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8 Days of Anarchy: An expression of autonomy

Of course we want to have a good time, it be a damn sight harder to be a sober anarchist than a wild one. Eight days of anarchy is about having a good time but it's also about something else something... Not more important but more lasting. At the end of an evening where we have celebrated, or shared sorrow, or even lashed out against those we despise we have to look around and see who is with us. We do an accounting. Eight days of anarchy is a calculation. It's a measurement of those who stand with us and their proximity to each other.

This is the eighth year of eight days anarchy. Eight years of relationships between, not quite friends, not quite allies, but something else indeed. Could it be eight years later we had learned to fight together, to share history, and trust each other enough to discuss future plans.


Day 3 — An Anarchist Celebration of Audrey


Audrey Goodfriend passed from this life in January. Here's little bit about her

Audrey Goodfriend was an anarchist her entire life. Born to anarchist immigrants in New York, Audrey grew up speaking Yiddish at home and lived in the Sholem Aleichem House; a radical cooperative housing project in the Bronx. She was a girl when Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in Boston in 1927 and their letters were instrumental in shaping her anarchism, continuing to move her throughout her life.
As an adolescent and young adult, Audrey sent care packages to anarchist comrades fighting in Spain, read Living My Life against the express wishes of her parents who felt it was too sexually explicit, and traveled to Toronto with a friend to have tea with Emma Goldman. During World War II, she was part of the Why? Group, a publishing collective that printed an anti-war anarchist periodical at a time when many radicals were choosing to support the state in what they saw as a just war against fascism. Anti-zionist since before there ever was a state of Israel, Audrey and her comrades believed strongly that no state violence was ever justified.

You can read more about the life of Audrey Goodfriend here

 

We wanted to set aside some time for us to share stories, and food in the memory of Audrey Goodfriend.

 

Where: Humanist Hall - 390 27th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612-3104
What: Potluck meal (bring chocolate, bread & cheese, vegan things, and salad (with fruit)!)
What else: video, music (contact us if you have a song), and presentations
When: Thursday March 14th 7-9ish

Day 4 — Anarchist Picnic

 

The evening of March 15th will probably involve several marches and actions against police brutality. It's important for anarchist to understand the history of struggle against the police and why March 15th is the day that anarchists do this.

Before that evening, before the anarchist Café, before an evening of jail solidarity, we will meet for a picnic to discuss how best to meet the struggle against the police. The picnic will be a potluck, there are many good places to find food in the immediate area around our picnic spot in central Berkeley.

Meet us between noon and 3 PM. Bring food. Bring friends. Bring your ideas.

 

Where: Ohlone park (far east end near MLK) - for picnic only!
When: March 15th between noon and three
What: a picnic with new and old friends

Day 6 — BASTARD Conference


This year, the Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research & Development (BASTARD) conference is interested in the relation of ethics and aesthetics to our ideal; are we trying to make the world more beautiful or more ethical? If we are hewing to an aesthetic vision, how does replacing the -good- with the beautiful prevent us from recreating the problems of moralism with different language, if we are retaining some concept of ethics, how is it distinct from christian or liberal morality?

How does the interplay of Ethics and Aesthetics shape our tactics, relationships, projects, and conceptions of ourselves as anarchists? How is this question related to the broad strains of anarchist thought?

 

Where: UC Berkeley
When: March 17th between 10am and 6pm
What: The 14th annual BASTARD conference

All 8 Days Events

Day One - Tuesday, March 12th Day Two - Wednesday, March 13th Day Three - Thursday, March 14th
  • An anarchist memorial for Audrey Goodfriend.
  • Humanist Hall Oakland CA
Day Four - Friday, March 15th
  • A picnic, the anarchist cafe, and the international day against police brutality. Ohlone park Berkeley CA
Day Five - Saturday, March 16th
  • The alter-bookfair, Mission District SF. Several locations. Many types of events. Decentralized! Check here for more information.
Day Six - Sunday, March 17th Day Seven - Monday, March 18th
  • The conspiracy of brunches (find the one closest to you!)
Day Eight - Tuesday, March 19th

Anarchists Amok!

A day of autonomous events in the Mission 3/16/2013

On March 16th we invite you to visit the Mission district and join us for a day of autonomously organized events: Books, speakers, workshops, and skillshares. There will be more specifics as the date draws closer but we now announce these locations.

  • (A) Subversive Book Event @ Station 40 (3030b 16th Street). 11am-6pm
  • A Day of (A) THEORY & DIY Skill Shares! @ In The works (3265 17th Street)
  • Hackmeet Presents: Hack For Anarchy! @ Noisebridge (2169 Mission Street)
  • Presentations! @ the Redstone building (2940 16th Street)
  • Radical Walking Tour of the Mission (more details forthcoming)
More details...

(A) Subversive Book Event

Join us at Station 4O on March 16th for a subversive book event. Organized as an autonomous addition to the festivities of the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair Weekend and the Bay Area's 8 Days of Anarchy, this subversive book event will include tabling by various anarchist projects from around the country.

