"Building a Popular Anarchism" New England Speaking Tour

north america / mexico | anarchist movement | anarchist communist event Tuesday February 19, 2008 13:04 by Joe - NEFAC

Feb 20-28th:

North American readers of Anarkismo.net who are in the north east should be interested in this speaking tour by the Irish anarchist Andrew Flood. In the next month he is speaking at NEFAC arranged events in 15 cities including Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington DC. The list below is not yet complete as the later dates in Virginia and upstate NY are being finalised.

Worcester MA -Feb 20th 7pm
Stone Soup, 4 King st

Providence RI - Feb 21st, 7:30
DARE, 340 Lockwood street

Boston - Saturday, February 23rd - 7pm, Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th Floor, Chinatown (www.encuentro5.org)

Portland, ME, Feb 25th, Meg Perry Centre, 644 Congress St

Amherst, MA, Feb 27th or 28th, Food for Thought books, 106 N Pleasant street

Dates for NYC, Hartford, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Richmond, Fredricksburg, Harresburg, Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo to follow.

A decade ago the active anarchist movement in Ireland consisted of little more than a dozen people in two small organizations. Today hundreds of people are active and one banned libertarian demonstration in 2004 saw 5,000 people take part. Anarchists are increasingly replacing Irish republicans as the bogeyman of the mainstream media.

This talk explains how this breakthrough happened and details the various struggles anarchists have been involved in.

About the speaker:

Andrew is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. More recently, he has been become a member of NEFAC and is a founder member of Common Cause, Ontario. His publishing record includes well over one hundred articles, translated into over nine languages, chapters published in three books, and articles in seven English language anti-authoritarian magazines and newspapers. As well as numerous events in Ireland he has been the speaker at meetings in Britain, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic and the USA and attended conferences in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico.

A partial archive of Andrew's writings, radio interviews and translations can be found at
http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html

More info on NEFAC: http://www.nefac.net