2024 Boston Anarchist Book Fair

October 19-20, 10AM–5PM
Cambridge Community Center
5 Callender St, Cambridge, MA 02139

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In-Person/Hybrid Workshops Schedule

Saturday, October 19

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Your Neighborhood is an Art Gallery: Intro to Block Printing

With Lizzie Rutberg guiding this anarchist printmaking workshop, attendees will design, carve, and print their very own block print. Materials will be provided!

12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

“All Will Be Equalized!”: Georgia's Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands 1526-1890

Andrew Zonneveld and Modibo Kadalie will present their new book, documenting multi-racial anti-slavery resistance movements in Georgia from colonial times through Reconstruction.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Conspiracy, Contagion, Death: Reassessing Three Unpopular Political Modes

AK Thompson will take attendees on a deep dive into the hidden potential of political strategies that are often dismissed—pushing us to rethink the role of “the people” in collective politics.

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Why (and How) to Include Disability Justice in Abolitionist Organizing

Led by Katie Tastrom, this workshop will emphasize the necessity of disability justice in abolitionist movements, showing how state power and lack of public healthcare fuel mass incarceration.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Conspiracy, Contagion, Death: Reassessing Three Unpopular Political Modes

AK Thompson will take attendees on a deep dive into the hidden potential of political strategies that are often dismissed—pushing us to rethink the role of “the people” in collective politics.

BONUS EVENT   6:00 – 8:00 PM

In Between the Genocide & the Electoral Spectacle

Saturday night discussion at
Circus Cooperative Cafe
31 Putnam Ave, Cambridge, MA

This is not a hybrid event.

An informal discussion about anarchism in the current political moment, from Boston to around the world. After one year of US-funded genocide in Palestine and with less than a month to go before the 2024 presidential election season finally comes to end, what is the role of anarchist vision and practice in, and beyond, this increasingly dystopian era?

Sunday, October 20

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

How the Climate Movement Is Exploiting Capitalist Vulnerabilities

Kevin Young shares insights from his book, Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won, discussing strategies for dismantling polluter power and fostering creative community within the climate movement.

12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

No Fascist Groove Things

In this hands-on session, Carol Lubkowski will show attendees how to identify whether a loved band or artist is promoting white supremacy, fascism, nazism or other harmful ideologies.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Unionism from Below: Why and How to Form an Independent Union

A panel of activists from the Blue Bottle Independent Union, New Seasons Labor Union, and the Independent Organizing Network will discuss how grassroots unions can revive the labor movement and fight for broader social justice.

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Stop Cop City and the Strategic Choices of Protest Movements*

BABF collective member Joe Brown presents research on protest tactics, drawn from his forthcoming book on environmental justice and direct action campaigns.

This is not a hybrid event.

Vendors

Abolitionist Mail Project

AJ’s Print & Photo Studio

AK Press

Anarchist Archives Project

Anarchist Black Cross Lowell/Lawrence Black Rose/Rosa Negra

Blue Bottle Independent Union

BU Students for Justice in Palestine Burning Books

Certain Days Calendar

Common Notions Press

Digital Fourth

Dogs the Brand

eHawk

Feeding the Revolution

Food Not Bombs Boston

GATHER 4 GAZA

Greater Boston Tenants Union Ho-work Research Group

Horizon Federation

IWW Boston/NH

Lizzie Rutberg

Lucy Parsons Center

Mad in Boston

Massachusetts Pirate Party

MBTA Distro

Mutual Aid is Magic!

Mutual Aid Records

Northeast Anarchist Union

On Our Own Authority!

Panethnic Pourovers

Pleasure Pie

Plymouth Anarchist Collective PM Press

QT Library

Queer Crip Comics

Red Ink Community Library Salem Survival Program

Sam Pao

Socialist Rifle Association (MA) Space City Anarchist Org

TDYK Distro

The Commoner

Viscera Print Goods and Ephemera Warm Up Boston

Zu’s Wurld Studio