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They are intended to provide people and communities with information that is alternative to that within the corporate mass media, and audiences are encouraged to participate directly in the production of content.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book can also be downloaded (for non-profit use only!):\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/autonomous.media.toc.pdf\"\u003etable of contents\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/Autonomous.Media.intro2.pdf\"\u003eintroduction\u003c\/a\u003e by Andrea Langlois \u0026amp; Frédéric Dubois\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/1.Hard@work.pdf\"\u003eone\u003c\/a\u003e—hard at work in the bamboo garden: media activists \u0026amp; social movements by Scott Uzelman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/2.radioonour.pdf\"\u003etwo\u003c\/a\u003e—broadcasting on our own terms: temporary autonomous radio by Marian van der Zon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/3.openisopen.pdf\"\u003ethree\u003c\/a\u003e—how open is open?: the politics of open publishing by Andrea Langlois\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/4.101tricks.pdf\"\u003efour\u003c\/a\u003e—101 tricks to play with the mainstream: culture jamming as subversive recreation by Tom Liacas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/5.independentreporting.pdf\"\u003efive\u003c\/a\u003e—independent reporting: a tool for international solidarity building by Andréa Schmidt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/6.echofromcurb.pdf\"\u003esix\u003c\/a\u003e—echoes from the curb: street newspapers and empowerment by Isabelle Béique Mailloux\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/7.screeningrevolution.pdf\"\u003eseven\u003c\/a\u003e—screening the revolution: FAQs about video activism by David Widgington\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/8.re-writingmedia.pdf\"\u003eeight\u003c\/a\u003e—re\/writing media: weblogs as autonomous spaces by Dawn Paley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/9.networkersunite.pdf\"\u003enine\u003c\/a\u003e—networkers unite!: strengthening media solidarity by Frédéric Dubois\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/Autonomous.Media.afterword2.pdf\"\u003eafterword\u003c\/a\u003e: linking back, looking forward by Dorothy Kidd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cumuluspress.com\/pdf.files\/Autonomous.Media.backmatter.pdf\"\u003ebibliography—contributors—acknowledgements\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Autonomous Media is a bold and terrific contribution to media activists’ thinking and practice. Langlois and Dubois have captured a number of the most intense communication developments and debates within the current global social justice\/altermondialiste move-ments. Like the most promising projects at the present time, they constantly combine local and global issues: low power radio, open publishing, blogging, culture-jamming and more. They provide solid fuel for the fire that continues to burn in Québec, in Canada, and across the planet.” — John Downing, author of Radical Media \u0026amp; editor of the upcoming Sage Encyclopedia of Alternative Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Autonomous media activists deploy their weapons of choice – video cameras, spray cans, blogs, laptops – to liberate “meaning-making” from PR specialists and corporate board rooms. 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This important collection of writings about what’s currently going on in autonomous media (from open publishing to street newspapers) should be welcomed for opening a new perspective on this struggle in such a clear-sighted and self-critical way.” — Nick Couldry author of Contesting Media Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An exciting collection of essays examining the efforts of communities and social move-ments to appropriate media technologies. Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance and Dissent explores vital issues such as re-creating communication and information technologies, re-inventing democracy, and re-designing local and global net-works. Written by media activists, this book is living proof that the construction of knowledge is not restricted to academia; the editors and contributors of Autonomous Media are genuine organic intellectuals producing creative, solid, and significant knowledge from the heart of social change communication initiatives.” —Clemencia Rodriguez author of Fissures in the Mediascape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This collection of essays shows, among other things, that the anti-globalization movement has managed to contructively acquire new technologies and means of communication to make their claims known.” —Ulysse Bergeron, trente: Le magazine du journalisme au Québec\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Andrea Langlois and Frédéric Dubois\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations: Fanchon Esquieu, Élise Gravel, Pink Panthers Collective, Public Works Collective, Jesse Purcell \u0026amp; Marielle Levine, Chester Rhoder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographs: Bernard Bastien, Clara Gabriel, Andrew Stern, Dawn Paley, Chester Rhoder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \npaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n0-9733499-4-8\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n168 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Cumulus Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cumulus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175029256285,"sku":"9780973349948","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_361_amedia3_0.jpg?v=1654986887"},{"product_id":"critical-mass-bicyclings-defiant-celebration","title":"Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis leaderless, grassroots social movement cuts through the noise and inertia of car-clogged urban transportation and teaches us to carve a wedge of our city for our dreams. 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It's an opportunity for organizers, theorists, strategists, and movement elders to share and connect, to speak honestly of the challenges before us, to articulate new demands and possibilities in the ongoing war against state and capital. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeam Colors Collective invites voices from today's myriad currents, and in so doing generates common understandings of radical community organizing, movement building, and the impetus and inspiration toward making a revolution possible. The essays collected here come from very different places: farms, forests, bookstores, streets and street corners, homes, corporate chains. Their authors organize in very different ways: art and media, mapping and research, theory and discussion, popular education, and road blockades. Yet they are all moved by the same desire: to create new worlds and new ways of being, and demanding nothing less. 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Movement for a New Society, a radical pacifist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s, pioneered forms of consensus decision making, communal living, direct action, and self-education now central to antiauthoritarian movements. Brimming with analysis, interviews, and archival documents, Oppose and Propose!: Lessons from Movement for a New Society recovers a missing link in recent radical history, while drawing out crucial lessons on leadership, movement building, counterculture, and prefigurative politics. Andrew Cornell is an educator, writer, and organizer living in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has appeared in the collections Letters from Young Activists, The University against Itself and The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The post-Battle of Seattle generation has been searching for a deeper, more meaningful way to engage in fomenting social change. Tired of always being against but never for, or the outsider who parachutes into a community in a time of crisis, we've been looking for other models to expand our praxis as anarchists and autonomists. Andrew Cornell's book is a thoughtful history of a group of thinkers and dreamers in the 1970s that grappled with similar questions. We Seattle babies can learn much from studying the experience of the previous generation.” —Yvonne Yen Liu, Colorlines.com \"A thousand thanks to Andrew Cornell for resurrecting and analyzing the history of Movement for a New Society. Young organizers now won't have to reinvent the wheel-or the nonviolent antiauthoritarian collective. Especially insightful are the extended interviews with George Lakey and other MNS veterans. This book is the next best thing to having been there; maybe better, actually.\" —Mark Rudd, author of Underground: My Life in SDS and Weatherman \"This book is a gift. More than the biography of a twentieth-century organization, Oppose and Propose! is a set of practical tools for twenty-first-century organizers. In the interrogation of its history, Andrew Cornell takes the reader on a journey though the boom-and-bust cycles of Movement for a New Society, and thus illuminates the recurring challenges activists commonly face today. Reading this book was like watching the praxis wheel furiously spin, generating new questions and insights, helping us become students of our context. Cornell reminds us that we are indeed standing on the shoulders of our ancestors.\" —Joshua Kahn Russell, Ruckus Society \"Written gracefully and clearly, Oppose and Propose! tells a story about an important organization-Movement for a New Society. Its fresh interpretation of American radicalism, based on substantial research and intelligent analysis, transcends its immediate subject and illuminates the meaning of radicalism, pacifism, and rebellion in contemporary U.S. history.\" —Andrej Grubacic, coauthor of Wobblies and Zapatistas \"Andrew Cornell's brilliant work on prefigurative social movements that grew out of the 1960s provides an important road map for current movements, connecting past and present in a dynamic historical continuity.\" —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Andrew Cornell\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849350662\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 210 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175063662685,"sku":"9781849350662","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_714_oppprop3_0.jpg?v=1654987152"},{"product_id":"solidarity-unionism-at-starbucks","title":"Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument that workers themselves on the shop floor, not outside union officials, are the real hope for labor's future. Utilizing the principles of solidarity unionism, any group of co-workers, like the workers at Starbucks, can start building an organization to win an independent voice at work without waiting for a traditional trade union to come and “organize” them. Indeed, in a leaked recording of a conference call, the nation's most prominent union-busting lobbyist coined a term, “the Starbucks problem,” as a warning to business executives about the risk of working people organizing themselves and taking direct action to improve issues at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining history and theory with the groundbreaking practice of the model by Starbucks workers, Lynd and Gross make a compelling case for solidarity unionism as an effective, resilient, and deeply democratic approach to winning a voice on the job and in society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Gross is an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World on its Starbucks campaign and the founding director of Brandworkers International, a non-profit organization for retail and food employees. \u003cstaughton lynd is a labor lawyer and historian. he wrote the original\u003eLabor Law for the Rank and Filer more than 25 years ago.\u003c\/staughton\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Staughton Lynd\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Daniel Gross with illustrations by Tom Keough\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n9781604864205\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n36 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175064744029,"sku":null,"price":6.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_691_starbucks3_0.jpg?v=1654987159"},{"product_id":"love-and-struggle-my-life-in-sds-the-weather-underground-and-beyond","title":"Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003eA nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. 