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Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine
Becoming the Media provides an in-depth analysis of the intersectional radical and left wing publication Clamor, which emerged with Independent Media Centre movement after the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle and was a staple read for do-it-yourself revolutionaries during its seven year run. In this concisely written case study, Clamor co-founder Jen Angel shares the inner workings of the award winning, nationally distributed magazine. She offers useful suggestions and analysis for media projects, the evolving publication landscape, and the importance of understanding how media functions within social movements for social movements.
Continue reading...Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy & Planetary Crisis
25. February 2010
As globalization penetrates the hearts and souls of many lives and as transnational capitalist interests work beyond the sovereignty of many states to weaken both socioeconomic and environmental regulations, accelerating people's impoverishment along with ecological catastrophe as a result, the world needs revised thinking and action.
Continue reading...Direct Action: An Ethnography
14. February 2010
To many anarchists, the idea of an “ethnographic study of the global justice movement” may seem problematic. Whether it be matters of security culture or the question of an outsider coming into a culture and telling the rest of the world about them, people I’ve talked to, without knowing Graeber’s work, often seemed skeptical.
Continue reading...The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
21. January 2010
David Solnit asks, "who has the power and resources to define our history and thus shape what people think?" It is a premise that shapes the awkwardly titled AK Press offering The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, a primer for activists
Continue reading...The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
27. December 2009
This richly illustrated and designed volume, featuring indigenous art and photographs on nearly every page and unprecedented interviews with members of the early villages, is a result of the seven years Mexican journalist Gloria Muñoz Ramírez’ spent with the Zapatistas in Southern Chiapas.
Continue reading...Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-globalization Movement
8. September 2009
With this book anarchist sociologist, Luis Fernandez, writes on his studies of policing protests (broadly speaking). At first glance, the references and style of the book might make one think it is written for other academics--dispassionately studying the behaviors of our political masters and their domestic army, the police.
Continue reading...A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
8. September 2009
A collection of essays by and interviews with some of the well-known faces of the anti-capitalist/globalisation movement, including Subcommandante Marcos, Naomi Klein and the McDonalds - trashing Jose Bove, amongst others.
Continue reading...Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
12. August 2009
To read Augé’s book is to be given a slightly nauseating look at one’s world, and one could just pass through the book as through a non-place. But it can also provide an analytic tool; the critical potential of Non-Places is discerned by enacting it that way.
Continue reading...The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
16. July 2009
Brilliant debunking of anything you thought was ever good about corporations (which may not have been much). Bakan goes through the rise of the entity of the corporation, from its humble beginnings a mere 150 years ago, to the Globe-strangling monster that it is today.
Continue reading...Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural
20. April 2009
In reading Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural, one cannot help but be reminded of historical blind spots regarding the nature of profit -- a spot progressive idealists miss regularly. One need look no further than something like progressive advocacy of drug legalization as an example of collective amnesia about North American economics.
Continue reading...Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Toward a new Humanism
16. March 2009
Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo's Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire (PPAE) best collects their founding theoretical work on the post-9/11, emergent international anti-capitalist/imperialist movement that reflects an active example of revolutionary critical pedagogy.
Continue reading...- Girls Are Not Chicks - Coloring Book
- The Jena 6
- A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
- Behind the Mask
- On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Twenty-First Century Lynching
- Earthlings
- The Will to Resist
- The Lifelong Activist: Changing the World Without Losing Your Way
- The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
- Cath: I've had Get it Ripe for a few months now. And yes...
- Abbey: I'm just beginning to read this. I love Todd May's...
- Anthony Nocella: A really good book, which I enjoyed. It is helpful...
- GARY CHADWICK: TAKE IT FROM ME.ITS NOT JUST A BLACK OR ANY RACIAL...
- Jake Last: now this is a book I must read!!!...
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5. March 2010
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