M11 Anarchist Social Space-November Calendar

Tacoma Anarchist Bookfair

Tacoma’s fourth annual Anarchist Bookfair is a revolutionary gathering for anyone interested in or curious about anarchy, open to all.  The event features booksellers and distributors (literature, zines, arts, crafts, etc.), talks and discussion groups, workshops, presentations, films, and more!

The Bookfair will be held Oct 23rd and 24th 2010

at King´s Books 218 Saint Helens Avenue (Tacoma)

The schedule is as follows…

SATURDAY: 11am

* 11:00am – 12:00pm… Class Conflict: Discussion on the inherent conflict between the rich and poor.

* 12:10pm – 12:40pm… Distro Talk: Corvus

* 12:40pm – 1:20pm… LUNCH BREAK

* 1:20pm – 2:20pm… TBA

* 2:30pm – 3:00pm… Distro Talk: Pink and Black Attack

* 3:10pm – 4:10pm… Consent Workshop: a facilitated discussion on interpersonal and institutional consent

* 4:20pm – 5:20pm… Seattle Solidarity Network: (SeaSol) is a small workers’ and tenants’ mutual aid group that focuses on winning small fights against bosses and landlords, over issues such as unpaid wages and stolen deposits, through the use of collective action in the form of pickets and demonstrations.

* 5:30pm – 7:00pm… Gentrification and Pacification: A brief introduction to the war underway on the Hilltop and some ideas on resisting.

SUNDAY: 12noon

* 12:00pm – 1:00pm… Greenwashing Capitalism

* 1:10pm – 1:40pm… Distro Talk: Killing Time

* 1:50pm – 2:50pm… Patriarchy and Industrialized Medicine: a short history on the rise of industrialized medicine and its self-authorized regulation of health care

* 3:00pm – 3:30pm… Distro 6: Lunaria Press

* 3:40pm – 4:40pm… Alienation and Me: A critique of capitalist society focusing on the socializing institutions that uninterruptedly produce it.

* 4:50pm – 5:20pm… Distro Talk: Rise Like Lions (http://riselikelions.info)

* 5:30pm – 7:00pm… Project Endgame

For more info http://tacomabookfair.tumblr.com/ or  tacomabookfair@gmail.com

Conspiracy Tour: Inside State Repression
Thursday, August 19th 7PM- At the M11 (1212 S. 11th St. #24)

conspiracytour.wordpress.com

Info-Night: On the Northwest Detention Center, Immigration, GEO Group, and the Prison World presently

Thursday, August 26th 7PM at the M11

M11 August Calendar

Check out: tan.anarchyplanet.org for more info & happenings.

Women In Prison

7:00pm TONIGHT

Noise Demo at the NW Detention Center

Saturday, June 26th at 3:00pm

Bring shit to make noise; buckets, air horns, bull horns, drums, other instruments, etc.

Northwest Detention Center
1623 East J St.

Saturday, June 26th at 3:00pm

Background:

The Northwest Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tide flats of Tacoma, Washington. The detention center opened in 2004 under a contract with The US Department of Homeland Security, Though owners have changed over time, the facility is now owned by the GEO Group Which operates prison facilities in Australia, The UK, South Africa, the US and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the largest and primary investigative branch of Homeland Security, expanded the facility’s housing capacity 1,000 detainees, making it the largest detention center owned by GEO Group on the West Coast of the United States.

In 2003 the ICE launched Operation End Game, the largest police operation in US history, to remove all undocumented migrants from the US by the year 2012. The project’s predecessor, Operation Wetback in 1954, removed 1.2 million Mexicans from the American Southwest.
ICE does not need warrants to make arrests or to conduct raids. Since July 2007, raids have increased the number of detained migrants from 18,000 to 26,000 nationwide. Homeland Security relocates 700 detainees a week in the United States.

Migrants in the facility are mostly from the Northwest regions of Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Washington. Due to the increase in raids they’ve recently come from places like New York, Puerto Rico and Guam. ICE agents move the detainees to the facility under the cover of night.

Nationwide tens of thousands of children every year lose a parent to deportation. 85% percent of those detained don’t have legal counsel, since they do not have a right to due process or protections against unlawful searches or seizures.

Free Movie at the M11

Saturday, June 19th at 7:00pm

M11 is located at: 1212 So. 11th St. Suite 24 Tacoma, WA

On Saturday, June 19th, we will be showing Der Baader Meinhoff Komplex, a film that chronicles the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction’s founders.  The Red Army Faction was an urban-guerrilla group in West Germany that was founded in 1970.  The three founders were either murdered or committed suicide while in prison in 1977.

Before the film, there will be a critical discussion on the pitfalls of urban-guerrilla warfare and clandestine struggle.

Mexican cuisine will be served before the discussion.

Via Tacoma Anarchist Network

Solidarity Demo with Oaxaca

Monday, June 7th at 1:00pm

Monday, June 7th at 1:00pm

Background:

On June 8, anti-authoritarians and human rights activists are trying to break the paramilitary blockade of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala in Oaxaca. We need to support them to help avoid another massacre.

In 2006, Oaxaca was the site of one of the most inspiring, important social rebellions of the decade. Between the brutal crackdown of the Mexican state and the constant harassment by paramilitaries, dozens of people have been killed and the rebellion was largely crushed, but parts of Oaxaca are still organizing their autonomy.

For five months, the Triqui village of San Juan Copala has faced severe paramilitary repression for declaring itself autonomous from the Mexican state and the neocolonial capitalist policies it enforces.

On April 27, paramilitaries attacked a convoy that included activists, anarchists, and humanitarian workers trying to reach the village to lift the paramilitary siege. Two people, Beatriz Alberto Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola, were killed and several were wounded. Beatriz, an indigenous Mixtec, was a long-time advocate for food sovereignty, community water management, soil conservation and indigenous autonomy. She directed the organization CACTUS (Centro de Apoyo Comunitario Trabajando Unidos). Jyri, 33 years old, was a Finnish human rights activist who had been involved in the Fair Trade movement and delivering humanitarian aid to Africa.

On May 15, paramilitaries kidnapped and beat 12 women and children inhabitants of the municipality, who were later released. On May 20, paramilitaries assassinated Cleriberta Castro and her husband, Timoteo Alejandro Ramirez, who was the leader of the indigenous Yosoyuxi community within the municipality.

Multiple indigenous, Zapatista, anti-authoritarian, human rights and other groups are calling for a second caravan to lift the blockade of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, arriving on June 8.

For this reason, we are calling for a day of solidarity actions the day before, on June 7, to create pressure and prevent another massacre. The paramilitaries work on behalf of the Mexican government and Mexican and international corporations invested in the area. They do the dirty work that provides the basis for state control and commercial investment.

As comrades in Oaxaca go face to face with the paramilitary thugs, all the rest of us need to let the bosses of the paramilitaries know there will be consequences for more brutality.

Call-ins or protests at Mexican consulates, visits to corporations invested in Mexico, counterinformation and direct action are all necessary. Because solidarity spreads or it dies.

Decentralized Solidarity Actions on June 7: Against Capitalism and its Death Squads! For Indigenous Self-Determination!

–anarchists and anti-authoritarians in Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma and beyond.

Para más información en español

http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/oaxaca-mexico-nuevo-ataque-paramilitar-causa-dos-muertos-san-juan-copa

for more information in English see

http://elenemigocomun.net/

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/11159

via Tacoma Anarchist Network

Anti-Prison Demo, May 15th

Saturday, May 15th at 2:00pm

At the Pierce County Jail,Tacoma, Washington
Meet at South 9th St. and South Yakima Ave

via, Tacoma Anarchist Network