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Come learn about Abundance in Amercia and how we can change the food system. Every thing we consume and everything we waste impacts us. Food NOt Bombs has spread a concept of non-violence that reaches our plates and our trash cans. The Co-founder will offer a talk that will hopefully inspire a delicious discussion intermingled with FNB goodies.
[July 26 from 7:30pm to 9pm at Ahimsa House 5007 Cedar Ave]
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Food Not Bombs is about to be cooking for thousands of protesters, medics, and jail support on top of doing our regular servings during the DNC! All hands on deck!
We’re going to be cooking and serving all week, but Saturday is vital for doing major prep work so we get off to a good start. Lets hangout and chop veggies and put sandwiches together and listen to rage against the machine!
Also, if you could help out with donations of food, supplies, or cash or grocery store gift cards holler! Donation info in the comments.
Invite yr friends!
[July 23 from 12pm to 8pm at Calvary Center for Culture and Community 801 S48th St]
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There is a huge human rights violation happening right now in Oaxaca, Mexico. They are shooting students and teachers just because they disagree with the new education reform. We are trying to raise money for those in need of medicine, medical bills for the hundreds that have been injured and for the funeral expenses for those that have passed. The government is corrupt and is periodically targeting and killing innocent students and teachers. We need all the help we can get, and we need all of you.
The money raised from these shows will be personally delivered to the people in need by Virus, a member of Massacre 68 (named after the mass killing of students in 1968). Lets stand together and help those suffering from a corrupt, brutal government.
Bands :
old lines. (baltimore)
prisoner. (VA)
N.E.G
[July 16 at 7PM in South Philadelphia]
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Super cool trendy hip hip ACOUSTIC show wow!
Fred Beans: (big heart, small ego, observational fuzz pop)
https://fredbeans.bandcamp.com/
Little State: (forever young, nostalgic melodies)
https://littlestate.bandcamp.com/album/demo
Christa Wilcox: (quite familiar, quite personal)
https://christawilcox.bandcamp.com/album/personal
A Day Without Love:
https://adaywithoutlove.bandcamp.com/
Khalil Abdellah: (chill boi, chill world songs)
https://m.soundcloud.com/khalilabdellah
This show will be ACOUSTIC
5$
All door money will be donated to the Wooden Shoe, a fantastic safe space/volunteer run organization.
Respect the space, respect the ppl
[July 9 at 3pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
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Basic Online Security
The first of a series of digital security basics workshops brought to you by radicante media, a tech-media collective
Everyone from corporations like Sony to our government to your mother is getting hacked.
Corporations and governments are using your regular internet activity to track you and build increasingly more precise profiles of groups and individuals.
Snowden’s leaks now have shown the government is collecting ALL of your browsing activity.
This is an introductory workshop with an overview of everyday internet security basics. We’ll introduce some common threats and give an overview of how we can easily introduce some tools and behaviour to keep us safer online.
This workshop is for people with basic computer knowledge (checking email, web browsing, etc.)
[July 6th from 7pm to 9pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]
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An all-you-care-to-eat vegan smorgasbord with items from Blackbird Pizzeria, Crust Bakery, Dotties Donuts and Grindcore House for $5-$15 sliding scale. All proceeds benefit long-term anarchist prisoner Marius Mason. More to come, soon…
[June 11 from 5 to 7pm at Grindcore House 1515 South 4th st]
From supportmariusmason.org: Marius Mason is an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist currently serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet. After being threatened with a life sentence in 2009 for these acts of sabotage, he pled guilty to arson charges at a Michigan State University lab researching genetically modified organisms for Monsanto, and admitted to 12 other acts of property damage. No one was physically harmed in these actions. At sentencing the judge applied a so-called “terrorism enhancement,” adding almost two years to an already extreme sentence requested by the prosecution. This is the harshest punishment of anyone convicted of environmental sabotage to date…Marius came out to his friends, family and supporters as transgender in 2014. Previously known as “Marie Mason,” he changed his name, uses male pronouns, and embarked on a course to get a medical diagnosis that would allow him to seek gender affirming surgery and hormone therapy.
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In Keywords (1976), Raymond Williams devised a “vocabulary” of culture and society that reflected the vast social transformations marking the post-war period. Following Williams, we ask: what vocabulary might illuminate the social transformations marking our own contested present? How do these words shape the political imaginary of today’s radical left? Bringing together the insights of dozens of scholars and committed troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals constellates a vocabulary of contested words that shape today’s political landscape.
With a presentation by Clare O’Connor and discussion.
