New World from Below Collaborative Book Party
Posted June 17, 2010 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
If you live in Detroit (or are visiting for the US Social Forum) come out and help us celebrate our new book Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas, my not quite as new book Paper Politics, as well as other recent radical publishing with AK Press, Autonomedia, the Institute for Anarchist Studies, Microcosm Publishing, Team Colors Collective, PM Press, author Jordan Flaherty and artist Seth Tobocman, and many others.
Friday, June 25, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
New World from Below Convergence Center
Located at the Spirit of Hope Church, 1519 Martin Luther King Dr., Detroit, MI 48208, at the corner of MLK and Trumbull.
The New World from Below—the anarchists and antiauthoritarians at the Social Forum collective of collectives—is pleased to invite all U.S. Social Forum participants to a collaborative celebration of recent radical publishing with some of the most innovative presses around today. On Friday, June 25, following a full day of engaging workshops and before heading off to dance the night away at the Leftist Lounge, join us to mark the release of recent radical books that seek to enrich and enliven our radical minds!
Beer and wine will be served; books will be available for sale; and a short presentation from current radical authors will take place at 8:00 p.m., including the below authors and collectives.
Participating Authors and Collectives:
Benjamin Holtzman, editor of SICK: A Collaborative Zine on Physical Illness (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)
Cindy Milstein, of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press, 2010)
Jeff Conant, author of A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency (AK Press, 2010)
Jordan Flaherty, author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6 (Haymarket, 2010)
Josh MacPhee, editor of Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (PM Press, 2009)
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, authors of Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)
Seth Tobocman, author and artist of Understanding the Crash (Soft Skull, 2010)
Team Colors Collective, editors of and contributors to Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States (AK Press, 2010)
Turbulence Collective, author of What Would It Mean to Win? (PM Press, 2010)
Participating Publishers and Collectives:
AK Press
Autonomedia
Institute for Anarchist Studies
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
Microcosm Publishing
Team Colors Collective
PM Press
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A New World from Below
Anarchists and Antiauthoritarians at the Social Forum
, Detroit, June 23-27, 2010
We believe that social forums can greatly contribute to strengthening social movements both in the United States and internationally. The ecological destruction and economic disaster, coupled with disillusionment about the Obama presidency, makes the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit an urgently needed convergence. We hope to bring what’s unique about anarchist and antiauthoritarian organizing to the social forum, and spark conversations not only about strategies of resistance but also visions of reconstruction from the bottom-up.
To that end, the New World from Below Organizing Collectives will be hosting the New World from Below workshop track within the USSF. This track will bring together a variety of talks, panels, and workshops organized by anarchist and antiauthoritarian collectives from across the continent. These will all take place in the USSF’s space at Cobo Hall.
We will also be hosting the New World from Below convergence center, where each day a different collective will organize this space for tabling, art and performances, facilitated anarchist strategy sessions, and socializing as well as networking. The center will be located at the Spirit of Hope Church, 1519 Martin Luther King Junior Blvd., Detroit, MI 48208, at the corner of MLK and Trumbull. And Food Not Bombs/IWW Solidarity Kitchen will be serving food at Scripps Park, adjacent to the New World from Below convergence center.
http://www.anarchistussf.wordpress.com
The working member organizations of the New World from Below Organizing Collectives are the Institute for AK Press, City from Below, the Institute for Anarchist Studies, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, Manifesta Musicians’ Collective, Midnight Special Law Collective, Solidarity and Defense, Team Colors Collective, and the Trumbellplex.
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