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Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair this weekend!

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15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, March 2010: 

 

   SF County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park Saturday and Sunday March 13th and 14th 2010

    Speakers for the 2010 book fair include:  Yantra Bertelli, Terry Bisson, Ward Churchill, John Curl, Diane DiPrima, John Duda, Matt Hern, Owen Hill, Luis A. Fernandez, Peter Gelderloos, Andrej Grubacic, Owen Hill,  Lierre Keith, Margaret Killjoy, Ernesto Longa, Carlos Martinez, Jason McQuinn, Keith McHenry, Tommi Avicolli Mecca,  Cindy Milstein,  Patrick Reinsborough. Kim Stanley Robinson, Penelope Rosemont,  Sarah Talbot, Kristian Williams and John Zerzan. 

 

 

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Anarcha-Feminist Conference

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Barcelona: Anarcha-Feminist Conference

This year - 2010 - the CNT celebrates 100 years since it was founded, in a context very different from today's. For this reason, we want to analyze and reflect on the path that this class-struggle union has followed throughout its history and examine its role today. There is no doubt that the people who have been members of the CNT have mostly been women and men with a capacity for critical thought, sometimes well ahead of their time, and there have been times when the CNT has played a vital role, as in the social revolution of 1936. Today we ask ourselves how it sees itself as a union that fights against every form of authority, and especially against something as important as patriarchy which, along with capitalism, inhibits the freedom of many living beings and is destroying the planet.
So, this Feminist Conference arise from the need of various female members of the CNT to visualize the vital role that women play in the anarchist movement, to reflect on the connection between anarchism and feminism, to challenge traditional gender roles, female and male, on which patriarchy are based.
The Conference on Women and Anarchism will be an opportunity to get closer to the realities of female militancy. We intend to analyze, discuss and highlight the participation and organization of women who identify with libertarian principles without giving up their gender identity. We want to see the problems that affect us as women in the various areas where we operate: labour, educational, organizational, health, emotional, etc., and the problems arising from a patriarchal and capitalist society such as ours that affects us and our comrades, male and female alike.
To this end, we will try to deal with the subject on two levels: one level is our own situation as female workers and union activists in a class-struggle, revolutionary and libertarian union, covering the historical perspective and the needs that we see today. The second level is feminist women's participation in the various organizations that seek to contribute to social change. We are interested in highlighting these daily struggles, the projects that result from them, the difficulties that exist and the contradictions that we encounter. We also wish to work on these aspects by collecting multiple experiences from the past and others that are in progress today all over the world.
To try to cover these objectives, we have organized five topics:
1. Women, work and the union
2. A historical reference: the Mujeres Libres
3. Anarcho-feminism: organized women
4. Women in the press and propaganda of The Idea
5. Sexual diversity and anarchism.
Everyone is invited to participate in these reflections on our/your part so that we can try to get closer to achieving our/your utopian society.
Let our thoughts become action.

PROGRAM
- Saturday 6 March 11.00 a.m.
Women and Anarcho-syndicalism: with Ana Sigüenza (first Secretary General of the CNT) and Laura Vicente (Doctor of Contemporary History at the University of Alicante), author of "Teresa Claramunt. Pionera del feminismo obrerista anarquista".
Venue: Centre Cívic Drassanes - Sala d'Actes. C/Nou de la Rambla 43. ( L-3: Liceu, Drassanes ó Paralel).
- Sunday 7 March 5.00 p.m.
Venue: Casa de la Solidaridad. C/Vistalegre, 15. ( L-2: Sant Antoni)
- Wednesday 10 March 7.00 p.m.
Cine forum: "Adrift (by casual women workers)" Authors: precarias a la deriva.
Venue: Espai Obert. C/Violant d'Hongria 71, 1º. ( L-5: Plaça de Sants i Badal; L-3: Plaça del Centre)
- Friday 12 Marzo 7.00 p.m.
Anarcho-feminist Theory & Practice, with La Katino Anarkista (member of the Red Anarcofeminista de Mujeres and creator of the publication "Alejandra") and Vanessa Ortíz, from the Juana Julia Guzmán collective (Bogota).
Venue: Fundació d'Estudis Llibertaris i Anarcosindicalistes - FELLA. C/Joaquin Costa 34. ( L-3: Catalunya ó L-1 i L-2 Universitat).
- Saturday 13 March 5.00 p.m.
Anarchist women propagandizing The Idea, with María Ángeles García Maroto, anarcho-feminist journalist and writer, member of the Alcoi SOV, and Antonina Rodrigo, writer, author of the book "Amparo Poch y Gascón, médica y anarquista".
Presentation of feminist publications. RAG (Ireland), Herstory (Barcelona), Histeria (Barcelona), Mujeres Preokupando 8 (Barcelona) and others...
Venue: Centre Cívic Pati Llimona. C/Regomir 3. ( L-3: Liceu ó L-4 Jaume I).
- Sunday 14 March 5.00 p.m.
Venue: Casa de la Solidaridad. C/Vistalegre, 15. ( L-2: Sant Antoni)
- Friday 19 March 7.00 p.m.
Animal liberation, liberation of the land and liberation of women. Natalia, Maria, Isabella and Clara.
Venue: Espai Obert. C/Violant d'Hongria 71, 1º. ( L-5: Plaça de Sants i Badal; L-3: Plaça del Centre)
- Saturday 20 March 5.00 p.m.
Mujeres Libres, yesterday and today, with Martha Ackelsberg, professor of Political Science and Women's & Gender Studies at Smith College, Northampton, MA (USA) and author of "Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women", together with comrades from the Mujeres Libres in Extremadura and Madrid.
Venue: CCCB – Aula 2. C/ Montalegre, 5 ( L-3: Catalunya ó L-1 i L-2 Universitat).
- Friday 26 March 7.00 a.m.
Gender, race and class. Carla.
Venue: Espai Obert. C/Violant d'Hongria 71, 1º. ( L-5: Plaça de Sants i Badal; L-3: Plaça del Centre)
- Saturday 27 March 11.00 a.m.
Sexual Diversity and anarchism: debate organized by D-género, a pro-sexual liberation libertarian collective from Madrid, Karolina, Filipo Brenda and Maricarmen.
Venue: Centre Cívic Barceloneta. C/Conreria 1 – 9. ( L-4: Barceloneta).
* Workshops are for women only. Prior registration is required - write to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Dates for the workshops are subject to change, and in this case participants will be advised by email. Further workshops may be organized if the maximum number of participants is exceeded.
Organized by:
Comisión del CeNTenario (Barcelona)
English translation by FdCA-International Relations Office
Related Link: http://www.cnt.es/centenario
www.news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2010barcelona-afem/
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Chicago: Organizing a Massive Anarchist Youth Liberation Event

