[van-announce] Upping the Anti Launch Party: May 10

[Caelie Frampton]

*Please forward*

Upping the Anti Launch Party

Join us to celebrate the release of Issue 4!

Thursday, May 10, 2007
7:00-10:00
Rhizome Café
317 Broadway East

Sliding scale: $5-10
Includes a copy of the journal
No one will be turned away!


*Speakers:
- Cecily Nicholson (Vancouver Status of Women) and Jill Chettiar (Anti
Poverty Committee) from the Housing Roundtable on current Housing Issues
in Vancouver and the DTES;
- Gary Kinsman (Sociology for Changing the World)
 “Transgendering Class; Queer Activist History; and Extending Cracks in
the Fabric of Capitalism: Some Insights from the latest Upping the Anti”
*DJing from Su Comandante

Come and celebrate the launch of the highly anticipated fourth issue of
Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.

Issue 4 includes:
- Editorial: Becoming the Enemy They Deserve- Organizational Questions for
a New “New Left”
- Interview with Robin Isaacs: Living my Life
- Interview with John Holloway: Against and Beyond the State
- Interview with Dan Irving: Trans Politics and Anti-Capitalism
- Richard Day: Walking Away from Failure
- Carmelle Wolfson & Lesley Wood: Two Dispatches from the World Social Forum
- Tom Keefer: Six Nations and the Politics of Solidarity
- Prison Abolition Roundtable with Peter Collins, Emily Aspinwall, Filis
Iverson, Sonia Marino, Julia Sudbury, Kim Pate, and Patricia Monture
- Vancouver Housing Roundtable with Kat Norris, Jill Chettiar, Anna
Hunter, and Cecily Nicholson
- Book Review by Erica Meiners on Angela Davis, Julia Sudbury, and Karlene
Faith
- Book Review by Kimiko Inouye on bell hooks and Amelia Mesa-Bains
"Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism".
- Book Review by Scott Clarke on Sheila Wilmot's "Taking Responsibility
Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canada"

There will be drinks, dancing, speeches and good fun with Su Comandante
spinning some good tunes.

For more information about the journal and the launch, please go to
http://auto_sol.tao.ca

“Upping the Anti” is a radical journal published by a collective of
activists and organizers from across Canada. We are dedicated to
developing and publishing radical theory and analysis, debates,
roundtables and interviews on questions facing struggles against
capitalism, imperialism, and oppression.