John Graham Defense

Spartacus is hosting the John Graham petition at the store right now, Please come in and sign it.

The petition asks the Canadian government for:

"immediate release and return of John Graham to canada.

A congresional investigation into the RBI handling of the murder investigation of the canadain Indian Anna Mae Aquash.

The amendment to the Extradition Treaty between canada and the united states to protect the rights of canadian Citizens from extradition based on hearsay evidence alone"

for more info email

Chusia Graham – chusia79@hotmail.com

or visit the John Graham Defense website. link here.

 

 

Some books of interest that are new

Here are some new books! We think they look awesome. Hopefully you will enjoy them too.

December features……

 

NOVEMBER BOOKS!

Books, books and more books!

Dayplanners, pins, Calendars, Posters, and everything you need on cold wet and dreary days! 

Find out which books are featured by our collective in November here.

November

Spartacus Sale!

THIS WEEKEND!

November 19th – 21st, 2011

20% OFF New Books!

November

Hillbilly Nationalists Book Launch!

November 20th, 2011

7:00PM at Spartacus Books!

Join us for the launch of Hillbilly Nationalists!

The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality.  Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. Most Americans, the story goes, just watched the political movements of the sixties go by.
 
James Tracy and Amy Sonnie, who have been interviewing activists from the era for nearly ten years, reject this old narrative. They show that poor and working-class radicals, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and 1970s.
 
Exploring an untold history of the New Left, the book shows how these groups helped to redefine community organizing—and transforms the way we think about a pivotal moment in U.S. history.

We have Slingshot day planners!

We have recieved the slingshot day planners!

So if you looking to plan out the next year… in advance. Come down and buy one.

We also are carrying some different day planners.

Check out the Bookshop section for more information.

SUPPORT THE RHIZOME CAFE!

Dear Friends,

We are writing to tell you about upcoming events to celebrate Rhizome's
fifth anniversary-and to ask for your help.

For over five years, Rhizome has served as a vital community resource. We
have hosted hundreds of events related to social and environmental justice,
and have created a shared "living room" for diverse communities. Rhizome has
become a unique institution-a forum for powerful voices, discussions on
critical issues, mutual learning, and sharing of resources. Rhizome was
created to nurture organizing in Vancouver-and now it's time for the
community to nurture Rhizome!

Rising costs and the current economic crisis have hit Rhizome hard-just as
they have impacted many others in our communities. Our revenue has dropped
significantly in recent months-and we now need more than food sales to keep
doing this work. Rhizome needs your help to stay open.

Introducing – The Friends of Rhizome

We are launching an individual donor program to help keep Rhizome afloat-and
to make sure that it can thrive well into the future. We are gratefully
accepting donations of any amount-either on a one-time or monthly basis.
Individuals and organizations can all become Friends of Rhizome. Go to our
website: www.rhizomecafe.ca/friends.html to find out how you can donate by
cash, cheque or credit card. Your donation really can make a difference.

Please also forward this urgent appeal as soon as you are able to people you
think would like to support Rhizome.

We need volunteers to support this campaign. If you can help, please contact
lisa@rhizomecafe.ca.
 

 

October

Iron&Co and the Holdouts



Spartacus Books hosts Iron&Co with The Holdouts – Ocotber 14th at 8PM!

Iron&Co

While Prospecting in the Canadian Wilderness one Spring, John Ackerley came across a mountain man by the name of Brett Prokopchuk, through a quick conversation of grunts and whistles a common bond was made, with a handshake of sorts these two blood brothers would go on become partners in both crime & song furthing their quest for the tightest track, the best beer, and of course the sweetest bike ride, Behold: Iron&Co

http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Iron-Co

The HoldOuts

Our local sensation!

“the wittiest, snarkiest, most fearless feminist folk music this side of Michfest“

July

BOOK SALE!

July 1st to 3rd!!! – 10AM to 8PM

Used books 35% off
New books 25% off

Do you like cheap things?
Do you like reading?
Do you like spartacus?