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It’s a battle that was far from won, but is still not lost: the struggle to build a new world, and the love that drives that effort. A cautionary tale and a how-to as well, \u003cem\u003eLove and Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e is a book as candid, as uncompromising, and as humane as its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“David’s is a unique and necessary voice forged in the growing American gulag, the underbelly of the 'land of the free,' offering a focused and unassailable critique as well as a vision of a world that could be but is not yet—a place of peace and love, joy and justice.” \u003c\/em\u003e—Bill Ayers, author of \u003cem\u003eFugitive Days\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTeaching Toward Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“Like many of his contemporaries, David Gilbert gambled his life on a vision of a more just and generous world. His particular bet cost him the last three decades in prison, and whether or not you agree with his youthful decision, you can be the beneficiary of his years of deep thought, reflection, and analysis on the reality we all share. If there is any benefit to prison, what some refer to as ‘the involuntary monastery,’ it may well look like this book. I urge you to read it.”\u003c\/em\u003e —Peter Coyote, actor, author of \u003cem\u003eSleeping Where I Fall\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"This book should stimulate learning from our political prisoners, but more importantly it challenges us to work to free them, and in doing so take the best of our history forward.\"\u003c\/em\u003e —Susan Rosenberg, author of \u003cem\u003eAn American Radical\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of America’s most celebrated political prisoners since his appearance in the Academy Award nominated film, \u003cem\u003eThe Weather Underground\u003c\/em\u003e, David Gilbert is also the author of \u003cem\u003eNo Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e, a book of essays on politics and history. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/profiles\/gilbert.html\"\u003eFor more about David, see his profile page on the Kersplebedeb website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Boots Riley (introduction)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA popular leader in the progressive struggle for radical change through culture, Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal hip-hop group from Oakland, CA. \u003cem\u003eBillboard Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e declared the group \"the best hip-hop act of the past decade.\" Riley recently teamed with Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine) to form the revolutionary new group, Street Sweeper Social Club.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: David Gilbert\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-319-2 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 336 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175069954141,"sku":"9781604863192","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_811_love_and_struggle3_0.jpg?v=1654987196"},{"product_id":"palante-young-lords-party","title":"Palante: Young Lords Party","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1969, a group of young Puerto Rican activists founded the Young Lords Party in New York City, taking inspiration from the Black Panthers. \u003cem\u003ePalante\u003c\/em\u003e, the first book by and about the radical organization, is brought back into print here with new introductory material. Capturing the spirit and actions of the sixties movements, \u003cem\u003ePalante\u003c\/em\u003e features political essays by members, oral histories of their lives leading into the party, and more than seventy-five photos of their vibrant membership and actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Abramson is a photographer and publisher who lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIris Morales is the producer of the documentary \u003cem\u003e¡Palente, Siempre Palente! 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In doing som they flesh out the complexities and limits of what in Sweden is referred to as a “class journey.” Dealing with more than economic realities, the authors grapple with the full gamut of cultural and social class hierarchies that are embedded in the society and the left. As Fredric Carlsson-Andersson and Atilla Pişkin explain in their introductory essay: \u003cem\u003e\"The texts gathered here deal with the left as well, but in a different way: they address an alternative movement that regularly talks about the working class, but often in circles that lack even a single working-class member. In particular, though, the texts are about us: comrades from the working class who find themselves on the left, and who find themselves feeling lost and out of place – obviously, not always, but often enough. It’s easy to imagine the left as unconditionally welcoming. However, that’s not the case. As in all other scenes, the left has strict standards of right and wrong. 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Collectivity is visceral!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first decade of the twenty-first century was marked by a series of global summits which seemed to assume ever-greater importance – from the WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle at the end of 1999, through the G8 summits at Genoa, Evian and Gleneagles, up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) at Copenhagen in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut these global summits did not pass uncontested. Alongside and against them, there unfolded a different version of globalization. \u003cem\u003eMoments of Excess\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of texts which offer an insider analysis of this cycle of counter-summit mobilisations. It weaves lucid descriptions of the intensity of collective action into a more sober reflection on the developing problematics of the ‘movement of movements’. 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With the heart of an activist and the eye of an artist, Josh MacPhee miraculously manages to do justice to both. \u003cem\u003ePaper Politics\u003c\/em\u003e is singularly impressive.\" —Stephen Duncombe, author of \u003cem\u003eDream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For all of those who claim that poster art is dead in the age of YouTube and Blogs, \u003cem\u003ePaper Politics\u003c\/em\u003e will wheatpaste another message over your computer monitor. This exhibition and book is a testament to the vibrant trajectory of printmaking in the service of social change, including examples of earlier movements and artists as well as the graphics popping up right now. Obscure and familiar subjects are presented with wit, joy, and searing satire, guaranteed to snap your senses and challenge your opinions. It took a village to make this show, and the world will benefit from seeing it.\" —Lincoln Cushing, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolucion! Cuban Poster Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosh MacPhee is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, designer and activist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His work often revolves around themes of radical politics, privatization and public space. He regularly produces posters and graphics for political groups and events, as well as to sell on Justseeds.org, a political art collective he helped found. He organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series and is often in front of his computer designing books for PM Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Josh MacPhee\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \npaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n978-1-60486-090-0\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n156 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175079129181,"sku":"9781604860900","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_918_paper3_0.jpg?v=1654987266"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-11-november-2010","title":"Upping The Anti #11 (November 2010)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe November 2010 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue was born in interesting times. As the first drafts rolled in, Toronto was shaken by the June mobilizations against the G20. When the dust settled and the charred shells of police cruisers had been scraped off the streets, hundreds of our comrades were behind bars and many were facing serious criminal charges. Most local activists spent the summer fundraising for legal defense, supporting the people in jail, organizing rallies, and countering the state’s PR machines. From en masse illegal searches and preemptive raids to conspiracy charges and draconian bail conditions repression was ubiquitous. In the media and the courts, the G20 Integrated Security Unit (ISU) used everything they could get their hands on as evidence against protestors. Including our books. A copy of Upping the Anti 5 appeared in a police display of “weapons” seized from activists during the protests, alongside ropes, goggles, gas masks, and props seized from an unsuspecting enthusiast en route to a live action role playing game. The ISU’s audacity made us snicker, but we agree on one thing: Upping the Anti is a weapon in the struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe G20’s promise of an era of austerity has sparked debates about how radicals should orient to this moment. As we near the end of 2010 (a proclaimed year of resistance for activists in Canada), we’re confronted with a clear challenge: we lack a plan for a long-term, broad-based, sustained resistance. We’ve gotten the bill for the bailout of global capitalism; will it invigorate our movements or foster right-wing populism? In Toronto, we’re bracing ourselves for the mayoralty of newly elected conservative Rob Ford, a longstanding city councilor known for his xenophobic and homophobic outbursts. Whatever plan we choose, we’re in for a serious fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFights are best prepared for with a dose of critical reflection. Issue 11 opens with our thoughts about violence. Focusing on the events of the anti-G20 convergence, we use our editorial pages to account for the two situations of violence that framed the protests: that of the OPP’s Integrated Security Unit, and the actions of the black bloc on June 26th. We analyze the strategic implications of these violences by locating social democrats’ denunciation of the black bloc in the history of organized labor. From where do current conceptions of violence derive, and how do they shape our political terrain? We turn to the idea of “non-violent direct action”—what is it, and in what ways does it necessitate specific forms of organization and production among activists? Strategically, to whom does non-violent direct action appeal? When and how do we come to terms with the violence implied and inherent in non-violent direct action?