No Quarter #4 and more

Out Now: No Quarter #4. Also No Quarter Pamphlet Series #2 : Trevor Bark - Crime Becomes Custom, Custom Becomes Crime and No Quarter Pamphlet Series #3 : Omasius Gorgut - Poor Man's Heaven, The Land of Cokaygne: A 14th Century Utopian Vision. Still available: No Quarter 1-3. If anyone really wants From Idle Hands The Devil's Work #1 I might have a couple left. No Quarter #1 & 2 are still available from AK Press too. email me if you are interested in any of the above (captainmissionismycopilot {at} @hotmail .com), although I am a little less than reliable when it comes to email. I don't currently do anything hi-tech like paypal. I often like trades. The Land of Cokaygne pamphlet may be available soon from Past Tense, and an earlier version is available from them for free download. Trevor Bark may have copies of his pamphlet and the text is here. Also, special thanks to breviary stuff, they are very nice to No Quarter and also I steal all the scans they do of the covers.

Sad News

Franklin Rosemont, surrealist poet and historian is dead. Born October 2, 1943 and died April 12 at 65. Franklin was a prolific editor, author and poet, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. Closely associated with Black Swan Books and Charles H Kerr and published dozens of books. Sad news indeed. Here is a nice obit on the ak press blog.

Calgary Anarchist Bookfair 2009

I will be at the 2009 Calgary Anarchist Bookfair April 24, 25, and 26 !

It's at the Rehabilitation Society of Calgary #7 11 St NE (a short walk east from Bridgeland c-train station, it's the building with lots of nice murals on the north side of Memorial Drive)
http://bookfair.anarchistservices.ca/
Book Vendors from across Canada, workshops, movies, plus a keynote speaker. No charge for admission. Free Vegan food.

Friday, April 24
- Vendors - 2pm - 7pm
- Workshops
- Keynote speaker - Ron Sakolsky* - 7pm - 9pm
- Acoustic Show - 10 pm - late

Saturday, April 25
- Vendors - 10am - 7pm
- Workshops
- 4th Annual People's Prom - 8:30pm - late

Sunday, April 26
- Pancake Breakfast, Anti-2010 Olympics flyering, and hanging out

*Ron will share his ideas on wilderness, the green scare, miserabilism, pirate radio, resistance, visionary thinking, utopia and the art of demanding the impossible. His past books include: Gone To Croatan: Origins of North American Drop-Out Culture; Sounding Off: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution; Seizing the Airwaves; Surrealist Subversions, and Creating Anarchy. His latest book, *Swift Winds* (Eberhardt Press, 2009) is a backpocket compendium of outrageous ideas, subversive tracts, mutinous manifestos, spitfire rants, polemical broadsides, incendiary poems and utopian visions. This volatile mixture is strategically aimed at countering authoritarian thinking with the surreal laughter of the insurgent imagination in flight. Currently, he is involved as a co-editor (with Andrea Langlois and Marian van der Zon) of an anthology scheduled for a 2010 release by New Star Press, to be entitled, *Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada*.

Very excited about Ron's talk. I just got his new book, and its awesome. There will likely be a new zine or two from me, although no guarantees what...

Dead Somali Pirates and a Mystery

Somewhat sketchy reports about Somali pirates hijacking an Iranian vessel for ransom and then falling sick and some dying. A Sept 28th report claims "Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill 'within days' of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Some of them died". There is some question as to what the cargo is. "The vessel’s declared cargo consists of 'minerals' and 'industrial products'. But officials involved in negotiations over the ship are convinced that it was sailing for Eritrea to deliver small arms and chemical weapons to Somalia’s Islamist rebels". FoxNews.com has picked up on the story publishing a story with the cautious title Mysterious Cargo Aboard Iranian Ship Seized by Pirates Raises WMD Concerns. Perhaps the Somali pirates should now be considered allies in the Global War on Terror.

Off With Their Heads !!!

Bristol Radical History Week 2008
Off With Their Heads: Assassins, Plots & Regicide
Saturday 25th October – Tuesday 4th November 2008
With both Canada and the United States in the midst of a deluge of electoral politicking it is nice that our friends at the Bristol Radical History Group offer us an alternative to the banal bleating of liars of different stripes. We can examine with them how people in the past dealt with presidents, ministers and kings. And like all their events, it looks very good!

The Works of James Naylor

One of the most fascinating figures of the English Revolution was James Naylor. He is perhaps best remembered for his ride into Bristol in 1656 emulating Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Some of Naylor's companions sang Holy Holy Holy as he rode. He was arrested, convicted of blasphemy, and nearly executed. Parliament showed mercy, and instead flogged him, branded his forehead with the letter B for blasphemy, and stuck a red hot poker through his tongue. Plus two years hard labor.
Naylor was also quite a writer and his works are getting the deluxe treatment from Quaker Heritage Press. So far three volumes have been published, with a fourth and final volume in preparation. In addition they have been so kind to put the full text of the volumes on the internet! QHP have also published the works of Naylor's contemporary Isaac Penington, as well as a lot of other interesting material, all or most of which is available online too. Thank you Quaker Heritage Press.

A Few Things

One- Bristol Radical History Group has posted mp3s of the talks from Down With Fences. So far I've only listened to Peter Linebaugh's talk about his most recent book Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberty and Commons for All (which I've just finished reading, it's good), and George Caffentzis talking about an older book, Clipped Coins: John Locke's Philosophy of Money (which I haven't read, but maybe I will now). The rest of the talks seem equally good. They've also published three pamphlets: Cry Freedom, Cry Seven Stars: Thomas Clarkson In Bristol, 1787 by Mark Steeds, We Come For Our Own And We Shall Have It - Smuggling In Poole And Dorset by Kevin Davis, and A Brief History Of Corporations - Where Did They Come From? By Dan Bennett & Andy Singer. I haven't seen any of them yet, but they seem awesome.

Two- Our friends at Breviary stuff have taken the time amidst posts about anti-enclosure riots, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds and awesome books (seriously, please check out the current books list) to post about No Quarter #3.

Three- I've just seen Anja Kirchner's new film Trail of the Spider. So Awesome! "Trail of the Spider is a 55 minute Western that collides the suppressed multi-racial history of the American frontier with the conflicts breaking up East London today." Couldn't have said it better myself.