If the answer is yes to one or more of these questions, come down to
spartacus books on July 1st, 2nd or 3rd (or all three days!).

You can improve your vocabulary with pretentious words like: postmodern
or dialectics, and save some money for food. 

Or you can just buy some comics.

See our Bookshop for ideas of books to grab!

 

May

Book Launch // Heavy Industries

Everybody's invited to the book launch. The event starts at 7:30. Heavy Industries is a small chapbook press that brings together groups of like-minded poets to design and construct their own books. The run is limited to ten to fifteen copies, with each book no more than ten to twelve pages, containing one long poem. Every chapbook will be an original made by the poet. Books will be for sale at the launch.  The current collection is the result of months of hanging out with glue, paper, paper cutters, wiener dog interference, hinges, sandpaper, and coffee/beer/cigarettes/love.
 
The current group of industrialists:
  • Nikki Reimer,
  • Reg Johanson,
  • Jason Christie,
  • Kim Duff, and
  • Cris Costa.

Most of them like coffee; some of them write books, poems and dissertations.

June

SUBVERSIONS - Book Launch!

Join us at the Vancouver book launch of the world's first anthology of anarchist
fiction, SUBVERSIONS, and a roundtable discussion about anarchism and literature.

Saturday June 25,
3pm – 5pm
 
SUBVERSIONS is an exciting bi-lingual collection of 16 short stories from 18
established and emerging anarchist writers from around the world, including
celebrated English-language authors like New York’s Cara Hoffman (Simon and
Schuster), San Francisco’s Jim Miller (AK Press) BC’s Ron Sakolsky (Autonomedia), Montreal’s Norman Nawrocki (Black Rose Books), and a number of equally respected French-language authors. 
 
April

SPARTY PARTY - program

Come out to the space, meet people from your community, join in the fun and chat about books, politics or whatever you feel like! The events kick off at 10AM with a free pancake breakfast.  Music and food will be served all day long, spiced with readings, workshops and discussions. The latter will include:

11:00 – 11:30 RYAN ANDREW MURPHY will speak about "anarcho-bibliophelia," fatherhood, and how Spartacus books has affected his life (over 15 years).
 
12:00 – 12:30 GABRIEL SALOMAN will be reading from "The Subjective Object, or Harry Hay in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", an essay published by Red76 in its irregular publication, The Journal of Radical Shimming. "The Subjective Object" recounts the formation of the Radical Faeries, an extraordinary community of anarchist magickal queers, as well as Harry Hay and his involvement in the Wobblies, CPUSA, Mattachine Society, the Gay Liberation Front and the founding of the Radical Faeries.
 
15:00 – 15:30 SYLVIA DUONG will be giving a workshop on sophisticated BOOK DESTRUCTION, or how to make secret treasure boxes. If the weather and neighbours allow, the workshop will take place at the back porch.
 
17:00 – 17:30 JACQUELINE TURNER will disclose that  THEY LIE ABOUT THE WEATHER; presenting a series of poems that map the city through its structures of change, like construction cranes, transformers, and port lifters that continually signify changeability, but are here imbued with an emotional content. The poems will ask what it means to live in flux. The prevalent notion that the city is cold, bleak, and unforgiving is pushed aside to make way for a sense of belonging via an almost excessive strategy which will allow the city to also be seen intimately, almost through rose-coloured glasses. This deliberate reinterpretation of the city applies affect theory to social spaces like coffee shops, walkways, escalators, and graffiti to set up a contrasting set of poetic associations.
 
18:00 – 18:30 MIGUEL BURR will read three original poems and maybe recite some classics by Blake, Coleridge and Carroll.
April

David Hugill presents Missing Women, Missing News

On Sunday, April the 10th at 5 pm, David Hugill will present his book Missing Women, Missing News at Spartacus Books. After a short overview, there will  be a discussion. Everybody is welcome!

