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'''Ramsey Kanaan''' is a Scottish-[[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] businessman and publisher of anarchist literature, best known as the founder of [[AK Press]], a distributor of anarchist and left-wing books<ref name="Indymedia">Ramsey Kanaan, [http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/88441.php "What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?"] Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. {{Dead link |date=January 2015}}</ref> named after his mother Ann Kanaan.<ref name="swan">Rachel Swan, [http://www.eastbayexpress.com/artsculture/beyond_anarchy_at_pm_press/Content?oid=927481 "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press"] East Bay Express, February 18, 2009. Retrieved 19.01.2015.</ref> He left AK in 2007 to found a new radical publisher [[PM Press]].<ref name="swan" /><ref>Tobias Carroll, [http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/music-radical-politics-and-ak-press/ "I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press"] The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008</ref>
'''Ramsey Kanaan''' is a Scottish-[[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] businessman and publisher of anarchist literature, best known as the founder of [[AK Press]], a distributor of anarchist and left-wing books<ref name="Indymedia">Ramsey Kanaan, [http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/88441.php "What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?"] Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. {{wayback|url=http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/88441.php |date=20050427085402 }}</ref> named after his mother Ann Kanaan.<ref name="swan">Rachel Swan, [http://www.eastbayexpress.com/artsculture/beyond_anarchy_at_pm_press/Content?oid=927481 "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press"] East Bay Express, February 18, 2009. Retrieved 19.01.2015.</ref> He left AK in 2007 to found a new radical publisher [[PM Press]].<ref name="swan" /><ref>Tobias Carroll, [http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/music-radical-politics-and-ak-press/ "I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press"] The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Kanaan has republished works of classical anarchist theory by [[Peter Kropotkin]], [[Alexander Berkman]], [[Rudolf Rocker]], [[Emma Goldman]] and others, while encouraging the development of contemporary anarchist theory and analysis, such as libertarian socialist [[Murray Bookchin]]'s ''[[Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm]]'', which he commissioned for AK Press.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}
Kanaan has republished works of classical anarchist theory by [[Peter Kropotkin]], [[Alexander Berkman]], [[Rudolf Rocker]], [[Emma Goldman]] and others, while encouraging the development of contemporary anarchist theory and analysis, such as libertarian socialist [[Murray Bookchin]]'s ''[[Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm]]'', which he commissioned for AK Press.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}


In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved in the early [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[anarcho-punk]] musical scene, which featured bands including [[Crass]], [[Conflict (band)|Conflict]], [[Poison Girls]], [[Rudimentary Peni]], [[The Mob (British punk band)|The Mob]], [[Zounds]], [[Omega Tribe]] and [[Flux of Pink Indians]]. He was the lead singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum.<ref>[http://www.stevebrownmusic.co.uk/asylumhome.htm "Political Asylum: 1982-1987"] {{Dead link |date=January 2015}}</ref> He currently belongs to Folk This,<ref>[http://www.folkthis.org/about.html "About Folk This!"] {{Dead link |date=January 2015}}</ref> a music group which performs folk songs from the past, including from the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the [[Paris Commune]], and hymns and anthems of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]]. Kanaan is a music reviewer for the punk magazines [[Maximum Rock'n'Roll]] and AMP Magazine.<ref>[http://maximumrocknroll.com/back-issues/ Maximum Rock'n'Roll]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2015}}
In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved in the early [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[anarcho-punk]] musical scene, which featured bands including [[Crass]], [[Conflict (band)|Conflict]], [[Poison Girls]], [[Rudimentary Peni]], [[The Mob (British punk band)|The Mob]], [[Zounds]], [[Omega Tribe]] and [[Flux of Pink Indians]]. He was the lead singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum.<ref>[http://www.stevebrownmusic.co.uk/asylumhome.htm "Political Asylum: 1982-1987"] {{Dead link |date=January 2015}}</ref> He currently belongs to Folk This,<ref>[http://www.folkthis.org/about.html "About Folk This!"] {{wayback|url=http://www.folkthis.org/about.html |date=20070928145626 }}</ref> a music group which performs folk songs from the past, including from the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the [[Paris Commune]], and hymns and anthems of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]]. Kanaan is a music reviewer for the punk magazines [[Maximum Rock'n'Roll]] and AMP Magazine.<ref>[http://maximumrocknroll.com/back-issues/ Maximum Rock'n'Roll]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2015}}


