Toronto Anarchist Bookfair, July 23-24!

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The Toronto Anarchist Bookfair is only 9 days away! Join us for a weekend full of anti-authoritarian activities, workshops, books, zines, food, friends, and great conversations!

Saturday 23^rd and Sunday 24^th
10:30am – 6pm

Steelworkers’ Hall (25 Cecil Street) (click here for map)

 

There will be a great selection of workshops this year, with presentations on:

• The Occupation of INAC (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada), before, after and now
• Pinkwashing and Homonationalism
• Deconstructing Intoxication Culture
• Applying Anarchist Ideas to Current Cloud and Standalone Tech
• Calling In: Doing Justice without Breaking Each Other
• The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
• And many more!

 

There will also be an amazing group of tablers:

• PM Press, Kersplebedeb, The Wheelhouse, Toronto Media Co-op, Upping the Anti, Look Mum! Zine Distro, Waks Fruit Micro Press, Ankle Bone Books, From the Margins, AK Press, the Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu, aNaRCHo’s Bargain Books, Great Worm Distro, KW Inforshop, Blue Heron Books, Little Black Cart, Harvest Noon, Androgynborg, Black Rose Books, The Tower, OCAP, Between The Lines, Radical Design, Anti-fascist defence fund… and more!

 

Want to help out? From postering to childcare, please give us a hand!

Contact us at toanarchistbookfair@gmail.com

We are committed to making the Bookfair as accessible and welcoming as possible: The Steelworkers’ Hall is wheelchair accessible; there will be childcare and kids programming; there will be a People of Colour space. And as always the Bookfair will abide by our Safer Space and Sexual Assault and Consent policies.  If you have other ideas or suggestions for improving the accessibility of the event please let us know and we will try our best to accommodate you.

In Solidarity,
The Toronto Anarchist Bookfair Collective

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Remember, Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th at the Steelworkers’ Hall:

on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://ift.tt/29MdsAy

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June 21-24: Toronto Anarchist Bookfair

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The following from the fine folks putting on the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair next weekend - sadly, this year we will not be able to attend the bookfair, but i really encourage all of you who are nearby to check it out, looks like there will be great stuff happening!

Here is their call out:

We are planning a jam-packed weekend of workshops, speakers, debates, discussions, distros, good fun, good friends, good food, and of course good reads.

On Thursday evening, June 21, come out to the launch of the second volume of Subversions,
anarchist short fiction by the Anarchist Writers Bloc. The book launch will take place at 7pm at Detour Bar, in Kensington Market, 193 Baldwin Street. For more information see the Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/231233450328695/

On Friday evening, weather permitting, join us for board games and baseball at Bickford Park. See the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/347919565276913/

On Saturday and Sunday from 10am-5pm, join us at U of T. This year, we have over 20 amazing workshops, 40 tablers, as well as a Kid Zone with great kids' programming, an Anti-Authoritarian Indigenous/People of Colour space, a DIY space with flexible workshops, a space to relax if you need a nap, and an opportunity to connect with and hear about different projects that our fellow anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and radicals are involved in at a giant go-around. We have also identified that talking about and addressing racism in radical spaces must be a priority in our community and is a priority of the Bookfair program. As a result, “Racism in Radical Communities,” will be the topic of the closing panel discussion on Sunday. Tea and coffee will be available throughout the weekend and lunch will also be served on both days. Food and drinks will be offered for whatever you can pay.

On Saturday evening, there is a book launch for Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution at 7pm at Tranzac. 292 Brunswick Avenue. Please see the Facebook event for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/375859059129847/

We strive to make the Bookfair as accessible as we can. Some of the ways in which we do that is by making it a survivor-centric space, hosting the event at a barrier-free venue, offering food/drinks at a pay what you can rate, and providing kids' programing. If you have a specific request about how the Bookfair can be made more accessible for you, like ASL interpretation, attendant care, or other ways, please email to let us know as soon as possible and we’ll try our best! toanarchistbookfair@gmail.com

If you are coming from out of town and are hoping to spend the night in Toronto, please note that we have limited spots to offer, but do let us know in advance that you need a place to stay. If you need a place to stay, or can offer a place please contact Lindsay: linds.anotherboringaddress@gmail.com

The Bookfair is made possible by donations and volunteers, If you would like to help out with the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair, there are a couple of things that you can do.
First, make a donation! To make a donation please contact us: toanarchistbookfair@gmail.com
Second, you can volunteer to help us with taking on volunteer tasks.
If you want to help the food committee contact Frankie: frankie.filippelli@gmail.com
If you want to help with the Kid Zone, (write kid zone in the subject): toanarchistbookfair@gmail.com
If you want to help with outreach, postering, or flyering contact Joanna: jolitical@riseup.net

Share our facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/376709855699088/
Check out our website for the full schedule: http://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/

We're looking forward to spending the weekend with you, soon!
This event is co-sponsored by OPIRG Toronto and Toronto Freeskool.


