Indigenous

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.

God Is Red

First published in 1972, God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate.  read more »

Custer Died for Your Sins - An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Custer Died for Your Sins

Deloria observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, It seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor,  read more »

Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization by Ward Churchill

Struggle for the Land

From the Sonora to the Arctic, North America's indigenous people have been dispossessed of nearly all their original territory, with the residue - about 2 percent - held under a colonial "trust" authority by the U.S. and Canada.  read more »

Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law by Ward Churchill

Perversions of Justice

The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is "a nation of laws, not of men." In Perversions of Justice, Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a series of 11 carefully crafted essays how the U.S.  read more »

From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985-1995 by Ward Churchill

From a Native Son

From a Native Son is the Capstone Collection of his most important and unflinching essays, which explore the themes of genocide in the Americas, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.  read more »

Selected Writings of Gender Anarky

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selected writings of the Gender Anarky collective in the CA prison system.

for more information, check out: genderanarky.wordpress.com

Archeology of Violence by Pierre Clastres

Archeology of Violence

The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war. —from The Archeology of Violence  read more »

Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres

Society Against the State

"The thesis is radical," writes Marshall Sahlins of this landmark text in anthropology and political science. "We conventionally define the state as the regulation of violence; it may be the origin of it.  read more »

Depth Charge Media PrezeNts: Orrior Comix: Comix Duel Invite to Zig Zag

This zine was originally self-published (in a very small circulation, under 50) with the intention to challenge Zig Zag of Zig Zag Comix, to a "comix duel", due to two things: One, his perpetuation of colonial paradigms of violent reaction to aggression, and two, to challenge a prevailing concept, if I remember right, of his and the canadian Native Youth Movement's perpetuation of a 'character ass  read more »

Anarchist Reimagining: Communities of Resistance

This zine addresses migrant issues, borders and how institutions, prisons, heterosexism, and other oppressive forces have left people of color, queer, trans*, native folk, etc. subject to violence and is a re-imagining of an anarchist world without them using community accountability and recognizing institutions as pointless and that they only create a world of violence.  read more »

anarchism in the philippines (by a3yo)

a short interview with activists from mindsetbreakers manila and housing struggling people plus some short historical comments

Enero Zapatista 2012 by San Diego Indymedia

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Enero Zapatista is a month of grassroots community events in San Diego, CA that support that Zapatista cause or beliefs.
This zine was a print version of all the coverage community journalists submitted to sandiego.indymedia.org/

James C. Scott - The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

The Art of Not Being Governed

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare.  read more »

Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces by Raul Zibechi

Dispersing Power - Social Movements as Anti-State Forces

Raul Zibechi is one of Latin America's leading political theorists. His, his first book translated into English, is a historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara.  read more »

Poetics of Resistance, A : The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency by Jeff Conant

A Poetics of Resistance - The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency

Part literary criticism, part media analysis, and part marketing handbook, A Poetics of Resistance explores the varied elements of poetics and symbolism that have helped Zapatismo emerge as something entirely new: a resolutely radical public relations campaign for human liberation.

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