| This is the first book i am co-publishing
with PM Press, in what we plan will be a long and fertile process of
co-operation and collaboration on books and pamphlets. Rushing to get
this book ready for the printers in time for Critical Resistance 2009
pretty much ruined my summer, but hopefully you'll find the results
well worth it: 912 pages, full of historical documents collected by
Matt Meyer (of Resistance in Brooklyn and the War Resister's League),
all giving a very particular and interesting perspective on some of the
key campaigns to free political prisoners over the past twenty years. Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People’s Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within: Black Panthers and other Black liberation fighters, Puerto Rican independentistas, Indigenous sovereignty activists, white anti-imperialists, environmental and animal rights militants, Arab and Muslim activists, Iraq war resisters, and others. Contributors in and out of prison detail the repressive methods – from long-term isolation to sensory deprivation to politically inspired parole denial – used to attack these freedom fighters, some still caged after 30+ years. This invaluable resource guide offers inspiring stories of the creative, and sometimes winning, strategies to bring them home. This is almost a reference book, providing snapshots of the work being done on the oustide, and of the condtions on the inside of amerika's gulag system. For me personally, some of the most interesting pieces were the contributions by political prisoners, many of which were sent in to Resistance in Brooklyn for photocopies booklets they produced in 1992 (Dissing the "Discovery") and for the "John Brown 2000" conference. Let Freedom Ring also provides a good framework through which to get an idea of some of the forces in the national liberation movements of the internal colonies - Indigenous people, Puerto Ricans, Chican@s, and Black/New Afrikan people - and a glimpse at the reasoning and worldviews that have motivated people from these movements from the 1960s on. Let Freedom Ring:
A Collection of Documents From the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners Edited by Matt Meyer Foreword by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Afterwords by Lynne Stewart and Ashanti Omowali Alston ISBN: 978-1-60486-035-1 PM Press/Kersplebedeb co-publication Release date: September 2008 912 pages paperback • $37.95 PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR A LIMITED TIME, IF YOU ORDER A COPY OF LET FREEDOM RING I WILL SEND YOU A FREE 2009 "CERTAIN DAYS" CALENDAR - SEE BELOW! |
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Here it is again, a beautful
political calendar created by a canadian
collective working under the guidance and inspiration of u.s. political
prisoners/POWs
David Gilbert, Robert Seth Hayes and Herman Bell, each of whom have a
short text included. Other writings are from a variety of new folks
this year, including Timothy Colman of Philly's Pissed, Johonna McCants
of INCITE! Women of color Against Violence, Victory Gardens co-founder
Michael Vernon and former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn, amongst
others. (For a full list
of texts and authors, as well as artists, please click here.) Proceeds from this full color calendar go to the New York Task Force on Political Prisoners, the Palestinian NGO Adameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association, and the San Francisco 8. Definitely a project worth supporting, which is why i am sending out a free calendar to anyone who also orders a copy of Let Freedom Ring, the latest book i have published: see below for more details. Or else, to order a calendar, email me (info@kersplebedeb.com) or else use the paypal shopping cart here: |
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October
2008 - 216 pages
The latest issue of this journal, just back from the printers, includes Interviews with Clayton Thomas-Müller ("Just Environmentalism?"), Kara Gillies ("Sex Work and the State") and Chris Harris ("Building to Building, Hood to Hood"). Also includes articles on Labour Zionism, the struggle at Six Nations, and the BDS (Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions) movement against Israeli colonialism, plus a roundtable discussion about migrant labour struggles. |
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A
handy pocket calendar/agenda with space to
write your engagements, addresses, and notes. With radical events for
every day of the year, a contact list of groups around the globe,
menstrual calendar, info on police repression, extra note pages, plus
much more, all laid out in that funky Slingshot style you've come to
know and love. It has become the de rigeur agenda/calendar for
anarchist organizers, activists and rebels in North America. Seriously,
though, a very nice way to keep yourself organized over the next year.
