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SF "AnarkoPunkStock" draws thousands...
"A Bush election is very good for anarchist consumerism,"
says queer ABF organizer. Games, flirting, books, zines, veggie food, nudes4peace and more compete for scarce space at popular free event for all genders. + events + news links
says queer ABF organizer. Games, flirting, books, zines, veggie food, nudes4peace and more compete for scarce space at popular free event for all genders. + events + news links
Is SF Anarchist Book Fair getting too big for its venue?
The 10th annual San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
drew thousands of consumers who hate consumerism,
on Good Saturday, 26 March 2005.
"A Bush election is very good for anarchist consumerism," said ABF organizer Joey Cain, 50, to the SF Chronicle. "Anarchy proposes that humans have the ability to join together to meet our needs without the intervention of church or state," added Cain, who's also active in Radical Faeries and SF Pride.
Around 75 official vendors rented table spaces in the over-crowded exhibition hall. Adjoining rooms provided food and lectures. When a women's toilet became overcrowded, women began using stalls in the men's toilet. On a wall in a hallway, a posted leaflet attacked Bound Together, the organizers of ABF
( but don't think anarchists must always dissent --- when sleeping, they sink into complacency ).
Outdoors, unofficial vendors, mostly young zinesters in punk regalia, spread their wares on the ground -- in an enclosed patio or on the front lawn. One organzed games for anarchists. Four nude SUN members demonstrated for peace on the patio while a clothed SUNner leafletted. ABF organizers warned that the patio might NOT be available next year.
By late afternoon, the lawn was covered with people selling, talking, picnicking, flirting; like an "AnarkoPunkStock", minus amplified music.
This popular free event may have outgrown its traditional venue, the SF County Fair Building
in Golden Gate Park.
Could ABF evolve into an "Anarchist Book & Music Festival", perhaps in the Hippie Hill (Sharon Meadow) area of the park?
........
If you have any constructive suggestions for ABF 2006,
please snail-write to
BOUND TOGETHER Book Collective
1369 Haight Street
San Franni, CA 94117
And please CC to:
Senior Unlimited Nudes (SUN)
PO Box 426937, SF, CA 94142-6937
....
For the full SF Chronicle report on ABF 2005,
by Rona Marech, please visit
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/27/BAGDLBVFHO1.DTL
......................
CALIF: Far-Wrong fanatics attack domestic partners, in court:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/03/25/state/n183423S79.DTL
.................
INDIA: less help for people with AIDS?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/health/23cnd-aids.html
................
SF, where the homeless sleep in church pews:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/27/ING8MBSSIB35.DTL
........
Why do some women want to wed imprisoned KILLERS?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/27/MNGMTBVFQJ1.DTL
..............
+ events, March 27 - 31:
FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events, etc., in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
compiled by SUN
[ http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude ]
and SaveFreedom;
with help from HolyTitClamps.com, SFBG.com, et alii ):
........................
For more "queer things to do"
please visit Larrybob at HTC:
[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
.........................
Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.
..........................
27 March, Sunday:
Easter (named for the goddess Ishtar).
Sunday, March 27,
10 am:
Easter In The Park:
FREE.
Join the Sisters in beautiful Dolores Park...
We'll be having fun and games for the kids,
our famous Bonnet Contest and our infamous
Hunky Jesus contest,
plus a great afternoon of fabulous entertainment.
Check website for more details.
We hope to see you in the park!
Dolores Park,
Dolores & 18th Street
http://www.thesisters.org
........
Chants for peace
Sunday, March 27, hear the Franciscan Brothers of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
sing Gregorian chants for world peace
at an outdoor event held on Easter Sunday
in Golden Gate Park, S.F.
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
outdoors near the Conservatory of Flowers.
Free.
(707) 869-3288.
...........
Protect tenant rights
Tuesday, March 29-Wednesday, March 30,
the San Francisco Tenants Union calls on you to attend a hearing at the Rent Board to discuss
Family Protection Act regulations,
and another hearing by the Board of Supervisors on a landlord plan
allowing for easy condo conversions.
