Insurrectionary Memory

  • September 20, 2016 6:13 pm

Submission

These posters were made with the intention of remembering and passing along stories of revolt. As authority fragments our lives and relations, so many moments of resistance fall through the cracks, and the world around us seems more and more overwhelming.

Often we’ve felt isolated as we try to attack the things that make us unfree; it’s easy to forget that people have been resisting and continue to fight around us. We want these posters to commemorate and inspire struggle against domination, exclusion, and separation in Philadelphia.

All the images in these posters are from local actions taking place over the last five years in Philly and some surrounding towns and suburbs. These images are gleaned without permission from various sources.

Dedicated to all the rebels known and unknown who refuse to accept this world. Your courage and creativity inspire us to keep taking aim at everything that oppresses us.

 


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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]

The Dead Anarchist Walking Tour

  • October 17, 2015 2:02 pm

from Instagram


The early anarchists of Philadelphia (1880-1920) were a remarkable group of doctors, lawyers, teachers, factory workers, poets, musicians and dissenting intellectuals. They came from many countries and spoke several languages. In their effort to wash the Earth of gods and masters, they established a medical dispensary, a school, and several newspapers, as well as member-owned bakery and shoe store co-operatives. They organized hundreds of educational events with some of the leading intellectuals of the age. They held splendid fundraiser balls and evening boat cruises along the rivers. Sometimes anarchist meetings were shut down or spied upon by the police. In 1905, the Russian Tzar planted a spy on Pine Street. There were young lovers, laughing babies, and broken anarchist hearts.
Society Hill, which was the old Jewish Quarter, happens to be a section where many of the homes, meeting places, and offices of the early anarchists are still standing. Now, you can spend a few hours stalking the same pavement where those long-dead anarchists waged their struggle. While they no longer exist, they linger in the psychology of the living.
The Meeting Place: Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South Street
The Starting Time: 12 Noon, Saturday October 24, 2015
The Reason: So that there shall be No Gods & No Masters.
Robert Helms has researched the history of Philadelphia anarchists for 25 years and has led these tours since the late 1990s. He will guide his listeners to the haunts of these dead anarchists for about two hours, he will tell their stories, and he will answer questions about them.
The public is invited. The guide will pass the hat during the tour. The suggested donation, toward continuing research, is $15. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. In case of rain, the tour will continue from his cold, dead lips so long as there is at least one listener.
Check out: http://deadanarchists.org/