Mark your calendars …

MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2012

Two days: Saturday, May 19 & Sunday, May 20
10am-5pm on both days

The Anarchist Bookfair will take place in two buildings across from each other in Parc Vinet:

- Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA), 2515 rue Delisle

- Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 rue Workman

A short walk from Lionel-Groulx metro.

No gods, no masters, no bosses, no borders.
FREE. Welcome to all!
For anarchists, and people curious about anarchism.

-> Participants from all over Quebec and North America, booksellers and vendors, workshops, films, discussions, kids activities, art exhibits and more!
-> Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy held throughout May 2012 at venues and locations all over the island of Montreal.
-> During this year’s Bookfair, tabling will take place over two days: May 19-20, between 10am-5pm.
-> NOTE: This year, tabling will take place in the main auditoriums of both our locations: CEDA and the Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV).
-> Accessibility Policy and Commitment
-> What Happens at the Anarchist Bookfair?
-> Support the Bookfair

CONTACT INFORMATION:
-> e-mail: info@anarchistbookfair.ca
-> tél: 514-679-5800
-> mail: Salon du livre Anarchiste de Montréal
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite 204
Montréal, Québec H3G 1N1

FOR UPDATES:
-> web: www.anarchistbookfair.ca
-> announcements list: https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/salon-annonces

You can also join our facebook page or follow us on twitter:
-> facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SalonduLivreAnarchisteMontrealAnarchistBookfair
-> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BookfairAnarMTL

The collective organising the Montreal Anarchist Book Fair, which has, for over a decade, brought thousands of anarchists and people curious about anarchy together, cannot stand idly by in front of such political targeting. Not because the book fair or its collective have been specifically targeted, but because this political profiling strongly demonstrates the repressive nature of the State and its police.

When the police shows up to the Centre d’éducation populaire de le Petite Bourgogne et St-Henri (CEDA), the space where we’ve held the book fair for almost ten years, we are involved, we are concerned. When the police meets with the administration and asks questions about certain anarchists, they are not looking for information, but to intimidate.

With a project like GAMMA (Guet des activités et des mouvements marginaux et anarchistes), the police is only able to fabricate a caricatured portrait of an anarchist. As long as the police is the police, that’s all the portrait will ever be, a caricature.

A quick glance to the past will remind us that the Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), then called the North-West Mounted Police, was first created to put down Canada’s aboriginal resistance and impose ‘negotiations’ of treaties. Inspired by the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British royal police in Ireland, the RCMP’s ancestor proved to be, from it’s creation, a political police.

Let us remember the portraits of communist and anarchist leaders from the 1920 and 30s. ‘Foreign agitators’ and ‘Reds’ working in the pocket of the USSR. An unemployed person fighting back: a bolshevist. A suffragette feminist: a hysterical woman. A homosexual: a deviant. Resisting, fighting aboriginals: rebels. Anarchists: bombers. Indeed, ‘’we only see them when we’re afraid of them’’.

Yet, what the wide variety of organisations and individuals present at the book fair show us is the caricature that the police have fabricated only corresponds to a partial reality. It is rather ironic to think that this ‘anti-anarchist’ squad first targeted communist Maoists who did well to identify themselves as anarchists. GAMMA targets those who counter-attack, those who resist. Maoists and the ASSÉ yesterday, anarchists tomorrow.

For the SPVM, the ‘anarchist’ is the young, angry, masked and violent. Yes, these young folks clamor for anarchism. And the ‘old’ were once the young. Yes, we are angry. Violent? It depends on one’s definition of violence. Masked? Yes, amongst us, certain do not hesitate to mask there face, to let there anger explode up against surrounding injustices: ecological catastrophes, private propriety, the state and its police.

But in our day to day lives, nobody walks around with a there face covered. We’re all too busy with popular education, learning, loving, sharing, and organising. It’s exactly what the SPVM does not see, too blinded by there own search for suspects.

Come take a look at the crowd that participates in the Anarchist book fair and festival. You can see families, the young and the not-so-young, francophones, anglophones, ecologists chatting with punks, collectives for Palestine’s liberation and other groups active amongst prisoners, syndicalists learning permaculture, anti-racist activists sharing there passion for revolutionary reggae… the ‘anarchists’ and the ‘marginals’ are all of these. All of this and so much more.

What GAMMA, the police who have preceded it, and the ones that will follow it wish is to deny this diversity, is to intimidate hundreds of curious folk who, without calling themselves anarchists, enjoy reading radical ideas. What GAMMA wishes, is to trap us inside of an image that does not correspond to us.

The phenomenon might not be new, but we must face it. Because what the police want is to weaken our movement. And to do that, nothing is more effective than a good division. When the syndicalists denounce the radical ecologists, when the students are wary of punks and when the anarchists start making the distinctions between the ‘nice’ and the ‘violent’, the police have won. They will have divided and neutralised us. They will have us surrounded.

-The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective

LE FESTIVAL DE L’ANARCHIE – FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY

MAI 2012 MONTRÉAL


Ni dieu ni maître! Ni patron ni frontière!
 No gods, no masters; no bosses, no borders!

