2024 NE Bash Back Convergence!

  • February 28, 2024 1:36 am

from Bash Back News

𝚜ᴇ𝚡ʏ ғʀᴇᴀ𝚘̨𝚜 sᴇᴇᴋ 𝓼ᴇ𝔁ʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ for Ⓐ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮~! ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴅɪɴɢ ꜱᴋɪʟʟꜱ & ʙᴏɴᴅꜱ ᴡ/ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ sᴇxʏ ғʀᴇᴀǫs ✨

Do you favour a bitchin time making connections with queer anarchists? Gaining or helping to gain a skill? Do you desire time with others that could be hot and spicy in the streets and the sheets? With time afterward to wine and dine? Well, we got that all here, and it’s all kinds of fucking queer. We are gearing up for Bash Back! 24 NE REGIONALS in Philly!

Northeast/Mid-Atlantic babes,
come to Philly April 26 to 29!
But why not stay for May Day! 🏴

We will send more info as the event approaches! Right now, we are seeking workshop/discussion/panel proposals. Going to have a lighter load this time, so send us your best ideas! We’re incredibly excited about programs with an emphasis on strategy and regionally-relevant content, but if you’ve got some other freaQ shit you wanna share, do send! We want to lean more discussion than lecture and try to keep things under 90min. Send your proposal by email or by messenger bird~

💋 Send a short proposal detailing your vision.
🥊 Proposals must be sent by March 1.
💋 Email your proposals to bbphilly@protonmail.com.
🥊 Include any materials or accommodations you’ll need.
🕊️ Proposals can alternatively be sent via messenger bird?

As always, we encourage people to organize their own events, parties, orgies, etc.; these ^^ bits are just what will be on the BB! Philly schedule. If you want your event added to the schedule, tell us!

K𝖾𝖾𝗉 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝗀𝗒 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝖡𝖡!23 𝖼𝗎𝗆𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗀! 💦
𝕳𝖔𝖕𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖊𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖇𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊! 𝓧𝓞𝓧𝓞𝓧𝓞𝓧𝓞

Skill Fair 2023 Schedule

  • November 11, 2023 1:38 am

Submission



Anarchy Fair November 18th, Save the date!

  • October 28, 2023 1:43 am

Submission

There will be free food, free zines, games, barrel fires, and videos from the trash dimension, as well as other anarchist short films.
Skill topics and curriculums include:
Self defense vs intent to harm (Muay Thai in the street perspective)
Herbal medicine making 101
Basket Weaving
Nervous system Regulation
Graffiti with a circle A
Firearms Incubator/Bleeding Control
Legal training
Harm reduction and Xylazine wound care
Potential squatting 101 and bike repair
Official schedule with times, descriptions and curriculums will be released a week or so before November 18th. This is gonna be a fun one y’all. 
[Flier PDF]

Flier for Fall skill share

  • August 26, 2023 1:44 am

Submission

This flier is a call to comrades from the surrounding area in so called Philadelphia to not only get hyped but also to submit ideas for an upcoming Anarchist Fall Skillshare. Can contact the comrades helping to make this possible via the email on the flier!

Fall Skill Share 2023

  • August 25, 2023 1:56 am

from Mastodon

Another crew has picked up the torch! There’s a new Philly skilly coming up, hit them up to contribute a workshop, to table, host a discussion, etc.

Fall Skill Share 2023 When - November 11 at 12pm *Nov 18 Raindate* Location - TBA Do you or a group of friends have a project you'd like to share? Contact us if you're interested in tabling, sharing a skill, presenting, or starting a discussion! Email us at - fallskillshare1312@proton.me
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Time to share the things you know! Herbalists! Keepers of sacred wisdom! Hackers! Medics! Harm Reductors! Lawyers! Crafters! Foragers! Fighters! Therapists! Come to learn and stay to teach!Share this call wisely and widely!

