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"We are a collectively-owned #RadicalBookstore and not-for-profit event space in #AshevilleNC. Since 2008 we've supported #grassroots movements in Southern Appalachia while developing a workplace on the basis of cooperation, empowerment and equity."
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Lake Eden Retreat: Vantage Point for American Idiocy
Our clan convened in Black Mountain in a GOTV effort just before election day. We came from Virginia, DC, and LA. Sadly, in spite of our work, the country has chosen bigotry and blustering ignorance over progress. Lets hope democracy survives for more years of selfish "leadership." Lake Eden Retreat is a beautiful though desperately suburban place. If you're looking for the countryside, this is not really it. We stayed in the studio. It's a peculiar structure with the bedroom up some […]https://noplasticshowers.com/2024/11/20/lake-eden-retreat-vantage-point-for-american-idiocy/
#Florida bans books so Firestorm brings them right back!
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/415-summer-2024-2/florida-bans-books/
“Banned Books” that #FirestormBooks distribute are Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga, and Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie.
For a full list of titles, see https://firestorm.coop/bannedbooks.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eegjqLeYsE
Post-Prison Activism & Archiving #Resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_CMhm--s7E
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#NaziBlackMetalFUCKOFF !! : #BlackMetalRainbows
co-editors #StanimirPanayotov and #DanielLukes, alongside designer #JaciRais , present their collection, #BlackMetalRainbows, a radical anthology revealing the #queer, #antifascist, #antiracist and #leftwing possibilities of blak metal.
We know that book bans aren’t limited to schools; they stretch behind bars, too. So this June 11, on International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners (@june11), along with our friends at @BlueRidgeABC and Tranzmission Prison Project, we’re hosting a Banned Books Back! packaging party to raise funds for freedom fighters inside the prison system. Anyone, near or far, can pledge a donation for every book bundle we pack, starting at 5 cents per bundle. Sign up now at https://bit.ly/j11-pledge! Our co-op is matching $1 per bundle 💸
Community members are invited to join us at 5:30 pm for food, informal conversations, and free literature about June 11. Then, at 6:30 pm, pitch in on the fun of packaging free chapter books for kids in Florida!
Free minds, free them all, until all are free!
To learn about the history of June 11, see https://june11.noblogs.org 🏴
#June11 #PoliticalPrisoners #StateRepression #Anarchism #BookBan #FeministBookstore #MariusMason #BannedBooksBack #FirestormBooks
In 2012, our co-operative was part of a broad coalition of businesses, grassroots organizations, and neighbors who fought, and derailed, an effort to privatize downtown. Now a nearly identical Business Improvement District (BID) proposal is rapidly working its way through City Council, with the possibility of approval as early as May 14th. If successful, it would set the stage for the radical transformation of not only downtown, but West Asheville and the River Arts District.
Given the similarity to the BID fight twelve years ago, we've decided to update and republish our open letter from May 2012 opposing the scheme. Find it at https://firestorm.coop/news/still-not-a-mall.html and then check out http://ashevillebid.com for more information on the information on the BID fight.
#BusinessImprovementDistrict #Gentrification #AshevillePolitics #FeministBookstore #FirestormBooks
Lori Rozsa: How anarchists in North Carolina rescued books banned in #Florida: A bookshop in left-leaning #Asheville
is now sending children’s books back to the Sunshine State
"When the managers of a small bookstore in this Appalachian mountain town received a call from a distributor wondering if they could take in 22,000 books rejected by a Florida school district, it felt like a colossal ask.
Firestorm Books usually stocks fewer than 8,000 books — titles that range from historical fiction to solarpunk. The self-described #queer #feminist collective wasn’t sure where they’d put them, and their customers typically weren’t looking for picture books.
… Firestorm Books not only took in the rejected children’s stories, but is now sending them to anyone who requests them. Many of the books are heading back to Florida."
#northcarolina #bannedbooks #anarchists #books #lgbtq #firestormbooks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/10/florida-book-ban-duval-schools
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