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The 2008 Bookfair, will once again create a forum to explore ideas, share skills, and learn from each other.
We are inviting presentations that address:
- Current or historical horizontal community organizing
- Current or historical perspectives on Anarchism
- Community organizing in other countries
- Skill Sharing
- Other topics of interest
Note: Preference will be given to workshops and presentations that are interactive and directly link topics with Anarchy and/or Anarchism.
Limited assistance for travel and billeting may be available for out of town presenters. The specific amount will be contingent upon the success of our fundraising.
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2009
saturday workshops
Zine Making 101
This workshop will go over what a zine is, zine formatting, and distribution. Participants will each design a page for a collaborative zine, and leave with their own copy of the zine at the end of the day.
by Sam and Matt of the Zine Tree Collective
11:00am - 1:00pm
Approaching Anarchist Education
The system of public education serves to legitimize and reproduce unequal and often oppressive structures of power and authority that anarchists fight to undermine. As anarchists who oppose state authority, what options do we have for education in our communities? Join us in an interactive workshop that will explore these questions and more.
by Katia and Rhiannon of the Workers Solidarity Alliance
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Solidarity Across Borders
This lunch hour talk (lunch is provided) will discuss organizing efforts of this anti-colonial and anti-racist movement that strives for a world in which people can move freely in order to live and flourish.
by Tracey Mann and Alex Mah of No One Is Illegal
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Resistance Behind Bars
Join our keynote speaker for a frank discussion on gender and incarceration, resistance within prison walls, and the broader prison abolition movement.
by Victoria Law of Books Through Bars
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Sexualized Violence in Activist Communities
An exploration and discussion of how we can recognize sexualized violence in activist communities, and support those who have experienced sexual assault.
by Pragya and Monika
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Resistance 2010: The Anti-Olympics Movement
This workshop will discuss the impacts of the
upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler, BC. Anti-Olympics organizing through the Olympic Resistance Network is largely being done under the primary slogan and understanding of “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land”, although this is an opportunity for a large convergence of groups, issues, and sectors to work (and struggle) together.
by Harsha Wallia of the Olympics Resistance Movement
4:30pm - 6:30pm
sunday workshops
DIY Vegan Crafts
Learn how to turn everyday items like garbage bags, dental floss, bicycle tires and vinegar into vegan belts, fanny packs and shampoo.
by Sam Trees
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Unlearning Sizism: You Really Are Fat
Fat is a descriptive word that should not have so much baggage attached to it. Come debunk the myths about fat, and learn how fatphobia in reinforced by the patriarchy and capitalism.
by Britt and Jackie of the Radical Cheerleaders
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Fire Your Boss!
Join the Edmonton IWW for discussions about organizing on the job. We’ll start with an interactive role play where participants get to see and talk about what we're up against as workers. The next part will cover knowing your rights and laws you can use for your own protection, and finally an overview of how to organize to make your workplace work for you.
by Alex, Rhiannon, and Nick of the Edmonton IWW
Part I: Workplace Roleplay 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Part II: Know Your RIghts 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Part III: Workplace Organizing 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Lunch
No workshops
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Against Genealogical Anarchism: The Repressive Hypothesis, the Subject, and the Ghost of Dialectics
Come join a spirited discussion on the major strains in post-anarchist theory and how to construct a humanist anarchist response to postmodern approaches to power and subjectivity.
by Brendan Bruce
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Make and Draw Your Own Story
Come learn how to write and draw your own stories with big surprises and laughs, methods based on Lynda Barry's book "What it is". Bring your favourite pens and paper or make do with what is given you.
by Antoinette
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Want to see 2008 workshops?
2008
saturday workshops
Opening welcome for the 2008 Anarchist Bookfair
Short history of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, and its tradition as a working class organization.
by Eugene Plawiuk
11:15 - 11:30
When Workers Take Over
This workshop will not be mere veneration of the struggle of Argentina’s recovered enterprises. Instead, the focus will be on extracting lessons from their experience and making concrete connections between the worker-controlled enterprises and our context here in Alberta. Rhiannon, utilizing some video and photos, will provide information about the context, history, and development of the worker run businesses and be available to answer questions. The objective of the workshop will be to have participants come away thinking about worker control not as a rusty discourse of the past, but rather as a vibrant and possible method of struggle for a better world.
by Rhiannon Edwards
11:30 - 1:00 pm
downstairs
Lunch
Free Vegan Food!
