Marius got out this morning!!!! Reminders on donating to his re-entry solidarity funds: 1. A system has been set up for purchase of gift cards, like "Vanilla Gift" that can be purchased, using contact info: Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Attorney at Law, 277 Broadway Suite 1501 NY, NY 10007. For phone # needed with the address, use (212) 219-1919. 2. In addition, there will be a trust account to receive direct donations through the donations page on supportmariusmason.org. 3. All May long, AK Press will be donating $2 from every item they sell to Marius. Thank you to all who are able to celebrate his release by contributing and sharing. Everything helps.
We’re excited to announce Garrett Felber will be traveling in May and June to share 𝘐 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴: 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦! Join us in Oakland, Portland, Toronto, Buffalo, Brooklyn and Baltimore! These texts represent decades of Sostre’s work as an agitator, teacher, and intellectual in the face of intense state repression, including years in solitary confinement as punishment for his activism. While in prison, Sostre established radical study groups and lending libraries, published several revolutionary newspapers, organized chapters of the Black Panther Party, and fought for the rights of incarcerated workers. 5/21—Oakland, CA. @tamarackoakland , 7pm Book event with Emile Suotonye DeWeaver Book sales by @marcus.books 5/27— Portland, OR. @freesocietylibrary , 7pm I Cannot Submit event with Corey Devon Arthur 6/04—Toronto, ON. @adfrntbooklist , 7pm I Cannot Submit event with William C. Anderson and Robyn Maynard 6/05—Buffalo, NY. Sostre-Pointer Memorial Garden, 7pm I Cannot Submit event with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Hosted by @burningbooks 6/06—Brooklyn, NY. @bklynlibrary Bedford Library, 5:30pm I Cannot Submit event with Mariame Kaba and Corey Devon Arthur 6/07—Baltimore, MD. @redemmas, 2pm I Cannot Submit event with Paul Coates
Released TODAY in the Working Classics Series 🔥 Rudolf Rocker's 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙤-𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢: 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 is the essential introduction to anarchist theory of the labor struggle. In this political masterpiece, Rocker offers a clear introduction to anarchist ideas; a history of the international workers’ movement; and an outline of the syndicalist tactics of direct action, sabotage, and the general strike. 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙤-𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 rejects both capitalist exploitation and authoritarian state socialism, charting the way for a radical alternative of freedom through solidarity. Get your copy now at akpress.org, and check out the rest of the Working Classics while you're at it!
Distro Highlight ✨️ Naming the Moment: Revolutionary Strategy in a Time of Crisis by The Emergency Brake Collective and from @eberhardtpress The need to choose between creating a revolution to free humanity or to accept our relentless slide into barbaric authoritarianism confronts us everyday. In flight from the Nazis, Walter Benjamin wrote in 1940 that, contrary to what many believed, revolution was not the locomotive engine driving history into the future; instead it was the passengers pulling the emergency brake. As the transnational capitalist class continues to extract and burn fossil fuels and wage imperialist war, the presumption that our planet will continue to be hospitable to human flourishing is in serious doubt. How do we pull the emergency brake so that we can create a fundamentally different society together? What and who is standing in the way of this? Who amongst us could remake the world? How do we create a world in which everyone's needs are met and where people can pursue their highest aspirations? Questions such as these are what prompted The Emergency Brake Collective to write this document. As they struggle for answers, they invite us to join them! Now available to order at AKPress.org!
Marius was one of the first to be signed up for the Friends of AK prisoner support membership. Over the years, he's written reviews of AK Press books and been in friendly communication with collective members. In an amazing display of mutual aid, the AK collective is donating $2 from every sale this month (not just books) to support his re-entry. If you already have all their books, maybe it's time to get yourself that hoodie you've always wanted! Make your orders at akpress.org Link also in bio. Artwork: Night swim of narrow-nosed crocodile, by Marius J. Mason, 2019.
