2026 Vendors

34 Trinity Arts & News sells fine used books in Trinity Place, an alley in the Financial District of San Francisco.

Aetna Street Solidarity is a community-led mutual aid organization based in the San Fernando Valley. In opposition to the criminalization of the unhoused in Los Angeles, it has spent over six years developing public and free neighborhood solidarity economies and supportive people’s programs by and for the San Fernando Valley community.

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. A lifelong artist and writer, Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as comic and zine fests, from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. In her art, illustration, and comics, Ajuan uses humor and bright colors to explore race,

AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books and other media to expand minds and change worlds.

Amnesty International is a global movement campaigning for human rights. Its table offers information on current human rights campaigns and ways to take action.

The Beehive Design Collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, activist arts collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools.

Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN) is a political organization founded in 2014 which shares a common set of politics and a shared strategic vision of building popular power in workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools towards the goal of libertarian socialism.

Established in 1981 in San Francisco, Bolerium Books specializes in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. Bolerium is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA).

Bound Together is a volunteer-run Anarchist Bookstore collective located on Haight Street in SF, CA. It carries printed material covering queer culture, feminism, fiction, alternative culture, international and national politics, poetry, drugs, spirit and of course Anarchism. The collective plans to be around a long time making available books, pamphlets, and magazines that challenge and question the current forms of domination and inspire and provoke people to create a new society. The store is open most days of the week, but times are variable; calling the store is the best way to check whether it is open. Anyone interested in volunteering can call for more information.

Now in its 25th year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is required reading for radicals, leftists, and all who support political prisoners and advocate the end of mass incarceration.

City College of San Francisco, host of the Howard Zinn Book Fair at its Mission Campus.

The Civil Liberties Defense Center supports movements that seek to dismantle the political and economic structures at the root of social inequality and environmental destruction, providing litigation, education, and legal and strategic resources to strengthen their success. CLDC defends frontline activists, pursues civil rights litigation, and educates people about their rights and how to use them, to expose and confront the persistent erosion of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights. Through its Justice in Action and Dissent & Democracy programs, it challenges governmental attacks on people’s liberties and rights through education and, when necessary, the courts.

Common Notions emerges from, and renews, a long line of writers and readers; editors and publishers; as well as independent bookstore buyers and bookstore lovers—who recognize the power of the printed word to inspire cultural shifts through the bold ideas of a new society emerging within the existing world.

DART Magazine is an independent, entirely student-run art magazine of storytelling, founded in Davis, California, by Yitong (Edgar) Zhang in December 2023. It has featured more than 26 artists from North America, Asia and Europe, and its Editorial section profiles creatives and organizations covered by Vogue, ELLE, Forbes, METAL Magazine and ARTJOBS. Proud of its Davis roots, DART aims to give local readers a stronger sense of belonging while carrying the name of Davis further into the art world.

DSA SF is the San Francisco chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and alongside hundreds of chapters nationwide, it is working to build a better world. Founded in the early 1980s, DSA SF has long been committed to fighting economic inequality, worker exploitation, and the undemocratic nature of capitalism in San Francisco.

One of the nation's first Asian American bookstores closed after 41 years, but lives on at book fairs and on the internet. Berkeley’s Eastwind Books — which focused on justice and solidarity, published when others wouldn’t, and stocked everything from rare recordings to academic texts to martial arts paperbacks.

Friends of San Quentin Library is a group of volunteers, librarians, and library staff who want to help improve prison libraries and work towards better information access for people who are incarcerated. It is their small contribution towards social justice and improving conditions in prisons.

The Global Women’s Strike is coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign, started in 1972 by Selma James. It is an international grassroots network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside: mothers and other carers, of every gender, are entitled to a living wage, a Care Income, in cash, land and/or non-polluting technology. The Strike campaigns to end power relations of sex, race, class, income, nation, immigration status, city and countryside, age, dis/ability, occupation, gender identity, and Global North and South, and works with Payday, a network of men who share its aims.

Haymarket Books’ mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. It strives to make its books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, and internationalist Left.

Hesperian’s health resources enable action where it’s most needed by reaching people in their local language. Working with grassroots partners in the development and adaptation of health materials, Hesperian ensures its publications meet the needs of communities in all parts of the world.

Seditious texts, from and against history.

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people. You can find many of his articles, interviews, and book titles on this HowardZinn.org website.

‍

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a labor union representing nearly 9000 workers across North America. Established in 1905, the IWW is known for its high standards of democracy, transparency, multinationalism, and active use of the right to strike.

