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The bookstore that bails people out of jail.
http://massivebookshop.com
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Since 2020, we've donated $52,817.50 to bail funds, jail support and other rad orgs, and sent 9786 books to prison book programs. You can see the full list of projects we've supported on OUR FRIENDS page here 👉
massivebookshop.com/pages/our-fr...
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OUR FRIENDS
We set up the Massive Bookshop to make it relatively easy for us to support community projects and organizing efforts where we and our customers live. By keeping our overhead low, we can supply you wi...
https://massivebookshop.com/pages/our-friends
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In the third quarter of 2025 we received 55 tips totaling $273.56 (thanks!) and we matched that total to donate $547.12 to our comrades at Decarcerate Western Mass. So far this year we've donated $9,000.44 to prisoners, bail funds, jail support, and The Sameer Project in Gaza, among others.
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Teen Vogue
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#OpEd
: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️
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How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dressed-as-ice-agents-to-assault-immigrant-women-horrifying-trend
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Democracy Now!
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ICE Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions at Angola Prison
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ICE Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions at Angola Prison
In Louisiana, ICE detainees are on hunger strike to protest their conditions at the infamous Angola prison. According to the Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition and the National Immigration Proj...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/22/headlines/ice_detainees_in_louisiana_on_hunger_strike_to_protest_conditions_at_angola_prison
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Thanks to a real one, Dan Berger, for helping us revamp our ABOLITION section with a banger intro. Are you a writer interested in helping us create more browsing sections? Reach out and tap in! 📚📖📚📖📚
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ABOLITION
Abolition, as the scholar-organizer Ruth Wilson Gilmore put it, demands that we change one thing--everything. From the insurgencies and agitation to end slavery in the nineteenth century to contempora...
https://massivebookshop.com/collections/_abolition
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The Sameer Project is urgently in need of funds to sustain life in Gaza. Please help us double our contribution TODAY by donating any amount to this fundraiser
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[W4G] $1,300 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
July 22: New match! The wonderful people of Massive Bookshop have offered to match the next $1,300 in contributions! (The $500 match from writer and professor Christina Sharpe has been met!) Today is...
https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-poets-matching-campaign
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Alana Kumbier
3 months ago
@massivebookshop.bsky.social
is matching donations to the Sameer Project up to $1300. Can you join me in contributing to their campaign?
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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[W4G] $1,300 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
July 22: New match! The wonderful people of Massive Bookshop have offered to match the next $1,300 in contributions! (The $500 match from writer and professor Christina Sharpe has been met!) Today is...
https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-poets-matching-campaign
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Looks like “indie” presses are mad that B&N is turning off the steady drip of corporate waste that they’ve come to rely on to expand their lists. If you’re “indie,” why tie your fate to that of a corporate chain in the first place? 🤔
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We are back from vacation and we're having a ⚡️FLASH SALE⚡️to get back on track with paying our bills. Through Sunday, June 22, take 50% off all books in our Massive inventory!
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OUR MASSIVE INVENTORY
Can't decide where to start? Here's a collection of every book currently stocked in our Massive Fulfillment Center in Greenfield, Mass. Because we'd rather donate our cash reserves to bail funds than ...
https://massivebookshop.com/collections/our-massive-inventory
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Massive Bookshop is taking its first ever vacation. We are not (yet) dead. We are having fun. “Normal” book selling activities will resume on or around June 9th. Thanks!
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october krausch
6 months ago
I love seeing folks share Bookshop as the link to buy their books, but may I humbly suggest that if you want to order books online you consider
@massivebookshop.bsky.social
? The wonderful bookstore that bails people out of jail (& sends free books to folks in prison!)
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Massive Bookshop
The bookstore that bails people out of jail.
https://massivebookshop.com/
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In 4+ years of doing this, we’ve donated over $41k to bail funds and prisoner support groups. That’s thousands of people who didn’t have to sleep in a cage, and many more getting community support, because some punks had fun selling books.
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Annieeek
6 months ago
For your consideration, as a buyer of books online, even better than book shop dot org,,
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stop cop cities everywhere
6 months ago
!!!!!! you can pre-order No Cop City, No Cop World through
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social
's site and help fund the critical Sameer Project! link here:
open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...
