And then I see something I did not expect. I see an apple bobbing its way downstream. It is bright, and it is pink. It is the most beautiful apple I have ever seen. It takes me a few moments to realize where it came from and what this means.
Suddenly I understand. I have never in my life been so happy. I say, to the fish, to the creek, to the willows, ponderosa pines, and wild roses, to Nika, to the demons, to Allison, to my muse, and to myself, “There’s a lot of work to be done. Let’s go.”
Special thanks to the Wallace Global Fund
for their ongoing support.
About Flashpoint Press
Flashpoint Press was founded by Derrick Jensen to ignite a resistance movement. Our planet is under serious threat from industrial civilization, with its consumption of biotic communities, production of greenhouse gases and environmental toxins, and destruction of human rights and human-scale cultures around the globe. This system will not stop voluntarily, and it can not be reformed.
Flashpoint Press believes that the Left has severely limited its strategic thinking, by insisting on education, lifestyle change and technofixes as the only viable and ethical options. None of these responses can address the scale of the emergency now facing our planet. We need both a serious resistance movement and a supporting culture of resistance that can inspire and protect frontline activists. Flash-point embraces the necessity of all levels of action, from cultural work to militant confrontation. We also intend to win.
About PM
PM Press was founded in 2007 as an independent publisher with multiple offices in the US and a veteran staff boasting a wealth of experience in print and online publishing. We produce and distribute short as well as large run projects, timely texts, and out of print classics.
We seek to create radical and stimulating fiction and non-fiction books, pamphlets, t-shirts, visual and audio materials to entertain, educate and inspire you. We aim to distribute these through every available channel with every available technology - whether that means you are seeing anarchist classics at our bookfair stalls; reading our latest vegan cookbook at the café over (your third) micro-brew; downloading geeky fiction e-books; or digging new music and timely videos from our website.
PM Press is always on the lookout for talented and skilled volunteers, artists, activists and writers to work with. If you have a great idea for a project or can contribute in some way, please get in touch.
PM Press
PO Box 23912
Oakland, CA 94623
510-658-3906
Friends of PM
These are indisputably momentous times – the financial system is melting down globally and the Empire is stumbling. Now more than ever there is a vital need for radical ideas.
In the year since its founding – and on a mere shoestring – PM Press has risen to the formidable challenge of publishing and distributing knowledge and entertainment for the struggles ahead. We have published an impressive and stimulating array of literature, art, music, politics, and culture. Using every available medium, we’ve succeeded in connecting those hungry for ideas and information to those putting them into practice.
Friends of PM allows you to directly help impact, amplify, and revitalize the discourse and actions of radical writers, filmmakers, and artists. It provides us with a stable foundation from which we can build upon our early successes and provides a much-needed subsidy for the materials that can’t necessarily pay their own way.
It’s a bargain for you too. For a minimum of $25 a month, you’ll get all the audio and video (over a dozen CDs and DVDs in our first year) or all of the print releases (also over a dozen in our first year). For $40 you’ll get everything that is published in hard copy. Friends also have the ability to purchase any/all items from our webstore at a 50% discount. And what could be better than the thrill of receiving a monthly package of cutting edge political theory, art, literature, ideas and practice delivered to your door?
Your card will be billed once a month, until you tell us to stop. Or until our efforts succeed in bringing the revolution around. Or the financial meltdown of Capital makes plastic redundant. Whichever comes first.
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Also From PM Press
Derrick Jensen - Now This War Has Two Sides
“Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you’ll finally stop running. At which you’ll finally fight back. Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.” --From the CD
Examining the premises of his latest controversial work, Endgame as well as core elements of his ground breaking book Culture of Make Believe, this two hour lecture and discussion offers both a perfect introduction for newcomers and additional insight for those already familiar with Derrick Jensen’s work.
Whether exposing the ravages of industrial civilization, relaying humorous anecdotes from his life, or bravely presenting a few of the endless forms that resistance can (and must) take, Jensen leaves his audience both engaged and enraged.
Order at www.pmpress.org
Also From PM Press
Derrick Jensen - How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating The Earth From Civilization
In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it.
Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on perceiving the sacred; be it Kathleen Dean Moore reminding us that our bodies are made of mountains, rivers, and sunlight; or Vine Deloria asserting that our dreams tell us more about the world than science ever can, the activists and philosophers interviewed in How Shall I Live My Life? each bravely present a few of the endless forms that resistance can and must take.
Interviews include:
George Draffan
Carolyn Raffensperger
David Edwards
Kathleen Dean Moore
Jesse Wolf Hardin
Steven Wise
Thomas Berry
Vine Deloria
Jan Lundberg
David Abram
Order at www.pmpress.org
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