2011 Workshops & Presentations

[For longer descriptions of May 2011 workshops and presentations presented at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, click HERE.]

• Anarchism without Anarchists / Anarchism with Anarchists: The Practice and Relevance of Anarchism
• Discovering Anarchism Through Music
• Wage Labour and Alienation: An Anarchist Critique of Work
• Embracing Brazen Laziness: Introduction to Anarchism
• The importance of struggle at the workplace
• Transforming Harm: Supporting Survivors and Confronting Sexual Assault in Our Communities
• Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society
• Anarchist Writers Bloc Workshop
• Anarchist responses to “austerity” measures
• Social struggles in Indigenous communities of South America
• An Introduction to Animal Liberation & Anarchism: How Animal Liberation Attacks the Roots of the Capitalist System
• Orwell, the Anarchist-Tory
• Support and Self-Defence in the Face of State Repression: The example of the G20 in Toronto & Montreal
• Contemporary Anarchist Perspectives: Introduction to Contemporary Anarchisms
• Anti-authoritarian perspectives on the ongoing revolutions from the gulf to the ocean: Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Palestine
• Lessons in Solidarity: The Oscar Grant rebellions and the movement against police terror in Oakland
• Physical Proximity, Neighbourhood Life and Anarchist Struggles: The Experience of la Pointe Libertaire
• Towards an International Anarchist Gathering in St. Imier (Switzerland) in 2012
• Philosophy is child’s play!
• Round-table: 10 years after the Summit of the Americas: What impact on anarchists?
• The Struggle for Reproductive Autonomy: From underground abortion collectives to the fight to decriminalize sex work
• Anarchism, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Dispossession in the Canadian West
• Fifty Years of Struggle Against Police Brutality in Montreal, Fifteen March 15 Demonstrations, New Strategies Against the Oppressive State?
• Todos Somos Japon and Planetary Anarchism
• Parole Sans Parole
• Decolonizing our Solidarity

2010 Workshops & Presentations

[For longer descriptions of May 2010 workshops and presentations presented at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, click HERE.]

• Anarchism without Anarchists / Anarchism with Anarchists: The Practice and Relevance of Anarchism
• Anarchism and Its Aspirations
• The ABCs of Anarchism
• The History of Anarchism in Quebec
• Refusing to Be Abused: Histories and Present Realities of Copwatch as a Tool Against Police Repression
• Self-Management versus Capitalist Management
• Building land defence and anti-colonial resistance movements: Becoming a force to be reckoned with
• Solidarity City: Migrant justice and the everyday practice of mutual aid and direct action
• One Big Union and revolutionary syndicalist movements in Quebec and in Canada
• Practical strategies for anarchist writing
• Anarchism and Riots
• Panel: Taking Ourselves Seriously: Developing Strategy for Social – Transformation
• Anarchist Writers of Fiction Meeting
• Strategies for Computer Security
• Eugenics in Anarchism and Feminism
• Capitalist Authority versus Anti-Colonial Breakout: The example of the militant direct-action Civil Rights movement in one Northern u.s. city, 1960-1965
• Sea Piracy and Anarchism: Beyond the myths

2009 Workshops & Presentations

• Anarchism’s Principles and Prefigurative Practices
• Demanding the Impossible: Sharing Visions of Anarchism
• The History of Anarchism in Quebec
• Decentralism: What do Anarchists mean by decentralism and why do we advocate it?
• “Living as anarchists”: From the historical example of the “free milieux” to current practices
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Theatre Performance/Workshop
• Every town needs a Radical Street Marching Band!
• The Crisis in Anarchist Publishing
• Urban Struggles and Social Change
• Anarchism and Ableism: Radical Disability Politics, Inclusion and Resistance
• Understanding political criminalization using the experiences of Canada, Colombia and beyond
• Women and political violence: The examples of Assata Shakur and Ann Hansen
• Popular resistance and anarchist autonomy
• Strategizing queer insurgency!: Re-centering marginalized queer issues from an anarchist perspective
• Anti-capitalist organizing in the student milieu
• Polinizaciones: A cross pollination of arts and activism with youth in Colombia
• An anarcho-communist analysis of a costly crisis
• Anarchist People of Colour Networking Session
• Regional Infoshop Networking Session
• Squatting: Legal considerations in occupying a building and our rights vis-à-vis the police

2008 Workshops & Presentations

• Demanding the Impossible: Sharing Visions of Anarchism
• An Introduction to Anarchism and its Aspirations
• Re-thinking property; re-using space
• Diverse Experiences of Autonomous Social Centres
• Anarchist Theatre
• Atheism and Anarchism
• Freeschool: One is not born a libertarian, one becomes one
• Anarchism and the Conscription Riots of 1917-1918
• Anti-imperialist Anarchist Action and Analysis
• Anarcho-Primitivism, Archeology and Anthropology
• Organizing in Solidarity with Prisoners
• What To Do in Times of Crisis? Using Harm Reduction to Support Responsible Decision-Making in Our Communities
• Colonialism, Anarchism and Indigenism
• Anarchist Legacy: A facilitated discussion about struggle and resistance
• Abolition of the State: The Nature of the State; How it Could be Abolished; What Could Replace it

2007 Workshops & Presentations

• Radical Words: Is writing activism?
• The “new” anarchism
• Anarchist writer Claude Gauvreau
• Watch Yourself: an Anarchist Perspective on Safety and Security
• Organization and Propaganda: Self-Management and the struggle to proliferate the anarchist idea
• The youth revolt in France: from the banlieues to the high schools
• The Struggle Against Police Brutality
• Anarchism and Marxism, What have they learned from each other and what are the differences
• Ungdomshuset in Denmark
• Anarchism, feminism & war: Emma Goldman to present
• Anarchists working in solidarity with national liberations movements with an Islamic foundation
• What a Queer Activity! The Intersections of Queer and Activist Montreal
• Penal Abolition/Prison Activism
• The Anarchist Press in France
• We don’t vote!

