Keywords for Radicals

  • May 26, 2016 3:24 am

from Facebook

“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]

Icarus Philly Radical Mental Health Support Group

  • May 24, 2016 11:56 am

from Facebook

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]

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance – Native American Cinema

  • May 21, 2016 11:27 pm

from Facebook

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]

Philadelphians Against Police As Pride Marshals Planning Meeting

  • May 19, 2016 10:17 pm

from Facebook

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!

First Friday; Beehive Design Collective at Franny Lou’s Porch

  • April 30, 2016 9:57 pm

from Facebook

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]

Art as Resistance: Discussion and Art Making Night

  • April 7, 2016 11:45 am

from facebook

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!

The Scranton Radical Book Fair at Marywood University

  • April 2, 2016 4:55 pm

from Scranton Radical Bookfair

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 | NOON

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

WHAT IS A RADICAL BOOK FAIR?

The idea of the Radical Book Fair is to create a space to explore ideas and perspectives that are often excluded or marginalized and to broaden the range of dialogue and conversations in our community. Come meet people looking to connect with others interested in these ideas or simply to experience a point of view you might not have heard before. Whether you are an old radical with deep ties and knowledge or just curious and looking to find out more about these ideas, the book fair is for you!

THE SCRANTON RADICAL BOOK FAIR

The Scranton Radical Book Fair will be held on March 28, 2015 at Marywood University. The book fair aims to promote the ideas of social, environmental and economic justice in the Scranton area. The book fair will include an exposition of lectures, demonstrations, books, zines, pamphlets, art, video, and other cultural and political creations.

What is Direct Struggle?

  • March 19, 2016 11:40 pm

from Facebook

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]

The Spaces Between

  • February 15, 2016 6:21 pm

from facebook

All too often as anarchists in the U.S. we look to places like Oakland or New York for cues of how to get it done. The problem with this being that most of us don’t live in anarchist-disney world, where anything is possible and everything is flammable, and we couldn’t afford the rents in Oakland anyway. This February and March we will be publishing a collection of interviews and essays from the spaces in between to bring to your towns.

The tour features friends from Denver, Colorado and Richmond, Virginia coming to your town to talk about what it looks like for anarchists outside those spaces with longstanding institutional left bases. We think there is a lot to learn from the less glamorous towns and small cities where anarchists continue fighting in spite of it all. Sharing our experiences of building, failing, rebuilding, fucking it up and sometimes winning, we hope to strike up conversations in your towns with your friends. Let’s talk community defense work, anti-police struggles, combating gentrification warfare, how not to let the liberals get us down and more.

[February 22at 8:30pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]

Firefly Action Medical Benefit Show – Feat. The Invasive Species, Puff Pieces, Pushin it 2 the Limit

  • February 12, 2016 1:58 am

from facebook

Benefit show to support the FiReFlY AcTiOn MeDiCaL collective. $5-10 donation. There will be food, drinks and screen & block printed goodies for donation as well.

Pushin it 2 the Limit (PHL) — https://pi2tl.bandcamp.com/releases

Puff Pieces (DC) — https://puffpieces.bandcamp.com/releases

Invasive Species (PHL) — https://theinvasivespecies.bandcamp.com/

Opening up is the Philadelphia Women’s Slavic Ensemble

The money from the show will benefit the Firefly Action Medical collective, a crew of street medics who organize together to support rebellion and resiliency in Philly and beyond

www.fireflyactionmedical.wordpress.com

[February 19th at 8pm at LAVA 4134 Lancaster Ave]

Self-Defense Class & Anti KKK Fundraiser

  • February 11, 2016 4:05 pm

from facebook

Come through and learn some self defense and boxing basics in a chill environment from Philly’s own Ronnie Vega! It’s pay what you can and all the money is going toward Stephen Loughman’s case against the KKK (more info on that below). All experience levels are welcomed and encouraged to attend. No corny macho shit.

Philly Antifa will be here helping out with gear and showing a short film about Stephen’s case. Gloves, handwraps, and pads will be available, but if you have your own please bring them.

