The CrimethInc section has finally been restocked, with two new additions: their brand new book Expect Resistance, and the legendary Catharsis Passion CD.
Been a little lax updating the site as we adjust to infoshop life - doing our best to keep the shelves stocked, the shop staffed and the customers happy! We seem to be muddling along so far. Check out the infoshop page for where and when to find us.
In the very near future we hope to be adding a small primitive skills section to the distro, so keep your eyes peeled for that. In the meantime, the new Seeds of Dissent 08! Calendar has arrived!
20th July, 2007
The new and improved Black & Green Anarchist Infoshop will open at it's new location by the Brisbane river, a stones throw from our previous haunt, on friday the 27th of July - click here for the details.
It is our distinct pleasure to announce that, finally, the infoshop project we've been working towards for many a month now is coming to fruition. The Black & Green Anarchist Infoshop will be opening it's doors on Friday, June 1st at 11am. The opening hours from the 1st will be Friday - Sunday, 11am - 7pm. The infoshop is located at the corner of Hardgrave rd and Spring st, in Brisbane's trendiest slum, West End. So come down and say hi if you're in the area! If you're not in the area, you can still check in with the infoshop page and gaze longingly at the info and events listings that will be posted there as time goes by...
The new issue of Green Anarchy has arrived! 100 pages of news, analysis, prose and polemic dedicated to the destruction of civilization and the rebirth of community, and still at the absolutely outrageous (and completely unsustainable) price of $5 ppd!!!
9th April, 2007
Please note that we have changed our mailing address - yes, again, but hopefully this is the last change for a long time... From now on please send all your orders, love letters, hate mail and unwanted crust-punk vinyl to:
Beating Hearts Press
PO Box 5066
West End
QLD 4101
AUSTRALIA
As ever, it's not unwise to email first and check availability (although we strive to keep the website up to date), and that way we can reserve your items for you while we're waiting on your order to arrive:
beatingheartspress[at]hotmail[dot]com
Thanks everyone. Keep it real.
9th March, 2007
Just arrived: a big box of various later issues of the deservedly notorious anarchist DIY hardcore punk zine Inside Front, produced in the late 1990's by the soon-to-be-a-movement-within-a-movement CrimethInc collective. These are quite possibly the last copies of Inside Front available anywhere on planet Earth, so get in quick if you don't already own copies of what was by far and away the greatest hardcore punk zine of all time.
26th February, 2007
A couple of new, and eminently worthy, additions to the catalogue...
Due to unprecedented hatred from a certain real estate company, the Beating Hearts infoshop is currently stalled. Please check back soon for some (hopefully) better news.
5th January, 2007
First update of the new year, and there's big news. On the 13th of January, we will be opening our own infoshop here in Brisbane! We'll be sharing space with some creative friends at the new S&M studios, which can be found at the corner of Beattie and Skinner streets, just off Montague road in West End, Brisbane. Our opening hours will be 11am - 7pm, Thursday - Sunday, and on Saturdays we'll be running a (vegan) Cake & Anarchy Cafe all day (or at least until the cake runs out...). So if you're in the Brisbane area, please come down and say hi. If you're not, please consider donating your unwanted books, zines, CDs, whatever and help us pay our rent anyway! (seriously, if you want to donate anything, get in touch - if it's stuff we'd be happy to stock and can make room for we'll pay for postage).
Thanks for your support, and special thanks in advance to all our friends who are going to help set this infoshop up!!
16th December, 2006
Just in the nick of time before 2007 is upon us, the new Slingshot Organizers are here!!!
We're back! The distro is up and running again!! And yes, Derrick Jensen's mighty Endgame is in the house!!! I can't remember ever being so excited to see a book well-stocked on our shelves. Endgame is, quite frankly, one of the most important works ever published. In two volumes, a grand total of 929 pages, Derrick pulls down every lie ever errected in the name of civilization, rips apart every excuse ever made not to act in defense of the earth and the life it sustains, and gives us some of the strength - and ideas - we'll need to do what must be done: bring it all down, and find our true place within, rather than upon, the web of life once more.
