Posted on April 6th, 2011 in Events, Uncategorized
Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland, CA 94609
In 1969, Marshall “Eddie” Conway uncovered evidence of the FBI’s infiltration of the Panthers as part of the COINTELPro initiative. In 1970, Eddie Conway, former Minister of Defense of the Baltimore Black Panther Party, was falsely convicted of the murder of a Baltimore City Police Officer. Forty years later, still incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit, Eddie Conway continues to resist. Join us in a discussion with co-author of Marshall Law, Dominque Stevenson, members of Critical Resistance, and the Bay Area Defense Committee for Eddie Conway.
Posted on April 6th, 2011 in Events
Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
Sunday, April 10, 2011 6-8pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd Oakland CA
Join AK Press, Critical Resistance and EastSide Arts Alliance in celebrating the release of Eddie “Marshall” Conway’s new autobiography. In 1970, the FBI framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. Forty years later, still incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit, Eddie Conway continues to resist. Hear from Eddie Conway, Dominque Stevenson of AFSC’s Maryland Peace with Justice Program, Isaac Ontiveros of Critical Resistance, and more!
Posted on April 6th, 2011 in Events
Come bring a dish and have a discussion with Suzanne from AK Press. We’ll talk about the history, work, and collective structure of AK Press, what it’s like to be part of a longstanding anarchist collective… you know, the juicy stuff (just kidding)! Plus, browse a selection of the latest and greatest AK Press titles, and buy some to support both AK Press and Libertalia! Ample time allotted for Q+A as well as just having a good time.
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145270445540674
Posted on April 6th, 2011 in Uncategorized
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Posted on April 6th, 2011 in AK Authors!, Happenings, Uncategorized
Hey everyone, it’s that time of year again, when all the rad folks from the left half of the country converge for a weekend of workshops, talks, lectures, books and total anarcho-awesomeness in Golden Gate Park. As always the schedule is jam packed with amazing speakers, including many of AK’s own! I know there will be many talks to see, books to buy, patches to browse, zines to peruse, friends to catch up with, and that these things will keep you busy, busy, busy all weekend, but you should find time to check out the following talks by our near and dear AK authors, because, well, they’re pretty awesome, right? RIGHT?!
So, let’s break down the schedule:
Saturday, April 9th
11:30-11:50 Jim Miller (Flash: A Novel, AK Press, 2010)
Jim Miller, professor if labor studies at San Diego City College discusses “class war, then and now: from the IWW’s free speech fight and the first Red Scare to the battle in Wisconsin.” Miller discusses the significant parallels in the gap between the rich and poor, the assault on labor, and the direct action in response which characterized the beginning of the last century and the present.
12:30-12:50 Jeff Conant (A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, AK Press, 2010)
The Zapatistas’ famous “Ya basta!”—enough already!—was the first uttering of a new story: a story about unbinding the ties of official history, uncovering buried seeds of popular resistance, and revealing the glimmerings of a truly insurgent modernity. Combining narrative history, literary criticism, ethnography, and media analysis, A Poetics of Resistance provides a refreshing take on Mexico’s Zapatista movement by examining the means, meanings, and mythos behind the Zapatista image.
Also, Jeff will be just back from a trip to Chiapas, and will likely have some fresh news to share!
4:30-4:50 Ken Knabb (In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary, AK Press, 2010)
Ken Knabb discusses his recent translation of Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary.
Ken Knabb is best known for the Situationist International Anthology, a large collection of articles drawn mostly from the French journal Internationale Situationniste. His other translations include Guy Debord’s film scripts (Complete Cinematic Works), Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, and Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary. Knabb’s own writings include leaflets, comics, pamphlets and articles on Wilhelm Reich, Georges Brassens, Gary Snyder, the 1960s hip counterculture, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1991 Gulf war, and the 2006 anti-CPE revolt in France.
4-4:50 Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou, Editors of Occupied London (Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass, and a Future Still to Come, AK Press, 2011)
Evolving Anarchist Strategies in Struggles Against the Police: Athens, Oakland, Seattle
In the past two years, anti-police rebellions have erupted in multiple cities up and down the west coast in response to police killings. Many anarchists who have participated in these US struggles have drawn inspiration from the massive December 2008 insurrection in Greece follwing a similar police killing in the neighborhood of Exarcheia. How have strategies and tactics for confronting police terrorism spread between comrades in disparate locations and how have these modes of resistance been modified to fit specific local contexts? How are movements aimed specifically against the police connected with broader social struggles and what are the limits of focusing solely on police violence? What roles have anarchists played in these movements and what have been the major contradictions and conflicts within the mobilizations? This panel will explore perspectives from anarchist comrades organizing in Athens, Oakland and Seattle who have all experienced the successes and failures in recent years of these diverse yet parallel movements.
