A coloring book that breaks down the roots and history of terrorism to the most basic levels that a child could understand. It's fun to learn about history while coloring in hokey pictures that illustrate a point. This serves as a great introduction for children or adults who want to learn more about how the US is involved in stimulating the amount of terror in the world.
We picked these up in Canada and they are amazingly well-rounded. Focusing mostly on Canada, they're regularly published journals of radical thought that are engaging and intelligent. They're collectively produced and the writing is varied and excellent. And despite it's being published from Canada, the themes covered, such as anarchism and social reform, are really relevant to all of us.
In this issue:
A life of anarchy, what's beyond the state?, trans-politics and anti-capitalism, the world social forum, solidarity with the six nations, prison abolition, and the Vancouver housing crisis. Plus as always, there's a letters section and book reviews.
Upping the Anti is a radical journal of theory and action for discussing unresolved questions and dynamics within the anti-capitalist, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialist politics of today’s radical left! In this issue - Mutulu Olugbala (M1): It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz: The Opposite of Truth is Forgetting, George Katsiaficas: Remembering May 1968, The First Two Years of the New SDS, The Green Scare is Everywhere, Organizing Against the G8 with Hanne Jobst, Sabu and Go, Miranda and Jaggi Singh, Anti-Poverty Organizing in Halifax.
I like cupcakes! I like vegans too! I want to keep vegan cupcake eaters happy. What do I do? Hmm, well, I can't go across the street to the Hostess outlet. I'm pretty sure that they use animal shortening in their products, ewww! Maybe I will make the vegans cupcakes myselfs. If I only had a recipe. Or several, like 75. Wait, there is a book about it? And they are all yummy? For reals? Well, let's make some cupcakes! And support Total Cupcake Domination!
At one time or another, every vegan has felt like an outsider, even in places where they're supposed to feel comfortable. This book is written to help you embrace your inner vegan freak. Written by people all along the continuum of veganism - there is a special focus towards young, independent minded, tattooed vegans. There's practical tips, advice, stories, and comprehensive lists of resources, tips of keeping sane, being happy, and being healthy in a non-vegan world. Witty, opinionated, and eminently useful. The tone is refreshing compared and language to most books of this sort.
The People's Potato is a Food Not Bombs type of project from Montreal, started in a church to feed the hungry masses. They incorporate politics into their food and lay it out here as well as some basic vegan information; like how to stock your kitchen and styles of cooking. And boy can they cook! "Free" food doesn't have to be tasteless. And it can be nutritious, and vegan. Here's how. With recipes for breakfasts; sprouts, salads, and dressings; sauces and dips; soups; entrees; snacks; teas and hot drinks; desserts; and meals for 300! The comb binding allows it to sit flat on your kitchen counter too! What a treat!
This an excellent cookbook with hundreds of recipes, invaluable tips, and "cook's secrets." Heavily inspired by animal-rights issues, there are vegetarian friendly versions of common sayings scattered throughout this book as well. It's fun and interesting to read even if you never intend on preparing any of the delicious recipes.
To appreciate this quirky vegan cookbook, readers must welcome the author's offhand, rambling style. A chatty Brooklynite who hosts her own public access cooking show, she scatters stories about her mother, her friends and her politics among recipes for goodies like Fresh Corn Fritters and Curried Split Pea Soup. In one anecdote, she writes that her mother liked the scones from "one of those overpriced French cafes in Union Square," prompting the author to create Glazed Orange scones in her mother's honor, and the sweet, rich result rivals the average "overpriced café" model. BBQ Pomegranate Tofu is actually baked, not barbecued, but still the tofu is rich and smoky, terrific over rice or packed into heroes. Even better, the vegan iterations of Spanakopita and Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff so closely approximate the traditional versions that even the pickiest eaters would happily trade one for the other. And although there's no chicken broth in Matzoh Ball Soup, the vegetable stock is hearty enough to cure the fiercest cold. Best of all, and rare in a vegan cookbook, the author provides several appealing dairy-free desserts that are tasty enough to fool most omnivores, yet unique enough to thrill any vegan who just can't face another tofu ice cream bar. (Publisher's Weekly)
This remarkable collection of Emma Goldman's writings on the Spanish Revolution, expertly edited and explained by retired SUNY politics professor David Porter, is the history text you wish you'd had to read in school. Goldman's voice is clear, thrilling, and strong, and the debates she raises transcend the topical issues at hand, making this book as relevant to the modern anarchist as to the historian.
