On June 9th, we will be discussing two short readings, one fiction and one nonfiction.
Towards Freedom: Points of Departure is a section from Crimethinc’s anthology From Democracy to Freedom. In line with the book’s aim to explore the meaning and limitations of democracy, this essay presents ways in which the concept can be expanded so as to create true equality in decision-making. Its various sections succinctly cover approaches to creating institutions, conflict resolution, and navigating political differences, aiming to foster both autonomy and responsibility with its proposals for each topic.
The 10 short tales in Stories of the Raccoon People, authored by Aragorn!, seek to spark the creation of an anarchist mythology. Through lighthearted allegory, the stories describe the joys, struggles, and hidden truths that underlie the anarchist experience. As Aragorn! lays out in the preface to the book, the hope is that these myths “pass into the hands of the Raccoon people themselves and are shared through song and transform through the memory of the people into the truths I can only peek at.”
Towards Freedom: Points of Departure can be attained as a PDF here:
Stories of the Raccoon People is available for download The Anarchist Library as in screen or impose zine format. Note that we are only reading Stories of the Raccoon People, it is not necessary to read Stories of the Bear People as well.
As always, we meet at Camas Books and Infoshop, 2620 Quadra Street, on unceded Lekwungen Territory at 6:30pm on Sunday June 9th.
In solidarity with Palestinians, and our comrades on the frontlines at People’s Park and across Turtle Island, we will be reading Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Movement in Solidarity with Gaza from Crimethinc and Enclosures of Possibility: The University & The Encampment from UBC. We ask folks to read these pieces ahead of time.
For our next reading, we are going to be reviewing what happened during the Occupy movement of 2011 in order to gain insight for the current student occupations happening across North America in solidarity with Palestine. The reading can be obtained here: