How do you survive without running water for more than two years? First, get a trash can. Put it under the roof to collect water to flush the toilet. Then, get a bucket and remember what your grandparents taught you in the early 1950s, before indoor plumbing reached all of rural America.
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Continue readingFor months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned?
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Continue readingOn August 9th, Yasmin Yonis, a Somali-American writer, caused a Twitter storm when she started a conversation about accusations of cultural appropriation made by South Asian Twitter against Black Twitter.
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Continue readingU.S. Deadline: December 8th
Canada Deadline: December 10th
Just a heads up for all of you that care and who are in the united states, there are just a few days left to place your orders with leftwingbooks.net in order for us to be able to mail them off to get to you by December 25th. Any orders places after this Tuesday, December 8th may not arrive until after the 25th.
If you are in canada, you have a little bit longer, but not much: orders we receive after this Thursday December 10th cannot be guaranteed to arrive by the ………..READ MORE
Continue readingKevin “Rashid” Johnson entered the u.s. prison system over 20 years ago, one of countless young Black men consigned to lifelong incarceration by the post-civil right policies of anti-Black genocide. While behind bars, Rashid encountered the ideas of revolutionary Black nationalism and Marxism-Leninism, and of the people and organizations who have used and developed these ideas in previous generations, foremost amongst these being the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Along with other Black/New Afrikan prisoners, Rashid helped found the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, while using both his artwork and his political writings as avenues to advance the cause ………..READ MORE
Continue readingIn the entrance hall of a run-down block of flats, a group of teenagers stood hanging out, smoking, track-suit hoods up, shoulders hunched, seemingly nonplussed that they were getting drenched. A storm was blowing rain into the building on the Chêne Pointu estate.
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Continue readingInedible food, no time in the outside yard, overcrowded cells and no access to religious or self-help programs. Muhamad Alhasi told the Sun on Wednesday that he and other inmates in the maximum-security wing — he says dozens — began to refuse meals Tuesday.
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Continue readingAccording to the dominant narrative, the origin of capitalism was a European process at its core: this was a system born in the mills and factories of England, or under the blades of the guillotines during the French Revolution.
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Continue readingIt’s been a fairly intense couple of years for me here at Kersplebedeb, publishing more books and pamphlets than i ever did before, and i like to think they include some important contributions to people who are trying (much as i am, hopefully with more success) to figure out how the world works, and what we can do about that. The recent publication of Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead, Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black by Jalil Muntaqim, and Panther Vision by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, felt like a real watershed for me, and now that all three ………..READ MORE
Continue readingOne in five inmates at Canada’s second-largest jail are refusing meals to protest a spate of problems with the new facility ranging from mouldy showers to relentless lockdowns.
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Continue readingEn mettant la hache dans les services publics comme il le fait, le gouvernement Couillard fait un pas de plus dans la mise sur pied du projet capitaliste néo-libéral. Celui-ci vise à précariser les emplois salariés et à privatiser les services essentiels, tels la santé et l’éducation, en les soumettant au marché et en reléguant leur poids aux familles. Les mesures d’austérité s’inscrivent dans une restructuration de l’économie capitaliste au niveau mondial, visant à augmenter les taux de profits de la classe possédante et des investisseur.e.s. Ce faisant, il s’éloigne du modèle de développement du ………..READ MORE
Continue readingSunday, November 29
at 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Montgomery Legion
330 Kent St, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2H3
facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/918137461567403/
Back by a Popular demand….
FeministTwinsPresents: Ottawa’s 2nd Annual #FeministFair!
We will be organizing on unceded, unsurrendered Algonquin territory.
ACCESSIBILITY:
Please help us support accessibility and inclusion. We ask that participants refrain from wearing scents or from smoking at the front of the enterance.
Entry by donation, all welcomed, no one will be turned away.
There is an elevator & gender netural washrooms.
Limited street parking, please try to carpool. (it’s Sunday though so it’s free!)
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Continue readingKingston: Book Launch: Lumpen, The Autobiography of Ed Mead 7pm on Tuesday, November 17th At the AKA Autonomous Social Centre (Up the ramp at the Red and Black House, Queen and Wellington) facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/547665322057092/ Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from author Ed Mead via Skype and publisher Karl Kersplebedeb about
Continue readingHamilton: A Double Book Launch for “Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead”, and “Escaping the Prism… Fade to Black: Essays and Poetry” by Jalil Muntaqim Monday, November 16 at 7:00pm – 9:00pm The Tower, 281 Cannon St E, Hamilton, Ontario facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/525041864336636/ Come out for an evening with former political prisoner and longtime revolutionary
Continue readingWriting 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
Continue readingNovember 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 readingThere 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 readingFriday 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 readingFormer 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 readingBy 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
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