Seriously, that’s only the first day…
Sunday, April 10th
11-11:20 Andrew Cornell (Oppose and Propose!: Lessons from Movement for a New Society, AK Press, 2011)
Movement for a New Society, a feminist radical pacifist organization active in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1970s, pioneered forms of consensus decision making, communal living, direct action, and self-education now central to antiauthoritarian movements. This talk will briefly explore the history of MNS, outlining ideas about leadership, counterculture, and prefigurative politics explored in the new book Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society (AK Press/IAS, 2011).
Andrew Cornell is a writer, educator, and organizer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has written for Left Turn, LiP, Clamor, and Perspectives on Anarchist Theory and he is the author of Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society, the second book in the AK Press/Institute for Anarchist Studies “Anarchist Interventions” series.
1:30-1:50 Dominque Stevenson (Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, AK Press, 2011)
Marshall “Eddie” Conway is the former Minister of Defense of the Baltimore Black Panther Party. In 1969, he uncovered evidence of the FBI’s infiltration of the Panthers as a part of the COINTELPro initiative, and found himself locked away, just one year later, convicted of a murder he did not commit. Currently in his fortieth year of incarceration in a State of Maryland correctional facility, he has played a leading role in a variety of prisoner support initiatives, including the formation of the Maryland chapter of the United Prisoner’s Labor Union, and the ACLU’s Prison Committee to Correct Prison Conditions.
Dominque Demetrea Stevenson is the Director of the Maryland Peace with Justice Program of the Middle Atlantic Region of the American Friends Service Committee in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the co-author Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Black Panther, and has written a novel, Blues Before Sunrise.
3-3:50 The Horizontalist Movement: Self-organization Works, Cindy Milstein (Anarchism and Its Aspirations, AK Press, 2010)
As “do-it-ourselves” revolts, occupations, and revolutions sweep across the globe, from Cairo to Madison, millions are proving that self-organization is not only an effective form of resistance but also the workable basis for a free, nonhierarchical society. The ethical practices that anarchists have long advocated are becoming powerful “everyday” experiences, with people self-managing everything from child care to civic defense to trash collection. This discussion will critically examine the promise of contemporary uprisings through an anarchist lens as well as anarchism in light of these unanticipated events.
Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press, 2010) and coauthor of Paths toward Utopia: Explorations in Everyday Anarchism (w/Erik Ruin, PM Press, 2012), and is an Institute for Anarchist Studies board member, Station 40 anarchist events space collective member, and recent co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference and New World from Below convergence.
If that’s not enough for you, we have some other events happening in the Bay Area this week and next:
Thursday, April 7th, 7pm Jim Miller, author of Flash, will be speaking at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco!
Thursday, April 7th, 7pm Occupied London: Revolt and Crisis in Greece at Station 40 in San Francisco!
Sunday, April 10th, 7pm Andrew Cornell on Oppose and Propose! at Station 40 in San Francisco!
Sunday, April 10th, 6pm Launch event for Marshall Law at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland!
Monday, April 11th, 6:30pm Dominque Stevenson on Marshall Law at Marcus Books in Oakland!
Did all of this just blow your mind?! It’s kind of blowing our minds as well and I think the Oakland crew probably have their hands full with all of these events. Make sure to stop by the AK table this weekend to say hi to them. They love it when people bring them coffee, just saying!
Posted on April 5th, 2011 in Events, Uncategorized
Occupied London presents: Revolt & Crisis in Greece
Reflections on the December Insurrection, the Economic Crisis, and Ongoing Struggles in Greece and beyond…
A multimedia presentation and discussion
Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. Since the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 the OL blog has been an important source of English language updates from the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities across the country.
This event is part of a US tour celebrating the release of Occupied London’s latest project: a book titled ‘Between a Present Yet to Go and a Future Yet to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece‘, published by AK Press.
