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Subject: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] 1st Annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair -
Statement of Purpose, Speaker Schedule and Bios
The 1st Annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair
December 13, 2008 from 11am - 9pm
at the Southern California Library
6120 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90044
www.anarchistbookfair.com
There will be translation from English to Spanish.
Anarchist Bookfair Statement of Purpose
We thank you all for taking part in this collaborative effort to create
an alternative space in which to socialize & strategize, especially in the face
of recent repression. The Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair is the next step in
our city's establishment of a radical presence in Southern California.
Organized by mainly Anarchists of color, the bookfair collective structured
this event with the intention to make visible our shared histories and cultures
of resistance. Organizing the bookfair has meant going beyond our neighborhoods
and networks in our outreach so as to develope a popular regional resistance
movement that actively challenges the violent, oppressive, and destructive
systems of the state and capitalism. We hope that by opening a space that is
respectful of all anarchist tendencies, we will aid in the creation of a
collective vision of an anarchist alternative to authoritarian party-politics
and organizations. The Anarchist Bookfair is a beginning marker of resistance,
not an end.
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Statement of purpose!
We thank you all for taking part in this collaborative effort to create
an alternative space in which to socialize & strategize, especially in the face
of recent repression. The Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair is the next step in
our city's establishment of a radical presence in Southern California.
Organized by mainly Anarchists of color, the bookfair collective structured
this event with the intention to make visible our shared histories and cultures
of resistance. Organizing the bookfair has meant going beyond our neighborhoods
and networks in our outreach so as to develope a popular regional resistance
movement that actively challenges the violent, oppressive, and destructive
systems of the state and capitalism. We hope that by opening a space that is
respectful of all anarchist tendencies, we will aid in the creation of a
collective vision of an anarchist alternative to authoritarian party-politics
and organizations. The Anarchist Bookfair is a beginning marker of resistance,
not an end.
--Anarchist Bookfair Collective 2008
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1ST ANNUAL LOS ANGELES ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR WORKSHOPS/PANELS
11:00PM
(Main Room)
Welcome / Danza Cuauhtémoc
12:00PM
(Main Room)
Local Histories
Southern California Library and South Central Los Ángeles" by SCL Staff
The Southern California Library is a people's library dedicated to
documenting and preserving the histories of communities in struggle for justice
and using our collections to address the challenges of the present so that all
people have the ability, resources, and freedom to make their own histories.
http://www.socallib.org
Urban Zapatismo by Sirena Pellarolo
[email protected]
Sirena Pellarolo is an activist-scholar, published poet and playwright
and educator born in Argentina. Sirena works with the Eastside Cafe, El Sereno,
an autonomous space in Northeast Los Ángeles, inspired by the Zapatista example
of autonomy, horizontality and self-determination. She is currently walking the
politics of resistance and creation with autonomous movements of the Americas
(Chiapas, Los Ángeles, Argentina) from an observing participant perspective.
Los Ángeles Anarchisms by Hector and others
(Reading Room)
Anarchism & Economics
Anarchism & Marxist Economics by John Imani
Bio: A long time organizer, in the 1960s John helped organize a student
strike at LACC with the Black Student Union. He is also a playwrite and
journalist. He's a community organizer, identifies as an anarcho-communist,
anti-authoritarian marxist and is currently a member of the Revolutionary
Autonomous Communities, collaborating with the free food program on Sundays in
Los Angeles' Mcarthur Park.
Economic Crisis: Working Class Responses by Gui Ford & Modesto Anarcho
Bio: "Modesto Anarcho" is a journal produced by the Direct Action
Anti-Authoritarians (DAAA) Collective, based out of Modesto, California in the
Central Valley. http://www.geocities.com/anarcho209/
(Upstairs)
Militarizing the Border
Contesting the Militarization of the Mexico-U.S. border By Jose Palafox
& Budge.
[email protected]
Bio: Born in Tijuana, raised in San Diego. Jose has been involved in many
DIY-political punk bands, currently working on a new music project, Baader
Brains. His political work, writing & documentary film has focused on issues of
migration, specifically relating to the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico
border and the social movements along the California and Arizona border region.