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[W4G] [05/20/25] PRE-RELEASE Franklin, Kamau, Micah Herskind, Mariah Parker (eds): No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement
Haymarket Books, paperback Publication Date: May 20, 2025 Publisher Marketing: A collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for al...
https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/workshops-4-gaza-bookstore/products/w4g-05-20-25-pre-release-franklin-kamau-micah-herskind-mariah-parker-eds-no-cop-city-no-cop-world-lessons-from-the-movement
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Stacey Burns At Stake 🧙🏻
6 months ago
🚨Good deal + good deed opportunity from the bookstore that bails people out of jail
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Prison Policy Initiative
7 months ago
Corrections work isn't among the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the US. But still, the median annual salary is higher than jobs that are much more deadly 🤔 This looks like a country that invests in mass incarceration WAY too much
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Prison Journalism Project
8 months ago
"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."
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By My Prison’s Standards, the Bible Would Be a Banned Book
Today, more than 50,000 books are banned in prison. At Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, the book ban is getting to be ridiculous.
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/10/05/book-ban-virginia-prisons-getting-stricter/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky
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girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa
8 months ago
Great list! I'd also add
@haymarketbooks.org
- their Books Not Bars program sends free books to incarcerated folks - and
@massivebookshop.bsky.social
- a bookstore whose proceeds go to bail funds & sending free books to people inside.
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Chris O’Kane
8 months ago
My go to online bookshop
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tim d (he/him)
9 months ago
as an alternative to amazon, how about Massive Bookshop? all books are 10-20% off list price. they offer free shipping if you order 2 or more and all proceeds go to a bail fund in Western Mass.
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Massive Bookshop
The bookstore that bails people out of jail.
https://massivebookshop.com/
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In Q4 2024 we collected $691.43 in tips (thank you!), which we matched, as we always do. Though we normally donate to bail funds, this time we're donating $1382.56 to five incarcerated L.A. firefighters (=$276.57 each) selected randomly from the list compiled by the Fund for a Guaranteed Income
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In 2024, we issued $15,483.62 in discounts to customers ordering free (or mostly free) books for their incarcerated pen pals. In total, we filled 351 orders for folks in jails and prisons throughout the U.S. Learn more and get started ordering for your pen pals here:
massivebookshop.com/pages/b2p
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B2P
If you want to send books to a friend, comrade, or pen pal currently incarcerated in a U.S. jail or prison, you can do so via the Massive Bookshop. Simply enter the discount code ABOLITION in the appr...
https://massivebookshop.com/pages/b2p
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Polo Pinson was wrongfully convicted in 1999 and he has been organizing in prison ever since. Now you can help Polo get free by contributing to his legal defense!
opencollective.com/free-polo
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Free Polo - Open Collective
Comrade Pierre "Polo" Pinson was wrongfully convicted and sentenced in 1999 to 50 to 150 years for an armed assault on a Pittsburgh Police Station and unrelated robberies and is seeking to vacate his ...
https://opencollective.com/free-polo
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Polo Pinson was wrongfully convicted in 1999 and he has been organizing in prison ever since. Now you can help Polo get free by contributing to his legal defense!
opencollective.com/free-polo
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Free Polo - Open Collective
Comrade Pierre "Polo" Pinson was wrongfully convicted and sentenced in 1999 to 50 to 150 years for an armed assault on a Pittsburgh Police Station and unrelated robberies and is seeking to vacate his ...
https://opencollective.com/free-polo
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EBAY AUCTION ALERT: Our friend and comrade P.W. Elverum is auctioning off a hardbound, ultra-limited artist's proof edition of his new "book" NIGHT PALACE, with 50% of proceeds going to NDN Collective.
www.ebay.com/itm/12681716...
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Night Palace by Phil Elverum, hardcover, hand bound, signed, artist's proof #1 | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Night Palace by Phil Elverum, hardcover, hand bound, signed, artist's proof #1 at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many p...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126817167647?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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If you read one thing about the U.S. election, read this: Liberal guilt and Palestine
mondoweiss.net/2024/11/libe...
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Liberal guilt and Palestine
Palestine did cost the Democrats the election, though not how some imagine. In Palestine’s fate millions finally understood their calls for change would remain unanswered. In this, Palestine revealed ...
