MOUVEMENT ANARCHISTE DU CANADA/CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-MONTRÉAL:
LANCEMENT DE LIVRE/BOOK LAUNCH 'ANARCHY ALIVE' À MONTRÉAL:
Le suivant est du Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal. L'événement se passe demain soir. / The following is from the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair.
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Jeudi/Thursday: Lancement de livre "Anarchy Alive!" / Launch of "Anarchy Alive!" (Montreal):
[français ci-dessous]
Book Launch - "Anarchy Alive!" by Uri Gordon
Anarchists Against the Wall and the Joint Struggle in Israel/Palestine
Presented by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Café Cagibi, 5490 St-Laurent
6:30pm
$5 (suggested donation) All proceeds go to benefit the DIRA anarchist library
**whisper translation to french available
****Cagibi is a child-friendly café, bring your kids!**
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Featuring a presentations from:
Q-Team - speaking on: Queers Coming Out Against Israeli Apartheid
Uri Gordon - Speaking on Anarchists Against the Wall and the Joint Struggle in Israel/Palestine (http://www.awalls.org/)
Anarchists Against the Wall is an Israeli action group supporting the popular Palestinian struggle against segregation and land confiscation in the West Bank. Uri Gordon, a participant in the group and author of the book “Anarchy Alive!”, will discuss the group’s activities and examine the achievements and limitations of the joint struggle, as well as anarchist perspectives on national liberation and the future of Palestine/Israel.
-->About "Anarchy Alive" (http://www.anarchyalive.com/)
Anarchist politics are at the heart of today’s most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centres and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation that has redefined revolutionary struggle for the 21st century.
Anarchy Alive! is a fascinating, in-depth look at the practice and theory of contemporary anarchism. Uri Gordon draws on seven years of activist experience and on interviews, discussions and a vast selection of recent literature to explore the activities, cultures and agendas shaping today’s explosive anti-authoritarian revival.
Anarchy Alive! Also addresses some of the most tense debates in the contemporary movement, using a theory based on practice to provocatively reshape anarchist discussions of leadership, violence, technology and nationalism.
This is the ideal book for anyone looking for a fresh, informed and critical engagement with anarchism, as a mature and dynamic political force in the age of globalisation.
-->About Uri Gordon
Uri Gordon is an Israeli anarchist theorist and activist. He is a lecturer at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Ketura, Israel. One of several anarchist theorists to come of age during the anti-globalization movement at the turn of the twenty-first century, he has worked with anarchist and radical movements including Indymedia, Peoples' Global Action, and Anarchists Against the Wall. Active primarily in Britain and his native Israel, Gordon has participated in protests at international summits across Europe.
-->About Q-Team (http://www.qteam.org/)
In a climate of corporatized gay agendas and whitewashed homogeneity among queers, Q-Team strives to provide an alternative space and vision through exciting programming and engaged political action. Q-Team collectively organizes to foster radical, anti-racist, anti-capitalist queer politics. Q-Team recently organized a contingent in the Montreal pride parade under the banner "Queers Come Out Against Israeli Apartheid". A member of Q-Team will be talking about anti-authoritarian, queer solidarity with Palestine.
For more information, contact: antizionistjews@gmail.comhttp://www.anarchist-studies.org/http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/
[For more info about DIRA, contact dira@riseup.net or 514-843-2018]
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Lancement de livre - "Anarchy Alive!" de Uri Gordon Anarchistes contre le mur et les luttes des israéliennes et palestiniennes uniés:
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Mardi 8 octobre 2009
Café Cagibi, 5490 St-Laurent
18h30
5$ (don suggéré)
Tous les bénéfice iront au DIRA bibliothèque anarchiste
*De la traduction chuchotée vers le français sera disponible
Bienvenue aux enfants Le cagibi est un café ouvert aux enfants
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Au programme:- Q-team: présenation sur "Les queers sortent contre l'Apartheid israélien"- Uri Gordon: Les Anarchistes contre le mur et les luttes des israéliennes et palestiniennes unies
Anarchistes contre le murs est un groupe israélien appuyant la lutte populaire palestinienne contre la ségrégation et les voles de terres en Cisjordanie. Uri Gordon est membre du groupe et auteur du livre "Anarchy Alive!". Il nous parlera des activités du groupe et partagera les expériences positives et les limites qui ont été rencontré. Il nous donnera un point de vue anarchiste sur la question de la libération nationale, du future d'Israël et de la Palestine
--->À propos de "Anarchy Alive!"(http://www.anarchyalive.com/)
Le mouvement anarchiste est au cœur des luttes sociales les plus vibrantes et radicales de notre époque. Des centres sociaux squattés, aux jardins communautaires en passant par le sabotage et les blocages de sommets internationaux, les groupes anarchistes pratiquent l'action directe, l'organisation non-hiérarchique, et l'autodétermination redéfinissant ainsi les luttes révolutionnaire du 21ième siècle."Anarchy alive" est un ouvrage fascinant qui examine en profondeur les pratiques et les théories de l'anarchisme contemporain.