Proceeds from the event will go towards legal expenses for the Cleveland 4; Connor Stevens, Douglas Wright, Brandon Baxter, and Joshua "Skelly" Stafford are four comrades who are collectively serving decades in prison after being entrapped by the FBI. For more information on the Cleveland 4's case, visit their legal support site at: www.cleveland4solidarity.org there will also be materials for folks to write and send letters to prisoners.

Station 40 is located directly across from the 16th and Mission BART plaza, and two blocks from the Armory. The address is 3030b 16th Street.

Tablers include:

  • A.B.E.C.D.
  • The Anti-Repression Committee
  • Beehive Collective
  • Black Spring Press
  • East Bay Prisoner Support
  • For I Cannot be Quiet
  • Gender Anarky Support Team
  • Grand Jury Resistance
  • The Holdout Bookstore Collective
  • Little Black Cart
  • ofrendas quemadas
  • QI Publications
  • Quiver
  • Santa Cruz Anarchist Projects (Free Skool Cruz, Scamp, Meristem Distro, and SubRosa)
  • ...and more!
For most up-to-date info go to our blog

**Regretfully, Station 40 is not wheel chair accessible. Our space is up 2 flights of stairs.

A Day of (A) Theory & DIY skill shares!

In The Works presents: A Day of (A) THEORY & DIY Skill Shares!

As part of the 2013 8 Days of Anarchy, ''A Day of (A) Theory & DIY Skill Shares'' will aim to retain, deepen and strengthen the subversive and dangerous texts, ideas and ways of being and doing that anarchist thought and practice make possible.

The day will include tabling from various anarchist publishers and thinkers, discussion relevant to struggle in our current post-modern trajectory, and craft presentations. If you have an interest in tabling, talking, or presenting something practical drop us a line!

All tables and speakers/discussions will use In The Works event space for free/donation only. All donations received from this event will go to the Free Jeremy Hammond! legal fund. Jeremy Hammond is a 28 year old anarchist and web-developer from Chicago who is being accused of hacking Strategic Forecasting(Stratfor), and publishing this information via the website Wikileaks.org, as the 'Global Intelligence Files'.

WHERE: In The Works/ is located 1 1/2 blocks from the 16th Street Mission BART station at 3265 17th Street, between Mission & Capp Streets.

WHEN: March 16th, 11AM - 5PM

WHO:

  • Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  • C.A.L. Press
  • Intellectual Vagabond
  • Freedom Club Press
  • LBC Books
  • Insane Dialectical Posse
  • Bay Area Public School
  • Bay Area Ladyfest
  • Black Powder Press
  • SF CopWatch
  • DIY Book Binding
  • DIY Sex Toys
  • 40 Thieves
  • ...and more to come!

If you are interested in tabling for this event please contact us here: tables@8daysofanarchy.org

Talks by

  1. 1215-115PM: *Girl Army!* Melisa gives a presentation on Chinese Martial Arts
  2. 130-230PM: *SF/Berkeley CopWatch* presents on recent updates including footage!
  3. 240-340PM: *Anarchism & Education* by Autumn
  4. 345-500PM: *After Occupy? Anarchy!* by Doug

    After the occupy movement, new struggles have developed against sexual violence, environmental exploitation, and native sovereignty. But as quickly as they are formed, these struggles often are recuperated back into single issue demands and stripped of their disruptive qualities and potentially revolutionary goals. This workshop will look how anarchists can intervene in these moments, with both ideas, actions, and critiques. It will also look at how genuine class struggle in both the era of the depression in the 1930's as well as during the civil rights struggles of the late 1960's and early 1970's were also recuperated as a means to gain better insight into our current political situation.

In The Works is an anticapitalist and antiauthoritarian events and (anti)art collective that seeks total liberation.

In the Works

Childcare!

On Saturday: Located at KidPOWER Park on Hoff Street, between Station 40 and ITW.
On Sunday: At the BASTARD Conference

We will have childcare graciously provided by SCAMP! Check out Their site for more information about SCAMP!.

Hack for Anarchy!

Join us for a day of skillshares and talks around hacking, anarchism, social disorder, robots, security and all things awesome.

We are still looking for speakers, if you are interested please contact me!

Talks that will be happening:
  • Lockpicking
  • Android Security
  • Mobile Sound Systems
  • Pirate Radio
  • Email Encryption
  • What to do if you're arrested

Anti-Capitalist Theory & Practice

Redstone Building, Saturday March 16th from 12-1800
Anti-Capitalist Theory & Practice
An Afternoon of Collective Discussions
TimeWorkshopPresenters
12-12:55Anarchists Defending AnarchistsMatt & team
13-13:55Reviving the Strike:
& Other Class War Activities
Reviving the Strike
Public School Group
14-14:55Anti-Gentrification Part I:
Screening of Redevelopment: A Marxist Analysis (1974)
Filmaker will be present
15-15:55Anti-Gentrification Part II:
Roundtable Discussion
Researching/Mapping Land Use History Public School Group & San Francisco Tenants Union
16-16:55The Communization CurrentEndnotes & Communization Research Cluster Public School Group
17-17:55Struggle for CCSF:
An Anti-Authoritarian Perspective
Public School & Occupy the Richmond District

More Details as we have them!

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