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Black Sheep Books, a community space and bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont, offers affordable radical and scholarly books, and hosts educational events on cultural and political topics. As an all-volunteer project, we are operated by a five-member collective hand in hand with a group of dedicated volunteers. Our principle focus is to provide access to anti-authoritarian Left ideas in a way that promotes intellectual debate and challenges today’s hegemonic culture.
We see print media and public talks as necessary for the development of critical consciousness and ultimately social change. Such engagement with the transformative power of ideas connects us to each other, helps us to understand our historical context, and guides us in action. This linking of past to present, theory to practice, is a crucial precondition for the emergence of a free and directly democratic society.
By creating this space in public, we strive to contest the depoliticization and alienation rampant under statist and capitalist social relations. We also aim to generate visibility for identities marginalized by normative values and systems of domination through providing community resources and a welcoming space in the context of our rural location.
Together with horizontalist social movements and political projects, bookstores, infoshops, and publishers, Black Sheep Books works toward an egalitarian, ecological, and nonhierarchical society.
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Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer
workers' collective specializing in radical
and scholarly used books.
4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906
06/21/08 3:00pm
Talk by Natalia Fajardo
In 2000, the peaceful community of Promision in
Colombia fell victim to a war created by social
inequality, and now fueled by U.S tax dollars and drug
money. Displaced by paramilitaries, these farmers
moved to the slums of Medellin. Eight years later,
they are returning to their raided land to start their
lives over. Come learn about their stories, struggles,
and how you can be part of their efforts to reclaim
their dignity.
Free! All welcome!
at the Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier
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06/14/08 6:00pm
Talk by Kim Keyser
Kim is an activist from the nascent anarchist movement in Norway, the so-called "social democratic paradise" in northern Europe. This summer he's touring the United States to try to answer the question, "How can we reflect the future we want, in our present work?" The talk will touch on subjects such as direct democracy, direct action, workers councils, anarchist organizing, and involvement in social movements.
A complementing pamphlet called "The Prefigurative Organization," written specifically for this speaking tour, will be available.
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04/22/08 7:00pm
Black Sheep Books is happy to announce (and encourages you to attend!):
"FLIGHT": a brand-new shadow theater show with imagery by Erik Ruin, a live score by violinist Katt Hernandez, and the capable puppeteering assistance of Megan Gibes
Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m.
Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier
http://www.langdonstreetcafe.com
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04/20/08 2:00pm
Discussion on Community-Scale
Agriculture and Government
Sunday, April 20, at 2 p.m.
at the Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier
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03/24/08 6:00pm
Talk and book presentation by Paul Wright
Monday, March 24, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, VT
Paul Wright, editor and cofounder of "Prison Legal News" (the longest-publishing independent prisoner rights magazine in U.S. history), will be discussing his new book "Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration" (New Press, January 2008).
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02/23/08 2:00pm
Talk and discussion with Chris Mercogliano and Manny Bernstein
Free! All welcome!
Children's lives are becoming so filled with managed, prepackaged experience that the spark that animates them, and is the source of their uniqueness and creativity--their "inner wildness"--is in danger of going out. This talk will focus on the major sources of domestication and what we can do to defend the ecology of childhood so that kids can continue to develop whole, autonomous, deeply original selves.
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02/04/08 6:00pm
Talk and discussion with three organizers from Minnesota's Twin Cities
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08/14/07 7:00pm
Julie R. Enszer, a Maryland-based writer and lesbian activist, is published in "Iris: A Journal about Women," "Room of One's Own," "Long Shot," the "Jewish Women's Literary Annual," and the "Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly." Her book, "Homesteading: Essays on Life, Death, Sex, and Liberation," is forthcoming in winter 2008. For more on Julie, see http://www.JulieREnszer.com.
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06/13/07 6:30pm
River lovers! Greywater plumbers!
Innovative irrigators! Water drinkers!
Join coeditors Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and July Oskar Cole to celebrate their new book, Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground (Soft Skull Press, 2007), on water movements, ecological sanitation, and river restoration worldwide.
This book release event will include:
* A slideshow featuring anti-dam struggles, ecological sanitation, and river restoration projects
* A discussion of local restoration work and regional initiatives
* The secrets of guerrilla greywater plumbing
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06/02/07 6:30pm
with authors Ben Dangl, Holly Wren Spaulding, and Ramor Ryan
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