Le Festival de l’Anarchie prendra place au mois de mai, avec des événements reliés à l’anarchisme, dans plusieurs lieux publics de Montréal. Le Festival de l’anarchie, dans le cadre du Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal (19-20 mai) est l’un des plus importants événements du genre en Amérique du Nord. info: www.salonanarchiste.ca

The entire month of May in Montreal is part of the Festival of Anarchy, with diverse anarchist-themed events occurring at different venues all over the island of Montreal. The Festival of Anarchy is organized as part of the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20). info: www.anarchistbookfair.ca
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FAITS SAILLANTS / HIGHLIGHTS:

-> MANIFESTATIONS/DEMONSTRATIONS:
1er MAI Anticapitaliste / Anti Capitalist Mayday * Un statut pour toutes/tous! Marche pour la justice et la dignité pour tout-es les immigrant-es et les réfugié-es

-> LANCEMENTS DE LIVRES/BOOK LAUNCHES:
Subversions * Decolonizing Anarchism * Nightcap for Nihilists * Disability Politics and Theory * Fire and Flames

-> FILMS, PANELS & PRÉSENTATIONS:
Médias libres * Film: Anarchroniques * Montreal Community Bike Tour * Résistances au développement industriel * La lutte contre le développement de pipelines * Profiles, Prison & Resistance: From Solitary to Guantanamo North to House Arrest
* Discussion: Communisme, communisation, anarchie * Pelican Bay One Year After the Strikes

-> THÉÂTRE:
Septième Festival international de théâtre anarchiste de Montréal * Théâtre au DIRA ! L’homme approximatif, de Tristan Tzara

-> SHOW, PARTY, POTLUCK & BBQ:

Anarchist Cabaret Anarchiste * Party et BBQ bénéfice de DIRA Bibliothèque Anarchiste * Glamarchist Lookfair * La Belle Époque BBQ & Open House * Anarcho-Indigenists & APOC Potluck / Souper communautaire anarcho-autochtone et APOC
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LIEUX/LOCATIONS
les rues & les quartiers de Montréal * Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA) * Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV) * L’Alizée * La Belle Époque * Casa del Popolo * Carrefour d’éducation populaire de Point-St-Charles * L’Achoppe * Centre St-Pierre * La Sala Rossa * DIRA Bibliothèque Anarchiste * Il Motore * Café l’Artère * the streets & neighborhoods of Montreal

FESTIVAL DE L’ANARCHIE / FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY (MAI 2012)
CALENDRIER/CALENDAR
Plus d’infos ci-dessous / More info below

a) 1er MAI: 1er mai anticapitaliste
b) 3 MAI: Lancement/Book Launch/Bloc des auteur-e-s anarchistes/Anarchist Writers Bloc
c) 4 MAI: 5 à 7 du CSA : Médias libres
d) 7 MAI: Projection du film: Anarchroniques, Chroniques d’un mouvement libertaire
e) MAY 11: Montreal Community Bike Tour / Tour Guidé de la communauté … à vélo
f) MAY 17: La Belle Époque Open House and Backyard BBQ
g) 12 MAI: Résistances au développement industriel et à la civilisation occidentale.
h) 12 MAI: Lancement de la Mauvaise Herbe, vol.11 n.1
i) 13 MAI: Projection et téléconférence sur la lutte contre le développement de pipelinesen Colombie-Britannique
j) MAY 14: Profiles, Prison & Resistance: From Solitary to Guantanamo North to House Arrest
k) 15-16 MAI: Septième Festival international de théâtre anarchiste de Montréal
l) 18 MAI: Cabaret Anarchiste
m) 19-20 MAI: Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal/Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
n) MAY 19: Anarcho-Indigenists & APOC Potluck / Souper communautaire anarcho-autochtone et APOC
o) 19 MAI: Party et BBQ bénéfice de DIRA Bibliothèque Anarchiste
p) MAY 20: Glamarchist Lookfair
q) 21 MAI: Discussion: Communisme, communisation, anarchie…
r) MAY 21: Book Launch and Panel: “Decolonizing Anarchism”
s) MAY 22: Norman Nawrocki’s “Nightcap for Nihilists” Book Launch
t) 24 MAI: Théâtre au DIRA ! L’homme approximatif, de Tristan Tzara
u) MAY 24: “Disability Politics and Theory”: Book Launch and Panel
v) 24-26 MAI: OFF – Festival de l’anarchie À QUÉBEC
w) 26 MAI: Un statut pour toutes/tous! Marche pour la justice et la dignité pour tout-es les immigrant-es et les réfugié-es
x) MAY 28: Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement Book Launch
y) MAY 31: Pelican Bay One Year After the Strikes

Plus d’infos ci-dessous / More info below
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1er mai anticapitaliste
1er mai 2012, 16 h 30
Champ-de-Mars, Montréal (derrière l’Hôtel de ville)

(métro Champ-de-Mars, ligne orange)

info: www.clac-montreal.net
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/324635217571613/
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Lancement/Book Launch/Bloc des auteur-e-s anarchistes/Anarchist Writers Bloc
May 3/3 mai/jeudi/Thursday, 17H/5PM – 19h/7pm
Casa del Popolo, 4873 boul St-Laurent

Launching the second volume of the world’s only anthology of anarchist short stories, SUBVERSIONS vol II, with some 30 authors (English, French & Italian).