Jose has taught Chican@/Latin@ Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley, UC Santa
Cruz, Stanford, Mills College and U of San Francisco. He has been published in
Social Justice, Covert Action Quarterly, ColorLines, Z Magazine, Borderlines,
Shades of Power, Left Turn, and Maximum RocknRoll. He currently works in
publishing at AK Press in Oakland, California.
http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/jose-palafox/
[email protected]
Bio: Budge is a Ph.D candidate from Australia, now at the University of
Southern California in the Department of Geography. He is studying direct
action grassroots social movements in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands surrounding
undocumented migration, and has been involved with No More Deaths/No Más
Muertes and the No Border Network, as well as anti-immigration raid organizing
in Los Ángeles.
(Garden)
Sustainable Architecture and Super Adobe
By Cal-Earth Apprentices. Ulises Ramirez
Ulises helped organize and establish the North East LA chapter of Food
not Bombs in 2006. He is a core site apprentice at the Cal-Earth Institute of
Earth, Art and Architecture and one of the organizers of the Los Ángeles
Anarchist Bookfair.
http://www.calearth.org
1:00PM
(Main Room)
Latin American Radical Movements
Expresiones Ácratas: Bolivian and Chilean examples by Sara Ramírez
Galindo.
[email protected]
Bio: Born in Puebla, Mexico, raised in Compton, California. Saras been
active/organizing for about 10 years with community organizations, cultural
centers, student groups, and anarchist collectives- including Casa del Pueblo,
Mujeres Libres (Los Ángeles), APOC, and currenty with Amanecer: For a Popular
Anarchism. Academically, she contributes to the study of Latin American
Autonomous & Anarchist Social Movements- focusing on womyn, youth & people of
color; art, muralism & performance in politics; and affection-based politics.
Anarchism in Brazil: Past & Present by Pedro de Sa.
[email protected]
Bio: Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Have been involved with anarchist
organizing, publications and groups in Brazil since 1997. in 2001 migrated to
the U.S. Was involved with community college student organizing, the IWW and
anarchist groups in the Bay, like APOC and Furious Five. Is currently a
rank-and-filer member of the ILWU, working in a warehouse, and a member of
Amanecer: For a Popular Anarchism.
Mexicos Ediciones Antorcha by Vlad.
[email protected]
Sirena Pellarolo
[email protected]
Sirena Pellarolo is an activist-scholar, published poet and playwright
and educator born in Argentina. Sirena works with the Eastside Cafe, El Sereno,
an autonomous space in Northeast Los Ángeles, inspired by the Zapatista example
of autonomy, horizontality and self-determination. She is currently walking the
politics of resistance and creation with autonomous movements of the Americas
(Chiapas, Los Ángeles, Argentina) from an observing participant perspective.
(Reading Room)
How to Create a Cop Watch Patrol Unit/ Film Screening: "Todavia Estamos
Aqui, Nunca Nos Fuimos. We're Still Here, We Never Left"
By Cop Watch LA Guerrilla Chapter and the Revolutionary Autonomous
Communities
Bio: Cop Watch Los Ángeles Guerrilla Chapter states, "We're made up of
individuals from different hoods, looking to build a base in our own
communities while we help create a mass movement to stop police terrorism
against our peoples."
Bio: The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, "We are a revolutionary
federation of community councils and liberated spaces based in occupied
communities made up of oppressed people of color. We are a horizontal
organization building self-sustainability and creating the structure, strategy,
and program for change through direct participatory forms of organizing and a
decision-making process based on consensus."
(Upstairs)
Self- Defense
By Tim Santos
(Garden)
Experiences of the Asian Hardcore
By Moritsugu "Mo" Nishida
Bio: Mo is a Social Chemist, Activist & Community Leader. He was one of
the many Japanese-Americans that were sent to the concentration camps during
WW2. He has been an active organizer in the Asian community and with Lil Tokyo
4 Peace, Asians for Jericho and Mumia.
2:00PM
(Main Room)
Food Not Bombs Los Ángeles / Animal Liberation Press
(Reading Room)
APOC caucus
[An Anarchist People Of Color- only space]
(Upstairs)
Creating Your Own Media / Open Source Software
By IndyMedia-Los Ángeles' John Kawakami / Josh Haglund & Nick
Bio: John Kawakami is a computer programmer and participant in IMC. He is
presently learning composting and photography. He lives in South San Gabriel.