[February 18 at 6pm at LAVA 4134 Lancaster Ave]

Three Dead Anarchists of Philadelphia, and Why I stalk Them: a talk about the place of local history in today’s struggle

  • January 28, 2016 11:03 am

from facebook

For over 25 years, Robert Helms has researched anarchism’s “golden age” in Philadelphia. Working as an independent scholar, Helms has uncovered nearly all of what is known about two leading women anarchists who were active between 1889 and 1917, Natasha Notkin and Mary Hansen, and many important facts and texts by the well-known anarchist public intellectual Voltairine de Cleyre. Helms’ talk will describe the major events and activities of the anarchist milieu in Philadelphia during this period. Focusing on the lifetime commitments and sacrifices made for the cause by these three women, and how their personalities and the circumstances of their lives informed their radicalism, Helms will address the question of why local historical research is critical to our struggles to create a just and happy world.

He will discuss his methodology for conducting research, as well as the intense thrill a researcher has when they are the only person on earth who knows an amazing, true story of long-dead anarchists. We hope this event will spark discussion about how people can conduct this kind of research in their own communities, the best ways to share the histories and generate future workshops on research in the New York area.

[February 4th at Interference Archive 131 8th St, Brooklyn, NY]

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

  • January 21, 2016 3:24 pm

from facebook

For most of US history, the police have used violence against African Americans with impunity—but after the murder of unarmed teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, mass protests erupted to challenge that impunity. In the process, a new generation of Black activists has come to question the old methods of struggle, puncture the Obama-era illusion of a “postracial” United States, and declare without apology that #BlackLivesMatter.

In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the history and current realities of US racism. Taylor examines how institutional racism has created and shaped the structural problems that affect Black people, such as mass incarceration and unemployment, even as more Black people hold political office than ever before. She paints a vivid picture of the context for this new struggle against police violence—and shows the potential of the Black Lives Matter movement to reignite and broaden the struggle for liberation.

[January 28 at 7pm at Friends Center 1501 Cherry St]

Philly letter writing night for Trans Prisoners Day of Action

  • January 15, 2016 5:36 am

from facebook

January 22, 2016 will be the first annual Trans Prisoner Day of Action: an international day of action in solidarity with trans prisoners.
More info @ International Day of Trans Prisoner Solidarity / www.transprisoners.net

In Philly we will be holding space for a letting writing night/event jawn, centered on trans prisoners in PA. Information about specific prisoners, and their struggles inside, will be provided. Art materials and postage will also be provided.
Please come though and:

– Send a letter/art to someone (it is lonely and any letter/art is appreciated)
– Learn about a specific trans person on the inside.
– Start a new pen pal relationship.
– Write another letter to an existing pen pal you have.
– Talk with others about your experience supporting trans people on the inside.
– Eat food (West Philly Food Not Bombs! will be on deck)
– Meet other people and talk about projects we’re involved in.

The Up Against the Law Legal Collective will be doing a know your rights training and providing tips on staying safe(r) in the streets as we move to abolish the institutions that cage our friends.

Email event organizers to get involved or suggest materials/zines to share:
cass: cass.struggle@gmail.com / Brynn Cassidy West
Letha: l.muthkimball@gmail.com / not on fb
(it’s best to email us both)

[January 22 from 4 to 8pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]

The ZAD: an anti-capitalist occupation in France

  • January 8, 2016 1:04 pm

from Facebook

The ZAD is a large scale land occupation near Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France. It was squatted in 2009 at the invitation of local citizen and farming associations, who had been resisting the imposition of an airport, highway, high speed train, and tram line since 1972. Since then, the anti-airport movement has depassed traditional limitations of “issue-based struggles” with a strong critique of capitalist and hierarchical systems (including and especially the State), and links and shared projects with a wide diversity of people, to the point where the divisions between squatter, farmer, punk, local… have become blurred.

After a massive police operation in 2012, “Operation Cesar”, this zone of 8 miles square has been free of State intervention, and has become known as a “zone outside the law”. We have (re)created our own infrastructures and are autonomous in many ways. Some things work less well, like conflict resolution, but overall the occupation is settled into the territory and is planning for the long term, together with the “locals” and “farmers” involved in the struggle and those living close by.

In this talk hosted by someone who lives on the ZAD, there will be a bit of history and context on the land, information about various projects, a discussion of what’s going on now, on the occupiers’ side and also on the government’s side, and the state of emergency.

Read more about it in this zine, Against the Airport and Its World: https://ia800507.us.archive.org/27/items/anarchomex2011/Againsttheairport-print.pdf

This event is free and handicap-accessilbe, (though the bathroom is not very accessible.)

[January 15 at 7pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]