Provisional Workshops: Anarchism 101, Feminist Anarchism, Parent and Child Inclusivity in the Activist Community, Introduction to Radical Sexual Health, Organizational Issues during the Spanish Civil War, Anarchist Visions of Life After Capitalism, Struggling and Strategy, Animal Liberation from a Feminist Perspective, Anarchism and Community Organizing, No One Is Illegal, Empathy and Transparency in Alternative Relationships, IWW Direct Action and Solidarity Unionism, Mapuche and Anarchist Struggle, Plan Nord = Plan Mort, Reflecting on the G20, Trans and Genderqueer Issues, Drugs and Community Mobilizing, Anti-Ableism, The General Student Strike in Quebec, Know Your Rights, Settler Colonialism, Anarchists in Post-Revolutionary Egypt, Anti-State Communism, Bookbinding, Wallet-Making, Cartoon Drawing, Screen-printing, Bike Repair, etc.

Provisional Tables: Centre for Police Accountability, IWW, Autonomedia, Justice for Levi Coalition, Saint Henri Walking Distance Distro, Notes from Underground, BenderGear, Of Course you Can! Distro, Just Seeds, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Between The Lines, Twelveohtwo, AK Press, Love and Rage, OCAP, NOII, Guelph ABC, KW Infoshop, Make Total Distro, Krystin Dunnion Zines, Fight Boredom Distro, Cartoons, Rebel Time, Kersplebedeb, PM Press, Shameless Mag, WCCC, Thoughcrime Ink, OPIRG, Beautiful Trouble, Common Cause, Kate Lavut Books and Comics, Tumbelweed Collective, DIY Arts and Crafts, Occupy FreeSkule, Fierce n’ Fabulous, Anti-Fascist Zines, Laughing Revolution, International Workers Group, RASH, UCL, Sisterhood, ARA, Look Mum! Zines, Irish Prisoner Support, Christian Anarchists, Anemone Distro, Iconoclast, Great Worms Distro, Beehive, Blank Space, Deep Green Resistance, etc.
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website: torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com 

email: toanarchistbookfair@gmail.com

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[May 14 in Toronto] From Protest to Resistance: West Germany’s Red Army Faction in the 1970s and 1980s

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The Red Army Faction was one of the best known, and most vilified, urban guerilla organizations of the Cold War period.

Emerging from West Germany’s radical student movement in the 1960s, the RAF bombed U.S. military bases and police stations, carried out kidnappings and bank robberies, and assassinated financial, military, and government targets. Their last attack in 1993 actually demolished a new prison before it could be opened, doing almost $100 million in damage and postponing its operation by four years. The RAF was never fully defeated, but rather opted to unilaterally de-escalate and then disband following the changes in the global balance of power in the 1990s.

Despite the sensational (and sensationalistic) headlines, the RAF’s ideas – initially drawing on Marx, Lenin, and Mao – have remained largely unknown and unexamined in the English-speaking world. In an effort to remedy this state of affairs, in 2009 PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing released "Projectiles for the People", the first in a series of documentary histories edited by J. Smith and André Moncourt, containing both English translations of documents by the RAF, and introductory chapters contextualizing their struggle. The second volume in this series, Dancing with Imperialism, covering the years 1979-1984, is due out later this year.

Join us on May 14 for a discussion with K. Kersplebedeb about the history of the RAF and other West German guerilla groups, the ongoing repression targeting former guerillas, and why this is relevant to radicals today:

Monday, May 14, 2012

6:00pm until 8:00pm

OISE 5230

Monday, May 14

6-8pm

Organized by PRAC and the RSM

Sponsored by Toronto Anarchist Black Cross and Upping the Anti

Facebook Event Page

Pay what you can
For more information about the RAF: www.germanguerilla.com

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Toronto Anarchist Bookfair - Workshop Schedule!

