ALL you need to know about the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 15 years ago, in 2009, on the World Wide Web.
The Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair is this weekend, March 14–15 in San Francisco at Golden Gate Park. And A.L.L. is going to be there. Here’s a partial schedule:
Schedule for speakers in the auditorium
Auditorium, SATURDAY 3/14
11:30 – 11:50 Bruce Anderson
12:00 – 12:20 James Tracy – Anti-Authoritarian Approaches to Housing
12:30 – 1:20 Diane Di Prima
1:30 – 1:50 Summer Brenner – I-5
2:00 – 2:50 Judith Levine – Kids, Sex & the State
3:00 – 3:20 Diana Block – Arm the Spirit
3:30 – 4:20 Native American Perspectives On the State
4:30 – 4:50 Roxanne Dunbar OrtizAuditorium, SUNDAY 3/15
12:00 – 12:50 Sex Workers Panel
1:00 – 1:20 Barry Pateman
1:30 – 1:50 Chris Carlsson
2:00 – 2:20 Cheb –i- Sabbha
2:30 – 2:50 Andrej Grubacic – Wobblies & Zapatistas
3:00 – 3:20 Victoria Law – Resistance Behind Bars
3:30 – 4:30 Osha Neumann – Up A**inst the W*ll MotherfuckerSchedule of speakers/events in the cafe area:
Cafe SATURDAY:
10:00 – 10:50 Resist War Taxes
11:00 – 11:20 Matt Callahan
11:30 – 12:20 Surviving The Economic Meltdown Panel (Robert Ovetz & others)
12:30 – 12:50 Yiddish Anarchism – Audrey Goodfriend & Joel Schechter
1:00 – 1:20 RNC8 Defense Committee
1:30 – 1:50 Doug – Modesto Anarcho – Importance of Intentions in Anarchist Actions
2:00 – 2:50 Eastern European Anarchism panel w/ Andrej Grubajic and Marta Kolarova
3:00 – 3:50 Women In Prison Panel w/Bo Brown & Vikki Law
4:00 – 4:50 Becoming the Media Panel – Jen Angel, Pranjal Tiwari, Joe Biel
5:00 – 5:50 Intro to Lefty/Anarchist Sci-Fi with Sara BrodzinskyCafe SUNDAY:
11:00 – 11:50 Resist War Taxes
12:00 – 12:50 Shutdown filmscreening and discussion
1:00 – 1:50 Venezuela: Revolution From Inside Out screening & disc with filmmaker Clif Ross
2:00 – 2:50 Provo Panel/Discussion, Stevphen Shukaitis & Richard Kempton
3:00 – 3:50 Art & Activism Panel/Discussion with Josh Macphee and Fly
4:00 – 4:50 Retort Panel: Iain Boal, David Kubrin and more
And, the main event — this is a bookfair, remember? — will be the space in the main hall, where about 60 vendors will have tables to show off their anarchist books and materials from 10:00am–6:00pm on Saturday and 11:00am–5:00pm on Sunday. Among them will be us — members of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left from around the Western U.S. I’ll be there (especially in the morning); and, if no-one encounters any unforeseen disasters, we should have Southern Nevada ALL, Northwest ALL, and ALLies from California and Tulsa, Oklahoma. We’ll have books, journals, and buttons for sale, and a lot of information about ALL and what we do back in our hometowns. If you’re in the area, come on by, say hi, and see what we’re doing.
We’ll be here. Will you?
Hope to see you there!
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Aster
Damn. I should have finally put together the finishing touches for my next trip to San Francisco for this.
Have fun!
Charles,
I wonder if all the abortion rights groups in the U.S. have or could ever obtain enough funding to completely usurp the welfare state. That would put an end to diverting resources to combat things like Republican bans on use of Federal funds for assisting women in obtaining abortions.
Just bypass the establishment theocrats with grassroots culture! Every penny spent on a politician to achieve something is one less penny spent on the kinds of non-profits below:
http://womensmedicalfundwis.org/
And you can use the conservative’s much vaunted state’s rights rhetoric against them with local abortion rights victories — particularly when they have more control or influence at the Federal level. The medical marijuana movement is having some fairly good success on the state level. The Feds just recently did the minimum of announcing an end to DEA raids in states that have legalized it. I have taken a more liberal “Federalist” position before, but the reality is that there is a good chance of central power eventually shifting back to social conservative elements of the Republican Party — not to mention the Democratic Party’s own contributions to demolishing separation of church and state.
I once thought about going to my professional feminist stepcousin to try to get involved in strategic policy discussions with the D.C. abortion rights groups. I was pondering what kind of capital existed among well to do coastal groups for funding more clinics in areas where they don’t exist — given the fact that abortion is de facto taboo in like 90 percent of the country for reasons of access and local sentiment, no?
I just added new subversion squares to http://nj.libertarianleft.org/resources.html. You might be interested in using some of them.