http://www.pmpress.org/content/index.php?topic=bl Feed of latest blog entries from PM Press Copyright 2010 PM Press GeekLog Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:33:08 -0700 en-gb http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100725152933308 John Curl http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100725152933308 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:29:33 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100725152933308#comments PM Press Blogs Watch this space for new blog posts coming soon. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100721131925428 Kersplebedeb http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100721131925428 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:19:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100721131925428#comments PM Press Blogs Folks have different takes on what happened, and why, in Toronto during the G20. At issue is how the Black Bloc managed to trash a few cop cars and break countless windows while sustaining so few arrests, and what relation this accomplishment had ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100719125622192 Alec Icky Dunn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100719125622192 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:56:22 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100719125622192#comments PM Press Blogs I'll be posting here soon. For now, check out my other blog at:http://blackout-print.blogspot.com/ http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100703122754108 David Sheen http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100703122754108 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:27:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100703122754108#comments PM Press Blogs Bank windows smashed. Cop cars burned. Vandals with black masks. Liberals with white lies. In the wake of a week of protests in Toronto (Canada) against empire and exploitation, a clump of fluffy feathers on the left wing of this city are seeing r... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100624131115881 David Sheen http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100624131115881 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:56:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100624131115881#comments PM Press Blogs At this very moment, the most important political leaders in the world are intersecting in Toronto, the financial capital of Canada, for the G8 & G20 summits. There, they will meet to discuss strategies for steering the planet towards more pro... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010061808125892 scott crow http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010061808125892 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:12:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010061808125892#comments PM Press Blogs Some of these warriors fell in battles, but some of these warriors were locked far away and forgotten by those who assume to hold power over the rest of us.  Put into living coffins to finish their lives, and to their keepers dismay they co... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100617013609776 Andrea Gibbons http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100617013609776 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:36:09 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100617013609776#comments PM Press Blogs While the economic crisis has hit all of us, and hit us hard, Greece is a country riding the edges of bankruptcy, even after the intervention of the IMF and the European Union. This intervention has come at a high price, requiring Greece t... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010061206155973 David Sheen http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010061206155973 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:15:59 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010061206155973#comments PM Press Blogs PM Press has wisely decided to build an online platform for its authors and artists to blog about their work. I've been blogging in a number of formats for the last eleven years, so I'm quite comfortable with the idea. And frankly, it's something ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100604073819386 Kersplebedeb http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100604073819386 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:38:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100604073819386#comments PM Press Blogs The following was written by André Moncourt and J. Smith, to provide some context for North American readers to the recent statement by some former members of the Red Army Faction. Moncourt and Smith are the co-editors and translators o... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100604072916983 Kersplebedeb http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100604072916983 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:29:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100604072916983#comments PM Press Blogs    The following was recently released some former members of the Red Army Faction. The translation was provided by the comrades in question. The Red Army Faction was an important urban guerilla organization active in developing armed... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100529080935985 Vikki Law http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100529080935985 Sat, 29 May 2010 08:09:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100529080935985#comments PM Press Blogs The BOP is proposing further isolating people in Communications Management Units (more details below). There's a period for public comment that ends June 7th. Conveniently for the BOP, the comment form is undergoing some maintenance this weekend a... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100520064006596 Vikki Law http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100520064006596 Thu, 20 May 2010 06:40:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100520064006596#comments PM Press Blogs I first started corresponding with Marilyn Buck in late 1995/early 1996. I was a first-year college student trying to find a way to do prisoner solidarity work and feeling frustrated with the male-dominated prisoner rights/abolition movement I was... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100510120151406 Vikki Law http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100510120151406 Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100510120151406#comments PM Press Blogs I received the below e-mail in my inbox last night. At first, I hit "delete." But the contents of that e-mail stayed with me and was something to reflect on as I went about the rest of my (late) night, so I dug it out of my trash. I ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/OnZinn Staughton Lynd http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/OnZinn Mon, 10 May 2010 09:41:27 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/OnZinn#comments PM Press Blogs Presented on April 9, 2010 at the Organization of American Historians session called Remembering Howard Zinn, hosted by the The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and Historians Against the War (HAW). http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010041907264473 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010041907264473 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:26:44 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010041907264473#comments PM Press Blogs Recently, two prominent scholars who had been banned from visiting the US for some years have been allowed back into the country. No reason to get too excited, though. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010041421103565 Ben Dangl http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010041421103565 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:10:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2010041421103565#comments PM Press Blogs For over a century workers at Denmark’s Carlsberg brewery have been allowed to drink free beer on the job throughout the workday. After the management ended that policy on April 1st, hundreds of workers went on strike. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100410174624302 scott crow http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100410174624302 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:46:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100410174624302#comments PM Press Blogs This is a letter of remembrances in memoriam for my friend Gene Akins who passed away recently. Gene was a lifelong bonafide card carrying Industrial Workers of the World ‘Wobbly’ since the early 1960’s. He was also a lifelong ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100222065428501 Ben Dangl http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100222065428501 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:54:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100222065428501#comments PM Press Blogs A recent corporate beer merger in Mexico is reflective of monopolies  across the globe. However, grassroots alternatives have emerged in the kitchens and coca fields of Colombia and Bolivia. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/BeerBattleBelgium Ben Dangl http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/BeerBattleBelgium Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:04:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/BeerBattleBelgium#comments PM Press Blogs For two weeks in January Belgian brewery workers blocked roads, set fire to beer crates, kidnapped managers and handed out free beer as part of their tactics against job cuts proposed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer. The ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100210013450143 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100210013450143 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:34:50 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100210013450143#comments PM Press Blogs On February 17, the trial against the "Belgrade Six" begins, a group of Serbian anarcho-syndicalists accused of "international terrorism" in connection with a solidarity action for a jailed Greek anarchist. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100130162821568 Adrienne Hurley http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100130162821568 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:28:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100130162821568#comments PM Press Blogs Many dedicated and wonderful people are working hard on contributions for the PM Press documentary history of anarchism in Japan.  The following news (from a major corporate news outlet) comes as we prepare to mark the 100th anniversary of th... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100129101337126 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100129101337126 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:13:37 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100129101337126#comments PM Press Blogs Sometimes you experience the ultimate anti-climax. With three PM Press books released these months, I had been planning for about a year to come for an extended speaking tour to North America this spring. A couple of months ago, I started planning... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100111103608739 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100111103608739 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:36:08 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20100111103608739#comments PM Press Blogs Living and traveling in the South Pacific from 1997 to 2000, I visited Australia on several occasions. I returned again in 2003. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit for the first time in six years. It was encouraging to see an ongoing radical... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20091125112801739 scott crow http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20091125112801739 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:28:01 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20091125112801739#comments PM Press Blogs This is my personal report of the Federal trial--and tribulations--of a woman, Kate Kibby, who was recently found NOT GUILTY for an alleged threat against paid FBI informant, mole, and provocateur Brandon Darby http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20091123140557462 Vikki Law http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20091123140557462 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:05:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20091123140557462#comments PM Press Blogs On August 24, 1974, Joan Little, a twenty-one-year-old black woman and the only female prisoner in North Carolina’s Beaufort County Jail, killed Clarence Alligood, a sixty-two-year-old white male guard. Alligood had entered her cell, threate... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2009110219480939 Jennifer Silverman http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2009110219480939 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:48:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2009110219480939#comments PM Press Blogs In which I post the first My Baby Rides the Short Bus blog entry... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/ObamasWar E. Ethelbert Miller http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/ObamasWar Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:11:04 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/ObamasWar#comments PM Press Blogs As we move out of August Summer into the Fall, look for the Antiwar Movement to launch their plans. Afghanistan is the new Iraq.It's not like Obama pulled a surprise from his hat. He told us he was going to focus on Afghanistan. The more troops we... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090829090339700 scott crow http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090829090339700 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:03:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090829090339700#comments PM Press Blogs Anniversaries are reminders that we must never give up, give in or forget. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090819123659984 Vikki Law http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090819123659984 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:36:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090819123659984#comments PM Press Blogs After 13 years of living in the same place, an apartment that I, with the help of many friends and community members, have built bit by bit (and bathroom fixture by bathroom fixture), I'm moving. It's been a tedious and sometimes painful process t... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090728101956590 Clifton Ross http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090728101956590 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:19:56 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090728101956590#comments PM Press Blogs "Curiouser and Curiouser" it does get here in Honduras, separating fact from rumor and figuring out exactly where the power is in this country