A dee-luxe "coffee table book" collecting and celebrating the subversive street art of British graffiti phenomenon Banksy. Divided into six thematic segments--monkeys, cops, rats, cows, art, and street sculpture--most photographs feature amusing commentary from the artist, be it a snarky one-liner or a play-by-play account of breaking into a Barcelona zoo. Laugh-out-loud hilarious at times, this book will make any kid with a can of spray paint feel jealous of Banksy's sly brilliance and technical skill. A bit spendy, yes, but definitely worth the dough. Now with 10% more material in paperback!
A squatter, former anarchist punk, social activist and cartoonist, Tobocman lived on Manhattan's Lower East Side and participated in grassroots efforts to take over abandoned tenements in the late '80s and early '90s. Along with a ragtag neighborhood collection of working-class blacks, Puerto Ricans and whites, as well as artists and homeless people from all backgrounds, Tobocman secured affordable housing. As the neighborhood gentrified in the late 1980s, the squats became the center of a housing movement that collapsed under the weight of its diverse membership and unrelenting opposition of real estate developers, police and city government. Tobocman revisits the violent battles with the police, the local characters who organized and rehabbed the squats and the slow disintegration of the movement. He presents the complex infighting among the squatters, who not only were fighting a prevaricating city hall but confronting poverty, paranoia, drug addiction and class conflicts within their own membership. The combination of the stark black-and-white woodcut-style of his drawings and the passion and the brutal honesty of his narration ultimately produces an amazingly compelling story of urban housing.
In 1994, indigenous Zapatista rebels emerged from the rainforest shouting, "Ya Basta," in opposition of the birth of NAFTA. This act rekindled a radical resistance movement that was to inspire a whole new generation of activists. From urban street reclaimers in London and land squatters in Brazil to Indian farmers protesting GM crops and the Italian White Overall Movement, spontaneous uprisings celebrated a common enemy—global capital. As events swept from Chiapas to Seattle, Genoa to Bangalore, and summits have been wreathed in tear gas, this new movement has matured into a massive political force—flexible, strategic, and able to resist and evolve to increasingly brutal responses by various Nations. The editors have been on the frontline of the movement, working as activists and writers, story chasers and documentarians. A mixture of critical analysis and art book, agitprop, inspirational document, and DIY Manual, this book combines innovative graphic design and photographs with texts and interviews from activists, creating a lively, polyphonic insight into the ideas and activities of the movement against capitalism.
A whiz bang collection of essays, poems, short stories and personal histories from the newest, sharpest feminist voices. These writings cover a phenomenal range, from war to polyamory, class issues to race issues, pro-sex to anti-establishment. They are linked by an overreaching theme of dissolving lines and uniting for a greater good and a stronger fight. As editor Melody Berger writes, "We don't need another wave. We need a movement." A definite must-read, especially for young women looking to get psyched on their rights.
A new, expanded edition compiling new riveting and provocative interviews from Punk Planet magazine. Never lapsing into hapless nostalgia, these conversations with figures as diverse as Jello Biafra, Kathleen Hanna, Henry Rollins, Sleater-Kinney, G-7 Welcoming Committee, Bob Mould, Excene, and many more provide a unique perspective into American punk rock and all that it has inspired (and confounded). Not limited to conversations with musicians, the book covers political organizers, punk entrepreneurs, designers, film-makers, writers, illustrators, and artists of many different media. Punk Planet has consistently explored the crossover of punk with activism, and reflects the currents of the underground while simultaneously challenging today's popular American culture. Punk Planet was a driving force in music and politics from 1994-2007.
