RTP-area local music and culture

[Internationalist Books <ibooks AT internationalistbooks.org>]

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC  27516
919-942-1740
http://internationalistbooks.org/
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MONDAY, JUNE 26 -- NAZIS VS ZAPATISTAS: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CO-OPTATION 
presented by NICK COOPER @ IBOOKS, 5-8pm

Informed by Zapatista principles, the workshop develops a skill set for 
identifying, challenging and defeating the authoritarian tool of 
co-optation. Wanting to study fascist and pre-fascist organizing 
directly, Nick has been attending conferences, meetings, presentations 
and fund-raisers of the far right, including: The Ku Klux Klan, Focus on 
the Family / Lovewonout, Republican Party of Texas, Lyndon LaRouche, The 
Minutemen, and Tom DeLay. The workshop examines philosophies, structures 
and psychology, comparing authoritarian models to those that are 
consensual, communitarian or autonomous.
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THE PRISON BOOKS COLLECTIVE NEEDS YOUR BOOKS...
FOR OUR BOOKSALE! (AND TO SEND TO PRISONERS!)

The Prison Books Collective will be holding a book sale at the end of 
the summer and we need your books!  All book donations will be sorted 
for content (some books we'll hang on to and ship to prisoners, others 
we'll put out for sale).  All profits go towards postage for shipping 
books to prisoners.  We're accepting all sorts of books for the book 
sale, but we're also attempting to collect specific genres to send to 
prisoners.  Most requests we recieve are for world, political, & U.S. 
history, self-help/how-to, and black history/lit.  Donations of all 
kinds can be dropped off at Internationalist Books.

The Prison Books Collective is a new prisoner support group forming in
the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area.  Like the dozens of other similar groups
around the country, it will provide thousands of free books, at request,
to prisoners throught the southeast.  By providing educational,
political and legal resources, we can support people behind bars, show
solidarity with their struggles, and fight against the alienating and
destructive effects of the US prison system.

But we need your help!  We currently have a space to work out of, but
are in need of books and money for shipping.  We're also going to need
lots of eager volunteers to help package and mail books.  If you would
like to help organize or support this great project please go to
www.prisonbooks.info.
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SCREENING & WORKSHOP: 'SOMA: AN ANARCHIST THERAPY'
SUNDAY, JUNE 25 @ ACRe - 2419 Mayview St (at Chamberlain St), Raleigh

[This film is also being screened MONDAY, JUNE 26 @ The Cave @ 8:30pm - 
452½ W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill]

6:30pm Documentary:  Soma:  An Anarchist Therapy: With difficulty
walking and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian military
dictatorship, 79 year old Roberto Freire continues to develop
somatherapy, completing his life's work.  Incorporating the ideas of
Wilhelm Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of the
martial art / dance capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists
organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects
of authoritarianism.

8pm  Workshop: Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: The Struggle Against Co-optation
The workshop examines philosophies, structures and psychology,
comparing authoritarian models to those that are consensual,
communitarian or autonomous. Informed by Zapatista principles, the
workshop develops a skill set for identifying, challenging and
defeating the authoritarian tool of co-optation.

These events are taking place on Sunday, June 25th at the Action for
Community in Raleigh (ACRe) space - 2419 Mayview St. (at intersection
with Chamberlain St.) in Raleigh.  Call 919.341.8263 or email
third_of_july AT riseup.net for more info.
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JUNE 23 - 25 -- ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE (Bowling Green, OH)

The theme of the 8th annual Allied Media Conference is "From Truth To 
Power... because being right is not enough." In other words, if you want 
to use media to build grassroots power and advance social justice, this 
is the place for you. The AMC will feature hands on workshops, panels 
with some of the most visionary independent media organizers, dope music 
performances and a bowling party. For the full conference schedule and 
to register, visit the AMC website at http://www.amc2006.org
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TUESDAY, JUNE 27 -- "THE HARDEST QUESTION EVER": A puppet show about 
prisons and violence in our towns and cities, FOREST THEATER @ 7pm

The Indicator Species Present:  “The Hardest Question Ever…”
A discussion will follow the performance which is about ½ hour.

