Westdale High School
Street:
700 Main St. West
Hamilton, ON

Common Cause presents Hamilton's 2nd Annual Anarchist Bookfair

Free Lunch by Food not Bombs

Free Child Care Provided

POTENTIAL VENDORS : There is no charge for setting up a table but we do ask for 5% of revenue or a donation. There is still room left, so if you are interested in your organization or project getting a spot be sure to drop us a line at hamiltonanarchistbookfair@gmail.com [1] or through facebook.

CONFIRMED VENDORS :

Exile Infoshop
http://www.exilebooks.org/en/ [2]

The EXILE Infoshop opened MayDay 2007 as Ottawa’s first-ever (that we know of) Infoshop with an actual, physical space. We are a radical and activist resource center, library and bookstore, though we also intend to sell some local art and vegan goodies. We’re working to become a central networking space for local grassroots projects and organizations in the city.

thoughcrime ink
http://www.thoughtcrimeink.com/core.php/home/index [3]

thoughtcrime ink is a non-profit, anti-capitalist apparel collective. So just what is an anti-capitalist organization doing selling t-shirts, anyway? Through sales of our activist- and politically-themed products that are union printed, “sweatshop free,” and US/Canadian made, we hope to create a significant self-sustaining fund for activist groups. All profits from the sale of thoughtcrime ink merch go directly to grassroots groups in Edmonton that are actively working towards a better tomorrow.

Empowerment Infoshop
http://www.empowermentinfoshop.com/ [4]

‘Empowerment’ is a volunteer-run radical community centre dedicated to providing the tools, resources, and space for the grassroots organizing of environmental action and positive social change. We at Empowerment are proud to be part of a global network of Infoshops, autonomous spaces, projects & people dreaming and working for a better world, and are committed to helping Londoners become better global citizens through our information and action campaigns, alternative media resources, and fair trade.

Red and Black Notes
http://ca.geocities.com/red_black_ca/ [5]

Red & Black Notes is a libertarian socialist project based in Toronto, Canada. The focus of the project is twofold : To circulate information from a libertarian socialist perspective, both current and historical, and to provide a forum for discussion of those issues.

Global Aware Independent Media
http://www.globalaware.org/ [6]

GlobalAware is a collective of journalists, photographers, writers, graphic designers, web professionals and concerned individuals working towards environmental justice and social change.

Great Worm Express Distribution
http://greatworm.ca/about.html [7]

Ride across the cultural dessert! “Great Worm Express Distribution sells various types of independent media. The focus is on zines, however I also sell music, and I have plans to sell books and videos in the future.”

Upping the Anti
http://www.uppingtheanti.org/ [8]

Upping the Anti is a radical journal of theory and action which provides a space to address and discuss unresolved questions and dynamics within the anti-capitalist, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialist politics of today’s radical left in Canada.

Internationalist Notes
http://www.ibrp.org/english/internationalist-notes [9]

Journal of the Internationalist Workers Group.

Rebuild Distro

Rebuild printing offers a variety of block prints on fabrics and paper as well as radical disability zines and comic books.

Free Society Distribution
http://www.geocities.com/freepunk_1999/about.html [10]

Distributes a large collection of zines, books, cds, vinyls and more.

Insurgence Records
http://www.insurgence.net/info.aspx?action=store [11]

Class-struggle punk and hardcore record label. Albums are literature too!

Rebel Time Records
http://www.myspace.com/rebeltimerecords [12]

Featuring music and merch from bands that “sound like the soundtrack to your next (molotov) cocktail party (figuratively speaking of course.)”

The Factory Line
http://www.myspace.com/thefactoryline [13]

Art and radical politics combined: music, films, literature from independent artists.

Incite Distro

A new Hamilton distributor of counter culture music, movies, books and magazines. Featuring titles from PM Press, AK Press as well as punk magazines, political music, and more.

Skydragon Centre Zine Distro

A large collection of zines from the Skydragon Centre’s zine library.

Compasspoints Press
Zines and chapbooks by Sarah Pinder
compasspoints.livejournal.com

AW@L (Anti-War at Laurier)
http://www.peaceculture.org/home.html [14]

AW@L is a former working group of Laurier Students Public Interest Research Group and an active student activist group at Wilfrid Laurier University dedicated to peace and the struggle against the imperial war machine. We are striving to bring attention to War Issues in the Kitchener-Waterloo region and to bring about positive change for peace.

