February Events at Sedition Books

So... up came the groundhog and he tells me it is gonna be a very long economic downturn, but what with all these free events at Sedition who needs to spend money anyways?

Speaking of events, February marks the first Author event at the Infoshop. On Feb 12th, Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew will read from their new book, Toolbox for Sustainable Urban Living.

We have an order coming in soon from AK and Black and Red Publishing. So if you've been chomping at the bit for a copy of Society of the Spectacle you'll know where to go.

As always, all events at Sedition Books are free. But we will be passing the hat and encouraging you to patronize the infoshop as ways to keep the doors open and the lights on.

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Thursday, February 5th
8:00 PM

Houston Anarchist Soccer Film Screening: Goal Dreams

Come to this screening to learn more about Houston Anarchist Soccer and the Soccer Without Borders tournament this March in Austin.

Goal Dreams (2006 84 min) How can a team without a recognized homeland, no permanent domestic league, no place to train and with players and coaches scattered around the globe compete in the world of modern soccer? Goal Dreams follows the Palestinian National team as they prepared for the 2006 World Cup, including the suspension of domestic league games after an Israeli air strike on Palestine Stadium.

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Saturday, February 7th
1:00 PM

Organize Against The War!- Help revitalize the anti-war movement in Houston!
Iraq Veterans Against the War--Houston

With the Iraq war entering its 6th year, the possibility of a dramatic increase in troops in Afghanistan and the recent Israeli attack on Gaza, we need to organize against these wars now more than ever.

There was a productive first meeting on 1/31 so this follow-up should really get things rolling.
For more info email: taylorlaur{AT}gmail{DOT}com

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Sunday, February 8th
4:00 PM

Anarchist Black Cross Open Meeting

Houston's prison abolitionist political prisoner support network is looking for new members.
Come out to help plan the Pamphlets to Prisoners event coming up later in the month!

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Thursday, February 12th
7:00 PM

Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities
A workshop in urban ecological survival skills: exploring the point where perma-culture and social activism meet.

Scott Kellogg of Austin's Rhizome Collective and co-author of the recently released book Toolbox for Sustainable Urban Living will present a workshop that will focus on skills, tools, and technologies usable by urban residents who want more local access and control over food, water security, waste management and energy production. Using affordable, simple designs, he will discuss how to build sustainable infrastructure in our backyards by utilizing salvaged and recycled materials.

Systems to be described include:
· Soil building and asphalt removal
· Urban chickens and micro-livestock
· Rainwater harvesting & Aquaculture
· Constructed wetlands for cleaning waste water
· Humanure and worm composting,
· Passive solar and bicycle windmills
· Bio-gas and veggie oil bio-fuels
· ‘Green Building’– straw bale, clay wood chip
· Struggles for land and against gentrification

Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew are co-founders of the Rhizome Collective and the primary teachers of R.U.S.T.-- Radical Urban Sustainability Training, an intensive weekend workshop in urban ecological survival skills. They divide their time between the Rhizome Collective in Austin, and the Albany Free School Community in Albany, New York.

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Friday February 13th
8:00 PM

Friday the 13th Open Mic Night

Boo!
Come on down and bring your luckiest guitar or song or spoken word piece to fight off the bad luck demons!

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Sunday, February 15th
8:00 PM

Sedition Movie Night: The Edukators

The Edukators (2004, 130 min, German with English subtitles)
Jan and Peter are the best friends behind the radical and mysterious group The Edukators, united by their passion to change the world. When the rich go on vacation, The Edukators break into their homes. They don’t steal, but simply rearrange everything, leaving the message "Your days of plenty are numbered."
Then Jule joins them in their subversive activities. But when a rich businessman catches them in the act, they rashly decide to kidnap him. Faced with the values of the generation in power, they will see what kind of revolutionaries they are and discover if they truly work in the interest of the greater good, or just in their own self-interest.

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Tuesday, February 17th and Thursday February 19th
7:30 pm

Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: Struggle And Co-optation A Workshop
Suggested donation $5 - $10 no one turned away for lack of funds

***These workshops are conditional on having at least 8 participants.
Please RSVP for either the two day workshop (2/17 & 2/19) or the one day (2/21)
to: nickcooper@indymedia.org***

Throughout civilization, oppression has inspired a rich history of creative resistance. Over time, though, resistance can harden and create new oppressions; systems of power can co-opt the methods and symbols of those who resist. Lao Tsu, in the Tao Te Ching, and Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas both discover methods of recognizing and avoiding this pitfall, arriving at the metaphor of the power of water. Like water, oppressed peoples can take innumerable blows, only to later wash over their oppressors without weapons or bloodshed.

Seeking to compare authoritarian philosophies, structures and psychologies to those that are yielding, consensual, communitarian, or autonomous, Nick Cooper has studied The Ku Klux Klan, Focus on the Family, Lyndon LaRouche, The Minutemen, Tom DeLay, Indymedia, Food Not Bombs, Roberto Freire, Wilhelm Reich, and Hannah Arendt. Nick 's presentation examines oppression and the struggles of those who have searched for non-oppressive ways to escape it.

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Saturday, February 28th
4:00 pm

Book Presentation and Reading

Julia Mickenberg, author of: "Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature" will read from her anthology of radical children’s literature.

“Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature” (NYU Press, 2008) offers a portrait of many progressive concerns of the 20th century, including labor and civil rights, gender equality, and the environment, through the lens of children’s literature. Rather than teaching children to obey authority, to conform, or to seek redemption through prayer, twentieth-century leftists encouraged children to question the authority of those in power. Tales for Little Rebels collects forty-three mostly out-of-print stories, poems, comic strips, primers, and other texts for children that embody this radical tradition.

Julia L. Mickenberg is associate professor of American Studies at UT-Austin. She is the author of Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States.

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