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChandra Kumar kicks off our interviews section in conversation with food sovereigntist Raj Patel. Patel argues that food sovereignty is one in a series of “overlapping sovereignties” required by true democracy, and describes lessons that can be learned from decentralized, autonomous farmers’ movements in the global south. Next, Shelley Tremain interviews Ladelle McWhorter, an anti-racist feminist scholar and activist living in Virginia. McWhorter analyses the relationship between race, gender, and normalization, and argues that genealogy is an important tool for understanding modern power relations. In our final interview, Benjamin Holtzman and Craig Hughes speak with scholar James C. Scott about his research on everyday peasant politics. Scott contends that subtle forms of resistance, shaped into a shared culture among the oppressed, have significant implications for large-scale social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur articles section begins with Lesley Wood’s account of anti-capitalist struggle in Toronto, which she presents to contextualize and assess anti-G20 convergence organizing. She argues that the “reconfigured networks” of local community organizing in the past five years paved the way for the particular story anti-summit organizers told to fuel the recent mobilization – one with consequences they did not fully anticipate. Next, John Clarke provides a retrospective on the tenth anniversary of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s (OCAP) famous march on Queen’s Park. Clarke offers a detailed account of mobilization during the reign of Ontario’s former neoliberal Premier Mike Harris, illuminating the similarities and key differences between then and now. Clarke concludes with assessment of current forms of resistance – specifically the Toronto Workers Assembly and OCAP – and their hopes for achieving victory against austerity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our final article, Stacy Douglas offers an anti-racist analysis of queer activism in Britain. Douglas examines radical UK publisher Raw Nerve Books’ decision not to reprint an anthology of queer essays that included a piece that critiqued prominent gay rights activist Peter Tatchell’s alleged Islamophobia. She argues that Raw Nerve’s decision, and its subsequent defense by white queer activists, can be seen as an instance of white solidarity building – a dangerous political agenda that builds “good feeling,” by drawing upon legacies of racism and white supremacy. Douglas goes on to identify anti-racist agonism as a radical framework that might effectively intervene in such cases, while remaining mindful of the practical difficulties that such a framework entails.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first of our two roundtables, Sarita Ahooja, Fred Burrill and Cleve Higgins interview indigenous activists Joe Doem, Laura Norton, and Walter David, and non-native solidarity activist Carole Boucher, on the 20th anniversary of the “Oka Crisis.” Our second roundtable, convened by Thomas Nail, features four members of No One is Illegal-Toronto, who discuss the history, trajectory, and intent of their current Solidarity\/Sanctuary City campaign, and the success of some sub-campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are also pleased to bring you three timely book reviews. First, Tim McCaskell relates his own history of queer struggle to Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile’s The Canadian War on Queers. Next, Chandra Kumar reviews Michael Keefer’s edited collection Antisemitism Real and Imagined, in which contributors analyze the motivations behind the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism. Etienne Turpin then unpacks Tiqqun’s An Introduction to Civil War, a book that has made waves across North America and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the administrative side of things, we would like to thank Chandra Kumar for his work on our editorial committee as he moves over to our advisory board. We would also like to welcome Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, and Simon Wallace to our editorial committee and Eton Harris, Brett Story, and Elise Thorburn to our advisory board. Finally, we would like to extend our most sincere thanks to Caelie Frampton, Krisztina Kun, Emily van der Meulen, and Jessica Peart for their work on our advisory board as they move on to other projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur introductory remarks would not be complete without our customary call for financial support. As you may know, Upping the Anti receives no external support from any government or educational institution, and is entirely funded by subscriptions, sales, and donations from our readers. Over the course of our first 10 issues, we have been able to squeak by in raising the $7000 that it costs to print and distribute each issue of the journal. Today, however, the compounding challenges of sustaining a purely volunteer project have led us to contemplate hiring a staff person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe only way that we could pay a staff salary is through increasing the number of our monthly sustainers – people who pay $10 or $20 a month through PayPal or pre-authorized debit payments in support of the project. We are still short of our goal of signing up 100 sustainers; if this project is to grow beyond its current limits we need you more than ever. Please visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\u003c\/a\u003e to sign up!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you know other activists in your organization or community who would benefit from reading and contributing to UTA, please get in touch with us to receive bulk copies at a 50 percent discount. If you order ten or more (either back issues or the current issue) copies are only five dollars each. Get in touch at \u003ca href=\"mailto:uppingtheantidistro@gmail.com\"\u003euppingtheantidistro@gmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e if you’re interested.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, we’re looking for pitches for our next two issues. The deadline for pitches for UTA 12 is December 1, 2010, and the deadline for first drafts is January 6, 2011. The deadline for pitches for UTA 13 is May 1, 2011 and the deadline for article drafts is June 1, 2011. For more information, please visit our website at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope this new issue stimulates conversation and action, and we look forward to reading your pitches and letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKelly Fritsch, David Hugill, Tom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Clare O’Connor, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, AK Thompson, Simon Wallace\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, November 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 185 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175081226333,"sku":"UTA 11","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_963_uta11_3_0.jpg?v=1654987280"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-12-may-2011","title":"Upping The Anti #12 (May 2011)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe May 2011 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue followed by the table of contents:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003eSix months ago, we released UTA 11 and proclaimed that it had been “born in interesting times.” It’s an assessment that continues to apply today as we release this, our twelfth issue. Since last summer’s G20 showdown on the streets of Toronto, radicals have had to consider how best to reconsolidate in the face of ongoing criminal charges and threats of infiltration. At the same time, opportunities seem everywhere to be on the horizon. Though they remain unresolved, the revolutions in the Middle-East and the anti-austerity protests in Europe remind us that mass movements have the power to change the world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, right wing movements are also on the rise. In Wisconsin, a governor inspired by the Tea Party was able to ram through anti-labour legislation by blaming the economic crises on workers. And though students, unionists, activists, and community members retaliated by occupying the Capitol building for more than two weeks (and though solidarity extended so broadly that the occupiers received a pizza delivery arranged by Egyptian protestors in Tahrir Square), the battle of Wisconsin was not won. Instead of a general strike, the movement degrenerated into a recall campaign. It’s an outcome that forces us to ask: what would it take to win?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our editorial this issue, we examine why the left in North America continues to be socially marginal despite the fact that radical critiques of capitalism have never been easier to make. In the midst of massive austerity, why is it so difficult for the left to gain traction? In order to address this question, we propose that we must develop our capacity to orient to the contradictions underlying people’s identification with right wing politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue’s interviews section, Tom Keefer speaks with historian and political economist Jason Moore about ecology, the financial crisis, and the future of capitalism. Following that, we are pleased to present a conversation between Ander Reszczynski-Negrazis and Lara Bee on the radical art and pedagogy of the Beehive Design Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, John Sanbonmatsu takes issue with the left’s recent attacks on veganism and animal rights and argues – contra Lierre Keith – that a sustainable future depends on an end to the human consumption of other animals. Next, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e examines grassroots responses to violence in our homes and communities and offers suggestions for organizing outside the criminal justice system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, Niloofar Golkar and Shourideh Molavi evaluate the North American left’s responses to the “Green Revolution” in Iran and propose that international solidarity activists must overcome a series of inherited conceptual dichotomies in order to be succesful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our first roundtable, David Hugill and Élise Thorburn sit down with European education activists to discuss their experiences organizing against neoliberal incursions into the university sector. Next, Adrie Naylor convenes a panel to discuss the rise of precarious labour and the strategies that organizers in Toronto and beyond are using to challenge it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are pleased to feature four book reviews in this issue. Harry Thorne reviews John Holloway’s Crack Capitalism; Kirstin Schwartz tackles Islands of Resistance, a collection edited by Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky, and Marian van der Zon; Anthony Fenton discusses Todd Gordon’s Imperialist Canada; and Sharmeen Khan assesses Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, and Sunera Thobani’s States of Race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the administrative front, we would like to welcome Élise Thorburn to the Editorial Committee. Former Editor David Hugill has moved to our Advisory Board, where he is joined by new members Kailin Stacy, Robyn Maynard, and Robert Butz. Finally, we would like to thank outgoing Advisory Board members \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, Nicole Cohen, Chris Harris, and Shelly Tremain. We wish them well on their future endeavours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom its inception, Upping the Anti has relied solely upon donations, subscriptions, and sustainer contributions. This has allowed us to remain fiercely independent; however, it also means that we’re often strapped for cash. For this reason, we ask that you consider becoming a UTA sustainer. Sustainers can sign up to pay $5- $100 a month through Paypal or pre-authorised debit payments to support our project. With 100 new sustainers, we will be able to hire a staff person to help us deal with all those administrative details that threaten to fall through the cracks, as make some headway in raising the $7000 it costs to print and distribute each issue of the journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe opportunity to hire an administrative staff person shows how much we’ve grown; still, Upping the Anti continues to be a volunteer effort. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our collective labour. As usual, putting together this issue was both arduous and joyful. We’re happy to have managed to publish a dozen issues under conditions that remain unfavourable to alternative and small-scale periodicals. If you like what you see, please consider becoming a sustainer. To find out more about our sustainers program, please visit us online at www.uppingtheanti.