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It is Bookfair week, with an all day Friday Film Fest and free bike rentals from Velocipede ($20 refundable deposit and bring your own lock.)
\nOctober 19-21
\n
\nIt’s Bookfair week! This Friday, Red Emma’s kicks off the 2007 Mid-Atlantic
\n Radical Bookfair – the biggest event we organize all year long. Three days of
\n films, speakers, workshops, tablers, and, of course BOOKS, all focused around
\n questions, communities, identities, and activism that concern the radical left! And
\n we want to see all of you there – help us make this year’s Bookfair even better
\n than last year’s event (held in June\/July 2006 at Centerstage) … read on below
\n for the quick list and details, and then keep reading for some of the highlights
\n of the weekend’s festivities – get the full schedule on the Bookfair website:
\n www.redemmas.org\/bookfair<\/a>! Friday’s Film Fest has a suggested donation of $5 to
\n raise funds for the Bookfair – and Saturday & Sunday’s events are entirely FREE!
\n Tell everyone you know! (And please forward this announcement far & wide!)<\/p>\n

::::: October 19-21 | The 2007 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair! | @ 2640 Saint
\n Paul Street :::::<\/p>\n

Bringing together the best of radical publishing and writing, with tablers,
\n speakers, artists, activists, and other oddballs from across the country, the
\n Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair is a jam-packed weekend-long celebration of informed
\n resistance!<\/p>\n

*** Bookfair Highlights ***<\/p>\n

Featuring talks and workshops by Dahr Jamail, Joy James, Ashanti Alston, Sylvia
\n Federici, George Caffentzis, David Solnit, Muhammad Ahmad, China Martens,
\n Stephen Duncombe, M.K. Asante Jr., $pread Magazine, Unconventional Action, Radical
\n Reference, Erik Ruin, and Marshall "Eddie" Conway.<\/p>\n

With over 50 tablers including AK Press, Africa World Press, Autonomedia,
\n Bluestockings Books, Brian MacKenzie Infoshop, City Lights, CodePink DC, CrimethInc,
\n Down There Health Collective, Haymarket Books, Institute for Experimental
\n Freedom, JMWW, Justseeds, Kersplebedeb, Left Turn, Microcosm Publishing, New Press,
\n Normals Books & Records, Off Our Backs, One Thousand Emotions, Read Street Books &
\n Coffee, Red Emmas Bookstore Coffeehouse, Scarlet Letter Project, Seven Stories
\n Press, Social Anarchism, $pread Magazine, Unconventional Action, and Wooden Shoe
\n Books.<\/p>\n

Including an all-day Radical Film Festival on October 19 at 2640 Saint Paul
\n Street with screenings of Chris Marker’s Case of the Grinning Cat, Catherine
\n Pancake’s Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice, Bill
\n Daniel’s Who is Bozo Texino?, Naomi Klein & Alfonso Cuaron’s The Shock
\n Doctrine, Mal de Ojo TV’s Impunity in Oaxaca, and Finally Got The News (a film by the
\n League of Revolutionary Black Workers).<\/p>\n

For more information and a full schedule of events and descriptions, see
\n\thttps:\/\/www.redemmas.org\/bookfair<\/a> or email bookfair@redemmas.org.<\/p>\n

*** Bookfair Details ***<\/p>\n

The Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair is an annual event organized by Red Emmas
\n Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore, in collaboration with Washington D.C.s Brian
\n MacKenzie Infoshop and Philadephias Wooden Shoe Books. The 2006 Bookfair was held
\n in downtown Baltimore at Centerstage, and drew in over 3,000 visitors over the
\n course of the weekend, thanks to widespread community and media attention. This
\n year, the organizing committee is thrilled to announce that the 2007 Bookfair
\n will take place at 2640, the new community events space developed by Red Emmas,
\n located in the former sanctuary space at the historic Saint Johns Church in
\n Charles Village (2640 Saint Paul Street). Additional workshops will also be held at
\n The Village Learning Place, a community library located just down the street from
\n Saint Johns Church, at 2521 Saint Paul Street.<\/p>\n

