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  • Subject: [Internationalist] Today Is Bob Sheldon Day.
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:42:28 -0800

Remembering Bob Sheldon

23 years after his death, Bob’s memory endures through the community that
knew him, the work he did, and the project he began that has continued for
decades to inspire and bring people together.

This weekend, Internationalist Books and Community Center will announce
the 2013 recipient of the Bob Sheldon award, an award recognizing local
organizing and struggles for justice in Bob Sheldon’s memory.

“Bob Sheldon left us with a piece of infrastructure that accelerates the
pace of social movement organizing and the capacity for impact,
particularly in times of urgency and social upheaval. It was a natural
anchor throughout many struggles—a place for the public to buy bus tickets
to go to growing anti-war protests in D.C.; a space to hold press
conferences after activists returned beaten and abused at the Republican
National Convention protests; a venue to support budding new
organizations, welcome traveling activists and inspire collective action.
It is a space for anarchists, climate change activists and queer youth
alike to organize from.

Sheldon gave us a public space, a unique, participatory dimension of civic
life where those with an energy for social change can find consistency,
conversation and community. And Sheldon laid the seeds of that space with
his open personality, a loving heart and a deep thirst for political
debate, learning and activism. Without the experience of Sheldon the man,
I doubt that the community would have come up with the same essence of the
Internationalist that lives on today.”

- The legacy of Bob Sheldon, founder of Internationalist Books,
Independent Weekly, 2011

“In an editorial noting Sheldon’s legacy, two years after his death, the
Chapel Hill Herald likened the Internationalist to “a weed flowering in a
pavement crack.” Thanks to friends, family and dozens of volunteers, the
Internationalist has survived the loss of its founder. …

“It continues because there’s a constituency here based on what he built,”
Straley says. “You’d be dishonest to say that the constituency is focused
around Bob–many people at the store today didn’t even have the chance to
know him. But the kind of free thinking, the kind of independence of
attitudes is what has endured.”

- Bob Sheldon’s Legacy, Independent Weekly, 2001


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