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
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
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
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
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
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 AK Authors!, AK News, Reviews of AK Books, Uncategorized
As Kevin van Meter of Team Colors reminded me just a few days ago, we’re quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of the publication of Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States. Crazy! I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since we launched the book at the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit last June; it was the ideal moment to release a book mapping the ebb and flow of contemporary American social movements, and while it was a struggle to get the project completed on time (overnight shipping to Detroit from our printers in Canada!), I’m so glad we did, because the buzz around the book at the Forum helped it to become one of our bestselling titles of 2010.
And, it’s nice to see that the buzz hasn’t died down yet. Three new reviews of the book have just (or are about to) appear!
In the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Make/Shift Magazine, Jack Aponte writes “Whirlwind provides both a useful picture of radical organizing in the United States today and a compelling and inspiring perspective of the possibilities before us, should we choose to make that road together.”
Cindy Crabb, of DorisZine, makes a useful critique of the book’s theoretical framework, but stresses the importance of the project for contemporary activism: “This book is a little disjointed and has more theory than I generally am drawn to, there are some essays that seemed like they were written for an audience that doesn’t know much of anything about alternative culture, but I would hate to see it lost to the theory heads, because there is a lot of great info in here that I think would be particularly useful to younger or new activists. Also important for seasoned activists to get us thinking of how to think about and articulate our experiences and what can be learned from them.”
“How do movements grow from streets as fetish, and thus a pressure-campaign ideology, into endeavors that can seize power?,” Ernesto Aguilar wonders in a review on DotRad. Whirlwinds doesn’t provide an answer to this question, nor to many of the other, important ones facing social movements today. But it does begin a conversation about successes and failures, opening a space for possible alternatives. As Ernesto says, “This collection takes revolutionary change as possible — but what if it’s not? Is such a wealthy country going to support radical change en masse or will vanguards by other names be the only ones to push the envelope? […] Talking about not just what captures the imagination, but what hobbles these initiatives from building into mass movements, is also needed.”
It’s an interesting point, and one that we all have to address. Whirlwinds was a first step towards opening a dialogue around these issues (one of the reasons it’s USSF launch was an important milestone), but the dialogue has to continue past the boundaries of the page, and into our communities, our projects, our streets and schools, and, indeed, our movements, such as they are.
Below is a full list of review & other media for the book–check out what other readers are saying about the book, and be sure to visit the book’s website (http://www.whirlwinds.info) for more information, more materials, and other analysis. And, if you haven’t read it yet, be sure to grab a copy today!
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Posted on April 4th, 2011 in AK Authors!, Happenings, Uncategorized
The editors of AK’s brand-new collaboration with Occupied London, Revolt and Crisis in Greece, are touring the United States and British Columbia in April to promote the book’s impending release and share stories and struggles from Greece … and it starts tonight, in the New York, at Semi-Legit Autonomous Space in Brooklyn. Tomorrow, editor Antonis Vradis heads to Baltimore to speak at The 2640 Space (run by Red Emma’s) on April 5, and Dimitris Dalakoglou remains behind in NYC for an event at CUNY on April 6. Plus, a last-minute Philly event has been added to the East Coast schedule: LAVA Space on April 6.
After that, our friends head to the other coast to hit the SF Bay, Modesto, Olympia, Portland, Seattle, and up to Vancouver. Check out the full schedule:
April 4, 2011 – New York, NY, 6 Charles Pl. Brooklyn, 7.30 pm
April 5, 2011 – Baltimore, MD, The 2640 Space, 7 pm
April 6, 2011 – New York, NY, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY, 4 pm
April 6, 2011 – Philadelphia, PA, LAVA, 7 pm
April 7, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, Station 40, 7 pm
April 9, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Anarchist bookfair, 4pm
April 10, 2011 – Berkeley, CA, BASTARD Conference
April 12, 2011 – Modesto, CA, Firehouse Social Center, 7 pm
April 15, 2011 – Olympia, WA, Sabot Infosquat, Evergreen State College
April 16, 2011 – Portland, OR, Law and Disorder Conference
April 18, 2011 – Seattle, WA, Autonomia Social Center, 7 pm
April 20, 2011 – Vancouver, BC, Joe’s Café, 1150 Commercial Drive, 8pm
And the description of their presentation below. Please forward widely! This has all been arranged on a very short timescale, so Antonis & Dimitris – and all of the spaces hosting them – really need your help to get the word out!
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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 2nd, 2011 in AK Distribution, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized
Below you’ll find the latest installment in our bi-weekly mailorder email blast, written especially for you by our awesome sales person, Suzanne! Doesn’t it make ya want to go to the website and order books right now???
 Happy spring from AK Press!
Despite this awesome photo of AK collective member Macio “getting lazy” with The Right to Be Lazy, it’s been an incredibly busy and productive month for us!
We’ve just published two long-awaited books: Property Is Theft! (the Proudhon reader) and Andrew Cornell’s Oppose and Propose. Plus, we’ve finished up work on Eddie Conway’s autobiography, Marshall Law, which will be arriving at the warehouse next week! Read on, below, for more about these new titles.