Throughout its nearly 100-year history International Publishers has maintained a commitment to publishing high quality Marxist literature, fiction and nonfiction. From well-known classics, such as the Communist Manifesto, to ground-breaking works of historiography, such as Herbert Aptheker’s American Negro Slave Revolts; from the autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois, to Gerald Horne’s biography of Benjamin Davis, Jr. – the Communist Councilman from Harlem; from Philip S. Foner’s monumental 11 volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States to V.I. Lenin’s The State and Revolution, International Publishers has stayed true to its mission.

James Mitchell started Hoddypoll Press in 1968, an early gay liberation small press in San Francisco, and next edited a literary magazine called Sebastian Quill from 1971-1973, and then initiated Small Press Traffic on Castro Street in 1973. He brought forth Ithuriel’s Spear in 2005. Francesca (F. S.) Rosa joined as managing editor five years later, and since then the press has introduced over 35 titles by San Francisco authors.Its current publisher is Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade Bookstore on Market Street until its closure in 2023.

With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. The co-op believes in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, its members produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets—all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.

Leftwingbooks is the online storefront of Kersplebedeb Publishing and Distribution, a left-wing (go figure!) literature distribution project based in Montreal and in business since 1998. Kersplebedeb stocks books from a wide range of anti-racist, feminist and generally left-wing perspectives, and is pickier about what it publishes: writings by political prisoners and prisoners of war, documents on armed politics in the metropole, and the political economy of global capitalism. It mails orders anywhere in the world.

Legendary San Francisco publisher of underground comics and books.

Left in the Bay is an archival history project. It researches, recovers, and retells the history of people’s movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. In many places, legacies of radical struggle are simply buried and intentionally forgotten. In the Bay, they’re often reduced to a caricature and put on display. The memory of everything from the general strikes to the Black Panthers to the gay liberation movement is sanitized and made safe for power. The project hopes to help give this history back its bite.

Producers of everyone's favorite calendar and anti-authoritarian newspaper.

Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing about culture and organization on and off the shop floor, past and present, in and outside of unions.

Manic D Press is an independent literary publisher based in San Francisco that was founded by Jennifer Joseph in 1984. The press is known for publishing a diverse range of genres, including fiction, poetry, and narrative comix, with a focus on unique voices and alternative culture, often publishing authors who have been overlooked by mainstream publishing.

The Mission District's premier multicultural bookstore, performance space and gallery.

Monthly Review began publication in New York City in May 1949, its first issue leading with Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” From the beginning it has spoken for a critical but spirited socialism, independent of any political organization, publishing pioneering analyses of political economy, imperialism and Third World struggles, and its founding editors, Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman, successfully fought off McCarthy-era persecution. Monthly Review Press published its first title, I. F. Stone’s Hidden History of the Korean War, in 1952, and a generation of 1960s activists was educated in part by the magazine and its books. Today, under an editorial committee led by John Bellamy Foster, MR continues to see “the present as history” and runs MR Online, a forum for radical activists, writers and scholars around the world.

The New Press amplifies progressive voices for a more inclusive, just, and equitable world. As a nonprofit public-interest publisher, it uses books, diverse voices, and media engagement to facilitate social change, enrich public discourse, and defend democratic values.

North Atlantic Books (NAB) is an independent nonprofit publisher committed to a bold exploration of the relationships between mind, body, spirit, culture, and nature. Founded in Vermont in 1974 and operating in Berkeley since 1977, NAB has been at the forefront of publishing a diverse range of original books in bodywork and somatics, ecology and sustainability, health and healing, Indigenous cultures and anthropology, psychology and personal growth, social justice and engaged activism, and spirituality and liminality. NAB’s Blue Snake Books imprint is one of the largest sources of internal and historical martial-arts books in the world.

Formerly the Practicing Freedom Collective, Partners for Collaborative Change is an organization made up of educators, facilitators, artists and organizers who each bring decades of experience in collaborative, transformative work. Its theory and methodologies are rooted in Popular Education, Theatre of the Oppressed, Participatory Action Research and Healing Justice. PFCC works for organizational, interpersonal and personal transformation through pedagogical practices that support the development of critical consciousness.

An independent publisher of radical, left-wing non-fiction books. Established in 1969, Pluto Press is one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.

PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for these tumultuous times. Its aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. Founded in 2007 by a small group of people with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience, PM Press has sold millions of copies of its books, most often one at a time, face to face. Its founders are old enough to know what they’re doing and young enough to know what’s at stake.

Prisoners Literature Project is an inclusive, all-volunteer, grassroots nonprofit whose purpose is to encourage reading, the pursuit of knowledge, and self-determination among incarcerated people. By sending free reading materials to those behind bars, PLP aims to foster learning and critical thinking and help prepare people to lead successful lives after incarceration. PLP believes that all people have a right to read.