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While the bookfair itself will be taking place at 25 Cecil Street, there will be two days of workshops happening at Bahen, nearby. Here is the workshop schedule; for actual workshop descriptions see http://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/workshops-2/



Community Dinner Friday April 15

7pm - 11pm

Saturday April 16/Sunday April 17

10am - 6pm

supper and books at the

Steelworkers Hall

25 Cecil St.

workshops at

Bahen

50 St. George. St

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Saturday                   

All Day
DIY Screenprinting (All day drop in workshop!) - outside

10:00am-12:00pm

• Anarchism 101 - Room 2145
• Expanding Bases of Safety - ASL - Room 2155
• Anarchist Organizational Issues During the Spanish War, 1936-1939 - Room 2159
• Conversations about Transphobia and Cissexism - Room 2165

1pm-3:00pm

• Organize the Hood! - Room 2145
• Community Accountability and Sexual Assault - ASL - Room 2155
• Union Organizing 101 - Room 2159
• Anti-Authoritarian People of Colour Caucus: Lunch, followed by SKYPE talk with @narchist Panther Ashanti Alston - Room 2165
• DIY Bicycle Maintenance - outside

3:30pm-5:30pm

• DIY Floggers and Safer Sex Skillshare - Room 2145
  
• Deaf Culture 101 - ASL - Room 2155
  
• Reclaiming Power (Back to the Land) (3:30-4:30) & Signals of Disorder (4:30-5:30) - Room 2159
  
• Anti-Authoritarian People of Colour Caucus: building an anti-authoritarian people of colour and indigenous peoples movement in toronto facilitated discussion - Room 2165
  

5:30-7:30pm

• Intro to Encrypted Online Communications - Room 2145
• Anti-Authoritarian People of Colour Caucus: zine share and food - Room 2165 

Sunday                   
10:00am-12:00pm

• Indigenous Sovereignty and Anarchist Allied Resistance - Room 2145
  
• Broadcasting Pirate Radio - Room 2155
  
• Anarchist Organizations - Room 2159
  

10:00am-11:00am SKYPE Workshop
Anarchism’s Social Vector: Drawing lessons from an historical overview in South Africa and Brazil with Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front - Room 2165

11:00am-12:00 SKYPE Workshop
Anarchist Organizing in the Age of Collapse with Uri Gordon - Room 2165

1:00pm-3:00pm

• Information Security and You - Room 2145
  
• Anti-Racist Action Network - Room 2155
  
• Building Sexual Consent - Room 2159
  

1:00pm-2:00pm SKYPE Workshop
Imperialism, National Liberation and Class with Andrew Flood  - Room 2165

2:00pm-4:00pm SKYPE Workshop
"We Are An Image From the Future" with VOID Network - Room 2165

3:30pm-5:30pm

• Alternative Media - Room 2145
  
• Political Prisoners in Canada and the United States - Room 2155
  

3:30pm-4:30pm
Anarcho-Nutritionism- Room 2159


4:00pm-5:00pm SKYPE Workshop
Appropriating Corporate Video for Anarchist Filmmaking with subMedia - Room 2165

4:30pm-5:30pm

Animal Liberation and Anarchism - Room 2159

5:00pm-6:00pm SKYPE Workshop
Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality with Jen Rogue/Deric Shannon - Room 2165

More information at https://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com

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Toronto Anarchist Bookfair: Next Weekend!

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It is that time of year again - time for the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair!

It's happening next weekend, at the Steelworkers Hall at 25 Cecil Street, and you know i'll be there, tabling with all my own stuff as well as friends'.

While the final workshop schedule has not been announced yet, i am slated to be giving a talk about political prisoners and prisoners of war, probably on the Sunday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30. All workshops are being held at Bahen, just two and a half blocks from the bookfair at 50 St. George. St. No finalized workshop schedule is available yet, but you can see the list right here.

Here is a guide to the different sections of the bookfair website:

* General Information
* Tabling Groups

Programming
* Anti-authoritarian People of Colour and Indigenous Peoples Caucus
* Friday Community Dinner and Assembly
* Really Really Free Market
* Workshops

Principles and Policies
Safer Spaces Policy
Sexual Assault and Consent Policy
Statement on Accessibility

& here is the latest callout from the organizers:

The countdown has begun! The 2011 Toronto Anarchist Bookfair is less than two weeks away, and is set to be an amazing weekend of workshops, radical discussions, books, zines, great food and friends. The bookfair is set to be the largest Toronto has seen in years, and will bring to the city vendors, exhibitors and workshop facilitators from across North America and beyond.
The Bookfair will run from Friday, April 15th- Sunday, April 17th, and be held in two central locations. The Friday evening community dinner and assembly, as well as bookfair tabling will be held at the Toronto Steelworker's Hall (25 Cecil st.), while bookfair workshops will be held at the nearby Bahen Centre (40 st.George st.).
Below you will find all the information you'll need to know about participating in the Bookfair, and getting the most out of the weekend.

