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What Anarchism Offers a World on Fire with Ashanti Alston, Paul Messersmith-Glavin, and Kim Feicke
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Featured Book
Visions and Interventions
Three decades of critical anarchist thought on major historical moments and social issues.
Visions and Interventions covers major movements in world history over the past three decades, as well as small moments of insight and reflection. Readers will find examinations of the potential for anarchist dreams and practices, dispatches from uprisings and campaigns, notes on ways in which anarchism shapes and is shaped by daily life, examples of anarchist thought and organizing around the world, and historical elements that help us understand and better shape the future. The collection, organized into five sections, includes works by movement luminaries, grassroots organizers, philosophers, artists and comrades from around the globe.
This collection is a retrospective of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, the long-running journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, an organization that supports the development of anarchism, and acts as a grant-giving organization for radical writers and translators.
Includes essays by: Joel Olsen, Cindy Crabb, Victoria Law, and Colectivo Situaciones, among others. Interviewees include Barbara Epstein, Cedric Robinson, Howard Zinn, Arif Dirlik, and Walidah Imarisha.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
Also Featured
Anarchist Panther
First collection by a beloved thinker in Black anarchism
One of the enduring legacies of the Black Power Era is the turn by some revolutionaries toward a politics that questioned hierarchical leadership, patriarchy, and the role of the state in social transformation. This practice came to define a distinct form of anarchism rooted in the Black experience. Ashanti Omawali Alston helped nurture and define this turn through his experiences with the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and through social movement activity from the late 1960s to today. Anarchist Panther collects, for the first time, his thoughts that have influenced generations of radicals the world over.
These essays, interviews, and speeches trace Alston’s ideas and influences, including those on psychology, political prisoner support, feminism, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the Zapatista rebellion, and Black anarchism. Edited alongside William C. Anderson and introduced by kai lumumba barrow, Anarchist Panther brings to life the beautiful movement expression “All power to the people!”
About This Event
What Anarchism Offers a World on Fire with Ashanti Alston, Paul Messersmith-Glavin, and Kim Feicke
Celebrate the release of Visions and Interventions: Thirty Years of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory and Anarchist Panther: Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston, both new from AK Press. Join former Black Panther Ashanti Alston and Paul Messersmith-Glavin from the Perspectives on Anarchist Theory collective in a discussion of these two compelling new books. We will also focus on what anarchism and anarchists have to offer a burning world in crisis.
This discussion will be moderated by Kim Feicke, a longtime antiracist organizer who was involved in Chicago’s A Zone & Active Resistance Gathering in the 90s. Today Kim primarily trains educators to better develop their consciousness & practices related to combating white supremacy and anti-Black racism.
Featured Authors
Ashanti Omowali Alston
Ashanti Omowali Alston is a writer, speaker, father, and activist originally from New Jersey. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who spent twelve years in prison. Ashanti is an inspiration and mentor to younger activists, helping to develop Black anarchist politics and support for political prisoners.
Paul Messersmith-Glavin
Paul Messersmith-Glavin is a longtime organizer, writer, dad, editor, and healthcare worker originally from Chicago who now lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, which supports organizers in the form of writing grants, and is a member of the collective that publishes the IAS’ journal, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. He also works as a mentor with the Institute for Social Ecology, established by Murray Bookchin
In Conversation With
Kim Feicke
This discussion will be moderated by Kim Feicke, a longtime antiracist organizer who was involved in Chicago’s A Zone & Active Resistance Gathering in the 90s. Today Kim primarily trains educators to better develop their consciousness & practices related to combating white supremacy and anti-Black racism.
About the Venue
Pilsen Community Books
Pilsen Community Books is a worker owned and operated independent bookstore that specializes in new and used literary fiction, radical history and politics, and literature in translation. The staff's goal is to unite their bookselling experience with their belief that labor is entitled to all it produces.
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