Or any other spots to find there?
Our primary infoshop runs once a week every week and gives out just about any material we have. Theres a solid printing budget and a little bit to buy materials. Does anyone have favorite zines to recomend, theres a good chance we have most classics in rotation but we like to mix it up. We are very solid on our Union material and anti-fascist material but would love recomendations relating to First Aid Communal Defense DIY anything but especially niche things Interpersonal Relationships or anything else
Hi everyone! I’m boloparts, an anarchist based in South Africa and member of Repairs and Parts - a pop-up radical infoshop collective based in Cape Town that plans on creating an alternative social space beginning in March 2020 for three months. It will be the only one of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa at least, so far as we know. We could really use international solidarity, help, and reparations, (also, the dollar and the euro go far here!) but to start:
ABOUT US: We are working to build a queer, black conscious, intersectional feminist, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist counter-culture. We reject hierarchy, instead working to build self-managed, self-governed societies based on voluntary, cooperative institutions. We are committed to challenging society by asking critical questions of ourselves and others to nurture new social values and new forms of collective organizing, which will become the socio-political infrastructure of the free society. We hope to create a community space for workshops, live performance, film, art and education emerging from a politics of collective liberation.
OUR CAPACITIES: Our collective is really great and has a diverse set of skills, including people who have done all kinds of organising over many years, and have run infoshops before. We already have enough members that we would be able to fill a morning, afternoon, and evening shift, 6 days a week. We do not yet have a location, and this is currently our biggest hurdle, but we have enough time and capacity that we should be able to find one. Aside from that, what we need from you is material support, for rent and and other set-up costs.
OUR RESOURCES: We are fortunate that one anarchist group has already offered us 700US$ per month towards our rent, which significantly reduces our burden. We suspect our rent to be anywhere between 700 and 1100 US$. Other US and Asian radical individuals and groups have donated books as well as money, and we have some substantial amount of our own.
TO HELP: You can send us money to this PayPal, and please share this information. This appeal is already quite long so I will wind it down. I am happy to try to answer what questions I can if you would like to ask them. Please like and share us on facebook to learn more about us and about anti-authoritarian thought and praxis in our context. We should be posting more regularly there soon.
Thank
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Forty sweaty people stood shoulder to shoulder in a crowded punk space listening to an old anarchist talk politics. Despite the familiar atmosphere, we were not between songs at a show. The crowd was gathered for one of the most popular events in a “Week of Anarchy” that I helped organize in August 2018 at our local infoshop, The Antidote. Ramsey Kanaan, founder of the anarchist publishers AK Press and PM Press, was animatedly sharing his experience organizing against the UK poll tax in the 1980s. Ramsey was sharply critical of the fact that our local political work was centered around Food Not Bombs and the infoshop. He argued that we needed to organize around more substantial political issues and engage in mass social struggle, as did UK anarchists fighting in the poll tax rebellion. Infrastructural projects might feel good, he maintained, but they would not lead to revolution. Let the Catholic charities feed people—they could do it better than Food Not Bombs, anyway.
We were indignant and a little defensive. Food Not Bombs and the Antidote Infoshop were the foundation for our political work in Ithaca. They helped us build community and find meaning in our own lives. Most of all, they were a living example of the new world we sought to build based in mutual aid and solidarity. And yet within half a year the infoshop fell apart; after another eight months I quit Food Not Bombs, frustrated by our lack of strategic vision.
Why did these projects fail? After much reflection and conversations with comrades, I concluded that these projects became ends in themselves which sucked up an enormous amount of time and energy. Rather than expanding our capacity to engage politically, they ended up constricting our field of vision. Frustrated conversations about this with my partner would often end with us saying “shit, was Ramsey right after all?”
Later, conducting dissertation research at the Brooklyn Interference Archive, I eagerly pored through numerous zines, personal reflections, and debates from the infoshop movement in the 1990s. I was shocked to read many of the exact same discussions and debates that we had had about our own infoshop, particularly the lack of political direction and the drain of energy. Without knowledge of the history of infoshops, we had tried to reinvent the wheel from scratch. Had we known about this previous generation of infoshops and learned from thei
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Radmilla Cody is a GRAMMY Nominee, NPR’s 50 Great Voices, multiple Native American Music Awards Nominee, international performer, a former Miss Navajo Nation, and the founder of the “Strong Spirit: Life is Beautiful not Abusive” campaign which brings awareness to teen dating violence. Her music and advocacy work has been a form of resistance against multiple colonial forces such as patriarchy, anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity. Radmilla was awarded the “Black History Makers Award 2012” from Initiative Radio and was selected as the first Native American awards presenter at the 55th GRAMMY Pre- Telecast Awards Ceremony.