How do we Build Liberatory Capacity?: Solidarity Economy Assembly #2

  • July 21, 2023 1:54 am

from Making Worlds Books

As we work to build a solidarity economy, where we truly take care of each other and have our collective well-being at the heart of our everyday, the summit can sometimes be a steep climb in a world currently created to keep us separate and in competition with one another. A question organizers must ask themselves, and each other, again and again is: how do we build capacity for this work while also knowing and respecting our own individual and communal capacities?In collaboration with PACA member co-ops: Obvious Agency and Making Worlds, PACA continues its solidarity economy assemblies on Thursday, June 29th, 2023, from 6:30-8pm.

This second assembly will be facilitated by Obvious Agency and it will be a communal discussion of how we can build, investigate, honor, and take care of our collective capacities.Together we will investigate what drains and robs our capacities (bullshit jobs and isolated realities, for starters), as well as how we take our time and energy back. We will discuss how we’ve been conditioned to show up to “work”, how we decondition from that which does not serve us and only moves us towards the problems of burnout or accumulating social capital instead of dollars, as well as how we reframe showing up to efforts which matter to us. We will discuss how do we actually create capacity for this work (*cough* – more people – *cough*). Also, what is the world we’re actually trying to forge so that our practices of self- and collective-care aren’t just maintenance to shove us back into the grind, but instead we have spaciousness and possibility to allow us to have elements of being with those we love, being in regenerative solitude, showing up to the work which matters to us, immersing ourselves in other activities which gives us joy and meaning, and so much more.

We hope you’ll join us for this critical conversation around our collective capacity.

The good folks of Obvious Agency are, “Makers of games and interactive performances.” They are a “Worker-owned cooperative.” And they are, “Developing Space Opera – a game engine for building community”. https://www.instagram.com/obviousagencycoop

  • Thursday, July 27, 2023
  • 6:30 PM 8:00 PM
  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)

How do we Build Liberatory Capacity?: Solidarity Economy Assembly #2

  • June 22, 2023 1:29 am

from Making Worlds Books

As we work to build a solidarity economy, where we truly take care of each other and have our collective well-being at the heart of our everyday, the summit can sometimes be a steep climb in a world currently created to keep us separate and in competition with one another. A question organizers must ask themselves, and each other, again and again is: how do we build capacity for this work while also knowing and respecting our own individual and communal capacities?In collaboration with PACA member co-ops: Obvious Agency and Making Worlds, PACA continues its solidarity economy assemblies on Thursday, June 29th, 2023, from 6:30-8pm.

This second assembly will be facilitated by Obvious Agency and it will be a communal discussion of how we can build, investigate, honor, and take care of our collective capacities.Together we will investigate what drains and robs our capacities (bullshit jobs and isolated realities, for starters), as well as how we take our time and energy back. We will discuss how we’ve been conditioned to show up to “work”, how we decondition from that which does not serve us and only moves us towards the problems of burnout or accumulating social capital instead of dollars, as well as how we reframe showing up to efforts which matter to us. We will discuss how do we actually create capacity for this work (*cough* – more people – *cough*). Also, what is the world we’re actually trying to forge so that our practices of self- and collective-care aren’t just maintenance to shove us back into the grind, but instead we have spaciousness and possibility to allow us to have elements of being with those we love, being in regenerative solitude, showing up to the work which matters to us, immersing ourselves in other activities which gives us joy and meaning, and so much more.

We hope you’ll join us for this critical conversation around our collective capacity.

The good folks of Obvious Agency are, “Makers of games and interactive performances.” They are a “Worker-owned cooperative.” And they are, “Developing Space Opera – a game engine for building community”. https://www.instagram.com/obviousagencycoop

  • Thursday, June 29, 2023
  • 6:30 PM 8:00 PM
  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)

Building the Solidarity Economy: First city-wide Solidarity Economy Assembly

  • March 19, 2023 1:15 am

from Making World Books

Join us for the first Philly-wide Solidarity Economy Assembly, a hybrid event, hosted by and in collaboration with Making Worlds Bookstore Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center.

Click here to register for this event.

