July 20: Migrant Justice, Community Defence and Anti-ICE Protest in Yaanga (“Los Angeles”)

Posted on July 11, 2025 - July 11, 2025 by Orange

GET THE READING HERE: SCREEN, ZINE, CAMAS BOOKS’ FREE BOX, or EMMA’S FREE LIBRARIES AROUND TOWN.

Facilitators should note the Facilitation Guide.

Next time, we will be discussing various reportbacks from anarchists and radicals participating in migrant defence and anti-ICE protests in the so-called “United States,” zeroing in on Yaanga (“Los Angeles,” Tongva land.)

The following short reportbacks have been combined into a single reading: Revolt and Representation: A View from the Battle for Los Angeles by Cuauhtli & Mapaches Clandestinxs, It Never Has Been, It Always Will Be: On the “Right” Time To Act by Ignatius, and Fuck I.C.E. City-Wide: Los Angeles Goes Up by Anonymous.

As always, we meet at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra Street, on Lekwungen Territory. Our meeting is Sunday July 20 @ 6:30PM.

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Art credit: Jesse Lee

PS: Our friends at the Anarchist Network of “Vancouver Island” have put together a list of anarchist and adjacent projects on the territory. If you are looking to involve yourself in anarchist activism, look at their trifold! Particularly, Food not Bombs serves free vegan food for revolution every Sunday 4-6PM at Spirit “Centennial” Square and have been facing increasing harassment tied to the gentrification of the Square. Come show up to eat! They also need help from volunteers.

June 22: Dykes Nation & Victoria Tenants Union Collaboration The Battle of Tuntenhaus and the Fight to Abolish Rent

Posted on May 25, 2025 - June 4, 2025 by Orange

GET THE READING HERE: ZINE OR SCREEN, CAMAS BOOKS’ FREE BOX, or EMMA’S FREE LIBRARIES AROUND TOWN.

Facilitators should note the Facilitation Guide.

In collaboration with Dykes Nation and the Victoria Tenants Union, we will be reading Chapter 1: Rent is the Crisis ahead of time, from Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis’ Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (2024) as a primer for the movie The Battle of Tuntenhaus (1991) by Juliet Bashore, which we will be watching together at Camas.

Abolish Rent is from two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the “United States,” and is a deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centres poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process.

The Battle of Tuntenhaus is a documentary film following the inhabitants of the Tuntenhaus, (“house of queers”) a gay and drag queen squat on Mainzer Strasse in East Berlin. The film takes place during the Automon movement.

As always, we meet at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra Street, on Lekwungen Territory. Our meeting is Sunday June 22nd@ 6:30PM.

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PS: Our friends at the Anarchist Network of “Vancouver Island” have put together a list of anarchist and adjacent projects on the territory. If you are looking to involve yourself in anarchist activism, look at their trifold! Particularly, Food not Bombs serves free vegan food for revolution every Sunday 4-6PM at Spirit “Centennial” Square and have been facing increasing harassment tied to the gentrification of the Square. Come show up to eat! They also need help from volunteers.

January 19: Festivals of Resistance: 40 Street-Legal Ways to Fight Fascists

Posted on January 5, 2025 - January 20, 2025 by Orange

GET THE READING HERE: ZINE or SCREEN, CAMAS BOOKS‘ FREE BOX, or EMMA’S FREE LIBRARIES AROUND TOWN

In response to an Anonymous anarchist callout for Festivals of Resistance against a second Trump term, as well as our own foreboding Conservative federal election victory too in “Canada,” we will be discussing 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists (2020 revised) by Spencer Sunshine. See also: an optional more recent bonus podcast with Spencer talking about the work.

We ask you to please read the pieces ahead of time. We also encourage everyone to bring suggestions for our next readings.

As always, we meet at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra Street, on Lekwungen Territory. The next meeting is Sunday January 19th @ 6:30PM.

While this reading has an American focus, the Canadian-law version 40 Ways to Fight the Far Right: Tactics for Community Activists in Canada is currently unavailable online.

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PS: Our friends at the Anarchist Network of Vancouver Island have put together a list of anarchist and adjacent projects on the territory. If you are looking to involve yourself in anarchist activism, look at their trifold! Particularly, Food not Bombs serves free vegan food for revolution every Sunday 4-6PM at Spirit “Centennial” Square. They need help from volunteers.

August 4: Fascism & Anti-Fascism

Posted on July 26, 2024 - July 27, 2024 by Daisy

For August 4th, our reading group will be focusing on two pieces about fascism and authoritarianism.

With eyes turned to the US and an election upcoming in BC as well, it seems important that we familiarize ourselves with how fascism manifests, and how it can be combatted.

The zine Forming an Antifa Group focuses on the latter subject. Self-explanatory and to-the-point, it provides a guide to creating a squad for antifacist action. Some considerations touched upon are security, Antifa principles, and some of the work assumed of groups operating under the name.

The other reading is New Democracy: The New Face of State Violence in Greece from Crimethinc, which consists of an interview with a Grecian anarchist from the anarchist neighbourhood Exarcheia. In 2019, when the interview took place, the party ‘New Democracy’ had just taken power in Greece and consequently begun targeting anarchists and immigrants. The unnamed interviewee describes some of these attacks, as well as other pressures facing the community, such as Air BnB encroaching on Exarcheia, and infighting.

‘Forming an Antifa Group’ can be downloaded as a PDF below. It is also available off the Anarchist Library ready to print as a zine.

Forming an Antifa Group

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‘New Democracy’ is similarly available in imposed zine format on the Anarchist Library. A plain PDF version is attainable here:

New Democracy: State Violence in Greece -- Crimethinc

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In total, the readings are a relatively modest 18 pages. Those who find themselves finishing early are encouraged to look further into an aspect of the topics that catches their interest. This will hopefully lead to a richer conversation on Sunday. Anyone who wishes to is invited to come to the Atrium at 800 Yates St. on Aug. 4, from 2:50 to 5 pm, to join Scholecule for a session of self-guided research.

As always, we meet at Camas Books and Infoshop, 2620 Quadra Street, on unceded Lekwungen Territory at 6:30pm on Sunday August 4th.

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