The NYC Anarchist Bookfair 2008
Weekend Kickoff Event

Thursday, April 10th
at The New School (65 Fifth Ave.)

7PM

FREE

'Remembering Spain, Remembering Heroes!' An Encore.

2008 NYC Anarchist Film Festival

Where:
1-5pm @ The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)

6pm-midnight @ The Yippie Museum (9 Bleeker St.)

Last April, the first ever New York Anarchist Film Festival was an overflowing success. Participants included filmmakers and viewers from around the country, Europe and Latin America. Despite being a grassroots, unfunded, do-it-yourself, stuck together with duct tape kind of effort, we presented a forum to share and experience incredibly artistic, creative and socially and politically diverse media which exposed viewers to all kinds of issues, perspectives and realities. It was an exciting event that brought many different kinds of people.

The Second Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2008) will host a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. The Bookfair will also feature two days of workshops and presentations on Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April 13, 2008.

Saturday, April 12th @ 7PM - Free

PM Press Authors' Salon
at Bluestockings
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington

Come out for the release of a stack of books and celebrate with their authors. Friends, groupies, nay-sayers and strangers are all invited. Food, drinks and mingling are nice, yes? In the crowd will be crime fiction writer Rick Dakan ("Geek Mafia: Mile Zero"), artist Josh MacPhee ("32 Postcards"), unstoppable Melody Berger ("F-Word Zine"), squatter artist Fly ("32 Postcards"), punk author Sascha Dubrul ("The Secret Life Of White People"), hothead creator Diane DiMassa ("32 Postcards"), and visionary Jennifer Silverman ("My Kid Rides The Short Bus").

The Second Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair (2008) will host a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. The Bookfair will also feature two days of workshops and presentations on Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April 13, 2008.

Sunday, April 13th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested

Screening: Big Noise Films "The War Of 33" (2008, 30 minutes)

At Bluestockings
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington

The documentary "The War Of 33: Letters from Beirut" is an intimate recounting of the 2006 war in Lebanon. The film's arc is provided by the letters of Hanady Salman as she writes of people's struggles to maintain their humanity. The universal story that emerges is one of love, resistance, and survival in the face of uncertainty and violence. PM Press will also preview Clifton Ross's documentary "Venezuela: Revolution From The Inside Out" and "3 Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation."

Thursday, April 24, 6:30pm:

"Chomsky On Anarchism" by Noam Chomsky

"We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. But very little ever gets said about what exactly Chomsky stands for, his own personal politics, his vision of the future. Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. This collection of Chomsky's essays and interviews includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-long involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization, and his hopes for a future world without rulers." -AK Press

MAY DAY NYC!

For a World Without Bosses. For a World Without Borders.

For the International Solidarity of the Working Class!

NEFAC-NYC is calling for an anarchist workers contingent to join in the
May Day marches in our city next Thursday, May 1, 2008.