and politics evolved to the point at which a program once considered nearly sacrosanct has come to be viewed as a government entitlement. He debunks that notion as well as the conservative conventional wisdom that in order to save Social Security for future generations, it is necessary to virtually destroy it by reducing benefits and raising the retirement age. Comprehensive and compelling reading on an important topic.”
—Booklist
“This magnificent history documents the hydra-headed campaign to cut and kill Social Security, conducted over decades by rightwing bankers, foundations, economists, and politicians. [The People’s Pension] is utterly urgent.”
—James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State
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Posted on April 25th, 2012 in Events
Buffalo Class Action Presents Deric Shannon, editor of Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, who will give a presentation and lead a discussion on anarchist analysis of capitalism and it’s visions for a world free of oppression, domination, and coercive social control, to kick off our upcoming discussion series.
Do we have to accept living in a society divided between the wealthy few and the wanting many? Must people starve? Is the state eternal? Does the world need cops, prisons, bosses, and politicians? How do economic hierarchies intersect with things like racism, sexism, rigid gender roles, compulsory monogamy, and heteronormativity? Do we have to live like this? Are other worlds possible? And most importantly, what kinds of alternatives have anarchists put forward and how do we propose to get there?
This event will be a great chance to learn more about (and discuss!) anarchism, economics, and the fight for accumulating freedom in a world currently organized for hierarchy, coercion, and control.
Deric Shannon is an organizer who from Connecticut, who organizes around anti-racism, sexual freedom, reproductive justice, and more recently a small solidarity network in Eastern Connecticut. He has co-edited and co-authored four books including “Contemporary Anarchist Studies” (Routledge 2010), “Political Sociology: Oppression, Resistance, and the State” (Pine Forge Press 2011), “The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics” (AK Press 2012), and “Queering Anarchism: Essays on Gender, Power, and Desire” (AK Press forthcoming). He may or may not be addicted to cute kittens.