Live music & performance. Bilingue, anglais-français. Accessible aux fauteuils roulants

info: awb.daemonflower.com
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5 à 7 du CSA : Médias libres
vendredi le 4 mai, 17h
La Belle Époque (1984 rue Wellington)

Le Centre Social Autogéré vous invite à venir parler MÉDIAS le 4 mai dans le cadre d’un 5à7, entre le formel et l’informel; entre la réunion et la discussion de salon. Nous continuons à avancer vers l’ouverture du Centre et nous vous invitons à venir parler des différents projets médias au CSA : vidéo, radio, stencil, sérigraphie, anti-pub, local, international,… Apportez vos idées pour développer ensemble notre centre de médias ! En français. Accessible aux fauteuils roulants

info: www.centresocialautogere.org
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Projection du film ANARCHRONIQUES, Chroniques d’un mouvement libertaire
de Karine Rosso et Fernando Garcia Blanes
lundi 7 mai, 18h
Carrefour d’éducation populaire (2356 rue Centre)

Les médias de masses nous présentent souvent une vision de l’anarchie reliée à la violence et au chaos. Mais encore, vous êtes-vous déjà demandés ce qu’est exactement l’Anarchie? Qui sont les hommes et les femmes qui s’en proclament? Quelles sont les initiatives libertaires au Québec?Quoique peuvent nous dire ces grands médias, les anarchistes se retrouvent au peu partout au Québec et les principes de l’anarchisme se retrouvent souvent dans notre quotidien, sans que l’on s’en rende compte. En français. Accessible aux fauteuils roulants.

info: fernandogarciablanes.wordpress.com/long-metrage/
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Montreal Community Bike Tour / Tour Guidé de la communauté … à vélo!
Monday, May 11, 1pm (sharp!)
Rendez-Vous @ Norman Bethune Statue
(corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve, in front of the Tim Horton’s)

[en français: http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/?p=3243&lang=fr]

Rain or shine! Bring your bike, borrow a bike!
Traduction chuchotée pendant le tour, vers le français et anglais.
Whisper translation during the tour, towards both French and English.

An interactive tour of the neighborhoods near Concordia, including Little Burgundy, Shaughnessy Village, St-Henri, Griffintown and Point-St-Charles (and possibly Verdun!). Come learn more about popular, queer, and working class struggles in our community, as well as current campaigns against gentrification, car culture and poverty. We’ll discuss historical struggles for social and environmental justice in Montreal, as well as contemporary campaigns related to accessible public spaces. This tour will last approximately 3 hours. This event is free. If you can, please reserve in advance at: info@qpirgconcordia.org

info: www.qpirgconcordia.org
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/419524971409717/
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La Belle Époque Open House and Backyard BBQ
Thursday, May 17, 4pm-late
1984 rue Wellington

Stop by La Belle Époque for a spring meet-and-greet, with bbq foods and drinks. Meet the neighbours and other active groups and individuals in
Montreal. Bilingual, English-French. Wheelchair accessible

info: http://epoquemtl.org
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Atelier-discussion : Résistances au développement industriel et à la civilisation occidentale.
Dans le cadre de la fin de semaine contre la civilisation
samedi le 12 mai, 14h
L’Achoppe, 1800 Létourneux (métro Pie-IX)

Dans le contexte actuel du plus grand projet industriel de l’histoire du Québec (Plan Nord), projet qui s’insère lui-même dans un contexte d’exploitation industrielle de vastes territoires à travers le monde, de perte de la biodiversité et de la diversité culturelle, nous vous proposons une discussion entre écologistes et anarchistes sur comment le développement industriel et la civilisation occidentale affectent nos communautés et les milieux naturels qui nous permettent de vivre ainsi que sur comment nous défendre efficacement contre les projets qui cherchent à soumettre la vie et notre liberté.En français. Accessible aux fauteuils roulants (svp contacter les organisateurs/trices).

info: contrelacivilisation.anarkhia.org
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Lancement de la Mauvaise Herbe, vol.11 n.1
samedi 12 mai, 19h
L’Achoppe, 1800 Létourneux (métro Pie-IX)En français
Accessible aux fauteuils roulants (svp contacter les organisateurs/trices)
contrelacivilisation.anarkhia.org
info:http://contrelacivilisation.anarkhia.org/fds_mai2012.html
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Projection et téléconférence sur la lutte contre le développement de pipelines en Colombie-Britannique
dimanche 13 mai, 15h
L’Achoppe, 1800 Létourneux (métro Pie-IX)

Présentation sur les luttes cruciales contre le développement de pipelines sur les territoires occupés non-cédés de la nation Wet’suwet’en par Toghestiy et Freda Huson, précédée de la projection de la première partie du nouveau projet de film de Franklin Lòpez appelé Stop the Flows.Pour plus d’information sur la lutte aborigène en C-B, visitez https://unistotencamp. wordpress.com/ (en anglais seulement). Bilingue anglais-français. Accessible aux fauteuils roulants (svp contacter les organisateurs/trices).

info: http://contrelacivilisation.anarkhia.org/fds_mai2012.html
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Profiles, Prisons & Resistance
From Solitary to Guantanamo North to House Arrest
Surviving 12 years of detention without charge in Canada
Monday, 14 May 2012, 7pm
Centre St. Pierre, 1212 Panet (Beaudry Metro), Montreal

Speaking event with Mohammad Mahjoub, with Adil Charkaoui reading his prison poetry.
Adil Charkaoui is a Montrealer who won his case against a security certificate in 2009.
Free childcare. Whisper translation. Wheel-chair accessible.

