[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [AK-Dispatches] WEEK-LONG SALE starting now at AK Press!

Thu Feb 12 12:28:17 CST 2009

Thoght some people might be interested in some of these offerings. Plus, it's one way to support worker-owned and self-managed enterprises. That's revolutionary!!!!

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Subject: [AK-Dispatches] WEEK-LONG SALE starting now at AK Press!

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* 20% OFF EVERYTHING THIS WEEK 
* BLACK HISTORY MONTH 
* NEW FROM AK PRESS PUBLISHING 
* NEW FROM AK PRESS DISTRIBUTION 
* BECOME A FRIEND OF AK PRESS 

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*WEEK-LONG SALE: 20% OFF EVERYTHING ON THE WEBSITE!* 

In celebration of Black History Month, AK Press is having a one-week web sale! From now through next Wednesday, February 18, ALL ITEMS ON OUR WEBSITE will be 20% off the list price! 

Please note: subscriptions to Friends of AK Press and gift certificates are not eligible for sale pricing. Only one discount per order. Our website cannot automatically apply discounts, so your credit card will be PREAUTHORIZED for the full amount but we will subtract 20% before actually charging your card. The preauthorization will disappear after a couple of days. Please place your order before 11:59PM (PST) on Wednesday, February 18 to take advantage of sale pricing. 

Check out what's new (and newly cheap) now! http://www.akpress.org 

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*BLACK HISTORY MONTH* 

Why not take advantage of our sale prices to learn more about the histories, struggles, and
 accomplishments of Black people in the United States? The following are just a few valuable contributions to the documentation of Black people's histories: 

WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE BELIEVE: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY LIBRARY (4xDVD) 
"The invaluable Movement documentaries Newsreel produced furthered the work of the Black Panther Party and now provide the essential visual record of the Party's early days. This new DVD collection offers an extraordinary compilation that includes historic behind-the-scenes details taken from a wide range of interviews and contemporary events as well as the classic Newsreel films." —Kathleen Cleaver 
http://www.akpress.org/2006/items/whatwewantwhatwebelieve 

ROBERT F. WILLIAMS: SELF RESPECT, SELF DEFENSE, & SELF-DETERMINATION (CD) 
Robert Williams organized African-American armed self-defense in the South. President of the NAACP in Monroe, NC, he led the Black community in preventing Klan attacks and opposing the racism of governmental agencies. He was falsely accused of kidnapping charges by the FBI and was forced into exile in Cuba, where he broadcast Radio Free Dixie to bring the message of Black Liberation to the Southern US. Narrated by his widow, Mabel Williams, this audio documentary chronicles Williams' life through his interviews and speeches. 
http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/robertfwilliamscd 

THE ANGOLA 3: BLACK PANTHERS AND THE LAST SLAVE PLANTATION (DVD) 
This feature-length movie tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox and their extraor
dinary struggle for justice. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana's prisons, the Angola 3 formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. 
http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/angola3 

WE WILL RETURN IN THE WHIRLWIND: BLACK RADICAL ORGANIZATIONS 1960-1975 by Muhammad Ahmad 
This pioneering study chronicles the most important Black radical organizations of the 60s, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party (BPP), the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW). 
http://www.akpress.org/2007/items/wewillreturninthewhirlwind 

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*NEW FROM AK PRESS PUBLISHING* 

DYNAMITE: A CENTURY OF CLASS VIOLENCE IN AMERICA by Louis Adamic with a foreword by Jon Bekken 
Just reviewed in the LA Times! 
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-louis-adamic8-2009feb08,0,2011078.story  
The history of labor in the United States is a story of almost continuous violence. In DYNAMITE, Louis Adamic recounts a century of that history in vivid, carefully researched detail. Covering both well- and lesser-known events—from the riots of immigrant workers in the second quarter of the nineteenth century to the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)—he gives precise, and often brutal, meaning to the term "class war." 
http://www.akpress.org/2001/items/dynamiteakpress 

SHUTDOW
N: THE RISE AND FALL OF DIRECT ACTION TO STOP THE WAR (DVD) 
On March 20, 2003—the day after the war started—San Francisco was brought to a grinding halt by thousands of activists who occupied the streets to oppose the war. The planning and outreach coordinated by Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW), filled downtown San Francisco with approximately 15,000 people clogging traffic, stopping business as usual, communicating with passersby, and creating a pandemonium that lasted for several days. But neither DASW nor the mass resistance outlasted Iraq's occupation. SHUTDOWN is an action-packed documentary chronicling how DASW successfully organized to shut down a major US city and how they failed to effectively maintain the organization to fight the war machine and end the occupation of Iraq. A must-see film for those engaged in the continuous struggle toward social justice. 
http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/shutdownakpress 

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* NEW FROM AK PRESS DISTRIBUTION* 

BANKSY LOCATION AND TOURS: New U.S. Edition, ed. by Martin Bull 
In three guided tours, Martin Bull documents sixty-five London sites where one can see some of the most important works by legendary political graffiti artist Banksy. Boasting over 100 color photos, BANKSY LOCATION AND TOURS also includes graffiti by many of Banksy's peers, including Eine, Faile, El Chivo, Arofish, Cept, Space Invader, Blek Le Rat, D*face, and Shepard Fairey. 
http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/banksylocationandtours 

SUBVERTING THE PRESENT, IMAGINI
NG THE FUTURE, ed. by Werner Bonefeld 
Subversion is a truly human phenomenon. To subvert means to bring to the surface what is hidden beneath the forms of bourgeois respectability, a respectability in which every human capacity has its price. To subvert is to revolt against any system—economic, political, cultural or religious—where humanity is no more than an object to be manipulated, exploited, and dominated. Against the enclosures of our time, cycles of struggles build new commons of resistance, forming from the insurgencies against the existing order the basis for a new world . To subvert means to be realistic, to demand the impossible. 
http://www.akpress.org/2006/items/subvertingthepresentimaginingthefuture 

ANARCHY ALIVE! by Uri Gordon 
Anarchist politics are at the heart of today's most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centres and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation that has redefined revolutionary struggle for the 21st century. ANARCHY ALIVE! is a fascinating, in-depth look at the practice and theory of contemporary anarchism. This is the ideal book for anyone looking for a fresh, informed and critical engagement with anarchism, as a mature and dynamic political force in the age of globalization. 
http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/anarchyalive 

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*BECOME A FRIEND OF AK PRESS* 

In these trying financial tim
es, we are more appreciative than ever of the steady support we get from the Friends of AK Press. If you aren’t already a Friend, there’s no time like the present to join and do your part to help ensure the continued publication of anarchist history and contemporary thought, and the circulation of anarchist ideas in a world desperately in need of them. 

When you become a Friend, you agree to pay a minimum of $25 per month (or $30 for international customers). In return, you receive a copy of every book, CD, or DVD published by AK Press during the course of your membership, delivered right to your mailbox, plus a 20% discount on anything you order from us. All the money we receive goes directly into our publishing projects. The more people who become Friends of AK, the more anarchist classics, community organizing tools, and work from new authors we can put out into the world—and believe us, we have a HUGE list of great things we want to publish but can’t afford at the moment. 

We’ve just sent several great projects to the printer, including BLACK FLAME, ARM THE SPIRIT, and SPELL ALBUQUERQUE—so if you sign up now you won’t be sorry! 
http://www.akpress.org/2001/items/friendsofakpresssubscription 

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Stay tuned to our website at http://www.akpress.org and our blog, http://revolutionbythebook.akpress.org, for new books, news, and more. 

See you in the streets, 
The AK PRESS Collective 
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