Aid & Abet

So, my friend Ramsey has just launched PM Press – and encouraged me to revise and expand the article I wrote on Clamor Magazine. So, it will be coming out in a month or two as a pamphlet, and of course I will let you know when it is available. The new title is “Becoming The Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine.” Ramsey hopes that one day I will turn it into a book on organizational sustainability, power, finance, etc, but that’s a more long-term thing.

Anyway, in conjunction with the pamphlet release, I’ll be doing a couple speaking events in the Bay Area! Here are the details:

Friday March 21, 7 p.m.: PM Press Salon at AK Press Warehouse, Oakland

Where: The AK Press Warehouse, 674 A 23rd Street, Oakland, CA 94612. Free admission. No-one turned away for lack of class.
Why: Come help celebrate the release of a stack of new books (and CDs, and DVDs) with the publishers, their distributors, the authors, friends, comrades, family, well-wishers and nay-sayers. Party on down with some excellent food, drink, and the kind of company you’d be glad to mingle with in public. PM authors who might be persuaded to take a turn on the mic to chat up their new treasures include graphic artist Eric Drooker (”Slingshot: 32 Postcards”), zinester extraordinaire Cindy Crabb
(”Write Here: A Journal In Two Sizes”), Icarus Project co-founder and itinerant punk rocker Sasha Dubrul (”The Secret Life Of White People”), crime fiction writer and hacker journalist Rick Dakan (”Geek Mafia” & “Geek Mafia: Mile Zero”), media activist and radio producer Jen Angel (”Becoming The Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine”), artist and curator Josh Macphee (”32 Postcards”) and radical film-maker Clifton Ross (”Venezuela: Revolution From The Inside Out”). They’ll be buttressed with help from fellow AK authors Jessica Mills (”My Mother Wears Combat Boots”) and Chris Spanos (”Realizing Utopia”), and Atomic Book Company author China Martens (”The Future Generation”), plus a bunch of folks who might have a book out someday on PM if they play their cards right… A nice place to hang out, chat, eat, drink, and be merry…for tomorrow, we may die. Or attend the anarchist bookfair.
Who: PM Press is the hottest new Bay Area (and beyond) publishing (and more) sensation, formed collaboratively with the best (and best looking) minds of your generation. If you’re lucky, some of them will be there too.
AK Press is the world’s premier anarchist publisher and distributor of the finest objects you’d want to read, watch, or listen to.
For further information: www.akpress.org

Saturday March 22, 1 p.m.: Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, San Francisco

The Book Fair is held at the San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park at Lincoln Way and 9th Ave. in San Francisco.

For more information: sfbookfair.wordpress.com

Monday March 24, 7 p.m.: Moe’s Books, Berkeley

More info to come. With Josh MacPhee and Rick Dakan.