Upping the Anti Launch Party: How do we build radical movements?

How do we build radical movements?

Lessons from the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) and from
revolutionary activist study groups

Friday June 5th * 7pm

Happy Birthday Suzy Subways!
The A-Space
4722 Baltimore Ave
south side of Baltimore Ave, between 47th and 48th

On SEPTA, #34 green line surface trolley. plenty of parking for bikes
and cars. http://www.the-aspace.org/

Join local writers/activists Dan Berger and Suzy Subways, with special guest speaker Kazembe Balagun, for a launch party for issue 8 of Upping the Anti and a discussion of current revolutionary organizing!

SLAM was a multiracial radical organization based in the City University of New York from 1996 to 2007. A dynamic, creative group that nurtured women of color leadership, SLAM fought for access to education and worked with youth to organize against the prison
industrial complex and police brutality.

What can we learn from study groups? Radicals face urgent questions in this moment marked by both crisis and possibility. Four study groups on both coasts of the US -- Another Politics is Possible (NY), the Activist Study Circles (SF), the LA Crew, and the New York Study Group -- are engaging issues of leadership, organization, and politics in the current moment. Their perspectives represent different, if overlapping, political strands of contemporary revolutionary organizing.

UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION is a radical journal published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective of activists and organizers dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis about struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of oppression. Issue 8 features cover illustrations by local artist Erik Ruin, as well as Suzy's interviews with five organizers from SLAM and
Dan's interviews with four revolutionary study groups about contemporary organizing challenges.

Former SLAM member Kazembe Balagun is a writer, educator and theorist at the cross-sections of Marxism, anarchism, Black liberation, queer theory, movement history, and popular culture. Visit http://
www.blackmanwithalibrary.com. Dan Berger is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity and co-editor of Letters from Young Activists as well as a forthcoming book about social movements in the 1970s. Visit http://
www.danberger.org. Suzy Subways was a member of SLAM and the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, and she is now editor of the Solidarity Project, an internet publication about HIV prevention justice organizing, at http://www.champnetwork.org/solid.

Copies of Upping the Anti will be available for sale at the event
($5-20 donation).

Check out www.uppingtheanti.org or email uppingtheanti@gmail.com for
more information or to write for future issues.