Freedom Press, firebombed - donations being accepted

[ska invita]

You are possibly right, but I would ask what is the depth of those readers attachment to the ideas therein? Will it be any more than the attachment felt when watching a dancing cat? This might sound flippant but the internet encourages fragmentation, dissipation, indeed distraction. I am influenced here by books such as Nicholas Carr's The Shallows on how the internet changes the way we think read & remember. Not the type of debate suited to the virtual format, but there you have it. The continued existence of multiple high production value magazines on the high street/in supermarkets tells me that the printed word is not dead, yet.

I'm sure the argument in the Shallows is a good one, and has much truth, but I think Freedom being primarily a newspaper with news items and analysis, it is well suited to the web, and occasional longer pieces can compliment those shorter items. Like many small-circulation presses, the amount of work that goes into producing and writing them, compared to how many people in fact read it has become very unbalanced. I get the impression anarchist articles do pretty well on the web, particularly relative to the scale of the anarchist movement in the UK.

Personally I struggle to retain information I have read from books as much as any other source

 

[Nice one]

Freedom no longer to be published in hard copy.

not had internet for while (and won't have it for a while longer) but lots to say about this. Ugly fucked up murky stuff indeed

 

[ska invita]

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BBC World Service - World Update, What does anarchism mean in the 21st century?
What does anarchism mean in the 21st century?
Our feature this week explores what anarchism means in the 21st century to those who follow it. Dan Damon visited the Freedom Press, one of the oldest anarchist book shops in London, to ask how the philosophy is still relevant today.

 

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BBC World Service - World Update, What does anarchism mean in the 21st century?
What does anarchism mean in the 21st century?
Our feature this week explores what anarchism means in the 21st century to those who follow it. Dan Damon visited the Freedom Press, one of the oldest anarchist book shops in London, to ask how the philosophy is still relevant today.

One of eh. One of.

 

[ska invita]

Click here to support The Big Freedom Rebuild by Freedom Building

Freedom needs your help! Or at least the Freedom Building in Whitechapel does.

One of East London’s last radical bastions, since we moved into 84b in 1968 the Freedom building has weathered firebombs, arrests, police infiltration, stalkers, threats of all kinds and more movement shenanigans than you can shake a very large stick at. And now we’re facing a major rebuilding project, costing up to £50,000, including vital works to fix the roof, walls and even stairs.

A survey carried out last year highlighted that emergency repairs are needed to the roof and walls that will total around £13,000. Our aim is to raise this amount by August 2017 so that the building works can take place in the Summer. As of February 2017 we have raised £5,000 to get us started.

But the fun doesn't stop there - over the coming three years we will need a lot more money to treat dampness in the walls, insulate the building, install a boiler and look into making the whole place more accessible. In the long term costs could be between £40-50,000 to bring the building back to its best, including things like fixing up the lovely (but old-style) sash windows.
The building is an important resource providing space for; an anarchist bookshop that is open 7 days of the week; Freedom news and publishing group that has been producing anarchist propaganda since 1886; office space for Haven Distribution, Soldiarity Federation, Anarchist Federation, Corporate Watch, IWW UK, the National Bargee Travellers Association - London branch and the Advisory Service for Squatters ; Decentre , a social room for meetings, events and organising; and for supporting groups such as London ABC , Legal Defence and Monitoring and the Green and Black Cross who regularly use the building.

Help us bring 84 back to its best so we can continue to work as a vital hub for the anarchist movement!

All of the rewards on offer are for collection from Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel. If you would like to organise for postage of your item(s) please contact shop(at)freedompress.org.uk

Rewards up for grabs include

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