Upcoming Events at AK Press

COMING UP!
Thursday, October 6th - Wendy O-Matik hosts a "Radical Love and Relationship Workshop"
Friday, October 14th – Veterans of the George Jackson Brigade
Friday, October 28th - The Non-violent Resistance Movement in Palestine: A U.S. Speaking Tour

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Thursday, October 6th - 7pm
Wendy O-Matik hosts a "Radical Love and Relationship Workshop"
FREE

At a time when our nation is determined to keep us on the warpath, what better time to raise our voices against intolerance, hatred, and violence?
At a time when our government propels us into a new dark age of fascism, what better time to talk about radical love, or the right to love who we want, how we want, and as many as we want?
Loving openly and freely in these times, whether you are straight or queer, is a brave political act. We have been conditioned by outdated social norms that limit our perceptions and shackle us to unhealthy cycles of dissatisfying relationships. Yet we also live in a time when we can choose our gender and redefine our sexual identities. Don’t we then have the right to decide what kind of relationship best suits our lifestyle? Declare yourself a revolutionary of the heart.
Find out how you can expand your potential to love, transform your lifestyle, and together we can threaten the social forces of patriarchy!

Wendy is the author of "Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships". As an educator, role model, and spokesperson for the polyamory community, Wendy has become a revolutionary activist of the heart. Since the release of her book, she has taught over forty Radical Love & Relationship Workshops globally, excavating important social trends and reshaping the future of alternative relationship models for the 21st century. As an activist for social change, Wendy is pushing the boundaries on firmly rooted notions in mainstream society on relationships, love, gender, sexual equality, and sexual politics.

www.wendyomatik.com

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Friday, October 14th – 7pm
Veterans of the George Jackson Brigade: A benefit for the GJB Information Project
$5 suggested donation (no one turned away)

Appearing together publicly for the first time, three former members of the George Jackson Brigade will discuss their experience in an underground cell in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. Bo Brown, Mark Cook and Ed Mead will also share their insights on organizing within prison, the influence of gay liberation on their revolutionary aspirations, and role of class conflict within the '70s underground. The three will be introduced by Daniel Burton-Rose, the coordinator of the oral history archive the George Jackson Brigade Information Project.

The George Jackson Brigade formed in the crucible of prisoners’ rights organizing which came out of the civil rights movement and mass anti-war protests of the ‘60s. In its three-year existence, it claimed 11 bombings, as many bank robberies, and one prisoner liberation. Targets included the Department of Corrections, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as different corporate offices. The chemistry present in the group was the same that had been combusting across the country: society’s most oppressed members allied with college educated youth who refused to continue their class and white skin privilege. In the case of the Brigade, women took center stage, queers challenged straights, convicts communicated with college students, and a black man enthusiastically aided whites.

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Friday, October 28th – 7pm
The Non-violent Resistance Movement in Palestine: A U.S. Speaking Tour
$5 suggested donation (no one turned away)
Largely unnoticed by the world's press, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israeli supporters are engaged in a major nonviolent resistance movement against the occupation and confiscation of Palestinian land, and especially against the Enclosure Wall that is destroying Palestinian homes and livelihood. This is a grassroots movement of farmers, workers and housekeepers who brave teargas, stun grenades, rubber bullets, live ammunition, arrests, beatings and even death to defy their expulsion from their land and its conversion into Israeli settlements. Nevertheless, this struggle has been embraced by thousands of men, women and children in Palestinian villages, and by Israeli and international solidarity volunteers. Working together in hundreds of unarmed mass protests and demonstrations, they block with their bodies the ongoing construction of the Enclosure Wall designed to remove Palestinians from the land and replace them with Jewish settlements.

Ayed Morrar and Jonathan Pollak are two of the major figures in this movement. Ayed is from the Palestinian village of Budrus where he organized the first Popular Committee Against the Wall in 2003. Since then, Budrus has staged more than 60 nonviolent demonstrations and became the model for other villages in the West Bank. Ayed is a well-known advocate and speaker for nonviolent resistance in Palestine, has advised other committees on tactics and principles, has sat on government councils, and has conducted one previous overseas speaking tour (in Sweden). He has been physically attacked many times for his efforts and has spent more than six years in Israeli prisons.
Jonathan comes from the activist Jewish community in Israel. He, too, has been a tireless organizer, and also formed a popular committee against the Wall among his Jewish colleagues. He has participated in more than 200 demonstrations, has been arrested dozens of times, and was recently wounded in the head by a teargas canister fired directly at him from a high-velocity launcher. He is an eloquent spokesperson for the Israeli solidarity movement in support of Palestinian rights.

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b/t MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980
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