K'é InfoShop:
We're a self-funded Indigenous community organizing space in the capitol of the Navajo Nation. Besides creating a safer space to have critical discourse and provide mutual aid towards the health and well-being of Native people, we do everyday actions such as feeding the unsheltered, donation drives, host Womxn and femme talking circles, men / masculine-centered talking circles, and food sovereignty classes to name a few. We promote healthy communities from the ground up and engage our relatives in a healthy and respectful manner to critically analyze our current situation as Diné (Navajo). The K'é InfoShop is anti-colonial, anti-heteropatriarchy, anti-capitalist with indigenous feminism as our guiding principles. We are a collective of Diné uniting to liberate nihi k'ei/ our relatives.
Hello everyone. We have opened a small space at 6011 NE Oregon St, intended to function as a meeting spot, free school, sober & safer space, library, distro, and creative studio. We would like this space, easily accessible by MAX lines, to function as a launching pad for antiauthoritarian study and action, and become a platform for mutual aid activities. To that end, we would like more volunteers to help staff our open hours, as well as assist us with a variety of tasks. Please come by the space during our open hours to discuss how you can be part of the collective. Our facebook account will keep you updated on special events and any changes to our regular hours, but as of January 21st 2020 we are open every:
Friday 12-7p
Saturday 12-6p
Sunday 12-7p
If you aren't available during our open hours, we can also meet you one on one. Send us an email to firebrandcollective@protonmail.com. You can also use gpg encryption if you have a protonmail account, or if you request us to send you our public key.
For now, we have internet, computers, a printer, screenprinting equipment, a big library of zines & stickers & books & various tabletop games. The space is ADA accessible and has a clean bathroom for visitors. In the next week, we plan to start making coffee, nonalcoholic drinks, and other complimentary snacks available during open hours, as well as screening some interesting content on our projector.
Going forward, we will be hanging up art which will be available for purchase for a donation, and soliciting artistic contributions from the community for distro, as well as painting a mural on the wall. We will also be looking into making groceries available for suggested donation to visitors; starting regular LAN & tabletop gaming nights; hosting three classes covering experimental biociences, a radical memoirs reading group, and spanish language fluency; obtaining a CRISPR kit for a followup course to the bioscience class; creating an audio/visual creative studio for free public access on our LInux computers; booking concerts and other events out in the community as block parties; and various other projects which will come more into fruition as the months progress.
We would love to have you join us, as this work will become significantly easier as new people step in with their own unique visions, talents, capacities, and willingness to share pa
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I’m gonna be in Barcelona for a few weeks here soon; I’m also going to be possibly staying there over part of the winter depending on how I like the area (and how easy it is to plug into the local community). I have been looking around and have found some resources, but does anyone have recommendations for cool spaces to check out while I’m there? Infoshops and bookstores, historic sites, anything interesting with regard to radical politics or history would be great.
Please don’t share information that will put spaces at risk (obviously). Public information is cool, or show spaces, bands to check out, nice shady spots to drink wine, whatever.
Thanks!
Hello everyone, just wanted to let everyone know we will be open 12-7pm Friday and Sunday, and 12-6pm Saturdays. Contact us if you would like us to open up expanded hours, or if you want to get involved in any way. :)
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Welcome, to This Is America, November 13th, 2018.
The midterms have come and gone, and already the Democrats have signaled their desire to “work with Trump” while even the most progressive sections of the DNC have announced that they have given up their promise of fighting to Abolish ICE, while Nancy Pelosi has stated that her single goal is to protect Obamacare.
"Progressive" Dems back off #AbolishICE at first meeting since midterms: https://t.co/bVqS58xELI
— Ash J (@AshAgony) November 13, 2018
Meanwhile, despite the eyes of the mainstream media being wrapped up in the dumpster fire of the Trump administration and cooing sweetly over the lukewarm success of the “blue wave,” autonomous social movements are still in the thick of it opposing the far-Right, fighting pipelines, and organizing in their communities in the face of drastic climate change, impending economic collapse, and creeping fascism.
Just this weekend, we saw #OutLiveThem mobilizations and actions take place in New York, North Carolina, and beyond, as well as an antifascist counter-demonstrations in Little Rock, Arkansas, Fruita, Colorado, Tucson, Arizona, and in Toronto and Calgary.
In this episode we were lucky enough to catch up with antifascists involved in the #OutLiveThem mobilization in New York, where we talk about how anti-capitalists are mobilizing within Jewish and Muslim communities to combat Trumpism and the far-Right, as well as someone involved in the Indigenous Anarchist Federation (IAF), about the counter-mobilization in Tucson, Arizona, where we discuss the far-Right post-midterms, as well as the various caravans coming from Mexico. We end by talking to someone with Rose City Antifa about a mass antifascist mobilization against Patriot Prayer in Portland this Saturday.
