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10th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair

Free Soviets
24-03-2005, 05:21
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/bookfair.jpg

http://www.bayareaanarchistbookfair.org/


Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store Presents:

The 10th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair

Saturday March 26, 2005
10 AM to 6 PM

San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park
Near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way (Map (http://maps.yahoo.com//maps_result?csz=San+Francisco%2C+CA+94122&state=CA&uzip=94122&ds=n&name=&desc=&ed=G8uiqOp_0TrDsYzJ96WRsp9pWaYHCPf4ulgZc6H0kcTpczFP0Fww1JrT5hqoom6GxtxnA9QhXlvCvR6DbNubepvll8B6MztW7 ZIJXcq_hPkueh0-&zoomin=yes&BFKey=&mag=2))

Admission is FREE.

Speakers:

Barry Pateman (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/goldman/OpenRoad/page_06.html) - archivist at the Kate Sharpley Library, and senior editor at the Emma Goldman Papers. The most recent volume of Emma Goldman - A Documentary History Of The American Years Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909 has just been published by University of California Press, and he has authored introductions to both the new edition of Alexander Berkman's What Is Anarchism and The Voltairine De Cleyre Reader.

Ward Churchill (http://www.speakersandartists.org/People/WardChurchill.html) - reknowned scholar activist and troublemaker is the author and editor of numerous books and audio CDs. His latest work is Kill The Indian, Save The Man: The Genocidal Impact Of American Indian Residential Schools.

Eric Drooker (http://www.drooker.com/) - legendary graphic artist whose work has graced a thousand walls, posters, t-shirts and book covers. His seminal novel without words, Flood! is now available again in a new elegant edition.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (http://www.reddirtsite.com/) - pioneering feminist, and perennial activist is the author of two (to date) autobiographies - Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, and her memoir of the 60s, Outlaw Woman.

Peter Werbe (http://www.peterwerbe.com/) is an editor of Fifth Estate, the longest-running anarchist journal in America today.

Chris Carlsson (http://www.processedworld.com/carlsson/chris/cc_resume.htm) spent 13 years stealing office supplies to produce Processed World, a zine that chronicled the drudgery of 9-to-5 desk jobs. He helped bring Critical Mass into being, and created SHAPING SAN FRANCISCO: The Interactive Multimedia Excavation of the Lost History of San Francisco.

Entartete Künst (http://www.entartetekunst.info/) (German for "degenerate art") are anarcho-electro/hip-hoppers that put out political electronic music that fuses low- and high-brow culture (think dark, slow hip-hop with Noam Chomsky samples) into a potent mix that challenges the status quo.


Contact

Bound Together Bookstore (http://boundtogether.org/)
Haight St (at Masonic)
San Francisco, CA 94117

Open 7 days a week from 11:30 am to 7:30 pm.
Phone: (415)431-8355
Email: info@bayareaanarchistbookfair.org


Also check out the 8th Annual Anarchist Café (http://www.indybay.org/calendar/event_display_detail.php?event_id=5987&day=25&month=3&year=2005)
Neo-Anarchists
24-03-2005, 05:32
I would check it out if it weren't so fucking far away.
Afghregastan
24-03-2005, 05:36
Sounds cool but I'm in Canada.
Free Soviets
24-03-2005, 05:38
yeah, i hate when that happens. hell, i'm now out way in the middle of nowhere - at least back where i used to live there was the occassional thing to go to in madison.
Refused Party Program
24-03-2005, 15:44
Having one of these in Manchester at the end of April. I don't think we have any celebrated speakers (yet).
Free Soviets
24-03-2005, 21:24
I don't think we have any celebrated speakers (yet).

pay my airfare and i'll come be a celebrated speaker for you
Refused Party Program
25-03-2005, 00:20
pay my airfare and i'll come be a celebrated speaker for you

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3839/radio/radio-speaker-horn_baldwin1_550h.jpg

?
Free Soviets
25-03-2005, 06:09
bump
Free Soviets
25-03-2005, 22:20
hey, do we have any bay area people around these parts any more? we used to have some, but they may all be gone at this point.
Potaria
25-03-2005, 22:23
Jello Biafra's not gonna be one of the speakers? Pfff.
Free Soviets
25-03-2005, 22:27
Jello Biafra's not gonna be one of the speakers? Pfff.

