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Abolition Now!
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CR10 Publications Collective, editor
Today, over 7,000,000 people live under the control of U.S. jail, prison, probation, or parole systems—the vast majority of them people of color and young people. Between 2000 and 2007, Congress added 454 new offenses to the Federal criminal code. Policing at all levels is increasingly militarized and demands more and more resources. The crisis shows no signs of slowing.
Published in honor of Critical Resistance's tenth anniversary, Abolition Now! reflects the themes: Dismantle, Change, and Build. It presents bold strategies to create a stronger movement of people committed to PIC abolition and build healthy communities free from surveillance, policing, and imprisonment.
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We, the Anarchists!
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Stuart Christie
The FAI was a group of twentieth-century militants dedicated to keeping Spain's largest labor union, the CNT, on a revolutionary, anarcho-syndicalist path.
There are two dimensions to Christie's indispensable We, the Anarchists! The first is descriptive and historical: it outlines the evolution of the organized anarchist movement in Spain and its relationship with the wider labor movement and, at the same time, provides some insight into the main ideas that made the Spanish labor movement one of the most revolutionary of modern times. The second is analytical, as the book addresses—from an anarchist perspective—the problem of understanding and coping with change in the contemporary world; how can ideals survive the process of institutionalization?
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Hammered by the Irish
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Harry Browne
As the US prepared to invade Iraq in 2003, five Catholic Worker activists scrambled across runways and broke into a hangar at Shannon Airport in the west of Ireland. Swinging hammers and a pickaxe, they did more than $2.5 million damage.
The five were hit with the full weight of the law and were quickly condemned by the media and much of the anti-war movement. Three-and-a-half years later, a jury decided they were innocent of any crime. This is the story of how a civilian airport became a "Pitstop of Death," and how an act of conscience touched the hearts and minds of twelve jurors, making political and legal history, in an epic of popular resistance.
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Partisanas
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Ingrid Strobl
Common perception of women during wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history—working in munitions factories, or waiting for their men to return. The truth is that much of the resistance to fascism should be chalked up to the people whom official accounts have nothing to say. Partisanas excavates the history of women who planted bombs, shouldered guns, and were among the most active participants in the European Resistance.
Ingrid Strobl is a filmmaker, lecturer, and writer living in Germany. This first English-language edition was translated by Paul Sharkey and introduced by Martha Ackelsberg.
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Disaster and Resistance
- Seth Tobocman
Disaster and Resistance outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the 21st century—from post 9-11 NYC to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Fans of Seth's classic works, You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive and War in the Neighborhood, will see that his punch has not softened as his new work skewers the individuals and institutions wreaking havoc across the globe today. In his bold comic style, Seth chronicles events as they happen, musing not on the chaos of instability and fear, but on the struggle against it.
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Everywhere All the Time
- Matt Hern, editor
Debates about education often revolve around standardized testing, taxes and funding, teacher certification—everything except how to best help kids develop learning skills. Everywhere All the Time presents an array of historical and contemporary alternatives to traditional schooling, demonstrating that children's capacity to learn decreases as soon as they enter bureaucratic, institutional facilities.
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Real Utopia
- Chris Spannos, editor
Instead of simply declaring "another world is possible," the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain. Topics include: participatory economics, political vision, education, architecture, artists in a free society, work after capitalism, and poly-culturalism. The catch-all phrase here is "participatory society"—one that is directly democratic and seeks institutional solutions to complex sociological and economic questions.
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Red State Rebels
- Joshua Frank & Jeffrey St. Clair, editors
Out in the red states, a rebellion is breaking out and has been for some time. The stakes are high and the odds are long, and the battles are waged over the essentials of life: water, food, wilderness, and human liberty. But here there are no fixed blueprints for resistance. No organizational flow charts for how to plot a rebellion. No focus groups or pulse polls or field-tested PR strategies or genteel formalities for grant applications. Marx would be confused.
This book offers snapshots of grassroots resistance that is taking place in the forgotten heartland of America. These are tales of rebellion and courage.
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