Tues/29, 6:30 p.m., Rent Board, lower level, 25 Van Ness, S.F.
Wed/30, 1 p.m., City Hall, Room 263, S.F.
(415) 282-6622
http://www.sftu.org
...........
CAL-SF reading at main SF Public Library,
"ROAR SOFTLY AND CARRY A GREAT LIPSTICK:
28 women writers on life, sex, and survival:
Thursday, 31 March:
6:30 to 7:30pm.
downtown SF, near Civic Center BART/Muni station.
FREE.
......
CAL-SF: reading at
A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, SF 94114.
HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE A GAY OR LESBIAN PARENT:
a Book by Kids of All Ages
Thursday, March 31, 7:00pm
Judith E. Snow, MA,
also Yolanda Young Armstrong of FamilyBuilders by Adoptions
Children's own voices, as they describe and comment on their families.
http://www.adlbooks.com/events.cfm
415.431.0891
Free.
....................
###
The 10th annual San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
drew thousands of consumers who hate consumerism,
on Good Saturday, 26 March 2005.
"A Bush election is very good for anarchist consumerism," said ABF organizer Joey Cain, 50, to the SF Chronicle. "Anarchy proposes that humans have the ability to join together to meet our needs without the intervention of church or state," added Cain, who's also active in Radical Faeries and SF Pride.
Around 75 official vendors rented table spaces in the over-crowded exhibition hall. Adjoining rooms provided food and lectures. When a women's toilet became overcrowded, women began using stalls in the men's toilet. On a wall in a hallway, a posted leaflet attacked Bound Together, the organizers of ABF
( but don't think anarchists must always dissent --- when sleeping, they sink into complacency ).
Outdoors, unofficial vendors, mostly young zinesters in punk regalia, spread their wares on the ground -- in an enclosed patio or on the front lawn. One organzed games for anarchists. Four nude SUN members demonstrated for peace on the patio while a clothed SUNner leafletted. ABF organizers warned that the patio might NOT be available next year.
By late afternoon, the lawn was covered with people selling, talking, picnicking, flirting; like an "AnarkoPunkStock", minus amplified music.
This popular free event may have outgrown its traditional venue, the SF County Fair Building
in Golden Gate Park.
Could ABF evolve into an "Anarchist Book & Music Festival", perhaps in the Hippie Hill (Sharon Meadow) area of the park?
........
If you have any constructive suggestions for ABF 2006,
please snail-write to
BOUND TOGETHER Book Collective
1369 Haight Street
San Franni, CA 94117
And please CC to:
Senior Unlimited Nudes (SUN)
PO Box 426937, SF, CA 94142-6937
....
For the full SF Chronicle report on ABF 2005,
by Rona Marech, please visit
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/27/BAGDLBVFHO1.DTL
......................
CALIF: Far-Wrong fanatics attack domestic partners, in court:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/03/25/state/n183423S79.DTL
.................
INDIA: less help for people with AIDS?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/health/23cnd-aids.html
................
SF, where the homeless sleep in church pews:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/27/ING8MBSSIB35.DTL
........
Why do some women want to wed imprisoned KILLERS?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/27/MNGMTBVFQJ1.DTL
..............
+ events, March 27 - 31:
FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events, etc., in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
compiled by SUN
[ http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude ]
and SaveFreedom;
with help from HolyTitClamps.com, SFBG.com, et alii ):
........................
For more "queer things to do"
please visit Larrybob at HTC:
[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
.........................
Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.
..........................
27 March, Sunday:
Easter (named for the goddess Ishtar).
Sunday, March 27,
10 am:
Easter In The Park:
FREE.
Join the Sisters in beautiful Dolores Park...
We'll be having fun and games for the kids,
our famous Bonnet Contest and our infamous
Hunky Jesus contest,
plus a great afternoon of fabulous entertainment.
Check website for more details.
We hope to see you in the park!
Dolores Park,
Dolores & 18th Street
http://www.thesisters.org
........
Chants for peace
Sunday, March 27, hear the Franciscan Brothers of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
sing Gregorian chants for world peace
at an outdoor event held on Easter Sunday
in Golden Gate Park, S.F.
