When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, an organization calling itself the Common Ground Collective formed to become the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history. In solidarity with people in New Orleans, Common Ground built medical clinics, distributed aid, formed neighborhood assemblies and created food security through community gardens. The group also defied unjust laws by resisting home demolitions, and defended communities f...

When the US government failed New Orleans in 2005, author Scott Crow headed into a political storm, co-founding a relief effort known as the Common Ground Collective. In the absence of state leadership, the unusual volunteer organisation based on solidarity, not charity, built medical clinics and set up food distribution. Crow's vivid memoir maps the intertwining of his radical experience and ideas with the brutal reality of Katrina in a story of resisting indifference, inviting the reader...

When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the anarchist-inspired Common Ground Collective was created to fill the void. With the motto of “Solidarity Not Charity,” they worked to create power from below—building autonomous projects, programs, and spaces of self-sufficiency like health clinics and neighborhood assemblies, while also supporting communities defending themselves from white militias and police brutality, illegal home demolitions, and evicti...

Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves “by any means necessary” with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Far from a call to arms, o...

When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans in 2005, scott crow cofounded the Common Ground Collective. Without government, FEMA ot the Red Cross, this volunteer organisation built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution and created community gardens. They resisted home demolitions, white militias, police brutality and FEMA's incompetence. crow's vivid memoir maps the intertwining of his radical experience and ideas with Hurricane Katrina's reality, and community eff...

A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary womenIn the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was a brutal and profitable place. Home to starving, landless farmers, the county produced almost 2 percent of the entire world’s cotton. It was also the site of two rape trials that made national headlines: an accusation that sent two ...

THE LORD OF THE CROWS tells the story of Sasha, a boy growing up on a poor farm with his parents, brothers, and sisters. Then, the Lord of the Crows comes to seek tribute of one son or their oxen. After two boys get lost in the forest going to the palace, Sasha goes and gains the help of a crow who needs a ride on his back and gives him a warning, which enables Sasha to obtain a special coffee grinder which his able to give him and his family whatever they want, and after that the Lord of ...

How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade, Holloway explores the stories black American...

He’s “Mister” Crow because he can’t stand his first name (for good reason!), but no one calls him Old to his face. Listen as Old Mr. Crow is mightily tricked by Mr. Frog the tailor, learns some downsides to owning the only umbrella in Pleasant Valley, and very nearly loses his standing in the local crow community. Oh! and he has a near miss with the worst case of gout Aunt Polly Woodchuck has ever seen!Equal parts natural history, life lessons, and good fun, each chapter of Arthur ...

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...

After growing up in a pet store surrounded by dogs, cats, and other animals, Danny has lost his ability to quack and goes on a journey to regain his ability. Along the way, he meets an owl, mole, and spider, but he ends up clucking like a hen, mewing like a cat, barking like a dog, oinking like a pig, squeaking like a mouse, and cooing like a quail.Finally, he goes to see Freddy the Frog, who lives near a lake where he has seen other ducks. Can Freddy help him regain his true voice...

Immerse yourself in the psychedelic, mind-bending, and multiversal realm of the Infiniuum where travelers can stitch into an infinite array of alternate universes and worlds!In the multiverse, anything you can imagine exists somewhere. It's just a matter of finding it.Seventeen-year-old Ian Wilder's heart belonged to one person—his next-door neighbor, bestie, and steady girlfriend, Penelope Archer. To him, their hearts matched like the last two puzzle pieces across an infin...