For almost twelve long years, Mohammad Mahjoub, a torture survivor from Egypt’s Mubarak regime, has been detained without charge in Canada. All on the basis of secret information which the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has admitted was likely obtained under torture. Mr. Mahjoub remains under heavily intrusive control orders and is still on “deportation row”. However, for the first time in twelve years, he is permitted to travel outside Toronto. Mr. Mahjoub is one of five Muslim men who have been struggling for justice in Canada against so-called security certificates. Security certificates allow the government to indefinitely detain or deport people on the basis of their profile. Mr. Mahjoub will tell his story in a six-city speaking tour, as the Justice for Mahjoub Network gears up for a day of protest to mark the 12^th anniversary of his arrest on June 26th.

info: www.peoplescommission.org
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Septième Festival international de théâtre anarchiste de Montréal

mardi 15 et mercredi 16 mai à La Sala Rossa
4848 boul. St-Laurent, 19h30.

Pour sa septième édition, le Festival international de théâtre anarchiste de Montréal (FITAM), le seul festival au monde dédié au théâtre anarchiste, présentera une trentaine d’artistes en provenance des Philippines, France, USA & Montréal pour deux soirées de théâtre socialement engagé et provocant, en français et en anglais, Les billets sont disponibles au coût de 12$ à la librairie anarchiste «L’Insoumise » située au 2033, boul. St-Laurent, (514- 313-3489) ou à la porte. Pas de sièges réservés. 
Désolé-e-s, pas accessible aux fauteuils roulants

info: www.anarchistetheatrefestival.com
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CABARET ANARCHISTE

VENDREDI/FRIDAY 18 mai, 20h
à l’Alizée, 900 Ontario est

Le vendredi 18 mai c’est le Cabaret d’ouverture du Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal. Sur scène:

Monk.E (http://monk-e.bandcamp.com/)
Webster (http://www.myspace.com/websterls)
FrankPoule (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuZ76cHpVtU)
Action Sédition (https://www.facebook.com/actionsedition)
Mise en demeure (www.miseendemeure.org)
Les Sofilanthropes (http://lessofilanthropes.bandcamp.com)
Brass Band de Grève

5$ ou contribution volontaire
accessible aux fauteuils roulants

info: www.salonanarchiste.ca
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/145364115588628/
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SALON DU LIVRE ANARCHISTE DE MONTRÉAL
MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR

Deux jours/Two days ::
samedi/Saturday, le 19 mai/May 19 & dimanche le 20 mai/Sunday, May 20
10h-17h les deux jours/10am-5pm on both days/

Le Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal sera les 19-20 mai et se tiendra dans deux bâtiments autour du Parc Vinet (CEDA & CCGV) / The Anarchist Bookfair will take place in two buildings across from each other in Parc Vinet ::
- Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA), 2515 rue Delisle
- Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 rue Workman

GRATUIT. Bienvenue à tous et toutes.
Pour les anarchistes et pour les personnes curieuses de l’anarchisme.

Des participants venant de partout au Québec et en Amérique du Nord : des libraires, éditeurs, ateliers, films, discussions, activités pour enfants, expositions d’arts et plus!

FREE. Welcome to all!
 For anarchists, and people curious about anarchism.
Participants from all over Quebec and North America, booksellers and vendors, workshops, films, discussions, kids activities, art exhibits and more!

info: www.salonanarchiste.ca / www.anarchistbookfair.ca
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/113251495449843/
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Anarcho-Indigenists & APOC Potluck / Souper communautaire anarcho-autochtone et APOC / Comida informal anarcho-indigenista y gente de color anarquista
Saturday May 19, 7-11pm
Ste- Emilie Skillshare, 3942 rue Ste. Emilie

At the previous Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (www.anarchistbookfair.ca) we identified a need for us as Anarchist People of Colour (APOC) as well as anarcho-indigenists to know each other work together share experiences and show each other love. Come hang out and share food with us after the Bookfair and before heading out to a Bookfair party. This potluck is open to people who self-identify as Anarchists and People of Colour or Indigenous + our friends/cats. Bilingue, anglais-français. Sorry, not wheelchair accessible.

info: http://steemilieskillshare.org/
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Party et BBQ bénéfice de DIRA Bibliothèque Anarchiste
samedi, le 19 mai, 18h.
Dans la cour de DIRA au 2035 St-Laurent

Joignez-vous à nous pour le BBQ traditionnel du samedi soir du Salon du livre,
bénéfice pour la bibliothèque DIRA!

info: http://bibliothequedira.wordpress.com/
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Glamarchist Lookfair
dimanche le 20 mai, 23h
Il Motore, 179 rue Jean-Talon ouest

info: http://www.qteam.org/
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Communisme, communisation, anarchie…
lundi 21 mai, 19h
1984 rue Wellington
La Belle Époque

Présentations et discussion.