Josh has been involved with the Food not Bombs movement for over eight
years, and continues to host Los Ángeles FNB at his residence in Silver Lake.
Nick is originally an LA Food-not-Bomber, but moved to Berkeley a year
ago to attend Cal, where he is involved in Berkeley CopWatch.
(Garden)
Games/Dating Game
NancyX
(Out Front)
LunchBy Food not Bombs
3:00PM
(Main Room)
ABCs of Anarchism / Anarchist Tendencies Panel
Autonomism by Revolutionary Autonomous Communities
Anarcha-Feminism by Liz Lopez
Bio: Liz helped organize the 1st Los Ángeles Really Really Free Market
this year. She is a long-time member of LA Food not Bombs and one of the
organizers for the Anarchist bookfair.
Anarcho-Syndicalism by Richard Modiano from IWW
[email protected]
bio: I've been a rank and file member of the Industrial Workers of the
World since 1974 when I joined the New York City General Membership Branch. I
worked at a furniture factory in Barcelona Spain in 1977-78 and joined the
Confederacion Nationalista de Trabajadores/Federacion Anarquista Iberica
(CNT/AIT) that was re-constituted after the end of the Franco dictatorship.
Presently I work building maintainance and belong to the IWW General Membership
Branch.
Anarcho-Punk by William Faith
www.myspace.com/animamundi
Bio: Will forms part of the Los Ángeles anarcho punk collective Anima
Mundi, Latin for World Spirit. Anima Mundi uses music as a primary medium to
educate, challenge, question, expose, support, connect and inspire. Any profits
generated by their work are channeled back into the different organizations
they support, ranging from animal rights, vegetarianism, womens issues as well
as Permaculture.
"Anarcho-Communism" by Adam Welch
Bio: Adam Welch is born and raised in San Jose in the Bay Area and has
been involved in social movement organizing for over 10 years in community
struggles, at his community college student and with worker struggles through
the IWW as well as others. He is 27 and lives with his partner and soon to be
daughter/son.
Green Anarchism by John Zerzan
Bio:As a US-based anarchist and leading primitivist philosopher, Zerzan's
works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and
advocate drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration
for what a free society should look like.
(Reading Room)
Creating Anarchist Think Tanks
By Vlad
[email protected]
(Upstairs)
Rethinking National Liberation-Punjab as Case Analysis
By Harjit Singh Gill
[email protected]
Bio: Harjit Singh Gill is a graduate student in the field of social work
in Oakland, CA. His workshop will discuss a historically neglected struggle for
national liberation amongst the people of Punjab. Anarchism has traditionally
had a weakness in analysis related to national liberation, but Gill hopes that
through a re-evaluation of this case example, we can refine our approach and
join in solidarity with oppressed people everywhere.
(Garden)
Chess Tournament For Anarchists
By DAngelo
4:00PM
(Main Room)
Queer and Trans Communities of Color
Trans & Queer Youth of Color by Q-Team
Bio: Qteam is a queer and trans youth of color collective of individuals
with complex identities rooted in various traditionally marginalized and
oppressed communities in Los Ángeles. Qteam's founding members include youth
who identify as immigrants, refugees, poor and working class, womyn (born and
self identified), differently abled, and spiritual. Qteam exists to challenge
and resist the many interlocking systems of oppressions through multi-issue,
grassroots organizing. Qteam is committed to building and sustaining safe
physical and political spaces for the empowerment of young people by advancing
and supporting their natural leadership abilities through education and the
promotion of wellness, self-care, love, respect and self-determination.