⚡COVER REVEAL ⚡ for For the Long Haul: How to Stay in a Fight for a Better World, a guide to sustaining long-term activism by movement veteran @withmovements! For the Long Haul addresses the question of how to sustain long-term involvement in transformative social movements. Chris Dixon takes up this question with a particular focus on our time of compounding crises and widely felt urgency. This urgency, the book argues, is warranted; creating a just and habitable future requires dramatic social transformation. “An invaluable resource.” —Angela Y. Davis @_angeladavis1944 Pre-orders can be made through @akpressdistro the US and @btlbooks in Canada. The book comes out on September 22nd. #ChrisDixon #FortheLongHaul #Activism #SocialMovements
🔥 Now in Paperback🔥 The paperback version of 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦 by Garrett Felber is out TODAY! 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 is the first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. “I’ve been waiting for years for a biography of Martin Sostre worthy of its subject. This is it. Garrett Felber tells an engrossing story of a complex and committed man who dedicated his life to the struggle for liberation of the oppressed with depth and revolutionary love. A new generation will now get to know someone whose contributions have made all our lives more possible. 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 will be a mainstay on my shelf and my book recommendations.” —Mariame Kaba Get your copy at akpress.org—and while you're at it, preorder a copy of 𝘐 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴: 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦 (out later this month)! Direct links in our linktree.
New York! Come to the KGB bar on Sunday to hear Scott Schwartz talk about the history of interest, and why the word built from Enlightenment colonialism needs an exorcism, with Leigh Claire La Berge. 📉🍸📈 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 explains how the concept of “interest” had to be continuously rehabilitated over six centuries of European colonial expansion, transforming profit from a mortal sin into a business model. “Scott W. Schwartz exposes the hidden coercive mechanism that made endless growth seem natural: interest. . . . A sharp, unsettling contribution to degrowth thought.”—Kohei Saito, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
Distro Highlight ✨️ Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene by @lmboisson and from @beaconpress Science writer Lorraine Boissoneault has been in pain for most of her adult life. Unable to control or make sense of her chronic illness diagnoses, she began describing the ebb and flow of her symptoms as “body weather.” At first an imaginative approach to coping with flare-ups, the phrase has become a waypoint in Lorraine’s explorations of the intimate relationship between our fragile bodies and the world around us. Visceral and poetic, these braided essays traverse science, history, and memoir to explore the interconnected relationships between the human body and Earth’s meteorology—two chaotic systems that inform every cell of our beings. Boissoneault surveys her own “body weather,” relating her dysregulated thyroid to global temperature fluctuations; her arrhythmic heart to chaotic thunderstorms; her inflamed joints to wildfires beyond control. Body Weather is a lyrical exploration that reimagines the cloudy stages of grief and challenges us to reexamine universal questions lodged deep within: how do we find comfort and meaning in a fevered world? Order your copy today at AKPress.org!
Anarchist trans prisoner Marius Mason is finally being released after seventeen of a twenty-two year sentence! Marius is an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist as well as a loving parent, artist, poet, and musician who was given a brutal sentence for acts of property destruction. No one was hurt, no individual targeted, and yet he was given a “terrorism enhancement." His arrest was based on snitching (including his then spouse) and FBI harassment of activists. Marius was shuffled around between prisons, isolating him from family and outside friends, but he is resilient, and despite all the challenges being incarcerated creates he has fought tirelessly for trans prisoner rights. Marius was actually one of the first people to be signed up for the Friends of AK prisoner support membership, and has over the years written reviews of AK Press books and been in friendly communication with collective members. We want to celebrate his release and help him land on his feet, so through May we will give Marius $2 for every item sold (books, sweatshirts, you name it). We hope this will add up to a tidy sum, and we encourage you to get a book. You can also skip the AK Press-middle man and help him directly through his support committee (link in our linktree). Support political prisoners!
Happy May Day from your comrades at AK Press. We are closed for business today in observance of the international workers' holiday. We'll see you in the streets! 📷 : Alexander Berkman speaks to a May Day rally, Union Square, 1914