Partageant ses 7 ans d'expériences, des entrevues, des débats et une vaste sélection de littérature, Uri Gordon dresse un portrait des activités, de la culture et des luttes qui entourent le retour en force des mouvements anti-autoritaires."Anarchy Alive!" soulève aussi des questions parmi les plus controversées du mouvement contemporain, utilisant une théorie basée sur la pratique pour rediscuter les débats entourant le leadership, la violence, la technologie et le nationalisme à la lumière de nouveaux éléments pour le moins confrontant.Ce livre est idéal pour qui cherche à découvrir l'anarchisme d'un point de vue critique et contemporain, il illustre avec précision ce qui fait du mouvement anarchiste une force politique dynamique en pleine maturité.
--->À propos de Uri Gordon
Uri Gordon est un activiste et philosophe anarchiste israélien. Il est conférencier à l'institut Arava des études environnementales à Ketura, en Israël. C'est un philosophe anarchiste émergeant du mouvement anti-globalisation dés l'aube du 21ième siècle, il a milité avec des anarchistes et des mouvements radicaux comme entre autres avec Indymedia, l'Action mondiale des peuples, et les Anarchistes contre le mur . Tout d'abord actif en Angleterre et en Israël où il est né, Gordon a dans les dernières années participé aux mobilisations en marge des sommets internationaux à travers l'Europe.
--->À propos de Q-TEAM
Dans un contexte dominé par le corporatisme gay et l'homogénéité des Queers blanchi, Q-team tente d'offrir un espace et une vision alternatives par des activités excitantes et l'engagement dans l'action politique. Q-team s'organise sur des bases politiques radicales, anti-raciste, anti-capitaliste et queer. Q-team a récemment organisé un contingent dans la marche de la fierté gay sous la bannière "Les queers sortent contre l'Apartheid israélien". Un membre du Q-team présentera un point de vue anti-autoritaire de la solidarité queer avec la Palestine.
Pour plus d'information :
antizionistjews@gmail.comhttp://www.anarchist-studies.org/http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/
DIRA (Documentations, Informations, Références et Alternatives)
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MOLLY NOTE
Molly has not read the above book yet, though I have read several reviews. The reviews haven't given me much hope that it is worthwhile, but I have to admit that the reviewers have all had their own axes to grind. the part that I object to, from the reviews that I have read is not the descriptive part of the actions of the Israeli 'Anarchists Against the Wall'. I very much admire them, even though I have certain reservations about how much anarchists today tend to gloss over the less savoury aspects of the local opposition to Israeli imperialism. At the same time I hope , with a certain amount of scepticism, that the general line of the AAtW can capture the admiration of both Israelis and Palestinians.
My own objection is to what I have read in the reviews about some great historical gulf between some so-called "new anarchism" and a so-called "old anarchism", or, to put it another way between "Big A" and "Little A" anarchists. No doubt this has a certain grain of "truth", but, taking the long perspective, it has only been in countries where there has not been a mass anarcho-syndicalist presence that this has not always been true. Even in some countries such as France where there has been such a presence in the past this observation held true even at the height of the influence of the French CGT before it became a communist tool.
Speaking of 'CGTs' it is also a simple fact today that the membership (60,000 to 100,000) and the sympathizers (2 million who voted for them in Spanish union elections) of the Spanish CGT today outnumber all the other members of 'anarchist coalitions' and their sympathizers in all countries combined by a factor of 10. The anarcho-syndicalism of the Spanish CGT is, of course, very much 'Big A', and it is also very much 'old anarchism'.
Here is where historical perspective comes into play. Anarchism has always been divided between the 'Big A" and the "Little A" in most countries for most of the last 150 years. If the blurb above is accurate, which I doubt it is, comrade Gordon has been an anarchist for all of seven years. In my more than 35 years as an anarchist I have observed a few things that he has obviously not yet assimilated. One is that the idea that anarchism should be nothing but a collection of issue oriented campaigns is far older than comrade Gordon is. There is nothing new about it. As for those who claim that anarchism should have no organization, I've been fighting them for all of those years, and others in the times of our great,great, great grandfathers were fighting them in their time. The question is not new. It's ancient. in each generation supporters of one trend or the other try to claim the label of "new".
A great number of the ideologues (mostly American) from whom this idea takes it modern wings are older than I am. Some are old enough to have been dead and buried for some years now. On the other hand most (all ???) of the supporters of the 'new syndicalism' and 'platformism' in various countries are much younger than I am. A balanced account of any 'new anarchism' should take account of the growth of this trend as well.
Then there is the ultimate in balance. If you want to divide the "anarcho-world" into 'new As' and 'old As' then you have to take into account (unless you are biased towards the 'fashion' of 'militant protest') the way that libertarian ideas have penetrated into the ordinary population, both in terms of personal liberty (individualist), community politics (anarcho-communist) and self-management (syndicalist). This outweighs the visible manifestations of protest by the 'new anarchists' by much more than a factor of 10. Even most left-socialist parties and regimes have to cast their aspirations in libertarian terms these days to gain public support. The history of this far greater "Little A" tendency has yet to be written.
As i said, I haven't read the book, and I hope that the author is not the sort of ideologue that the reviews make him out to be. There is a great amount to celebrate in the self-organization of the new protest movements, and their minor attempts at alternatives, that comprise what has been called the 'new anarchism'. Anyone, however, who cannot see its limitations is probably willfully blind. In its present form it is not a movement towards anarchism, and in its more spectacular protest oriented forms its is not even a movement towards a slightly freer society. When it adopts taking psychpathology into politics via terrorist actions it is a movement away from a free society. No amount of Jesuitical causistics will make it otherwise.