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, if you’re interested in contributing to UTA 13 (scheduled for release in October 2011), please send us a pitch at uppingtheanti@gmail.com no later than June 3, 2011. For more information, pleasse visit us online at www.uppingtheanti.org. E\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003enjoy the issue! We look forward to your letters, submissions, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan Conway, Kelly Fritsch, Tom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, Clare O’Connor, AK Thompson, Élise Thorburn, Simon Wallace\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, April 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eLetters to the Editors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eEditorial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJason Moore: Wall Street is a Way of Organizing Nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eLara Bee: Drawing Common Ground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eArticles\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJohn Sabonmatsu: Blood and Soil: Notes on Leirre Keith, Locavores, and Death Fetishism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eVictoria Law: Protection Without Police: North American Community Responses to Violence in the 1970s and Today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNiloofar Golkar \u0026amp; Shourideh Molavi: Fallout from the June 2009 Protests in Iran: Political Inconsistencies and Pressing Questions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eElise Thorburn \u0026amp; Dave Hugill: Pedagogy of Unrest: Education Struggles and the Prospect of an Autonomous University with Vassilis Christophides, Emma Dowling, Merijn Oudenampsen, and Gigi Roggero\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAdrie Naylor: Union Renewal from the Margins: Perspectives on Organizing Precarious Workers with Beixi Liu, Marco Luciano, Linelle S. Mogado, Esery Mondesir, and Sonia Singh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eHarry Thorne: John Holoway's \u003cem\u003eCrack Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eKristin Schwartz: Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky \u0026amp; Marian van der Zon's \u003cem\u003eIslands of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAnthony Fenton: Todd Gordon's \u003cem\u003eImperialist Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eSharmeen Khan: Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, \u0026amp; Sunera Thobani's \u003cem\u003eStates of Race\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 185 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175081324637,"sku":"UTA 12","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_964_uta12_3_0.jpg?v=1654987281"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-4-april-2007","title":"Upping The Anti #4 (April 2007)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe April 2007 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are happy to offer up a new, fourth, issue of Upping the Anti. Unlike last time, we don’t have to apologize for being behind schedule. What’s more, thanks to increased sales and better distribution, we have been able to print this issue without going any furthur into debt. We’ve also been kept afloat by the generous contributions of our subscribers. At a time when radical media projects are needed more than ever, we are reminded by the demise of excellent publications like Clamor and LiP Magazine how important it is to keep nurturing projects like UTA. Now, more than ever, we need to cultivate those precious spaces where we can come together for argument, debate, and alliance building. We’re happy that you, our readers, have recognized Upping the Anti as one such space. We will do our best to hold up our end of the bargain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere have been some changes to the editorial crew at UTA. Dave Mitchell has stepped down as reviews editor, but will remain a member of the advisory board. Erin Gray, formerly of the editorial collective, will replace Dave, while her spot on the editorial collective has been taken up by AK Thompson. We would like to welcome the new additions and thank those stepping down from different roles for all of their hard work in getting and keeping UTA off the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in past issues, UTA 4 begins with a letters section. We are pleased that our readers are engaging with the things we publish and are responding to them in a thoughtful and spirited manner. What struck us most upon reading the letters submitted for this issue was how each one seemed to move beyond polemics and venture into the realm of proposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo it seems fitting that our editorial this time around deals with the question of organization. Now, we know that might sound played out. Bolshevik. Menshevik. Mass. Anti-mass. Boredom. Confusion. Regret. But you would never believe how many people have organization on the tip of their tongue these days. In Canada, public intellectuals like Judy Rebick and Sam Gindin (each operating with quite different premises) have added to the buzz. Across the pond, Hilary Wainwright has aligned herself firmly with the new generation of “network” builders. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In order to make sense of the current resurgence of interest in the organizational question, we’ve tried to sort through some of the history and current manifestations of the debate and to trace out the implications of various positions. And, since we’re precocious, we’ve advanced a few propositions of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the content in this issue addresses the theme of organization in some way. In the first of our interviews, Dale Altrows joins long-time anarchist activist and person living with AIDS Robin Isaacs as he recounts his experiences of coming out and coming to anarchism in Toronto in the 1980s. With a keen memory of his experiences as a participant in radical organizations and tremendous knack for storytelling, Isaacs encourages us both to draw inspiration and learn from the not-so-distant past. In our second interview, Marina Sitrin discusses the question of movements and organization with John Holloway. Encouraging us to consider the possibilities that exist “against and beyond” the state, Holloway traces out some broad dynamics underlying the radical resurgence in Latin America. In the third interview, Gary Kinsman speaks with trans activist and teacher Dan Irving as he explores the intersection between trans issues and class politics. Arguing that trans politics are shaped by class experience (and vice versa), Irving proposes to make both Marxism and aspects of post-structuralist theory relevant in a context where they are often viewed with suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, Richard Day (author of Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements) continues with the theme of organization by responding to his book’s critics. Addressing AK Thompson’s polemic published in UTA 3, as well as those penned elsewhere by Ian McKay and William Carroll, Day suggests that if our question is ‘what is to be done?’ the answer must not involve a repetition of our worst failures. Following Day’s rejoinder, Carmelle Wolfson and Lesley Wood recount their experiences at the recent World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. Their accounts provide a critical assessment of an event that has come to be seen as one of the most significant international forums for networking and strategizing in the struggle for global justice. Moving from the global to the local, we close the articles section with an essay by Tom Keefer which explores the dynamics of non-native solidarity in the struggle at Six Nations. Arguing that the concept of “taking leadership” with which many non-native activists have approached their solidarity work is inadequate, Keefer proposes a provocative alternative. Drawing upon Black Power, the classic SNCC-era text by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, Keefer argues that in order to develop real coalitions with indigenous activists fighting for sovereignty, white activists must organize within their own communities to build a meaningful social base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtable section in this issue contains two pieces. In the first, Caitlin Hewitt-White has brought together prominent prison abolition activists Peter Collins, Emily Aspinwall, Filis Iverson, Sonia Marino, Julia Sudbury, Kim Pate, and Patricia Monture to talk about the politics of the prison-industrial complex and the difficulties of working both within and against the system. In the second roundtable, Vancouver-based activists Kat Norris, Jill Chettiar, Anna Hunter, and Cecily Nicholson explore the problems and promise of housing activism in the Downtown Eastside in a roundtable put together by Krisztina Kun and Nicole Latham. This discussion makes clear how serious the housing situation in Vancouver is becoming and reveals how divisions on the left are hindering our ability to respond as effectively as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in previous issues, our book reviews section provides activists with an opportunity to respond to debates and discussions happening in other published works. In the first review, Erica Meiners investigates the prison abolition writings of Angela Davis, Julia Sudbury, and Karlene Faith. Next, Kimiko Inouye reads bell hooks’s Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism. Finally, Scott Clarke responds to Sheila Wilmot’s Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we invite responses from our readers to the content we publish. Argument is our lifeblood and we look forward to hearing from you. The submissions deadline for Upping the Anti 5 is August 1, 2007 and you can email articles and article ideas to uppingtheanti@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter publishing UTA 3 with funds drawn from meagre life savings, we knew we were in deep. Resolving not to go any further into debt, we vowed to make the money to print this issue upfront or to never publish again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt paid off, so to speak. We sunk our energy into a subscription drive and promotion campaign. And we learned how to stomach working on the “accounts receivable” side of our ledger. We’re not out of the hole yet. But we didn’t sink any new money into this issue. What’s more, we have more subscribers than ever before. A few of these are coveted lifetime subscribers – people who give us $250 and make us promise to keep producing this thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are not already a subscriber, we encourage you to become one. If you are already a subscriber but want to make sure that UTA continues to be a feisty little firebrand well into the future, then please consider taking out a lifetime subscription. You can find out more information by contacting us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if you’re one of those people who still owes us money for back issues, we need to talk. Capitalists have got the market cornered on contractual obligations and petty forms of coercion, so we won’t resort to them here. Instead, we would like to encourage both those who owe us money and radicals everywhere to begin taking ourselves as seriously as our opponents sometimes do. 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All volunteer, never for profit, and always criminally under-distributed, \u003cem\u003e LiP \u003c\/em\u003e's diverse crew of co-conspirators devoted themselves to imagining and articulating a vernacular radicalism unencumbered by the political deadwood of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected herein are the finest fruits of those award-winning efforts: the very sharpest salvos from the oddly dangersome, overwhelmingly larcenous, vaguely apocalyptic, constructively negative, relentlessly persuasive, curiously unflinching, and often grossly unexpected pages of the best magazine you probably never heard of. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFEATURING, AMONG MANY OTHERS: Vandana Shiva, Winona LaDuke, Lisa Jervis, Jeff Chang, Tim Wise, Brian Awehali, Erin Wiegand, Mary Roach, Boots Riley, Mattilda AKA Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Heather Rogers, damali ayo, Michael Eric Dyson, Timothy Kreider, Iain Boal, Jeff Conant, Neal Pollack, Jennifer Whitney, Neelanjana Banerjee, Antonia Juhasz, Bruce Levine, Kari Lydersen, Ariane Conrad, Christy Rodgers, Danny Postel, and Christopher Hitchens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: \nPaperback\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \n9781904859734\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: \n269 pages\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085158493,"sku":"9781904859734","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_959_tipping3_0.jpg?v=1654987309"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-1-march-2005","title":"Upping The Anti #1 (March 2005)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe March 2005 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the first issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. We have been working on bringing you this issue since September of 2004. We have been torn between the desire to get something out according to our original timeline (February of 2005) in order to establish the journal as a timely and viable project, and our wish to produce the most politically relevant publication that we can. In this, our first issue of the journal, we feel that we have done our best to strike an appropriate balance between these two objectives. So here is Upping the Anti, our first effort in an ongoing project of trying to engage with and understand the political conjuncture facing radical activists in the Canadian state today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn every issue of the journal, we begin with an editorial in which we try to work out a collective perspective on pressing issues of the day. In this, our first editorial, we outline the impetus for the project, and reflect upon the strengths and limitations of such concepts as anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism in building new radical movements in Canada and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are very pleased to bring you two important interviews that we think will have relevance for activists seeking to understand past, present and future struggles. Grace Lee Boggs is a social justice activist who for the past six decades has paired tireless community organizing with a long-term commitment to reassessing and renewing radical ideas. She has worked with political figures such as Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, CLR James, and Jimmy Boggs, as well as taking part in the civil rights and Black liberation movements. Our second interview is with Ward Churchill, an indigenous scholar and activist who is today the subject of a massive attack on academic freedom by neo-conservative forces in the United States. Churchill has tirelessly chronicled state repression and genocide in the Americas and brings an important perspective for people thinking about radical social change. We bring you an interview we did with him two years ago in which he speaks about the anti-globalization movement and the potential for effective resistance to the war at home and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first of three essays in this issue of the journal, Gary Kinsman provides an introduction to autonomist Marxism and outlines how this current provides useful political tools for understanding and conceptualizing strategies of revolutionary change based on working class self-emancipation. In our next essay, Chris Hurl chronicles the development of the radical anti-capitalist wing of the anti-globalization movement and critically examines the concept of “diversity of tactics” as an approach to organizing. Finally, we reprint an essay by socialist feminist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/selma-james\" title=\"Selma James\"\u003eSelma James\u003c\/a\u003e, written some 30 years ago, that remains an important contribution to discussions taking place today around the intersections of race, gender and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue also launches the first of a series of roundtable discussions with activists on specific issues of concern to radical movements. Sharmeen Khan brings together Gary Kinsman, Kirat Kaur, and Junie Désil to discuss the politics of “anti-oppression,” while Aidan Conway draws together a series of interviews on the “organizational question” with Robbie Mahood, Indu Viashistink, and Jeff Shantz who offer reflections from different Marxist and anarchist communist perspectives. In our next issue we look forward to bringing you other similar discussion forums looking at anti-war organizing, Palestinian solidarity activism, and advocacy and activism in defense of immigrants and refugees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe close with reviews of two important books, Judith Butler’s \u003cem\u003eUndoing Gender,\u003c\/em\u003e and Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s \u003cem\u003eMultitude\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eUndoing Gender \u003c\/em\u003eis an important political contribution to debates and discussions taking place within the feminist and transgender movements, while Multitude is Hardt and Negri’s follow-up to their influential and controversial book Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe should stress that our approach to the project has not been to produce any kind of “party line” on the questions facing radical activists today. Instead, we see Upping the Anti as a space to discuss ideas currently being expressed and elaborated in contemporary social movements. In particular we want to explore what we see as emancipatory Marxist and anarchist contributions firmly grounded in feminist and anti-racist politics. In so doing, we are aware that a wide range of contrasting and even contradictory political ideas and approaches will be put forward in the pages of this journal. For example, in our interviews with Ward Churchill and Grace Lee Boggs, it is clear that there are a wide range of political questions upon which these two activists are divided, and we have our own disagreements with some of their perspectives. We do not share Grace’s enthusiasm for the potential of a revitalized wing of the Democratic Party in the US under the leadership of Dennis Kucinich, and we are skeptical of a number of Ward’s formulations regarding the nature of the revolutionary project in North America. However, we offer these divergent political opinions in the spirit of opening up principled discussion and debate on the radical left. We encourage you to write us letters, polemics and articles engaging with points of view that you find provocative, and to make a contribution to these debates. Our goal is to create a lively and non-sectarian forum for debate and a tool that can be appropriated and effectively used by those interested in rethinking how we organize and build effective radical movements for social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn closing, we would like to thank all the members of our advisory board who have assisted us in the production of this first issue of the journal. We look forward to producing our next issue for Fall 2005 (the final deadline for submissions to the next issue is July 1, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn autonomy and solidarity,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan C., Tom K., Sharmeen K.\u003cbr\u003e\nMarch 26, 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085420637,"sku":"UTA 1","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_961_utaone3_0.jpg?v=1654987311"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-10-may-2010","title":"Upping The Anti #10 (May 2010)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe May 2010 issue of this journal of action and theory, produced by a non-sectarian group of anticapitalist activists in Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive years isn’t a long time. In the history of struggle, it’s barely a blip. Radicals learn early that, if we’re not in it for the long haul, we’re not really in it at all. But for a radical grassroots publication like ours with no external funding, a volunteer editorial team, and an ambitious mandate of rigorous analysis and broad coverage, five years is quite an accomplishment. Although other radical publishing projects have recently fallen by the wayside, we’ve managed – incontrovertibly – to thrive. For this reason, we’re pleased to bring you Issue 10 of Upping the Anti.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen we started UTA in 2005, we could only guess at the resonance that a forum such as ours would have. We envisioned it as a space to critically assess the interwoven tendencies that define the politics of today’s radical left: anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism. We believed that, although they were inexact in their proclamations, these “antis” pointed toward a radical politics outside of the party-building exercises of the sectarian left and the dead end of social democracy. Judging from our growing subscription base and the increasing number of pitches and international inquiries we receive (not to mention the fruitfulness of our interactions with authors and readers), it seems that many others agree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the current political period is fraught with difficulties, many radicals seem to recognize that it’s increasingly necessary to scrutinize our prevailing assumptions. And, while it’s never easy to step away from day-to-day activist work to engage in analysis, UTA has managed to become a dynamic space where organizers converge to discuss, debate, and devise movement strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Issue 10, contributors once again examine the vicissitudes of the current political moment. We begin with a series of letters submitted in response to the content of Issue 9. As always, these responses reveal gaps in analysis and illuminate the challenges of inter-movement dialogue. As editors, we have always conceived of this section of the journal as a unique space in which to develop habits of activist correspondence and analytic exchange, so please feel free to join the conversation!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our Editorial, we highlight the opportunity for anti-capitalist mobilization that arose with the financial crisis of 2008 and ask the urgent question: did we miss it? As we watch capitalism reinvent itself, we’re forced to come to terms with the fact that the left has lost the initiative and, for the most part, has adopted defensive postures. For radicals who want more than the preservation of past gains, this conjuncture demands that we carefully consider both our priorities and our strategies. In order to orient to this question, we refer to the lessons of BC’s Solidarity movement in the 1980s and the Days of Action against the Ontario Tories in the mid-90s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKicking off our interviews section, Sharmeen Khan, David Hugill, and Tyler McCreary engage with well-known feminist activist and scholar Andrea Smith as she highlights the importance of “unlikely alliances” to movement building. Next, Chandra Kumar speaks with Patrick Bond about the challenges and possibilities confronting the climate justice movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe conclude with Robyn Maynard’s discussion with Jessica Yee and Nandita Sharma as they consider sex work, migration, anti-trafficking, and Indigenous struggles. In our articles section, AK Thompson assesses activist responses to Avatar and proposes that, rather than dismissing the film, our political objectives are better realized by highlighting the promise that mainstream audiences identified in it. Next, Tom Keefer critiques Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard’s claims in Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry and shows how Marxism and indigenism can mutually inform common struggles against capitalism. In our final article for this issue, Antonis Vradis and Dimitrios Dalakoglou explore the aftermath of the Greek revolt of 2008 and assess its impact and significance for ongoing struggles around the right to the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtables begin with Nicole Cohen’s discussion of the challenges of radical publishing with participants from Left Turn, Canadian Dimension, The Dominion, Briarpatch, and Z Communications. Next, Samir Shaheen-Hussain brings together a group of former police trainees and officers who have quit the force and are now engaged in working against police repression. Our final roundtable, convened by Kelly Fritsch, considers the new wave of student occupations on US campuses and their implications for how we understand social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our reviews section, Jerome Klassen examines the relationship between imperialism and Canadian foreign policy in Yves Engler’s Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy. Next, Pat Harewood tackles David Austin’s important collection You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal lectures of C.L.R. James and Noaman Ali considers John Saul’s Revolutionary Traveler. In our final review, Sara Falconer discusses Safiya Bukhari’s The War Before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we hope you find this, our tenth issue, to be engrossing and provocative. Your readership inspires us. And your money sustains us! If you read UTA regularly, please consider joining our monthly sustainers program – go to www.uppingtheanti.org. We’re gradually nearing our goal of having 100 sustainers by the end of 2010. With your help, we’ll be able to focus less on fundraising and more on bringing you the radical commentary and debate that makes this project worthwhile. In addition to sustainers, we’re also always looking for people who are interested in distributing UTA. Bulk discounts are available. If you feel like you could take on distributing 10 or more copies per issue, please get in touch with us at uppingtheantidistro@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the housekeeping front, we would like to extend our thanks to Christopher Dobbie, who helped to redesign our website at www.uppingtheanti.org. PDF versions of all our articles are online and available to all subscribers. The site has been re-organized so as to provide a better and more accessible archive of our content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe would also like to welcome Thomas Nail, Shelley Tremain, and David Shulman to our advisory board, and thank Gary Kinsman and Danielle O’Hearn for their contributions to the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, if you are interested in contributing to Issue 11 – scheduled to launch in November 2010 – please send a pitch (about 500 words) to uppingtheanti@gmail.com describing your proposed contribution. Pitches are due by June 13, 2010. The deadline for first drafts is July 20, 2010. For more information, please visit our website at www.uppingtheanti.