Wednesday August 26th Meeting: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Israel/Palestine

Hello Friends!

It's that time again, get ready for the next Alexander Berkman Social Club meeting!
This month we will be meeting a day earlier, Wednesday, August 26th, so mark your calender accordingly.

Our guest this month will be Eyal Rozenberg, an anarchist visiting form Israel/Palestine.

He will be be speaking on the inter-relation of ethnicity and class in Israel/Palestine.

Since the 1950s a common saying in Israel is "taamid dofkim et-ha-shchorim", which means "they always fuck the blacks". Israel is at the same time a capitalist project, a nationalist project and a colonialist project, and being an Arab or being a Jew of
non-European descent has always meant that statistically, you're in the lower classes. But it's not as simple as that, and Israeli Capitalism
has had in recent decades very interesting strategies of containment, demobilization and co-optation of movements and organizations which have
attempted to link the ethnic, the racial or the national (Palestinian)struggle with the class struggle.

Eyal Rozenberg is an anarchist and Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Technion, Haifa. He was an Executive Committee member in the Technion Graduate Students' Organization, and helped form the Technion Teaching Staff Organization. He is active in Koach La-Ovdim, a new multi-industry general union. Rozenberg was drafted into the IDF at 18, but quit military service in the middle and is the editor of the Conscientious Objector's guide to the Military Prison System

We look forward to seeing you soon, and remember, as always, there will be snacks, raffles, and comradely good cheer!

Wednesday August 26th, 7pm
ABSC Meeting Rooms
522 Valencia St., San Francisco
$5 (or $4 w/membership card)

Next Meeting: July 30, with Audrey Goodfriend

Happy Summer Friends!

Our next meeting will be July 30 and we will be returning to one of our favorite topics, anarchist newspapers.

Anarchism and Anarchist Newspapers with Audrey Goodfriend and Barry Pateman

Please join us as we continue our conversation about the past, present, and future of anarchist newspapers within the movement. This month we are lucky enough to be joined by Audrey Goodfriend, who will be talking about her involvement with The Why (1942-1947), and Barry Pateman, who will discuss his involvement in a number of short-lived anarchist papers.We look forward to seeing you at what is sure to be a stimulating and thought provoking evening!

As always, there will be snacks, raffles, and comradely good cheer!

Thursday July 30th, 7pm
ABSC Meeting Rooms
522 Valencia St., San Francisco
$5 (or $4 w/membership card)

Audrey Goodfriend was born in The Bronx, NY. Her parents were both anarchists and her father was the secretary of the local Ferrer-Rocker branch of the Workingmen’s Circle. Audrey was a member of a youth group for Jewish anarchist children. She first met Emma Goldman in 1934 and visited her in Toronto in 1939. In 1946 Audrey and her partner moved to California and in 1958, with four other families, they opened the Walden School in Berkeley. The school is still functioning today and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Audrey was interviewed by Paul Avrich for his book, Anarchist Voices.

Alexander Berkman: November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936

To-day is the anniversary of the death of the anarcho-communist Alexander Berkman , who died this day in 1936 from suicide .

Mother Earth and The Blast! Thursday June 25th

Join us Thursday, June 25th, for a night of exploration and appreciation of two seminal anarchist journals, Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and Alexander Berkman's The Blast.

We'll have special guest Jamie Gooley from the Mother Earth Reprint Project, readings from the papers, a brief history of Mother Earth and The Blast from the inestimable Barry Pateman, discussion of current
and past reprint projects and music by the always astounding The Devin Hoff Platform!

All in all it promises to be a night not to be missed!

Jamie Gooley, intrigued by anarchist history has worked with other history buffs and print makers to collected a rare 22 original mothers earths and has been able to reprint 7 . With the hope of one day having all 22 copies available for all who seek to hold a facsimile of history in their hands. With the originals selling for hundreds of
dollars, the spirit of the editors (Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman) is demystified with reprints available for a few dollars we can all be more linked to the past while being propelled and inspired into the future.


http://devinhoffplatform.com/

Join the Alexander Berkman Social Club for a night of exploration and appreciation of two seminal anarchist journals, Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and Alexander Berkman's The Blast.
With readings from the papers, a brief history of Mother Earth and The Blast, discussion of current and past reprint projects and music by special guests The Devin Hoff Platform!

All in all it promises to be a night not to be missed!

Thursday June 25, 2009
ABSC Meeting Rooms
522 Valencia St.
San Francisco, Ca
$5 (or $4 with membership)

This month: The Tiger Brigades!

Our event this month will be a special presentation of the French movie - or is that film? - The Tiger Brigages (Les brigades du Tigre), which features the Bonnot Gang, the French illegalist anarchists & legendary inventors of the getaway car.

Of course food (popcorn!) & refreshments will be available. We hope that you can make it to this exciting event.

Thursday, May 28th, 2009, 7 p.m.
522 Valencia St., between 16th & 17th
$5 admission/$4 with membership card

This Week: Meeting and May Day Picnic

Our topic this month will be Anarchists and Our Newspapers.

Join us for a discussion of the recent anarchist movement and it's printed voice, the newspaper.

Editors and publishers from a variety of papers, including Erik from The Dawn (2004), Chuck Morse from Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, and Crudo from Modesto Anarcho will share their experiences working on these anarchist projects.

What is the place of the newspaper in the anarchist movement, how have anarchists tried to spread their message, talk to each other, and the larger public. Join us as we discuss the the motivations, problems, joys and challenges, and the future of working on anarchist papers.


Plus, as always, there will be snacks, drink, camaraderie, and raffles.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Thursday, April 30, 2009
7pm
@ 522 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$5 (or $4 with your membership card!)

And

The Alexander Berkman Social Club presents:
An Anarchist May Day Picnic, Friday May 1st at 4 PM in Dolores Park.
All anarchists and friends welcome!

Please bring food and drink to share and look for us under the red and black flag

Co-sponsored by 1984 Printing, Bound Together, AK Press, Friendly Fire Collective, The Kate Sharpley Library, and UA in the Bay.

Attached are copies of the poster, please help us spread the word, and see you there!

"War to the palaces, peace to the cottage, and death to luxurious idleness!"
The Alarm, April 1886