Friday, April 23, 2010

CHANGE THE ADDRESS FRIENDS

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Be prepared spammers!

So we know a lot of you read History is a Weapon, and we're sure a handful of you have us in your rss feed. If so, this blog is going to hide out for a little while, while we temporarily use another blogging service until the new blog is ready. Exciting? Nah. Boring. But we're giving you a head's up that you might have to change your RSS subscription soon.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Why didn't we post The Combahee River Collective Statement until now? What were we thinking? Problem corrected.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Left Forum

A few of us attended the Left Forum this weekend, and with the exception of an embarrassingly biased panel on the current civil war in Labor, had a pleasant enough time. Besides picking up a new Burn Collector, we saw some great stuff from some wonderful places, not least of which include the Just Seeds Collective (who we have bought enough prints from to decorate numerous rooms in the apartment I am in and who we would stop buying prints from if they would only quit making such nice prints), Deep Dish TV, Autonomedia, and the relatively new PM Press who put out the Big Noise Dispatches series that we love so much.

Why are we name dropping so blatantly? Well, we enjoyed the conference, but we have a longstanding and complicated relationship to the "big-L" Left and can't help but notice that these left media and art institutions, that provide us such wonderful and enriching material, are not funded by our opponents, the rich. And so they really do need all the help they can get to stay afloat and get to the next level. So if you're getting birthday gifts for Aunt genericname or looking to learn more about topic Imakeupoffthetopofmyhead, instead of heading to the mall for a boring print or amazon for the book, maybe check out some of these fine institutions, their fine wares, and get it from them at the source and make sure none of it gets skimmed off the top to some megacorp that we all hate.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Additions

So we added "There Was No Rules At All: Stories from Vietnam" by Haywood T. "The Kid" Kirkland, but then we realized we forgot to add the RIOT GRRRL MANIFESTO. We recently got a chance to meet Kathleen Hanna (secret information: there's going to be new Le Tigre projects happening and she is awesome in person), so we've been meaning to add this for awhile. But here they are and spread the word.

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