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
outdoors near the Conservatory of Flowers.
Free.
(707) 869-3288.
...........
Protect tenant rights
Tuesday, March 29-Wednesday, March 30,
the San Francisco Tenants Union calls on you to attend a hearing at the Rent Board to discuss
Family Protection Act regulations,
and another hearing by the Board of Supervisors on a landlord plan
allowing for easy condo conversions.
Tues/29, 6:30 p.m., Rent Board, lower level, 25 Van Ness, S.F.
Wed/30, 1 p.m., City Hall, Room 263, S.F.
(415) 282-6622
http://www.sftu.org
...........
CAL-SF reading at main SF Public Library,
"ROAR SOFTLY AND CARRY A GREAT LIPSTICK:
28 women writers on life, sex, and survival:
Thursday, 31 March:
6:30 to 7:30pm.
downtown SF, near Civic Center BART/Muni station.
FREE.
......
CAL-SF: reading at
A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, SF 94114.
HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE A GAY OR LESBIAN PARENT:
a Book by Kids of All Ages
Thursday, March 31, 7:00pm
Judith E. Snow, MA,
also Yolanda Young Armstrong of FamilyBuilders by Adoptions
Children's own voices, as they describe and comment on their families.
http://www.adlbooks.com/events.cfm
415.431.0891
Free.
....................
###
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http://www.holytitclamps.com/
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i was outside at one of the unofficial literature areas, and a rep of the bookfair came up and said that they were going to use that area as part of the (official) bookfair next year.
the person i was with asked if they would still be able to "table" by using an area further out on the lawn around the building, and the bound together person said yes.
you could contact bound together folks yourself to ask them about this, and find out if they think they have outgrown the space (rather than depending on the chronicle, since it is in their interest to find problems with the event)
Please remember that this event is a benefit for a community institution, a bookstore, that in spite of not having paid staff, has to organize a large separate event in order to pay all of its bills every year (this indicates that maybe they don't get enough business)
and, tortuga, for the love of god or the editors of this site, could you please post your local queer events as separate posts from your global or non-queer stuff?
thank you
the person i was with asked if they would still be able to "table" by using an area further out on the lawn around the building, and the bound together person said yes.
you could contact bound together folks yourself to ask them about this, and find out if they think they have outgrown the space (rather than depending on the chronicle, since it is in their interest to find problems with the event)
Please remember that this event is a benefit for a community institution, a bookstore, that in spite of not having paid staff, has to organize a large separate event in order to pay all of its bills every year (this indicates that maybe they don't get enough business)
and, tortuga, for the love of god or the editors of this site, could you please post your local queer events as separate posts from your global or non-queer stuff?
thank you
Anarchism and punk are not the same thing. Not all punks are anarchists, and not all anarchists are punks. It is true that some people are anarchopunks. I wouldn't say that yesterday's event was an anarchopunk event,
Some punks are racist fascists (aka boneheads). Not all are (some of the goodguys call themselves skinheads but distinguish themselves from the boneheads)
infoshop.org is a great place to learn more about anarchism - it links to an anarchist faq: http://infoshop.org/faq/index.html
http://www.antiracistaction.us/pn/ is about Anti-Racist Action, an excellent group that includes anti-racist skins
tons of other kinds of anarchists were there yesterday, from anarchist communists to green anarchists to crustypunks to anti-globalization activists who call themselves anarchists but are really libertarian socialists, and more
Some punks are racist fascists (aka boneheads). Not all are (some of the goodguys call themselves skinheads but distinguish themselves from the boneheads)
infoshop.org is a great place to learn more about anarchism - it links to an anarchist faq: http://infoshop.org/faq/index.html
http://www.antiracistaction.us/pn/ is about Anti-Racist Action, an excellent group that includes anti-racist skins
tons of other kinds of anarchists were there yesterday, from anarchist communists to green anarchists to crustypunks to anti-globalization activists who call themselves anarchists but are really libertarian socialists, and more
Anarchist book fair a sellout
Weekend event draws vendors of dissident literature and spirited talk
By JUSTIN M. NORTON
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years after it started, the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair has become a popular rallying point for the far left, thanks to shared enemies like the Bush Administration and the Patriot Act.