The Solidarity Economy Principles Project defines SE as, “an organizing framework for those who wish to create a systemic commitment to and practice of interdependence and collective liberation in the economic activities that meet our material needs.  Solidarity economy rests on our shared values: cooperation, democracy, social and racial justice, environmental sustainability, and mutualism… Solidarity economies emerge from movements and integrate the three common strategies for social change: personal transformation, building alternative institutions, and challenging dominant institutions. Building solidarity economy movements requires building networks, federations, and coalitions that align with SE principles and practices. This is where we become truly powerful.”

This assembly aims to intentionally begin forging these “networks, federation, and coalitions” across all those in the Philly region working to build a just world. Invitation extended to groups doing work spanning mutual aid, land and food justice, housing, cooperative/democratic/and alternative economies, climate justice struggle, and how we “tell the story of our freedom”: artists, media, and technology workers. You’re all already doing incredible organizing. Our hope is to strengthen our networks so we can move forward together with intention and… solidarity.

Event is hybrid. It will be facilitated by Esteban Kelly, Executive Director of USFWC. Jamila Medley, former Executive Director of PACA and one of the original writers of the SE Principles, will ground us in discussing the frameworks and hopes for the Solidarity Economy. We hope to see you there.

  • Thursday, March 23, 2023
  • 5:00 PM 7:30 PM
  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)

“Fuck a Cellicon Valley” Zine Launch and Social

  • February 12, 2023 1:07 am

from Iffy Books

February 19 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Flyer with a drawing of various cartoon animals sitting around a campfire under the stars. The text reads as follows: "Fuck a Cellicon Valley" Zine Launch and Social February 19 3:30 PM Iffy Books, N. 11th St. #2I Zines, snacks, socializing, & info on the development at Bartram's Garden

Join us Sunday, February 19th at 3:30 p.m. to celebrate the launch of “Fuck a Cellicon Valley,” a zine about a development plan that would displace residents and destroy wild space in the area around Bartam’s North and Bartam’s South. We’ll have snacks and free zines!

Read the zine
Print the zine

Here’s an excerpt:

After we heard rumors about UPenn developing the land around Bartram’s North we did some research and discovered an evil plot. In 2013 a group of economists, developers, city planners, and other villians came up with the Lower Schuylkill Master Plan, a 143 page document envisioning a “21st century industrial district” in Southwest Philly along the Schuykill river corridor. The report details massive development projects to be carried out over 20-25 years. Reading the report in 2023 provided us with some answers and many many questions.

The Master Plan is worth looking over carefully if you are someone who cares about environmental destruction and gentrification. You can find it online at https://www.design.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/LSMP_Small.pdf

The plan breaks up the development projects into three sections. The first is a Logistics Hub, connected to the Philadelphia Airport, whose recent expansion destroyed wetlands to build a cargo facility. We’ve already seen how this has gone down for the FDR meadows. The second is the Energy Corridor in South Philly, where they are currently focused on remediating decades of industrial pollution from oil infrastructure. The remediation is predicted to take years, then they’re going build factories.

The third zone, the Innovation District, is the focus of this zine. Because it is closest to us, because it threatens the places we live in and love. In writing this zine, we hope that other people will look into the master plan and oppose gentrification as they see it manifest in their contexts.

The Innovation District consists of the Pennovation Center and the areas near Bartram’s North and Bartram’s South including some wild lands and spaces. We spend a lot of time in those spaces and despite what developers think, there is already vibrant activity, innovation, and life, we don’t want to see the area get paved over and built up.

…

The Lower Schuylkill Biotech Campus is part of what people at the University of Pennsylvania are calling “Cellicon Valley”. It’s an attempt to brand Philly as the next hi-tech hotspot for pharmaceutical companies and research institutions. Like Silicon Valley, Cellicon Valley is a bad and annoying idea that should never come to fruition. It’s literally a scheme to capture, commodify, and sell us ways to live, by destroying and locking us out of the ways we live.

