First Annual New York Anarchist Book Fair, April 14-15, 2007

First Annual New York Anarchist Book Fair

NY Anarchist Bookfair

NEW YORK — Over 50 independent publishers, booksellers, infoshops and
collectives, record labels, media creators, and labor and other activist
groups will be exhibiting at the 1st Annual, 1st Ever NYC Anarchist Book
Fair, to be held Sat., April 14, in Manhattan. The Book Fair will also
include a tour of New York University's renowned Tamiment Library, plus
an anarchist art exhibition, a film and video festival, and 12 panels
and presentations beginning that day and concluding the next day, Sun.,
April 15. All events are free of charge.


The Book Fair will be held at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington
Square South, 11am–7pm. The exhibitors and other participants in the
Book Fair will give visitors a chance to sample the amazing depth and
diversity of anarchist life, activism, theory, and culture in New York
City and across North America and Europe.


Exhibitors based in New York that are currently scheduled to appear
include MayDay Books & Infoshop, Paper Tiger Television, Autonomedia,
Soft Skull Press, Bluestockings Books, Can't Afford 'em Records, and the
New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists. Out-of-town exhibitors will
include AK Press, Black Rose Books (Montreal), Southpaw Books, Class
War (London), Black Sheep Books, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, The
Wooden Shoe, Chelsea Green Publishing, the Anarchist Federation in the
North of England (Nottingham), Infoshop.org, and the Institute for
Anarchist Studies.


Panels and presentations at the Book Fair will include an introductory
panel on "Anarchism and Its Aspirations," plus sessions on "Anarchism
and Supporting Parents and Children," "Anarcha-Feminism: A Panel
Discussion," "Antiauthoritarian Approaches to Resolving Conflict and
Harm," "The Future of Alternative Media," "Destroying Black History: The
Present and Past Attack on the Black Panthers," and "Visions of Anarchy
in the 21st Century."


Food and free childcare will also be available. For a full schedule of
events and complete information on Book Fair exhibitors, visit
here.

Contacts: Eric Laursen, (917) 806-6452

Jenna Freedman, (917) 378-9840