From Firestorm Cafe and Books in Asheville, NC: “Today (2/2) is the last day of our Red Emma’s Fundraiser Booksale! Buy a book [from Firestorm] at 15% off and we’ll donate a portion of the sale or send money directly to the good folks at Baltimore’s amazing infoshop through their Indiegogo page.”

From Firestorm Cafe and Books in Asheville, NC: “Today (2/2) is the last day of our Red Emma’s Fundraiser Booksale! Buy a book [from Firestorm] at 15% off and we’ll donate a portion of the sale or send money directly to the good folks at Baltimore’s amazing infoshop through their Indiegogo page.”

Via FWs in Las Vegas.

Thanks to Jesse Walker, Benjamin R. Tucker’s “Lego et Penso” column from THE NEW FREEWOMAN, Oct. 1, 1913, currently readable online at Scribd. In which Tucker takes on the French proto-fascists at L’Action Francaise and the so-called “Cercle Proudhon.” As a bonus, the second part of the column tenders an initial reply to Steven T. Byington’s “On Interference with the Environment.” http://www.scribd.com/doc/123423838/Proudhon-and-Royalism

In which The Nation looks at the classes of immigrants who would be privileged with fast-track access to probationary status under a recent Senatorial “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” scheme, and asks, “Why Are Domestic Workers Ignored in Immigration Reform?” http://www.thenation.com/blog/172499/why-are-domestic-workers-ignored-immigration-reform?rel=emailNation%22# Probably because immigrant domestic workers are 95% women, and aren’t employed by multibillion dollar agribusiness corporations. The only “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” that will actually help all immigrants, rather than privileging some immigrants while throwing the rest under a bus, is (1) open borders and (2) unconditional amnesty for all currently undocumented immigrants. Anything else is divide-and-conquer.

In which The Nation looks at the classes of immigrants who would be privileged with fast-track access to probationary status under a recent Senatorial “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” scheme, and asks, “Why Are Domestic Workers Ignored in Immigration Reform?” http://www.thenation.com/blog/172499/why-are-domestic-workers-ignored-immigration-reform?rel=emailNation%22# Probably because immigrant domestic workers are 95% women, and aren’t employed by multibillion dollar agribusiness corporations. The only “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” that will actually help all immigrants, rather than privileging some immigrants while throwing the rest under a bus, is (1) open borders and (2) unconditional amnesty for all currently undocumented immigrants. Anything else is divide-and-conquer.

Updates from Freedom Press facebook page: “Another ‘update’ post (seems I can’t edit the ones I’ve already posted): “* Freedom was firebombed at 5:30am today. No one was hurt. We’re still assessing everything however it’s mostly the shop that was damaged “* 1pm, tomorrow (saturday 2nd) Bookshop solidarity cleanup! We won’t be beaten so easily. Please share! “* DONATIONS: We are setting up a donation page. In the meanwhile, anyone who wants to donate can do so by ordering a book/s through the www.freedompress.org.uk website, and emailing us at shop@freedompress.org.uk to let us know that your purchase was a donation. Please spread the word! “– “Many thanks for the solidarity and fundraising help to rebuild the shop: “* From Iron Column Records (http://ironcolumnrecords.com/) APPEAL FOR TRACKS FOR BENEFIT COMPILATION – Details posted as a comment to this post “* Donate a poem for Freedom: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Donate-a-Poem-for-Freedom/331973286920611

Whitechapel, London radical bookshop attacked. Serious damage to downstairs, but fortunately no-one was hurt.

From Jesse Walker http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/29/the-anarchist-in-the-comic-book-shop/singlepage