This year, we’re happy to announce that we will again have a Bookfair Kidz
\n Corner, a safe place for kids to play and learn while their parents have a chance to
\n explore the Bookfair! Find out more on the website – and send us an email if
\n you want to get involved as a volunteer!<\/p>\n

PLUS: Bookfair bike rental! Coming to town for the Bookfair & wondering how to
\n get from 2640 down to Red Emma’s? "Rent" a bike from Baltimore’s Velocipede Bike
\n Project, a collectively-operated bike shop that’s fixed up bikes especially for
\n our Bookfair visitors – stop by their shop on Friday-Sunday to borrow a bike
\n for a $20 returnable deposit – but make sure to bring a lock along! See
\n https:\/\/www.velocipedebikeproject.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Still hungry for more? Read on below for descriptions of some of the Bookfair
\n highlights, but be sure to check the full schedule on the web!<\/p>\n

*** The Radical Film Fest ***<\/p>\n

This year, kick off the Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair at Baltimore’s first-ever
\n Radical Film Festival, all day on October 19, at 2640 Saint Paul Street!<\/p>\n

>From uprisings in Oaxaca to homeland insecurities, from the streets of Paris to
\n the freight-trains of the midwest, from the mountaintops of West Virginia to
\n the auto factories of Detroit, Red Emma’s brings you some of the most unusual
\n short political films we’ve discovered this year.<\/p>\n

Films run from noon 10PM on Friday, October 19. $5 donation is requested, but
\n no one will be turned away for a lack of funds – that’s just $5 for a whole day
\n of films (thats less than 50 cents per film)! See the full schedule and list of
\n films on the Film Fest website: https:\/\/www.redemmas.org\/bookfair\/2007\/filmfest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dont miss our evening feature presentation:<\/p>\n

6PM: Chris Markers The Case of the Grinning Cat (2006, 58min.)
\n\tFrench documentarian and cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on
\n\tFrench and international politics, art and culture at the start of the
\n\tnew millennium. In November 2001, the filmmaker became intrigued, as
\n\tdid many other Parisians, by the sudden appearance of alluring
\n\tportraits of grinning yellow cats on buildings, Metro walls and other
\n\tpublic surfaces. This engaging record of Marker’s cinematic
\n\tperegrinations throughout the city, visually energized by his
\n\tfree-association montage style, chronicles strikes, demonstrations,
\n\tmemorials, election campaigns, celebrity scandals, international
\n\tpolitical incidents, and a seemingly endless variety of political
\n\tprotests (against the Iraq War, against China’s occupation of Tibet,
\n\tagainst the government’s ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves).
\n\tBaltimore premiere!<\/p>\n

7PM: Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice
\n (2006, 71 min.)
\n\tBLACK DIAMONDS charts the escalating drama in Appalachia over the
\n\talarming increase in large mountaintop coal mines. These mammoth
\n\toperations have covered 1200 miles of headwater streams with mining
\n\twaste; demolished thousands of acres of hardwood forest; and flattened
\n\thundred of Appalachian mountain peaks. Citizen testimony and visual
\n\tdocumentation interwoven with the perspectives of government
\n\tofficials, activists, and scientists create a riveting portrait of an
\n\tAmerican region fighting for its life–caught between the grinding
\n\twheels of the national appetite for cheap energy and an enduring sense
\n\tof Appalachian culture, pride, and natural beauty. Director Catherine
\n\tPancake will be on-hand to introduce the film and answer questions
\n\tafterwards!<\/p>\n

9PM: Finally Got the News, a film by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
\n (1970, 55 min.)
\n\tFINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals
\n\tthe activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and
\n\toutside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the
\n\tmembers of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage
\n\tof leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts
\n\tto build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW,
\n\twill respond to worker’s problems, such as the assembly line speed-up
\n\tand inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the
\n\tindustry.<\/p>\n

*** Some of Our Favorite Tablers! ***<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 20 & Sunday, October 21: Browse the best of radical and
\n independent publishing at the Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair! [Free entry]<\/p>\n

