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Softcover, trade paperback. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. A video game designer loses his job and takes revenge on the company with the help of a pink-haired conwoman and her techno-pirate friends. 294 pages. Light cover wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is #8 in the PM Press "Outspoken Authors" series of trade paper chapbooks. It features an excellent Doctorow novella (which has only been published once previously), and a thoughtful new Doctorow essay, "Creativity vs Copyright", plus an insightful new interview with the author. This copy is in fine condition, unread, as new. Its binding is tight and square, with no reading creases. Covers are unmarked and unworn. Pages are unmarked and unworn. Not a remainder. As with all Space Age Book purchases, I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its proud new owner in the same condition as my description.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kulick, Missy; Celso (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The prison business in the US is not based on locking up, punishing, or rehabilitating dangerous hoodlums. Follow the money and find how the prison-industrial complex fits into the New World Order of free trade and imprisoned people, the war on drugs, and capital flight. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: VG. 136pp. Front cover slightly bowed. Illus.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Organizing Cools the Planet offers a challenge to all concerned about the ecological crisis: find your frontline. This booklet weaves together stories, analysis, organizing tools, and provocative questions, to offer a snapshot of the North American Climate Justice movement and provide pathways for readers to participate in it. Authors share hard lessons learned, reflect on strategy, and grapple with the challenges of their roles as organizers who do not come from "frontline communities" but work to build a movement big enough for everyone and led by the priorities and solutions of low-income people, communities of color, Indigenous, youth, and other constituencies most directly impacted by the crisis. Rooted in the authors' experiences organizing in local, national, and international arenas, they challenge readers to look at the scale of ecological collapse with open eyes, without falling prey to disempowering doomsday narratives. This booklet is for anyone who wants to build a movement with the resiliency to navigate one of the most rapid transitions in human history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Bang. The door to your cell is shut. You have survived the arrest, you are mad that you weren't more careful, you worry that they will get others too, you wonder what will happen to your group and whether a lawyer has been called yet-of course you show none of this. The weapon, the fake papers, your own clothes, all gone. The prison garb and the shoes they've thrown at you are too big-maybe because they want to play silly games with you, maybe because they really blow "terrorists" out of proportion in their minds-and the control over your own appearance taken out of your hands. You look around, trying to get an understanding of where you'll spend the next few years of your life.Prison Round Trip was first published in German in 2003 as "Einmal Knast und zurck." The essay's author, Klaus Viehmann, had been released from prison ten years earlier, after completing a 15-year sentence for his involvement in urban guerilla activities in Germany in the 1970s. The essay was subsequently reprinted in various forums. It is a reflection on prison life and on how to keep one's sanity and political integrity within the hostile and oppressive prison environment; "survival strategies" are its central theme."Einmal Knast und zurck" soon found an audience extending beyond Germany's borders. Thanks to translations by comrades and radical distribution networks, it has since been eagerly discussed amongst political prisoners from Spain to Greece. This is the first time the text is available to a wider English-speaking audience."Klaus's take on survival strategy tells us we can not only survive thusly but can as well continue to serve the cause of liberation-which are really the same thing. We can be captured without giving in or giving up." -From the Preface by North American political prisoner Bill Dunne Prison Round Trip is a reflection on prison life and how to keep one's sanity and political integrity behind bars. Grappling with themes of consciousness, the nature of freedom, and what it means to be alive, Klaus Viehmann wrote this essay ten years after being released from prison, having completed a 15-year sentence for his involvement in urban guerrilla activities in Germany. The preface by political prisoner Bill Dunne, held by the U.S. government for over thirty years now, shows that the nature of imprisonment, and the ways in which the human spirit can transcend it, are universal. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument that workers themselves on the shop floor, not outside union officials, are the real hope for labor's future. Utilizing the principles of solidarity unionism, any group of co-workers, like the workers at Starbucks, can start building an organization to win an independent voice at work without waiting for a traditional trade union to come and "organize" them. Indeed, in a leaked recording of a conference call, the nation's most prominent union-busting lobbyist coined a term, "the Starbucks problem," as a warning to business executives about the risk of working people organizing themselves and taking direct action to improve issues at work. Combining history and theory with the groundbreaking practice of the model used by Starbucks workers, Lynd and Gross make a compelling case for solidarity unionism as an effective, resilient, and deeply democratic approach to winning a voice on the job and in society. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Booklet, stiff red wraps, lettered in black. New/as issued. Facsimile reprint of 1923 edition. 64 pp. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The battles between Michael Bakunin and Karl Marx in the First International (aka the International Working Men's Association, 18641876) began a pattern of polemics and rancor between anarchists and Marxists that still exists today. Outlining the profound similarities between Bakunin and Marx in their early lives and careers as activists, Mark Leier suggests that the differences have often been exaggerated and have prevented activists from learning useful lessons about creating vibrant movements. Argues that the differences between Bakunin and Marx have been exaggerated and have prevented activists from making progress. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition Pb., xxi, 169 pp., bibliography, index; like new.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 279 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. Owner's name and blind stamp front end paper.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Hutchinson, Chris; Dumm, Gary and Rudahl, Sharon (illustrator). 103 pages, ilus. Slight shelf wear, text clean.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. 