This little pocket-sized book is incredibly powerful. Each of the 10 points is expounded upon by American soldiers who invaded Iraq, and have since become war-resisters. Some of the ten include, 1.You may be killed, 8.You may be ordered to do something that is against your beliefs, and 10. You have other options. This book should be read by all people considering the military. It stands as a much needed counterpoint to the thousands of recruiters and cardboard displays in high schools across America. Teenagers have the right to know the whole truth about what happens in war.

A spastic collaboration of stories, random thoughts, and anecdotes. Included is an epic four month ride on a pedal powered boat from Pittsburgh to Paducah, a poem a day for the ending of a squatted house in Minneapolis filled with artists, their work, and their memories, a piece on protesting the war through non-participation, a how-to article about surviving on the Mississippi (with edible plants, boating tips, etc), tales of bike-riding, favorite cats, and hilarious drunken happenings. Written in a poetic style, this zine grips you till the end!

Known to most only as the place where punk rock legends Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Rancid were spawned, and home of the 'East Bay' sound, there's actually a lot more that's impressive about Gilman Street. What you get here, in words, and over 200 photographs, is a thorough historical account of the first 17 years of the all-ages, volunteer-run punk club in Berkeley, CA, as recounted by those that actually worked there, went there, and occasionally played there. Some of the names you may know - some of them are (in)famous scenesters, zinesters and play(ed) in bands too - most of them you won't. Which is, of course, what makes the project, and this documentation, so incredible. Heartfelt and inspiring, these stories, anecdotes, complaints, exultations, analyses, and reminisces truly capture the huge impact the club has had on the lives of those who've been involved there. In the words of the books editor "it's not your age or experience that matters most, it's your dedication and enthusiasm."

To benefit in our recent attempt to pay off some massive t-shirt bills - Here's a splendid collection of things we've published: Flow Chronicles, Things are Meaning Less (1st Edition), The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #1-4, On Subbing, $100 & A T-Shirt DVD, Doris Anthology, Xtra Tuf #5, Hot Damn & Hell Yeah / The Dirty South #1-3, Best of Intentions: The Avow Anthology, Dreamwhip #14, Cantankerous Titles & Obscure Ephemera, Vol 1 DVD, Sounds of Your Name (1st Edition), Coffeeshop Crushes, Homeland Insecurity DVD, and your own print of the new Microcosm Hanggliders T-Shirt by Sarah Oleksyk. We're going bookwild - and you get a $22 savings! **(cat not included)

Robert Eggplant's zine anthology covered in a 1" thick book. Pieces by Larry Livermore, Aaron Cometbus, and many more adding their part to this essential history of East Bay punk rock! This book is great bathroom reading material combining 11 years of Robert's zine. It is rather hard to read in one sitting due to the fact that a lot of the pages are taken from the original zines and there isn't a lot of continuity among pages though it's got a got plenty of gems littered along the way to keep you reading. Essential bathroom reading material!

Ever wonder what lies beyond the doors, fences, and ladders you pass by everyday? A hidden world of mystery, beauty, and free fun awaits the curious who choose to seek adventure off the beaten path - without even leaving their own city. Access All Areas takes you behind the scenes to little known urban spaces like utility tunnels, rooftops, abandoned buildings, construction sites, and storm drains, unveiling the possibilities - and perils - of the world of urban exploration.

Through step by step instruction and examples, experienced explorer Ninjalicious guides an illuminaitng off-limits tour of the urban landscape, sure to whet the curious appetites of eager initiates and archair explorers alike.

This shiny paperback features more than 240 pages pages of illustrated information and advice from Ninjalicious, the editor of Infiltration zine. Topics covered include training, recruiting, sneaking, social engineering, equipping, preparing, abandoned buildings, active sites, construction sites, drains, utility tunnels and more.

Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented, and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays—and who dies. Now updated to include the War In Iraq, this new edition includes a list of organizations that are helping us to do something about it. Endorsed by Veterans For Peace, and over 200,000 copies in print.

"A witty and devastating portrait of U.S. military policy."—Howard Zinn

"Political comics at its best. Bitterly amusing, lively and richly informative. For people of all ages who want to understand the link between U.S. militarism, foreign policy, and corporate greed at home and abroad."—Michael Parenti

"Addicted to War is must reading for all Americans who are concerned with understanding the true nature of U.S. foreign policy and how it affects us here at home."—Martin Sheen

The classic collection of Emma Goldman essays originally published in 1910. Emma Goldman is widely known as the first major female radical and became the female face of anarchist politics in the early 20th century. Anarchism and Other Essays should be read by anyone interested in early works on women's rights or the origins of leftist female politics. Emma Goldman is the black sheep of history in a lot of regards. America wants to forget her contributions to culture and society - such as worker rights and unions who owe something to Goldman. Her insight on gender equality, workers rights and even the theatre are appealing.

Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism but were afraid to ask. A new revised and updated edition of the definitive pocket primer. From the historical background and justification of anarchism, to the class struggle, organization and the role of an anarchist in an authoritarian society, this slim volume walks the reader through the salient points, theory and practice of this much maligned philosophy. From workers' self defense to the myth of taxation, the second half of the book runs through the gamut of objections and queries from Marxist-Leninists, liberal democrats, fascists, and the average person. If you're constantly wishing you were better informed, or just mildly curious, this is the place to start.

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Paul Avrich, a New York City professor of History, let's the anarchists speak for themselves in this mighty tome. 180 interviewees, mostly anarchists, friends, associates, and relatives, talk about their motivations as individualists, collectivists, pacifists, and revolutionaries. There are firsthand recollections of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco and Vanzetti and other key anarchists, experiences in libertarian schools and colonies, and observations of the dangers of authoritarian communism, bureaucracy and entrenched institutions. Interviews include Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, Daniel Guerin, Peter Kropotkin, and Dwight Macdonald. This book profiles a movement continuing to appeal with its calls for self-determination, direct grass-roots action and voluntary cooperation.

Originally published in 1974 and written when Angela Davis was 25, this is a fine telling of the situations and struggle of the 60s and 70s. Often misunderstood, Angela did not want to write a 'personal' autobiography and thus was reluctant to do a book like this in the first place. She didn't see herself as that different from the lives of the millions of struggling people that she and her efforts sought to better. Every facet of her own life that she chose to share with us here is tied in some way to that struggle to bring dignity to the masses of human beings exploited throughout the world. What you walk away with after reading this book is how much she really does care about the lives of people. It's not just a bunch of abstract ideas, neat theories, or some trivial intellectual excercise. It really is life and death issues. And she fought for the lives of many as if she would fight for her own. A journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama to a blazing political trial; political activity in a New York high school, Soledad brothers,the faculty of the Philosophy Dept. at UCLA, and the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. A powerful and commanding story told with warmth, brilliance, humor, and conviction.

Animal Ingredients A to Z is the bible for vegetarians, vegans, the health conscious and caring consumers. More and more we find our everyday foods containing peculiar ingredients—many of which are animal derived. As well as a comprehensive listing of animal ingredients, this easy to navigate guide contains supplemental information on vegan nutrition, food alternatives and contact information for animal advocacy groups. Carol Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and Bruce Friedrich, director of Vegan Outreach at PETA, offer introductions to this newly expanded edition. Finally, consumers can brave the labels at their local market confidently.

A unique two-in-one cookbook and guide - featuring over 250 recipes of simple, cheap, and tasty food! Additional articles and guides set out to reconnect us with the food we eat, how food affects all levels of our lives, and how to better develop our relationship with what we eat! Recipes are designed to serve 2-6 people but also feature cooking for a large group and which recipes suitable for this. Printed on high quality glossy recycled paper and wire bound so it sits flat on your kitchen counter and the pages don't deteriorate. Super illustrated by Isy Morgenmuffel and one of our coolest cookbooks! Imported from England.

“One night while rooting through the recycling bin for magazines, I found all the confidential Ph.D. applicant files for the biology department at an Ivy League university from the years 1965-1975. Stapled to many of the yellowed documents were photographs of the prospective students. They were treasures! I tore through the folders and rescued every portrait I could find. I had to have them. Only later did I realize I had to publish them”.

So begins the preface to Jesse Reklaw’s Applicant. A priceless time-bomb of pop culture, Reklaw serves a compelling and secret look into an impossibly lost era. The book collects photos from the 1970s paired with accompanying comments from employers and professors. The results are absurdist, confusing, often hilarious and disturbing.

Applicant provides unique insight into outdated 1970s social attitudes and ephemera (under one girl’s photo: “Weakness: she is a female, and an attractive, modest one, so is bound to marry”). Much of the book’s appeal however is found in what the book fails to say: the blank and despondent stares of it’s subjects, the outdated fashions and hairstyles and it’s understated text. Equal parts Ann Taintor and Found Magazine, Applicant is one of those books you read once and then want to show everyone. In fulfilling Jesse's dream, we've republished this as a tiny paperback book! ISBN 0-9770557-6-0

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According to Angela Davis...they are! Angela, best known for her association with the Black Panther Party in the 60's and 70s, is now a professor at the University of California and here delivers a balanced mix of new radical thought and well-researched history. With new prison construction at an all-time high, and prison populations increasing at unparalleled rates, now more than ever we need a critical examination of what can be rightly be called the prison industrial complex. She has said, "It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo." Angela Davis, you're much more than a hairdo! A rad feminist with an educated take on prison reform! A fine primer full of intelligent arguments!!

Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access, in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis. As these efforts to militarize youth accelerate, so do the creative and powerful efforts of students, community members, and veterans to challenge them. Today, the counter recruitment movement—from counseling to citywide lobbying efforts—has become one of the most practical ways to tangibly resist U.S. policy that cuts funding for education and social programs while promoting war and occupation. Without enough soldiers, the U.S. cannot sustain its empire. This book exposes the real story behind the military-recruitment complex, and offers guides, tools, and resources for education and action, and people power and strategies to win. Community groups are encouraged to buy in bulk as a fundraiser for their local counter-recruitment and anti-war campaigns.

