Thanks to everyone who participated in the Anarchist Interview Project – with your words, your pictures, and your thoughtfulness, candor, and care.
If you were unable to join us in the interview booth at the Anarchist Book Fair but would like to interview, please let us know: practicalanarchynyc@riseup.net.
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Please join Practical Anarchy NYC on May 26 at Bluestockings for a discussion of Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire edited by C. B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, and Abbey Volcano.
What: Reading and discussion of Queering Anarchism
When: May 26, 2:30pm
Where: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St; http://www.bluestockings.com/events/
*Need help finding the book? Email us for suggestions: practicalanarchynyc [at] riseup.net
** Have suggestions for future readings? Let us know here: http://practicalanarchynyc.wordpress.com/books-you-would-like-to-read/
Please join Practical Anarchy NYC on April 28 at Bluestockings for a discussion of Horizontalism. This work is an edited collection of interviews with some of the participants in the popular rebellion that arose in response to the economic meltdown in Argentina in 2001. In the introduction Sitrin writes, “This book is the story of a changing society told by people who are taking their lives and communities into their own hands. It is told in their own voices. It is a story of cooperation, vision, creation, and discovery.”
What: Reading and discussion of Horizontalism
When: April 28, 2:30pm
Where: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St; http://www.bluestockings.com/events/
*Need help finding the book? Email us for suggestions: practicalanarchynyc [at] riseup.net
** Have suggestions for future readings? Let us know here: http://practicalanarchynyc.wordpress.com/books-you-would-like-to-read/
Please join Practical Anarchy NYC on March 31 at Bluestockings for a discussion of Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. In this classic work, Orwell describes his experiences fighting fascists during the Spanish Civil War.
What: Reading and discussion of Homage to Catalonia
When: March 31, 2:30pm
Where: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St; http://www.bluestockings.com/events/
*Need help finding the book? Email us for suggestions: practicalanarchynyc [at] riseup.net
** Have suggestions for future readings? Let us know here: http://practicalanarchynyc.wordpress.com/books-you-would-like-to-read/
Please join Practical Anarchy NYC on February 24 at Bluestockings for a discussion of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence by Christian Parenti. In this timely book, Parenti writes about the “catastrophic convergence” of poverty, violence, and climate change in the global south.
What: Reading and discussion of Tropic of Chaos by Christian Parenti
When: February 24
Where: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St; http://www.bluestockings.com/events/
*Need help finding the book? Email us for suggestions: practicalanarchynyc [at] riseup.net
** Have suggestions for future readings? Let us know here: http://practicalanarchynyc.wordpress.com/books-you-would-like-to-read/
Please join Practical Anarchy NYC on January 27 at Bluestockings for a discussion of At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism by Errico Malatesta. In this short book, written over the course of more than 20 years, Malatesta introduces “all of the basic doctrines of communist anarchism and one by one considers many of the major objections to his position.”
What: Reading and discussion of At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism
When: January 27, 2:30pm
Where: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St; http://www.bluestockings.com/events/
*Need help finding the book? Email us for suggestions: practicalanarchynyc [at] riseup.net
** Have suggestions for future readings? Let us know here: http://practicalanarchynyc.wordpress.com/books-you-would-like-to-read/
At The Cafe: Conversations On Anarchism, by Errico Malatesta
In 1897, while Malatesta was hiding from the police, he regularly went to a cafe in Ancona, Italy. He had shaved off his usual beard, but was still taking a risk. Especially as this wasn’t an anarchist cafe, but had a variety of customers including the local policeman. The conversations he had in this cafe became the basis for the dialogs that make up this book, though it was a work he wasn’t to complete till 1920 – several wars and revolutions later! For the first time here in English, Malatesta, in his usual commonsense and matter-of-fact style, sets out and critically analyzes the arguments for and against anarchism. This is a classic defense of anarchism, that anticipates the rise of nationalism, fascism and communism.
For one month a year, the practical anarchy discussion group leaves the books on the shelf and becomes the practical anarchy movie group. That time has come! Join us on Saturday afternoon, December 22, for a screening and discussion of Wobblies, the 1979 award winning film “screening the unforgettable and still-fiery voices of Wobbly members–lumberjacks, migratory workers, and silk weavers–in their 70s, 80s, and 90s.”
What: Screening of Wobblies
When: December 22, 2:30pm
Where: Catholic Worker, 55 East 3rd Street (b/w First and Second Avenues)
** Have suggestions for future readings? Let us know here: http://practicalanarchynyc.wordpress.com/books-you-would-like-to-read/