8vo. Negligible shelfwear, appears unread; near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 172 pages, signed on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Looks at the ups and downs of the anarchist movement during the last century and many famous people who were associated with the anarchist scene - Herbert Read, Alex Comfort, Marie Louise Berneri, Paul Goodman, Noam Chomsky and George Orwell. Published @ $14.95.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity. Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Humanity stands at the brink of global environmental and economic collapse. We have pinned our future to an economic system that centralizes power in fewer and fewer hands, and whose benefits increasingly flow to smaller and smaller numbers of people. Our system of government is similarly medieval-relying on a 1780s constitutional form of government written to guarantee the exploitation of the natural environment and elevate "the endless production of more" over the rights of people, nature, and their communities.But right now, people within the community rights movement aren't waiting for power brokers to fix the system. They're beginning to envision a new sustainability constitution by adopting new laws at the local level that are forcing those ideas upward into the state and national ones. In doing so, they are directly challenging the basic operating system of this country-one which currently elevates corporate "rights" above the rights of people, nature, and their communities-and changing it into one which recognizes a right to local, community self-government that cannot be overridden by corporations, or by governments wielded by corporate interests.This short primer from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explores and describes the philosophy and underpinnings of the community rights movement that has emerged in the United States-a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience based on municipal lawmaking. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Inform yourself! Inform on your neighbor!Follow Special Agent Christian White on a cheerfully creepy tour of declassified government surveillance documents. White probes the redacted (blacked-out) texts of the FBI's notorious Counterintelligence Programs, searching for the words erased in the name of the Freedom of Information Act.Learn fun techniques for the infiltration of activist groups, how to earn benefits and a pension as an agent provocateur, and how to, in the words of J. Edgar Hoover, "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize" your neighbors! These are our tax dollars at work, folks; we might as well enjoy it.This script has been performed by writer/activist L.M. Bogad in theatres, galleries, labor halls, and community centers for the past twelve years. The pamphlet also includes a preface by Guillermo Gmez-Pea, and a companion essay by Bogad about the history of domestic surveillance/harassment, and a "how to" for would-be performers of the script.Back by popular demand, this new Second Edition adds photos of the original COINTELPRO documents used in the show. There are also many updates to the script: more information, more character development, and more and better jokes, all in the darkly humorous style of the original. An informative, entertaining and slightly frightening pamphlet, in which Special Agent Christian White takes readers on a chilling tour of the US government's declassified surveillance documents. The script for COINTELshow has been performed by writer/activist L.M. Bogad in theatres, galleries, labour halls and community centres for the past 12 years. The pamphlet also includes a preface by Guillermo Gomez-Pena, a companion essay by Bogad about the history of domestic surveillance/harassment, and a 'how to' for would-be performers of the script. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile's presidential election in 1970, a powerful cultural movement accompanied him to power. Folk singers emerged at the forefront, proving that music could help forge the birth of a new society. As the CIA actively funded opposition media against Allende during his campaign, the New Chilean Song Movement rose to prominence, viscerally persuading voters with its music. Vctor Jara, a central protagonist at the time, became an icon in Chile, Latin America, and beyond for his revolutionary lyrics and life. Inti-Illimani, Quilapayn, and other musicians contributed by singing before audiences of workers outside factories or campesinos in Chile's rural countryside.A short cultural history, "Venceremos" charts the development of the movement from the years before Allende's victorious campaign to the brutal U.S.-backed military coup on September 11, 1973, that overthrew his presidency and imposed the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Featuring interviews from key figures and lyrical analysis, "Venceremos" gives insight into how the New Chilean Song Movement's revolutionary anthems came to be.From the early folkloric documentation of Violeta Parra in Chile's countryside to "Venceremos," the triumphant anthem of Allende's Popular Unity Coalition, the music of Chile's Nueva Cancin was shaped by the larger history occurring all around it. Within the songs, all the hopes, dreams and apprehensions of the nation were reflected. At the same time, as its influence grew, the cultural movement claimed its own principal space as catalyst of not only Chile's musical but its political future as well. So dangerous were its creations that the Pinochet dictatorship censored and attempted to destroy them. Most tragically, Vctor Jara's life was taken in the bloody repression that immediately followed the coup. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Knight, Milton (illustrator). Paperback. This unique comic by Milton Knight illuminates the early years of C.L.R. James (19011989), known in much later years as the "last great Pan-Africanist." The son of a provincial school administrator in British-governed Trinidad, James disappointed his family by embracing the culture and passions of the colonial underclass, Carnival and cricket. He joined the literary avant-garde of the island before leaving for Britain. In the UK, James swiftly became a beloved cricket journalist, playwright for his close friend Paul Robeson, and a pathbreaking scholar of black history with The Black Jacobins (1938), the first history of the Haitian revolt.The artistic skills of Milton Knight, at once acute and provocative, bring out James's unique personality, how it arose, and how he became a world figure. A graphic biography of the C. L. R. James - 'last great PanAfricanist.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Light shelf wear. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 115 pages, bibliography, includes a short interview with the author. Slight shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First edition. 5 x 8, 274 pgs. 2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Fiction uses magical realism, revolutionary politics, and romantic adventure to bring to life a colorful community of squatters in an imaginary Latin American city. Loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David.

Paperback. Condition: new. Bonzo, N.O. (illustrator). Paperback. Beneath the Pavement the Gardenis a coloring book featuring the artwork of N.O. Bonzo. Kids and adults of all ages are invited to let their imagination soar with this beautiful celebration of the many forms of anarchism, from direct action and mutual aid to abolition and community gardens, and more. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. 8vo. Light edgewear; very good+.