>From 11AM-6PM on Saturday and Sunday, publishers, presses, authors, and
\n activist groups from around the country will gather at 2640 Saint Paul Street, bringing
\n new and old radical literature to sell and trade. From books and magazines to
\n zines and tshirts, visitors will find a little bit of everything for sale at the
\n 2007 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair. Find a full list of tablers and short
\n descriptions on the Bookfair website at:
\nhttps:\/\/redemmas.org\/bookfair\/2007\/tables<\/a><\/p>\n

Be sure to check out these great radical presses and distros:<\/p>\n

AK Press
\n\tAK Press is a worker-run book publisher and distributor organized
\n\taround anarchist principles. All decisions, including which titles to
\n\tdistribute and what to publish, are made collectively. The Press makes
\n\tavailable radical books and other materials published by independent
\n\tpresses, providing information and non-mainstream perspectives on
\n\ttopics ranging from anarchism, labor, and globalization to graffiti,
\n\tfolk music, and surrealism.<\/p>\n

Autonomedia
\n\tA radical publisher that seeks to provide an autonomous zone for arts
\n\tradicals in both old and new media, Autonomedia publishes books on
\n\tradical media, politics and the arts that transcend party lines,
\n\tbottom lines and straight lines.<\/p>\n

Charles H. Kerr
\n\tThe oldest radical publisher in the U.S, today Charles H. Kerr
\n\toperates as a worker-owned co-operative not-for-profit educational
\n\tassociation. Its publication list features beautifully printed,
\n\treasonably priced books that bring back into print some of the best
\n\tradical authors of times past, as well as heretofore unpublished
\n\twritings by T-Bone Slim, Claude McKay, Slim Brundage, and Covington
\n\tHall; new books by H. L. Mitchell, Staughton Lynd, Warren Leming, and
\n\tCarlos Cortez; and a large and steadily growing number of books on the
\n\tIWW.<\/p>\n

Institute for Experimental Freedom (Southeast)
\n\tThe Institute for Experimental Freedom is a transbioregional
\n\tuniversity of insurrectional arts. Contributing to the insurrectional
\n\tproject, the IEF creates and deconstructs radical aesthetics and
\n\telaborates on a historical and ecological materialist discourse. The
\n\tIEF focuses primarily on insurrectional theory and naratives of
\n\tpractice, critical race theory, post\/transfeminisms, and
\n\tanti-civilization through a social eschatological perspective. Current
\n\tprojects include a compilation of Venezuelan anarchist anti-Chavista
\n\tworks and publishing and layout for a zine exploring the liberatory
\n\tand negate-ive potential of re-subjectification of Otherized bodies
\n\tthrough the use of the alt and feminist porn.<\/p>\n

Justseeds
\n\tStarted by Josh MacPhee in 1998 as a distribution system for a small
\n\tnumber of radical art projects, Justseeds now houses almost 150 items,
\n\tfrom shirts to posters, original print art to zines and
\n\tvideos. Justseeds’ mission is to make available the most exciting
\n\tindependent and political culture that is being created. Justseeds
\n\tfocuses on promoting a wide array of political art and printmaking
\n\tbeing made today, anarchist culture and publications, and street art,
\n\tstencil and graffiti culture that is both critical of and engaged with
\n\tthe larger world we live in.<\/p>\n

Microcosm
\n\tMicrocosm Publishing is an independent publisher and distributor based
\n\tin Bloomington, IN and Portland, OR. We distribute & publish zines,
\n\tbooks, pamphlets, stickers, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters,
\n\tfilms, and more! We hope to add credibility to zine writers and their
\n\tethics, teach self-empowerment, show hidden history, and nurture
\n\tpeoples creative side. We began in 1996 with one person doing part
\n\ttime mail-order out of a bedroom.<\/p>\n

Normals Books and Records
\n\tNormals is an incredible collectively run used bookstore in Waverly
\n\t(practically down the street from the Bookfair location at 31st and
\n\tGreenmount) that’s made book addicts in Baltimore extremely happy for
\n\tthe past 17 years.<\/p>\n