a) Community Dinner and Assembly
To kick off the weekend of events the Bookfair Collective will be hosting a free community dinner, followed by a general assembly. Join us for a sit down vegan dinner, and an evening of community building dialogue. The dinner and assembly will be held from 7-11pm at the Steelworker's Hall.
We're inviting anti-authoritarians, anarchists and anyone interested to discuss the current organizing climate in the city, and brainstorm strategies as to how to build a stronger, more inclusive anarchist movement in the city and surrounding region. The assembly will begin with a handful of introductory remarks presented by long-term anarchist organizers, after which the floor will be opened for a general conversation on the potential directions Torontonian anarchism could take in 2011 and further. The assembly will then conclude with the opportunity for break-out sessions based on interest in specific ideas, plans, or projects that participants would like to discuss in more detail.

b) Tabling and Exhibits at the Bookfair
This year's bookfair will host over 40 independent publishers, booksellers, distributors, community organizations and political groups from throughout North America. Bookfair fair tabling will be taking place in the main area of the Steelworker's Hall, and be held both Saturday, April 16th and Sunday, April 17th from 10am-6pm.
For a complete list of tabling groups, publishers and organizations, visit:
https://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/tabling-groups/

c) Workshops at the Bookfair
The bookfair weekend is jam-packed with over 30 workshops, from DIY Bike Repair, discussions on the Spanish Civil War and Anarchism and Indigenous Resistance, to Building Consent, Alternative Media, and everything in between, workshops will be covering an incredibly broad spectrum, oriented towards the development of both practical skills and theoretical knowledge, and will include a series of international workshops skyped in from across the globe. Workshops will be taking place Saturday, April 16th and Sunday, April 17th from 10am-5:30pm each day.
For a complete workshop list and schedule, visit:
https://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/workshops-2/

d) Anti-authoritarian People of Colour and Indigenous Caucus
From 3:30-7:30pm on Saturday, April 16th the Bookfair will host a People of Colour Caucus. This space, open only to self-identified people of colour and indigenous people, will focus on 1) identifying gaps in anti-authoritarian organizing in Toronto that serve to exclude people of colour and indigenous peoples; 2) facilitating a discussion on how anti-authoritarian people of colour and indigenous peoples can link various struggles and organizing experiences, and 3) building an intersectional space where people of colour and indigenous peoples that adhere to an anti-authoritarian politic in Toronto can share resources and organize.

e) Volunteers!
In order to make the bookfair a smashing success (and we know how much anarchists like smashing ;) we need volunteers! Specifically we need volunteers to fill the following roles:
Food Preparation: If you like to cook or are interested in learning, this is the perfect opportunity! In addition to the Friday night community dinner, the bookfair will be serving lunch both Saturday and Sunday, and needs volunteers to help with food preparation.
Registration/Welcome Table: For the duration of the bookfair weekend there will be welcome/registration tables set up at both the Bahen Centre and the Steelworker's Hall. We need volunteers to hang out with Bookfair Collective members and help us staff these tables.
Set-up & Take-down: Let's be honest, grunt work sucks. That said, grunt work is crucial to most events and the Bookfair is no exception. We need volunteers to help us with set-up Saturday morning, and then again with take-down Sunday night.

f) Childcare
Childcare will be offered all day Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm on site at the Steelworker's Hall. Children's activities are planned for throughout the weekend, and snacks will be provided. If you intend to drop your child off, and have any special requests or concerns, please email us beforehand at toanarchistbookfair@gmail.com.

g) Accessibility
Both the Steelworker's Hall and the Bahen Centre are barrier-free venues with accessible washrooms. Attendant care will be provided, and ASL interpretation will be offered for select workshops.
To view the Bookfair's Safer Spaces Policy:
https://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/safer-spaces-policy/
To view the Bookfair's Sexual Assault and Consent Policy:
https://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/sexual-assault-and-consen...
If you have any comments, concerns, suggestions or request please email the Bookfair Collective at toanarchistbookfair@gmail.com
See you at the bookfair!

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North American Anarchist Studies Conference: January, 14-16th 2011

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This weekend is the 2nd North American Anarchist Studies Conference, to be held in Toronto, Canada. i'll be tabling there on behalf of Kersplebedeb and PM Press - please do come by to say hello!

The schedule, for those of you thinking of attending:


North American Anarchist Studies Conference: January, 14-16th 2011


Friday, January 14th

Opening Film Night!

CINECYCLE- 129 Spadina Avenue (in the old coach house down the alley).

7pm-12am

Join us for a low-key evening of radical film screenings, discussion and socializing to kick off the conference.