Notre besoin du communisme s’exprime non comme une nouvelle gestion étatique du même, mais plutôt comme manière de déjouer les dispositifs de contrôle qui nous cernent et même nous font être comme identités cernées et séparées. La Société voudrait nous réduire à nos propriétés et nos identités. Nous voulons bien jouer avec, mais d’une manière qui sabote cette Société, qui désactive ses dispositifs. Les systèmes d’oppression qui nous font, nous traversent et existent, forment la réalité de notre existence. Se donner le pouvoir de les éviter veut dire que ce pas de côté ne peut être qu’accompagné d’un art du sabotage. Nous sommes en guerre. La guerre n’est pas qu’extérieure à nous, nous sommes aussi cette guerre. Cette guerre nous traverse. Vivre le communisme est alors vécu comme un mouvement d’insurgéEs où les formes de vie existent indomptables et se partagent dans leurs puissances d’anéantissement, mais aussi d’affirmation. «D’un côté, nous voulons vivre le communisme ; de l’autre, nous voulons répandre l’anarchie.» À partir de cette proposition, plusieurs dispositions se révèlent. Cet atelier mettra en dialogue deux présentations et sera suivi d’une discussion collective

En français (avec traduction vers anglais). Accessible aux fauteuils roulants.

info: www.epoquemtl.org
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Book Launch & Panel: “Decolonizing Anarchism”
An Anti-colonial Victoria Day!

Monday, May 21, 4pm-6pm
Café l’Artère, 7000 Parc ave. (métro Parc)

Free! Welcome to all!
The venue is wheelchair accessible, but the bathrooms are not.
Childcare available on request (phone 514-848-7585 to reserve)
Présentation en anglais avec traduction chuchotée en français.

Book launch: “Decolonizing Anarchism: An antiauthoritarian history of India’s liberation struggle”
Panel discussion “Anarchism and anti-colonial struggles from South Asia to Turtle Island”

Participants:
– Clifton Nicholas – Mohawk anarchist activist from Kanehsatake
– Ponni Arasau- Queer feminist organizer from New Delhi, India
– Maia Ramnath- Author of “Decolonizing Anarchism”
Moderated by Indu Vashist

info: http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/?p=3345
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/258632980901703/
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“Nightcap for Nihilists” Book Launch
Tuesday, May 22, 5pm-7pm
CASA DEL POPOLO, 4873 boul St-Laurent

Norman launches his newest collection of anarchist-inspired poetry with readings & live music. English. Wheelchair accessible.

info: www.nothingness.org/music/rhythm
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Théâtre au DIRA ! L’homme approximatif, de Tristan Tzara
jeudi 24 mai, 20h
Bibliothèque DIRA 2035 St-Laurent
métro St-Laurent ou Berri

Spectacle adapté du poème de Tristan TZARA
Durée 1h

Cocktails, rafraîchissements, ballons et autres avantages.Ecrit entre 1925 et 1930, ce poème de Tristan Tzara se trouve à la croisée de l’insoumission dadaïste qui s’achève et de la révolte des surréalistes qui commence (dans le journal desquels est publié le poème pour la première fois). Il nous dévoile l’image d’un homme, jeté au hasard dans le monde, inaccessible à lui-même comme aux autres, incertain du sens de sa vie et néanmoins passionné par celle-ci. Petit homme, minuscule, réduit à des approximation de sens toujours fluctuant, soumis aux à-peu-près du destin, ballotté par l’incertitude de ses pas.

En français. Désolé-e-s, pas accessible aux fauteuils roulants

info: dira@riseup.net – 514 843-2018 – bibliothequedira.wordpress.com
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“Disability Politics and Theory”:
Book Launch and Panel (with AJ Withers, Anna Malla & Laurence Parent)
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 6pm
at the Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier, 2450 rue Workman (métro Lionel-Groulx)

The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Childcare available on request (phone 514-848-7585to reserve)
Whisper translation into English & French
Get in touch about access needs and requests (info@qpirgconcordia.org)

About “Disability Politics and Theory”:
An accessible introduction to disability studies,Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from the late 19th century to the present. Further, A.J. Withers examines when, how and why new categories of disability are created and describes how capitalism benefits from and enforces disabled people’s oppression. Critiquing the model that currently dominates the discipline, the social model of disability, this book offers an alternative: the radical disability model. This model builds on the social model but draws from more recent schools of radical thought, particularly feminism and critical race theory, to emphasize the role of intersecting oppressions in the marginalization of disabled people and the importance of addressing disability both independently and in conjunction with other oppressions. Intertwining theoretical and historical analysis with personal experience this book is a poignant portrayal of disabled people in Canada and the U.S. — and a radical call for social and economic justice.

info: http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/?p=3351
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/329844997082804/
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24-26 MAI: OFF – Festival de l’anarchie À QUÉBEC

