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2008 New York City Anarchist Bookfair04/12/2008 - 11:00 Etc/GMT-5 THE NYC ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2008 Saturday, April 12, 2008, 11am-8pm New York City, a center of anarchist life, culture, struggle, and ideas for 150 years, hosted its first Anarchist Bookfair last year with great success. Given this success, we are pleased to announce that we will host the 2nd Anarchist Bookfair in New York City again! We are organizing a whole weekend long event with an Anarchist Film Festival, Bookfair, Radical and Anarchist Art, Talks and Panel discussions, Workshops, Skill-shares and a lot more! The 1st Annual NYC Anarchist Book fair featured over 55 groups exhibiting anarchist books, zines, Cd's, film/video, as well as information on organizing and other activities relating to anarchism. There where over 12 panels, presentations and skill-shares, such as 'Anarchism and Its Aspirations', 'What Would Emma Do? An Anarchy-Feminist Round table', 'Remembering Spain, Remembering Heroes!' among many others. With an estimated 1800+ people throughout the weekend, it was a great start! We are looking forward to making this event a success, again, with your help! The Bookfair Collective |
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Panels, Workshops Set for 2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
NYC ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
http://anarchistbookfair.net
March 27, 2008
Contact: Eric Laursen, (917) 806-6452
PRESS ADVISORY
Schedule of Panels, Workshops, and Skillshares Set for 2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
NEW YORK – The upcoming 2nd Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair will include a program of 18 panels, workshops, and skillshares focusing on anarchist history and present-day activism from social services to education to immigration.
The Bookfair is scheduled to be held on Sat., April 12, again at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. This year's Bookfair will include exhibits by some 60 independent publishers, booksellers, infoshops, zines, record labels, media creators, and labor and other activist groups, plus an art show, cabaret, and film festival.
Panels, workshops, and skillshares will be held Sat., Apr. 12 and Sun., Apr. 13, at Judson as well as at nearby facilities of New York University. Highlights include:
* Intro to Anarchism: The ABCs of anarchist political, economic, and social theory and practice, for beginners.
* Radical Social Services: Organizing social services, from health care to child care to legal family counseling – outside The System.
* Computer and Internet Security – What Every Activist Needs to Know: Organizing electronically in a time of rapidly expanding state surveillance.
* Social Movements: How anarchist practice is reflected in urban cooperative initiatives and movements of the landless from Denmark to Oaxaca, from India to Harlem.
* Anarchy in the USA: The love-hate relationship with presidential elections.
* Sessions for women, queer-identified, and people of color within the anarchist movement.
Admission to the 2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair is FREE. For a complete schedule and description of panels, workshops, and skillshares, visit our Website at http://anarchistbookfair.net. Schedule subject to change. For assistance with press coverage and more information on the Bookfair and related events as they develop, please email mediarequests@anarchistbookfair.net.