While the bookfair itself will be taking place at 25 Cecil Street, there will be two days of workshops happening at Bahen, nearby. Here is the workshop schedule; for actual workshop descriptions see http://torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/worksho…
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Sketchy Thoughts: Toronto Anarchist Bookfair: Next Weekend!
It is that time of year again – time for the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair!
It’s happening next weekend, at the Steelworkers Hall at 25 Cecil Street, and you know i’ll be there, tabling with all my own stuff as well as friends’.
While the final workshop…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: New Address for Roger Clement
A message from Ottawa Movement Defense, regarding Roger Clement, who is doing time after having plead guilty to firebombing a Royal Bank of Canada branch in Ottawa last April:
Roger Clement has been transferred from the Millhaven Assessment Unit to t…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Counter-insurgency Panel on Recent Protests in England
Please take the hour and some minutes to watch this video, which i learned about through the Sons of Malcolm blog.
Four counter-insurgency professionals from the UK discuss recent militant protests in London, and the best ways to isolate and repress…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: North American Anarchist Studies Conference: January, 14-16th 2011
This weekend is the 2nd North American Anarchist Studies Conference, to be held in Toronto, Canada. i’ll be tabling there on behalf of Kersplebedeb and PM Press – please do come by to say hello!
The schedule, for those of you thinking of attending: …
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Jan. 19: Political Prisoners and Prison Solidarity Work in North America, History and Current Context
Certain Days & Kersplebedeb Publishing invite you to:
Political Prisoners & Prison Solidarity Work in North America:
History & Current Context
When: Wednesday, January 19, 6:30pm
Where: QPIRG Concordia 1500 de Maisonneuve West, metro Guy-Concordia*…
Sketchy Thoughts: subMedia Riot 2010! Triple Cheeseburger Worldwide Exclusive Interview
This week: 1. Olympic Resistance in Vancouver 2. RBC gets torched 3. They few, we many 4. Talkin’ bout a revolution 5. Matthew Morgan-Brown speaks to subMedia (Interview with MMB about being arrested, updates regarding Roger’s situation and regarding…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Another Update on Roger Clement and Ottawa Comrades
Roger was transferred to Millhaven mid-December and it is expected that he will be there for 2-3 months before being transferred to the federal penitentiary where he will stay for the rest of his 3.5 year sentence.
In the immediate future, letters can…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Update on Roger Clement and Ottawa Comrades
Roger is still in prison. Claude is still going to court. People still need your love and support. OMD is still fund raising. Join the FB group, donate, write a letter to roger, get involved, support prisoners and political prisoners.
FB group: http:/…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Prisoners on Strike in Georgia! Show Support!
A very important message, sent from friends at defenstrator:
Now in it’s 2nd day with rumors the strikes have spread to up to ten prisons. Prison officials are reported to be threatening disproportionate levels of repression. Please show support!!
F…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Three and a Half Years for Roger Clement
From today’s CBC:
A retired civil servant who firebombed a Royal Bank branch in Ottawa’s Glebe neighbourhood in May has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison for arson.
Roger Clement, 58, pleaded guilty last month to arson causing damage and mischi…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw
This is the latest book published by Kersplebedeb, and i am pleased to say copies have now arrived, and are ready to ship out!
Follow the author’s odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of…
Sketchy Thoughts: News and Analyses from BASICS Community News Service
BASICS is newspaper put out by some revolutionaries in Toronto, with a popular and working class orientation. Would definitely say it’s worth checking out… material from the latest issue is going up online, here’s a list of some of the pieces:
O…
Sketchy Thoughts: "Abu Ghraib Comes to Amerika: Torture Unit Under Construction at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison" by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter Minister of Defense, and author of the recent book Defying the Tomb (available from leftwingbooks.net), has written an important expose of a new torture unit being constructed in V…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Roger Clement Pleads Guilty in RBC Firebombing, Refuses to Rat Out
Roger Clement, one of the individuals charged with the attack on the RBC branch in Ottawa in April, has plead guilty. He remains steadfast in his refusal to provide information incriminating anyone else. Charges have been stayed against Matthew Morga…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: 2011 Slingshots!
2011 Slingshot Pocket OrganizerThe 2011 slingshots are here! This is the classic, pocket version…
price: $8.00 (US) Click here to order or for more information.2011 Slingshot Large OrganizerThey’re back – the superb, beautiful, and ever-so-radical S…
Sketchy Thoughts: Another Bust in Toronto: Court Support Needed This Morning!
*URGENT COURT SUPPORT *
10am
College Park Courthouse
Yonge St. & College St.
Courtroom 507
At 10pm last night, 10 police officers arrested Jaroslava Avila outside Queens Park Subways, a prominent Indigenous sovereignty and solidarity activist from Chi…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Prisoner being TORTURED at SCI Coal Township: Urgent Solidarity Needed!
The following is an Action Alert from the HRC-FedUp! Emergency Response Network, about prisoner-advocate Andre Jacobs who is being tortured in retaliation for his speaking up in defense of a fellow prisoner who was being deprived food.
Take action …
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Tell No Lies
Last week’s Got Your Back conference included an interesting mix of speakers and workshops – and due to the physical layout of the event, for a change i actually got to listen in to the closing panel’s each day, as they were in the area right next to w…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Call for Emergency Demonstrations Monday Against FBI
A call for action at Federal Buildings and FBI Offices.
We denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists. The FBI raided seven houses and an office in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday, September 24, 2010…
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