Off Our Backs
\n\tOff Our Backs is a newsjournal by, for, and about women. It has been
\n\tpublished continuously since 1970, making it the longest surviving
\n\tfeminist newspaper in the United States. It is run by a collective
\n\twhere all decisions are made by consensus. The mission of the magazine
\n\tis to provide news and information about womens lives and feminist
\n\tactivism; to educate the public about the status of women around the
\n\tworld; to serve as a forum for feminist ideas and theory; to be an
\n\tinformation resource on feminist, womens, and lesbian culture; and to
\n\tseek social justice and equality for women worldwide.<\/p>\n

Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse
\n\tBaltimore’s only fair trade coffeeshop and collectively run bookstore,
\n\tand one of the primary organizers of the Radical Bookfair well be on
\n\thand to provide vegan treats and caffeinated beverages all weekend
\n\tplus special in-store specials if you can get away from the fair and
\n\tvisit us down in Mt. Vernon.<\/p>\n

*** A Full Program of Workshops, Lectures, and Book Talks! ***<\/p>\n

The Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair offers a full program of talks, workshops, and
\n panel discussions all day Saturday & Sunday. And best of all, they’re all
\n FREE!<\/p>\n

Check out the Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair’s schedule of speakers and workshops
\n on the Bookfair website:
\nhttps:\/\/www.redemmas.org\/bookfair\/schedule<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday Highlights include:<\/p>\n

12PM: David Solnit on counter-recruitment and Army of None
\n\tBay-area activist and Seattle 1999 organizer David Solnit returns to
\n\tBaltimore to discuss the Army of None project, an ongoing
\n\tcounter-recruitment effort based on the notion that the military
\n\trecruitment complex insinuates itself into the daily lives of children
\n\tand youth in ways most people are not aware of. Millions of dollars
\n\tare poured into advanced marketing strategies; recruiters walk freely
\n\tinto classrooms with false promises of a way out of poverty. The Army
\n\tof None Project argues that childhood should be free of military
\n\tinfluence and the constant pressure to enlist. This is not just a way
\n\tto protect our most valuable national resourcechildrenit is an
\n\teffective way to take local action to provide equal opportunity and
\n\tyouth leadership training for those who bear the burden of fighting in
\n\tIraq and beyond.<\/p>\n

1PM: Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford) presents We Will Return in the Whirlwind:
\n Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975
\n\tFormer Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) chairman Muhammad Ahmad
\n\t(born Max Stanford) comes to Baltimore to present his new book We Will
\n\tReturn In the Whirlwind, an incredible first-hand account of the wave
\n\tof Black resistance that swept the U.S. in the wake of the Civil
\n\tRights movement. From Malcolm X’s last days to the radicalization of
\n\tSNCC to the founding of the Black Panther Party and the League of
\n\tRevolutionary Black Workers, Ahmads new work tells the story of a
\n\tconsistently radical black organizing tradition whose goal was nothing
\n\tless than a revolution in the U.S.<\/p>\n

3PM: Sylvia Federici & George Caffentzis on Rethinking War and the Struggle
\n Against It In the Neoliberal Era
\n\tSylvia Federici and George Caffentzis, both members of the radical
\n\tacademic Midnight Notes Collective, join together for a presentation
\n\tin three parts that examines the purpose of war in modern society and
\n\tthe ways in which war affects the commons and current markets, and
\n\tdeals with the question on everyones mind: "How can the anti-war
\n\tmovement escape its stalemate with the Bush Administration?"<\/p>\n

5PM: Ashanti Alston on international organizing
\n\tAshanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer,
\n\tand former member of the Black Panther Party. He was also a member of
\n\tthe Black Liberation Army, and spent more than a decade in prison
\n\tafter government forces captured him (and the official court system
\n\tconvicted him) for armed robbery. A former northeast coordinator for
\n\tCritical Resistance, Ashanti is currently co-chair of the National
\n\tJericho Movement (to free U.S. political prisoners), a member of
\n\tpro-Zapatista people-of-color U.S.-based Estacion Libre, and is on the
\n\tboard of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.<\/p>\n