As if that’s not enough for one month, we’ve put out an exciting “surprise” release that wasn’t even part of our previously announced publishing season: the aforementioned The Right to Be Lazy, which is a co-publication with our comrades at the Charles H. Kerr Company. PLUS, we’re sending off another “surprise” release to the printer: Revolt and Crisis in Greece, edited by the folks at Occupied London (preorder yours now!!!).
So you can see we’re going a little publishing crazy. And it’s you, dear readers (we’re looking at you especially, Friends of AK Press) who will reap the benefits!
Spring is also our busiest events season of the year. Next weekend we will be tabling simultaneously at anarchist bookfairs in San Francisco and New York! Next stops: Toronto, Houston, and Los Angeles! Check out our upcoming events schedule to see if there might be an AK Press table near you…
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Property Is Theft
A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader
Edited by Iain McKay · AK Press · Order Now for $18.70
(25% off regular list price of $24.95)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1869) was one of the most important and influential political theorists of the nineteenth century, and the first man to call himself an “anarchist.” His social and economic ideas have been a source of inspiration and debate since 1840. Property Is Theft! collects his most important works in one volume, making many available in English for the first time. An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history and development of anarchist principles and practice.
Read more about this book on our blog!
 The Right To Be Lazy
Essays by Paul Lafargue
Edited by Bernard Marszalek · AK Press/Charles H. Kerr · Order Now for $12.00
(25% off regular list price of $16.00)
At once a masterpiece of critical theory and rip-roaring radical humor, this is one of the most spirited attacks on the notion of the “work ethic” ever to be published! Featuring a revised edition of the original English translation by Charles Hope Kerr, this collection also includes four of Paul Lafargue’s lesser-known critiques (including the “Cathecism for Investors”), as well as a biographical sketch by longtime Wobbly organizer Fred Thompson and a new introduction by the editor. Released in collaboration with Charles H. Kerr Company to celebrate their 125th anniversary year, and including a tribute to Kerr by labor journalist Kari Lydersen.
Read more about this book on our blog!
 Oppose and Propose
Lessons from Movement for a New Society
Andrew Cornell · AK Press · Order Now for $9.00
(25% off regular list price of $12.00)
Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today’s activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making, spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell’s important contribution to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for activists today.
This is the second book in the Anarchist Interventions series, co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Also check out the first book in the series, Cindy Milstein’s Anarchism and its Aspirations.
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Marshall Law
The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
Marshall “Eddie” Conway & Dominque Stevenson · AK Press · Preorder Now for $11.96
(25% off regular list price of $15.95)
In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for 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. Marshall Law is a poignant story of strength and struggle. From his childhood in inner-city Baltimore to his political awakening in the military, from the rise of the Black Panther Party to the sham trial, the realities of prison life, escape attempts, labor organizing on the inside, and beyond, Eddie’s autobiography is a reminder that we all share the responsibility of resistance, no matter where we are.
 Revolt and Crisis in Greece
Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Yet to Come
Edited by Antonis Vradis & Dimitris Dalakoglou · AK Press/ Occupied London · Preorder Now for $13.50
(25% off regular list price of $18.00)
How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lessons we can bring to bear on social action around the globe? A collaboration with the anarchist publishing collective Occupied London, this timely new volume traces Greece’s long moment of transition from the revolt of 2008 to the economic crisis that followed. In the essays collected here, over two dozen writers from around the world offer historical analysis of the factors that gave birth to December and the potentialities it has opened up in face of the capitalist crisis.
Read more about this book on our blog!
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Burn Collector #15
Al Burian · Microcosm · $3.00
The expatriated Al Burian reflects on a year spent living in Berlin, Germany. His wildly free-range topics include: freedom, happiness, animal liberty, Aristotle, modern dentistry, riots as rituals, uncomfortable proximity to drunken teenagers, and how to best color co-ordinate an outfit that includes a Black Flag T-shirt and a baby stroller. Bonus: “When You Realize the Freedom,” an illustrated essay by Anne Elizabeth Moore.”
If you like Al Burian’s work, also check out: Things Are Meaning Less, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine, Natural Disaster (which collects issues 10 through 13), and Burn Collector #14.
 Fair Game
A Strategy Guide for Racial Justice Communications in the Obama Era
The Praxis Project · $20.00
A workbook-style guide from the good folks at The Praxis Project, designed to help racial justice advocates navigate new political waters. Through case studies, planning tools, and the latest research, Fair Game invites readers to explore proven strategies that offer promise for future success and to consider what we must do over the long term to regain lost ground. First introduced at the US Social Forum in Detroit, Fair Game is now available to the general public (and stores!) for the first time through AK Press Distribution.