[June 3 at 7PM at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]
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“Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle”
Book Release and Discussion
“Keywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as ‘democracy,’ ‘occupation,’ ‘colonialism,’ ‘race,’ ‘sovereignty,’ or ‘love’ without a fight. —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
[June 2 at 7PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
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A safe place to share support and witness one another’s mental health experiences with hope that we will create healing connections personally and help break down the stigma of “mental illness” globally.
Everyone is welcome to attend. All humans with races, sexes, genders, diagnosis, moods+feelings, psychiatric histories, abilities, religion/beliefs or ages are welcome. Also any lack of the above forementioned. : )
Donations are suggested but not mandatory.
[June 1st 6-8pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]
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Alanis Obomsawin’s landmark documentary chronicles the cataclysmic 1990 standoff that occurred between the Canadian Army, Quebec police, and members of the Mohawk Nation determined to defend their land from the planned encroachment of a golf course. The astounding incidents, captured by Obomsawin during the 78-day ordeal, form a double portrait: of an indifferent government, and a people prepared to maintain their dignity at any cost.
Presented as part of Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema, May 27-June 9, a landmark touring program of 20 stunning independent films directed by Native Americans, organized by the UCLA Television & Film Archive.
Preceded by
LYE
[8PM May 28 at International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut]
[Tickets]
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Between 2007 and 2013 alone, the Philadelphia Police shot 382 people and 88 of them were killed. 81% of the people shot by cops were Black. There’s no pride in racist police violence, and no place for cops at Pride, yet Philly Pride Presents has chosen to honor GOAL (Gay Officer Action Alliance) as one of this year’s Pride Grand Marshals.
As members of Philadelphia’s queer and trans communities, we are deeply concerned about the blatant disregard for Black life expressed in this decision and the impact it will have on accessibility and safety at Pride for Black and Brown queer and trans folks profiled and targeted by the police.
Sign the petition demanding that Philly Pride Presents rescind their decision to honor GOAL (https://www.change.org/p/philly-pride-presents-philadelphians-against-police-as-pride-grand-marshals-2016), and join us on May 26th as we strategize next steps that honor queer and trans resistance to racist state violence and the struggle for liberation for us all.
WHAT: Meeting to strategize next steps in response to Philly Pride Presents’ decision to honor GOAL as Pride Grand Marshals
WHEN: 6-8pm on Thursday, May 26th
WHERE: Leeway Foundation, 1315 Walnut St # 832, Philadelphia, PA 19107
We hope to see you there!
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Bring a friend and learn the stories behind the drawings done by the Beehive Design Collective. There will be two short presentations given throughout the night to walk you through two of the large-scale, intricately hand-drawn, pen and ink stories about large global issues:
6:30 – Mesoamerica Resiste
7:15 – The True Cost of Coal
The Beehive Design Collective graphics will be displayed at Franny Lou’s Porch throughout the month of May.
Check out the Beehive Design Collective’s graphics here:
http://beehivecollective.org/
Franny Lou’s Porch’s hope is to be a warm space engaging in community activism, cultural awareness, relational business practices, a vehicle for advocacy, and a place of rest. They desire to be intentional when connecting to their neighbors and their products. A place to encourage and foster those that want to live simple, healthy, and aware lives.
[May 6 from 6pm to 8pm at Franny Lou’s Porch 2400 Coral st]
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Permanent Wave Philly Presents:
Art as a Form of Resistance: Feminist Discussion and Art Making Night!
The first part of the evening will be an open discussion where we will talk about: What is art? What is activism? What is resistance? How can feminist activists practice resistance through art? What is effective? Bring your thoughts, questions, and experiences — this is a no experts discussion!
The second part of the night will involve making stuff together! We’ll have stations set up with supplies for silk screening, stencil making, button-making, coloring pages, zine-making, and more!
Want to make a sign for the upcoming Take Back the Night Philadelphia 2016 (4/28)? Want to make some buttons to wear on your jean jackets, or give to friends? Want to make a stencil for spray painting or make a silk screen print for your wall? Let’s get creative.
Join us on Thursday, April 14th at A-Space! [6PM]
More info to come!
from Scranton Radical Bookfair
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What are the possibilities today for struggles against capitalism and the white supremacist colonial state? How have state repression and the rise of activism in the U.S. precluded various forms of militant struggle, and what exactly do these more direct forms of struggle look like?
This workshop will discuss the relationship between symbolic and direct action and explore various strategies for informal coordination, organization and action. We will look at a range of specific examples from around the world, including projects around land defense, anti-fascism, and construction of new prisons.
Presented by Movement for No Society.
Free.
Wooden Shoe is handicap accessible (bathroom is not)
[March 26 from 4pm to 6pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]
