Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/1559980014231896/
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events
Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/696320797102982/>
Posted on November 6th, 2014 in Events, Uncategorized
Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/731070760310084/
Posted on October 17th, 2014 in Events
Conversation with James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/1484295738519291/
Co-sponsored by Right 2 Survive, Right 2 Dream Too, the Institute for Anarchist Studies, the Hella 503 Collective, PDX Solidarity Network, Black Rose Anarchist Federation, PDX Anarchist Black Cross, Oregon Jericho and others!
Posted on October 15th, 2014 in Events
Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars.
A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life and keep them running.
Learn more about the book: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/766853523373665/
Posted on October 11th, 2014 in AK Distribution, Current Events, Recommended Reading
The Kurdish people are the largest nation in the world without a state. And many Kurds, especially in the autonomous region of Rojava (in Syria), aren’t interested in forming one. This fact often gets lost in the mainstream news accounts of the attacks by ISIS fundamentalists on the Kobanê (a canton in Rojava). No surprise there.
Anarchists are, of course, watching these events closely. Some have even joined the struggle from Turkey. In the hopes of helping people become better informed, here’s a list of readings/listenings. The first is a book we distribute, most are available online, and the last is info about a demo happening today in San Francisco to defend the Kobanê resistance. Destroy all borders and the states that impose them!
* Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan: The Council Movement, Gender Liberation, and Ecology (http://www.akpress.org/democratic-autonomy-in-north-kurdistan.html)
* The experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) has proved that people can make changes (http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27301)
* A ‘Revolution’ under Attack – the Alternative in midst the War in Syria (http://www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/the-alternative-in-syria/)
* Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/08/why-world-ignoring-revolutionary-kurds-syria-isis)
* Rojava revolution: building autonomy in the Middle East
(http://roarmag.org/2014/07/rojava-autonomy-syrian-kurds/)
* VIDEO: Dilar Dirik on Kobane and Kurdish Women’s Movement (http://kurdishquestion.com/kurdistan/video-dilar-dirik-on-kobane-and-kurdish-women-s-movement.html)
* Anarchists join fight against ISIS to defend Kurdish Autonomous Areas (https://libcom.org/news/anarchists-join-fight-against-isis-defend-kurdish-autonomous-areas-03102014)
* Defend the Kobanê Resistance (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/09/18762632.php)
Posted on September 29th, 2014 in Events
Decades of displacement and eviction have reached another crescendo during 2013-14. Key activists from the 1990s to the present will share tactics and strategies as the war enters its latest stages.
Featuring James Tracy with his new book Dispatches Against Displacement, Erin McElroy of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Maria Zamudio of Causa Justa.
Posted on September 26th, 2014 in Happenings
Author and housing activist James Tracy will be heading out on tour soon with his brand-new book Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars. His confirmed events (so far!) are listed below; we’ll keep this list up to date as more events are confirmed and details are updated.
You can learn more about the book (and read an excerpt) HERE.
SEATTLE
October 18 from 10am-5pm: Seattle Tenants’ Union Annual Meeting: A Tenant Convergence @ Emerald City Bible Fellowship, 7728 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118
http://www.facebook.com/events/1528088307404439
October 18 at 8pm: Left Bank Books, 92 Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98101
http://www.facebook.com/events/911108038918209/
PORTLAND
October 19 at 6pm: Reading Frenzy Books, 3628 N. Mississippi Ave., Portland, OR 97227
http://www.facebook.com/events/1462009340740953/
October 20 at 5pm: Floyd’s Old Town, 118 NW Couch Street, Portland, OR 97209
http://www.facebook.com/events/1484295738519291/
Portland talks co-sponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies, the Hella 503 Collective, PDX Solidarity Network, Black Rose Anarchist Federation, PDX Anarchist Black Cross, Oregon Jericho and others!
SAN FRANCISCO
October 22 at 8pm: Book Release Party at SUB/Mission, 2183 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110
With: Dark Materials, Bankrupt District, Sun Jin Lui, (Ex-Diskarte Namin)
A split benefit gig for the San Francisco Community Land Trust and PODER ($10 cover)
http://www.facebook.com/events/699760723411260/
October 26 at 4pm: Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122
http://www.facebook.com/events/766853523373665/
October 29 at 7:30pm: Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110
“San Francisco’s Housing Wars 2014” with Erin McElroy of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Maria Zamudio of Causa Justa.
WASHINGTON, DC
November 17 at 7pm: La Casa, 3166 Mt. Pleasant St., Washington, D.C. 20010
http://www.facebook.com/events/731070760310084/
BALTIMORE
November 18 at 7:30pm: Red Emma’s, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201
http://www.facebook.com/events/696320797102982/
PHILADELPHIA
November 19 at 7pm: Wooden Shoe, 704 South St., Philadelphia, PA 19147
https://www.facebook.com/events/1559980014231896/
BROOKLYN
November 20 at 6pm: CUNY Tech (Nam 119), 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
“Community, Migration, and Displacement”: Joint book reading with Marta Effinger-Crichlow and Benjamin Shepard. Sponsored by the Human Services Club.
http://www.facebook.com/events/376259429198142/
November 21 at 7pm: Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217
In dialogue with Picture the Homeless, Poverty Initiative, and Retail Action Project members.
http://www.facebook.com/events/1490173067916877/
BOSTON
November 22 at 6pm: Encuentro Cinco, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108-4701
http://www.facebook.com/events/265327030257774/
November 23 at 11:15am: Boston Anarchist Bookfair, Boston University / George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
http://bostonanarchistbookfair.org/
Posted on September 24th, 2014 in Events
Celebrate the release of James Tracy’s new book: Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. This is a split benefit gig for the San Francisco Community Land Trust and PODER.
Event starts at 8:00 with James Tracy reading from Dispatches at 8:30.
With:
Dark Materials
Bankrupt District (http://www.reverbnation.com/bankruptdistrict)
Sun Jin Lui
(Ex-Diskarte Namin)
See more information on the book here: http://www.akpress.org/dispatchesagainstdisplacement.html
And the Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/699760723411260/
Posted on September 24th, 2014 in Events
James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement, will be giving the keynote address at this year’s annual meeting of the Seattle Tenants’ Union. All members, tenants, allies, and interested parties are invited! Keynote is at 12 noon.
Facebook event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1528088307404439/