Protests, Solidarity & Actions

The following is a call-out to any who could contribute ideas, contacts, or even material support to an event hoping to bring anarchy and empowerment to the kids of Chicago. Likewise, it's an invitation to anyone in the area who would like to help more directly.
It's time we started some real teenage rebellion instead of having it sold to us from Hot Topic. After some discussions and dropping intriguing hints to our friends, we kids in the Sort Sol Collective have decided on our plan: as an alternative to the massive consumerist, school-chaperoned(-policed) spectacle of alienation and intoxication that is school prom, we'll have a massive anarchist event put together by and for youth, to display the power we have (and what more we should have) over our own lives and extend a hand to our fellow teenagers who don't want to spend another day dying in a classroom in preparation for the same in a storefront or office, who could benefit from the knowledge and support of a community of people who've made it their explicit goal to combat these institutions.

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The RNC Trial Of Elliot Hughes

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A Pre-trial breakfast in support of Elliot Hughes is being held next Monday, March 8th.

Details:

Monday morning March 8th 8-11am @ St. Paul City Hall 15 Kellogg Blvd. West in Downtown St. Paul

A note from Elliot:

Hey come to my trail. Sorry it's so early but we will have breakfast (bagels, juice, eggs, tofu, ect.) waiting for you when you get there! I really need a lot of support. We are trying to get my charges dropped and it is going to be really interesting. We have the most solid evidence you can get. So yeah its March 8th, 8 am at St Paul City Hall (15 Kellogg Boulevard West, St Paul, MN). Hope to See you there!
You can RSVP to this event here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=343111942817

 

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Announcing 8 days of Anarchy 2010

Protests, Solidarity & Actions

This year we are breatheless in anticipating the unveiling of the most advanced technology in anarchist events yet. i8daysofanarchy launches on March 9th and ends on March 16th. It is in a variety of locations around the Bay Area.

We look forward to having you join us

 

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Canada, Mark your calendars! Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 29 & 30, 2010)

Festivals

The 2010 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair will take place on the weekend of May 29-30 at the
CEDA (2515 Delisle, metro Lionel Groulx). Please note, the next Bookfair will take place
over two days (ie. there will be tabling on BOTH days). As well, please note that the
Bookfair is taking place later in May than in previous years. ---- In the coming weeks and
months, we will be sending more updates and callouts on this list, with more information,
but for now we wanted to inform everyone about the dates and locations of next year's
Bookfair (our second decade!). ---- info-A-lonanarchiste.ca The Montreal Anarchist
Bookfair Collective https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/salon-annonces Our announcements
list: - Our facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71082453058

No gods, no masters! No bosses, no borders!

www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos23282.html

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Marie Mason Benefit: Sunday October 18th

Twin Cities

Marie Mason CDAt the Bedlam Theater
1501 S. 6th St. Minneapolis
8pm All Ages
with BROADCAST LIVE (NY)
EVAN GREER (MA)
JUNKYARD EMPIRE
E.G. BAILEY
GUANTEBARTON STINK
Suggested $5-10 donation

Marie Mason is a long-time labor and environmental activist, musician, poet, visual artist, and loving mother of two. She is currently in prison in Waseca, MN for her role in two Earth Liberation Front (ELF) acts of economic sabotage in which no one was injured. Marie’s case is part of the Greenscare: the politically-motivated government crackdown on environmental and animal rights activists.
http://supportmariemason.org/
http://freemarie.org/

More Information about the benefit is at www.midwestgreenscare.org.

If you live outside the Twin Cities you can also help Marie by purchasing a copy of her recently re-released CD's Not for Profit. Follow this link for ordering information.

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