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Dear Members,

In this email You will find info on these events:

1)Wed., Mar. 13th, March Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night
2)Sun., Mar. 17th, Greek Antifascists on Speaking Tour
3)Wed., Mar. 20th Trans Discussion Group (Closed Meeting–Only for Trans
and Gender-Nonconforming Folks)
4)Sun., Mar. 24th, ALL HANDS ON DECK 2! A special prison books workday
5)Mon., Mar. 25th, UNC Anarchist FAQ!
6)Thurs., Apr. 4th, Reading Group: The New Jim Crow
7)Sun., Apr. 14th, Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour
8)Thurs., April 18th, Vikki Law on UNC campus

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1)Wednesday, March 13th, March Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night

7pm at Internationalist Books

The Internationalist Prison Books Collective brings you this month’s
Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night! Write letters and birthday cards
to political prisoners whose birthdays fall during the month of March.

In addition to writing birthday cards to political prisoners with
birthdays in March, we'll be writing letters of support to Maddy the last
grand jury resister in the Northwest and Green Scare Political Prisoners.

If you can’t make it to the letter writing night then please send a
birthday card from home.

Addresses available here:
http://prisonbooks.info/2013/03/03/political-prisoner-birthday-poster-for-march-2013-is-now-available/


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2)Sunday, March 17th, Greek Antifascists on Speaking Tour

7pm at Internationalist Books

We'll be passing a hat for gas money. Bring $$ if you've got it.

More Info Here: http://antifaevents.wordpress.com/

As has been well documented in the media, the nation of Greece is in the
throes of an economic meltdown. Austerity measures aimed at paying off an
astronomical debt load have plunged the economy into a death spiral, and
sparked nationwide protests and strikes. Unemployment is at 27 percent and
climbing.

Much as the Nazis arose in Weimar Germany by exploiting similar economic
conditions, Golden Dawn, an avowedly fascist political party, has been
rapidly gaining power in Greece. Once an unimportant fringe group, Golden
Dawn captured seven percent of the seats in parliament in the most recent
election. Armed with government funding and the tacit cooperation of the
police (many of whom are Golden Dawn members), fascists have adopted a
strategy of terrorizing Greece's immigrant population while offering
rudimentary social services restricted to Greek citizens.

Ordinary Greeks are mobilizing to prevent the fascist takeover of their
country. Neighborhood assemblies, immigrant solidarity groups, labor
unions and other civil society organizations are resisting both Golden
Dawn and the destructive government policies that created the economic
collapse. Greek activists Sofia Papagiannaki, Thanasis Xirotsopanos and
Vangelis Nanos are here to speak about fascism and resistance in their
country.



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3) Wednesday, March 20th, Trans Discussion Group (Closed Meeting–Only for
Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Folks) 8pm at Internationalist Books

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4)Sunday, March 24th, ALL HANDS ON DECK 2! A special prison books workday

Noon to 6pm at 621 Hillsborough Rd. in Carrboro.

The Internationalist Prison Books Collective needs your help! We’ve had
some good luck recently and gotten tons of good books. However we’ve
hovering around two months behind on letters and book requests. We need
your help to catch up. All hands on deck for a special, fun, backlog
clearing workday on Sunday, March 24th, 2013, starting at noon at the
collective’s workspace at 621 Hillsborough Rd. in Carrboro. Clear your
calendars, stay tuned to the Prison Books website for more details, and
plan to be there to help us get back above water and send out books!

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5)Monday, March 25th, UNC Anarchist FAQ!

7pm at FPG Union-Room 3503 on UNC campus

Come to the UNControllables’ Anarchist FAQ!
for those interested in living without permission

What UNC frat boys are saying about anarchists:

“They are petulant, short-sighted adolescents who are openly mocked and
never accomplish anything.”

“Only oppressed in their imaginations.”

“Self-declared anarchist members (a term whose very nature defies itself
and thus speaks for the absurdity of the entire issue) of the
UNControllables…”

“Losers.”

WHAT DO THESE ANARCHISTS HAVE TO SAY FOR THEMSELVES???

Why direct action? Why occupy buildings? Can we really live without
bosses, police, or capitalism?
Come find out at the UNControllables’ Anarchist FAQ!

carolinauncontrollables AT gmail.com

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6) Thursday, April 4th, Reading Group: The New Jim Crow

7pm at Internationalist Books

Join us for a discussion of  the excellent book The New Jim Crow. This is
an excellent opportunity to get to know other prison abolitionists in the
area. We will be using this book as a tool to strategize in the fight
against the prison-industrial complex. Please email ppbirthday AT riseup.net
with any questions.

About the book:

    The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like
system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of
African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent
second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil
Rights Movement. Since its publication in 2010, the book has been
dubbed the “secular bible of a new social movement” by numerous
commentators, including Cornel West, and has led to
consciousness-raising efforts in universities, churches, community
centers, re-entry centers and prisons nationwide. The New Jim Crow
tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.

    As the United States celebrates its “triumph over race” with the
election of Barack Obama, the majority of black men in major urban
areas are under correctional control or saddled with criminal records
for life. Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but
today an extraordinary percentage of the African American community is
warehoused in prisons or trapped in a parallel social universe, denied
basic civil and human rights— including the right to vote, the right
to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination
in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits.
Today, it is no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as
a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt.

    Alexander shows that, by targeting black men through the War on Drugs
and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system
functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it
formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.

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7)Sunday, April 14th, Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour

7pm at Internationalist Books

Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour is a national touring collective of fierce
Queer Femme smut/erotic writers, authors, performers, poets, and dancers.
Garnering such praise as “THE best Femme porn writers in the country,” the
tour was founded in 2007 by Kathleen Delaney with the hope of supporting
and promoting Queer Femme visibility and desire through their
contributions to erotica, the sex industry, and the sex-positive movement.
In addition to Kathleen, the Body Heat lineup features authors Kiki
DeLovely and Frances Varian, The Femme Show producer and performer Gigi
Frost, and femme drag performer Al Schlong.

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8)Thursday, April 18th, Vikki Law on UNC campus at 7pm. Exact location to
be determined.

Vikki Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated
Women, will be joining us here at UNC to speak about gender, the prison
industrial complex and social justice strategies around these issues.

Listed below are some links to some of her projects.

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in
Social Justice Movements (now available for pre-order):
dontleaveyourfriendsbehind.blogspot.com

Birthing Behind Bars--ending reproductive injustices in women's prisons:
birthingbehindbars.org

Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women (NEW edition
Sept 2012): http://resistancebehindbars.org/

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Thanks For Reading,
Solidarity Forever,
Internationalist Books and Community Center





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