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Assata X Homage to Catalonia X Brown Jordan Futures

The autobiography Assata by black revolutionary Assata Shakur who was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a decentralized underground offshoot of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Assata was broken out of prison and fled to Cuba where she lives today. She was imprisoned for her role in the revolutionary movement of black liberation and specifically for organizing bank robberies , robbing drug dealers and organizing the assassination of police officers.

Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s memoirs from his fighting in revolutionary Spain. Orwell was a member of a leftist communist militia that fought along side of the Anarchist militias and was repressed by the Stalinist government before the Fascists of Franco took over. This book is an incredible account of a glorious and tragic time in history. A must read for any anarchist or anti-authoritarian. 

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The His Dark Materials series X the “galaxy” Zx Flux these shoes remind me of the North in these books and the idea of Dust. This is by far one of my favorite YA books or trilogy. It focuses on a rebellious young girl who resists the state, the church and the rationalist opposition.

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Reading together by Stephanie Chappe, 2010 Via Flickr: This shot was taken near the Boston Public Library and on the outskirts of where a protest was being held due to the decision to close some of the public library branches. These two boys were sitting right outside the protest area, calmly reading books together.

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Some nice Flyknits with assorted books

Look at this nerd ❤

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Belonging : a culture of place by bell hooks X Puma R698 Crackled Leather. This book is a collection of essays by hooks on growing up black in the South and the hatred and love she has for the region and her childhood. 

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Dixie Be Damned, Ak Press’ flagship summer book covers over 300 years of resistance to white supremacy, slavery, capitalism and the state in the American South. The “Real Tree” Adidas ZX Flux was chosen for this work due to the books stories of the Great Dismal Swamp maroon communities and the Swamp Outlaw, Henry Berry Lowrie. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the history of whiteness and the founding of capitalism in the United States.

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Jordan Sixty Club with the follow up to The Coming Insurrection " To Our Friends.” Though cultish there are very good points in this volume.

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Air Max 1 paired with the account of the 1967 Newark Riots, “No Case for Indictment.”

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Seersucker Air Force 1s with the Semiotexte collection of writings for the Italian insurrectionary movement of the 1960s-70s “Autonomia” and a new pamphlet on the recent wave of Black Lives Matter/ Anti Police uprisings spreading across the country.

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Another Asics Gel Lyte III, this time the Snowflake picture with the memoirs of my favorite novelist Jeanette Winterson; and Georgio Agamben’s “Means without End” 

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Two classic retro runners the Asics Gel Lyte III and the Saucony Grid 9000 paired with the prison writings of Black Liberation Army soldier Russell Maroon Shoatz “Maroon the Implacable”; an amazing biography of the man who inspire the Black Panthers and who brought organized armed self defense to the Civil Rights Movement Robert F Williams #robertfwilliams “Radio Free Dixie”; the second edition of George Katsiaficas’ Asia’s Unkown Uprisings, histories of anti authoritarian resistance to Asia’s military dictatorships from 1947-2009; and one of the greatest works of anarchist writing ever, Letters of Insurgents.