April

A Report back: INTIFADA in Tunisia and Egypt

A report back from the INTIFADA in Tunisia & Egypt in Spartacus on April 14 at 7 pm. Looking back upon the smashing of state, and forward towards the withering away. Just returned from North Africa, David Cunningham will present an informal multimedia report back. 
From the re-occupation of Tahrir square in Cairo to a street vendors riot in Tunis; traveling between open assembly’s and communes, empty prisons and torched copshops; speaking to a multitude of rebels along way. Come hear some crazy shit, be inspired by the potentialities of these insurrections and discuss direct action solidarity with the global intifada.
Available at event will be a new zine published by Moment of Insurrection, which features a comprehensive chronology of the uprisings.

Awesome Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels section at Spartacus Books!!!

Spartacus is carrying a great selection of comics and graphic novels!  We will be bringing in new stuff every month, so keep checking in to see what's new in the space!  Go to our bookshop to see more!

March

IAIN SINCLAIR READING AT SPARTACUS BOOKS

 Sinclair on the 2012 Olympics 

Iain Sinclair is reading at Spartacus Books on March 24 at 8PM.  He is a British writer, documentarist, film maker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist. Sinclair’s work traces various alterations to the spaces of London, and the identities that live, and have lived, there as they are inscribed, and made legible, on the surfaces of the city. His works include, but are not limited to, Lud Heat (1975), White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987), Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal 1970-1987 (1987), Lights out for the territory: 9 Excursions in the secret history of London (1997), London Orbital (2002), Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out Of Essex' (1995), Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report (2009), and the forthcoming Ghost Milk.

“We are the rubbish, outmoded and unrequired. Dumped on wet pavings

and left there for weeks, in the expectation of becoming art objects,

a baleful warning. Nobody pays me to do this. It is my own choice, to

identify with detritus in a place that has declared war on unconvinced

recyclers while erecting expensive memorials to the absence of

memory.” – from Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

 

SPACE FOR THIS EVENT IS LIMITED! PLEASE COME EARLY!

Presented by the Kootenay School of Writing

March

Feminist Book Club reading "Butch is a noun"

Everybody is welcome to feminist book club reading session on Monday March 28 at 7 pm in Spartacus Books. The book in focus is "Butch is a noun" by S. Bear Bergman. You can buy it in Spartacus Books for $19.95. The collection of intimate essays written by activist, gender-jammer, and performer who "dearly hopes that it resonates for other butches, for transmasculine folks, for all manner of types of people." Come to resonate to Spartacus on Monday evening!

March

LAST PART: Spike Lee's docs in Spartacus Books

March is a Spike Lee's month in Spartacus. We have finished watching his 2006 documentary, When the Levee Broke,  and also the first part of his 2010 return to New Orleans. The second part of If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise  shall be screened on March 25.

EVERYBODY IS WELCOME!

February

Cassavetes's Shadows cast in Spartacus

On Friday February 25 at 7:30, we will be screening John Cassavetes's SHADOWS (1959) – a gem of independent cinema.  Everybody is welcome!

February

Film on Friday at 7:30

Aguire, The Wrath Of God (1972) by Werner Herzog. Screened at 7:30 on Friday. Everybody welcome!
A portrait of madness and power. In the mid 16th century, after annihilating the Incan Empire, an army of conquistadors travels over the Andes and into a savage environment in search of the fabled City of Gold, El Dorado. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, nature, and each other, a soldier named Don Lope de Aguire is consumed with visions of conquering all of South America, and decides to lead his own personal army down a treacherous river on a doomed quest into oblivion.
February

Feminist Book Club - February 21

The Feminist Book Club will be discussing bell hooks' All About Love on February 21st at 7pm in Spartacus. You will be able to buy the book in Spartacus: it will there in the end of January the latest! All ages, genders, people welcome.

Top 5 bestsellers in Spartacus in 2010

  1. The 500 years of resistance – Gord Hill
  2. Girls to the Front: The true Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution – Sara Marcus
  3. How Nonviolence Protects the State – Peter Gelderloos
  4. Toolbox for Sustainable City Living – Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
  5. War's End – Joe Sacco
January

Film in Spartacus on Friday

On Friday night, we will show a bossa-nova triste Orfeo negro in Spartacus. Everybody's welcome.