October Events at AK Press - starting this week!

AK PRESS OCTOBER EVENTS
Starting This Friday!!!

Friday, October 15th - Collective Liberation: a Bad Subjects Book Release Celebration!
Saturday, October 16th - Gadabout Film Festival hits AK!

Upcoming in November:
Friday, November 5th - After the Deluge Book Release Celebration with Chris Carlsson
Saturday, November 6th - Derrick Jensen and the Dismantling of Civilization
Friday, November 12th - Voltairine de Cleyre & Lucy Parsons with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Barry Pateman
Friday, November 19th - The Political Edge Book Release Celebration with Chris Carlsson
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Friday, October 15th
7 PM - FREE
BAD SUBJECTS Book Release Celebration!
Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life – An Anthology 1997-2003
Edited by Megan Shaw Prelinger and Joel Schalit

Readings from contributors Joel Schalit, Megan Prelinger, Rick Prelinger, Carl Macrae and JC Myers.

This, the second anthology of their writing, collects the Bad Subjects Collective's most interesting and provocative articles from the last six years. Covering diverse personal and political ground, the contributors explore cultural and media studies, racial identities, sexual politics, globalization, alternative communities, activism, the complexities of history, alternative consciousness and many other topics, in an incendiary mix of political radicalism and rigourous debate that's intended to provoke further discussion among academics and activists worldwide.

Contributors include Doug Henwood, Joel Schalit, Arturo J. Aldama, Annalee Newitz, Richard D. Wolff, John Brady, Matt Wray, Frederick Luis Aldama, Lisa Archer, Charlie Bertsch, Robin S. Brooks, Kevin Carollo, Jason M. Ferreira, Rick Prelinger Cynthia Hoffman, Elisabeth Hurst, Joe Lockard, Karl MacRae, J.C. Myers, Kim Nicolini, Megan Shaw Prelinger, David Hawkes and many others.

"Bad Subjects is a collective that seeks to revitalize progressive politics in retreat. We think too many people on the left have taken their convictions for granted. So we challenge progressive dogma by encouraging readers to think about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life. We also seek to broaden the audience for leftist and progressive writing, through a commitment to accessibility and contemporary relevance."
- From the Bad Subjects manifesto

The Bad Subjects collective is a group of writers, activists and scholars at the forefront of political and cultural debate. Based in California, they run their own online forum and they have just celebrated ten years of on-line activism and discussion.
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Saturday, October 16th
7 PM – FREE
Gadabout Film Festival hits AK!
Indy films, music by the Kiss Ups, and book release celebration

The Gadabout is a nationally touring film festival that seeks to open new avenues of distribution for truly independent filmmakers that get pushed aside by Hollywood and the film festival circuit. Focusing on short, mostly "low to no budget" films, the Gadabout offers an alternative to the cliche world of commercial film. Whether they are amateur, or recent film school grads, our filmmakers love what they are doing, and their work shows it. The Gadabout is NOT a competition, rather a celebration of independent film and video.

Moving into it's third year, the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival has completed two national tours coast to coast, and has screened films from all over the country, and the world (India, Singapore, Australia, Argentina, Isreal, U.K.). Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for filmmaking. This is filmmaking as an artform.

Growing even more, this year we will be touring with live music by hyper-pop favorites, The Kiss Ups (http://www.thekissups.com), a stencil art show, a zine distro, and a book tour by our friend Jacinta Bunnell, ("girls will be boys will be girls will be..." and the "Girls are not Chicks" coloring books.) This year we will include a program facilitating people of all ages to make their own films, art, zines, etc. For some dates we will be joining forces with the Radical Education Roadshow and author Anne Elizabeth Moore ("Hey Kidz! Buy This Book", http://www.softskull.com). So we are growing into a total indie-media extravaganza!

http://www.gadaboutfilmfest.com
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UPCOMING IN NOVEMBER!

Friday, November 5th
After the Deluge
Book Release Celebration with Chris Carlsson
A teenage arsonist threatens a partially submerged mid-22nd century San Francisco. As a Public Investigator "tryout" seeks evidence across the utopian city full of canals and veloways, political and social conflicts erupt. When there is no such thing as property, what is crime, and how does a utopian society protect itself from bad behavior? Should scientists be as free as artists to create? What is a "free market" for work without and money and commodities?
After the Deluge is a novel by acclaimed author/activist/Critical Mass and Shaping SF founder Chris Carlsson.

Saturday, November 6th
Derrick Jensen and the Dismantling of Civilization
AK Press and Subversive Soundz present an evening with Derrick Jensen. Author of A Language Older than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, Listening to the Land, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution, and most recently, Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests and Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance and the Culture of Control, Jensen will speak on dismantling civilization.
Including special guest Agent Apple of the Biotic Baking Brigade.
$5-10 sliding scale donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. A benefit for Break the Chains
prisoner support.
http://www.derrickjensen.org/

Friday, November 12th
Voltairine de Cleyre and Lucy Parsons
A celebration of our founding anarchist mothers, Lucy Parsons and Voltairine de Cleyre, marking the release of two new books: The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader and Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches
With Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Barry Pateman, who authored introductions to the respective books.

Friday, November 19th
The Political Edge

Book Release Celebration with Chris Carlsson
Reflections by 25 San Francisco activists and writers on elections, war, urban hell and transformational politics. In the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of an underdog campaign to elect Green Party Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco, The Political Edge analyzes emergent political energies, where they came from, and where they’re going.


Events are at the AK Press Warehouse
AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA
b/t MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980
For more info contact:
AK Press at 510.208.1700, josh [at] akpress.org or visit http://www.akpress.org
All events at AK Press are wheelchair accessible.