Anonymous Comrade writes:
BLACK SHEEP BOOKS presents

"Anarchy in Montp"
Monday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

a day of talks, panels, performances, and socializing at 4 Langdon Street
in Montpelier, Vermont

* 1:00 p.m.
BORN TO LOSE, FIGHT TO WIN!
WORKING-CLASS EXPERIENCE AND ANARCHISM
A panel with Mark Laskey, Sean, and Kristin

In this panel, three working-class anarchists will share personal stories and ideas about coming to anarchism from a working-class background, and what it means -- if anything in particular -- to be a "working-class anarchist." This highly subjective panel hopes to be a spark that ignites a lively discussion among the audience about class, struggle, revolution, anarchism, and really anything we decide to get into.

Mark Laskey is a high school dropout from a relatively poor, working-class family background who has been involved with the anarchist movement for nearly fifteen years. He is a founding member of NEFAC, and is currently on the editorial board of the "Northeastern Anarchist" magazine. He is also a union member (IATSE local 182), involved in various labor and community struggles, and a longtime collective member of the Lucy Parsons Center in Boston.

Sean is from a blue-collar family, and has been active in a wide array of organizing and troublemaking endeavors. He is currently active as a rank-and-file union member in the service sector, and is a member of NEFAC (www.nefac.net).

Kristin comes from a background of being raised by a rockin' single mom, living in subsidized housing, and trying to survive off the meager benefits of the welfare system and a lot of hard work. She has come to identify with anarchism through being active in a local union drive to organize service and retail workers.

* 2:30 p.m.
"ANARCHISM IN AMERICA"
Showing of this new film by Pacific Street Films;
for more info, see http://www.psfp.com/anarchism.htm

* 4:30 p.m.
REVULSION, VIOLENCE, TRAUMA: REPETITIONS AND RUPTURES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE (1917-1935) TO THE NEO-AVANT-GARDE (LATE 1950s-1960s) TO NOW
A talk by Erika Biddle

This talk will address the question of aesthetics and violence, focusing in particular on the period between 1918 and 1939, with a brief venture into contemporary culture. The talk will include: Benjamin’s critique of violence and his vision of history as decay, Agamben on terror, Artaud on revulsion and cruelty and how these ideas manifest in Dada’s aesthetics of violence and revulsion, Surrealism’s aesthetics of violence and cruelty, and contemporary art’s aesthetics of violence and trauma.

Erika Biddle currently lives in New York City, is involved with the Mayday Books Collective, and provides editorial support for the radical books publisher Autonomedia, the multimedia magazine Arcade Project, the Siyahi Editorial Collective, and Fifth Estate.

* 6:30 p.m.
THE ANARCHISM THAT IS FULL OF POSSIBILITIES
A talk by Ashanti Alston

Ashanti is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former political prisoner (Black Liberation Army) for over 14 years. He was recently the Northeast regional coordinator for Critical Resistance, a national radical prison abolitionist organization and is now a member of its New York City chapter, Estacion Libre, an organization that works to strengthen ties between people of color in the United States with folks in the liberated Zapatista territories of Chiapas Mexico and anarchist people of color. Ashanti sits on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and has been an invited guest teacher for the last two summers at the Institute of Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont. He also authors the zine "Anarchist Panther."

* 8:00 p.m.
WOMEN IN THE ARGENTINE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
A multimedia presentation based on recent interviews by Graciela Monteagudo in Argentina

Graciela is an Argentine human rights activist and community artist. She holds an MFA from Goddard College, and has worked internationally with diverse communities both on her own and with Bread and Puppet Theater. Some of her work has included coordinating puppet and street theater actions in Latin America and throughout the United States. Lately, Graciela has been touring internationally with multimedia presentations about Argentina, and she coordinates the Argentina Autonomous Project.

Everyone welcome; spread the word!

SUPPORT BLACK SHEEP BOOKS and the community space it creates: stop by and pick up a great book or magazine (new arrivals regularly!); recommend us to a friend(s); or donate books or zines in great condition within the subject areas we already carry.

BLACK SHEEP BOOKS is Vermont's only all-volunteer
workers' collective specializing in radical and
scholarly used books.

BLACK SHEEP BOOKS
4 Langdon Street, Montpelier
(802) 225-8906
Hours: Tues-Wed 11-7, Thurs-Sat 11-9, and Sun 11-6
http://www.blacksheepbooks.org

This event continues the educational and political fun of the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, May 21-22;
see http://anarchistbookfair.taktic.org"