Lylliam Posadas & Manush
[email protected]
[email protected]
Lyl just returened from Ghana Africa, where she studied cultural
anthropology as an undergraduate student at UCLA. Before going to Africa, Lyl
volunteered at LA Food not Bombs and was an internet radio host for Kill Radio.
(Reading Room)
Indigenous Resistance & Self Determination
"Indigenous Resistance and Self Determination: A discussion and planning
session on current Indigenous struggles, cultural survival, sacred places &
sacred burial sites"
By Angela Mooney, Michael Paul Hill & Klee Benally and other presenters*
* Please note: Out of respect for the fact that this workshop is being
held on Tongva lands, there will be space during the workshop for Indigenous
peoples from Tribal Nations with traditional lands in the Los Ángeles area to
speak about the issues facing their communities
Bio: Angela Mooney-D'arcy (Acjachemen Nation) from the United Coalition
to Protect Panhe, a grassroots coalition of Native American Acjachemen people.
Bio: Michael Paul Hill is from the Chiricahua Apache Alliance, working as
an Anti US/MX Border Wall and Indigenous Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocate
at the national and international level. Michael is currently addressing
militarization of the border by working with the Lipan Apache Women's Defense
to stop the LA (A) Bookfair Workshop Presenters - Google Docsconstruction of a
wall on Indigenous Peoples lands and territories.
Bio: Klee Benally (Dine') from Indigenous Action Media, Save the Peaks
Coalition and the Taala Hooghan Infoshop, an indigenous-established
volunteer-run collective dedicated to creatively confronting and overcoming
social and environmental injustices in Flagstaff, Arizona and surrounding
areas. Contact: [email protected]
(Upstairs)
Puerto Rican Liberation Update
By Lawrence Reyes
Bio: Lawrence Reyes participates with the Puerto Rican Alliance, an
international organization seeking the complete de-colonization of Puerto Rico,
self-determination and the release of all Puerto Rican political prisoners and
all political prisoners.
(Garden)
Non-Violent Anti-Authoritarian Parenting
Ariel graduated student of the Center for Non Violent Education and
Parenting
CNVEP does not use the word nonviolent in reaction to violence, but as a
word that honors the connection with a child that respects the core dignity of
the child as a full and complete human being. Therefore, the right relationship
to have with a child is one that is built on respect and kindness towards the
core feelings and needs of the child.
5:00PM
(Main Room)
Anarcha-Feminism/ Womens Health / Riot Grrl
"Anarcha-Feminism" by Brigid Flaherty & Liz Lopez
Bio: Brigid is a professional activist in that she is employed by the
Pushback Network to work for social change. For over 6 years, Brigid has worked
to empower and support women and girls, gay and lesbian youth, and people
living with HIV/AIDS. Brigid helped organize the 1st Los Ángeles Really Really
Free Market this year.
Bio: Liz helped organize the 1st Los Ángeles Really Really Free Market
this year. She is a long-time member of LA Food not Bombs and one of the
organizers for the Anarchist bookfair.
Riot Grrl by Shannon
Panochas Poderosas: Sexual Empowerment and Precise Anatomic
Self-Awareness Workshop"
By Pati Garcia. Website: www.myspace.com/djpandulce and e-mail
[email protected]
Bio: Pati Garcia is a first generation Peruvian-Mexican Chicana of the
San Gabriel Valley. Bodyworker trained in Shiatsu, Cranio-Sacral, Pregnancy,
Women's Sacred Anatomy, and birth Doula, Pati brings people to a deeper
understanding of self, therefore evolutionizing individuals' awareness and
well-being. She's also a women's consciousness raising workshop leader and
women's sacred anatomy teacher including self-examination guidance. Her passion
is to provide accurate information so a woman can make informed decisions about
her body. She provides non-judgemental natural healing support pre and post
pregnancy and/or abortion for any woman who needs it.