-Featuring-

• “Tales From the G20”- Open Media Initiative w/ Justin Saunders.
• Chet Singh dub poetry performance.
• “Carne de Fieras” (1936) w/ Jesse Cohn introducing.
• Short contributions from NAASN members and members from the Toronto Alternative Media Centre.

Saturday, January 15th

STEEL WORKER’S HALL- 25 Cecil St.

Conference begins!


8-9am

Registration and coffee!

9-10:50am

Opening/plenary panel and group discussion!

‘The Past, Present and Potential Futures of Anarchism’ – Jaggi Singh, Irina Ceric, Denis Rancourt, Lesley Wood.

Facilitator: Sharmeen Khan

11-12:20pm

Room #1:
Contemporary Anarchism and the Arts

• Adrian Blackwell- Anarchist Urban Design
• Sandra Jeppesen- Anarchist Literature
• Luis Jacob- Groundless Aesthetics

Moderator: Allan Antliff

Room #2:
Anarchist Economics: History, Analysis and Vision

• Deric Shannon- An Overview of Anarchist Economics
• Chris Spannos- The History of Anarchist Economics as a Lens to See the Future
• Abbey Willis- Tools for Understanding Capitalism in the 2000s
• Wayne Price- The Anarchist Post-Capitalist Vision

Moderator: Jasmin Mujanovic

12:30-1:30pm

Lunch!

1:30-2:20pm

Workshops!

Room #1:

Alexis Shotwell- Practical Strategies for Anarchist Writing: A Workshop

Room #2:

Testament- Building Bridges and Working with Unlikely Allies

2:30-3:50pm

Room #1:
Movement Knowledge I: Movement Research

• Aziz Choudry- Activist Research: Mapping the Practices of Knowledge Production for Social Action
• Chris Dixon- Accountability to whom? Ethics and Activism in Movement Research
• Gary Kinsman- Mapping Social Relations of Struggle: Producing Knowledge for Social Transformation
• Research Group on Collective Autonomy- Ethics and Accountability in Prefigurative Participatory Antiauthoritarian Research

Moderator: Kalin Stacey


Room #2:
Transnational Anarchism in the Americas 1

• Kenyon Zimmer- ‘Yiddish is My Homeland’: A Transatlantic History of Jewish-American Anarchism, 1880s-1930s
• Kirt Shaffer- Panama Reds: Anarchist Politics and Transregional Networks in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904-1916
• Steve Hirsch- Constructing a Working-Class Counterculture: Transnational Anarchism and the Anarchist Press in Northern Peru, 1898-1922

Moderator: Nathan Jun

4-5:20pm

Room #1:
Anarchism, Gender and (Dis)ability: Expanding the Anarchist Critique

• Mitchell Verter- Towards an Anarchafeminist Subversion of Politics
• Anne Goldenberg- Feminist Takes on Organizing in Critical and Technological Movements
• Liat Ben-Moshe- Queercripping Anarchism
• Timothy Luchies- Creative (Self-)Destruction: Critiquing White and Male Supremacy in North American Anarchism

Moderator: Anthony J. Nocella II

Room #2:
Challenging Conformity: Anarchist Memory and Prospects

• A.D Hoyt- The International Anarchist Archives: A Report on Conditions and a Proposal for Action
• Nathan Jun- Flowers for the Fallen: The Romantic Anarchism of Pietro Gori
• Bryan Nelson- Orientation and Mappings: Anarchism, Marxism, Democracy: Traditions in Theory
• Ron Sakolsky- Mutual Acquienscence

Moderator: Daniel Cairns

5:30-6:50pm

Room #1:
Greening Anarchy

• Micheal Loadenthal- Militant Not Terrorists: How the Radical Animal and Earth Liberation Movement Challenges the State and Capitalsim
• Karl Hardy & Usman Mushtaq- Responses to Climate Change: Radical Critiques and Utopian Alternatives
• Andrea Palichuck- Alienation and Exclusion in Food Lifestyle Politics and Anarchist Organizing
• Michele Flippo Bolduc- Are Community Gardens Inherently Radical?