Slingshot OrganizerThe pocket version "classic" is a 176 page pocket planner (4.25 inches X 5.5 inches) with radical dates for every day of the year, space to write your phone numbers, a contact list of radical groups around the globe, menstrual calendar, info on police repression, extra note pages, plus much more. Choose from 30 cover colors printed with either black or silver ink (depending on how dark the paper stock is - you get to pick the cover color, not the ink color). The large-size version is bound with a spiral wire binding and is twice the size of the "classic" pocket organizer (5.5 inches X 8.5 inches) with twice as much space to write all the events in your life. It is 160 pages. It has similar contents to the classic: radical dates for every day of the year, space to write your phone numbers, a contact list of radical groups around the globe, menstrual calendar, info on police repression, extra note pages, plus much more. You get a little bonus stuff in the spiral version. The spiral version is available in 16 colors printed with either black or silver ink (depending on how dark the paper stock is). The covers are laminated with heavy duty 3 mil glossy plastic to help it survive the year. Pocket:
$6.00
Larger Organizer: $9.00 |
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Turbulence
is a sporadic (annual?) magazine/pamphlet/publication from
England, coming from an autonomous Marxist perspective. Every issue
concerns itself with one theme, or one question, which writers attempt
to clarify, and this one is the future. Contributions include ‘1968 and
Paths to New Worlds’ by John Holloway; ‘The Politics of Starvation:
From Ancient Egypt to the Present’ by George Caffentzis; ‘6 Impossible
Things Before Breakfast: Antagonism, Neoliberalism and Movements’ by
The Free Association; ‘Global Capitalism: Futures and Options’ by
Christian Frings; ‘The Measure of a Monster: Capital, Class,
Competition and Finance’ by David Harvie; ‘The Abolition of the
Parliamentary Left in Italy’ by Sandro Mezzadra, with an Introduction
by Keir Milburn and Ben Trott; ‘There is No Room for Futurology;
History Will Decide’ by Felix
Guattari, with an Introduction by Rodrigo Nunes and Ben Trott; ‘This is
Not My First Apocalypse’ by Fabian Frenzel and Octavia Raitt; ‘The
Movement is Dead, Long Live the Movement!’ by Tadzio Mueller; and,
‘Network Politics for the 21st Century’ by Harry Halpin and Kay Summer. 63
page magazine - Turbulence
$2.95 |
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Disaster and Resistance:
Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century, by Seth Tobocman with and introduction
by Mumia Abu-Jamal. A set of radical comics
outlining pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the
twenty-first century — from post 9-11 New York City, to Israel and
Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Fans of Seth's classic works, You
Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, and War in the
Neighborhood,
will see that his punch has not softened as his new work skewers the
individuals and institutions reaping havoc across the globe today. In
his bold comic style, Seth chronicles events as they happen, musing not
on the chaos of instability and fear, but on the struggle against
it. 170 pages $20.00 AK
Press
ISBN 9781904859765 170 pages $20.00 |
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Hammered by the Irish:
How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled a U.S. Warplane—With Ireland's
Blessing, by Harry Browne with an
introduction by Daniel Berrigan. On a damp night in February 2003, as
the U.S. prepared to invade Iraq, five Catholic Worker activists
scrambled across runways and broke into a hangar at Shannon Airport.
Swinging hammers and a pickaxe, they did more than $2.5 million damage
to a U.S. Navy transport plane. The five were hit with the full
weight of the law, and were quickly condemned by the media and much of
the anti-war movement. But three-and-a-half years later a Dublin jury
decided they were innocent of any crime. This is the story of how a
civilian airport in the west of Ireland became a "Pitstop of Death,"
and how an act of conscience touched the hearts and minds of twelve
jurors, making political and legal history, in an epic of popular
resistance. AK
Press
ISBN 9781904859901 180 pages $15.95 |
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Partisanas: Women in the
Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936–1945), by
Ingrid Strobl. Common stereotypes of women during wartime relegate them to the sidelines of history — to supporting roles like dutiful munitions factory workers or devoted wives waiting for their men to return home. The truth is that much of the armed resistance to fascism, before and during World War II, can be chalked up to women about whom official accounts have little or nothing to say. Through years of intrepid research and numerous interviews with the participants themselves, Ingrid Strobl excavates the history of the women who shouldered guns, planned assassinations, planted bombs, and were among the era's most active antifascist fighters. Strobl's commitment to and respect for her subjects has resulted in a work of both scholarly rigor and emotional depth. Weaving moving personal narratives into the broader history of the European resistance, Partisanas is both a detailed historical account and an investigation into what compelled women to reject their traditional roles to take up arms in a fight for a better world.This first English-language edition was translated by Paul Sharkey. $21.95 AK
Press
ISBN 9781904859697 300 pages $21.95 |
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We The Anarchists!: A
Study Of The Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937, by Stuart
Christie Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint-Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misinterpretation than the Federacíon Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI was a group of twentieth-century militants dedicated to keeping Spain's largest labor union, the CNT, on a revolutionary, anarcho-syndicalist path. There are two dimensions to Stuart Christie's indispensable We, the Anarchists! The first is descriptive and historical: it outlines the evolution of the organized anarchist movement in Spain and its relationship with the wider labor movement and, at the same time, providing some insight into the main ideas that made the Spanish labor movement one of the most revolutionary of modern times. The second is analytical, as the book addresses—from an anarchist perspective—the problem of understanding and coping with change in the contemporary world; how can ideals survive the process of institutionalization? Stuart Christie's analysis covers the history of Spanish anarchism and the Spanish Civil War, the affinity group organization of the FAI, and the misreadings and outright lies told about the FAI in numerous popular accounts of the period. We, the Anarchists! also provides lessons for today's largely neutered labor movement. A gripping tale and informative historical corrective, Christie's book jumps out of history with lessons for contemporary organizations and individuals struggling for social and economic change. AK Press