He was involved in the 1980s and early 1990s in the movement against the [[Community Charge|poll tax]] in [[UK|Britain]]. Community Resistance, the Edinburgh anarchist group with which Kanaan was an organizer,<ref>Ramsey Kanaan, [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/03/288199.html "When Fucking the System isn't Enough"] Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference, Institute for Social Ecology, August 2001</ref> played a key role in the five-year anti-poll tax campaign that ultimately brought down Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_2530000/2530763.stm "1990: Violence flares in poll tax demonstration"]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2015}}<ref>Solnit, David. "Poll Tax Rebellion{{spaced ndash}}How One Small Scottish Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government: An Interview by David Solnit with Ramsey Kanaan." ''Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World'' Ed. David Solnit. City Lights Publishers, 2003.</ref>
He was involved in the 1980s and early 1990s in the movement against the [[Community Charge|poll tax]] in [[UK|Britain]]. Community Resistance, the Edinburgh anarchist group with which Kanaan was an organizer,<ref>Ramsey Kanaan, [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/03/288199.html "When Fucking the System isn't Enough"] Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference, Institute for Social Ecology, August 2001</ref> played a key role in the five-year anti-poll tax campaign that ultimately brought down Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_2530000/2530763.stm "1990: Violence flares in poll tax demonstration"]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2015}}<ref>Solnit, David. "Poll Tax Rebellion{{spaced ndash}}How One Small Scottish Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government: An Interview by David Solnit with Ramsey Kanaan." ''Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World'' Ed. David Solnit. City Lights Publishers, 2003.</ref>
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Kanaan is one of the founders of the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair<ref>Channel Zero, [http://channelzerosf.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/ramsey-kanaan/ "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair"] March, 2007</ref> and is a member of [http://boundtogetherbooks.wordpress.com Bound Together Books] in [[San Francisco]], a collectively run anarchist bookstore.<ref>Jerome Gold, [http://books.google.com/books?id=gYRXLIpkA9YC&pg=PA84&dq=ramsey+kanaan&sig=ACfU3U1dv3CWfrFG3kh__tcmab8w2YHAoQ#PPA96,M1 ''Obscure in the Shade of Giants''] Black Heron Press June, 2001</ref>
Kanaan is one of the founders of the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair<ref>Channel Zero, [http://channelzerosf.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/ramsey-kanaan/ "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair"] March, 2007</ref> and is a member of [http://boundtogetherbooks.wordpress.com Bound Together Books] in [[San Francisco]], a collectively run anarchist bookstore.<ref>Jerome Gold, [http://books.google.com/books?id=gYRXLIpkA9YC&pg=PA84&dq=ramsey+kanaan&sig=ACfU3U1dv3CWfrFG3kh__tcmab8w2YHAoQ#PPA96,M1 ''Obscure in the Shade of Giants''] Black Heron Press June, 2001</ref>


Kanaan is a contributing host and producer at [[KPFA]].<ref name="about-against-the-grain">[http://www.againstthegrain.org/about "About Against the Grain"] (last visited May 8, 2009). {{Dead link |date=January 2015}}</ref>
Kanaan is a contributing host and producer at [[KPFA]].<ref name="about-against-the-grain">[http://www.againstthegrain.org/about "About Against the Grain"] (last visited May 8, 2009). {{wayback|url=http://www.againstthegrain.org/about |date=20080815032340 }}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 22:36, 9 January 2016

Ramsey Kanaan is a Scottish-Lebanese businessman and publisher of anarchist literature, best known as the founder of AK Press, a distributor of anarchist and left-wing books[1] named after his mother Ann Kanaan.[2] He left AK in 2007 to found a new radical publisher PM Press.[2][3]

Career

Kanaan has republished works of classical anarchist theory by Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Rudolf Rocker, Emma Goldman and others, while encouraging the development of contemporary anarchist theory and analysis, such as libertarian socialist Murray Bookchin's Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm, which he commissioned for AK Press.[citation needed]

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved in the early UK anarcho-punk musical scene, which featured bands including Crass, Conflict, Poison Girls, Rudimentary Peni, The Mob, Zounds, Omega Tribe and Flux of Pink Indians. He was the lead singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum.[4] He currently belongs to Folk This,[5] a music group which performs folk songs from the past, including from the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the Paris Commune, and hymns and anthems of the Industrial Workers of the World. Kanaan is a music reviewer for the punk magazines Maximum Rock'n'Roll and AMP Magazine.[6][failed verification]

He was involved in the 1980s and early 1990s in the movement against the poll tax in Britain. Community Resistance, the Edinburgh anarchist group with which Kanaan was an organizer,[7] played a key role in the five-year anti-poll tax campaign that ultimately brought down Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[8][failed verification][9]

Kanaan is one of the founders of the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair[10] and is a member of Bound Together Books in San Francisco, a collectively run anarchist bookstore.[11]

Kanaan is a contributing host and producer at KPFA.[12]

Personal life

Kanaan is married to broadcaster Sasha Lilley, host and founder of Against the Grain.[12] He resides in Oakland, California. He is passionate about hatha yoga, Vipassana meditation, decolonizing foodways, and the health and well-being of our oceans.

References

  1. ^ Ramsey Kanaan, "What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?" Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. Archived 2005-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b Rachel Swan, "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press" East Bay Express, February 18, 2009. Retrieved 19.01.2015.
  3. ^ Tobias Carroll, "I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press" The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008
  4. ^ "Political Asylum: 1982-1987" [dead link]
  5. ^ "About Folk This!" Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Maximum Rock'n'Roll
  7. ^ Ramsey Kanaan, "When Fucking the System isn't Enough" Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference, Institute for Social Ecology, August 2001
  8. ^ BBC "1990: Violence flares in poll tax demonstration"
  9. ^ Solnit, David. "Poll Tax Rebellion – How One Small Scottish Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government: An Interview by David Solnit with Ramsey Kanaan." Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World Ed. David Solnit. City Lights Publishers, 2003.
  10. ^ Channel Zero, "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair" March, 2007
  11. ^ Jerome Gold, Obscure in the Shade of Giants Black Heron Press June, 2001
  12. ^ a b "About Against the Grain" (last visited May 8, 2009). Archived 2008-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

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