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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

Previously....

Monday, February 23 at 5:30 p.m.
at 5 State Street, Montpelier

Monday, February 9 at 5:30 p.m.
at 5 State Street, Montpelier

To those unfortunate to become prisoners of the state while participating in the struggle for a better world, you are not alone. Though there are walls between us, there are those who gather in your support.

Come to the letter writing group with someone in mind to write, or choose someone to support from our resource list. How-to information and general advice (plus maybe some snacks) will also be provided.

at 5 State Street, Montpelier

First meeting of new "popular education" group in central Vermont to explore global-local connections, participatory education, and critical analysis of current events. We hope to encourage popular education methodology (aka "education IS organizing"), develop "pop ed" curriculum, and conduct workshops in the central Vermont area. Goals, topics, and working groups to be discussed at this initial meeting.

BLACK SHEEP BOOKS & LANGDON STREET CAFE present...

"Hope from People" Banner Art Walk and
"The Last Bash" People's Inaugural Ball

Tuesday, January 20, in Montpelier!
(see full info below)

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"HOPE FROM PEOPLE" BANNER ART WALK:

Tuesday, January 20, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM

Black Sheep Books, 5 State St., Montpelier, and
Langdon Street Café, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier

A group art show inspired by the "Hope from People" call for a Celebrate People's History and Build Popular Power bloc at the inauguration in Washington, DC (for more info, see: http://hopefrompeople.com).

Call to artists of all ages, types, sizes, and persuasions to make a piece of banner art for a group show at the Langdon Street Café and Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont, for inauguration day on January, 20, 2009.
Theme

Inspired by the "Hope from People" project to Celebrate People’s History and Build Popular Power Bloc (a call to anarchists, horizontalists, autonomists, anti-capitalists, anti-authoritarians, and others organizing a world from below to bring our best creative spirits to the project. For more info on this project, see: http://www.hopefrompeople.com.

Call to artists of all ages, types, sizes, and persuasions to make a piece of banner art for a group show at the Langdon Street Café and Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont, for inauguration day on January, 20, 2009.

Theme

Inspired by the "Hope from People" project to Celebrate People's History and Build Popular Power Bloc (a call to anarchists, horizontalists, autonomists, anti-capitalists, anti-authoritarians, and others organizing a world from below to bring our best creative spirits to the project; for more info, visit: http://hopefrompeople.com).

Wednesday, December 10 at 7 p.m.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Adopted, but never fully realized, the UDHR recognized that human dignity is the foundation of justice and peace in the world--declaring that "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind."

Sunday, November 16, 2008, at 6:00 pm
(Finger food and snacks potluck at 5:00 pm)

A Report from International Small Farmer Movements

with Rodrigo Lopes of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement
and Stephen Bartlett of Agricultural Missions

Live streaming of election results along with political conversation

Tuesday, November 4, 2008, starting at 7:00 p.m.

Co-presented by Black Sheep Books (5 State Street) and
Onion River Community Access (89 Main Street)

Saturday, December 13 at 1:00 p.m.
at 5 State Street, Montpelier

info@blacksheepbooks.org | (802) 225-8906 | 5 State Street, Montpelier, VT, 05602