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnjoy the issue! We look forward to your letters, submissions, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan Conway Kelly Fritsch David Hugill Tom Keefer Chandra Kumar Clare O’Connor AK Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, May 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 206 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085453405,"sku":"UTA 10","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_962_uta10_3_0.jpg?v=1654987312"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-13-november-2011","title":"Upping The Anti #13 (November 2011)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNumber Thirteen (November 2011) of this movement journal of theory and practice from canada. Check out the introduction below: \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs 2011 closes out, we can’t help but think that the currentmoment is ripe with opportunities. Uprisings in the MiddleEast and North Africa, anti-austerity protests in Europe, andopposition to homegrown austerity measures like Scott Walker’santi-labour legislation in Wisconsin prove that – given the chance– most of us desire revolutionary change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd while we don’t yet have the advantage, it’s hard not tobe at least a little bit optimistic. As UTA 13 goes to press, tens ofthousands are occupying financial districts across North America.And while the Occupy Together movement remains young andvulnerable, it also points toward a growing disdain for the rulingclass and its plans for the remaining “ninety-nine percent” of us. Inmany cities, the radical left remains suspicious of this development. However, if we are going to build on the opportunities presented to us, we must hone our collective capacity to analyze and respondto emergent situations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is where Upping the Anti fits in. Responding to the ongoingcriminalization of dissent, this issue’s Editorial considers therelationship between activists and the law. How should we relateto legal proceedings? Is it better – politically speaking – to fightit out, or do we make a greater contribution by returning to ourcommunities as quickly as possible?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur Interviews section begins with Faraz Vahid Shahidispeaking with Jesse Rosenfeld about his experiences on theGaza-bound Freedom Flotilla II. Next, Sharmeen Khan interviewsCopwatch LA organizer Joaquin Cienfuegos. David Hugill theninterviews geographer Neil Smith about revolutionary ambitionand the role of urbanization in class struggle. Finally, LorenzoFiorito assesses the recent Canadian Union of Postal Workers’Strike with Edmonton-based union activist Mikhail Bjorge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our Articles section, Erica R. Meiners, Liam Michaud,Josh Pavan, and Bridget Simpson begin by making the casefor queer opposition to sexual offender registries and carceralexpansion. Next, Sunera Thobani assesses how the post-9\/11 globalconsensus has made social movements in the West susceptible toIslamophobia. Finally, Nick Dyer-Witherford suggests how Marx’sformula for the circulation of capital might be extended to considerthe revolutionary circulation of the common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue’s Roundtable features four members of Toronto’s Queers Against Israeli Apartheid – Tim McCaskell, RichardFung, Natalie Kouri Towe, and Corvin Russell – who discuss thechallenges and opportunities confronted while doing queer anticolonial solidarity work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur book reviews begin with Kate Klein’s take on TheRevolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence WithinActivist Communities, edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and LeahLakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Next, Alex Khasnabish tacklesAK Thompson’s Black Block, White Riot: Antiglobalization and theGenealogy of Dissent. Finally, Steve da Silva reviews Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson’s Defying the Tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough space restrictions have prevented us from printingall of the letters we received in response to content that appearedin UTA 12 in these pages, we’ve made a long letter we receivedfrom Derrick Jensen in response to John Sanbonmatsu’s articleBlood and Soil – along with Sanbanmatsu’s reply – available onlineat uppingthanti.org. The debate is an intersting one, and we hopethat it can continue to generate discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the administrative front, we’re very pleased to welcomeLorenzo Fiorito to the Editorial Committee. We’re also happy towelcome Kieran Aarons and Rob Nichols to the UTA Advisory Board. Finally, we would like to thank outgoing Advisory Board members Ernesto Aguilar and Erica Meiners for their contributions.We wish them well in their future endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince its inception, Upping the Anti has been an importantvoice on the radical left. Our commitment to relying solely upondonations, subscriptions, and sustainer contributions has kept usfiercely independent; however, it has also meant that our financialsituation occasionally becomes precarious. To coincide with ourthirteenth issue, we’re launching a new sustainer’s drive. We urgeyou to commit to making a monthly donation – even a little goesa long way. Please visit our website for information on becoming a UTA sustainer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith your help, we can move achieve the financialsustainability that will allow us to continue publishing the radicalnews and analysis you’ve come to expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you’re interested in contributing to UTA 14 (scheduled forrelease in May 2011), please send a pitch to\u003ca href=\"mailto:uppingtheanti@gmail\"\u003euppingtheanti@gmail\u003c\/a\u003e.com no later than December 3, 2011. For more information, pleasevisit us online at\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnjoy the issue! As always, we look forward to your letters,submissions, and support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn solidarity and struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan Conway, Lorenzo Fiorito, Kelly Fritsch, Tom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, Clare O’Connor, AK Thompson, Élise Thorburn, Simon Wallace\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, November 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eLetters to the Editors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eEditorial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJesse Rosenfeld: Palestine Solidarity \u0026amp; the New Internationalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eJoaquin Cienfuegos: Their Eeys Were Watching Cops\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eMikhail Bjorge: Lesons from CUPW on Delivering the Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNeil Smith: Revolutionary Ambition in the Age of Austerity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eArticles\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eErica R. Meiners et al.: \"Worst of the Worst\"?: Queer Investments in Challenging Sex Offender Registries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eSunera Thobani: Breaking Consensus: The War on Terror, Islamophobia, and Social Movements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eNick Dyer-Witheford: Networked Leninism?: The Circulation of Capital, Crisis, Struggle, and the Common\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eRobyn Letson: Coming Out Against Apartheid with Richard Fung, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Tim McCaskell \u0026amp; Corvin Ruseell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eKate Klein: Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani \u0026amp; Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's\u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAlex Khasnabish: AK Thompson's\u003cem\u003eBlack Bloc, White Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eSteve da Silva: Kevin \"Rashid\" Johnson's\u003cem\u003eDefying the Tomb\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 172 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085486173,"sku":"UTA 13","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_965_uta13_3_0.jpg?v=1654987317"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-2-january-2005","title":"Upping The Anti #2 (January 2005)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe January 2005 issue of this canada-based journal of radical theory and action; below is the editorial committee's introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the second issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. We would like to start by letting you know that we have made new additions to the editorial staff of our journal. Erin Gray of Toronto has joined our editorial collective, and Dave Mitchell of Regina has joined us in the capacity of reviews editor. We are excited to have our project grow and develop, and in this issue we again provide you with a collection of writings addressing a wide variety of issues and debates concerning activists on the left in Canada. We begin this issue with responses from a number of readers to our first issue. We welcome this kind of feedback and encourage you to join in the discussions and respond to the contributions of others in the pages of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e by email or regular mail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur editorial, the space in which we try to develop a common political perspective for the journal, takes up the question of the politics of “anti-oppression” within the Canadian context, and outlines some of our thoughts on the historical development of this perspective. In our next two issues we will take up and examine the politics of “anti-capitalism” and “anti-imperialism” as part of our project of critiquing and developing our analysis of what we call the “three antis.