But first, let’s get to some headlines!
Trump That Regime
Republican operative and InfoWars contributor Roger Stone has sent members of the far-Right gang the Proud Boys to Florida in an effort to harass largely members of the black community who are protesting the outcome of the recent election while demanding that all votes be counted. IGD will be releasing an interview with someone on the ground soon, but it should also be noted that local Florida based GOP officials have also been caught recently coordinating protests with members of the Proud Boys against Nancy Pelosi several weeks ago, a claim that R
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Hey there, I am moving from the Basque Country to Cork soon, where I will be staying for a few months for work traineeship. Here in the Basque Country we have gaztetxes, squatted social centers where activities like workshops, music shows, gym, boxing or martial arts classes -in the one I use to train we had a couple of people from other parts of europe for a while- are hosted, normally for free, maybe with music shows as an exception. So I was wondering if there is anything like that in Cork, which my broke-ass that won't probably get paid at work will thank; I heard that there has been an ongoing offensive against squatting in Ireland for some time now so my hopes are not very high. If not, is there at least any punk scene there or leftist bars?
And yeah, I know that the reddit is not the greatest place to ask these things but hey, its worth giving it a shot.
Salud!
Hi everyone! I’m boloparts, an anarchist based in South Africa and member of Repairs and Parts - a pop-up radical infoshop collective based in Cape Town that plans on creating an alternative social space beginning in March 2020 for three months. It will be the only one of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa at least, so far as we know. We could really use international solidarity, help, and reparations, (also, the dollar and the euro go far here!) but to start:
ABOUT US: We are working to build a queer, black conscious, intersectional feminist, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist counter-culture. We reject hierarchy, instead working to build self-managed, self-governed societies based on voluntary, cooperative institutions. We are committed to challenging society by asking critical questions of ourselves and others to nurture new social values and new forms of collective organizing, which will become the socio-political infrastructure of the free society. We hope to create a community space for workshops, live performance, film, art and education emerging from a politics of collective liberation.
OUR CAPACITIES: Our collective is really great, all intersectional anticapitalists, and has a diverse set of skills, including people who have done all kinds of organising over many years, and have run infoshops before. We already have enough members that we would be able to fill a morning, afternoon, and evening shift, 6 days a week. We do not yet have a location, and this is currently our biggest hurdle, but we have enough time and capacity that we should be able to find one. Aside from that, what we need from you is material support, for rent and and other set-up costs.
OUR RESOURCES: We are fortunate that one overseas anarchist group has already offered us 700US$ per month towards our rent, which significantly reduces our burden. We suspect our rent to be anywhere between 700 and 1100 US$. Other US and Asian radical individuals and groups have donated books as well as money, and we have some substantial amount of our own.
TO HELP: You can send us money to this PayPal, and please share this information. This appeal is already quite long so I will wind it down. I am happy to try to answer what questions I can if you would like to ask them. Please like and share us on facebook to learn more about us and about anti-authoritarian thought and praxis in our context. We shoul
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hello everyone. We have opened a small space at 6011 NE Oregon St, intended to function as a meeting spot, free school, sober & safer space, library, distro, and creative studio. We would like this space, easily accessible by MAX lines, to function as a launching pad for antiauthoritarian study and action, and become a platform for mutual aid activities. To that end, we would like more volunteers to help staff our open hours, as well as assist us with a variety of tasks. Please come by the space during our open hours to discuss how you can be part of the collective. Our facebook account will keep you updated on special events and any changes to our regular hours, but as of January 21st 2020 we are open every:
Friday 10a-7p
Saturday 10a-3p
Sunday 10a-7p
If you aren't available during our open hours, we can also meet you one on one. Send us an email to firebrandcollective@protonmail.com. You can also use gpg encryption if you have a protonmail account, or if you request us to send you our public key.
For now, we have internet, computers, a printer, screenprinting equipment, a big library of zines & stickers & books & various tabletop games. The space is ADA accessible and has a clean bathroom for visitors. In the next week, we plan to start making coffee, nonalcoholic drinks, and other complimentary snacks available during open hours, as well as screening some interesting content on our projector.
Going forward, we will be hanging up art which will be available for purchase for a donation, and soliciting artistic contributions from the community for distro, as well as painting a mural on the wall. We will also be looking into making groceries available for suggested donation to visitors; starting regular LAN & tabletop gaming nights; hosting three classes covering experimental biociences, a radical memoirs reading group, and spanish language fluency; obtaining a CRISPR kit for a followup course to the bioscience class; creating an audio/visual creative studio for free public access on our LInux computers; booking concerts and other events out in the community as block parties; and various other projects which will come more into fruition as the months progress.
We would love to have you join us, as this work will become significantly easier as new people step in with their own unique visions, talents, capacities, and willingness to share
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