event detailsposted by: Sean West (NEFAC) begins: Mar 6, 6:00 pm ends: Mar 6, 7:00 pm location: Thursday, March 6th @ 7pm
LAVA, 4134 Lancaster Avenue |
"Building a Popular Anarchism in Ireland"
North East Speaking Tour
In Philly on Thursday, March 6th @ 7 PM
LAVA, 4134 Lancaster Avenue (http://www.lavazone.org)
-A decade ago the active anarchist movement in Ireland consisted of little more than a dozen people in two small organizations. Today hundreds of people are active and one banned libertarian demonstration in 2004 saw 5,000 people take part. Anarchists are increasingly replacing Irish republicans as the bogeyman of the mainstream media.
-This talk explains how this breakthrough happened and details the various struggles anarchists have been involved in.
The Shell to Sea Campaign: http://www.wsm.ie/story/1289
Fights Against Higher Municipal Taxes and Charges: http://www.wsm.ie/story/353
http://www.wsm.ie/story/2109
The Struggle Against Police (Garda) Brutality: http://www.wsm.ie/story/2525
http://www.wsm.ie/story/3101
and more....
About the speaker:
Andrew is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. More recently, he has been become a member of NEFAC and is a founder member of Common Cause, Ontario. His publishing record includes well over one hundred articles, translated into over nine languages, chapters published in three books, and articles in seven English language anti-authoritarian magazines and newspapers. As well as numerous events in Ireland he has been the speaker at meetings in Britain, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic and the USA and attended conferences in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico.
A partial archive of Andrew's writings, radio interviews and translations can be found at
http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html
Sponsored by NEFAC
More info on NEFAC: http://www.nefac.net
The Speaking Tour Continues: Baltimore, MD, March 7th, 7:30pm, Red Emmas (www.redemmas.org), 800 St. Paul St
Dates for DC, Richmond, Fredricksburg, Harresburg, Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo to follow.