[Wamvan] Fwd: [Spartacus-supporters] Monthly Newsletter!

[Tami Starlight]

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From: <guillaume at resist.ca>
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:23 PM
Subject: [Spartacus-supporters] Monthly Newsletter!
To: Spartacus Collective <spartacus-supporters at lists.resist.ca>


(I haven't reduced prices in the computer yet - I have to say it feel a
lot more sane to be able to reduce the books in the newsletter ; it
shows our prices are sane!)

JUNE! The cycling paths get overcrowded with lycra suits again, we pick
up the first radishes from our gardens and naked people get out of
hibernation and crawl towards Wreck Beach. While everyone leaves their
expensive apartments to sleep in tents or feed the anarcho-touristic
industrial complex, we stand behind counters to serve fresh ideas
(anyways, fresher than law and order)!

Your fellow newsletterman is going back to the land of cheese curds and
mayonnaise, its been fun to put together those newsletter and reap the
comments from people I'd never thought would read me! Thanks for helping
Spartacus being awesome, and expect Spartacus to take on more to help
the neighborhood!

And we're trying to help yous! If you think Spartacus could help you out
with any of our projects, let us know, and if you think we should order
a book, let us know too!

Creating a movement with teeth - A documentary history of the George
Jackson Brigade - Daniel Burton Rose - 12
Bursting into existence in the Pacific Northwest in 1975, the George
Jackson Brigade claimed 14 pipe bombings against corporate and state
targets, as many bank robberies, and the daring rescue of a jailed
member. Combining veterans of the prisoners' women’s, gay, and black
liberation movements, this organization was also ideologically diverse,
consisting of both communists and anarchists.

Moments of Excess - Movements, protests and everyday life - The Free
Association - 12
...is a collection of political texts coming out of a cycle of struggles
that is now closed, as the authors accept in their final text. This
text, ‘Re:generation’, new to this edition, looks towards the emerging
new cycle that has shown its face in the anti-austerity protests and the
recent student clashes in Britain and Ireland. This book is a record of
lessons learned in that previous cycle, written in language that
participants in the coming wave can access so as to be broken into parts
for appropriation to their/our own needs.

Venus with Biceps - A pictorial history of muscular women - 24
Fantastic collection of period photographs, artwork, and contemporary
images dealing with the strongwoman. Venus with Biceps catalogues images
of women of size, women with formidable physiques, who are as
unapologetically sexy as they are strong. Vertinsky's essay on the
ambivalent treatment of the muscular female body, gendered power
relations, and the transgressive body is thoughtful and informed. This
is a book of real substance and an enjoyable, engaging read.

Property is Theft - A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology - Edited by Iain
McKay - 23
Proudhon was the first person to proclaim themselves “I am an Anarchist”
(in 1840's What is Property?) and his arguments against property and
state and for a self-managed and anti-state socialism defined what
anarchism is. Michael Bakunin, who considered the “illustrious and
heroic socialist” as a friend, proclaimed that “Proudhon is the master
of us all.” For Peter Kropotkin, the leading theoretician of
communist-anarchism of his day, Proudhon laid “the foundations of
Anarchism” and became a socialist after reading his work. Over 800 pages
of government hate!

Post-Anarchism - A reader - By Duane Rousselle and Surreya Evran - 28
I couldn't find a review of this one, but there seems to be some valid
thoughts in there!

Lucasville - The untold story of a prison uprising - Staughton Lynd - 16
Staughton Lynd brings the full power of evidence to bear as he retells
the Lucasville story. He argues compellingly that the five men sentenced
to death have been unfairly convicted. In addition, he describes the
uprising from the inside how the prisoners worked together, black and
white, even Muslims and members of the Aryan Brotherhood, for the
improvement of conditions. The ease with which the state has been able
to use its resources, and the court's, to bring the Lucasville 5 to the
point of execution raises questions that will make readers want to
rethink not only the justification for these convictions, but the
legitimacy of the death penalty in any case.

New Destination Dreaming - Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the
Rural American South - Helen Marrow - 20
Immigration has come to small town America, and in New Destination
Dreaming Helen Marrow offers a penetrating look at how Latino immigrants
are faring in two rural southern counties. Drawing on rich observations
and detailed interviews, she chronicles the efforts of hard-working
migrants of humble origins and tenuous legal status to survive and even
prosper in a foreign land while negotiating the complex and often
conflicting currents of race, class, and citizenship. The book focuses a
clarifying lens on the challenges of assimilation in places that have
little experience of diversity beyond the black-white color line and no
real history of immigration. It shines new light on old issues and will
be of interest to all serious students of immigration.
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