https://firestorm.coop/products/8188-black-against-empire.html

#FirestormBooks

#BlackAgainstEmpire #book

Lake Eden Retreat: Vantage Point for American Idiocy

https://noplasticshowers.com/2024/11/20/lake-eden-retreat-vantage-point-for-american-idiocy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eegjqLeYsE

#FirestormBooks

Post-Prison Activism & Archiving #Resistance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_CMhm--s7E

#FirestormBooks 2023

#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.

#music

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

#FirestormCoop #FirestormBooks
#BannedBooksBack!
https://givebutter.com/bannedbooksback

#books #childrensbooks

A project in 2024 to get books into the hands of kids.

Firestorm needs our help.

💗 Tomorrow 💗 Tune in for this virtual event to learn about the life and work of sexologist Dr. Alex Comfort!

Eric Laursen will be joined by @margaret to discuss the impact of the groundbreaking 1972 book "The Joy of Sex," and the anarchic author who brought pleasure out from the shadows in mainstream sexual discourse.

"Polymath is a captivating, illuminating, and penetrating account of Alex Comfort’s life and work. Eric Laursen brilliantly captures the ambience of Comfort’s times to reveal the inventiveness of his thinking and explain his interventions. His impressive research does not shy away from Comfort’s intellectual accomplishments. It underlines the consistency of Comfort’s creative application of anarchist principles and his optimistic view of anarchism as a path to liberation and community." —Ruth Kinna, author of The Government of No One

You can register at https://firestorm.coop/events/3108-the-joy-of-anarchy.html. Registering is completely free, and you should still sign up even if you aren't sure you can make it because you'll receive a recording of the conversation to enjoy later!

#TheJoyOfSex #SexualLiberation #Anarchism #AlexComfort #FeministBookstore #EricLaursen #MargaretKilljoy #CoolPeopleWhoDidCoolStuff #FirestormBooks (-Esme)