The 2012 Boston Anarchist Bookfair was held at Simmons College, November 10-11. A benefit show was held on November 9, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Workshops
- Activism in the Archives
- Art and Revolt in Mexico
- Community Accountability and Transformative Justice
- Eco Defense Panel
- CULTURE CLASH: COLONIALISM, CORPORATISM AND CREATIVITY
- The Jericho Movement: Freeing Imprisoned Heartbeats
- Isolating Resistance: Communication Management Units and the Case of Tarek Mahanna
- Montreal: From Student Strike to Unlimited General Strike
- Nine Years of Anarchist Agitation: The History of the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement (2001-2010)
- Nine-Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States
- No Gods, No Masters: The Anarchist Critique of Religion
- Popular and Community Resistance in Palestine
- Queer Organizing and Community Building
- Safer Spaces
- Computer Security
- The Anarchist Origins and Future of Social Security
- The Flawed Vision of Hahnel and Albert: A Critique of “Parecon” for Anarchists
- Victor Jara’s Liberation Songs Will Not Die!
- Veganism: Let’s Talk About It
- Do You Know BRIC? BRIC Might Know You: How Boston Polices Political Dissent
- Counterculture/Counterpower: The role of culture in building resistance movements
- Direct Action Training
- Tactical Terrain Research
- Lockpicking
- Monthly IWW Meeting
Film Screenings
- 678
- Antifa-Chasseurs de Skin
- Battle of Algiers
- Better This World
- Cops
- Maggots and Men
- De Toda La Vida
- We Shall Remain
- What to do in Case of Fire
Vendor Tables
- AK Press – Oakland, CA
- Alliance of the Libertarian Left – NH
- All in the Red – NY
- Anarchist Black Cross – Boston, MA
- Anarchists Against the Wall – Palestine/Israel
- Anarchist Archives Project
- Autonomous Community Actions Brigade (ACAB) – Boston, MA
- Autonomy and Abolition Distro – Boston, MA
- Bad Comrade Press – Boston, MA
- Bastard Culture – Central New Jersey
- Beehive Collective – Maine
- Black and Pink – Boston, MA
- Big Idea Bookstore – Pittsburgh, PA
- Black Powder Press – Santa Cruz, CA
- Boston Information Sharing Initiative – Boston, MA
- Boston Solidarity Network – Boston, MA
- Bread and Puppet – Vermont
- Cheap Art
- Collective A GoGo – Worcester, MA
- Combustion Books – NY
- Common Struggle – Libertarian Communist Federation
- Corvid College – Boston/Cambridge/Sommerville, MA
- Earth First! Journal – Florida
- Food Not Bombs -Boston, MA
- Fifth Estate – Detroit, MI
- Freedom to Print Press – Boston, MA
- Industrial Workers of the World – Boston, MA
- Institute for Anarchist Studies
- Jana Christy
- Jericho Project
- Libertalia – Providence, RI
- Little Black Cart- Berkeley, CA
- Lucy Parsons Center – Boston, MA
- National Lawyers Guild – Boston, MA
- Papercut Zine Library – Cambridge, MA
- PM Press – Oakland, CA
- Radical Reference Librarians
- RAMPS Campaign – Appalachia
- Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society – Boston, MA
- Simmons Progressive Librarians Guild – Boston, MA
- Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
- StrikeDebt – NY
- Student Anarchist Federation
- Students for Justice in Palestine – MA
- Sublevarte – Mexico City, Mexico
Show
- Spider Cider (acoustic jazz/ hip hop)
- Evan Greer (riot folk)
- Not4Prophet and Adan X of the X-Vandals (hip hop from NYC)
- Jake & the Infernal Machine (folk punk)
- Far More Than 40! (Rage Against the Machine cover band)
- PigStomp (Blac Bloc Crust Punk from Western Mass)
- Patrick O’Meara (folk songs)