Moderator: Deric Shannon

Room #2:
Anarchist Readings of Nietzsche

• Nick Day- Ubermensch, Overcoming and Direct Actor: Reconciling Nietzsche with Liberatory Praxis
• Laura Greenwood- Goldman’s Nietzschean Anarchism: A Griemasian Reading of ‘Minorities Versus Majorities’
• Grant Yocom- The ‘Last Man’ in Detriot: Timely Revisions and New Targets for the Arrows of Lomnging

Moderator: Rachel Melis

7-8:20pm

Room #1:
Riot 2011: Direct Action, Revolt and the Question of Violence

• Kyla Bourne- Alterrepresentation and the Democratic Possibilities of Direct Action
• Edward Avery-Natale- ‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Anarchists’: The Nature of Identification and Subjectivity Among Black Blocs
• Andreas Reichelt- When the universities were burning (with activism) in…2009
• Madison Trusolino- Human Emancipation, The Spectacle, Divine Violence

Moderator: Tammy Kovich

Room #2:
Perspectivas Anarquistas de America Latina

• Jorella A. Melendez Badillo- El Anarquismo En Puerto Rico: Su Influencia En La Cultura Proletaria En Las Primeras Dos Decades Del Siglo XX
• Octavio Cabrera Serrano- El Antropologo Autogestivo
• Milena Alveo- Cultura anarquista, reflexiones a cerca de la cotidianidad

Moderator: TBA


Saturday Night Social/ UPPING THE ANTI Issue 11 Launch Party!!!

TORONTO FREE GALLERY- 1277 Bloor Street West (at Lansdown).

Doors open at 8:30pm until late!

Join us for the NAASN Conference Saturday night social/ UPPING THE ANTI’s Issue #11 Launch Party.

-Featuring-

• Musical performances by LAL and Test Their Logik.
• Kick ass sets by DJs Nik Red and B#.
• Plus refreshments, raffle prizes and more.

Admission $10 with a copy of UPPING THE ANTI, $5 without, and free for UPPING THE ANTI sustainers.


Sunday, January 16th
Steel Worker’s Hall- 25 Cecil St.

9-9:30am

Coffee!

9:30-10:50am

Room #1:
Postanarchism, The Specter of Primitivism and Song

• Gregory Kalyniuk- Jurisprudence of the Damned; Deleuze’s Masochian Humor and Anarchist Neo-Monadology
• Daniel Murray- Social Tyranny of the State: Bakunin, Governmentality and Resistance
• Sandy Krolick- A Spector is Haunting America
• Carrie Yvonne Mott- Music in the Anarchist Movement: Radical Politics and Solidarity Through Song

Moderator: Ryan Mitchell

Room #2:
‘Anarchizing’ the Disciplines

• Dennis Fox- Anarchism and Psychology
• David Westling- Anarchism and Individual Psychology
• Dana Williams and Jeff Shantz- Defining an Anarchist-Sociology (A Long-Anticipated Marriage)
• Shaista Patel- Inviting Settlers of Color in Nation Building Projects of White-Settler Colonies

Moderator: Courtney Cecale

11-12:20pm

Room #1:
Movement Knowledge II: Trajectories of Contemporary Movements and Possibilities for Change

• Kate Milbery- History Will Teach Us Everything: Towards a Praxis of Social Justice
• Andrea Eiland- Breaking Down the Wall: Anarchism and Social Change in the 21st Century
• Dawn Paley- Beyond Alternative Media: Building Space for Radical Journalism
• Michael Trusello- The Trouble With Social Media

Moderator: Ryan Mitchell

Room #2:
Transnational Anarchism in the Americas II

• Geoffroy de Laforcade- counter-Currents and Oppositional Trends Within a Syndicalist Labor Tradition: Locating the Anarchist influence on the Politics of Maritime Trade Unionism in Argentina, 1903-1950
• Amparo Sanchez Cobos- The Island and Beyond: Spanish Anarchist Networks in Cuba, 1900-1925
• Travis Tomchuck- The Radical Culture of Italian Anarchists in North America
• Davide Turcato- Biography, Anarchism and Transnationalism

Moderator: TBA

12:30-1:30 pm

Lunch!

1:30-2:20pm
Workshops!

Room #1:

Crimethinc- Fighting in the New Terrain: Anti-Capitalist Strategies in the 21st Century


Room #2:

Matt B- Know Your Enemy: Conspiracism, Right Wing populism and the Anarchist Movement

2:30-3:50pm

Room #1:
TBA Activist Workshop

Room #2:
Militant Methodologies and the Question of Authority

• Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish- Radicalizing Methods: ‘Convoking’ the Radical Imagination in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Paul McLaughlin- Methodologies Considerations on Anarchist Theory
• Michael Gutierrez- Two Poles of Authority
• Alden Wood- ‘On Bernadette Corporation’s Get Rid of Yourself’: An Anarcho-Autonomist Critique of the Mimetic Representation of Revolt

Moderator: Michael Loadenthal

4-5:20pm

Room #1:
Anarchist Subjectivities: Discussions of the Self and Other

• Cameron Ellis- The Loving Anarchist: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Subject of Anarchy
• Kalin Stacey- Innocence and Complicity in Anarchist Discourse
• Joey Brooke Jacob- Why the ‘Stanger’ is Unequal: Towards a Manifesto for Inclusion
• Matthew Hayter- Understanding ‘Power’ as always both power-for and power-over: What can this Perspective do for the sake of anarchist social relations?