As if that wasn't enough, there are tons more new titles - from award-winning fiction to brutal anarchistic metal - and some long-overdue restocks. Here's the complete list:
Hi all. We have a little bit of good news, and a lot of bad news. Want the bad news first? Of course you do. The good ship Beating Hearts has foundered on the rocks of misadventure: As of this writing, the distro is down. We've kept it afloat through all kinds of dramas these past 5 years, but this time we had one drama too many. As our friends seem to dwindle, our enemies multiply. We must be doing something right, eh?
The practical upshot of this is that our PO Box is no longer in use. Please do not write to us at the PO Box we've been using the past couple of years. If you've sent an order or letter there recently, don't worry, it will reach us, but don't send anything else there starting now! In fact, you may as well cross out the whole listing you have for us in your address book, because we're changing our email address too! We've been spammed out of our '...@beatingheartspress.com' addresses, so we're going back to our roots: Please now direct all email - orders, requests, hey-how-ya-goin's - to: beatingheartspress[at]hotmail[dot]com Again, no worries if you've written to the old addresses recently - we'll keep checking in with them. We will, obviously, post up a new mailing address as soon as possible.
Now, some good news. Our remaining collective members are still overseas, but we're coming back soon! As of August 21st, we'll be back in the hood and keeping it real (read: back in Australia and looking for somewhere to live) - we'll even try and fill some orders without the aid of a PO Box! If you're wanting to place an order, just email us (after August 21st, preferably) with what you want and we'll let you know what we have, and where to send your order. Our understanding at this point is that the website is pretty up-to-date in terms of what's in stock, but obviously we won't know that for sure til we're reunited with our baby (that is, ahem, the distro) on August 21st. What we do know for sure will be in stock is a big box of kick-ass new stuff (click on the titles to be magically transported to the descriptions, etc)...
There's also a distinct possibility that we could be bringing back a box or two of Derrick Jensen's new 2-volume masterpiece, 'Endgame'. Stay tuned on that. Oh yeah, the new issue (#23) of Green Anarchy will also be in our hot little hands by the time we get back, too, as well as re-stocks of hot sellers like Feral Revolution and Species Traitor #4.
Our deepest thanks and love, always, to our friends and everyone that supports us. Now more than ever. See you on the other side. x The Beating Hearts Collective x.
Holly crap, we actually have some editions to the catalogue to announce today! Green Anarchy #21 and #22 have just been added to the anti-civilization section of the catalogue. These are two awesome editions of a reliably awesome anti-civ anarchist journal. #21 is a collection of almost entirely original articles of varying themes and topics never before released by GA, while #22 focuses on technology. Also from the Green Anarchy collective, we have restocked Back To Basics issues 2 - 4. These are great anarchist primers of various topics.
13th May, 2006
SLINGSHOT CLEARANCE!! All Slingshot Organisers have been great reduced! Pocket organisers (which were $10) are now $4 and desktop organisers (which were $15) are now $8. Get in quick before the last ones go (feel free to email for a colour list)
Please note that the catalogue is now sparcer than ever. The following titles have sold out: Disorderly Conduct #5, Here's To Adventure/Anywhere But Here, Countdown To Putsch - Ideas For The Living and Willing to Act, Harbinger - CrimethInc Collective, Industrial Society and its Future - The Unibombers Manifesto by F.C, A Primitivist Primer - John Moore, Quiet Rumors - An Anarcha-Feminist Reader by the Dark Star CollectiveThe Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vaneigem, Rustry String Quartet - CrimethInc Collective, The Society of the Specacle - Guy Debord, T.A.Z. - Hakim Bey, Requiem - Storm Heaven, Species Traitor #3, Welcome to the Machine - Derrick Jensen.
18th February, 2006
New and re-stocked titles: Welcome To The Machine by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan, Against Civilization by John Zerzan and Fire and Ice by Laurel Luddite and Skunkly Monkley.
In other news, Green Anarchy #19 has sold out and will not be returning within the foreseeable future.
Cheers.