With her hands raised on a New Jersey turnpike, Assata Shakur (godmother of Tupac) was shot by state troopers, claiming that she was firing back at them. Court evidence demonstrated her hands were raised in surrender across seven trials, but a racist system, fearing black radicals, imprisoned Assata. She escaped, and sought asylum in Cuba, where she wrote this memoir. It's an intensely personal autobiography, full of wit and candor. She talks about why she chose a life of activism and talks about the rise and eventual demise of groups that she was involved with. Vital reading.

Female banana workers are waging a powerful revolution by creating gender equity a central issue in Latin American labor organizing.

Over the past 20 years, Bananeras have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives.

Starting in 1985 with one union in La Lima, Honduras, and expanding domestically through the late 1990s, experienced activists successfully reached out to younger women with a message of empowerment. In a compelling example of transnational feminism at work, the bananeras crossed borders to ally with banana workers in five other countries in Latin America, arguing all the while that empowering women at every level of their organizations makes for stronger unions, better able to confront the ever-encroaching multinational corporations.

When the bananeras of Latin America, with their male allies, explicitly integrate gender equity into their organizing work as essential to effective labor internationalism-when they refuse to separate the global struggle against trans-national corporations from the formidable efforts at home to achieve equity and respect-they inspire all of us to envision a new framework for internationalism that places women's human rights at the center of global class politics.

Just like supporting your local farmers, we now offer a "subscription" to everything that we publish! Every time we publish something new we'll send it to your door! Perfect for people who love to get a monthly package but don't have time to sift through what they want!

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Saying the right thing during an encounter with the police can mean the difference between going home and going to jail. Beat the Heat gives you a set of easy-to-remember legal tactics for protecting yourself and the people you care about. Written by a Harvard-trained criminal defense lawyer, this illustrated street law manual teaches you exactly what to say if you're pulled over; how to read a search warrant; what you should know about undercover cops and informants; how to handle police questioning; what to tell the judge to get your bail reduced; how to get the best work out of your public defender or private attorney; etc., etc. Reading this book is like getting a one-on-one coaching session with your lawyer. It's written in plain English and comes with sample documents (including warrants and subpoenas), so you can learn how to deal with them before trouble's at your door. There are special sections for minors and non-US citizens, as well as a chapter on suing the police. The best part is the numerous cartoon sequences, which demonstrate how cops manipulate people they're questioning or searching—and what techniques you need to win this game.

Now in a new, revised second printing.

Author Katya Komisaruk was admitted to Harvard Law School while serving a five-year prison sentence. She graduated with honors in 1993 and is currently a criminal defense lawyer in Oakland, California.

Three classic Situationist zines—"The Poverty of Student Life," "Totality for Kids," and "The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity Economy," plus an eyewitness account of the Paris May '68 events. Much of the Situ creed was produced in zines—and these three were crucial in creating the Situationist legend. Easier to read than Society of the Spectacle, and provocatively seductive to a life of freedom and revolt, this compendium displays much historical and contemporary relevance. If you like Crimethinc texts, this is where they got their shtick from.

This 280 page tome collects the entirity of Avow zine issues #11 through 16 and selected entries from the first ten issues as well. Avow is a collection of artwork and stories. Keith owes a few nods graphically to Aaron Cometbus but does a lot of his own ink drawings to develop more on creating his own style. He has done unique artwork for Microcosm, Submission Hold, Against Me!, HeartattaCk zine, and plenty more. His stories cut into the darker side of life growing up in a small coastal fishing town and the mischief that ensues. He reminisces about the days when demo tapes were commonplace and CD-Rs were non-existent, puts a good spin on his tales of figuring out how to obtain his next meal, and learns a lot from society, the hardcore community, and college that he employs into the analysis in his writing. Keith is a great storyteller and does a good job of deeply probing his brain to share these stories. ISBN 0-9726967-4-1

Sloane's manual is a new edition of the author's guide to purchasing, riding, and performing basic maintenance on bicycles. Eugene Sloane's book is considered the standard guide for bike shops and experts in the field who need a reference; or just for people who like to fix their bikes. Practices covered include keeping brakes and frame safe; adjusting derailleurs (including index systems); lubing and repacking bottom brackets, hubs, and headsets; caring for chains and freewheel, pedals, saddles, handlebars, cables, tires; and trueing and building wheels. We managed to score a lot of used copies so you could have a cheaper alternative and could avoid channeling money into multinational giants like Simon & Schuster/Viacom!

A pocket-sized spin-off to the popular Bicycle! Maintenance Manifesto book we already carry. This short guide contains only the most essential road-side maintenance bits. This of course is so you can carry it around with you while you're biking to and fro! Includes fixing a flat of course, removing a cassette, dérailleur adjustment, brake adjustment...really all the stuff that you'll need whether you're hauling butt across a whole country, or just jaunting to the store. The acknowledgments also reveal that the author likes the Quincy Punks and Agent Orange. Cool.