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue we run three different sets of interviews with radical theorists and organizers. We talk about questions of class and power with Himani Bannerji, a Marxist and anti-racist feminist who has made important contributions to understanding and transforming the way we look at problems of oppression and domination. We also conclude our interview with Grace Lee Boggs, a Detroit community activist who talks about her experiences of organizing over the past six decades, her experience of figures such as Jimmy Boggs and CLR James, and her reflections of a lifetime of building political organizations. Our third interview concerns one of the most important education sector struggles to have occurred over the past several years in North America—the two hundred thousand strong strike by college and university students in Québec in the spring of 2005. We speak to Nicolas Phebus, a member of the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, who shares his analysis of this important struggle in Québec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe article section begins with a piece by Tom Keefer in which he looks at the genealogy of “socialism from below,” and questions its usefulness in contributing to the renewal of socialist politics today. Taiaiake Alfred and Lana Lowe provide an outline of the historical and contemporary nature and role of indigenous warrior societies in First Nations communities and struggles in the Canadian context. We continue with a series of roundtables that bring together various activists struggling in a number of important campaigns. Mordecai Briemberg, Paul Burrows, Rafeef Ziadah, Adam Hanieh and Samer Elatrash explore the problems and opportunities confronting Palestinian solidarity activism today; Chris Arsenault, Mike DesRoches, Derrick O’Keefe, Andrea Schmidt, George ‘Mick’ Sweetman, Honor Brabazon \u0026amp; Jessie X. discuss their experiences of the Canadian antiwar movement; and Sarita Ahooja, Sima Zerehi and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e talk about the state of immigrant and refugee solidarity activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final section of the journal consists of a series of reviews put together by our book reviews editor Dave Mitchell. Adrian Harewood assesses \u003cem\u003eA View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e, an interview with the late Alfie Roberts, a remarkable activist and organizer in the Montréal area. Kirat Kaur reviews Judy Rebick’s latest book \u003cem\u003eTen Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Rebick’s understanding of the Canadian feminist movement. Karl Kersplebedeb writes on \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e which provides a historical account of the connection between patriarchy, dispossession and the development of capitalism. Finally, Tyler McCreary reviews J. Sakai’s classic \u003cem\u003eSettlers: the Myth of the White Proletariat \u003c\/em\u003eand kicks off what we hope will be an ongoing debate on the relevance of Sakai’s analysis to understanding the relationship of race and class in North America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, we can’t finish talking about this issue of our journal without thanking our advisory board members and all the other people that made the first issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e a success, and who have ensured the continuing viability of this project. To date we have sold over 700 copies of our first issue and recouped our initial publishing and mailing costs. Our many distributors ensured that hard copies of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e were available in every province and in over 30 different Canadian cities as well as reaching countries as far away as Australia, Argentina, Cuba, England, France, Norway, Germany, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela. Copies of the journal were also distributed to several US-based political prisoners and prisoners of war, and we also take this opportunity to extend our greetings of solidarity to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith evidence in hand that a project such as ours can be financially sustainable and politically relevant, we are reprinting 1000 copies of our first issue and publishing this second issue in a perfect bound format with a print run of 2000 copies. As we prepare the third issue of the journal for publication in the spring of 2006 we welcome further assistance in helping to distribute the second issue of the journal even more widely than the first. To this end, we have put up a web page with an up to date list of local distributors from whom you can get hard copies of the journal. If you are interested in joining this list of distributors please e-mail us at uta_distro@yahoo.ca to make arrangements and to receive discounted bulk copies of the journal. We are also open to running exchange advertisements with other radical publications and catalogs. If you have a project that you would like to promote in Upping the Anti, or if you would like to publicize our journal please get in touch with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopies of the first issue of the journal remain available for download and distribution, and if you are using the PDF file of our first or second issue for distribution, we would appreciate a note from you letting us know where you are from and how you will be using the journal. The deadline for articles and letters for the third issue of the journal is March 15, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Solidarity,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Editors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 181 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085551709,"sku":"UTA 2","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_966_utatwo3_0.jpg?v=1654987318"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-5-october-2007","title":"Upping The Anti #5 (October 2007)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEditorial\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Democracy and Anti-Capitalist Renewal in English Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Fight for Feminism (Sunera Thobani)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Tradition of Resistance, on Indigenous Anti-Colonialism (\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eFrom the Perspective of Resistance (Michael Hardt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArticles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eInto a Black Hole: Tar Sands and Oil Production in Western Canada (Macdonald Stainsby)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eStrength in Numbers? why radical students need a new organizing model (Caelie Frampton)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Three Way Fight Debate, on Islam, Fascism and the Left, with Rami El-Amine and Michael Staudenmeier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoundtable: You Can't Jail the Spirit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eThe Movement to Free Political Prisoners (Bryan Doherty and Tom Keefer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eInterviews with Ashanti Alston, Robert Seth Hayes, Susan Tipograph and Sara Falconer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot to mention those ever-interesting book reviews and letters to the editor..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085748317,"sku":"UTA 5","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_969_utafive3_0.jpg?v=1654987319"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-6","title":"Upping The Anti #6","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe May 2008 edition of this radical journal of theory and action from Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTable of Contents of Upping the Anti #6\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eEditorial\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eIn Praise of Good Maps: Theory, History and the Signs of the Times\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMutulu Olugbala: It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: The Opposite of Truth is Forgetting George Katsiaficas: Remembering May 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eArticles\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Kahn Russell \u0026amp; Brian Kelly: Giving Form to a Stampede: The First Two Years of the New SDS Eric Newstadt: Accounting for the Student Movement Caelie Frampton: Response to Newstadt Jeff Monagham \u0026amp; Kevin Walby: The Green Scare is Everywhere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKriss Sol: Organizing Against the G8 with Hanne Jobst, Sabu and Go, Miranda and Jaggi Singh. Alex Khasnabish: Anti-Poverty Organizing in Halifax with Jill Ratcliffe, Capp Larsen, Angela Weal, Susan Lefort, Cole Webber, and James Babbitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Calnitsky: \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/naomi-klein\" title=\"Naomi Klein\"\u003eNaomi Klein\u003c\/a\u003e, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Alexis Shotwell: Color of Violence: the INCITE! Anthology. Chris Keefer: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. INCITE! (ed.). Scott Neigh Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Canada’s Economic Apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping The Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 296 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175085781085,"sku":"UTA 6","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_970_utasix3_0.jpg?v=1654987320"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-3-november-2006","title":"Upping The Anti #3 (November 2006)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe November 2006 issue of this canada-based journl of radical theory and action; below is the editorial committee's introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the third issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. After all the usual hard work and delays, we’re happy to once again present these pages. As always, our content is devoted to discussing both the successes and shortcomings of contemporary movements for social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe kick off this issue with a series of exchanges in the Letters section, where readers respond to content from \u003cem\u003eUpping The Anti\u003c\/em\u003e 2. We’re pleased that UTA is generating these kinds of engaging debates, and we encourage readers to write us with their thoughts and perspectives on the articles and interviews we print. Stay tuned for our online discussion board accessible from the Autonomy and Solidarity website: http:\/\/auto_sol.tao.ca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue, our editorial tries to assess the difficult space in which the North American anti-war movement presently finds itself. Despite the fact that, now more than ever, a massive antiwar movement with strong anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist tendencies is needed, the Canadian anti-war movement has not been able to deliver the goods. We attempt to analyze why anti-war organizers have overlooked the positive contributions of the antiglobalization movement and conclude by suggesting that the way forward lies in transcending the antithetical terms of our present struggles, where small direct actions stand in opposition to larger but depoliticized single day protests against the war. While we know that it’s impossible to resolve this dialectic on paper, we offer up the editorial in the hope of sharpening the terms of debate. Nothing would make us happier than to see others throw their hats into the ring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue also contains two interviews, both with renowned scholar-activists. The interview with Aijaz Ahmad addresses fundamental questions of revolution and organization, and reflects on the complexities of Islamic and anti-imperialist movements in Asia and the Middle East. William Robinson discusses Latin American resistance to neoliberalism in the changing context of global capitalism and considers how these movements are relating to the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, AK Thompson critically engages the arguments of Richard Day’s \u003cem\u003eGramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements\u003c\/em\u003e and discusses whether or not the orientation to “affinity” expressed by the newest social movements is adequate to the task of making meaningful social change. Following Thompson’s piece, Isabel MacDonald writes on Canadian complicity in the occupation of Haiti, outlining both the horrific oppression visited upon the Haitian people and the difficulties faced by the solidarity movement in support of Haiti. Subsequently, RJ Maccani investigates the Zapatista experience and outlines the lessons to be drawn north of the Rio Grande amidst Mexico’s changing political terrain. As in the interview section, Maccani’s piece engages the question of the relationship between anti-capitalist movements and the state. Our final article finds Jen Plyler writing about the need for sustainable movements to develop supportive conditions that can help organizers to ‘keep on keeping on.