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"In a world where paranoia is a survival skill, the only hope for humankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom fighters called the Invisibles. In this collection, the team launches an assault on an underground New Mexico lab to free the cure for the AIDS virus from the alleged inventors of the disease: the U.S. government. Collects The Invisibles Vol. 2 #14-22" and Vol. 3 #12-1.
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The Purge: If you could commit any crime without consequences, what would you do? From the producer of Paranormal Activity and Sinister, comes an inventive thriller that dares you to survive the most dangerous night in America, The Purge, when all crime is legal for 12 hours.
The Purge, anarchy: It takes to the streets, for the country's yearly 12 hours of anarchy, when all crime is legal. This story follows an unlikely group of five strangers over...
66) Real Deal comix
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"Inspired by magazines like Mad and traditional superhero comics, Real Deal magazine were a series of self-published, independent comic books created in 1989 by Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a "RawDog") and the late "H.P." McElwee (a.k.a. "R.D. Bone", 1955-1998). Peopled with a cast out of a blaxploitation movie -- convicts, hustlers, drug addicts, crack whores, car thieves, and murderers -- these cult-classic comics straddle the line between satirizing and...
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The "Tragic Week" in Spain, which took place in July 1909, began as anti-conscription riots, but soon evolved into a widespread uprising attacking the pillars of Spanish society: Church and State. It is known today mostly for its most famous martyr, Francisco Ferrer, the radical educator and founder of the Modern School who was executed by the Spanish army. But, Ferrer was, only one of hundreds of people who died that week in a brutal crackdown on...
70) Mexicoland
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Mexicoland es perfecto, lo mejor de México en un solo lugar: historia, música y comida. Lo malo es que todo es falso. Es un parque de diversiones en el futuro, el resto del país ha colapsado por la violencia y la anarquía. Apenas sobrevive un pequeño territorio donde se funda México Nuevo, una sociedad en la que cualquier delito es castigado con extrema crueldad. Ahí, Cuauhtémoc Rojo en un solo día, se queda sin padres, escuela y casa....
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This edited collection is the first to sample the new wave of scholarship on Latin American anarchism to trace the transnational anarchist presence in Latin America at the turn of the twentieth century. The essays examine urban and rural movements, indigenous resistance, race, gender, sexuality, and social and educational experimentation.
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"The story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. OWS organizer Mark Bray combines his direct experience in the movement with nearly 200 interviews with the most active, influential architects of Occupy Wall Street, to reveal the revolutionary anarchist core of Occupy. Although The New York Times...
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Shon Meckfessel takes an innovative look at challenges faced by twenty-first century social movements in the US. One of their most important stumbling blocks is the question of nonviolence. Civil disobedience, symbolic protest, and principles of nonviolence have characterized many struggles in the United States since the Civil Rights era. But as Meckfessel argues, conditions have changed. We've seen the consolidation of the media, the militarization...
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The Duty to Stand Aside tells the story of one of the most intriguing yet little-known literary-political feuds -- and friendships -- in 20th-century English literature. It examines the arguments that divided George Orwell, future author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Alex Comfort, poet, biologist, anarchist-pacifist, and future author of the international bestseller The Joy of Sex -- during WWII. Orwell maintained that standing aside,...
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The three lives in this creative nonfiction account are united by the presence of actual harm--sometimes horrific violence. Imarisha, dealing with the complexities of her own experience with sexual assault and accountability, brings us behind prison walls to visit her adopted brother Kakamia and his fellow inmate Jimmy "Mac" McElroy, a member of the brutal Irish gang the Westies. Together they explore the questions: People can do unimaginable things...
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"Early in the 20th century, the discovery of Cavorite, an anti-gravity substance, gave birth to a technological renaissance including the development of giant airships and other fantastical inventions. However, the scientific revolution was not the only one afoot, as Great Britain was torn in two by an armed rebellion when the oppressed poor finally turned on the ruling elite. Now the Commonwealth has a plan to take Albion by stealth, substituting...
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A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies-songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr-Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont's opus.
In great detail, the issues that Joe Hill raised...