2nd Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair

The Second Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 1 and 2, 2009 at the Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research, 6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90044 (Saturday) and the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, 675 S Park View St, Los Angeles, California 90057 (Sunday).

Schedule of 2009 Anarchist Conference & Cultural Fair

Conference is being held at Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research, 6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90044 (Saturday)

2nd SoCal Anarchist Conference

Sunday, August 1st 2009

SCHEDULE

12:00-12:30PM WELCOME Location

Opening remarks by the Southern California Library Staff & the Conference organizing collective Main Room

12:30-2:00PM WORKSHOPS/Session Topic Presenters Location

PANELS “Local Indigenous Struggles” Angie Burhns, Tongva Main Room

“Piracy & Hooliganism: The eclipse and re-emergence of the Prole from Utopian pirates to the L.A. Lakers riot”

Vlad & Chimatli from the IDP & Colectivo Acratas http://acratas.com/ http://flyingpicket.org/ http://laeastside.com/author/chimatli/

Reading Room

“Building Autonomous Resistance through Mutual Aid” Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Upstairs Room

“Time Banking: Alternatives to the cash economy” Manny, Echo Park Time Bank Garden http://www.echoparktimebank.com

2:15-4:00PM WORKSHOPS/ Session Topic Presenters Location

PANELS “SoCal (A), Anti-authoritarian & Autonomous Collectives & Projects: Past, Present and Future” Various Main Room

“Institute for Anarchist Studies” Cindy Milstein Reading Room www.anarchist-studies.org/

“Building Autonomous Alternatives in Education” Sirena Pellarolo Reading Room

“Class War in Time of Economic Crisis: Anti-Capitalist Struggles Today” Insane Dialectical Posse Upstairs Room http://flyingpicket.org/

“The U.S. Labor Movement & The Anarchist Tradition” IWW- Los Angeles GMB Upstairs Room

4:00-5:00PM INTERMISSION

Food By Food Not Bombs Main Room

“Resist the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh” By Pittsburgh Organizing Group Main Room

5:15-7:00PM STRATEGIZING/ Focus Presenters Location

NETWORKING “The arrest of Alex Sanchez” Oscar Sanchez, Mirna – Homies Unidos Main Room

“Anarcha-Feminism” Anarcha-LA & CLIT Fest Los Angeles Reading Room http://www.anarchala.org/

“Media/ Cop-watch” Sherman Austin Upstairs Room

“Survival Guide for Obamamania New Millennium” Black Riders Garden

7:00-8:30PM POPULAR ASSEMBLY A space to converge, share, reflect, give feedback, and further network with other attendees

Main Room

8:30-9:00PM CLOSING Closing remarks by the organizing collective and other announcements. Main Room

Feria Libertaria

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UCLA Downtown Labor Center, 675 S Park View St, Los Angeles, California 90057

FERIA LIBERTARIA

Sunday August 2, 2009

CONFIRMED ARTISTS: ==============

Aztlan Underground Sherman Austin, Guerrilla Queenz, Cihuatl-Ce, Rebels to the Grain, Sacrifice, Black Riders, Fresher Fresh, Send the Dogs, Olmeca

Radical Cheerleaders (between sets) ==================== Vendors ==================== AK press los anagels overdose prevention taskforce IMIX books Phoenix class war councel modesto Anarcho Crew Anarcha LA PM press Anarchist Black Cross Federation Journal of Aesthetics & Protest No more deaths/ No mas muertes Friendly Fire Collective I.W.W. Tree People Homies Unidos Cal-Earth

================ Childcare

Childcare will be provided for the Anarchist Conference on August 1st at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. Childcare will be coordinated by Anarcha L.A.

If you have prior experience in childcare and or are a parents who will be attending the event and would like to help please contact us prior to the August 1st via email: volunteer@anarchala.org or introduce yourself at the Anarcha -L.A. table the day of.

We are also putting together a box of kid suppplies- crafty stuff, face paint, dress up clothes, games. if any of you have things you’d like to lend or permanently donate, bring them the day of the conference.

We would also like to start a radical childcare collective so that Anarcha isn’t the only one providing childcare during Anarchist events. If any of you would like to be involved, know people that would like to be involved, etc., let us know!

Anarcha Los Angeles Collective

http://www.anarchala.org/ =========================== www.anarchistconference.org/