29th January, 2006
Hi all. It is my duty to report that unfortunately, as it stands, there has been a little bit of a change in regards to how Beating Hearts Press will be operating over the next six months or so. Due to outside commitments and shifting priorities, Beating Hearts Press is currently in somewhat of a 'care-taker' mode. What that means is that if something is listed on the catlogue, you can by all means send off an order and we'll post your anarchic goodies out to you ASAP. However, for the time being, items which have sold out will not be re-stocked. That is, not until our currently UK-based contingent of the distro return to Australia to take over the reigns once more. The web site will of course be updated as items become unavailable and should you have any queries or questions or what-have-you, please just drop us an email. We'll endevour to reply to all correspondence swiftly.
As such, the following items are currently out of stock: Recipes For Disaster, An Anarchist Cookbook - Crimethinc. Collective and The Teenage Liberation Handbook - Grace Llewellyn.
Cheers.
2nd December, 2005
Well, it's been a hectic month or more here at Beating Hearts HQ! Firstly, we'd like to appologise for the lack of updates and perhaps delay in responding to emails and what-not. There's been a bit of a shift in who's looking after what and where the Beating Hearts catalogue and all else is being housed. Everything is pretty much sorted now, though, so things should begin to get not only more ordered but exciting again (a word of advice, though: if you've been waiting to hear back from us on something for a while, send us a reminder email and we'll get onto it ASAP. I have slight concern that some emails may have been neglected)!
Firstly, though, we need to let you know that the following items are currently out of stock, and at this stage, we are not sure when they will be back (all CrimethInc. titles should be on their way very shortly. Aside from that, if you passionately believe that we should re-stock any of the titles below, please get in touch, because we'd love to know what you think is important and worthwhile) so please do not send through orders for these titles, though feel free to get in touch for more info:
Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections - John Zerzan, Against His-story, Against Leviathan! - Fredy Perlman, Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968 - Dark Star Collective, Cunt:A Declaration of Independence - Inga Muscio, Days Of War, Nights Of Love - CrimethInc. Collective, Disturbing The Peace: Tales from Australia's Rebel History - Ian McIntyre, Evasion - CrimethInc. Collective, Feral Revolution - Feral Faun, Fighting For Our Lives - CrimethInc. Collective, "My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization" - Chellis Glendinning, On The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality - Ward Churchill, Our Word is Our Weapon - Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Pacifism As Pathology - Ward Churchill, Reclaim! - Zegota, Revenge of the Troublemaker! : How to Make Trouble and Influence People Part 3 - Question Mark Collective, Situationist International Anthology - Ken Knabb, Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance and the Culture of Control - Derrick Jensen & George Draffan.
Feew, that was a mouthful!
With that said, there are hopefully going to be a lot of new titles making their way to the Beating hearts catalogue in the coming weeks and months. We are currently keen as mustard to get in titles of more feminist and queer persuations, as well as feminist erotica, practical diy guides and resource books/zines (covering skills such as bike maintenance, gardening, pirate radio, self defense, cooking), women's health literature and also comics and personal work of an inspiring and/or ploitical nature. So, if you have any suggestions, or if you'd like to submit your own work, please do get in touch -- collective @ beatingheartspress.com -- !!
25th October, 2005
We're got three huge new arrivals here at Beating Hearts HQ:
First up, the 2006 Slingshot Organizers have arrived!! Every year the Slingshot collective put out this nifty little organizer, with reasons to riot listed for every day of the year, room for all your radical contacts and random notes, articles on all manner of revolutionary life, and it comes in a staggering variety of colours! Sure 2006 is a couple of months away yet, but what if we run out of your favourite colour..?!
Secondly, due to popular demand, we've expanded our distro to include The Keeper, a reusable natural gum rubber menstrual cup - made by womyn, for womyn - that is more and more the choice of womyn who want a comfortable, womyn-and-earth-friendly alternative to nasty 'feminine hygiene' products such as tampons. See the official Keeper website for the answers to all your Keeper-related questions.
Also new is our first ever DVD, First Fleet Back: Uncle Kevin vs the Queen, an amazing documentary/satire made by our friends at Tallstoreez Productionz in collaboration with legendary Aboriginal activist Kevin Buzzacott. Take a look here for more info.
