Writing On The Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal Price:$17.95 (USD) Mumia Abu Jamal’s essential perspectives on black experience, race relations, freedom, justice, social change, and the future of American society. From the first slave writings to contemporary hip hop, the canon of African American
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Kersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Kersplebedeb Tabling, This November!
November is a busy month for Kersplebedeb … what follows is a list of events we will be tabling at, in Montreal, Kingston, Hamilton, and Ottawa: Montreal: EXPOZINE 2015 !!! 14 – 15 November 2015, 12-18h 5035 Saint-Dominique, Montreal facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1703527269866626/ Free! Dive into the incredible world of local and
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Anarchosyndicalism against Fascism: A Response to Recent lnsinuations (repost)
There may be problems with some people who identify with anarchosyndicalism, but it is not because there is any inherent correlation between it and fascism. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Anarchosyndicalism against Fascism: A Response to Recent lnsinuations
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: ALERT! Guards harassing LBTQ2+ Prisoners at GVI Women’s Prison!
At Grand Valley Institute for Women (GVI), a federal prison in Kitchener, Ontario (in Canada) there has been a recent crackdown against LBTQ2+ prisoners and/or prisoners in relationships amongst themselves. Intimate relationships between prisoners are being attacked by a clique of guards acting without apparent direction or oversight from the Corrections Canada administration. We need
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Medical Emergency: Robert Seth Hayes
We recently received this distressing information about the ongoing persecution of comrade Robert Seth Hayes. As many of you know, Seth has had a chronic cough since May of this year for which he did not receive any diagnosis or treatment for many months. When Seth finally saw the pulmonologist at Coxsackie
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Seers, Time-Travellers, and Intergalactic Trouble-Makers: A Keynote on Radical Organizing as Science Fiction
Saturday November 7 at 5:00pm Grande Salle (2nd Floor) Centre Culturel Georges Vanier 2450 Rue Workman, Montréal, QC H3J 1L8 Metro Lionel Groulx Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without injustice, we are engaging in speculative fiction. Radicals and activists devote their lives to envisioning such worlds,
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Anti-Prison TRIPLE LAUNCH: Certain Days, Lumpen, Escaping the Prism [Montreal]
Friday November 27 @ 6pm 1500 de Maisonneuve O. #204 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1646067655663278/ Join us for an evening of conversation, poetry, and celebration against prisons, as we launch the 2016 Certain Days calendar, and two new books from Kersplebedeb Publishing by BPP/BLA political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim, and anti-prison revolutionary (and former political
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Ed Mead Interviewed on Prison Radio
Former political prisoner Ed Mead, whose autobiography Lumpen was published by Kersplebedeb earlier this month, was interviewed last week on CKUT in Montreal’s Prison Radio show. More than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of America’s underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: 2016 Slingshot Organizers at Kerspebedeb Leftwingbooks.NET
By far the most popular way for anarchists to stay organized, the Slingshot 2016 organizers are here, complete with mini-calendar, daybook planner, address book section, international radical contact list, and nifty what happened on this day notes scattered throughout. The artwork, as ever, is wonderful in a chaotic punk rock
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar 2016
The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal and Toronto and three political prisoners being held in maximum-security prisons in New York State: David Gilbert, Robert Seth Hayes and Herman Bell. We are committed to doing work grounded
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Jalil Arbitrarily Denied Books including HIS OWN
On October 7, 2015, Jalil was arbitrarily denied receipt of four books after they had been approved by the package room. Jalil would like folk to write to Commissioner Annucci regarding this matter. Write to Commissioner Annucci at: Anthony Annucci Commissioner of DOCCS 1220 Washington Avenue The Harriman State Campus,
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Mailroom Censorship at Attica
On October 7, political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was denied 4 books which arrived for him at Attica Correctional Facility. Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and one of the longest held political prisoners in the world today; he has been incarcerated since
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill (repost)
When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Rheumatic fever rates in some Ontario First Nations 75 times higher than rest of Canada (repost)
People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new research from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Read the rest of this post on the original site at
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide (repost)
The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZ television is reporting. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: A Typology of Colonialism (repost)
In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—have proliferated. Read the rest of this post on the original site at A Typology of Colonialism
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical (repost)
Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a “conspiracy of the rich”. Read the rest of this post
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: The Two Totalitarianisms (repost)
A small note – not the stuff of headlines, obviously – appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Two Totalitarianisms
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead
More than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of America’s underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get by—and barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Halifax Double Book Launch: LUMPEN (Ed Mead) and ESCAPING THE PRISM (Jalil Muntaqim)
WHEN: Saturday, October 24at 7:00pm WHERE: Plan B Halifax, 2180 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 3B2 facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/624566001016376/ Comrades in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have organized the first joint book launch for Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead and Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black by Jalil Muntaqim. Ed Mead will be
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