Dannie Drake
(Reading Room)
Security, Rights, Surveillance & Intelligence Gathering
Rights at the Borders and FBI Surveillance & Intelligence Gathering by
Shahid Buttar from Muslim Advocates
[email protected]
Bio: Shahid Buttar is a civil rights lawyer, hip-hop MC, independent
columnist, grassroots community organizer, singer and poet. Professionally, he
directs a program combating racial & religious profiling at a non-profit legal
advocacy and educational organization representing the American Muslim
community. He also leads a U.S.-based organization supporting the Pakistani
lawyers movement.
Ron Gochez
Bio: Ron is a Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer with Union Del
Barrio- Los Ángeles and Frente Contra las Redadas- South Central
Activist Attorneys
(Upstairs)
Art & Resistance: Stencils, Puppets, and Presentation
"Subverting dominant media through collage" By Amitis Motevalli
Bio: Amitis Motevalli was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the US in
1977. Motevalli states, Being an immigrant in the US shows in my work a
duality of culture, both natural and learned. In all of my work, I create a
dialogue that critiques dominant views of oppressed people and culture in
general. Her work in art education is with youth who share a similar duality
in vision. Motevalli has been active in creating social change with her
students on issues of civil rights within the class through pedagogy or working
with students and community to organize around issues that effect their quality
of life and access to education.
Mauricio and Sergio
6:00PM
(Main Room)
Black Panthers and Anarchism
By Ashanti Alston, Shareef Abdullah, Roland Freeman, Wayne Pharr & Black
Riders Liberation Party
Bio: Ashanti Alston Omowall is an "the @narchist Panther" activist,
speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party.
Bio: Shareef Abdullah http://diyzine.com/radioshareef.html
Bio: Interview with Roland Freeman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeBS-QIi8E
Bio: Interview with Wayne Pharr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6mivp29Taw
Bio: Interview with Black Rider Liberation Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESpofM5Fj4E&feature=related
(Reading Room)
Creating Healthy Relationships
By Christine
(Upstairs)
Reserved for last-minute needs
7:00PM
(Main Room)
Anarchist People Of Color in Practice
This discussion will start with short presentations from
indigenous/people of color members of the organizing collective of the Los
Angeles Anarchist Bookfair. Members from Revolutionary Autonomous Communities,
Amancer, LA Food Not Bombs, Apex Union and others, will give a short
presentation on the work that they're doing.
Panelists:
Omar Ramirez on Xicanx Anarchism
Bio: Omar Ramírez was born in East Los Ángeles, California in 1974. He
grew up learning to document the contemporary Chicanx experience through
several mediums (print/photography/paint/film). As an undergraduate student at
California State University Northridge (CSUN), Ramírez became active through
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A) and founded the ¿Y QUÉ?
newsletter in 2003. Ramírez completed his 2008 M.A. thesis in Chicana and
Chicano Studies entitled Black Flag, Red Heart: A Study of Chicana and Chicano
Anarchy.
Victoria Gutierrez works with AK Press, and is part of Accion Zapatista,
Radio Zapatista, Black Hole Collective and SouthWest APOC, for her bio you can
ask her.
Ashanti Alston Co-Chair of Jericho, part of New York APOC, and member of
Critical Resistance
Klee Benally (Dine') from Indigenous Action Media, Save the Peaks
Coalition and the Taala Hooghan Infoshop, an indigenous-established
volunteer-run collective dedicated to creatively confronting and overcoming
social and environmental injustices in Flagstaff, Arizona and surrounding areas.
(Reading Room)
Ending Coalitions, Building Communities / Human Rights Day
By Michael Novick & the Jericho Coalition
[email protected]
Bio: Novick is a long-time anti-racist activist. He is editor of
"Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education."
Michael participates in the Campaign for Community Control of Police in
Los Ángeles.
(Upstairs)
Classical Anarchism
"Alchemy in Clarens: Reclus and Kropotkin & the origins of
Anarcho-Communism"
By Dana Ward from Anarchy Archives.
[email protected]
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/dward
Bio: I am Professor of Political Studies at Pitzer College. My primary
fields are political psychology and American politics. I am also responsible
for Anarchy Archives, an online research center on the history and theory of
anarchism
(Out Front)
Dinner By Food not Bombs
8:00PM
(Main Room)
Popular Assembly
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