Moderator: Ed Avery-Natale and TBA Co-Moderator

Room #2:
Anarchism, Education and the Strange World of Academia

• Paul Lemley- Navigating Respectability
• Dan Webb- ‘The Left’s Wrong Turn and the Postmodern Disavowal of Anarchism’
• Anthony Meza-Wilson- Educational Projects for Decolonization: Anarchist Allyship and Resistance Education in the Americas
• Joseph Todd Montclair- Triangulating Freedom, Power and Education: Learning Webs, Subjectivity, and Resistance

Moderator:

5:30-7pm

Closing Discussion and Break Out Session!

Facilitator: David McNally


*Childcare will be provided on site for the duration of the weekend.

** The suggested conference fee is sliding scale $10-25 or PWYC (no one will be turned away for lack funds), and all money raised at the door will be donated to the Toronto G20 Legal Defence Fund.


Exhibitors at the Second Annual NAASN Conference:

AK Press
Arbeiter Ring
Autonomedia
Between the Lines
Black Cat Press
Brunswick Books
Common Cause
Community Solidarity Network
Empowerment Infoshop
Fernwood Publishing
Kersplebedeb
Little Black Cart
Pluto Press
PM Press
Rebel Film Board
Thought Crime Ink
Transformative Studies Institute
Upping the Anti
Zed Books

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Toronto Community Mobilization Network August 4th Update

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Toronto Community Mobilization Network
http://www.facebook.com/l/55f24W25p-S9mARC87cpldS-xYA;g20.torontomobilize.org

Announcements
1. We are winning
2. Support those who are still in custody!
3. G20 Zine: Call for submissions

Events
4. 247 Committee--Wednesday, August 4th
5. G20 Acupuncture Fundraiser --Thursday, August 5th
6. Audism and the Toronto Police Service--Saturday, August 7
7. Your Options for Taking Legal Action--Sunday, August 8, 1:30pm



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1. We are winning
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July 26, 2010, One month after the G20 Convergence

The People Won (Updated)
http://www.facebook.com/l/55f24RUM6gY8ROISzwLGFVtr8aQ;torontomobilize.org/node/432


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2. Support those incarcerated as a result of the G20
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Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, a friend, ally, poet and Guelph activist who was arrested and released on bail during the G20. After returning home to Peterborough, she turned herself in less than an hour after police gave a press conference stating that Kelly was wanted for six counts of mischief over $5000 in connection with damages related to the G20.

"Rather then allowing the trial to take place in the court, Toronto Police instead chose to have a trial-by-media sensationalizing her case through words such as "ringleader" and "most wanted". Previous arrested people have had publication bans on their bail hearings specifically to stop the media from ruining their chances at a fair trial. With her face splashed on the cover of every news station, she not only lost her chance at a fair trial in court, but is already convicted in the minds of the majority of those who follow the media as a criminal, radical and terrorist."

She has been in custody at Vanier since July 22nd -- please send pictures and messages of the outside:

Kelly Rose Pflug-Back

Vanier Centre for Women

P.O. Box 1040

655 Martin Street

Milton, ON L9T 5E6

MEDICAL CARE FOR KELLY
Political Prisoner Kelly Pflug Back, who suffers from Diabetes as well as other serious health problems, has been denied a doctor's visit without any valid reason. As we speak , Kellys health is deteriorating and she is getting no medical attention. SOS is calling on all people to call the superintendent at Vanier and demand that Kelly Pflug Back be allowed to see a doctor.

HEALTH CARE IS A RIGHT FOR ALL AND NOT A TOOL FOR PUNISHMENT!!!!

Call Superintendent Donna Keating at (905) 876-8300 ext. 7316 and demand that Kelly be allowed to see a doctor.



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3. G20 Zine: Call for submissions
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We all have a lot of beautiful and terrible stories left knocking around our heads, so why not get them out? All proceeds going to legal defense for G20 political prisoners.

You can use whatever form of writing you want for both or only one and pictures are welcome as well. Real names are welcome, but not necessary and the dead line for acceptance is August 25. Stories can be as short as you'd like, but longer entries should aim to be about a page or two (if that's possible).

Please send all inquires or entries to zineG20@gmail.com



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4. 247 Committee
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If you are one of the hundreds facing criminal charges stemming from the G20 in Toronto, the 247 Support Committee is here for you.