- Jeudi 24 mai : film et soirée dansante
-Vendredi 25 mai : livre et débats
- Samedi 26 mai : Conférences et ateliers

info: http://quebec-libertaire.blogspot.ca/

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UN STATUT POUR TOUTES ET TOUS!
Marche pour la justice et la dignité pour tout-es les immigrant-es et les réfugié-es
SAMEDI LE 26 MAI 2012 à MIDI (rassemblement: Jean-Talon & Boyer, métro Jean-Talon)

STATUS FOR ALL!
March for justice and dignity for all migrants and refugees
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012 at NOON (gathering at Jean-Talon & Boyer, métro Jean-Talon)

info: www.solidarityacrossborders.org
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/283830635038763/
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Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement Book Launch
Monday May 28, 7pm
1984 rue Wellington

Fire and Flames was the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. Released in 1990, it reached its fifth edition by 1997, with the legendary German Konkret journal concluding that “the movement had produced its own classic.” The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the scene in 1980-81. In this book, he traces its origins in the Italian Autonomia project and the German social movements of the 1970s, before describing the battles for squats, “free spaces,” and alternative forms of living that defined the first decade of the autonomous movement. Tactics of the “Autonome” were militant, including the construction of barricades or throwing molotov cocktails at the police. Because of their outfit (heavy black clothing, ski masks, helmets), the Autonome were dubbed the “Black Bloc” by the German media, and their tactics have been successfully adopted and employed at anti-capitalist protests worldwide.

Fire and Flames is no detached academic study, but a passionate, hands-on, and engaging account of the beginnings of one of Europe’s most intriguing protest movements of the last thirty years. The book is being released by PM Press in April 2012, and this will be the official Montreal book launch. Copies of the book will be available at a discounted price for $15 (regular price $20). English (with translation to French). Wheelchair accessible.

info: http://epoquemtl.org
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Pelican Bay one year after the strikes
Thursday May 31, 7pm
La Belle Époque – 1984 rue Wellington

Almost a year after the start of historic hunger strikes across California, we will present an update on the situation at Pelican and other California prisons, share reflections on the strike from voices from the inside and the outside, and write letters to strikers.

Dinner will be served.
English (with translation to French)
Wheelchair accessible.

info: http://epoquemtl.org
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Pink dots show a new table for the 2012 edition.
Blue dots show a returning table.
Click on the dots to go to the various websites.

Anarchist Cabaret
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 8pm
at l’Alizée, 900 Ontario est

Performing:

• Monk.E (http://monk-e.bandcamp.com/)
• Webster (http://www.myspace.com/websterls)
• FrankPoule (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuZ76cHpVtU)
• Action Sédition (https://www.facebook.com/actionsedition)
• Mise en demeure (www.miseendemeure.org)
• Les Sofilanthropes (http://lessofilanthropes.bandcamp.com)
• Brass Band de Grève

5$ or pay-what-you-can
wheelchair accessible
info@salonanarchiste.ca

Sunday, May 20, 11am-5pm
CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle (métro Lionel-Groulx)
Room 125 (wheelchair accessible

At the Montreal Rad School, children are free to pursue their own interests, to explore at their own rhythm and to participate in a democratic community. Children are considered capable to direct themselves and to learn on their own, they are encouraged to discover their personal desire to learn; they are encouraged to explore, question, discover and grow! The adults involved act as mentors, guides and personal resources to facilitate the children’s projects.

The Anarchist Families Theme Room, an initiative of the Montreal Rad School, consists of workshops by and for children, teens, and parents.

11am-1pm: Voluntary simplicity and children, part 1, for kids (FR)

Recycled pipes or tubing, honeycombs, mayonnaise, ketchup, spices, mustard, paper, rope… if you’ve fingers, an imagination, and resourcefulness, that’s all you need to have fun! Come make a didgeridoo, zine, or artwork made from paints found in the kitchen!

P.S. Bring an image/photo of your favourite animal.

This workshop will be animated by Loïc, Olivier, and Camille (members of the Montreal Rad School)

1pm-3pm: Voluntary simplicity and children, part 2, for parents (BIL)

Philosophies, insights, and practical suggestions for parents wishing to arm themselves against capitalism’s inherent ideology of consumption. Down with consumerism on the back of our children! Come exchange ideas in this open discussion space.

Topics will include:

-  natural infant hygiene: Practiced in many cultures around the world. The myth of the necessity of diapers dismantled!

-  proximity parenting: Sharing a bed, breastfeeding, traditional carrying methods.

This workshop will be animated by Caroline Quinn, Martine Quimper, and Mathieu Côté-Desjardins (members of the Montreal Rad School)

3pm-5pm: Introduction to Liberatory Pedagogy (FR)

Anarchists have long understood the importance of education in maintaining the capitalist system. In this workshop we’ll explore diverse libertarian pedagogical responses through thinkers like Godwin, Stirner, Robin, Faure, Ferrer, and Proudhon.

This workshop will be animated by Marike Reid-Gaudet and Olivier Chabot (members of the Montreal Rad School)

Saturday, May 19, 11am-5pm

This room will include hands-on workshops that are bilingual and all-ages. The AUTONOMOUS MEDIA ROOM is dedicated to sharing the skills and knowledge of different mediums as deployed by anarchists – such as pirate radio, screen printing, secure communication, and more.