The Hardest Question Ever… is mixture of live performers, chain gang 
inspired music, and shadow puppets set inside a life size prison cell 
covered with 100’s of letters written by prisoners.  We aim to create a 
dialogue surrounding how society encourages violence and punishes those 
who are violent.  The Hardest Question Ever is a three act play 
portraying  responsibility, forgiveness and the pain of loss.  The 
stories are actual events that are directly related to the creators of 
the play.  There will be a discussion following the performance.

Find the Forest Theater at... http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/forest.htm
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JUNE 30 - JULY 2 -- MID-ATLANTIC RADICAL BOOKFAIR & INFOSHOP GATHERING 
(Baltimore, MD)

The 2006 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair will take place from June 30 - 
July 2 in Baltimore, Mayland. The Bookfair brings together radical and 
indpendent publishers, distributors, bookstores, and authors for a 
weekend of workshops, panel discussions, and performances engaging with 
a variety of topics from radical approaches to social services, to 
anti-war activism, to political art and aesthetics. Co-organized by 
volunteers from the Red Emma's collective (B'more), Wooden Shoe Books 
(Philadelphia), and the Alternative Press Center (B'more), and a whole 
host of others, the 2006 Bookfair promises to be an engaging and 
exciting celebration of informed resistance in the Mid-Atlantic area!

The 2006 Mid-Atlantic Bookfair will take place at CENTERSTAGE, one of 
Baltimore's most beloved independent theaters, located just 3 blocks 
away from the center of the Mount Vernon district, and just a block away 
from Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse.  More info at 
http://www.redemmas.com/bookfair/2006

INFOSHOP GATHERING:
Calling all infoshops past, present, and soon-to-be! Don't miss the 2006 
Infoshop Gathering(June 29th-June 30th), the first (and we hope annual) 
meeting of infoshop folks from around the country. This is our time to 
work together to form a stronger network of radical spaces, across which 
we can share resources, ideas, solutions, and concerns about our own 
projects and about the challenges we all face opening and running 
infoshops.  More info at 
http://www.redemmas.com/bookfair/2006/section/infoshops
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PAUL AVRICH, 1931–2006
(Taken from http://www.akpress.com/paulavrichobituary)

Folks here at AK Press are saddened to announce the death of a great 
man, author Paul Avrich. Avrich was one of the best, and most prolific, 
chroniclers of anarchist history. His books—on such topics as Russian 
anarchism, the Modern School movement, Sacco and Vanzetti, Voltairine De 
Clerye, and the Haymarket martyrs—have the extremely rare quality of 
being both a pleasure to read and filled with valuable information. He 
was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times and received the 
Phillip Taft Labor History Award. He died last week at the age of 74.

Avrich was born in New York City in 1931. He received his PhD from 
Columbia University in 1961 with a dissertation titled "The Russian 
Revolution and the Factory Committees" in which he was one of the first 
modern historians to acknowledge the role of anarchists in the Russian 
Revolution. He went on to write several books on Russian anarchism, as 
well numerous groundbreaking studies and oral histories of anarchism in 
the United States. Of his book Kronstadt 1921, the New York Review of 
Books observed that "[Avrich] gives us the closest examination of all 
the available evidence that we are likely to have for some time and he 
uses his evidence to construct a narrative that, in its most brilliant 
passages, matches the power of Deutscher's The Prophet Armed and Moshe 
Lewin's Lenin's Last Struggle." In a more personal vein, Ronald Creagh 
recently noted "I know that Paul’s friendliness will remain in the minds 
of all who have known him, just as his scholarship will be remembered by 
all who have read his remarkable books. He offers his readers very 
extraordinary information. Perhaps his most thought-provoking testimony 
is contained in his work Anarchist Voices, which is based on his 
careful, time-consuming interviews with hundreds of people."

The Paul Avrich Collection, over 20,000 manuscripts and publications on 
American and European anarchism, is housed at the Library of Congress.

AK Press mourns the loss of Paul Avrich and celebrates the contribution 
he made to anarchist scholarship. Just weeks before his death, we 
reprinted three of our favorite works by him: The Modern School 
Movement, Russian Anarchists, and an unabridged version of Anarchist 
Voices. We hope to make more of his books available in the future.

The AK Press Collective

    * Ronald Creagh's full obituary of Paul Avrich can be read at 
info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/20/0245243
    * Some of the above information comes from www.infoshop.org and 
posts on the ainfos listserv.

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