BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Atlantic Books - ECPv6.8.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://atlanticbooks.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Atlantic Books REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220903T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220903T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T013132 CREATED:20220827T150811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T015345Z UID:53224-1662199200-1662228000@atlanticbooks.ca SUMMARY:5th Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair DESCRIPTION:5th Annual Halifax Anarchist BookfairSeptember 3rd (Sept 4th rain date)10am-6pmwith events on Sept. 1\, 2 & 3rd at the Halifax Central LibraryLocation: Halifax Central Library & Old Halifax Memorial Library (on Spring Garden) \nSaturday Workshops Schedule \n10:30 -11:45am*Homes Not Cops Assembly*Facilitated by Rachelle S. Two of the biggest issues that have animated social movements in Halifax lately have been “Defund and Abolish the Police” and “Housing Justice for All”. This assembly will delve into the question of how we can work together across movements to ensure that we organize and manifest a significant defunding of police that directly liberates and allocates funds instead to the provision of just housing solutions for all- and in particular for unhoused persons who experience significant and often violent over policing as the state directs its foot soldiers to protect property and defend capitalism instead of serving or protecting the needs and human rights of the poor. What barriers exist between anti-poverty and defunding the police movements that must be addressed to see a cohesive movement take form? What strengths can each movement lend to a shared body of work that empowers those effected by over policing and those concerned with housing injustice to work together to ensure that we fund homes not cops? \n*Conversations on Climate Doom* By Nick A. This workshop starts from the premise that runaway climate change cannot be stopped–not by building a spectacular global movement\, nor by making Green New Deals with our masters\, nor any other heroic action. As this becomes increasingly clear\, the dominant order offers dismal responses: anxious panic\, militarized adaptation\, and passive acceptance. The workshop will unpack these premises and then invite a collective discussion: if climate catastrophe is going to deepen\, what does it mean for anarchists and our initiatives? What implications does climate catastrophe have for our priorities and projects? \n12 – 1pm*Animal Liberation\, Racial Justice and Prison Abolition*By El Jones How is the fight to free oppressed and imprisoned people connected to the fight to free non-human animals? How does the abuse of animals intersect with the dehumanization of people targeted by racist power structures? Can we build a world where people and animals are free? \n*Anarchy 101: Intro to the beautiful idea*In this discussion-based workshop\, we’ll talk about the beautiful idea: that a world of free people is possible. We’ll talk about the big ideas\, a little about history\, and about the points on which anarchists agree (not many) and disagree (most of them). The workshop is geared toward newcomers to the world of anarchy and anarchism\, but all are welcome to come contribute to the discussion! \n1:15-2:30*What do we do with the ‘Dangerous Few’: Abolitionist Perspectives on Family Violence\, Domestic Homicide & Mass Shootings*By Ardath Whynacht How might we imagine abolitionist responses to the mass shooting in Portapique? How do we grapple with an increase in partner-perpetrated homicide during the COVID-19 pandemic? What does transformative justice look like for those who take a life\, or threaten ours? Join Ardath Whynacht\, author of Insurgent Love: Abolition & Domestic Homicide to explore abolitionist and community-based transformative justice approaches to abusers who pose the highest risks to our safety & survival. Accountability circles don’t always work and aren’t always safe- so what do we instead? How can we empower our movements to assess risks for lethal violence\, so that we remain safe from domestic homicide- perpetrated both by police and abusers in our kinship networks? Reflecting 20 years of work in the family violence sector and a decade of work in prisons\, Whynacht will offer some helpful frameworks for thinking through how to respond to family abuse and potentially lethal violence from abolitionist perspectives that center the safety of survivors\, bystanders and those who try to intervene. \n*Decolonization\, Anarchy\, and Collective Resistance to Colonial States*By: Tayla\, Morty & Thunderbird Swooping Down Woman What can a Mikmaki free from Colonial control look like? Why is it so important to connect the fight against capitalism and the state to the fight for decolonization? How do Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples work together towards collective liberation. \n2:45-4 *History of the State*By Ajay Parasram The state is undeniably one of the most generous and violent forms of human organization. The universal state we endure today is the outcome of modern imperialism. This workshop will discuss histories of the state drawing on examples from Turtle Island\, South Asia\, and Europe to help participants understand some of the alternative forms of political organizations that predate the state\, without glorifying