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Bookfair program Friday, 1st April 2011 15:00 - 21:00 Bookfair - come and check the books of different publishers, free materials from various groups, newspapers, magazines... 16:00 - 17:00 Animal liberation - why we need it? What are animal rights and why we need it? Why we consider some animals pets and other food? Did you ever ask yourself what is hiding behind final product? Today there's almost no industry that doesn't make money on animal abuse. In this discussion we will talk about problem of exploitation of animals for various "purposes" and ways that we can help to stop that. 17:30 - 19:00 Anarhija/blok45, Operacija Džabalesku and other experiences Anarhija/blok 45 is publishing crew from Beograd and they publish books that bring critique of key aspects of mass society (work, obsessive productionism, economy as blackmail, ideology of progress and other "axiomatic certainty's" from that area) for past nine years. In all that they try to create their input connected with books they publish. All books were free (Operacija Džabalesku - roughly translated as Operation Free) from the begining, what meant development of new ways of distribution and special relation with readers. That editorial focus, publishing experience, it's different paths and consequences will be subject of conversation with Aleksa, editor and translator of anarhija/blok45. 19:00 - 20:00 Anarchism in practice Anarchism is the boldest of revolutionary social movements to emerge
from the struggle against capitalism, it aims for a world free from all
forms of domination and exploitation. But at its heart is a simple and
convincing proposition: people know how to live their own lives and
organize themselves better than any expert could. Others cynically claim
that we need a government to protect us. They claim anarchy is
impractical and utopian: it would never work. On the contrary, anarchist
practice already has a long record, and has often worked quite well.
The histories in this book show that an anarchist society can succeed at
enabling all its members to meet their needs and desires.
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Saturday, 2nd April 2011 10:00 - 15:00 Bookfair moves on the square and in case of bad weather, it stays in gallery. 15:00 - 20:00 Bookfair come and check the books of different publishers, free materials from various groups, newspapers, magazines... 16:00 - 17:00 Recht auf Stadt (Right to the City), Gentrification and Rote Flora squat in Hamburg with a3yo and friends In the rich and growing city of hamburg, rents are getting higher and higher and quarters especially in the inner city changed a lot due to gentrification attempts. In the last years, new strategies and movements under the name of "right to the city" emerged in variouse cities, in hamburg also in the context of St.Pauli commercialisation and the new artist squat "Gaengeviertel". In the "right to the city" federation in hamburg there are by now 44 local social movements, from neighbourhood-initiatives to ecological campaigns, artists and social centres. Some of the demonstrations against gentrification were with up to 4000 people the biggest local events anarchists and left radical took part in. In this context, also new squats were opened and new people came to the movement. Resistance against the exclusion of people by expensive housing and living in the quarters is one of the older fields of radical left and anarchists, which was especially in the 80ies leading to squatting activities in lots of cities in western europe. One of the squats in hamburg, which is still resisting contracts for more than 20 years is the "Rote Flora" in Schanzenviertel-quarter. After being sold by the city 10 years ago, the ending of the contract now in march 2011, is allowing the abolishing of the building. If he is going to do so or if he is going to sell the house is unclear now, but for shure he and politicians can expect resistance of users and solidary groups. The squat is used for cultural events and is well known not only in germany. But there had always been controversal discussions about the perspective and use of autonomous spaces and social centres and how they should look like. We would like to present some of the recent activities and initiatives and discuss and share experiences related to housing, squatting and urban social movements. See for english information also this link and rote flora. 17:00 - 17:30 Anarchist response to sexual violence Presentation of group Paper Planes Paper Planes are the group of few friends who share energy and passion to do something with things around them. Our activities are based on friendship, mutual aid and belief that we can change something. 17:30 - 18:30 Presentation of five new titles by DAF and it's new edition "Five white staris" (Pet bijelih stepenica) All books are in croatian (that's why we leave descriptions without translation), but there will be translation of presentation provided for all non-croatian speakers. Georg Büchner: Hesenski glasnik - Lenz - Pisma Paul Goodman: Crna zastava anarhizma Voltairine de Cleyre: Direktna akcija M. A. Bakunjin: Manifest Slavenima - P. A. Kropotkin: Omladini Henry David Thoreau: Građanski neposluh Books will be presented by Hrvoje Jurić, Ankica Čakardić i Marko Strpić 18:30 - 20:00 Democracy as Totalitarianism Sunday 3rd April 2011 10:00 - 15:00 Bookfair - come and have
coffee or tea, look for the book you missed the previous days, and spend
your sunday morning in a pleasant company... . That would be the closure
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