We are available to assist with:

• logistics around the upcoming August 23rd court date;
• resource referrals and information about trauma and other psycho-social needs;
• legal defence fundraising support and access;
• a way for members of the 247 Support Committee to connect with each other, mobilize and organize;
• other ways to support suggested by you!

The 247 Support Committee was created by a group of allies, but we hope that it will be led by and take direction from the defendants. Everyone who is facing criminal charges stemming from the G20 in Toronto is invited and encouraged to join this Committee. All defendants, regardless of their level of involvement in this Committee are entitled to draw from the support resources offered. Allies are also welcome to join, acknowledging that their role is one of support.

please attend the upcoming organizing meeting:

Wednesday, August 4th at 7:00pm OISE (252 Bloor Street West) Room 2-213 or contact us at 247.g20@gmail.com

In solidarity,
The 247 Support Committee



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5. G20 Acupuncture Fundraiser
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Thursday August 5th. 6-9pm
Institute of Traditional Medicine. 553 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor

This is a Pay What You Can Event (PWYC), suggested donation is $20. Money raised will be donated to the G8/G20 Community Mobilization Legal Defence Fund. There are only 12 spots available, so please RSVP asap to heyamrit@gmail.com

This is a safe space for People of Colour and LGBT Communities
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136702936369776



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6. Audism and the Toronto Police
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http://www.facebook.com/l/55f241AOvPPenWSTkNt-vHDk8VQ;www.g20.torontomobilize.org/node/424

Date: Saturday August 7, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 252 Bloor Street West, OISE- U of T, Room 2212

We have all heard the stories of the Toronto Police Services denying interpreters, accusing Deaf people of "faking", interpreting attempts to communicate as violence, misunderstanding facial expressions that are a part of our grammar as anger, and countless other acts of audism, discrimination, and violence. It is time to do something about it!

Join us in sharing out stories and coming together as a united community of Deaf, oral deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and hearing allies! We will share our experiences in a public forum to promote healing and change. This will be the beginning of a long process of achieving change within the Toronto Police Services policy, training, and sensitivity to our diverse communities.

ASL interpretation provided
Prayer Space Nearby. Child-friendly event. Wheelchair accessible venue
If you require accommodations, please contact Jenny Blaser at jb.signsofsupport@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Endorsed by the Legal Education Action Fund Youth Commission and Signs of Support



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7. Your OPTIONS for Taking Post-g8/g20 LEGAL ACTION
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Sunday, August 8, 2010 1:30pm - 5:30 pm
United Steelworkers Hall (wheel chair accessible), 25 Cecil Street (near
the intersection of College and Spadina).

Join us on August 8th to learn about:

•  how to file a human rights claim
•  the police complaints process
•  how you can sue the police
•  the class action lawsuit(s) (that are currently in discussion)

Please register as soon as possible at
http://www.facebook.com/l/55f24c9jQuNKg1kJ0JM-bNYpnRg;tinyurl.com/g20legal

Contact: For more info on the Summit Legal Support Project or this event,
email us at lawunionmdc@gmail.com or check out
http://www.facebook.com/l/55f24YlZUi6GvjY2PeST91jBl2g;movementdefence.org.

For more information on the broader Law Union of Ontario, please visit
http://www.facebook.com/l/55f24l7dKBXHvLD4P3iVHmTeAvQ;www.lawunion.ca/.



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Email: community.mobilize@resist.ca

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[Toronto] Thursday November 19: Upping the Anti Launch Party

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On November 19th, join UPPING THE ANTI

and DJs Saira Chhibber and Nik Red
as we celebrate the launch of

UPPING THE ANTI NUMBER NINE

Thursday November 19, 8pm

The Concord Cafe

(937 Bloor Street West)

-- DJs Saira Chhibber and Nik Red --
-- Raffle, Dancing, Politics, Fun --

Admission: $10 (includes new issue).
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Subscribers get in free.



UPPING THE ANTI NUMBER NINE includes:

- Interview with Eli Clare on disability and trans activism

- Interview with Sherene Razack on Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics

- Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby on the Canadian Union of Students, 1965-69

- Ben Saifer on campus Palestine solidarity activism and Israel-advocacy "dialogue" initiatives

- Kate Milley on anti-Native organizing and the "Caledonia Crisis"

- Roundtable retrospective on the tenth anniversary of anti-WTO mobilizations in Seattle, 1999

- Roundtable on anti-Olympics organizing

- And More...


For more information, email uppingtheanti@gmail.com
or visit www.uppingtheanti.org

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