Victoria Anarchist Bookfair - September 10 & 11, 2011 canada

Welcome!

This year’s bookfair is taking place in the gym on the groundfloor of the Fernwood NRG Community Hall, located at 1240 Gladstone Ave, Coast Salish Territories.

To access the gym, go behind the building. Workshops will be held in two rooms on the main floor. These rooms are accessible from the gym. Announcements will be made during the bookfair when there is a changeover in workshops. Follow the signs!

Doors Open at 11 am

11:15 am: Opening Acknowledgements

We will be recognizing Indigenous soveriegnty of the territories and our role as allies in the process of decolonization.

Camera Hour

Photographs may be taken for 1 hour, between 2-3 pm each day. Before taking pictures and/or posting them online, ask for permission. Journalists will be escorted at all times while at the bookfair.

Our Tablers

*AK Press *PM Press *Camas Books & Infoshop *Little Black Cart-Ardent Press *MicroCosm Press *Thoughtcrime Ink *Starla Blue *Unlawful Combatant *Mike XVX *Blackpowder Distro *Women’s Publication Network *Natural Essentials *Spartacus Books *Black Raven Records *Sabine Ricard *Make Total Distro *National Microphones Association *Upping the Anti *Jeff Shantz *Whitney Herbalist *Victoria Public Interest Group (VIPIRG) *Of Course You Can! *Outhouse Treasury Distro *Forest Action Network *Olio Artists Collective *Vancouver Island IWW *Red Lion Press *Taking Back the Space *No One’s Ark *jody franklin *Capitalism is the Crisis *John Bell *New Mountain Farm *Janet Rogers *Submedia *Vancouver Media Co-Op *PARECON *Poly 101 *Warrior Publications *Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) Victoria *Combustion Books*

AnarKIDS Family Space!

Walking around and looking at books and listening to grown-ups talk is only so much fun for the young folks, so come and let the kids play, read, or even nap, and meet other like-minded parents at the AnarKIDS Family Space. There will be kid’s books, cooperative board games, toys, face paints, craft and art supplies, and space to run around and play. There are also playgrounds and a large field nearby if you’d rather be outside.

*Please note: The AnarKIDS space not intended to be a daycare or a child minding space. There will be a volunteer present to supervise the room itself, to facilitate activities, help entertain the children, and to keep the room tidy.

Parents are welcome to stay with their children and informal child-minding is encouraged. (You watch my kids, I’ll watch yours.) Parents must stay at the Bookfair when their children are in the AnarKIDS space.

Volunteers

We would like to extend a gracious “thank-you” to everyone who made this year’s bookfair possible. If you are interested in helping out, please read through the volunteer section. Without people to help us prepare for the fair, keep the venue clean, welcome guests, provide our speakers and tablers with housing, and put on the Music Nights and Festival of Anarchy, we could never make this event happen. Special thanks to everyone who sponsored us with infusions of cash and food to do things like feed people and print this zine!

Affiliates

Camas Books & Infoshop; Victoria Anarchist Reading Circle; Black Raven Records; Victoria Street Newz; Victoria Food Not Bombs; Solstice Cafe; UVIC Anarchist Archive; Olio Worker’s Co-Op; I.W.W. Vancouver Island; Forest Action Network; Radio CHLY Nanaimo; UVSP Earthfest; and a shout out to our anarchist in exile: Max, we miss you!

The bookfair collective is an all-volunteer organization. We do what we do for the love of it

About the Background Photo:

This year we are commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence against the “Free Trade Agreement for the Americas” summit in Quebec City. During the weekend of April 20-22, 2001, over sixty thousand people converged on Quebec City to voice their opposition to clandestine negotiations being conducted behind a “security perimeter” of fences and police lines. While 34 Heads of State debated how best to intensify the exploitation of the earth and its inhabitants, protesters challenged this State-Corporative nexus by tearing down the fenced parameter and facing off against heavily-armed riot cops. In the end the talks fell apart, as the State operatives jockeying for position could not agree on a formula to grease the wheels of capitalism.

Quebec City reminds us that the State capitalist system is disunited and at odds with itself. Anarchists celebrate the dysfunctionality of this system, which constantly presents opportunities for us to demonstrate the practicality of our social aims: to free the world of domination and exploitation so as to rebuild society ourselves, without State authoritarianism or capitalist inequality.

Victoria Anarchist Bookfair 2011

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