Mexico City’s Biblioteca Social Reconstruir needs your support!
By Chuck Morse | June 5, 2009
MEXICO CITY - Founded in 1978 by the Spanish anarchist exile Ricardo Mestre, the Biblioteca Social Reconstruir (Social Reconstruction Library) is a pillar of the contemporary anarchist movement. It holds an extraordinary collection of anarchist books and magazines from Mexico and around the world and it is a place where comrades, both you and old, can meet, talk about ideas, and strategize to build a new world.
However, the Biblioteca is presently at risk of being shut down! The owner of the building in which it is located claims that they owe 2800 dollars in back rent and has initiated legal action against them.
Two lawyer comrades are helping the Biblioteca navigate legal issues and determine the best way to respond. They report that the legal process is likely to drag on for a number of months and that, during that time, Biblioteca supporters should do everything they can to raise as much of the money demanded as possible. This appears to be the best way to secure the future of this vital resource for the Mexican and global anarchist movement.
Please consider helping ensure that the Biblioteca Social Resconstruir does not meet its demise by making a donation. You can transfer the money directly through your bank and, to do so, you will need the following information: Swift Code - BCMRMXMMPYM; Account number: 012 180 00108388237; CLABE / CLAVE BANCARIA ESTANDAR; Bank: BANCO BBVA BANCOMER; Account Name: María Teresa Carvajal Juárez
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July 7th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
wednesday JULY 8th 2009:
ALL ages
benefit for LA BIBLIOTECA SOCIAL RECONSTRUIR
-anarchist library in Mexico under threat of being shut down - help w/their legal fees
http://www.libertad.org/mx/
http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/support-the-biblioteca-social-reconstruir/
free - donations sweetly accepted
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doors7pm
movie ‘Anarchism In America’ 8pm
musesick from TYE BANKS http://www.tyebanks.com 1015pm
@ the MARVELL EVENT CENTER
http://www.theMarVell.com
http://www.reverbnation.com/venue/MarVellEventCenter
http://www.myspace.com/MarVellEventCenter
119 W Main St Durham, NC 919 688 0975
MarVellalliance@aol.com DestroyIndustrY@aol.com
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*DestroyIndustrY will be tabling w/free info given out about La Biblioteca Social Reconstruir as well*
*BENEFIT:
MEXICO CITY - Founded in 1978 by the Spanish anarchist exile Ricardo Mestre, the Biblioteca Social Reconstruir (Social Reconstruction Library) is a pillar of the contemporary anarchist movement.
It holds an extraordinary collection of anarchist books and magazines from Mexico and around the world and it is a place where comrades, both you and old, can meet, talk about ideas, and strategize to build a new world.
However, the Biblioteca is presently at risk of being shut down!
The owner of the building in which it is located claims that they owe 2800 dollars in back rent and has initiated legal action against them.
Two lawyer comrades are helping the Biblioteca navigate legal issues and determine the best way to respond.
They report that the legal process is likely to drag on for a number of months and that, during that time, Biblioteca supporters should do everything they can to raise as much of the money demanded as possible.
This appears to be the best way to secure the future of this vital resource for the Mexican and global anarchist movement.
Please consider helping ensure that the Biblioteca Social Resconstruir does not meet its demise by making a donation.
You can transfer the money directly through your bank and, to do so, you will need the following information: Swift Code - BCMRMXMMPYM; Account number: 012 180 00108388237; CLABE / CLAVE BANCARIA ESTANDAR; Bank: BANCO BBVA BANCOMER; Account Name: María Teresa Carvajal Juárez
*ANARCHISM IN AMERICA [2006 120?min:] The work of Emmy and Guggenheim Award-winning filmmakers, Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher.
In Anarchism in America, the two take a road trip to map anarchism as a distinctly American tradition, interviewing a diverse cast of characters: from “ordinary” truckers and farmers to famous anarchists like Kenneth Rexroth, Ursula LeGuin, and Murray Bookchin.
Praise for Anarchism in America:”As directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher, the film touches quite a few bases.
It presents newsreel footage of key figures in the history of American anarchism, among them Sacco and Vanzetti, and Emma Goldman.
(”What is your opinion of Italy?” a reporter asks her.
“Beautiful country minus Mussolini,” she snaps in reply.)
And there are contemporary interviews with figures including Mollie Steimer, Emma Goldman’s girlhood friend, and the poet Kenneth Rexroth, who reads his Sacco and Vanzetti poem.
There is also some discussion of what the film makers take to be anarchism’s practical applications, such as food co-ops and town meetings.
Karl Hess, formerly a Newsweek writer and speechwriter for Barry Goldwater, discusses his evolution from Republican to anarchist.
And the writer and teacher Murray Bookchin gives an exceptionally articulate description of his own ideological development.
He explains why he finds anarchism more all-embracing than Marxism, because he believes it addresses “not just classes but hierarchy.”
Anarchism can be broadly applied, he says, to forms of domination “which may not have any economic meaning at all.”—New York Times
[Includes Jello Biafra [dead kennedys..lard..witch trials..no wto combo..etc.etc.etc...] (Interviewed), Murray Bookchin (Interviewed), Ursula Le Guin (Contributor), Paul Avrich (Contributor), Kenneth Rexroth (Contributor), Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher & more..]