CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-TORONTO:

TORONTO ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY COMING SOON:

Following the success of last year's Toronto Anarchist Assembly it's going to be happening again this year on April 9 to 11. Here's the callout from the Ontario section of the Anarchist Black Cat discussion board.

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Toronto Anarchist Assembly

April 9, 10, 11

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Friends,

It’s time for us to gather. To assemble and talk to each other. To bring together folks who secretly or not so secretly identify with anarchism, and continue to build a larger and more vibrant community. Building on last year’s ‘Toronto Anarchist Gathering’ this will be a bigger and better weekend of events including panel discussions, booktables, workshops, social events and more.

We need your help!

We’re writing to invite you to participate in a weekend of fun and anarchism at the Toronto Anarchist Assembly on April 9-11th. This will be a space for a wide variety of anarchist individuals, radical political groups, and anti-authoritarian organizations to come together, meet, greet, educate, skill-share, and hear about each other’s projects and plans.

Hopefully this will be an opportunity to educate some people about what anarchism is all about, to encourage people to get involved with some of the organizing and organizations that exist in Toronto, and to provide a space for already-established groups to hear about each other’s work.

On Friday April 9th, there will be an evening panel discussion on “Anarchism in the 21st Century”

On Saturday April 10, there will be booktables, group tables, displays, and workshops from 11am-3pm. Then from 3pm-5pm there will be a giant go-around so folks can hear what other people are up to. From 5pm on there will be a family-friendly social with food, games, and movies, followed later by music, a bar, and all kinds of anti-authoritarian hijinks.

On Sunday April 11, there will be more booktables, group tables, displays, and workshops.

PLEASE GET INVOLVED.

Want to have a table for books, literature, flyers? Or to sell buttons, shirts, or whatever else?

Send us an email at: torontoanarchistassembly@gmail.com

(priority given to folks with literature)

Want to put on a workshop? If so, send us an email with a short description of what you want to do. We’ll try to put on as many workshops as we have space for.

If you want to help out in any other way, for example, by making a donation, putting up posters, or volunteering to do childcare, that’d be awesome. Give us a shout at torontoanarchistassembly@gmail.com. Also please let us know if you have any particular accessibility requests. We’ll do our best to accommodate.

The Toronto Anarchist Assembly is open to anyone who shares our anti-oppressive perspective against classism, sexism, racism, ableism, colonialism, homophobia, and other hierarchical attitudes, practices and crap.

http://torontoanarchistassembly.blogspot.com/

CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-TORONTO:

PLANNING THE 2010 TORONTO ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY:

It's an anarchist bookfair by another name, perhaps one more true to what actually happens at such events, something like the word favoured in the Spanish speaking world, "encuentro", meaning more or less "encounter". More happens at anarchist bookfairs than just gazing at books laid out on a table. Building on their success this year with their "assembly" people are now laying out plans for a bigger and better one next year. If you live in the Toronto area consider hooking up and lending a hand. The following appeal is from the Ontario section of the Anarchist Black Cat discussion board.

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Help build the 2010 anarchist assembly!:
Recently a group of anarchist activists who were involved in organizing the 2009 Toronto anarchist gathering got together to start planning a similar event for 2010.

What we came up with at our initial meeting was to call an anarchist assembly to be held in Toronto in March 2010.

We see this as a public assembly consisting of assembly meetings, workshops, book tables, and social spaces that will build the anarchist movement.

Attend the next organizing meeting!

The next organizing meeting for the 2010 anarchist assembly will be held:

Sunday November 29

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

252 Bloor St. West (St. George Subway)

4pm

Meet in the lobby

We encourage all anarchist activists to participate in making this a productive and exciting event for all.

CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-TORONTO:

TORONTO ANARCHIST GATHERING:

After too many years without such an event the centre of the Universe known as Toronto will be having an anarchist gathering/anarchist bookfair again this year. Here's the announcement.

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Toronto Anarchist Gathering:

Saturday, April 4th

10-5pm, Steelworkers Hall (25 Cecil St.)

It’s time for us to gather. To meet up and to stare at each other. To bring together folks who secretly or not so secretly identify with anarchism. It will be a smorgasbord of anarchism-related groups and activities. It will be quick and dirty. And it's happening soon.

We need your help.

We’re writing to invite you to participate in a day of fun and anarchy at the Toronto Anarchist Gathering on April 4th. This will be a space for a wide variety of anarchist individuals, radical political groups, and anti-authoritarian organizations to come together, meet, greet, educate, skill-share, and hear about each other’s projects and plans.

Hopefully this will be an opportunity to educate some people about what anarchism is all about, to encourage people to get involved with some of the organizing and organizations that exist in Toronto, and to provide a space for already-established groups to hear about each other’s work.

There will be booktables, group tables, displays and workshops from 11-3. Then from 3-5 there will be a giant go-around so folks can hear what other people are up to.

PLEASE GET INVOLVED.

Does your group want to have a table to sell literature, buttons, shirts, or whatever else? Send us an email at: torontoanarchistgathering@gmail.com

First come first served.

Do you want to put on a workshop? If so, bring a proposal to the workshop meeting on Tuesday march 24th at OISE (252 Bloor Street west) at 6pm. We’ll do as many workshops as we have space for, and go with the ones that are the most popular at that meeting.

If you want to help out in any other way, that’d be awesome. Give us a shout at torontoanarchistgathering@gmail.com

The Toronto Anarchist Gathering is open to anyone who shares our anti-oppressive perspective against classism, sexism, racism, ableism, colonialism, homophobia, and other hierarchical attitudes, practices and crap.