Anarchist Bookfair 2010 – Day One | Golden Gate Park

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Anarchists, socialists, card-carrying members of the ACLU, terrorists and assorted ne’erdowells will descend on the SF County Fair Building, in Golden Gate Park for the 15th Annual Anarchist Book Fair.

The free two-day event features  lots of vendors (booksellers, distributors, independent presses and political groups, from the local area, the west coast and North America)  displaying books, pamphlets, zines, art, information and other interesting stuff – plus an art show, free bike valet parking and over 30 different speakers teaching you about everything from obscenity laws to gay liberation.

15th Annual Anarchist Book Fair

Saturday and Sunday
March 13, 2010 (10am-6pm)
March 14, 2010 (11am-5pm)

SF County Fair Building
Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way
Golden Gate Park

Schedule of Speakers in Auditorium

SATURDAY-AUDITORIUM
10:30-Howard Zinn Tribute with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Andrej Grubacic
11am-Diane Di Prima
11:30-John Zerzan-Primitive Future or No Future
12pm-Tommi Avicolli Mecca – Smash the Church, Smash the State; early years of gay liberation
12:30-Ernesto Longa – Anarchists, Obscenity Laws and the Fight for Free Speech
1pm- John Duda (IWW)
1:30-Carlos Martinez – Venezuela Speaks: Voices From The Grassroots
2pm-Lierre Keith – Vegetarian Myth
2:30-Jason McQuinn
3pm-Sarah Talbot & Yantra Bertelli
3:30-Magpie Killjoy – Mythmakers and Lawbreakers
4pm-Peter Gelderloos (standing in for Gabriel Kuhn) – Pirates and Borders
4:30-Andrej Grubajic – Libertarian Socialism for the 21st Century
5pm-Kim Stanley Robinson – The Politics Of Science

SUNDAY-AUDITORIUM
11am-Cindy Milstein, Anarchism and Its Aspirations
11.30am-Matt Hern
12pm-Keith McHenry
12:30-Penelope Rosemont
1pm-Kristian Williams – Oscar Wilde
1:30-Patrick Reinsborough – Reimagining Change
2pm-Owen Hill – The Incredible Double
2:30-Terry Bisson – The Left Left Behind
3pm-Cal Winslow – Labor’s Civil War In California
3:30-John Curl – For All The People
4pm-Ward Churchill

Schedule of Panel Discussions in Cafe

CAFE  SATURDAY
11am-Reflections on Recent Anarchist Organizing
12pm–Radical Parenting: Raising Kids & Creating Community
1pm-John Brown Panel
2pm-Women, Incarceration and Resistance
3pm-Crime In The City
4pm-Anarchist Academics
5pm-Greeks on the Uprising in Greece

CAFE SUNDAY
11am-Challenging the family unit and getting real about social change
12pm-My Baby Rides The Shortbus, with Sarah Talbot and Yantra Bertelli
1pm-Socially Engaged Printmaking Today with Josh Macphee et al
2pm-Prospects For Winning In An Age Of Crisis (editors of Turbulence & Spectre, plus Andrej Grubajic)
3pm-Radical Education Panel: Occupations, Strikes & Alternatives
4pm-Labor Wars/Union Organizing

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.