*NB workshops presented in only one language will have whisper translation towards English and French.

SCHEDULE

Bloc 1 (11am-1pm)
FM Transmitter Building Workshop – with CKUT Radio (EN/FR)

Pull back the veil on radio transmission and mass communication bybuilding your own FM radio transmitter. We will pull out our solderingirons and assemble all the parts necessary to start up a live broadcast.

** There will be a cost of $10 for each FM transmitter kit. This cost can be split among a few participants, and you can keep your transmitter after the workshop.

Bloc 2 (12pm-4pm)
Live Radio: Workshop by CKUT 90.3fm (EN/FR)

This workshop will take place in the hall on the first floor. Noon-2:00pmwill include training in live radio setup and production followed by alive radio show broadcast from the bookfair on CKUT from 2-4pm.

Bloc 3 (1pm-3pm)
Screenprinting for the Revolution – presented by The Ste. EmilieSkillshare (EN/FR)

Come to this screenprinting crash course and learn how you can use screenprinting as a tool for revolution. We’ll learn about screens,emulsion, image preparation, paper and fabric printing, basic image registration and all the rad projects you and your affinity group can do.

Bloc 4 (3:00-5:00pm)
Round table discussion: “Autonomous Media, A Decade After Indymedia”

With interventions from: Gretchen King (CKUT, Indymedia), Patrick Cadorette (CMAQ), Tim McSorley (Montreal Media Coop), Laura Kneale (CUTV)

A co-presentation of: CKUT Radio and the Montreal Media Coop

For a map illustrating where the various vendors are coming from, click on Where they’re coming from.

A☀ means that the vendor has, among other things, content designed for kids.

From Montréal

Anarchist People of Colour Distro
Anarchistes pour des technologies solidaires / Anarchist Tech Support
Anti Raciste Action
Association Québécoise pour la Promotion de la Santé des personnes Utilisatrices
Bibliothèque anarchiste DIRA
Bloc des auteur-e-s anarchistes / Anarchist Writers Bloc
Brokeass, Timmy Gibbler, Situology
Bruno Massé, auteur
Chloé Germain-Thérien
Cinema Politica
CKUT Radio
COBP (Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière)
Coco Riot
Collectif de solidarité anti-coloniale – Montréal
Collectif Rebelles Montréal
Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore- ☀
Convergence des luttes AntiCapitalistes
Coop média de Montréal/Montreal Media Coop
Coups de Tête
Dignidad Migrante
Distroboto/ Archive Montreal
École Hors-les-murs ☀
Éditions Écosociété
Elisha Lim ☀
Festival international de théâtre anarchiste de Montréal
Fight Boredom Distro
Four Minutes to Midnight
Haiti Action Montreal
HardCopy Distro
Hors d’Oeuvre
Immigrant Workers Center
Infringement Festival
Into Rebellion Distro
Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Kate Lavut Books and Comics
Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.net
Kolumbia Tuotanto
La Otra Montréal
La Mauvaise Herbe / Diffusion MH
La Mitrailleuse
La Pointe libertaire
La Sociale/CDL
Le Frigo Vert
Le Groupe internationaliste ouvrier
L’École-Libre Radicale de Mtl Rad School
Les Éditions Rodrigol
Les Sorcières
Librairie Anarchiste L’Insoumise ☀
LUX éditeur
M éditeur
Maikan
Meow, Pow Now!
Mexicans United for Regularization
Montreal Sisterhood
Moult Éditions / La Conspiration dépressionniste
New Escapologist
No One Is Illegal-Montreal
Open Door Books
Paved with Good Intentions
Philip Amsel
PolitiQ – queers solidaires
Prisoner Correspondence Project
PRO-CAN comics ☀
Projet d’Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie (PASC)
QPIRG Concordia
Qteam
Radical Montreal
RASH (Red and Anarchist SkinHeads)
Réseau de la Commission populaire
Skunk Dog Distro ☀
Solidarity Across Borders
Ste. Emilie Skillshare
Syndicat industriel des travailleurs et des travailleuses (IWW Montréal)
Tadamon!
The People’s Potato Collective
The Saint Henri Walking Distance Distro
underthepavement distro
Union Communiste Libertaire

