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Quail
24th March 2015, 13:01
A few people shared this on social media so thought I'd share it here.


AK Press is currently cleaning up the wreckage from a major fire. You are in the right place if you want to help. In the early, morning of 3/21/15, the building behind ours caught fire and two people in that building died. Several units in our building burned but everyone got out safely. AK Press and our neighbors at 1984 Printing suffered extensive water and smoke damage.

A lot of people have been asking what is the best way to help us recover financially. We still aren't sure the exact amount of stock that is ruined, or how long our business will be disrupted while we work hard to get back on our feet. But we do know that we've lost a lot, and even in the best of times, we always need your support. Especially now when we aren't able to carry on with our normal day-to-day business, every bit helps. The best way you can help us keep going is by joining the Friends of AK Press, a monthly subscription where the money goes directly to our publishing fund, and for which we send you every book we publish. You can choose your membership from the options in the right-hand column.

Link (http://www.akpress.org/fire-relief.html)

The Idler
24th March 2015, 20:58
For a moment I had this mixed up with the firebombing of Freedom Press in London in 2013
http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/freedom-bookshop-and-press-firebombed/

Quail
25th March 2015, 12:51
For a moment I had this mixed up with the firebombing of Freedom Press in London in 2013
http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/freedom-bookshop-and-press-firebombed/

Oddly enough that was my first thought when I saw it too.

blake 3:17
27th March 2015, 03:25
This is really sad... AK not only published but distributed a lot of books and publications that wouldn't get anywhere without them. There's a number of publishers who've lost a bunch of books which might sound like nothing, but it's not.

I've heard nothing that it was a politically motivated attack. But who knows?

Sasha
27th March 2015, 03:30
nah, the fire started at another building that completely burned down, their building just got declared unsafe because of structural damage and lack of working hydrant water etc , if it was arson they where not the target..