"Alienation, Incarceration, and Inebriation in the new American Rome." The collected 1997-2007 comics of Ken Dahl in this graphic novel anthology! Includes such stories as airport security, the demeaning experience of being arrested, having to sell off his earthly possessions at a yard sale to pay the slumlord, the creative process of trying to write comics about "important" subjects, and much more. Additionally, we are treated to helpful guides to putting bananas in your cereal, peeing in the shower, and swinging at night. 2006 Ignatz Winner! 2007 Center for Cartoon Studies Resident!
Technically a how-to book, "Whatcha Mean..." generally eschews simple step-by-step instruction in favor of interviews, lists of helpful suggestions, awesome-rad educational comics, and other outrageously neat means of conveying everything you wanted to know about zine-making, but were afraid to ask. The authors, quite refreshingly, reference the long history of self-publishing and subversion: zines are, in essence, nothing new. Contains tips from the likes of zinesters John Porcellino, Dan Settwoch, Martin Cendeda, and a ton more!
Jack T. Chick is a very strange and well-meaning but offensive man who has been distributing "religious" tracts in the form of small comic books for the past 50 years. You've probably seen them in the park or on the bus. They are about how everyone is damned to go to Hell unless they have the exact same beliefs and lifestyle he has. Ironically, the majority of Chick's biggest fans are those he numbers among "the damned", namely people who are only interested in his works solely as humorous kitsch or sources of insight into a strange paranoid mind. Strangely again, his comics are among the most violent and sexually exploitative available, not to mention some of the best drawn and written.
Like a super issue of John Marr's "Murder Can Be Fun" - this book creates the ultimate researched reference to Chick's works. Included are guides to identifying and purchasing different printings of Chick tracts and comics, synopses of every tract Chick ever published, even outlines of the slight variations between different versions of each tract (e.g. changes in dialouge made to reflect changes in culture or Chick's increasingly open hostility to Catholics). Also included is a paranoid History of the World According to Jack Chick pieced together from all of his tracts (including how the Catholic church supposedly created Islam as a means of destroying the Jews), interesting quotations, a list and synopses of parodies as well as articles and books written about Chick, a biography of the secretive Chick pieced together from various sources, a history of his publishing company, etc.
Also included is an envelope containing 5 actual Chick tracts, including one that is horrifyingly homophobic, one that is both extremely violent and moving, and a couple outlining his philosophy of "it doesn't matter how much good or bad you do during your life: as long as you "accept Jesus as your saviour" during the last nanosecond of your life".
Moe Bowstern has brought us the inside story about being a woman who fishes commercially for years. If that doesn't seem fascinating to you, you have another thing coming. Moe is an amazing storyteller and reveals much about the history of commercial fishing in Alaska through a very descriptive and personable narrative that can be understood by any layperson. She tells great stories of the crews she's been involved with and their dynamics as well being a woman involved in a very male dominated profession. Moe has a passion for fishing and the sea and she shares this with you in her zine. This is her story of being on the job and "how she got xtra tuf" on a few different episodes of labor disagreements that held up work (technically not "strikes") over many years. Fascinating reading as she combines her artistic and DIY sensibilities with the labor tactics in order to achieve the fishermen's goals and get everyone back to work! The book sports a fancy letter pressed cover by Third Termite Press with 30 different colors schemes. Winner of the 2007 Lilla Jewel Award! ISBN 0-9726967-7-6
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For 10 years a voice from deep within the mountains and jungles of Mexico has inspired us to fight back in our daily lives. This is the most comprehensive collection of essays and communiqués from Subcomandante Marcos. ¡Ya Basta! chronicles the written voice of the Zapatista movement and its struggle to open a space within the neo-liberal, globalized landscape for the oppressed people of the world.