them. Building alternatives need to be informed by precolonial pasts. As Yasin Bey says\, “what I forgot\, is better than whatever they remember”. \n*Practical Abolition From the Inside Out*workshop by Barton Prisoner Solidarity ProjectThe first step toward a world without prisons is likely to be taken inside the walls. This workshop makes the case that the most fundamental transformation in power is between prisoners and the institution itself\, and that supporting prisoner organizing is a key ingredient in the struggle against prisons. In this workshop\, two members of the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project will share stories and reflections from supporting prisoner organizing in Hamilton’s Barton Jail during the COVID 19 pandemic. Over the course of three years\, BAPSOP maintained a phone line and PO box that allowed us to support long-term prisoner organizing that culminated in a wave of hunger strikes involving hundreds of prisoners. This workshop will include practical ideas for how to do prisoner solidarity organizing in effective\, ethical\, and safe ways\, as well as a broader discussion on prison’s role in society and why undermining its power inside the walls makes us all more free. \n4:15-5:45 *Direct Action for the Earth*Facilitator: Nic Blynnwith Jacob Fillmore People in Mi’kma’ki and around the world are increasingly turning to direct action in order to defend the earth. Here and elsewhere\, regular people are facing off against both the forces of capitalism which seek to plunder the earth’s resources AND governments who facilitate and enforce the corporate right to plunder. How do we strengthen these movements while connecting land defense to the overall project of building a freer and more joyful world in defiance of both state and corporate power? Mi’kmaq and Mohawk Anarchist Nic Blynn will moderate a discussion inviting Nina and Jacob to reflect on their years-long campaign of direct action to stop clearcutting and spraying in the forests of Mikmaki. \n*Transforming Justice and Abolishing Prison*By Rachel ZellarsAbolitionist politics and transformative justice requires that we reorient ourselves to concepts of justice and community safety. These perspectives have exploded into the collective imagination as a result of uprisings against police violence\, a movement to defund the police\, and communities exploring their own processes of accountability. How can we build mass participation in the project of abolition and social transformation while making cops and prisons obsolete in our lives and communities? \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/303134258617664/ URL:https://atlanticbooks.ca/events/5th-annual-halifax-anarchist-bookfair LOCATION:Spring Garden Road\, Spring Garden Road ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://atlanticbooks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/53224_image_289605983_1413548109071717_5980207789146739644_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220903T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220903T113000 DTSTAMP:20260405T013132 CREATED:20220826T025209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T015346Z UID:53075-1662202800-1662204600@atlanticbooks.ca SUMMARY:Story Time at Chapters Halifax! DESCRIPTION:Join us every Saturday at 11am as we circle up and read some of our favourite storybooks! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/387170456728175/?event_time_id=387172320061322 URL:https://atlanticbooks.ca/events/story-time-at-chapters-halifax-2 LOCATION:Chapters Halifax\, 188 Chain Lake Drive\, Halifax\, B3S 1C5\, CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://atlanticbooks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/53058_image_290537648_5506087279447568_6463939555140980482_n.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Chapters Halifax":MAILTO:noreply@facebookmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220903T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220903T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T013132 CREATED:20220826T025210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220902T015346Z UID:53077-1662213600-1662217200@atlanticbooks.ca SUMMARY:Comic Book Signing with Fabien Lutz-Barabé! DESCRIPTION:Come and meet local artist and comic creator\, Fabien Lutz-Barabé on Saturday\, September 3th from 2 to 3pm! \nHe will have copies of Matias volumes 1 and 2\, and prints available to purchase and have signed! \nPlease be advised\, some of the content is for 19+ \nCape & Cowl housekeeping items: \n* Masks are still required inside the shop\, we do provide them at the door\, both adult and child size. \n* We also ask everyone please sanitize on their way in to help keep everyone safe. \n* We are an accessible space\, with an accessible washroom. \n* There is an automatic door button by the door that won’t swing open. Mind the small bump at the doorway! \n* We also currently still have a 10-ish person max. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1191037145081420/ URL:https://atlanticbooks.ca/events/comic-book-signing-with-fabien-lutz-barabe LOCATION:Cape and Cowl Comics and Collectibles\, 622 Sackville Drive\, Lower Sackville\, B4C 2S3\, CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://atlanticbooks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/53077_image_294263575_5421530341258004_2091448661968157020_n.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR