Last September, I gifted my life-partner/co-conspirator a subscription to the anarchist journal, DOPE, a quarterly published by Dog Section Press. It’s an immensely satisfying journal to read, with great graphics to boot.
The current issue features a short essay by the ex-diplomat Carne Ross, called “Anarchy is Love.” We will be discussing this essay, which can be found on this posting by Dog Section, as well as reflecting upon the Ted Talk Ross gave three years ago called “The Accidental Anarchist.” 
Although we are no longer physically meeting as a group, we still operate on occupied, unceeded Lekwungen territory. Our next meeting will be held on our private Jitsi server on Tuesday, April 28th at 7pm PST. Jitsi is open-source software that is fully encrypted end-to-end, and which does not track your IP address. In the time when it seems like everyone’s falling for the most insecure communications platforms motivated solely to collect, sell and trade in your data, we created our own Jitsi instance as an infrastructural countermeasure.
If you are interested in participating in this week’s reading circle, please contact varc[at]victoriaanarchistreadingcircle.ca introducing yourself to confirm your place in the shadow-cabinet list and obtain access to the meeting.
See you there!
The Victoria Anarchist Reading Circle is back online, and with the necessary infrastructure required to continue our readings and discussions during the pandemic.