Ramsey Kanaan
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Ramsey Kanaan is a Scottish-born anarchist living in the United States, best known as a founder of the publisher and distributor AK Press. He was also involved in actions against the poll tax in Britain during the Thatcher government. Kanaan is also a founding member of the Peter Kropotkin Lonely Hearts Club.
Ramsey currently resides in Oakland, California where he continues to work at AK Press and volunteer at San Francisco's collectively run anarchist bookstore Bound Together Books. He has been a practicing vegan for nearly 20 years. He is also currently a member of Folk This[1], a folk band which brings back to life songs from the past ranging from the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement to songs of the Paris Commune, and hymns and anthems of the Industrial Workers of the World.
In his youth, he was immersed in the early UK anarcho-punk scene, centered around bands such as Crass, Conflict, Poison Girls, Rudimentary Peni, The Mob, Zounds, Omega Tribe and Flux of Pink Indians. He was the singer with the band Political Asylum and also played for a time in Edinburgh anarcho-punk band Oi Polloi.
Ramsey is the brother of Richard Kanaan, a neuroscientist based at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and of Alistair Kanaan, a night-club impresario in Bogotá, Colombia.
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