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That’s right, EXILE has its own publishing project:

EXILE Press is committed to publishing and/or republishing quality material that supplements– in any way– knowledge(s) surrounding anarchism, anti-oppression (of any form), activism, direct action, revolution(s) or radical social transformations, underground movements, radical histories/herstories, freedom loving, the enabling of complexities, ecological survival, or critiques of the reward-systems of capitalism.

The society/societies we live in are fucked. The people that control and abuse these/our societies are especially fucked. The people within these societies are fucked. We’re fucked up, you’re fucked up, but there’s work that we can do to change the situation. EXILE Press is committed to the expression of ways we can do so. We hope that our material can help change the ways we address our fucked-upness, and challenge ourselves to struggle onwards. If you’d like general info, info on publishing/distro, or anything at all, please contact us!

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Issue 001 – “Unleashing the Imagination: An Anarchist Tour of the National Gallery of Canada”, by Allan Antliff, with an intro by bones

Allan Antliff takes readers on a ‘tour’ of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. Carefully tying the complexities of many artists’ lives and politics into a portrait of anti-authoritarianism and rebellion, the ‘tour’ discusses the work of artists like Marcel Duchamp, Gustav Courbet, Camille Pissarro, Francis Picabia, Bartlett Newman, Oscar Wilde and Les Automatistes. It gives an account of their lengthy political and social involvements with groups and organizations established along anarchist principles of voluntary association, egalitarianism, mutual aid, and the refusal of authority. The zine also includes pictures of the art discussed, other photos, and trivial information.

Excerpts from the introduction:

“…In the case of art produced by self-identifying anarchists, we have the presentation of biographical and technical (mis)information that suppresses the social, political, and philosophic context(s). De-contextualization allows institutions like the National Gallery to focus on trivialities (like the current value of a work or anecdotal accounts about an artist’s life) instead of the more difficult and informative task of presenting a coherent explanation of an artist’s politics and how the art on display reflects it. De-contextualized ‘knowledge environments’ create a quick and disposable presentation of anarchist ‘ART!’ stripped of the principles, ethics and radicalism that made it possible.

“We should not, in fact, expect the National Gallery to inform its ‘citizens’ of the explicitly anti-authoritarian and egalitarian tendencies of the art it currently owns. No more than we might an official history of Canada to detail the ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples or the National War Museum to catalog the crimes of war (OUR crimes that is– we can expect an exemplary and voluminous account of the OTHERS’ crimes). Claiming ownership, the National Gallery, in its role as the state’s cultural repository of status quo values, appropriates art in a bid to DOMESTICATE it…”

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Issue 002 – “Resistance 2010″, by Peoples’ Global Action Bloc Ottawa

The People’s Global Action (PGA) Bloc Ottawa is a collective of individuals and groups active in ongoing struggles against colonialism, imperialism, and all other forms of oppression and domination. They strive to organize inclusively under the globally recognized PGA hallmarks, working within a non-hierarchical, anti-oppressive framework. Through mutual aid and solidarity in resistance, they work to bridge local, regional and global struggles for justice and dignity.

Inspired by the No2010 campaign, Ottawa’s PGA-Bloc has initiated a similar region-wide campaign entitled Resistance2010. Focusing on the links between the 2010 Olympics on Native land in Vancouver-Whistler, the coming Group of 8 (G8) summit in Huntsville, ON, and the Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit of that year, the campaign attempts to unite analysis and resistance.

As part of the PGA’s ongoing efforts to educate about the campaign, this zine does 3 things: it outlines the main issues surrounding the Olympics, the SPP and the G8, as well as the themes that unite them; it applies an anti-capitalist and anti-colonial analysis to these issues and themes; and it describes past and current resistance efforts against them and events similar to them in order to inform and develop more effective resistance strategies in the coming years.

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Issue 003 – “Rock Against Harper” zine & CD combo

More info coming soon :)

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Issue 004 – “Under Attack! The Green Scare & SHAC Canada”

This zine discusses the impacts of the war against “eco-terrorism” and its effects on Canada. The Green Scare is a concerted effort by police and security agencies to criminalize the radical earth and animal liberation movement(s) by using the language and legal provisions used for fighting “terrorism”. Recent crackdowns on Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) in Canada can be traced directly to the politically motivated suppression of groups and individuals in the US. This zine discusses the Green Scare in the US, the SHAC campaign, the SHAC 7, Operation Backfire, US domestic “anti-terror” laws, and other items relating to the Green Scare. It also presents research documents showing cooperation between the US and Canadian police and “intelligence” agencies. The Green Scare is contextualized within larger struggles against dominant capitalist interests and the threating growth of the police state.

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Issue 005 – “Educating for Freedom”: A Talk by Cindy Milstein

“Educating for Freedom” is based on a talk presented by Cindy Milstein during the unSchooling Oppression conference in Ottawa in the fall of 2007.

Cindy is and has been involved with many anarchist and activist projects, including the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, the Institute for Anarchist Studies, the Institute for Social Ecology, and Black Sheep Books.

This talk contributes something new to the existing literature on anarchism and education. It is essentially a synthesis of various anarchist approaches to education, and Cindy links these approaches to larger projects and movements for social change. She describes and embraces alternatives to traditional education – alternatives to the alternatives, even. Much has already been published on the problems with traditional education, so it’s refreshing to read about Cindy’s experiences with activities that we might not necessarily have understood as educational projects. She emphasizes that these examples of educating for freedom are more than just different ways of doing education; they are necessary parts of the process of prefiguring, right now, what we want our world to look like. (adapted from the editor’s introduction)

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