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| One of the hardest experiences parents can face is when their child is arrested, goes to trial, or goes to prison. Arrest and prison are highly stigmatized in our society, and few parents are prepared to face this situation. Yet as the prison system grows, as more and more activities are criminalized, and as the so-called War on Terror is used increasingly to persecute political activities, an ever greater number of parents will have to deal with the police knocking on their door, with the emotional and financial stress of trial, with visits through a glass wall.
For people who are themselves facing trial and imprisonment, dealing with anxiety, fear, disapproval, or misunderstandings on the part of their parents makes a difficult situation even more stressful. To have their parents' understanding and support, if not their agreement and sympathy on the issues, means facing the entire legal and judicial process with more strength and peace of mind. |
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| From http://www.indiegogo.com/Anarchism-A-Documentary
To the best of our knowledge, no comprehensive documentary about anarchism has ever been made.
Of the often very dated films on anarchist themes that are available, most either misrepresent anarchism (1981’s pro anarcho-capitalist ‘Anarchism in America’), are focused on specific moments in anarchist history (‘Living Utopia’, ‘The Angry Brigade’, ‘Lucio the Anarchist’, etc), or discuss the wider social justice / alter-globalisation movements (‘Fourth World War’).
Such an absence is unfortunate, for we think that now, more than ever, a broad, accessible documentary introduction to anarchism would be of tremendous value to those of us who wish to share the history, ideas and promise of our diverse, protean movement with a general audience.
Instead of complaining though, we’re just going to knuckle down and make it ourselves…with your help! |
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| From Arissa Media Group
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE
Peer-Reviewed Book Series
Published by Arissa Media Group
A Project of the Anarchist Studies Initiative (ASI) at SUNY Cortland
Announcement
Arissa Media Group has formed a relationship with the Anarchist Studies Initiative (ASI) at SUNY Cortland (the first academic anarchist center) to create, Transformative Justice, one of the first peer-reviewed book series by a social justice independent popular publisher. |
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| From Books for Anarchists Outside the West
Books for Anarchists Outside the West is a mutual aid project intended to get books to anarchists in parts of the world where much of the literature we can get easily in the US, Canada and western Europe is hard to find or far too expensive for them to get. This site is intended to be a space where anarchists from outside the west can post addresses where books can be sent (infoshop addresses and the like) as well as requests for books they would like (http://baow.anarchyplanet.org/addresses-and-requests/), where pdf files of books and pamphlets can be posted for those who can readily make use of them cheaply for printing out books and pamphlets (http://baow.anarchyplanet.org/pdf-files/), and for those willing to share translation skills to network with those needing translations (http://baow.anarchyplanet.org/translators/). |
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| The Tempest Library in Berlin Germany, has been open since October 2009. The space that we currently use was fully refurbished by the collective and by many supportive friends and comrades. But the time has come to move and we are looking at renting a shop front in order to expand.
The Project
“It is not easy to grasp the various aspects of revolutionary activity. It is
even more difficult to grasp everything in terms of a complex project that
has its own intrinsic logic and operative articulation.
That is what I mean by revolutionary work. ” AMB
The Tempest Library originates from a desire to expand the possibilities that we have for revolutionary activity. We see it as one project among many others that compliment each other and together comprise a wider revolutionary projectuality; that is to say, a clear direction, a logic and a dynamic with a revolutionary drive at its heart. |
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| Northstar Infoshop is team up with Copyleft Books to open a brand new radical bookstore Portland, Oregon!
The new store will use the Copyleft Books name, but will be a mix of our unique interests and personalities. The store will carry a wide range of titles on radical politics, community building, sustainable living, and DIY skills. Copyleft will also be offering their one-of-a-kind collection of vintage sci-fi, early edition radical literature, and rare fiction.
This is an awesome opportunity for us to work together and unite our talents, while allowing both of us to grow and strengthen. For Northstar, it will significantly boost our fundraising, allowing us to save up money towards our ultimate goal: opening a full-scale community bookstore and free school. |
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| The forest surrounding the Evergreen State College represents a practical terrain in which to enact an open-ended project of collective liberation, both for Evergreen and the surrounding community. Last summer the cops tore down the magnificent three story treehouse near the beach. They have and will continue to raid gatherings and celebrations in the woods.
Therefore we propose a spontaneous rendezvous of students and community members throughout the Evergreen Forest during the day and throughout the night of May 1st, to explore and create free spaces, and to dwell therein as long as they so choose...
Likely indeed are the chances of a police raid of some sort on this project, but this too could be bent to our advantage: An assault by police against peaceful temporary communities will show all too clearly where the lines are drawn.
And furthermore we are many, while they are few, and many of us know these woods quite well… |
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| No matter what your primary concerns about society are -- environmental degradation, sweatshop labor, war, racism, etc. -- without foremostly addressing and scaling back the corporate police state, i.e. the prison-industrial complex, any progressive social change you are advocating for can, and will, be thwarted. This matters not if you are part of the most non-violent vegan sewing circle or if you are prepared to throw down in the streets for the dignity of humankind. Any perceived threat to the status quo, to profits and destruction, will be subjected to the evermore brazen and militarized forces of the state.
With about 2 million+ people still imprisoned each day in the USA, and with closer to 9 million+ getting cycled through the prison system each year, the prison-industrial complex should be an issue unto itself (even if we are living in an otherwise utopia). As long as small children continue getting arrested for tantrums and elderly grandmothers get tazed for indignation, as long as people of all stripes get murdered on a daily basis by "peace" officers, abolition of the prison-industrial complex can and should be a populist issue for people to rally around. And this is well before we get to issues of entrapment, infiltration, surveillance, and overt violence against movements advocating for social change. |
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“Perhaps he has secrets for changing life? No, he’s just looking for some, I told myself.”
(Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell, 1873)
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It is a brutal fact that the defining quality of proletarian life at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the foundation on which the everyday thought and action of ordinary people rests, is a craven acceptance of the separate commodity economy and the state as unchangeable givens. This practical submission exists everywhere in the advanced capitalist countries. It is not just a matter of the unthinking obedience of the many good children (of all ages) who have nearly always confined their thoughts, actions and desires to the obviously submissive conventions of their times. It is equally ubiquitous in the endless impotent complaints about fragments of social life, in the many varieties of contemporary cynicism that sneer as they obey, in the swaggering search for status and money of the urban gang member or the petty criminal, in the myriad campaigns for the reform of this or that unseemly fragment of everyday life, in the search for the cool, the spiritual or the perfect state of wasted oblivion; and in your life and mine, amongst many others. |
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| The Institute for Experimental Freedom announces a brand new Politics Is Not a Banana! We didn’t fall off—we’re back and more IGNORANT than ever. It’s fucking ON with the state form and EVERYTHING ELSE! Now there are three different manifestations of Politics Is Not a Banana. That’s a lot of invariance for deviant black-clad whatevers like us! We’re quite pleased with our naughty little selves. But don’t call this our “third issue”—that would presume LINEAR TIME! No, let’s just call it like it is: A FORCE OF DESTABILIZATION AND DETERRITORIALIZATION. |
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