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June 2024 Community Calendar

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Tranzmission Prison Project Packaging Party

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Banned Books Back!: Sapphic Meetup

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Asheville Food and Beverage United Open Hours

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Firestorm Game Night

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Solidarity Teach-in on the DRC

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Asheville Food and Beverage United Open Hours

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Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair

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The No-State Solution (Bookfair Session)

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From Activist to Terrorist (Bookfair Session)

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Sun, Jun 2

12:00pm – 3:00pm

Tranzmission Prison Project Packaging Party

An open, monthly volunteer event to help prepare books and zines for mailing to prisons across the United States.
3:00pm – 5:00pm

Political Prisoner Letter Writing

Letters save lives! Join Blue Ridge ABC each month for an evening of solidarity with incarcerated comrades. Celebrate their birthdays by sending words of encouragement and support.

Wed, Jun 5

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Drop-in Community Notary Service

Have documents that require notarization, like advance care directives, name change paperwork, custody arrangements, etc.? Stop by Firestorm on the first Wednesday of each month for free, friendly, no-judgment Notary Public services!

Thu, Jun 6

6:00pm – 7:30pm

"From Where We Are" Book Tour

A reading by Nicole Zelniker from her newest book, From Where We Are.

Fri, Jun 7

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Firestorm Game Night

Cooperative and competitive table-top gameplay for new and experienced players! Bring a game you love or try something new.

Sat, Jun 8

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Banned Books Back!: Sapphic Meetup

Help send books removed from Florida public schools back to kids in Florida at this volunteer event with Sapphics of Asheville!
4:00pm – 5:30pm

Queerly Ever After: Queer Romance Book Club

If you're tired of queer media that delights in its characters' suffering, this book club is for you - happily ever afters only here! 

Tue, Jun 11

5:30pm – 8:00pm

Pledge Against Prisons: A J11 Banned Books Back! Fundraiser

Help send books removed from Florida public schools back to kids in Florida while raising funds for long-term anarchist prisoners!

Wed, Jun 12

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Asheville Food and Beverage United Open Hours

Drop in for AFBU's "open hours" to talk to a local organizer about how to start building a union campaign in your workplace. 

Fri, Jun 14

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Youth OUTright Book Club

A queer book club for 2spirit, queer, trans, and questioning youth ages 11 to 24!

Sat, Jun 15

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Rattling the Cages: Continuing the Struggle Inside & Out

Four former political prisoners—Eric King, Ann Hansen, Ashanti Alston & Ray Luc Levasseur—discuss their experience behind bars, fighting back on both sides, and the importance and significance of international solidarity.

Sun, Jun 16

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Asheville Prison Books Packaging Party

The Asheville Prison Books monthly meetup is an opportunity for new folks to learn about APB and plug in!

Wed, Jun 19

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Asheville Food and Beverage United Open Hours

Drop in for AFBU's "open hours" to talk to a local organizer about how to start building a union campaign in your workplace. 

Fri, Jun 21

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Firestorm Game Night

Cooperative and competitive table-top gameplay for new and experienced players! Bring a game you love or try something new.

Sat, Jun 22

11:00am – 12:30pm

Homopocalypse!: Queer Horror Book Club

An in-house book club focused on contagion and corporate pride through Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word.

Sun, Jun 23

11:00am – 3:00pm

Solidarity Teach-in on the DRC

Learn more about the crisis unfolding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and avenues for international solidarity.
4:00pm – 6:00pm

Abolitionist Reading Club

A monthly discussion of topics of incarceration, repression and liberation framed by writings from, about and against prisons!

Wed, Jun 26

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Asheville Food and Beverage United Open Hours

Drop in for AFBU's "open hours" to talk to a local organizer about how to start building a union campaign in your workplace. 

Fri, Jun 28

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair

We're co-hosting the fifth annual bookfair, organized by local anarchists with support from authors and publishers across the country!
2:30pm – 3:30pm

"Disabled Ecologies" with Sunaura Taylor (Bookfair Session)

Professor Sunaura Taylor presents her book Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert, a powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.
4:00pm – 5:00pm

Abortion Beyond the State (Bookfair Session)

This workshop will provide context to the current crisis surrounding bodily autonomy and reproduction and share a roadmap for subverting state control by building networks of support to provide safe and effective abortion regardless of legality.

Sat, Jun 29

10:30am – 12:00pm

The No-State Solution (Bookfair Session)

This talk identifies what makes solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that appear “realistic” actually impossible and offers no-state solution as an adjustment to the historical nature of self-organization in the region.
1:00pm – 2:00pm

Nothing About Us Without Us (Bookfair Session)

This workshop will be all about liberating knowledge and resources for PWUD and the communities that work closely with them!
2:30pm – 4:00pm

Death Cult Liberalism and Our Dependency on Domination (Bookfair Session)

Part workshop, part presentation, part discussion, this session will explore the death cult of liberal identity politics.
4:30pm – 5:30pm

“All Will Be Equalized!” (Bookfair Session)

Andrew Zonneveld and Modibo Kadalie present a new book documenting 350 years of multi-racial solidarity through anti-slavery activity in Georgia.

Sun, Jun 30

10:30am – 12:00pm

From Activist to Terrorist (Bookfair Session)

Jake Conroy will talk about SHAC, a decentralized, uncompromising pressure campaign for animal liberation in the early 2000s, an how it led to him being the target of a multi-agency terrorism investigation.
1:00pm – 2:00pm

The Lost History of Jewish Anarchism in America (Bookfair Session)

Historian Kenyon Zimmer will discuss the story behind Joseph Cohen’s 1945 Yiddish-language history of the Jewish anarchist movement in America, and the multigenerational effort to finally have it published in English translation in 2024.
2:30pm – 3:30pm

We Heal Together (Bookfair Session)

This workshop will review some of the ideas, tactics, and resources for communication, conflict resolution, and mediation.
4:00pm – 5:00pm

Free Peppy and Krystal! Free Jack! Free ‘Em All! (Bookfair Session)

This closing space of the bookfair will share pertinent updates from comrades who can’t be with us, and in turn, send them connection and solidarity!

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