Featuring dozens of anarchist booksellers, publishers, zinesters, artists, organizations, and projects! Two full days of workshops, a variety of other activities, free child care, and more!


Participating Organizations

AK Press
Portland Anarchist People of Color
Black Rose Infoshop
Corvus Distribution
Eberhardt Press
Entangled Roots / Dandelion Distro
Hackbloc
Hip Mama
Industrial Workers of the World
In Other Words
Institute for Anarchist Studies
Just Seeds Art Collective
Laughing Horse Books
Matt + Maggi Support Committee
Microcosm Publishing
Parasol Climate Collective
PM Press
Portland Books to Prisoners
Portland Zine Symposium
Radix Media
Revolutionary Rumors Distro
Rosehip Medics Collective
Seattle Solidarity Network



Workshops

Saturday

11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Digital Security with Hackbloc

Learn how basic computer security works, how to protect your data, and how to protect your privacy/anonymity online. This hour long workshop serves as a quick crash course to email/drive encryption, browsing the web anonymously, keeping your computer secure, and why digital security needs to be a part of "security culture".

11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Anarchist Spaces & Institutions: The Prospect For Social Change presented by members of the Red & Black Cafe and Portland Collective Housing.

Do anarchist spaces and institutions matter? Do they deserve our energy? Do they really have revolutionary potential?

For some the answers to these questions are an obvious 'yes.' In the example of the Red & Black Cafe or Portland Collective Housing we intend to detail what their relationships to radical social change are. In addition we'll look at what factors limit each organization's ability to be more transformative and radical than they are.

It's worth noting that many (in the anarchist milieu) are critical of these projects often for still existing very much within capitalism / under state control. Other criticisms spring from some anarchists' antipathy to organization, democracy or work itself. (More specifically some criticize the institution of restaurants.) Do these critiques make good points? If so, what are they?

Members of the Red & Black Cafe and Portland Collective Housing will attempt to answer these questions. We'll tell you how things really work within each organization, describing as best we can the limits of our model and of our efforts in particular. We'll defend the idea that anarchist spaces and institutions have a vital contribution to make in the long struggle for liberation from oppression, capitalism and the state.

Finally, we'll talk about our current collaboration: the project to buy the building the Red and Black is in and to expand Portland Collective Housing in the space upstairs.

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Kyriarchy, Intersecting Oppressions, and Confronting Discrimination in Radical Liberatory and Leftist Communities

Presented by Northwest Anarchist People of Color. What is kyriarchy, and how can we use this concept in our organizing work? How do members of radical liberatory/leftist communities privilege certain kinds of oppression over others? How do members of radical liberatory/leftist communities replicate among themselves the same patterns of oppression that they oppose outside of their community? What is the role of people of color in the anarchist movement? How do we protect ourselves from racism inside and outside the movement? Is it possible to organize around marginalized identities without promoting hegemonic constructions of those identities?

Join Northwest Anarchist People of Color for a presentation and discussion on all of these topics. This discussion is open to all. We seek to develop a nuanced understanding of the ways in which privilege and oppression are woven together, and would like to encourage attendees to identify their own forms of privilege and be ready to check them in this safe space.

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Organizing in the Anthropocene : Presented by the Parasol Climate Collective

The ongoing industrial revolution has brought us into a new geologic era, the anthropocene, in which human activity influences the environment on a geologic scale. This presents a challenge to people working for radical change: how do we fight injustice, ease suffering, and build a better, freer society in the midst of a worldwide ecological crisis that is difficult to understand?

In this workshop, members of Portland's Parasol Climate Collective will present a brief overview of expected climate change impacts around the globe, and here in the Pacific Northwest; followed by a facilitated group discussion of the implications of climate change for radical political work, and ideas for prefiguring climate solutions.

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Make It Hot - Consent Workshop and Game!

This is a playful giggly workshop on a serious topic. We will be exploring internally and with groups what consent means to us. We will spend the first part of the workshop creating a framework together of how to hold the concept of consent. How does it work, what are the challenges, what affects it, why is it important? After we have built this framework we will delve into playing a game that was made up by friends on the east coast with some of our help. This is half way between a board game and role playing.

We hope that the game is comfortable for both the expressive folks and those that do better by working with symbols. It will enable groups of people to discuss sticky and sexy scenarios of intimacy. As the game progresses, the groups play out different characters and practice different ways to explore consent. As with many consent workshops, there is more to the topic than can be discussed in a couple hours. We both desire to continue to develop our abilities to work with consent in our daily lives. Our hope is that this workshop helps to infuse us all with clearer understanding and more exciting tools to open ourselves, our partners, and our communities up to the world of consensual heart glitter <3. Facilitated by Tinder & Tumbell!

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Striking-Based Self-Defense: Presented by the Muay Thai, Boxing, and Self Defense Class

As radicals we seek to address and confront an oppressive system while building in its stead egalitarian relationships. In this regard, self-defense is necessary on a social, community and personal level. On a day to day level many of us are on the recieving end of oppression, as well as potential and real violence. Many of us are also dedicated to calling out, stopping and addressing oppressive behavior. We will be more able to call people out, to have conversations, tense situations, and verbally de-escalate situations if we cultivate an ability to defend ourselves.

