Other Events & Postings
Items posted on this page are at the request of the various groups hosting events and providing services in the Bay Area around the time of the Anarchist Book Fair (but are not book fair or Bound Together projects). For questions or additional info, contact the folks posting the messages below. Also – check out info posted at 8 Days of Anarchy
see below for more about:
- UA in the bay temp housing network
- resistance behind bars events / Victoria Law 3/16
- anarchist discussion group-Bound Together 3/19
- AK Press Events: Shutdown 3/20 & Arm the Spirit 3/22
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UA in the Bay / temp housing network:
Unconventional Action in the Bay Area (UA-in-the-Bay) has created a temporary housing network to support people traveling to the Anarchist Book Fair this year. Our beta website is up now! www.uainthebay.org
Please send some info about you/your group to uainthebay@gmail.com and someone will contact you.
-how many people are you with?
-what days do you plan to arrive and leave?
-do you prefer east bay or san francisco?
-any dietary needs?
-anything else we should know about you that would help us pair you with housing better?
We make no guarantees that we’ll find everyone housing, but we’ll try our best. Totally free of course!
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women — Victoria Law
Monday, March 16th, 7:30 pm with Diana Block, co-founder of California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley http://www.moesbooks.com/moes/
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Bound Together anarchist discussion group
Thursday, March 19th 8 pm
Bound Together Bookstore (meets most Thursdays-all are welcome). 1369 Haight St., SF. www.boundtogetherbooks.com.
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AK Press Events:
Friday, March 20, 7 pm SHUTDOWN: THE RISE AND FALL OF DIRECT ACTION TO STOP THE WAR
Film Screening at the AK Press Warehouse / 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland FREE
On March 20, 2003‹the day after the war started‹San Francisco was brought to a grinding halt by thousands of activists who occupied the streets to oppose the war. It was a mass uprising that forced the police to declare the financial district “shut down.” The planning and outreach coordinated by Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW), filled downtown San Francisco with approximately 15,000 people clogging traffic, stopping business as usual, communicating with passersby, and creating a pandemonium that lasted for several days. But neither DASW nor the mass resistance outlasted Iraq’s occupation. Created by organizers involved with the action, SHUTDOWN is an action-packed documentary chronicling how DASW successfully organized to shut down a major US city and how they failed to effectively maintain the organization to fight the war machine and end the occupation of Iraq. http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/shutdownakpress
Sunday, March 22, 3-5 pm – ARM THE SPIRIT: A Woman¹s Journey Underground and Back
Book Launch Party at the Women’s Building (Audre Lorde Room) / 3543 18th Street, San Francisco FREE
In June 1985, Diana Block, her two-week-old son, and five companions fled Los Angeles after finding a surveillance device in their car. Facing the possibility of arrest because of her militant activities in the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, Diana spent the next decade living underground: on the run from the FBI, raising two children, and juggling security, solidarity, and motherhood. In a perfect demonstration that the personal is political, Diana’s memoir offers insights into efforts to build homegrown clandestine resistance to US imperialism. It also traces Diana’s political development on either side of her period underground, offering a history of the culture and politics of the 1960s and 1970s–especially the decisions that led many to take up arms against the US government‹and an analysis of the political terrain of the 1990s, when she resurfaced and tried to reintegrate into a very different world.
http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/armthespiritakpress
