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Roots of Contemporary Anarchism: From "Mother Earth" to Movement for a New Society

Date:
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Time:
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
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Location Details:
Station 40, 3030B 16th Street (at Mission), San Francisco, CA

Anarchism has changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, but the movement's recent history has not been well documented. In this talk, followed by a discussion, Andy Cornell will address the ways that anarchist theory, strategy, and art evolved from the outbreak of World War I to the end of the Vietnam War. Sharing dozens of archival photographs, letters, periodicals, and newspaper clippings, he'll explore anarchist responses to the Great Depression and New Deal; the rise of anarcho-pacifism, consensus, and prefigurative politics in the 1940s; and anarchist contributions to the black freedom movement, beat generation, and New Left.

Andy is the author of Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society (IAS/AK Press, 2011) and "For a World without Oppressors": U.S. Anarchism from the Palmer Raids to the Sixties (Phd diss., 2011). He works as an educator and labor organizer in New York City.

See also http://akpress.org/2011/items/opposeandpropose

$3-10 donation as a fund-raiser for the Institute for Anarchist Studies (but no one turned away for lack of funds)

Station 40 is a collectively run, anticapitalist community events space by and for anarchists, heretics, queers, autonomists, and many others who seek an egalitarian world without hierarchy. Police and other law enforcement officials, uniformed or otherwise, are not permitted or welcome.

Added to the calendar on Tue, Mar 8, 2011 10:17AM
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