Vigil For Tyre Nichols And Community Skate Against State Violence

  • February 11, 2023 1:19 am

Submission

Vigil for Tyre Nichols and community skate demo against police State brutality! Sunday – February 19th – 2PM – Paine’s Skatepark – Philly! Come together to speak out and skate in memory of Tyre Nichols and everyone who was murdered and harmed by police state violence! Snacks and Water Provided by Food Not Bombs Solidarity! Please mask up and wear warm layers!

Philly Anarchy Fair Schedule

  • August 23, 2022 1:18 am

Submission


Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • August 6, 2022 1:54 am

from Making Worlds Books

Making Worlds Book Reading and Discussion: Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 [Philadelphia launch]

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world’s governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.

Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people’s efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.

Registration required, click here.

About the Author

M. E. O’Brien writes and speaks on gender freedom and capitalism. She coedits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She completed a PhD at NYU, where she wrote on how capitalism shaped New York City LGBTQ social movements. You can support her writing through patreon.com/meobrien, and find her on twitter @genderhorizon. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 is her first book.

[Saturday, August 13, 2022 6:00 PM 7:30 PM Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)]

Philly Anarchy Fair 2022

  • July 20, 2022 1:12 am

from Anarchist News

Come one come all to the Philly Anarchy Fair! Have you been yearning to play games, eat vegan corn dogs and learn new shit? Boy oh boy do we have the event for you. We’ll be spending the weekend of August 27/28 playing field games, sharing skills, and rejoicing in the fun of all things fair. County fair? Science fair? Ren fair? Create the world you want to live in and stay tuned for more info…

Itinerary and location to be released soon.
Crash into the city to enjoy a little chaos, and total anarchy
Email at phillyanarchyfair@riseup.net for more info and questions

Running Down The Walls

  • July 12, 2022 1:53 am

from Philly ABC

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Download posters, flyers, and quarter sheets for sharing.

Sunday, September 11, 2022
11 am sharp (Yoga warm-up at 10am)
FDR Park

RDTW 2022

Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross invites you to our fifth annual Running Down The Walls (RDTW)! Join us for another revolutionary 5K run/walk/roll and day of solidarity amplifying the voices of our comrades behind bars, lifting them up in their struggles, and maintaining material support. If you would like to participate in light yoga and warm-up stretches before, please arrive by 10am and bring a mat if you can.

Running is not required! You can also walk or roll. 5K is two loops around the park and at a walking pace will take about 45-60 minutes. Light refreshments and socializing will take place in the park afterward.

This year’s event will benefit the ABCF Warchest and the Philly chapter of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Join us as we once again raise energy and funds for the freedom of long-term political prisoners and the struggles they are serving time for.

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.”

– Malcolm X

This year marks a milestone in the Warchest program as we surpassed $200,000 in funds raised! Due to the abominable conditions that political prisoners and freedom fighters are subjected to, and the prevalence of health issues from medical neglect, they need our support now more than ever. Join us as we celebrate our successes this last year and build momentum for the struggles ahead!

If you cannot make it to the event or would like to make an additional contribution, please sponsor a participant either outside prison, inside prison or one of each. Contact us for more information on sponsoring!

We will ship official shirts nationwide to people who register to participate remotely, pay online and leave their shipping address in the comment box!

Proceeds will be split between the Warchest Program and the Philly chapter of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The ABCF Warchest program sends monthly stipends to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War who have insufficient, little, or no financial support.

📚 Reading Group: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • June 22, 2022 1:29 am

from Iffy Books

June 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The cover of a recent edition of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. A large white moon fills the top of the image, with a plain brown landscape below.

Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is a thought experiment in anarchist practice, a meditation on individual relationships as a model for political action, a treatise on the philosophy and physics of time, a climate change novel, and so full of other things that it didn’t have room for the communal pickle barrels.*

Join us on Wednesday, June 29th at 7:00 PM at the bookstore for the first meeting of the Iffy Books reading group, featuring The Dispossessed. Stop by the shop ahead of time to pick up a copy, available for $8.99.

Discussion hosted by Joshua Kopin.

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Q: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? / A: In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

[Register Here]