Upping the Anti Launch Party June 5
How do we build radical movements?
Lessons from the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) and from
revolutionary activist study groups
Friday June 5th * 7pm
Happy Birthday Suzy Subways!
The A-Space
4722 Baltimore Ave
south side of Baltimore Ave, between 47th and 48th
On SEPTA, #34 green line surface trolley. plenty of parking for bikes
and cars. http://www.the-aspace.org/
Join local writers/activists Dan Berger and Suzy Subways, with
special guest speaker Kazembe Balagun, for a launch party for issue 8
of Upping the Anti and a discussion of current revolutionary organizing!
SLAM was a multiracial radical organization based in the City
University of New York from 1996 to 2007. A dynamic, creative group
that nurtured women of color leadership, SLAM fought for access to
education and worked with youth to organize against the prison
industrial complex and police brutality.
What can we learn from study groups? Radicals face urgent questions
in this moment marked by both crisis and possibility. Four study
groups on both coasts of the US — Another Politics is Possible (NY),
the Activist Study Circles (SF), the LA Crew, and the New York Study
Group — are engaging issues of leadership, organization, and
politics in the current moment. Their perspectives represent
different, if overlapping, political strands of contemporary
revolutionary organizing.
UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION is a radical journal
published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective of activists and
organizers dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis about
struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of
oppression. Issue 8 features cover illustrations by local artist Erik
Ruin, as well as Suzy’s interviews with five organizers from SLAM and
Dan’s interviews with four revolutionary study groups about
contemporary organizing challenges.
Former SLAM member Kazembe Balagun is a writer, educator and theorist
at the cross-sections of Marxism, anarchism, Black liberation, queer
theory, movement history, and popular culture. Visit http://
www.blackmanwithalibrary.com. Dan Berger is the author of Outlaws of
America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity and
co-editor of Letters from Young Activists as well as a forthcoming
book about social movements in the 1970s. Visit http://
www.danberger.org. Suzy Subways was a member of SLAM and the Love and
Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, and she is now editor of the
Solidarity Project, an internet publication about HIV prevention
justice organizing, at http://www.champnetwork.org/solid.
Copies of Upping the Anti will be available for sale at the event
($5-20 donation).
Check out www.uppingtheanti.org or email uppingtheanti@gmail.com for
more information or to write for future issues.