maybe he had prior a green party engagement or something
Refused Party Program
26-03-2005, 00:13
maybe he had prior a green party engagement or something

Sell out!
Free Soviets
27-03-2005, 04:16
google news search for "anarchist bookfair" (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=anarchist+bookfair&btnG=Search+News)

wow.
Free Soviets
27-03-2005, 13:17
some pictures (thanks to sf.indymedia.org and indybay.org)


http://www.indybay.org/uploads/1_bookfair.jpg


http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/2005/03/pict0017.jpgtgr1zv.jpg


http://www.indybay.org/uploads/bookfair2res.jpg


http://www.indybay.org/uploads/5_zerzan.jpg


http://www.indybay.org/uploads/7_churchill1.jpg


http://www.indybay.org/uploads/8_crowd_watching_churchill.jpg
Refused Party Program
27-03-2005, 13:29
Dude, you should have mentioned that there would be balloons. I'm so in! Dude!
Anarchic Conceptions
27-03-2005, 13:45
So far away :(

Having one of these in Manchester at the end of April. I don't think we have any celebrated speakers (yet).

Where is it?

(Yes I know, its probably on indymedia, but for some reason I cannot get the page to load up at the moment)
Refused Party Program
27-03-2005, 13:55
So far away :(



Where is it?

(Yes I know, its probably on indymedia, but for some reason I cannot get the page to load up at the moment)

The Basement, 24 Lever St [city centre].
Anarchic Conceptions
27-03-2005, 15:12
The Basement, 24 Lever St [city centre].
Maybe we can pass each other and be non the wiser about who the other is.
Preebles
28-03-2005, 23:45
I missed the Anarchist Conference in Melbourne. Bah!
Refused Party Program
28-03-2005, 23:49
I missed the Anarchist Conference in Melbourne. Bah!

Sell out!!
:D



Actually, I'm torn about attending our bookfair. There's a good anti-ID card leafletting thing going on at the same time in Stockport and I live halfway between the two.
Potaria
28-03-2005, 23:50
I missed the Anarchist Conference in Melbourne. Bah!

That's what you get for celebrating Easter!! Nyaaaaaaaaah!!!
Refused Party Program
28-03-2005, 23:51
That's what you get for celebrating Easter!! Nyaaaaaaaaah!!!

Ooooh, right. So that's why it's been so quiet around here.
Preebles
28-03-2005, 23:52
That's what you get for celebrating Easter!! Nyaaaaaaaaah!!!
Nah that was a few weeks ago. I was busy being a wage slave. ;) Easter is now. I don't celebrate it, but I get a week and a half off!
Neo-Anarchists
28-03-2005, 23:53
Actually, I'm torn about attending our bookfair. There's a good anti-ID card leafletting thing going on at the same time in Stockport and I live halfway between the two.
Gah, I can't even find one interesting thing in my area, and you've got two at once!
:(
Potaria
28-03-2005, 23:54
Nah that was a few weeks ago. I was busy being a wage slave. ;) Easter is now. I don't celebrate it, but I get a week and a half off!

A WEEK AND A HALF!? Shit! We (those of us in America) usually get Friday and maybe Monday off.
Refused Party Program
28-03-2005, 23:54
Gah, I can't even find one interesting thing in my area, and you've got two at once!
:(

Where? I bet I can find you something.
Neo-Anarchists
28-03-2005, 23:56
Where? I bet I can find you something.
Vermont. Northeastern.
I've been trying to find interesting stuff for the longest time, but I have zero connections and I haven't been able to find anything on the internet.

EDIT:
I'd think there would be loads of stuff, what with many vermonters being so left-wing, but I haven't seen it.
Preebles
28-03-2005, 23:56
A WEEK AND A HALF!? Shit! We (those of us in America) usually get Friday and maybe Monday off.
It's the mid-semester break, only for us uni students! :D
Potaria
28-03-2005, 23:57
It's the mid-semester break, only for us uni students! :D

*cries*
Refused Party Program
29-03-2005, 00:10
Vermont. Northeastern.
I've been trying to find interesting stuff for the longest time, but I have zero connections and I haven't been able to find anything on the internet.

EDIT:
I'd think there would be loads of stuff, what with many vermonters being so left-wing, but I haven't seen it.

Ah, can't help you. I thought you were a dirty Brit.