What originally was a few radicals getting together to talk politics has become the focus of an entire weekend of dissident cultural events, from punk rock concerts to soccer games.
"The Bush era has been good for anarchist consumerism," says Joey Cain, 50, a longtime supporter.
All 75 merchants' tables were sold out in advance of Saturday's fair in Golden Gate Park, making the fair one of the largest such events in North America, along with Montreal's "Festival of Anarchy" each May. Vendors come from as far away as Europe to sell rare anarchist and other political books.
Enthusiasts see it as part of a tradition of dissident literature in the San Francisco Bay area, where Jack London learned to write and City Lights Books owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti faced obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem Howl.
One of the biggest displays at the fair each year is by Oakland-based anarchist publisher AK Press, which has seen a 10 percent to 20 percent annual growth in its business.
"We haven't hit a wall yet," crowed Ramsey Kanaan, who works for the publisher. "It seems like the number of people interested in this literature has grown every day."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3104013
Weekend event draws vendors of dissident literature and spirited talk
By JUSTIN M. NORTON
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years after it started, the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair has become a popular rallying point for the far left, thanks to shared enemies like the Bush Administration and the Patriot Act.
What originally was a few radicals getting together to talk politics has become the focus of an entire weekend of dissident cultural events, from punk rock concerts to soccer games.
"The Bush era has been good for anarchist consumerism," says Joey Cain, 50, a longtime supporter.
All 75 merchants' tables were sold out in advance of Saturday's fair in Golden Gate Park, making the fair one of the largest such events in North America, along with Montreal's "Festival of Anarchy" each May. Vendors come from as far away as Europe to sell rare anarchist and other political books.
Enthusiasts see it as part of a tradition of dissident literature in the San Francisco Bay area, where Jack London learned to write and City Lights Books owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti faced obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem Howl.
One of the biggest displays at the fair each year is by Oakland-based anarchist publisher AK Press, which has seen a 10 percent to 20 percent annual growth in its business.
"We haven't hit a wall yet," crowed Ramsey Kanaan, who works for the publisher. "It seems like the number of people interested in this literature has grown every day."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3104013
"Could ABF evolve into an "Anarchist Book & Music Festival", perhaps in the Hippie Hill (Sharon Meadow) area of the park?"
uh, yeah, that would be fabulous - lots of loose papers blowing around in the wind, potential rain on books...
i really like doing it in the county fair building, since there's the potential to escape from the fluorescent lights into the hang-out area out front, or the beauty of the arboretum, but there's still a great indoor space for the cafe, the speakers and tablers. sure, it gets crowded, but i think that's part of what makes it fun. come early if it's a little too much - it's pretty mellow at 10am.
uh, yeah, that would be fabulous - lots of loose papers blowing around in the wind, potential rain on books...
i really like doing it in the county fair building, since there's the potential to escape from the fluorescent lights into the hang-out area out front, or the beauty of the arboretum, but there's still a great indoor space for the cafe, the speakers and tablers. sure, it gets crowded, but i think that's part of what makes it fun. come early if it's a little too much - it's pretty mellow at 10am.
what pooter said.
personally, I find the implication that we're all a buncha hippies fairly annoying. and the drums would drive me nuts.
personally, I find the implication that we're all a buncha hippies fairly annoying. and the drums would drive me nuts.
Tortuga posted his article ONLY to the queer page; where he posts about 99% of articles and calendars.
Tortuga did NOT link this to the "globalization" page.
The linking was presumably done by editors.
Does each page have its own separate readership, clique of debaters, etc. ?
At any rate, Tortuga feels welcome ONLY
at the queer page.
Tortuga did NOT link this to the "globalization" page.
The linking was presumably done by editors.
Does each page have its own separate readership, clique of debaters, etc. ?
At any rate, Tortuga feels welcome ONLY
at the queer page.
Comments can be harsh and there isnt much you can do about it but you shouldnt take it personally. The fact that you got angy comments just means more people are reading what you write.
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