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AK Press Blowout Holiday Sale - RIGHT NOW!
Thurs. December, 9th
AK Press Holiday Blow Out Sale!
3 PM - 10 PM
AK Press Holiday Blow Out Sale!
3 PM - 10 PM
AK Press December Events
Be there and tell your people!
Thurs. December, 9th - AK Press Holiday Blow Out Sale!
Wed. December, 15th - Release Celebration for Stencil Pirates!
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Check out the new website!
http://www.akpress.org/
Thanks to designers, Eggplant Active Media.
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Thurs. December, 9th
AK Press Holiday Blow Out Sale!
3 PM - 10 PM
FREE!
at the AK Press Warehouse
Radical book sale! This is your chance. Buy all those holiday gifts for your loved comrades and family. Everything in the AK Press warehouse, books, t-shirts, CDs, DVDs, videos, calendars, zines, pamphlets... etc.., will be 25% off. There will also be remainders, overstock and damages available between $1-$5. Don't miss this chance to stock up on all of this years most exciting radical reads from your friendly neighborhood collective.
Huge.
Refreshments will be served.
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Wed. December, 15th
Release Celebration for Stencil Pirates!
with Josh MacPhee
7 PM
FREE!
at the AK Press Warehouse
Stencil Pirates (published by Soft Skull Press) is the most comprehensive book dedicated to the street art of the stencil. The book contains an exhaustive collection of close to 1000 photographs from around the globe. The photos show work by hundreds of different artists, exposing the width and breadth of stencil graffiti, from political to abstract and purely aesthetic, from tagging to public announcements. Stencil Pirates offers in-depth writings on the complex history of stencil graffiti, its political context, and how stencils fit into the larger pantheon of street expression. It discusses stenciling as a way for political movements to resist and mark territory, whether as part of gentrification struggles in New York and San Francisco or as part of the general uprising in Argentina over the past couple years.
About the author:
Josh MacPhee's art straddles a number of cultural mediums. He is a street artist, designer, curator, and activist. A street stenciler and poster maker for over a decade, he also runs a radical art distribution project, justseeds.org, as a way to develop and distribute t-shirts, posters, and stickers with revolutionary content. He organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Project, an ongoing poster series in which different artists create posters to document and remember moments in radical history. He also collectively organizes agit-prop cultural actions with ad-hoc groups of artists under various organizational names such as "Department of Space and Land Reclamation" and "Street.Rec."
Josh will be speaking on the book and presenting a slideshow on the history of street stenciling. He will be joined by two local local artist/writers, Melissa Klein (author and illustrator of the Inkling zine and editor of the book Looking and Other Stories) and Erick Lyle (editor of the zines SCAM and The Turd-Filled Donut).
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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.
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Be there and tell your people!
Thurs. December, 9th - AK Press Holiday Blow Out Sale!
Wed. December, 15th - Release Celebration for Stencil Pirates!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the new website!
http://www.akpress.org/
Thanks to designers, Eggplant Active Media.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thurs. December, 9th
AK Press Holiday Blow Out Sale!
3 PM - 10 PM
FREE!
at the AK Press Warehouse
Radical book sale! This is your chance. Buy all those holiday gifts for your loved comrades and family. Everything in the AK Press warehouse, books, t-shirts, CDs, DVDs, videos, calendars, zines, pamphlets... etc.., will be 25% off. There will also be remainders, overstock and damages available between $1-$5. Don't miss this chance to stock up on all of this years most exciting radical reads from your friendly neighborhood collective.
Huge.
Refreshments will be served.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed. December, 15th
Release Celebration for Stencil Pirates!
with Josh MacPhee
7 PM
FREE!
at the AK Press Warehouse
Stencil Pirates (published by Soft Skull Press) is the most comprehensive book dedicated to the street art of the stencil. The book contains an exhaustive collection of close to 1000 photographs from around the globe. The photos show work by hundreds of different artists, exposing the width and breadth of stencil graffiti, from political to abstract and purely aesthetic, from tagging to public announcements. Stencil Pirates offers in-depth writings on the complex history of stencil graffiti, its political context, and how stencils fit into the larger pantheon of street expression. It discusses stenciling as a way for political movements to resist and mark territory, whether as part of gentrification struggles in New York and San Francisco or as part of the general uprising in Argentina over the past couple years.
About the author:
Josh MacPhee's art straddles a number of cultural mediums. He is a street artist, designer, curator, and activist. A street stenciler and poster maker for over a decade, he also runs a radical art distribution project, justseeds.org, as a way to develop and distribute t-shirts, posters, and stickers with revolutionary content. He organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Project, an ongoing poster series in which different artists create posters to document and remember moments in radical history. He also collectively organizes agit-prop cultural actions with ad-hoc groups of artists under various organizational names such as "Department of Space and Land Reclamation" and "Street.Rec."
Josh will be speaking on the book and presenting a slideshow on the history of street stenciling. He will be joined by two local local artist/writers, Melissa Klein (author and illustrator of the Inkling zine and editor of the book Looking and Other Stories) and Erick Lyle (editor of the zines SCAM and The Turd-Filled Donut).