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/liberal-guilt-and-palestine/
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What are the essential books on ABOLITION in your library? Yes, we are engagement farming. But we also want to know.
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What are the essential books on ABOLITION in your library? Yes, we are engagement farming. But we also want to know.
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SELLING BOOKS IS EASY!! Head to our homepage at
massivebookshop.com
to see the 🔥 new books we just got in and browse what other folks are reading, too. This week we're excited about the SELECTED POLITICAL WRITINGS of Ghassan Kanafani, as well as a long-awaited restock of THE ESSENTIAL JUNE JORDAN
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SELLING BOOKS IS EASY!! Head to our homepage at
massivebookshop.com
to see the 🔥 new books we just got in and browse what other folks are reading, too. This week we're excited about the SELECTED POLITICAL WRITINGS of Ghassan Kanafani, as well as a long-awaited restock of THE ESSENTIAL JUNE JORDAN
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Firestorm Books
about 1 year ago
Firestorm has been operating as a distribution hub for relief supplies. With roads impassable, supplies initially came from our homes and the refrigerators or garages of neighbors. On Sunday the first deliveries—water, food, sanitary products, baby supplies—arrived in cars from South Carolina. 1/?
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prince egregious, heir apparent
about 1 year ago
y'all this deal is literally worth it just for the 50% off Policing the Crisis (which is already cheaper than most places bc Massive doesnt' hugely mark it up). I got mine in the mail yesterday!
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OUR MASSIVE INVENTORY SALE CONTINUES: At 50% off, the books are flying off our shelves, but we still have many rad titles old and new available. All tips this quarter will be matched and donated to a single Gaza fundraiser (via Gaza Funds). GET IN
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OUR MASSIVE INVENTORY
Can't decide where to start? Here's a collection of every book currently stocked in our Massive Fulfillment Center in Greenfield, Mass. Because we'd rather donate our cash reserves to bail funds than ...
https://massivebookshop.com/collections/our-massive-inventory
about 1 year ago
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Stacey Burns At Stake 🧙🏻
about 1 year ago
📚There are still a few days to GET IN on this deal from the bookstore that normally exists to bail people out of jail but which is taking a temporary detour this month to help people in Gaza to survive the hell that our government is bankrolling. Get in! Go for broke!
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prince egregious, heir apparent
about 1 year ago
i'm in So Much Trouble
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ANNOUNCEMENT: We're having a sale. Through Sept 30th, ALL BOOKS IN STOCK (over 400 titles) are 50% off. These are the select books that we keep in stock because we like them so much. ALL TIPS this quarter will be donated to a fundraiser on Gaza Funds. GET IN!
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ALL BOOKS IN STOCK
Can't decide where to start? Here's a collection of every book currently stocked in our Massive Fulfillment Center in Greenfield, Mass. Because we'd rather donate our cash reserves to bail funds than ...
https://massivebookshop.com/collections/books-in-stock
about 1 year ago
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Stacey Burns At Stake 🧙🏻
over 1 year ago
Oh, hey. The bookstore that bails people out of jail is here on BlueSky! Tellall your friends about
@massivebookshop.bsky.social
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Nice review of the EFA Project Space exhibit, "Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship," in the latest ARB. From exhibit curator
@prisonculture.bsky.social
: "The prison is the frontline war in a society that seeks to censor and control people and ideas."
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In These Times
over 1 year ago
More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than a million face famine in the midst of Israel’s genocide. Meanwhile, Google continues to provide Israel’s Ministry of Defense with AI and cloud services.
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
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AI Is Already Being Used to Kill Palestinians in Gaza
Artificial intelligence is currently being deployed by the Israeli military in its brutal assault. The tech isn’t a future threat—it’s here.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/gaza-israel-ai-artificial-intelligence-google
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Cops, as a group, must be the dumbest mfs on the planet. The fact that they have any authority at all is the real national security threat
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As the bookstore that bailed a half dozen of these kids out of jail late Tuesday night, we are grateful for this principled stand from a writer who might just as easily have made the wrong choice.
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Hey thanks for the s/o! We are *not* minority owned. If you would like to shop Black-owned bookstores, our comrades at the Noname Book Club HQ have compiled a list:
nonamebooks.com/Bookstores
Happy shopping!
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