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

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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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The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI

Join filmmaker Bernadine Mellis for a showing of her "The Forest for the Trees," an intimate, behind-the scenes documentary that looks at an unlikely team of young activists and old lefties who come together to battle the U.S. government.

Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham, who started out his career representing the Black Panthers and the Weathermen.

Judi Bari was an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as much importance on the legacy and future of the trees as she did on timber workers' lives and families. But that strategic relationship was too much of a threat. Her car was bombed in 1990, and three hours later, she was arrested as a terrorist--charges that were later dropped. Convinced it was a ploy by the FBI to discredit her and Earth First! Judi decided to sue.

Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference, Fall 2006

Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference

September 29 to October 1, 2006
at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
http://www.homemadejam.org/renew

Call for Proposals and Registration Information

Registration is now closed.

Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision

featuring:
Ghada Ageel (Khan Younis, Palestine)
Shireen Khamis (Beit Jala, Palestine)
Rela Mazali (Herzlia, Israel)

These three women--a Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim--are living the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian situation: the loss of family, the demolition of homes, persecution, occupation, violence, the separation barrier currently being constructed in the West Bank, Israelâ€™s unilateral "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip, recent escalations in Gaza and Lebanon, and more. They are touring the United States for three weeks to demonstrate that a just peace, while difficult, is possible. As working professionals, activists, mothers, daughters, and partners, these women live the hardships of the conflict and the tragedy of occupation in unique ways.

Stich & Flix: "Southern Comfort"

Black Sheep Books, in collaboration with the
Central Vermont Queer Liberation Army and
Revolutionary Knitters, presents:

STITCH & FLIX: A monthly movie and socializing series

Tuesday, September 19 at 7:30 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

* with knitters' caucus at 6:30 p.m.
(upstairs in Black Sheep Books)

"Southern Comfort"

This 90-minute feature-length documentary is about the life of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female-to-male transsexual who lives in the back hills of Georgia. "A hillbilly and proud of it," he cuts a striking figure: sharp-tongued, bearded, tobacco pipe in hand. Robert passes so well as a male that the local Klu Klux Klan tried to recruit him to become a member.

Stitch & Flix: A monthly movie and socializing series

Black Sheep Books, in collaboration with the
Central Vermont Queer Liberation Army and
Revolutionary Knitters, presents:

STITCH & FLIX: A monthly movie and socializing series

"Transamerica"

Life is more than the sum of its parts! In "Transamerica," Bree is a perfectly adjusted conservative transsexual woman. Born Stanley, a genetic male, she's about to take the final step to become the woman that Stanley always wanted to be--until she finds out that she is the parent of a long-lost 17-year-old son. Afraid to tell the rebellious teenager the truth, Bree embarks on a journey with him that will challenge and change both their lives, and bring them closer to the truth of their connection.

Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities

Join Scott Kellogg of the Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas, for a crash course in urban ecological survival skills, as he explores the cross-section of permaculture and social activism. He'll give a short presentaion on the organization's history, plus explanations of low-tech, low-cost food, water, energy, and waste systems.

Featuring:

* Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment,
low-tech bioremediation (plus a report on
bioremediation efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans)
* Aquaculture: fish, plants, algae, ponds
* Rainwater harvesting
* Passive solar, DIY bicycle windmills

Stitch and Flix: "Transparent"

Black Sheep Books, in collaboration with the
Central Vermont Queer Liberation Army and
Revolutionary Knitters, presents:

STITCH & FLIX: A monthly movie and socializing series

"Transparent"

Pink or blue. Male or Female. Mommy or Daddy. Categories that we all take for granted are blown wide open in "Transparent," a new documentary film about nineteen female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children.

"Transparent" focuses on its subjectsâ€™ lives as parents --revealing the diverse ways in which each person reconciles this part of their history--giving birth and being biological mothers--now that they identify as male and are perceived by the world, but only sometimes by their children, as men. The first-person stories in "Transparent" explain how changing genders is dealt with and impacts the relationships, if at all, within these families.

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Directions

Black Sheep Books is on State Street just a few steps from the corner of Main St. in historic Montpelier, Vermont.

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