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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.
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For more information:
http://www.akpress.org
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Their event's, (including the few devoted primarily to commerce), are exciting and often challenge whatever pre-conceived notions a person might have.
In a contemporary western world in which society is being dominated by right-wing relegious fundamentalist/fascists eagerly anticipating the apocalypse/second coming and woo-woo new age spiritualists frantically polishing their crystals and contemplating their navels so that they can remove themselves from post-modern reality via 'self-improvement' tape cassetes, we have a desperate need of venues such as AK Press. Venues devoted to trying to develop alternative insights and world-views by either publishing new works by contemporary writers or re-publishing those authors whose works are still vital and relevant to the contemporary situation.
they're a great group that puts out a ton of valuable information, and they're certainly not out to make a profit and hence they can't run ads in SFWeekly or buy billboards from Clear Channel
now, how many ads will we all be forced to face today that offer nothing positive to anyone except shareholders?
big 3-syllable words, but you don't back them up with any serious arguement
do you think it's an evil conspiracy to promote radical leftist books that for-profit companies wouldn't touch in a million years? are you anti-book, anti-anarchist, or you just like to feel superior to everything? I seriously doubt it's because you never ever use money as a means of exchange
with what did you buy the computer on which you type comments? did you barter those vegetables you grow on your self-sufficient, solar-powered hermit hideaway for your internet connection?
anarchists have always written and sold books -- if you ever read even 1/10 of 1% of the great literature AK offers, you'd know that
yes, some are more clearly news stories but even those advocate a certain point of view if even indirectly
why do people post about atrocities in Iraq? or the US? because they are probably indirectly advocating an anti-war position. did you ever notice the number of off-site links to non-profits, labor unions and the like? they all solicit donations for their works, sometimes even in the posts themselves
but if they have something tangible of value that you get for your $$ that automatically makes them evil or something??
I guess it's time you quit your job and renounce $$ once and for all
i think someone's been watching too much teevee.
and it is flat out hypocrisy to condemn others for doing what you yourself are doing (i.e. advertising a product in search of willing customers).
i never said i was pure. i said you're doing and preaching two different things. unless of course you're not anti-consumer culture, anti-advertizing or anti-free-market, and maybe the rest of us just misunderstood that.
of course, books are a luxury, but I would never advocate for a world without books whereby humans did not read. I would advocate for a world where everyone has access to the same broad selection of books, and not just the books the giant publishing co's want to cram down our throats. and as far as luxuries go, books are a pretty modest one (save for the raw materials used to produce them)
check out AK's website -- they never claim that they magically exist without money in today's world and/or that others who sell anything automatically suck. they do argue that big corporations suck, more or less, for various reasons, and they operate in a way, today, completely opposed to how the massive publishers/distributers do, that is they operate in a mostly non-hierarchical way, consensus-based,, including in what they publish and distribute as an anarchist collective.
should anarchist collectives just sit on their hands and feel superior to everything but still implicity, and in denial, live in the same world as everyone else?
of all the organizations out there, AK lives as close to their ideals as possible in today's real world. no one is getting rich at AK press, that's for sure, but they all believe sincerely in what they do
what isn't clear about that?
why are you constructing an elaborate ideological defense of the hypocrisy involved?
they're livin' the revolution more than I suspect you are
where do you spend your money anyway? at Barnes and Noble? or Amazon? do you not read? and where do you work, Starf**ks or some other for-profit company?
yes, because they actually have something real to offer for your $$ they are hypocrites. if they just asked for donations, instead of selling books, they'd not be hypocritical. of course, there'd be no AK Press and the world would be an emptier place
in other words, according to you, consumerism is okay as long as the product is produced (and consumed) with the right ideological positioning?
on the other hand... maybe all these things you praise AK for, are just their marketing strategy. after all, gotta stay competitive, even in niche markets... maybe especially in niche markets...
style books isn't there a ban on them?
why not, you seem to be all for embracing the methods and values of capital, and you apparently remain content to dither over details like sentiments...
we are the world...
i still don't understand what's ambivalent about that. is it not perfectly clear? your equivocations dont change the essential critique one bit, in fact, they tend to reinforce it at all points.
what isn't clear is whether indybay accepts the role of carrying ads, even for "good causes," let alone for moneymaking ventures, whatever the ideology of the owners.
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* Bob Avakian in the RW and on the Radio (very popular with the ladies, er comrades!!)
* weekly items stretching back months, and years.
Everyday Special!!
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Statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party (posted December 7, 2004)
Help circulate this document broadly and creatively on the internet and throughout society!
And the best part is, that the volumes, and reams, and scads of information available here are (like all the best things of life) absolutely free!!!
No ideological shilling for personal gain here, we're giving it away as a public service! Like we're Santa Claus! Hey, he's dressed in Red too! Even the reindeer have a red-nosed cell leader!
Why pay for thoughts that have never succeeded in the field, own your own "Joy of Maoism" today! With prices this low, we must be craaaaaaaay-zeee!!