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]

Reclaiming Our Future: The Black Radical Tradition In Our Time

  • January 1, 2016 9:03 pm

from facebook

On January 8th -10th, the Black Radical Organizing Collective (BROC) including grassroots activists, organizers, educators, scholars, and faith leaders will convene a conference on the Black radical tradition. The title of the conference is “Reclaiming our Future: the Black Radical Tradition In Our Time.” The conference will take place in North Central Philadelphia on the main campus of Temple University.

The mission of the conference is twofold. First, we wish to celebrate and illuminate the history of the Black radical tradition. Second, we wish to highlight the vital importance of today’s Black radical movements as we look to the future. The Black radical tradition represents a wealth of theoretical and practical wisdom. It is this rich heritage, combined with a forward-looking perspective that we wish to display at Temple University. Like critical perspectives throughout US academia, the Black radical tradition suffers at Temple. Radical approaches, traditions, and voices at America’s “imperial” universities face an onslaught of neoliberal policies which weaken students, faculty, and surrounding communities. In response to these circumstances, we seek to promote onsite critical analysis and collaborative solidarity among activists of today’s Black radical movements and those of previous generations.

(f)LAWLESS: POP OFF | NEW YEARS EVE 2015 – NEW YEARS DAY 2016

  • December 24, 2015 9:08 pm

from facebook

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[December 31 10pm to 4am at 52nd St and Chester Ave]

Conversation On Fighting Gentrification

  • December 5, 2015 6:26 pm

from facebook

As part of the ongoing discussions on gentrification in Philly, this conversation aims to moves beyond debating whether gentrification is worth fighting and instead begin a dialogue on how we can struggle against development and displacement.

Please come with ideas and plans to share, the point of this conversation is to figure out how we can better coordinate our projects, and start new ones together. We also want to create a space to share relevant information about those responsible for gentrification.

Anyone opposed to gentrification is invited to take part in this conversation.

December 12 at 3pm at LAVA [4134 Lancaster Ave]

The Age of Extremes- Climate Change, Terrorism, and Capitalism: A Talk and Discussion with Journalist Arun Gupta

  • December 4, 2015 6:37 pm

from facebook

Award-winning journalist Arun Gupta, in conversation with Sally Eberhardt, will discuss the state of America on the eve of the 2016 election. In recent years Gupta has gone undercover to police conventions, investigated the migrant crisis in Tijuana, stood on the frontlines of “Blockadia,” uncovered an FBI terrorist-entrapment plot, examined profiteering in the prison industry, traveled through the marijuana industry in California, infiltrated the Tea Party, covered Occupy Wall Street, and told the stories of Iraqi refugees, low-wage workers, and Black Lives Matter activists.

With more hot air than action coming out of the U.N. summit on climate change in Paris, Gupta will explain how terrorism, capitalism, and climate change are interconnected, and why there needs to be credible alternatives to capitalism or most Americans will continue to fall for demagogues like Donald Trump or pro-Wall Street, pro-war Democrats like Hillary Clinton.

Arun Gupta contributes to outlets including the Washington Post, The Nation, In These Times, The Guardian, The Progressive, YES! Magazine, Telesur, ZNet, Counterpunch, and Al-Jazeera America.

This event is free. The space is wheelchair accessible though the bathroom is not.

[December 11 at 7pm at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St]

Me and My Friends Don’t Go to Jail

  • December 3, 2015 12:42 pm

from facebook

How do we keep fighting when our struggles are targets of repression? In other words, what is security culture, and how does it apply to our everyday lives? This workshop, the second in a series called “Anarchist Interventions,” will seek to practically engage with these questions. We’ll feature short presentations and interactive discussions on how to reduce risk of arrest or harassment, communicate more safely, and how this relates to the local context of political action and activism in Philly. This conversation feels especially pressing to us in light of state and autonomous attacks on Black Lives Matters movements by white supremacy.
[December 10 at 7:30pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]

Why Not Nonviolence?

  • November 12, 2015 12:53 pm

from facebook

This workshop is the first in a monthly series, *Anarchist Interventions*, that discusses and responds to current tendencies in the anti-authoritarian scene in Philly and beyond.

This workshop will look at anti-authoritarian views of nonviolent tactics and the current climate of social justice organizing and activism, examining the available terrain of tactics and strategies. Presentations and discussion will focus on why a critique of nonviolence is important in a decentralized and horizontal milieu, how official activism and organizations contribute to reproducing the socioeconomic order, and the relation pacifism and non-violence has to race, gender and identity in general. We hope to pose and discuss a few central questions: Can we return to the debate over the diversity of tactics? What styles of informal coordination and action are available, as opposed to activist organizations, and how do these work? How do we lend support to or create solidarity with those at risk of police repression? How do we organize with a heterogeneous composition of crowds? How can we adapt to shifting circumstances, such as the militarization of the police, and respond as anti-authoritarians?

[7:30pm November 19 at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]

Show of Unity: Mix it Up Against Racism and Fascism

  • November 1, 2015 8:47 pm

from private event page with permission

Antifa Philadelphia presents:

Christopher Walking (http://christopherwalking.bandcamp.com/)

Leisure Muffin
(https://soundcloud.com/leisuremuffin)

Novotore (Chicago. https://infamouscrew.wordpress.com/)

Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew (https://www.facebook.com/mischiefbrew?fref=ts)

+1 TBA

[$5 November 7th at 6:30pm at The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St]

DIXIE BE DAMNED Book Tour Reading

  • October 18, 2015 9:04 pm

from facebook

Since the knowledge contained in DIXIE BE DAMNED is too fiery for the universities to fund, we had to relocate this talk to LAVA space, which has adequate heating and seating capacity. Learn from two southerners about the untold stories of revolt and insurrection in the south, prison riots and slave uprisings, worker sabotage and other hidden narratives of resistance below the Mason-Dixon, and get a chance to reconsider or recalibrate your conception of the yankee/southerner dichotomy.

[October 25 at 3pm at LAVA 4134 Lancaster Ave]