1 - 1:30pm
Direct Action on the Job followed by Know Your Rights
by IWW Edmonton GMB and the Student Worker Action group
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Main Stage (behind the curtain)
Gender and Organizing
An experiential workshop and discussion on gender construction, how we experience/express gender and how this affects organizing particularly in anti-authoritarian or non-hierarchical communities.
Over the past half year a number of groups have organically come together to talk about gender roles and sexism within activist communities and organizing in Edmonton. These discussions have occurred in groups of various sizes and in both formal and informal settings. Thus far there has not been an opportunity for open, public, inclusive and facilitated discussion and exploration of these issues.
Workshop goals
- to provide a forum for discussion and exploration
- to pool our collective knowledge on how gender construction, expression and experience affects each of us
- to build a toolbox of language and different ways for expressing the diversity of gender expression and experience
- to think about ways to incorporate our knowledge into our everyday interactions
- to formulate ways to continue to this dialogue
by Nico (affiliated with Training for Change based out of Philadelphia) and Ariel B (local veteran of the Edmonton Community)
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Downstairs
Zines 101
by Sam Trees
3:30 - 5:15 pm
Main Stage (behind the curtain)
Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
by Andrej Grubacic (Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco)
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Downstairs
Dinner
Free Vegan Food!
5:15 – 5:45
WITHER MARXISM? AN INTERACTIVE ROLE-PLAY
The "leaders" of our society today (and many self-described "anarchists") would have you believe that Marxism has long been consigned to the dustbin of history, being sufficiently discredited with the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991. But are the works of Karl Marx really that irrelevant, or are there lessons we can still learn today?
This interactive workshop will briefly introduce participants to the basic tenets of Marx's Labour Theory of Value (LTV) and place them in a role-play situation simulating a typical work environment today. The direction of the workshop will depend almost entirely on those who attend, so if you want to see how 19th-century theory can still influence action today (and have some fun in the process), this workshop is for you!
by Alex C
5:45 - 7:00 pm
Downstairs
sunday workshops
doors open
12:00 pm
Movie Presentation on Zapatista Communities
12:15 - 1:00 pm
Lunch
Free Vegan Food!
1:00 - 1:30 pm
Gender and Organizing
An experiential workshop and discussion on gender construction, how we experience/express gender and how this affects organizing particularly in anti-authoritarian or non-hierarchical communities.
Over the past half year a number of groups have organically come together to talk about gender roles and sexism within activist communities and organizing in Edmonton. These discussions have occurred in groups of various sizes and in both formal and informal settings. Thus far there has not been an opportunity for open, public, inclusive and facilitated discussion and exploration of these issues.
Workshop goals
- to provide a forum for discussion and exploration
- to pool our collective knowledge on how gender construction, expression and experience affects each of us
- to build a toolbox of language and different ways for expressing the diversity of gender expression and experience
- to think about ways to incorporate our knowledge into our everyday interactions
- to formulate ways to continue to this dialogue
by Nico (affiliated with Training for Change based out of Philadelphia) and Ariel B (local veteran of the Edmonton Community)
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Downstairs
Radio as Activism – Becoming the Media
Although getting in the corporate media is important to the progressive movement, utilizing underground and self-created media is important to spreading the message to underground movements in Edmonton and Canada.
CJSR offers training in recording your own events for broadcast over the CJSR airwaves, over the internet and across Canada.
Using the Media - "Why didn't they come out? I sent a press release."
This is a common phrase heard from advocacy groups. Learn how you can attract media to your event and develop media relations to ensure consistent coverage and create the message you're looking for.
This media workshop will work through the theory behind getting in the media and developing a message to work for your campaign all the way up to making the pitch call and writing the press release.
We run through a practice interview session and press scrum. Get to know the good, the bad and the ugly media.
by CJSR
1:30 - 4:30 pm
Downstairs
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