Ireland 10th Dublin Anarchist Bookfair weekender - April 24-26 2015 ~ CookingFood.Org

Yes it is on! The 10th Dublin Anarchist Bookfair which will take place Saturday 25th of
April around Smithfield square. Come along and meet anarchists and hundreds of people
curious about anarchism. ---- The 10th DABF will take place on the weekend of April 24-6th
in the new locations of the Generator and T Block, Smithfield. Saturday will see us host a
day of talks and workshops emerging out of a range of struggles and new movements. ----
Please do help us with promotion by inviting any friends you think should be interested.
---- These include: ---- Anarchists from Greece will discuss the possibilities, limits and
future of social movement resistance and what role anarchists can play within them. ----
An Equal Marriage discussion will see a range of activists debate the upcoming referendum
and the future of queer struggles.

A range of Water Charge Community Groups will discuss Ireland's mass movement in
opposition to water charges and what happens next

There will also be panels on abortion rights, environmental struggles and debt and
community development

Speakers will be announced closer to the date. Stay tuned to WSM for more details"

There will also be 20+ stalls from anarchist book services, campaign groups and more. For
queries email bookfair@wsm.ie

Check below for links to videos, audio and images from previous bookfairs.

We have a couple of venues lined up but are interested in hearing of any additional
meeting rooms on or near the square that we may have overlooked.

What people think of the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair by Workers Solidarity on Mixcloud

Details of and recordings from previous bookfairs follow to give you a sense of what to
expect

The 2014 Dublin anarchist Bookfair was at Liberty Hall Saturday 12th of April for the 9th
annual edition with events also on Friday night & Sunday afternoon. There were
discussions, speakers from movements engaged in struggle, home and abroad. There were
books and stalls and much more. Below you will find links to audio & video recorded at
the 2014 bookfair.

Between Bookfairs we recommend you join the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair Facebook group so
you get invitations as soon as plans are finalised

Before and during the bookfair we encouraged people to tweet to #dabf

The weekend started 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.

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."

Saturday 12th - Dublin Anarchist Bookfair - Liberty Hall - 10am to 6pm
The main event of the weekend saw 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. Admission was free; donations towards
the cost are greatfully received.

11.00-12.15
Anarchism, Punk, Cultures of Resistance & that ‘lifestyle’ V ‘social anarchism' debate -
Theater
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

Defeating Fracking - setting limits to growth? - Listen to the Audio
Climate change has reached a point where scientists are now saying that direct actions
against resource extraction is the only strategy likely to prevent ecological collapse and
ensure our environment’s survival. This panel considers what needs to be done and who is
going to do it. There will be speakers from the anti-Fracking movement and the Workers
Solidarity Movement’s Paul Bowman will look at alternatives to the politics of "jobs and
growth", including those of "degrowth" and other anti-productivist movements. More details
& RSVP at the Facebook event

12.30 -13.45
A year of class war - the British Miners Strike of 1984 - Watch the video or listen to the
audio
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

My Life in Activism : Women speak - Red Room - Listen to Audio
We host a panel of women activists who inform us about how they became involved in the
movement, what drew them into this life of campaigning for social justice, rights and
attempting to change the world in which we live. They inform us of how they remain
motivated, inspired and sustained in active political life. More details & RSVP at the
Facebook event

Radical Cooperatives: homes without landlords, workers without bosses - Listen to Audio
Do you want to work without bosses? Do you want to live without landlords? Come to this
panel to find out how! Speakers: - ‘Radical Routes’ is a United Kingdom-based co-operative
federation that provides support to housing and worker co-operatives as well as social
centres in the form of mutual aid. More details & RSVP at the Facebook event

14.00-15.45
Priceless land: Resisting Displacement in Colombia - Listen to the audio
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 - Red room
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

Can we eliminate the reproduction of oppression in our movements? - Flowing Tide Pub
We have all grown up in a society where we are shaped by what bell hooks terms ‘white
supremacist capitalist patriarchy.’ For the most part the left sees its role as fighting
against all these aspects of society but from observation its quickly apparent that the
left reproduces these oppressions within its ranks. How and why does this happen and is
there anything that can be done about this? RSVP and get more details at the Facebook event

16.00 - 17.30
Care & Social Reproduction - Selma James - Watch the Video or listen to the audio of this
session
The hardship of the current economic crisis has impacted unevenly across genders. This
panel discusses the intersection of austerity, care-work and women’s reproductive rights.
Selma James and Conor McCabe will be presenting with Conor focusing on what this has
meant in Ireland in particular. RSVP & get more details at the Facebook event

A Media panel on Manufacturing Consent - Listen to audio
Just how good are the mass media at keeping the rabble in line? This panel explores the
media’s complicity with the rich and powerful and what we can do about it. RSVP & get more
details at the Facebook event.

Ten Minute Campaign Talks - Listen to the audio
A space at which people involved in a variety of struggles can explain them and seek your
solidarity. Will include Rodger Yates from Vegan Ireland, Stop NATO, Cymru and the
International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS). RSVP & get more details at
the Facebook event

18.00 - Liberty Hall closes move to Flowing Tide
A Dublin Solidarity Network - What are the possibilities? - Flowing Tide pub
In recent years a form of organising around economic issues based on picking small but
winnable fights, has had a certain success in a number of places around the world. From
the US's Seattle Solidarity Network, to Spain's Mortgage Holders Platform, a number of
models exist. This talk is to introduce the work and methods of these groups and ask the
open question of whether we could build something similar in Dublin. RSVP & invite your
friends on the Facebook event

19.30 - Selma James on Sex Work - Listen to the audio
A late addition to the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair line-up in both senses of the word as
this meeting will take place upstairs in the Flowing Tide at 19.30 Selma James is going to
lead off a discussion on sex work

Saturday night
Post Bookfair Party with Dr Groove & guest DJ's in The Flowing Tide
After the long day that will be the Anarchist Bookfair we will be winding down and
hopefully raising some fund to covers costs at the post-Bookfair party in the Flowing
Tide, doors opening at 8pm.

Dr Groove will take to the decks to give us some red bearded fury (TM police court report
of 2004 Mayday) along with a line up of his carefully selected guest DJ's.

It's always a blast, you may even find yourself trying to borrow a tractor on Bull island
at dawn (true story). RSVP & promote the hell out of this on Facebook.