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Hello everybody,

In this email You will find info on these events:

1) Fri. Feb 28th. Internationalist Cabaret and Bob Sheldon Award Ceremony
@ The Nightlight

2) Sat. March 1st: The Really Really Free Market

3) Wed. March 5th - Trans Discussion Night (Open) @ I Books

4) Wed. March 12th- Political Prisoner Letter Writing @ I Books

5) 3 Part Reading Group: The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring
to Occupy by Peter Gelderloos

6) Prison Books Workdays Every Sunday from 1 – 4 pm in Carrboro

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1) Friday, Feb 28th. Internationalist Cabaret and Bob Sheldon Award
Ceremony
Friday, February 28th
9pm
$5-20 Sliding Scale
@ The Nightlight
405 1/2 W. Rosemary St. in Chapel Hill

Get ready for an evening filled with puppetry, dance, music, stand up,
skits, a local pie auction, and more.  All proceeds of this volunteer-run
benefit will go directly to Internationalist Bookstore & Community Center
so that it can continue its work as an activist and social center
dedicated to promoting progressive education and resources.
Internationalist Books and Community Center has served Chapel Hill and
Carrboro communities for over 30 years.  To show your continued support,
come out to the Internationalist Cabaret.

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2)Saturday, March 1st: Carrboro's World Famous Really Really Free Market @
The Carrboro Town Commons From 2 to 4 pm

Everyone is welcome at this free event, where all are encouraged to give,
receive, and create on their own terms. This free and open market will be
a celebration of the cooperation and gift-giving that make life possible
beyond the constraints of capitalist markets. The event is self-organized
by everyone who participates. No authority rules over the RRFM. As at
previous events, we trust that people sharing rather than competing will
be able to find their own ways to cooperate with each other and function
smoothly.

Everyone is invited to arrive between 2:00 and 4:00 pm with goods,
services, skills, performances, stories, crafts, food, games, music,
clothing, furniture, plants, and resources to give and share with others
in the community. There is no buying, selling or exchanging involved—in
this market, everything is strictly free. Better than a yard sale, the
Really Really Free Market has no price tags!

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3) Wednesday, March 5th- Trans Discussion Night (Open) @ I Books @ 8pm

Support/discussion group for people who identify as trans, gender queer,
or gender-questioning and their allies.

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4) Wednesday, March 12th - Political Prisoner Letter Writing @ I Books @ 7pm

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.

It’s an easy way to let these people know they aren’t forgotten. If you
can’t make it to the letter writing night then please send a birthday card
from home.

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5) 3 Part Reading Group: The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring
to Occupy by Peter Gelderloos @ Internationalist Books @ 7pm

Monday, March 24th
Monday, March 31st
Monday, April 7th

From The Back Cover:

From the Arab Spring to the plaza occupation movement in Spain, the
student movement in the UK and Occupy in the US, many new social movements
have started peacefully, only to adopt a diversity of tactics as they grew
in strength and collective experiences. The last ten years have revealed
more clearly than ever the role of nonviolence. Propped up by the media,
funded by the government, and managed by NGOs, nonviolent campaigns around
the world have helped oppressive regimes change their masks, and have
helped police to limit the growth of rebellious social movements.
Increasingly losing the debates within the movements themselves,
proponents of nonviolence have increasingly turned to the mainstream media
and to government and institutional funding to drown out critical voices.

The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals
since the end of the Cold War to establish what nonviolence can
accomplish, and what a diverse, unruly, non-pacified movement can
accomplish. Focusing especially on the Arab Spring, Occupy, and the recent
social upheavals in Europe, this book discusses how movements for social
change can win ground and open the spaces necessary to plant the seeds of
a new world.

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6)Prison Books Workdays Every Sunday from 1 – 4 pm in Carrboro.

For 7 years the Internationalist Prison Books Collective has been sending
books and resource guides, by request, to thousands of prisoners all over
the South. Whether a prisoner is teaching themselves to read, filing a
grievance, or organizing on the inside, we are a lifeline.

And we need your help! Due to an increase in requests, we desperately need
people to help open prisoners' letters and fill packages. It's a simple
and fulfilling way to make a difference and show people they aren't
forgotten.

Every Sunday @ 1pm email us or go to our website prisonbooks.info for more
information.

If you can't make it for a workday then please make a monetary donation to
help us continue this vital work.
https://www.wepay.com/donations/prison-books-monthly-sustainer
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Solidarity Forever,
Internationalist Books and Community Center

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