A-Infos (en) US, Vermont, BLACK SHEEP BOOKS presents: "Anarchy in Montpelier" - Update Monday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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A day of talks, panels, performances, and socializing at 4 Langdon Street
* 1:00 p.m. BORN TO LOSE, FIGHT TO WIN! WORKING-CLASS EXPERIENCE
AND ANARCHISM A panel with Mark Laskey, Sean, and Kristin
In this panel, three working-class anarchists will share personal
stories and ideas about coming to anarchism from a working-class
background, and what it means -- if anything in particular -- to be a
"working-class anarchist." This highly subjective panel hopes to be
a spark that ignites a lively discussion among the audience about
class, struggle, revolution, anarchism, and really anything we
decide to get into.

Mark Laskey is a high school dropout from a relatively poor,
working-class family background who has been involved with the
anarchist movement for nearly fifteen years. He is a founding
member of NEFAC, and is currently on the editorial board of the
"Northeastern Anarchist" magazine. He is also a union member
(IATSE local 182), involved in various labor and community
struggles, and a longtime collective member of the Lucy Parsons
Center in Boston.

Sean is from a blue-collar family, and has been active in a wide
array of organizing and troublemaking endeavors. He is currently
active as a rank-and-file union member in the service sector, and is
a member of NEFAC (www.nefac.net).

Kristin comes from a background of being raised by a rockin' single
mom, living in subsidized housing, and trying to survive off the
meager benefits of the welfare system and a lot of hard work. She
has come to identify with anarchism through being active in a local
union drive to organize service and retail workers.

* 2:30 p.m.
"ANARCHISM IN AMERICA"
Showing of this new film by Pacific Street Films; for more info, see
http://www.psfp.com/anarchism.htm

* 4:30 p.m.
REVULSION, VIOLENCE, TRAUMA: REPETITIONS AND
RUPTURES
FROM THE AVANT-GARDE (1917-1935) TO THE
NEO-AVANT-GARDE
(LATE 1950s-1960s) TO NOW
A talk by Erika Biddle

This talk will address the question of aesthetics and violence,
focusing in particular on the period between 1918 and 1939, with a
brief venture into contemporary culture. The talk will include:
Benjamin’s critique of violence and his vision of history as
decay, Agamben on terror, Artaud on revulsion and cruelty and
how these ideas manifest in Dada’s aesthetics of violence and
revulsion, Surrealism’s aesthetics of violence and cruelty, and
contemporary art’s aesthetics of violence and trauma.

Erika Biddle currently lives in New York City, is involved with the
Mayday Books Collective, and provides editorial support for the
radical books publisher Autonomedia, the multimedia magazine
Arcade Project,
the Siyahi Editorial Collective, and Fifth Estate.

* 6:30 p.m.
THE ANARCHISM THAT IS FULL
OF POSSIBILITIES
A talk by Ashanti Alston

Ashanti is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former
political prisoner (Black Liberation Army) for over 14 years. He was
recently the Northeast regional coordinator for Critical Resistance, a
national radical prison abolitionist organization and is now a
member of its New York City chapter, Estacion Libre, an
organization that works to strengthen ties between people of color
in the United States with folks in the liberated Zapatista territories
of Chiapas Mexico and anarchist people of color. Ashanti sits on
the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and has been an
invited guest teacher for the last two summers at the Institute of
Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont. He also authors the zine
"Anarchist Panther."

* 8:00 p.m.
WOMEN IN THE ARGENTINE
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
A multimedia presentation based on
recent interviews by
Graciela Monteagudo in Argentina

Graciela is an Argentine human rights activist and community
artist. She holds an MFA from Goddard College, and has worked
internationally with diverse communities both on her own and with
Bread and Puppet Theater. Some of her work has included
coordinating puppet and street theater actions in Latin America and
throughout the United States. Lately, Graciela has been touring
internationally with multimedia presentations about Argentina, and
she coordinates the Argentina Autonomous Project.

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in great condition within the subject areas we already carry.

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(802) 225-8906
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