The upcoming 2nd Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair will include a program of 18 panels, workshops, and skillshares focusing on anarchist history and present-day activism from social services to education to immigration.

The Bookfair is scheduled to be held on Sat., April 12, again at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. This year’s Bookfair will include exhibits by some 60 independent publishers, booksellers, infoshops, zines, record labels, media creators, and labor and other activist groups, plus an art show, cabaret, and film festival.

Panels, workshops, and skillshares will be held Sat., Apr. 12 and Sun., Apr. 13, at Judson as well as at nearby facilities of New York University. Highlights include:

* Intro to Anarchism: The ABCs of anarchist political, economic, and social theory and practice, for beginners.
* Radical Social Services: Organizing social services, from health care to child care to legal family counseling – outside The System.
* Computer and Internet Security – What Every Activist Needs to Know: Organizing electronically in a time of rapidly expanding state surveillance.
* Social Movements: How anarchist practice is reflected in urban cooperative initiatives and movements of the landless from Denmark to Oaxaca, from India to Harlem.
* Anarchy in the USA: The love-hate relationship with presidential elections.
* Sessions for women, queer-identified, and people of color within the anarchist movement.

Admission to the 2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair is FREE. For a complete schedule and description of panels, workshops, and skillshares, visit the website. Schedule subject to change. For assistance with press coverage and more information on the Bookfair and related events as they develop, please email mediarequests@anarchistbookfair.net.

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