10th September, 2005
Hey folks! Any of you who have perused the distro pages in recent times will have noticed there's been something of a reshuffle around here, to say the least. For a start, there are two brand new sections: Indigenous and Philosophy/Critical Analysis. Also, what was the 'Anarchist/Active Resistance' section is now called Direct Action - we thought this was a more accurate, not to mention catchy, name for it. You'll also notice that the 'Zines/Pamphlets/Booklets' section is now just called Zines, and it contains barely half of the zines we carry, the rest being scattered throughout the other sections of the distro. It was a long, painful discussion amongst us all, but we finally decided to at least try out the following idea: That just because a publication doesn't have a spine, doesn't mean it should be filed automatically with a bunch of other publications that don't happen to have spines. Yes, the spineless have been liberated!! They are now to be found with whatever publications we consider to be their true brethren. For instance, Green Anarchy magazine is now to be found in the Anti-Civilization section, Harbinger is now to be found in the CrimethInc section, Herbal Abortion: A Woman's DIY Guide is now to be found in the Feminist section.... you get the idea. What's left in the Zines section are the more personal publications, the zines that, while certainly political, are not specifically aligned with one subculture of resistance more than any other (or if they are it's with a subculture we don't have a category for yet!). Please, please give us feedback on this new system - if it's not working for y'all then we will gladly repent and change it all back.
In other, more substantial, less aesthetic news, there is a whole bunch more great new stuff cluttering up our lives here, just dying to be stuffed into envelopes and boxes and mailed to you in exchange for cold, hard cash! Here's a quick list of what's new (click on the titles to be magically transported to the descriptions, etc):
Lastly, our email list is now up and running! If you want to get on it and receive infrequent but informative (not to mention incredibly witty) updates on the latest with us, drop us a line at:
collective @ beatingheartspress.com
Our deepest thanks to you all, as always, for your support.
28th July, 2005, way past my bed-time
People! The avalanche of amazing new stuff is upon us!! Rolling Thunder is here! The Zegota 7" is here! A mountain of kick-ass books by ragers like Chellis Glendinning, Fredy Perlman, John Zerzan, Hakim Bey and Grace Llewellyn is here!! I just stayed up late to update it all and now my eyes really hurt from lack of sleep and staring at this damn screen!! Please, don't let my pain be for nothing - go look at the new stuff in the distro. (You should also just generally have a look around, as we were able to bring a few prices down a little, and have dutifully done so). You'll find exciting new stuff scattered throughout the CrimethInc, Music, Direct Action, and Anti-Civilization sections. There's lots more coming, but now i must sleep.
18th July, 2005
Hi all. Well the big news around here is that we are just about finished putting this site together. There's a couple of little aesthetic adjustments to be made, but we're essentially done. Check out the brand new reading library! We're also, as you can see, experimenting with a larger font, as we had reports that it was previously a touch small... is this better? Let us know, eh?
Now that our fancy-pants website is up, we're getting back to stocking up the distro with all kinds of exciting new consumer products...er, revolutionary tools, i mean. Coming very soon: CrimethInc's new 'anarchist journal of dangerous living' Rolling Thunder, and more exciting books and zines than you can possibly imagine.... Seriously, it's looking like the distro will practically double in size by the end of the month! So check back often if you know what's good for ya, or drop us a line and get us to put you on the mailing list if you want to hear what's new as and when it happens.
This seems as good a time as any to acknowledge the folks that made this happen. Perhaps some of you reading this are 21st-century enough to be putting up websites in your lunch hours' while simultaneously updating your My Space accounts, but we're a motley crew of computer-hating anarchists, and getting this thing online took a concerted effort from a bunch of people - friends, lovers, complete strangers - over a long period of time. Were it not for the kindness, dedication and awe-inspiring beauty of the following, this would have been just another idea we never made happen: Mr Free provided technical expertise, 'Spitfire' McNabb loaned us space in cyber-space when we needed it and was endlessly patient with us using her computer at all hours of the day and night, WildFire GA troubleshot the cyber-sheriff when it seemed all was lost, Jyotika Devi took the plunge and got the ball rolling way back when, TripLexxxi proof-read, brain-stormed, and cracked skulls where appropriate, xlukex was a typing-monkey, and, most of all, our very own River Bomb took on the internet and won - it's a wonder she has enough hours in the day to rage as hard as she does.