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty(OCAP)
http://www.ocap.ca/ [15]

OCAP is a direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We mount campaigns against regressive government policies as they affect poor and working people. In addition, we provide direct-action advocacy for individuals against eviction, termination of welfare benefits, and deportation. We believe in the power of people to organize themselves.We believe in the power of resistance.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
www.iww.org [16]

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.”

Common Cause
www.linchpin.ca [17]
Common Cause is an Ontario anarchist organization that wants to see anarchists active in every town, neighborhood and workplace across Ontario. And they have a pretty cool newspaper and pamphlet collection too.

Miasma Infoshop

Kingston-based infoshop distributing books, stickers, zines, flyers, t-shirts and more with the intention of spreading awareness about anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideas and local projects.

Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF)
www.abcf.net [18]

The Toronto local of the ABCF will distribute literature in support of political prisoners and prisoners of war including indigenous prisoners in Ontario.

Guelph Union of Tenants and Supporters (GUTS)
http://www.guelphtenants.com/ [19]

GUTS is a grassroots anti-poverty group. We started as a group of tenants who came together to pool our resources in order to help one another. We have spent the last 4 years learning about and organizing around issues of poverty in Guelph . We try to help people help themselves when they are facing negligent or harassing landlords, welfare caseworkers, or employers. We don’t want to to be another social service agency and offer band aid solutions; we want to empower ourselves and one another as we work and fight.

Confirmed workshops include:

Life Under Occupation - with Jamila Ghaddar and Tom Keefer (Non-Native activist organizing in the Six Nations struggle)

Jamilé Ghaddar is a Canadian of Lebanese descent and currently one of the Campus Coordinators for Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights National. She was a founding member of McMaster Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and DEFEND GAZA!. She is a recent graduate of the Anthropology and Linguistics program at McMaster University, and has worked within the immigration settlement sector as a youth coordinator and settlement worker. She will be joining the Masters of
Information Studies program at the University of Toronto in September 2009. In her presentation, Ms. Ghaddar will focus on Canadian policy on Palestine, particularly as revealed in Operation Cast Iron and the ongoing aggression against Gaza, Palestine. In turn, she will explore the links between indigenous rights in Canada and historic Palestine, drawing on her experiences at the Six Nations reclamation effort at the Douglas Creek Estate.

Tom Keefer is a Non-Native activist organizing in the Six Nations struggle.

Radical Disability Politics - By Damn 2025
DAMN 2025 is a cross disability organization in Toronto we are fighting for radical access for everyone and social and economic justice.
This workshop will introduce people to radical disability politics, and will discuss how disability is used in our society to maintain and perpetuate oppression as well as intersectionality. We will also discuss how to work towards making organizing work inclusive and accessible.

Kids Workshop: with Eva Kay. Eva Kay is 13. For the workshop, Eva will discuss media awareness. She will start with a short introduction followed by several media oriented activities (for example passive viewer vs active viewer opinions on an advertisement of the participants choice.) Eva will be assisted by her sister Bronwyn Kay, 10. Bronwyn will also have her zine Kitty Corner available for sale at the book fair.

Industrial Workers of the World: The Toronto branch of the IWW, a radical and democratic union that aims to win "freedom from wage slavery" for all will be discussing the basics of direct action organizing in the workplace. Learn how to put the scare to your boss (and the union bureaucrats)!

Organizing against the 2010 Olympics. Why would anyone oppose the Olympics? How about colonialism, ecological destruction and exploitation to name just a few reasons. Find out more.

Wayne Price on the Economic Crisis: Long time anarchist and author, Wayne will be discussing the roots of the economic crisis and anarchist responses to it. Wayne's most recent book is The Abolition of the State: Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives.

Environmental Justice with Greg Macdougall
What is environmental justice? We will look at a definition(s), history and examples, with a view to understanding how to support such work. Specifically we also look at 'climate justice' and what a just and required response consists of. Plus, some discussion on creating a new 'green' economy. www.EquitableEducation.ca [20]

Mental Health with Tobie Marven
This workshop is part of a process of completing a zine on Ms. Marven's journey towards getting well in this sick society. As an anarcha-feminist, she will be looking at the effect of mental health in both this sexist capitalist society and the work place specifically. She will be touching on Marxist and feminist theory's of psychiatry and using her own experience as a case study.

More to Come...

Contact the bookfair committee at:
hamiltonanarchistbookfair@gmail.com [21]