http://www.pmpress.org/content/index.php?topic=bl Feed of latest blog entries from PM Press Copyright 2010 PM Press GeekLog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:36:39 -0800 en-gb 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 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/OwensValley Andrea Gibbons http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/OwensValley Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:20:04 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/OwensValley#comments PM Press Blogs The Coso Mountain range to the east of Owens Valley is a line of volcanoes that erupted again and again, spewing out massive flows of black basalt. The whole area was a center of volcanic activity, creating a landscape of wonder framed against the... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090722074831499 Clifton Ross http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090722074831499 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:48:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090722074831499#comments PM Press Blogs Is the Honduran coup a foretaste of things to come in the rest of Central America? We ask that question that others in El Salvador are asking, and we also find stories of hope and struggle at every turn in the road in this country which has recent... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/EbonyJetArticle E. Ethelbert Miller http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/EbonyJetArticle Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:46:06 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/EbonyJetArticle#comments PM Press Blogs I just reviewed President Obama's speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. What he gave was almost an old campaign speech, in other words if it plays in America it might just play in Accra. Obama was in lecture mode. The Ghanaian Parliament reminded me ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/Clifton Andrea Gibbons http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/Clifton Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:59:29 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/Clifton#comments PM Press Blogs Apart from being the final resting place of Santa Teresita, and an old nesting place of white vigilantism as shown by the case of the kidnapped Catholic orphans, Clifton is a photographer's delight and full of ever more stories. Here is Chase Cree... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090708125837416 Clifton Ross http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090708125837416 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:58:37 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090708125837416#comments PM Press Blogs It's not likely we'll find Obama's fingerprints on the mechanisms of the coup in Honduras. The time of armed invasions, military coups, death squads, and bloody imperial imposition may be behind us. And so we're in far more dangerous times... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2009070214275187 Vikki Law http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2009070214275187 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:27:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2009070214275187#comments PM Press Blogs Maybe I'm just in a cranky mood today, but really...it took them this long to figure it out?   http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/waldheim Andrea Gibbons http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/waldheim Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:42:36 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/waldheim#comments PM Press Blogs My first real time in Chicago, and so I am so glad Tom thought it was as important to take me to Waldheim Cemetery as I thought it was to go. So many people I have read, looked up to, found inspiration in, are buried there. And not only does Tom h... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/EFCA Daniel Gross http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/EFCA Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:39:06 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/EFCA#comments PM Press Blogs The labor movement is dedicating much of its energy to passing the law known as the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).  EFCA has three provisions: 1) increased liability for illegal union-busting during certain critical organizing periods; 2) a... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/ThinkGalactic Andrea Gibbons http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/ThinkGalactic Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:17:47 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/ThinkGalactic#comments PM Press Blogs It was my first time at Think GalactiCon. And I must admit, it was my first time at any Sci Fi con. And I must further admit that it was my first time really talking about the convergence of science fiction and politics in any real and sustained w... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090629100908408 Clifton Ross http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090629100908408 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:09:08 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090629100908408#comments PM Press Blogs There's a lot at stake in Honduras and the struggle fits a pattern that can be seen all over Latin America where popular forces square off against their elites in a fight over the rules of the game. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090605070613280 Vikki Law http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090605070613280 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:06:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090605070613280#comments PM Press Blogs In Resistance Behind Bars, I cover incarcerated mothers' acts of individual resistance and collective organizing around access to their children. Recently, I learned that mothers imprisoned in Argentina, a country which allows women to choose to k... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090524183202965 scott crow http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090524183202965 Sun, 24 May 2009 18:32:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090524183202965#comments PM Press Blogs Do not be afraid, do not stop trusting, and do not stop dreaming of better worlds. http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090518132418897 E. Ethelbert Miller http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090518132418897 Mon, 18 May 2009 13:24:18 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090518132418897#comments PM Press Blogs Check here to hear the show, and my thoughts about The Fifth Inning. And don't forget I'll be on live on WPFW (DC Pacifica station) on Monday May 25th at 7pm to discuss my work with host Abdul Ali and take phone calls.  You can listen online ... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090512105019477 E. Ethelbert Miller http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090512105019477 Tue, 12 May 2009 10:50:19 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090512105019477#comments PM Press Blogs Weekend Edition Sunday, May 10, 2009 · In celebration of Mother's Day, writer and poet E. Ethelbert Miller reflects on the importance of mothers who have shaped our lives. Miller is director of the African-American Resources Center at Howar... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090511225940653 Andrea Gibbons http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090511225940653 Mon, 11 May 2009 22:59:40 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090511225940653#comments PM Press Blogs I walked down my street today, past the thick smoke of Bernie’s, fragrant with teriyaki chicken, past the house slowly collapsing on itself (its porch the latest casualty of neglect, and boasting a new chain link fence compliments of the cit... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090507002747422 Ryan Jones http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090507002747422 Thu, 07 May 2009 00:27:00 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090507002747422#comments PM Press Blogs Many of us have personally gotten to know a lot of good beers, but have we gotten to know good brewers? If you don`t work in a brewery or have a friend who does, then chances are you don`t personally know too many professional beer makers. Well, I... http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090512100855959 Summer Brenner http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090512100855959 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:08:55 -0700 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20090512100855959#comments PM Press Blogs Last night near downtown Berkeley, a small Victorian house was crowded with well-wishers for the launch of Switchblade Books and the publication of The Jook by Gary Phillips and I-5 by Summer Brenner. Usually, a sizeable party would spill onto the...