Sacramento Area Anarchist Events Calender

Sacramento + Northern California Anarchist Events Calendar

Disclaimer: The events listed in this email are not necessarily affiliated with each other, the anarchist café or its planners, and in addition, law enforcement and members of investigative bodies such as the FBI are not invited to any of these events. In fact, if you are from any such organization, stop reading this now, it is not intended for you or any other governmental body.

This is a list compiled of events that may or may not be of interest to anarchists. Feel free to come check them out (whether you consider yourself an anarchist or not!).

Upcoming local events:

-Sat, March 19 --- Really REALLY Free Market: Come celebrate the gift economy from 1-5pm at 1911 F street. Everyone is encouraged to bring something special to share with others for FREE. That may include: free items, massages, skits, teach a skill, music, dance, plants and seeds, or gratitude. For more information, contact (916)361-3595 or email lomazzip [at] yahoo.com

-Sat, April 23? --- The Sacramento Anarchist Café is back. Right now it is still in the planning stages, and the date is only semi-confirmed, the second a-café is definitely going to be as exciting as the first. Very little as of now is confirmed, but if everything goes according to plan – the a-café will feature a panel discussion on grand juries, featuring several lawyers and activists who have extensive experience in the subject, in addition to speaker Rod Coronado, a workshop on importance of forest defense, a pirate radio workshop, speaker Kevin Kjonaas from the Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty campaign (SHAC), more musical acts, more free vegan food from Sac Food Not Bombs, more free stenciling, free childcare, tons of books and zines for sale and trade, and several local radical organizations will be present. Want to perform, present, speak, or table at this or a future a-café? Email sactoacafe [at] riseup.net for more info.

-Fri, April 30 --- Sacramento Critical Mass. Sacramento’s favorite rambunctious mass bike ride is back! The ride will assemble at 5:00pm at Cesar Chavez Park (11th + Ist). If you enjoy swarming through the streets with massive amounts of other cyclists, then come check it out! If you want to help flyer, email sacmass [at] hotmail.com for .pdf flyers to print out, duplicate, and disseminate!

Ongoing events:

-Every Wednesday --- Sacramento Anarchist Discussion group meets at 1309 21st St from 7:00-9:00pm every week. Anyone interested in critical discussions on authority, power, and building a society free of hierarchy and exploitation is highly encouraged to come! Every week, we read an article or essay and discuss it and whatever else we’re inspired to talk about. This coming week’s reading is entitled Anarchist Communist Manifesto (available online at: http://nefac.net/node/1216 ) (its short!). We will discuss what we like about it (if anything), what’s wrong with it (if anything), and much more! Come check it out! Bring a few bucks for pizza if you want (there’s vegan pizza available! Yay!). Email sactoacafe [at] riseup.net for flyers and more info!

-Every Sunday + Wednesday --- Sacramento Food Not Bombs serves free hot vegan meals to the community twice a week. The main serving (Sunday) is at Cesar Chavez Park (11th + Ist) at 1:30pm. If you want to help out, FNB cooks at the Washington Neighborhood Center (400 16th st) from 10:00am until 1:00pm. Enter through the gym doors. The second serving every week (Wednesday) takes place at James McClatchy Park (34th St + 5th Ave in Oak Park) at 4:00pm. If you’d like to help, FNB prepares the food at 3950 2nd Ave starting at 1:00pm. For more information, check out http://home.pacbell.net/cicada3/fnb.htm or email sactofoodnotbombs [at] yahoo.com


Big Events in the Bay:

-Sat, March 19 --- International Day of Protest on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A march will assemble at Delores Park at 11:00am and a rally will be held at Civic Center Plaza at 1:00pm. Along with throngs of liberals, an anarchist contingent to the march will meet up at 18th and Delores at 11:00am, along with a radical bike bloc. Email anarchistaction [at] riseup.net

-Thurs, March 24 --- Anarchy Magazine presents Bob Black (plus musical guests and more) at the Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck) in Berkeley at 8:00pm

-Fri, March 25 --- The 8th Annual SF Anarchist Café is a benefit the Attica to Abu Ghraib Conference. The event will feature performers, videos, dinner, a kids’ space, and hundreds of anarchists from all over the west coast. The event is being held at 225 Potrero Ave. at 16th Street in San Francisco, starts at 6:00pm and ends at Midnight, and a donation of $5 is requested per person, although nobody will be turned away. For more info or to volunteer, email anarchistcafe2005 [at] yahoo.com

-Fri, March 25 --- Ward Chruchill will be speaking On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, Empire, Resistance, and the New McCarthyism. The event will be at 7:00pm at the Women’s building, 2543 18th St. in San Francisco, and costs $10.

-Sat, March 26 --- The 10th Annual Bound Together Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair will take place from 10:00am until 6:00pm at the San Francisco County Fair Building near 9th Ave. and Lincoln Way in Golden Gate Park.. This is a HUGE event. It will feature dozens anarchist of book sellers and literature distributors from all over the west coast, in addition to speakers such as Ward Churchill, Bary Pateman (editor at the Emma Goldman Papers), Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (author of Red Dirt and Outlaw Woman), Peter Werbe (of Fifth Estate), Eric Drooker, and Entartete Kunst. The event is totally FREE!

-Sun, March 27 --- The 5th Annual BASTARD (Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research and Development) Conference will be held in Barrow’s Hall at UC Berkeley from 10:00am until 6:00pm. The event is open to everyone, and is free. http://sfbay-anarchists.org/conference/

-Sun, March 27 --- The 2nd Annual Anarchist Pride March will start at Delores Park (18th and Delores St.) at 11:00am. The March will leave for the Civic Center at 12:00 noon.

-Sat, April 2 --- Reclaim the Streets (RTS) street party! The event is billed as a community mutiny against fare hikes. It starts at 12:00 noon at Delores Park in SF. It is a masquerade ball, so dress to impress. “We’ll it the streets at 1pm sharp in search of fun and mischief...”

Other Important Info:

-That’s all for now! If you have any events or announcements that are relevant to the anarchist community and you would like to see listed in this email, feel free to email sactoacafe [at] riseup.net to possibly have them included in the next events calendar.

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-Remember, if you live in the Sacramento area have been contacted, visited, or arrested (or anything else of that nature) by the FBI or any other similar repressive governmental body, do not hesitate to contact sacprisonersupport [at] riseup.net to help protect both yourself and the local anarchist community. Lawyers are available to represent and advise you, and can keep you and your friends safe and free. Don’t talk to cops!

-More resources:
For anarchist news from around the world: http://news.infoshop.org/
For local independent news: http://www.indybay.org/centralvalley/
For bay area independent news http://www.indybay.org




Cheers!