From outside Montréal

AK Press (Oakland , Edinburg, Baltimore) ☀
Anemone Distro (Guelph, ON)
Autonomedia (New York City, NY)
Beehive Design Collective (Machias, ME) ☀
BenderGear (Sudbury, ON)
Bread and Puppet Theater (Glover, VT) ☀
brescia bloodbeard (Toronto, ON)
Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg, MB)
Certain Days:Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar (Toronto, ON)
Charles H.Kerr Publishing (Chicago, IL)
CIRA (Centre international de recherches sur l’anarchisme) (Lauzanne, SUISSE)
Combustion Books (New York City, NY)
Common Cause (Ontario)
Editions Agone (Marseille, FRANCE)
Elm City Infoshop (New Haven, CT)
Epidemic Clothing (Kingston, ON)
Fédération anarchiste (Paris, FRANCE)
Fierce n’ Fabulous (Guelph, ON)
Fire to the Prisons (USA)
go it alone (together) (Halifax, NS)
Great Worm Express Distro (Toronto, ON)
Guelph ABC (Guelph, ON)
Iconoclast (Toronto, ON)
If I Can’t Dance is it Still My Revolution (Toronto, ON)
Industrial workers of the world Ottawa-Outaouais (Ottawa, ON)
Institute for Anarchist Studies (USA & Canada)
Just Seeds! (Amérique du Nord)
KW Infoshop Project (Kitchener, ON)
La Page noire (Québec, QC)
Le monde à l’envers (Grenoble, FRANCE)
Little Black Cart (Berkeley, CA)
“Look Mum!” distro (Guelph, ON)
Love and Rage Liberation Collective (Toronto, ON)
MAMAFESTO: Issue #1- A Zine for Mamas by Mamas (Sault Ste-Marie, ON)
Notes From Underground (Toronto, ON)
OCAP – Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Ontario)
Of Course You Can! Distro (Manitoba)
Pétroleuse Press (Brooklyn, NY & Oakland, CA)
PM Press (Oakland, CA)☀
Rebel Time Records (Hamilton, ON)
Sluts and Goddesses (Kitchener, ON)
The Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu (Toronto, ON)
thoughtcrime ink / Black Cat Press (Edmonton, AB)
Toronto Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) (Toronto, ON)
twelveohtwo zine distro (Toronto, ON)
Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action (Toronto, ON)

Our new Anarchist Bookfair 2012 poster and related images are ready! The new images include an Anarchist Bookfair icon, as well as a web banner.

To download the images right-click the following links and choose “save link as”:

• 11”x17” French colour poster
• 11”x17” English colour poster
• 11”x17” French black & white poster
• 11”x17” English black & white poster
• English flyer (side 1)
• English flyer (side 2)
• French flyer (recto)
• French flyer (verso)
• Logo (hi-res)
• Logo (low-res)
• Web banner

We encourage you to download the posters and flyers to print, display and distribute locally. We also encourage you to use the icon and banners on your website, or to create ads for your publications.

Posters and flyers are also available for distribution at the following Montreal-area locations:

* QPIRG Concordia
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
métro Guy-Concordia
(lundi à jeudi: 12h-18h)

* La Librairie Anarchiste L’Insoumise
2033 boulevard St-Laurent
métro St-Laurent
(mardi-mercredi: 12h-18h; jeudi-vendredi: 12h-20h; samedi-dimanche: 13h-17h)

* DIRA Bibliothèque Anarchiste
2035 boulevard St-Laurent
métro St-Laurent
(tél: 514-843-2018)

If you can help with outreach efforts, particularly distributing and displaying posters and flyers widely in the Montreal-area, please get in touch with us by e-mail at info@anarchistbookfair.ca

This year’s poster and related images are designed by Jennifer Galewski.

Message from Jenny: “I work in real time at Koumbit doing web design for different non-profits in Quebec. I lend my artistic skills to support causes and values that I hold dear to my heart. I took advantage of the callout for Montreal Anarchist Bookfair posters to make an illustration, something I rarely have the time to do in my daily work. My original idea was a crowd, with a girl in front, all raised by a book above the city. But, then I met Catho, who explained to me a super idea that she could not realize because she doesn’t draw. So I became her hands and eyes to realize a small family and their inseparable cat which was selected as this year’s poster. Like any badly shod shoemaker, I don’t have a website but you can reach me at jenny (at) koumbit.org !”

Thank you to all artists and designers who submitted poster designs for consideration for this year’s Bookfair. All submitted designs will be displayed at the Anarchist Bookfair as part of the Art & Anarchy exhibition.

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is seeking the support of volunteers who can help with the organization and promotion of this year’s Bookfair and Festival of Anarchy.

There are many tasks associated with the Bookfair, even at this stage, including planning and preparing for childcare and kids activities, film room, art and anarchy, workshops and presentations, organizing tables and distributors, various logistics including food, translations, and more. As well, there is the promotion of the Bookfair itself, which includes postering, flyering, online publicity and more.

If you can help volunteer with any of these tasks between now and May, please get in touch at any time by phone or e-mail. If you have any particular skills or contributions you can make towards the organization of the Bookfair, get in touch as well.

The Bookfair collective is organizing three volunteer meetings so that we can meet face-to-face and let people know how they can get involved.

The upcoming volunteer meetings will be:
- WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 6:30pm-7:30pm (followed by postering/flyering)
- THURSDAY, MAY 10, 6:30pm-7:30pm (followed by postering/flyering)
- MONDAY, MAY 14, 6:30pm-7:30pm (followed by postering/flyering)
- THURSDAY, MAY 17, 6:30pm-7:30pm (followed by postering/flyering)

All meetings above will be at 1500 de Maisonneuve West, #204 (métro Guy-Concordia). The space is wheelchair accessible.

All potential Bookfair volunteers are encouraged to consult the following:
- Bookfair Principles: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/about/principles
- Bookfair Accessibility Policy and Committment: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/about/accessibility

To get in touch:
phone: 514-679-5800
e-mail: info@salonanarchiste.ca