And also be sure to check out this related title from AK Press: Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice
 3 Dead Princes
An Anarchist Fairy Tale
Danbert Nobacon & Alex Cox · Exterminating Angel · $13.00
A kids’ picture book from one of the founding members of Chumbawamba! Princess Stormy lives in a semi-detached castle with her family and a Fool. When an unhappy neighboring kingdom decides to invade, Stormy must go on her quest, meeting giant Cats, Mermangels, Giggle Monkeys, a Gricklegrack, and Flying Lizards on the way. Oh, and she kills three princes. But that’s by accident, and anyway it’s their own fault …
“An alternative fairy tale for anarchist/punk/fello traveler parents to read with their kids!” says Jessica Mills, author of My Mother Wears Combat Boots.
 The South Is Still Rising
Contemporary Radical and Anarchist Activism in Richmond, Virginia from 1994-2004
Mo Karnage · Wingnut Collective · $21.95
The South is Still Rising explores the little-known story of radical organizing in Richmond, VA in terms that Mo’s mom (and by extension you!) can understand. It’s a history that places what’s happening in Richmond in relation to the area’s history, as well as to what’s going on nationally and internationally. Despite what you would discover from traditional media outlets, there is a lot of activism and anarchism to be found in Richmond!
 True Cost of Coal Poster
Beehive Collective· $22.00
In 2008, the Beehive Design Collective allied with Appalachian grassroots organizers fighting Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining, a practice which blasts mountains into moonscapes to fuel the ever-growing global demand for electricity. Their team of volunteer artists and educators have put countless hours into designing “The True Cost of Coal,” a visually stunning graphic multi-tool for activists and ordinary folks seeking real solutions. This poster is 60″ X 31″ (about 5 feet by 2.5 feet, for those of you who are less mathematically inclined).
We also carry the Beehive Collective’s Plan Colombia Poster.
 Venezuela
Revolution as Spectacle
Rafael Uzcategui · See Sharp · $16.95
Both leftist supporters and rightist opponents of the Chávez government will be outraged by the book’s premise that the Chávez regime is neither dictatorial nor revolutionary, but rather is one of a long line of Latin American populist regimes that are ultimately subservient to the U.S. government and to the transnational corporations. This well documented book covers a wide range of topics: Venezuela’s political history and the long involvement of the military in that history; Venezuela’s economy; Venezuela’s indigenous rights and human rights movements; Venezuela’s labor movement; and the social policies of the Chávez government and its predecessors.
The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #6
Lee Harvey Oswald
Abner Smith · Microcosm · $5.00
At long last it’s the new issue of Microcosm’s continuing CIA zine series! For the tenth anniversary issue, we get an intimate, never-seen-before examination of the life and death of Lee Harvey Oswald. Using exclusive info and newly declassified documents, CIAMSFU #6 puts into perspective a richly-detailed version of the Oswald story, from birth in 1939 to his historic televised assassination. Packed with interview text featuring figures as close to Oswald as his wife and mother, CIAMSFU #6 shows us Lee as a confused Marxist, an employee, a soldier, a lover, a people person, a trouble-starter, a world traveler, a show-off, even a “real cutie.” Shocking, humanizing-whatever you take away from it-this is the most fascinating and fast-moving CIA zine to date. A great addition to this well-loved series.
Also check out these other zines from the series.
Dream Whip, Issues 1-10
Bill Brown · Microcosm · $12.00
Spanning 1994 to 1999, this 352-page pocket sized anthology collects issues 1 through 10 of the long-running Dream Whip zine. Inside, Bill Brown hits the road and finds adventure far and wide. Each page is lovingly handwritten or typed and illustrations and photographs abound. It’s tornadoes and pet cemeteries, Alaskan highways and the lonely ruins of government missile sites. Bill Brown’s America is seen with the big, dreaming heart of a romantic, everything recorded in sweet, smart, funny, beautifully-simple prose.
Also check out Dream Whip #14, a book-length issue in itself!
Vegan Baking Classics
Delicious, Easy-to-Make Traditional Favorites
Kelly Rudnick · Surrey Books · $17.95
Whether you are new to the world of vegan baking or are an old pro, this book will be invaluable. These reliable recipes use high-quality ingredients that are widely available and affordable. You’ll find delicious vegan versions of all the traditional favorites (brownies, muffins, breads, bars, cookies, cupcakes), many with mouth-watering photos!
Vegan bakers: you’ll also like Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar, and Sweet Utopia
How It All Vegan
Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet (10th Anniversary Edition)
Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer · Arsenal Pulp · $22.95
Since it was first published, How It All Vegan! has become a bible for vegan cooks, both diehard and newly converted. This tenth-anniversary edition includes a new color photo section and new recipes; it also includes a new introduction by co-author Sarah Kramer, who speaks personally and passionately about the impact of veganism on her life over the past decade.
Also available from the same author(s): The Garden of Vegan, La Dolce Vegan, and Vegan A Go-Go!
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Posted on March 31st, 2011 in Events, Uncategorized
The Houston Anarchist Book Fair and Film Festival serves to bring radical and alternative literature, education, and culture to Houston, TX, with a focus on resistance and community building. The book fair will feature a variety of distro’s, infoshops, used and new books, in combination with workshops, skill shares, lectures, speeches, and facilitated open discussions. Through this we hope to create a liberated space, solidarity in the anarchist community and regional, national and international networking.
