Dean
7th March 2008, 01:25
Building a Popular Anarchism
A Talk by Irish Anarchist, Andrew Flood
Tuesday, March 11th @ 7pm
William Bryd Community House
224 S. Cherry St.
Anarchism is a social movement committed to abolishing all forms of oppression
and maximizing individual and collective freedom for the benefit of all. In
these times, (characterized by war, poverty, exploitation of people and natural
resources, racism, sexism, homophobia & countless other social oppressions,
relentless consumerism, alienation, and a host of addition ills), more and more
people dedicated to radical social transformation are gravitating to
anarchism. But how does anarchism become a popular movement with a real chance
of winning?
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.
Join us to hear how this breakthrough happened and the details of the various
struggles anarchists have been involved in.
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 working as 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.
He has been editor of the anarchist publications Workers Solidarity, Red &
Black Revolution, AgainstWar and Terror and Linchpin.He was on the editorial
group of the first anarchist site to use the internet, Spunk Press, which
predated the invention of the web (it used gopher). He has or is also on the
editorial groups of A-Infos, Anarkismo.net, WSM.ie and Struggle.ws. He is
currently involved in the launch of the new anarchist discussion site
AnarchistBlackCat.org.
A partial archive of Andrew's writings, radio interviews andtranslations can be
found at http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html
http://www.wsm.ie/
What do you guys think about Andrew Flood and the Workers Solidarity Movement? Is it worth my time?
A Talk by Irish Anarchist, Andrew Flood
Tuesday, March 11th @ 7pm
William Bryd Community House
224 S. Cherry St.
Anarchism is a social movement committed to abolishing all forms of oppression
and maximizing individual and collective freedom for the benefit of all. In
these times, (characterized by war, poverty, exploitation of people and natural
resources, racism, sexism, homophobia & countless other social oppressions,
relentless consumerism, alienation, and a host of addition ills), more and more
people dedicated to radical social transformation are gravitating to
anarchism. But how does anarchism become a popular movement with a real chance
of winning?
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.
Join us to hear how this breakthrough happened and the details of the various
struggles anarchists have been involved in.
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 working as 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.
He has been editor of the anarchist publications Workers Solidarity, Red &
Black Revolution, AgainstWar and Terror and Linchpin.He was on the editorial
group of the first anarchist site to use the internet, Spunk Press, which
predated the invention of the web (it used gopher). He has or is also on the
editorial groups of A-Infos, Anarkismo.net, WSM.ie and Struggle.ws. He is
currently involved in the launch of the new anarchist discussion site
AnarchistBlackCat.org.
A partial archive of Andrew's writings, radio interviews andtranslations can be
found at http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html
http://www.wsm.ie/
What do you guys think about Andrew Flood and the Workers Solidarity Movement? Is it worth my time?