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtable section is devoted entirely to the struggle of the Six Nations people of the Grand River territory – one of the most important indigenous social movements taking place in Canada today. While currently focusing on the reclamation of a suburban housing estate, the struggle highlights larger issues of political sovereignty and settler colonialism. Tom Keefer provides an overview and background to the situation, while in the roundtable, participants focus on the role of non-native solidarity activists in supporting this indigenous movement. We interview Brian Skye, a member of the Cayuga nation who has been very active at the site, on his perspectives on solidarity organizing. We also interview Jan Watson, a non-native Caledonia, Ontario resident who has been centrally involved in organizing against racism directed against the people of Six Nations. The roundtable concludes with reflections by AJ Withers, Josh Zucker and Stefanie Gude, focusing on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s role in supporting the Six Nations struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the reviews section, Scott Neigh reflects on the connections between activism and research explored in \u003cem\u003eSociology for Changing the World: Social Movements\/Social Research,\u003c\/em\u003e edited by Caelie Frampton et al. Yutaka Dirk considers Dan Bergers’s assessment of the \u003cem\u003eWeather Underground: Outlaws of America\u003c\/em\u003e and Sharmeen Khan interrogates the white anti-racism of Inga Muscio’s \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe would like to take this opportunity to encourage our supporters to contribute financially to help us continue this project. Our journal is entirely “independent.” For those of you not keeping up with contemporary euphemisms, “independent” means we have no money. Basically, we’re broke. So, if you like what we do and would like us to keep on doing it, you should consider making a financial donation to the project. That way, you can be independent, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith your help, we hope to publish \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e twice a year. A one year subscription to the journal is $20, a two year subscription is $35, and back issues of Volumes 1 and 2 are available for $10 each. We especially encourage those who are financially endowed (like the professionals who feel sorry for us, the class traitors who envy us, and the organizations dying to keep it real) to consider purchasing a lifetime subscription to the journal for $250. This lifetime subscription (your life or ours – whichever expires first!) entitles you to all back and future issues of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti,\u003c\/em\u003e along with other non journal materials, including pamphlets and DVDs that are currently in the works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe need other kinds of help, too. Although we have successfully distributed Upping the Anti throughout Canada and internationally with the help of distributors in our network, we welcome any further assistance with distribution. If you would like to distribute the journal in your area, please arrange to receive bulk copies of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e at a discounted price by emailing uta_ distro@yahoo.ca. If you are a distributor who owes us money from previous issues, don’t be shy about getting in touch with us to cut a deal and arrange to receive copies of the new issue!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Solidarity and Struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan C., Erin G., Tom K., and Sharmeen K.\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, November 6, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 183 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175086403677,"sku":"UTA 3","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_967_utathree3_0.jpg?v=1654987321"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-7","title":"Upping The Anti #7","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe October 2008 edition of this radical journal of theory and action from Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTable of Contents of Upping the Anti #7\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eEditorial\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Moment of Danger: Catastrophe and Actualization\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClayton Thomas-Müller—Just Environmentalism? 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Or: What would—or could—it mean to “win”?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Valery Alzaga and Rodrigo Nunes, Colectivo Situaciones, Stephen Duncombe, Gustavo Esteva, The Free Association, Euclides André Mance, Michal Osterweil, Sasha Lilley, Kay Summer and Harry Halpin, Ben Trott, Nick Dyer-Witheford, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a foreword by John Holloway and an extended interview with Michal Osterweil and Ben Trott of the Turbulence Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions. 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As one author begins, ‘The new movements embodied and posited deliberate reactions to the practical and theoretical failures of previous political approaches on the left.’ This is the book about what came after the failures, and what’s to come.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/rebecca-solnit\" title=\"Rebecca Solnit\"\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Turbulence Collective\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 2006, the Turbulence Collective has produced a series of text-based political interventions. Each has focussed on a particular problematic: our ability to measure success, the issue of visibility, the question of how we think about the future. 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Givens, Jason Gonzales, Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia), Jessica Hoffman, Heather Jackson, Rahula Janowski, Sine Hwang Jensen, Agnes Johnson, Simon Knaphus, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, London Pro-Feminist Men’s Group, Amariah Love, Oluko Lumumba, mama raccoon, Mamas of Color Rising\/Young Women United, China Martens, Noemi Martinez, Kathleen McIntyre, Stacey Milbern, Jessica Mills, Tomas Moniz, Coleen Murphy, Maegan ‘la Mamita Mala’ Ortiz, Traci Picard, Amanda Rich, Fabiola Sandoval, Cynthia Ann Schemmer, Mikaela Shafer, Mustafa Shakur, Kate Shapiro, Jennifer Silverman, Harriet Moon Smith, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Darran White Tilghman, Jessica Trimbath, Max Ventura, and Mari Villaluna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is mind-blowing, brilliant, and urgently needed! It is full of useful models and strategies for creating resistance that breaks down barriers to participation for children and people caring for children, and integrates deeply transformative commitments to building radically different activist culture and practice. This is a must-read for anyone trying to build projects based in collective action.” —Dean Spade, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e “Don't Leave Your Friends Behind is an essential resource for the interdependence revolution in progress. As a queer, chronically ill woman of color who loves and needs the parents and kids in my communities, I am hungry for these on the ground stories of how parents, allies, comrades, fam and friends are rewriting the world by refusing to hold mamas, papis and kids anywhere but at the center of our movements and communities, where we're supposed to be.” —Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities\u003c\/em\u003e “Activist mothers Law and Martens propose that radical movements interested in winning must welcome parents and their children—the youngest rabble rousers. 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Within its pages you will find political posters and fine arts, comics and murals, street art, site specific works, zines, art collectives, documentation of performances and articles on the often overlooked but essential role all of these have played in struggles around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlights of the second volume of Signal include:\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eAnarchist Manga in Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eBreaking Chains: Political Graphics and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eSelling Freedom: Promotional Posters from the 1910s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eStreet Art, Oaxacan Struggle, and the Mexican Context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eCovering the Wall: Revolutionary Murals in 1970s Portugal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n \u003cli\u003eRøde Mor—Danish printmaking, pop music, and politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Signal reads like a magazine in that it consists of a number of smaller, independent articles but the loose continuity of subject holds it together as a book. 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He also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series, regularly produces posters and graphics for political groups and events, and is part of the political art cooperative Justseeds.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout Alec Icky Dunn\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlec \"Icky\" Dunn is an illustrator, amateur historian, and printer living in Portland, OR. He has designed book and record covers, political graphics and punk fliers. 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Each time it comes close to succeeding, it's beaten back by a coalition of labor, grassroots organizers, and the elderly. Meanwhile, Social Security has only become more vital to retirees and their families as the federal and state governments slash other benefits and services—a trend that's grown ever more troubling in recent years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe People's Pension is both groundbreaking history and an eye-opening guide for anyone concerned about one of the biggest issues of our times. With 95 percent of Americans participating in the program either as beneficiaries or through their payroll tax contributions, Social Security is quite literally the glue that binds Americans together as a community. 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The unorthodox political agenda of the Sojourner Truth Organization represents a small but powerfully resonant thread running through this arc of history. Drawing on detailed archival research and oral interviews, Truth and Revolution skillfully combines social and intellectual history approaches to shed light on both the theory and the practice of STO. Perhaps most famous for its theoretical formulations of white skin privilege, the group also developed a novel analysis of class consciousness that reflected its commitment to an autonomist Marxism. In all the major arenas of its work—factory organizing, anti-imperialist solidarity, anti-nuclear and anti-fascist struggles, among many others—STO combined a strategic assessment of the urgent tasks facing an activist left with a theoretical sophistication that merits sustained attention. Historian Michael Staudenmaier also includes a final chapter linking the legacy of STO directly to the challenges facing twenty-first century radicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few revolutionary initiatives formed out of the struggles of the 1960s left such a profound intellectual and political legacy as the Sojourner Truth Organization. This deeply researched, balanced, and remarkable history shows how STO's practice intersected with its ideas, not only in relatively well-known campaigns attacking white-skin privilege but in shopfloor organizing and anti-imperialist solidarity as well.\" — Dave Roediger, co-author of The Production of Difference \"Michael Staudenmaier has uncovered a crucial story of the New Left, one that has escaped the attention of most scholars of the era. The members Sojourner Truth Organization would have never have been content with today's so-called online organizing. They went directly to the shop-floor to argue for a better world, where the 'white blindspot' was opened to new visions of solidarity and progress. Staudenmaeir's skilled prose and meticulous research critically honors this history and draws lessons for us today.\" — James Tracy, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times “Truth and Revolution is a guided tour of the worker militancy, revolutionary nationalist upsurge, and new social movement eruptions of the last forty years. Best of all, Staudenmaier breaks it all down for today’s social movements. 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