Hey all: Progress update. I’m happy to announce that two more volumes — 104 new issues — of THE LIBERATOR have been added to the online archive. As of this morning, all the issues of Vols. XII-XIII (Jan. 1842-Dec. 1843) are now available in full as PDFs, bringing the archive up to 14 years’ worth of THE LIBERATOR. The early 1840s were an especially heady and often controversial time for Garrison, THE LIBERATOR, and his fellow radicals. Vol. XI (1841) is available in full at: http://ift.tt/1jaOjMC Vol. XII (1842) is available in full at: http://ift.tt/1m7yXhB For more details on what’s been added: http://ift.tt/1jaOjMG I should be adding about 2-4 volumes of THE LIBERATOR each week from here on out, which should keep us on track to finish around the end of July or the start of August 2014! I’ve also added a “Thank You” credits roll at the bottom of the archive pages, acknowledging all y’all who have made this archive possible through your generous donations. (If you’ve donated but your name isn’t listed yet, and you’d like it to be, contact me to let me know the name or name(s) you’d like to be listed under. I’d like to list everyone, but donations remain private, as part of the “N other contributors…” until I hear back from the donor that they are O.K. with their name appearing.) Thanks to some donations through Bitcoin, we have reached $351 of our goal of $2,000, from 11 donors. Thank you all for your support! If you know anyone else who might be interested in supporting this project, please spread the word far and wide! -C

By-products of THE LIBERATOR scanning project: just went through all of Howard Fast’s novel _Spartacus_ (the major source for the Kirk Douglas film and all subsequent versions). Pretty sure the Douglas film is better, possibly a lot better, but Fast’s novel is structurally kind of fascinating, if you can get around the digressive Marxist speechifying and the obsessive homophobia. Anyway, now leading me on to one of Fast’s major sources, C. Osborne Ward’s THE ANCIENT LOWLY, which is kind of the source of 90% of the things imagined about Spartacus in 20th/21st century depictions.

– – – forwarded from Mujer Fiera – – – “Friends, I just donated a second time to make sure that this film production happens because I want all of us to have the honor and education that it offers us. There are amazing feminists, artists of color, and queers that are responsible for bringing this production to fruition. We must donate today by midnight!! “This film and story is being offered and guided by one of my most amazing friends, supporters, and San Antonio south side homegurls, Adelina Anthony. She has been my peer and fellow muxerista activist for over 15 years now. At UCLA, year after year, she came out to perform and support Raza Womyn events, conference, and poetry readings, always supporting muxerista space creating and activism. Later, she mentored one of my favorite Vegas feministas, our little Neza. She took him in to the LA art scene and helped him write his stories. Since then, she has visited us in Vegas, bringing the lusciousness of Tragic Bitches to ‘sin city.’ Again, again she has showed me and my community and students love. Now it’s time for us to do the same. Please support this project. The time is now! Please donate $1, $5, $10, $50, or more. I know many people in our community are struggling financially, but together we can make it happen.”

Tortured with electricity for attempting to nonviolently walk away from an angry police. #AbolishThePolice

This is untrue because for God’s sake of course I have had Vernors. #NectarOfTheGods #734Represent

My suggestion is to just stop having kids recite loyalty oaths to the State in unison every morning. Because, you know, that’s kind of creepy.* Also, #AbolishPublicSchools

Thanks to all y’all who have supported this project so far! Thanks to your contributions, two new volumes of THE LIBERATOR (Vols. X and XI, 1840-1841) are available in full online, adding 105 issues of THE LIBERATOR that are now available in full online. Another two (Vols XI-XII, 1842-1843) are being prepped and should be ready to go online before the end of the week. You can check out an update on the progress of the LIBERATOR scanning project and more on the schedule from here on out at: http://ift.tt/1sqPI9p