This class teaches from a background of Muay Thai and boxing. We will learn a few basics strikes and some evasions. Come prepared to move around and get some exercise. These movements will only become real life reactions if we commit them to muscle memory through repetition.

This class strives to create a safer-space. We realize that true safer space is a process of self and community work and growth and we seek to engage in it. Come prepared and open to think critically about violence, self defense and all the things tied to it. Please come prepared to check your shit and focus on creating a caring space where we learn together and take care of one another.

We also have free classes every Monday at Autonomy (316 nw 4th) from 6-8pm!

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Keeping the Peace Without the Police
A workshop that explores some of the ways that stateless societies maintain social peace and prevent excessive violence.
In it we will - debunk the myth that we need police - hear about some of the real life societies that function without a state - explore specific non-hierarchical techniques for keeping and reestablishing peace - and have an open discussion on concrete courses of action for our various communities.

This workshop explores some of the ways that stateless societies maintain social peace and prevent excessive violence. In it we will debunk the myth that we need police, hear about some of the real life societies that function without a state, explore specific non-hierarchical techniques for keeping and reestablishing peace, and have an open discussion on concrete courses of action for our various communities.

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Have you Written your Political Prisoner Today?

Members of Oregon Jericho will discuss the importance of remembering our captured political prisoners and prisoners of war, from the early days of Black liberation to the recent Green Scare. The workshop will focus on gaining a stronger interest in the political prisoner movement in the Portland/NW area and the various local resources and strategies for prisoner support. Copies of Jericho's recently published booklet, Our Forgotten Political Prisoners with Cases in New York State, will also be available.

Sunday

Noon - 1:30 pm | PRAXISS (Portland Restorative Axtion In Solidarity & Support) Report Back

Portland Restorative Axtion In Solidarity & Support is a small group of folks who have been researching and practicing alternatives to state sponsored solutions to personal and community transgressions. Because we live in a culture that encourages rape and violence, we believe that everyone has the capacity for being a survivor of assault and transgressor of others' personal boundaries and that there is no way to "make right" an assault on another person.

PRAXISS is motivated to provide support to survivors of intimate violence for reclaiming agency and finding healing and providing support for transgressors to understand and acknowledge their transgression and change. By involving members of the transgressors' community we seek transformation of individuals in a way that challenges patriarchy, and other systems of oppression, in our own communities instead of ignoring the problem or pushing the responsibility off to the state. Inspired by the work of Seattle's CARA, Philly's Pissed, and Philly Stands UP, the group plans on sharing its experience of the last year in hopes to learn from and provide experience and resources so others can create solutions to transgressions of our communities' values.

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Home Remedies for Common Maladies : with the Rosehip Medics Collective

This workshop focuses on affordable remedies—prevention, herbal medicines, and more —for common illnesses and injuries, as well as identifying red flags to help guide you in deciding when to seek more definitive medical care or emergency medical services. Use our training and accompanying zine as a resource for yourself, your familiy, your house, or your neighborhood; the more care providers we have, the less we all have to depend on corporate medicine!

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Why Anarchists Should Create Solidarity Networks

Seattle Solidarity Network (SeaSol) is a direct action group that you can join to fight back against bosses and landlords when they do something like steal your wages or your damage deposit. By supporting each other and winning these small fights we build our strength, experience and confidence, we can take on bigger opponents and take back more from the bosses - and we start to realize that we can do far more than that - we can create a new world!

Join members of SeaSol in a workshop and discussion about why we think building solidarity networks in every city is the first step towards building a real anarchist movement based around people's daily experiences and fighting back against the ruling class.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Balkanization from Below: Anarchism in Yugoslavia and the Balkans

This workshop will address the history, present, and future of anarchist organizing in the Balkans, and especially in the region of post-Yugoslavia. By contrasting two forms of balkanization, one from below, and one from above, the workshop will focus on the realities of grassroots resistance in postwar, ethnically divided, and foreign occupied countries of former Yugoslavia. Presented by Andrej Grubacic.

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Of Friends & Whirlwinds: Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States with the Team Colors Collective

Explore contemporary radical currents with Kevin Van Meter of the Team Colors Collective, Malav Kanuga of Bluestockings Books (NY), and radical artist Julie Perini!

The Team Colors Collective's recently published book, Uses of a Whirlwind (AK Press), is an edited collection of more then thirty contributors. It's more than just a snapshot of current activity, organizing, ideas, and questions circulating among today’s radicals. It’s an opportunity for organizers, theorists, strategists, and movement elders to share and connect, to speak honestly of the challenges before us, to articulate new demands and possibilities in the ongoing war against state and capital. A short reading and presentation will be followed by a discussion period, and we ask participants to bring stories and reflection of their own organizing to the event.