Black Sheep Books

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Monday Noon to 5 pm
Wednesday - Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm
Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm

Closed Tuesday

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ABOUT US

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.

Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer, collectively run project specializing in radical and scholarly used books.

5 State Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906

Upcoming Events

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All Ages, Queer, & Beyond DANCE PARTY of Epic Proportions! (6/24/05)

Friday, June 24
from 9 p.m. to midnight

A fund-raiser dance party for Outright Vermont
with the Queen City sounds of DJ Llu
(suggested donation $5)

This is an event not to be missed;
come and dance the night away on Langdon Street!

Outright Vermont's mission is to foster sensitivity and understanding of the issues facing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. Through education and outreach, Outright seeks to challenge stereotypes and prejudice, and create an environment in which all young people can realize their full potential, free from the weight of hate and fear. Outright's work as a statewide organization is to offer support and resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (glbtq) youth (age 22 and under) and for those who work with them. It is dedicated to building a more glbtq positive community while instilling pride and confidence in youth through empowerment. (For more details, see http://www.outrightvt.org/.)

"Arsenal of Hypocrisy: The Space Program and the Military-Industrial Complex" (6/21/05)

A film and discussion
on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:00 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

Free & open to everyone!

The glory days of NASA are over! Today, the military-industrial complex is marching toward world dominance through space technology on behalf of global corporate interests. To understand how and why the space program will be used to fight all future wars on earth from space, it's important to understand how the public has been misled about the origins and true purpose of the Space Program.

Liberating Alternatives to Learned Ignorance: Three Educational Innovations in Haiti (6/21/05)

A slideshow, presentation, and discussion with Bob Belenky
on Tuesday, June 21 at 5:00 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

Free and open to all!

Schooling for poor children, particularly those unfortunate enough to live in extremely poor countries, is universally successful in convincing the students that they are both unable and unworthy--and hence, that they fully deserve their lot. Yet one often glimpses a refreshingly different kind of learning. It has been written about by Paolo Friere, Ivan Illych, and Gustavo Esteva, and has its roots in village life as well as in the European-American progressive education tradition from Rousseau through Dewey. Because it's rooted in respect for the child, it is revolutionary in the best sense.

"THE TAKE: Occupy, Resist, Produce" (6/14/05)

A showing and discussion of the film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein

Tuesday, June 14 at 8:00 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street

Free and open to all; hosted by Black Sheep Books

In the wake of Argentina

Seminar Series

A Project of the Free Society Collective,
cosponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and Black Sheep Books

Summer 2005 Seminars are Now Open for Registration!

The Free Society Collective

Anarchy in Montp (5/23/05)

BLACK SHEEP BOOKS presents "Anarchy in Montp,"
a day of talks, panels, performances, and socializing
at 4 Langdon Street in Montpelier, Vermont

* 1:00 p.m.
BORN TO LOSE, FIGHT TO WIN!
WORKING-CLASS EXPERIENCE AND ANARCHISM
A panel with Mark Laskey, Sean, and Kristin

In this panel, three working-class anarchists will share personal stories and ideas about coming to anarchism from a working-class background, and what it means -- if anything in particular -- to be a "working-class anarchist." This highly subjective panel hopes to be a spark that ignites a lively discussion among the audience about class, struggle, revolution, anarchism, and really anything we decide to get into.

"Our Enemies in Blue: A History of Policing in the United States" (5/10/05)

Tuesday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

Our Enemies in Blue: A History of Policing in the United States
A talk by author Kristian Williams

Free & open to the public

The Petroleum Commons: Struggles in Iraq, South America, and the Niger Delta (4/23/05)

Saturday, April 23 at 1 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

The Petroleum Commons:
Struggles in Iraq, South America, and the Niger Delta
Talk by George Caffentzis

Free & open to the public

Since 1850 petroleum (rock-oil) has appeared to the world as either private property or state property. In the histories of the petroleum industry, most of the struggles over petroleum have been seen as battles among private corporations, states, and their leaders (like John D. Rockefeller and Saddam Hussein). Those who work in extracting and transporting petroleum, and those who reproduce them, are rarely mentioned in the histories, but petroleum is increasingly being understood in a very different way--as common property--by these workers. Caffentzis will explore struggles for the petroleum commons in Iraq, South America, and the Niger Delta and the meaning of these struggles for the antiwar and ecology movements.

Free Radio Mash-Up!!! (4/12/05)

On Tuesday, April 12,
the Langdon Street Cafe and Black Sheep Books will feature
Free Radio Burlington D.J.s for lively discussion followed by
music and slideshows.

Beginning at 7 p.m., join Free Radio Burlington collective members for
an open discussion about how to bring the Free Radio movement to your
community. Anyone interested in learning more about and joining the
Free Radio movement is encouraged to attend.

From 8 to 11 p.m.,
D.J.s Littlewing and Mothertrucker will entertain your ears with
hip hop and not hip hop, and your eyes with slideshows.

At 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, Vermont
All welcome!

"The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground" (4/9/05)

Saturday, April 9 at 3 p.m.
at the Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier

"The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground"
Talk by the book's author, Ron Jacobs

Free & open to the public