Taking some of the themes emerging from the book’s twenty chapters as a starting point, they will be discussing trajectories of struggle and resistance in recent years, the current economic reality in Greece defined by austerity, ways in which people are affected on an everyday level, and emergent potentialities for struggle.
Dimitris and Antonis are researchers and writers studying Greece and share their time between there and the UK. Dimitris works on the materialities of social change in the Balkans and Greece; Antonis researches the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia and its concentration of riots in Greece’s post-dictatorial period.
Posted on April 5th, 2011 in Events
Occupied London presents: Revolt & Crisis in Greece
Reflections on the December Insurrection, the Economic Crisis, and Ongoing Struggles in Greece and beyond…
A multimedia presentation and discussion
Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. Since the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 the OL blog has been an important source of English language updates from the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities across the country.
This event is part of a US tour celebrating the release of Occupied London’s latest project: a book titled ‘Between a Present Yet to Go and a Future Yet to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece‘, published by AK Press.
Taking some of the themes emerging from the book’s twenty chapters as a starting point, they will be discussing trajectories of struggle and resistance in recent years, the current economic reality in Greece defined by austerity, ways in which people are affected on an everyday level, and emergent potentialities for struggle.
Dimitris and Antonis are researchers and writers studying Greece and share their time between there and the UK. Dimitris works on the materialities of social change in the Balkans and Greece; Antonis researches the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia and its concentration of riots in Greece’s post-dictatorial period.
Posted on April 5th, 2011 in Events
Occupied London presents: Revolt & Crisis in Greece
Reflections on the December Insurrection, the Economic Crisis, and Ongoing Struggles in Greece and beyond…
A multimedia presentation and discussion
Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. Since the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 the OL blog has been an important source of English language updates from the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities across the country.
This event is part of a US tour celebrating the release of Occupied London’s latest project: a book titled ‘Between a Present Yet to Go and a Future Yet to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece‘, published by AK Press.
Taking some of the themes emerging from the book’s twenty chapters as a starting point, they will be discussing trajectories of struggle and resistance in recent years, the current economic reality in Greece defined by austerity, ways in which people are affected on an everyday level, and emergent potentialities for struggle.
Dimitris and Antonis are researchers and writers studying Greece and share their time between there and the UK. Dimitris works on the materialities of social change in the Balkans and Greece; Antonis researches the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia and its concentration of riots in Greece’s post-dictatorial period.
Posted on April 5th, 2011 in Events
Occupied London presents: Revolt & Crisis in Greece
Reflections on the December Insurrection, the Economic Crisis, and Ongoing Struggles in Greece and beyond…
A multimedia presentation and discussion
Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. Since the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 the OL blog has been an important source of English language updates from the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities across the country.
This event is part of a US tour celebrating the release of Occupied London’s latest project: a book titled ‘Between a Present Yet to Go and a Future Yet to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece‘, published by AK Press.
Taking some of the themes emerging from the book’s twenty chapters as a starting point, they will be discussing trajectories of struggle and resistance in recent years, the current economic reality in Greece defined by austerity, ways in which people are affected on an everyday level, and emergent potentialities for struggle.
Dimitris and Antonis are researchers and writers studying Greece and share their time between there and the UK. Dimitris works on the materialities of social change in the Balkans and Greece; Antonis researches the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia and its concentration of riots in Greece’s post-dictatorial period.
Posted on April 5th, 2011 in Events
Occupied London presents: Revolt & Crisis in Greece
Reflections on the December Insurrection, the Economic Crisis, and Ongoing Struggles in Greece and beyond…
A multimedia presentation and discussion
Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. Since the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 the OL blog has been an important source of English language updates from the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities across the country.
This event is part of a US tour celebrating the release of Occupied London’s latest project: a book titled ‘Between a Present Yet to Go and a Future Yet to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece‘, published by AK Press.
Taking some of the themes emerging from the book’s twenty chapters as a starting point, they will be discussing trajectories of struggle and resistance in recent years, the current economic reality in Greece defined by austerity, ways in which people are affected on an everyday level, and emergent potentialities for struggle.
Dimitris and Antonis are researchers and writers studying Greece and share their time between there and the UK. Dimitris works on the materialities of social change in the Balkans and Greece; Antonis researches the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia and its concentration of riots in Greece’s post-dictatorial period.