Sunday Highlights include:<\/p>\n

12PM: Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority, with Erik Ruin
\n\tRed Emmas is thrilled to welcome Erik Ruin (street artist, puppeteer,
\n\tand editor of the art\/politics zine Trouble in Mind) back to Baltimore
\n\tfor a more in-depth presentation of his new anthology (co-edited with
\n\tJosh MacPhee of the Justseeds project), Realizing the Impossible: Art
\n\tAgainst Authority. The book is filled to the gills with articles and
\n\tessays on the development and significance of anarchist art and
\n\tartistic anarchism (including an article featuring Camp Baltimore’s
\n\tsocial justice trailer project).<\/p>\n

1PM: Joy James presents Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prisons
\n in a Penal Democracy, with a special phone-in by former Black Panther and
\n political prisoner Eddie Marshall Conway
\n\tThe United States has more than two million people locked away in
\n\tfederal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the
\n\tU.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the
\n\tincarcerated – and policed – is not. Contributors consider the interning or
\n\tpolicing of citizens of color, the activism of radicals, structural
\n\tracism, destruction and death in New Orleans following Hurricane
\n\tKatrina, and the FBI Counterintelligence Program designed to quash
\n\tdomestic dissent. Editor Joy James is John B. and John T. McCoy
\n\tPresidential Professor of Africana Studies and College Professor in
\n\tPolitical Science at Williams College. She is the author of
\n\tShadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics and Resisting
\n\tState Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture and the
\n\teditor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and
\n\tContemporary Prison Writings and Imprisoned Intellectuals: Americas
\n\tPolitical Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion.
\n\tBaltimore Black Panther Marshall Eddie Conway has been wrongfully
\n\tincarcerated in the state of Maryland for more than 35 years, one of
\n\tthe many victims of the FBIs infamous COINTELPRO program.<\/p>\n

2PM: China Martens presents The Future Generation
\n\tA pioneer of the genre, especially when it comes to mamazines, China
\n\tMartens started The Future Generation in 1990. She was a young
\n\tanarchist punk rock mother who didnt feel that the mamas in her
\n\tcommunity had enough support, so she began delivering articles on
\n\tradical parenting to her companeras in an age before the Internet made
\n\tsuch a thing easy. Now, for the first time, 16 years of her zine and
\n\tparenting writing life come together. This zine-book uses individual
\n\tissues as chapters, focuses on personal writing, and retains the
\n\tcharacter of a zine that changed over the years-growing from her
\n\tdaughters birth to teenagehood and beyond. Personal and political;
\n\tideas and actions; the intimacy of a zine meets the arching reach of a
\n\tbook.<\/p>\n

3PM: The Baltimore Algebra Project reports on their October 17 March for Jobs
\n and Education
\n\tThe Baltimore Algebra Project seeks to foster an environment where
\n\tstudents can possess the mathematics skills necessary to desire,
\n\tdemand, and successfully complete a college preparatory curriculum in
\n\thigh school, opening the gateway to opportunities and choices of
\n\tcareers in mathematics and technical fields. One of the
\n\tlongest-running and most highly effective activist groups in the
\n\tBaltimore area, the Algebra Project continues to inspire and intrigue
\n\tus on a daily basis. Join students as they report back on their
\n\tOctober 17 March for Jobs and Education.<\/p>\n

4PM: Independent journalist Dahr Jamail on the Iraq War, with members of Iraq
\n Veterans Against the War
\n\tIn late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the US media to
\n\taccurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi
\n\tpeople and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war
\n\thimself. He spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only
\n\ta few independent US journalists in the country, and has reported from
\n\tother countries in the region, including Syria, Lebanon and
\n\tJordan. His new book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an
\n\tUnembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq is a critical addition to our
\n\tunderstanding of the occupation of Iraq and the essential role of
\n\tindependent journalism. Jamail will be joined by members of the Iraq
\n\tVeterans Against the War coalition, who will share their experiences
\n\tin Iraq and at home.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Yours for the revolution,
\nThe Red Emma’s Collective<\/p>\n

Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse
\n800 Saint Paul Street
\nhttps:\/\/www.redemmas.org<\/a>
\n&
\n2640: a cooperative events venue
\n2640 Saint Paul Street
\nhttps:\/\/www.redemmas.org\/2640<\/a><\/p>\n

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