Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
Two days: Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26
10am to 5pm on both days
Closest metro: Lionel-Groulx
The book fair takes place in two buildings in Parc Vinet: Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 Rue Workman and Centre d'education popular de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA), 2515 rue Delisle. The event is free and open to all. For anarchists, and people curious about anarchism.
Schedule:
Saturday, May 25
11am
- Building a Solidarity City: The practice of anarchism in Montreal (EN/FR) – Solidarity Across Borders
- An Anarchist Working for the State: Trojan Horse? (FR) – David Gagnon
- Autonomous Archiving: History in Our Hands (EN) – Interference Archive
- Women and Anti-fascism (FR) - Montreal Sisterhood
1pm
- No Borders, No Nations, Smash White Supremacy! APOC struggles in North America (EN/FR) – No One Is Illegal-Montreal
- “We Are Ungovernable” – A Book About Contemporary Anarchism in Quebec (FR)
- All writers of anarchist fiction – meet the Anarchist Writers Bloc (FR/EN)
- No System but the Ecosystem: Earth First! and Anarchism (EN) – Toby V. Potter
3pm
- Anarchist People of Colour (APOC) Caucus: Take Care of Each Other So We Can Be Dangerous Together (EN/FR)
- Direct Democracy: A Project by and for White Men? (FR) – Myriam & Camille from the Union des communistes libertaires
- Notre Dame des Landes Airport (Nantes) in France: useless, costly, anti-ecological and anti-social (FR) – No Pasaran
- Strategies for Solidarity with Women Prisoners (EN) – Gully Good, Kelly Rose Pflug-Back and Claudia Medina
Sunday, May 26
11am
- Women, Prisons, and the State (FR) – Clara & Josée
- Anarchy After Fukushima (EN) – Ayumi Hirai, Yoko K, Sabu Kohso & Norihito Nakata
- Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind (EN) – Vikki Law & China Martens
1pm
- “We don’t give a fuck”: An alternative history of the spring 2012 uprising in Quebec (FR) –Collectif de débrayage
- RASTA: The Anarchism of the Poor? (FR) – Hélène Lee
- Decolonization, anarchism, and addressing violence against Indigenous Women (EN) –Candice Cascanette
- Parents and Caregivers Caucus (EN/FR)
3pm
- Anarchists resisting fascists and the far-right: The example of Greece (EN) – Christina Xydous et. al.
- Is the personal political? (FR) – Maille à Part
- Police Brutality and Political Profiling (FR) – Francis Dupuis-Déri and Marc-André Cyr
- Anarchist Education (FR) – Marike Reid-Gaudet and Mubeenah Mughal
*For detailed descriptions of events see here.