ISBN 9781904859758 235 pages $17.95 |
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Behind the Mask: The Story of People Who
Risk Everything to Save Animals (DVD) The Animal Liberation Front, comprised of clandestine animal rights activists, is now labeled the number one domestic terrorist threat by the FBI. Director Shannon Keith goes Behind the Mask and captures the hearts and souls of men and women who unveil their individual struggles for Animal Liberation. Who are these "animal liberationists" and why do they believe that breaking the law is the best way to help animals? What inspires them to challenge the status quo, fight against all odds, and endure public reproach? Behind the Mask exposes never-before-seen footage that reveals the extent to which these individuals will go to save the lives of animals. People of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the globe, tell their tales of liberation, incarceration, sacrifice and determination, while exclusive underground footage reveals heart-thumping action sure to leave you wondering, who are these people...? PM
Press
UPC 760137478195 DVD 72 minutes $19.95 |
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Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in
the Americas (DVD) What is democracy? Freedom, equality, participation? Everyone has his or her own definition. Across the world, 120 countries now have at least the minimum trappings of democracy---the freedom to vote for all citizens. But for many, this is just the beginning not the end. Following decades of US-backed dictatorships, civil wars and devastating structural adjustment policies in the South, and corporate control, electoral corruption, and fraud in the North, representative politics in the Americas is in crisis. Citizens are now choosing to redefine democracy under their own terms: local, direct, and participatory. In 1989, the Brazilian Worker's Party altered the concept of local government when they installed participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, allowing residents to participate directly in the allocation of city funds. Ten years later, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was swept into power with the promise of granting direct participation to the Venezuelan people; who have now formed tens of thousands of self-organized communal councils. In the Southern Cone, cooperative and recuperated factory numbers have grown, and across the Americas social movements and constitutional assemblies are taking authority away from the ruling elites and putting power into the hands of their members and citizens Featuring interviews with: Eduardo Galeano, Amy Goodman, Emir Sader, Martha Harnecker, Ward Churchill, and Leonardo Avritzer as well as cooperative and community members, elected representatives, academics, and activists from Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, United States, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, and more. Beyond Elections is a journey that takes us across the Americas to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? Extras include video, audio, and resource materials on participatory democracy. PM
Press
UPC 760137481799 DVD 104 minutes $19.95 |
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Labor Law
for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the
Law, by Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross. A guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy. Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic social change from below, Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross deliver a practical guide for making work better while re-invigorating the labor movement. Labor Law for the Rank and Filer demonstrates how a powerful model of organizing called "Solidarity Unionism" can help workers avoid the pitfalls of the legal system and utilize direct action to win. This new revised and expanded edition includes new cases governing fundamental labor rights as well as an added section on Practicing Solidarity Unionism. This new section includes chapters discussing the hard-hitting tactic of working to rule; organizing under the principle that no one is illegal, and building grassroots solidarity across borders to challenge neoliberalism, among several other new topics. Illustrative stories of workers' struggles make the legal principles come alive. PM Press
ISBN 978-1-60486-033-7 110 pages $10.00 |
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Real
Cost of Prisons Comix, by Lois Ahren One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. This volume collects the three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prisons Project. The stories and statistical information in each comic book is thoroughly researched and documented. Prison Town: Paying the Price tells the story of how the financing and site locations of prisons affects the people of rural communities in which prison are built. It also tells the story of how mass incarceration affects people of urban communities where the majority of incarcerated people come from. Prisoners of the War on Drugs includes the history of the war on drugs, mandatory minimums, how racism creates harsher sentences for people of color, stories on how the war on drugs works against women, three strikes laws, obstacles to coming home after incarceration, and how mass incarceration destabilizes neighborhoods. Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children includes stories about women trapped by mandatory sentencing and the "costs" of incarceration for women and their families. Also included are alternatives to the present system, a glossary and footnotes. Over 125,000 copies of the comic books have been printed and more than 75,000 have been sent to families of people who are in prison, people who are inside and to organizers and activists throughout the country. The demand for them is constant and the ways in which they are being used is inspiring. PM Press
ISBN 978-1-60486-034-4 104 pages $12.95 |
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Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on
Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History, by Staughton
Lynd and Andrej Grubacic. Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my country is the world." Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement. The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, anti-globalist counter summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, 'intentional' communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers' Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible. PM Press
ISBN 978-1-60486-041-2 300 pages $20.00 |
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It's been one whole year since
my last catalog - shameful, i know. The summer Kersplebedeb catalog is now online as a PDF: you can view or download it by clicking here. If you would like me to mail you a hardcopy, just email me at info@kersplebedeb.com |
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