Prison Radio is an independent multimedia production studio that has produced content for radio, television and film for 30 years, distributing it throughout the world. By bringing the voices of incarcerated people into the public debate, it challenges unjust police and prosecutorial practices that drive mass incarceration, racism and gender discrimination. Its productions illustrate the perspectives and intrinsic human worth of the more than 7.1 million people under correctional control in the U.S., and its educational materials serve as a catalyst for public activism.

Rainbow is a worker-owned coop that has been in the Mission since 1975, and is a generous sponsor of the 2026 Howard Zinn Book Fair.

Possibly the ONLY surviving 70s punk publisher who never quit, V. Vale’s RE/Search continues to provide ‘Against-the-Status-Quo’ publications that stimulate the imagination and optimistic skepticism.

The Revolutionary Poets Brigade is a group of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to bringing positive change in the world through the power of poetry. The Brigade is poised to gather for community actions at any venue . . . including the streets! It can be booked for readings and actions. Founded in 2009, it calls on all poets to put their powerful words in the service of struggles already in motion.

Sad Francisco is produced and hosted by Toshio Meronek, whose writing appears in Al Jazeera, In These Times, The Nation, them, Truthout and Vice. The book Meronek wrote with a mentor, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, is out now from Verso.

Sari-Sari Storybooks publishes bilingual Filipino children’s books in Philippine mother tongues. These stories of kindness, courage, and magic celebrate the rich diversity of the Philippines with young readers in the motherland and diaspora.

Shaping San Francisco, enjoying its 25th year in 2023, is a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco. It does this in a variety of ways. It maintains a vast digital archive at foundsf.org, where everyone is invited to contribute to a shared history. It held Public Talks regularly at 518 Valencia; during the pandemic it came up with a new preferred activity: the Urban Forum: Walk 'n' Talk, which explores little-visited hilltops, neighborhoods, stairways, and more all over the city. It co-hosts history programming with other organizations around the Bay Area. It conducts walking and bicycle history tours at least a half dozen times each season, with two seasons of Talks and Tours each year. And it often partners with local university classes, helping students produce new historical research that is incorporated into its online archive.

The Single Spark Study Group is a collective organization committed to studying revolutionary history and theory in the Bay Area.

Free immigrant rights posters for the masses!

Speak Out Now/Revolutionary Workers Group is a revolutionary socialist group. It believes a socialist world is possible, brought into being by the active struggles of the majority of the world’s people, and that the international working class is the social force that can transform society. The group aims its activity primarily at large workplaces, distributing newsletters at several of them every two weeks, and holds forums on current events along with Marxist discussions and classes. It publishes pamphlets on past working-class struggles and revolutionary movements, and organizes with others around racism, immigrant rights, climate change, police brutality and more.

TANC (Tenants and Neighborhood Councils) is a group of Bay Area tenants fed up with rising rents, evictions and harassment at the hands of landlords, and with neighbors left with no option but to live unsheltered and at constant risk of police harassment. TANC sees capitalism as what connects these housing issues, with profit prioritized over people’s quality of life, and organizes tenants to take collective action against landlords, developers and cops, and to force overdue rent reductions across the Bay Area.

Task Force on the Americas, originally the Marin Interfaith Task Force, began in 1985 with the sanctuary movement around El Salvador, focusing on Central America in response to US-funded counter-revolution and terrorism. Its scope has since expanded to all of the Americas: TFA stands in solidarity with the social justice movements of Latin America and the Caribbean and in opposition to US interference. It holds public education events, publishes a quarterly newsletter, monitors the US military, economic and political role in Latin America, and responds to human rights violations through actions including an urgent action network.

One of San Francisco's finest bookstores. While the physical shop is no more, The Green Arcade continues to publish and sell books online as well as host events.

The Intercept investigates powerful individuals and institutions to expose corruption and injustice, treating journalism as an instrument of civic action: it aims to change the world, not just describe it. It believes rigorous and courageous journalism plays a vital role in protecting human rights, safeguarding freedoms, checking the influence of money and power, and moving society toward a just future. Since its founding in 2014, its reporting has spurred exonerations, reformed laws, prompted new legislation and exposed sweeping national security programs that undermine civil liberties.

Verso Books, is an independent, radical publishing house that specializes in non-fiction works on politics, theory, and social issues, though it has also published some fiction.

Weavers Press is a group of literature lovers who want to promote quality works that resist exoticism, especially with regard to South Asia. The theme of weaving and weavers runs through classical Punjabi poetry. The name is also a tribute to the legendary American music group The Weavers, and to the idea that writing and reading mimic the weaving of ideas, art, message, and intellect.