Our thanks and love to everyone who gives their time, strength and hearts to making this world more beautiful... people that help grubby luddites advertise their propaganda on the internet so there's one more outlet of discontent for people to find, people that gather, cook and serve free food just because it's a cool thing to do, people that challenge bullshit social norms in their everyday lives anyway they know how, people that refuse to let this culture program them into being mindless, heartless robots, people that put their lives on the line contesting this monstrous way of life... and the possum that shared cherries with two of us on our way home tonight, for reminding us that there are other ways to live.
12th June, 2005
Hey everyone! A mammoth session in html hell has produced some very pleasing results around here: the long-awaited Anti-Civilization secnow is now up, stocked with some brand new titles (I just finished reading Feral Revolution this morning, and it kicked my goddamn ass) and all th pagstro pages should be much more pleasing to the eye and easy to use (not to mention completeldate-to-date). We're still not 100% finished, buwell're well on the way. The reading library should be up in the very near future, and after that we might be adding some images of covers and so forth - but we'll keep you up to date with that.
In other big news, the recent arrival of a huge box of books from Derrick Jensen has allowed us to lower some prices! Derrick stumbled upon some copies of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe that were published by his old publisher, and has sold them to us at a discounted rate, so now is definitely the time to check those out. They're both absolutely astonishing books, and we're stoked to be able to sell them at an even cheaper rate than we already were (we'd give them away if we could, y'know).
As ever, please let us know your thoughts on the site - suggestions for the reading library would be particularly timely right about now - and on anything else for that matter. You don't have to be ordering something to drop us a line!! We love to get mail - even email - so please get in touch for any reason whatsoever.
Thanks for your support. May all your dreams come true, and all your enemies die horrible, gory deaths.
14th of May, 2005
Finally, it appears that our website - which was starting to reach almost mythical proportions in its elusive and mysterious nature - is up! After many months of the stalwart luddites of our collective sullenly telling the computer to "Do it, then!", and pushing the monitor onto the floor in frustration when it wouldn't, we got some fresh blood into our collective - people who actually know how to use computers! Yes, we decided to abandon our critique of technology and our anarchist ideals of communality and mutual aid, and recruit some cyber-literate socialists with promises of "leadership positions" if they put our website up for us... Just kidding. Don't worry, we're still anarchists who believe in fucking shit up. But seriously, what are we doing here if we think technology is a tool of domination and alienation? In short: we can make ourselves accessible to a large amount of people with (comparatively) little sacrifice and support for said medium. I mean, if we wanted to run an ad on prime time tv (ha!), we'd need to sell all our organs, all our friends' organs, and all our families' organs, and then we could maybe get 10 seconds with which to beam suggestions of "Buy anarchist literature!" into people's brains. At least here you have the choice to come visit the site, and read whatever you want on it, and we haven't pumped tens of thousands of dollars into the techno-capitalist economy. And we get to keep our organs, of course. What would really make us happy is if the internet became immensely unpopular overnight, and everyone completely stopped using it: "Oh the internet is so last year!" "It gives me a frickin' headache, and I'd rather chat to my neighbor over the fence than gossip with some cyber-nerd online..." Then we could all abandon our websites, leap up from our hunched, groveling positions in front of our electronic masters, and let our email accounts fill up with spam while we meet up with friends to burn down banks, behead capitalist scum, and make-out with trees (with consent, of course). See you there!
Until then, please do 'interact' with our little website in any way you see fit - we're wanting it to be something of an 'online zine', with all kinds of righteous writings and discussion (although we really don't want one of those nasty 'message boards'). If you have any ideas/complaints/rants, or want to be on the (low frequency) mailing list, get in touch at:
collective @ beatingheartspress.com
All our love and thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years and helped us reach the point we are now at. Extra special thanks to our brother-in-arms Keith, who drove the entire distro and half our collective the 1078 km from Wollongong to Brisbane, and whose van nearly died in the process. We are honored to have such people in our lives.
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