2006 Workshops & Presentations

• Anti-Authoritarian Approaches to Sexual Assault
• Anarchists and Self-Defense
• Autonomia y autogestion en el zapatismo
• Return to the Spanish Civil War
• Anarchist and AntiImperialist Lessons of the Weather Underground
• Anarchists and the law: When to fight in the courts and when to walk away
• No Gods, No Masters: Atheism and contemporary anarchism
• Liberals or Libertines? A Radical Feminist Analysis of Couples in the Militant Milieu
• “Revolutionaries who Tried to Think:” The Sojourner Truth Organization and its Legacy for Anarchists Today
• Mental Health and Mutual Aid in the Anarchist Milieux
• Solidarity with the Communities of CIPORFM in Oaxaca; living the Magonist Utopia
• Space to dwell: Situating humans and autonomy

2005 Workshops & Presentations

• Deschooling: Getting society out of school
• TwentyFirst Century Anarchisms
• Building an Anarchist Movement: Lessons Past and Present
• An Introduction to AnarchoCommunism.
• The History of Anarchism in Quebec.
• Anarchism Also Means Organization: A look at the methods of anarchist organization.
• Cogitateurs Agitateurs: Free Information
• The Environment: Neither for, nor against!
• Fight or Walk: Anarchists in the struggle for public transportation
• From Sacco & Vanzetti to the Patriot Act: Breaking the enclosing fascist circles
• A History & SelfCriticism of the Vancouver Squeegee Council
• Feminism and the antipatriarchal struggle in the anarchist milieu
• The Anarchist Black Cross and Political Prisoner Support
• Building a “Canadian” Decolonization Movement: The Practice of Active Solidarity & Mutual Self-determination
• Fighting unionism as a practice for
• History of Struggle: A guided tour of Montreal’s Southwest
• Anarchist Organization
• Another Take on Direct Action: the PASC in Colombia, from macroeconomy to active participation in peasant civil resistance
• Anarchy On Your Plate: Challenging Industrial Food Production
• Anarchism, Power and Borders: Fighting capitalism, patriarchy and imperialism in immigration policies and in our own movements
• Politicize Yer Pride: Tactics and Strategy for Queer Anarchists

2004 Workshops & Presentations

• The History of Anarchism in Quebec
• An Introduction to Anarchism and Its Aspirations
• Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
• Anarchism and Deschooling: Getting Society out of School
• Land and Freedom: The Eco-Anarchist Perspective
• Demanding the Impossible: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
• A Radical Walking Tour of the St-Henri/Little Burgundy neighborhood
• Affinity Groups: A Method of Anarchist Action
• The History of the Anarchist Press in Quebec
• Anarchism, Activism and Security Culture
• A Commemoration of the Life and Work of Daniel Guerin
• Anarchism in Struggle: Confronting Borders, States and Apartheid
• Panel: Anarchists Confronting the Charest Government
• Anarcho-Surrealism in Canada
• Panel: Anarchists Radicalizing their Workplace
• Self-Determination Against the Nation-State
• Anarchism and Iroquois Culture
• Bringing Down the Prisoner-Industrial Complex
• Anarchist Workers’ Cooperatives And Revolutionary Propaganda
• Panel: No One Is Illegal
• (Anti-)Capitalist Globalization
• Anarchist People of Colour Discussion and Strategy Workshop

2003 Workshops & Presentations

• Introduction to Anarcho-Communism
• The Anarchist Eighties
• The Traces of Anarchism in Quebec
• The Anarchist Tradition
• Introduction to Anarchism and the Federation Anarchiste
• Anarquismo en Mexico/Anarchism in Mexico
• Anti-fascism and (anti-)nationalism
• No One Is Illegal: Confronting War, Capitalism and Apartheid
• Building Your Own Radio Station: FM transmitter building
• Détruire LÈmpire Hétérosexiste: Histoire, Résistance, Antipatriarcat
• Guérilla des communications/Guerilla Communications
• A Preliminary Postmodernist Anarchist Analysis of the Black Panther Party and its Practical Implications for Today’s Struggle
• Transfolk and Anarchist Community
• Revolutionary Theater
• Putting into place anarchist practices in rupture with authoritarian and capitalist society through two examples: Radio Libertaire and the struggle for free transport
• Popular Education as Liberatory Pedagogy
• Prisons and Class War
• Slide Presentation: Art & Politics Mix Beautifully
• Panel: Anti-authoritarians participating in social struggles
• Anarchy and Technology
• Self-Management: from ideal to practice

2002 Workshops & Presentations

• ABCs of Anarchism
• Demystifying Anarchy and Anarchism
• Eco-Green Anarchism
• Introduction to Anarcho-communism
• Introduction to Anarchism
• Class struggle today
• An Anarchist perspective on the cityscape as resistance
• Anarchism, national liberation (sic), anti-colonialism and identity
• Mexican Rebellion
• Sustaining urban anarchist spaces: why is it so fucking hard?
• Anarchy, War and Globalization
• Anarchist perspectives on the cityscape as resistance
• Anarchy or Direct Democracy
• Queer Anarchism
• The personal is political … even among activists!
• Anti-colonial organizing from an indigenous perspective
• The Housing Crisis in Montreal: Anarchist perspectives on what to do
• Legal self-defence