"How after 10 years does the historic and ongoing Zapatista uprising continue to transform the world? How did the poetic fury of their movement become part of the rising tide that sent waves of resistance crashing through the streets of Seattle, Genoa, Quebec, and Washington D.C.? Was it their weapons? Was it their words? After reading ¡Ya Basta! you'll find that they can be one and the same."—Zach De La Rocha, Rage Against The Machine
"The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas was certainly one of the most dramatic and important instances in our time of a genuine grassroots movement against oppression. In this volume, the writings of Subcomandante Marcos give eloquent expression to this movement, revealing both its philosophical foundations and its tactical ingenuity. I believe his words and the statements of the Zapatistas can inspire a new generation of activists and let them understand that it is possible for ordinary people, without military power, without wealth, to challenge state power successfully on behalf of social justice."—Howard Zinn
"The world has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution but a dreaming revolution." Naomi Klein, No Logo
A legendary book, bestseller in 1926, and hovering at the edge of our memory since; the favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail, or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived. Includes a new afterword by Bruno Ruhland, who tells what became of Jack after the book was written (he gave up the outlaw life and moved to San Francisco), and an essay by Jack Black called "What's Wrong with the Right People," which was originally published in Harper's. With an introduction by William Burroughs.
Every week since 2001, our anonymous friend from Melbourne, Australia, writes a letter or publishes a letter from a friend about something in their life. He photocopies it, puts it in hand-stamped/spray-painted/block-printed envelopes and leaves them about! This book collects the first 5 years of car accidents, deaths, cheating spouses, suggestions on how to spend your day, and much much more. A gorgeous collection of things you would otherwise never see again. Mail art at it's finest.
These books are so cool! They're primer versions of the classic People's History by Howard Zinn! I imagine giving then to my little cousins when they get older, even if it makes their parents think that I'm a total wingnut. Volume one opens with the arrival of Columbus from an Arawak perspective, and closes with the real reasons America participated in the Spanish American War. These books aren't very objective, but they're a refreshing deviation from standard textbooks. Instead of unlearning the history you're taught, try learning an alternate history. It's an awesome approach!
Volume two in the series brings us up to the present day. This volume begins with a reflection on the Spanish-American war by none other than anarchist Emma Goldman. It follows all the major American wars, the Great Depression, civil rights, and ends with the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and the anti-war movement. Again, I think this is a great set for any young person, or really anyone who wants a basic overview of American history from the people's perspective.
Like a fanzine grab bag, the Zine Yearbook is a collection of reprints from some people's favorite picks of zines published in a given year. This collection from 1999 represents a powerful time capsule of zines that would otherwise be lost, forgotten, or confined to the closets of those lucky enough to find them in their original incarnations. Let's face it - zines disappear and are very difficult to replace!
Includes: Alice is an Island, America?, Amusing Yourself to Death, Antipathy, Avow, Burn Collector, Cheapskate, Contrascience, Cooties, Drinkdrankdrunk, Enobled Mind, Fucktooth, Guinea Pig Zero, Here Be Dragons, Hodgepodge, Holiday in the Sun, I Defy, Inside Front, Kurt Cobain was Lactose Intolerant Conspiracy zine, Marketing Ploy, the Match, Miranda, Monozine, Nebulosi, Punk Fiction, Retard, Rumpshaer, Scenery, Secret Files of Captain Sissy, Sharkpool, Sissy, Skyscraper, Slant, Slave, Slow Leek, Synthesis, That Girl, Throwrug, Universal Citizen, and Used To.
Collected zines in these pages include Complete Control, Spectacle, Fucktooth, Ten Things Jesus Wants You to Know, Scenery, Doris, Antipathy, Here Be Dragons, Slave, Temp Slave, Yard Wide Yarns, Wonderful Broken Thing, and many more.
Highlights include instructional articles, personal stories of Abortion, the Columbine shootings, extensive interviews with owners of independent stores, Vanilla Ice, Fugazi, and Brian D (Catharsis, Crimethinc). An excellent grouping with a series of articles for virtually any reader.
"This is a book about zines. This is about recognizing the truly amazing stuff we've created that exists in the underground."
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