The Dublin anarchist Bookfair returns to Liberty Hall on Saturday 12th of April this year
for our 9th annual edition with events also on Friday night & SUnday afternoon. ---- here
will be discussions, speakers from movements engaged in struggle, home and abroad. There
will be books and stalls and much more. If you?ve been to one, then you know what I?m
talking about, if you haven?t make sure you keep the date set aside, and we?ll be seeing
you on the 12th of April. ---- Please mark your attendence on the main Facebook event for
the bookfair and invite any friends you think should be interested. Publicity is one of
the big costs of hosting it every year so you contribution in that way really helps. ----
Before and during the bookfair we encourage you to tweet to #dabf
The weekend starts Friday night with a film screening before the main event in Liberty
Hall on Saturday, an afters party / fundraiser in The Flowing Tide Saturday night and then
rolling though to Sunday afternoon for a Cycling tour around Dublin. It's one hell of a
weekend and you will meet some amazing people.
We have provided individual Facebook events for many of the subsections of the bookfair.
Please do click through and resspond to any you are going to as this gives us an
indication of numbers and so helps with planning. The micro stories you create also help
let additional people know about that aspect of the bookfair that we might fail to reach
by other methods.
Friday 11th in Seomra Spraoi at 7.30 - 'Broken Song' screening
About the film - "GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists, rappers
and song-writers from Dublin?s Northside. Through their words and music they have found a
way of expressing themselves and inspiring others to achieve the same." Read more & RSVP
on Facebook
Saturday 12th - Dublin Anarchist Bookfair - Liberty Hall - 10am to 6pm
The main event of the weekend will see 20-30 organisations with stalls & information
stands downstairs in Liberty Hall while upstairs and in the Flowing Tide three streams of
meetings & workshops will run throughout the day. Be sure to RSVP to the main event on
Facebook as we use this to gauge numbers and plan accordingly. Details of some of these
meeting below, additions will be announced on the main Facebook event page and added here.
Anarchism, Punk, Cultures of Resistance & that ?lifestyle? V ?social anarchism' debate
The talk will examine the supposed gulf between ?lifestyle? and ?social? anarchisms, with
a particular focus on DIY punk?s contested siting within this false dichotomy. It will
consider several strands of punk engaged with anarchism ? especially contemporary
manifestations. - More details at the Facebook event
Environmentalism panel (details TBA)
Radical roots - workers co-op project (details TBA)
My Life in Activism : Women speak
A panel of women talk about their political activism in various struggles in Ireland. More
details & RSVP at the Facebook event
A year of class war - the British Miners Strike of 1984
Dave Douglass will talk about his experiences of 1984 - the year the British mines almost
defeated Thatcher. "That fight in 84-85 involved the whole community, it was not only
about unions. It was partly about unions but it was about an industry, it was about a way
of life. The miners were almost an ethnicity, with father to son for hundreds and hundreds
of years in the same miner family. And we had a very strong revolutionary and radical
tradition. So, all of the politics of power, fuel power was about political power and not
just about energy. It was about more than that. It was about "Who rules ?""
RSVP and get more details at the Facebook event for this meeting
Intersectionalisty, Micropolitics and the left workshop (details TBA)
Priceless land: Resisting Displacement in Colombia
Two female community activists from Colombia share with us their stories of resistance,
and lessons on uniting against injustice. Women play a central role in these communities
and, in spite of discrimination as both peasants and women, are emerging as important
social leaders for this pivotal time. RSVP and get more details at the Facebook event
Dublin Housing Action: Past, present & future
Over the years, Dublin?s working class has organised to fight landlords, developers and
politicians in search of decent housing and well-being for all. This panel will consider
how some of these earlier campaigns and direct actions can inform today?s struggles. RSVP
and get more details at the Facebook event
Current campaigns panel (details TBA)
Care & Social Reproduction panel (details TBA)
Media panel (details TBA)
Dublin Solidarity workshop (details TBA)
Details of meetings on Saturday to come
Sunday 13th - Cycling Tour: Dublin Housing Action, Past & Present
We will be visiting some of the many sites of housing actions. From the activities of the
Dublin Housing Action Committee in the 1960's, through the traveler community's protests
in the 1990's, right up until the 2000's anti-Globalisation protests, finishing with the
current occupations by squatters in the city with many other interesting stories of social
struggle in between. RSVP to the tour and get more details at the Facebook event
Please email all queries to bookfair@wsm.ie
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