Category: Events

Memes With Force: Gilets Jaunes Reading Group

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Wednesday, April 17th

Boneshaker Books

2002 23rd Ave S

7:00 PM

Since November, a massive uprising of the gilets jaunes, or ‘yellow vests’ has sustained itself across France. Initially sparked by a tax on gasoline, hundreds of thousands of people have rioted in city centers, blocked infrastructure, and occupied roundabouts. Emerging outside the traditional political institutions, the yellow vests have broken the rules of social movements as we know them and point to a new horizon of revolution.

A similar sequence is bound to arrive on this side of the Atlantic—what can we learn from the yellow vests to better act within it? What could it look like to come together across a diverse array of identities? And how have the yellow vests dealt with xenophobia and far right influences?

On Wednesday, April 17th join us at Boneshaker Books for a discussion of “Memes With Force” by Paul Torino and Adrian Wohlleben. The article is available free at metamute.org

Strategies and Stories from the German Climate Justice Movement

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Friday, March 29th

University of Minnesota

110 Carlson School of Management

6:00 PM

We’re excited to announce that Ende Gelände will be stopping in Minneapolis, MN on their U.S. tour, taking place this February through April, to share stories from Germany’s wildly successful mass mobilizations.

Come join German activists from Ende Gelände on their US tour as they share stories from organizing successful mass climate justice mobilizations — including their 6,000 person direct action against enormous open-cast lignite coal mines.

Design Workshop: How To Design A Zine

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Wednesday, March 13th

Boneshaker Books

2003 23rd Ave S

6:30 PM

Presentation on basic typography principles and layout for zines/pamphlets. This will be focused on the basics of using Adobe InDesign, but will also go over fundamentals that are generally applicable. Attendees are encouraged to bring projects they are working on to share and recieve feedback for improvement.

The Uses Of Disaster Reading Group

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Wednesday, March 20th

Moon Palace Books

3032 Minnehaha Ave

7:00 PM

The Uses of Disaster by Out Of The Woods.

Climate change is here. In the midst of the storm, an opportunity arises to break with capitalism and its vicious inequality. Let’s seize it while we can. The alternatives are unthinkable.

The article can be read for free here.

Liaisons Discussion Group

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Wednesdays

University of Minnesota

415 Blegen Hall

6:30 PM

Liaisons gathers revolutionary writing from around the world. As an inclination, tangent, and crossroads of links and confrontations, Liaisons assembles analyses and theorizations from the ongoing struggles of affiliated groups who seek a common ground. In this worn out age, where throughout the world the same collapse resounds, Liaisons circulates thoughts, dreams, testimonies and experiences in an attempt to grasp the planetary reverberation of a sensibility our friendships hold in common.

Copies of the journal will be available at Boneshaker Books.

More info: liaisonshq.com

Commune Magazine Launch Party

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Saturday, January 19th

Boneshaker Books

2002 23rd Ave S

7:00 PM

The first issue of Commune Magazine is out! Join us for a celebration on January 19th at Boneshaker Books. Commune team members will introduce the project and lead a discussion.

This will be your first chance to get your hands on a print edition of the magazine in Minneapolis.

Commune is a popular magazine for a new era of revolution.

Ferguson-Uprising Prisoners: A Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser

From TC Radical Calendar

Saturday, December 15th

Walker Church

3104 16th Ave S

10:00 AM

Join Minneapolis Anarchist Black Cross for a fundraiser to support Ferguson-related prisoners who are still facing time stemming from the Ferguson protests following Mike Brown’s death in 2014.

All proceeds will go directly to the commissary of the following prisoners: https://antistatestl.noblogs.org/ferguson-related-prisoners/

We’re asking five to twenty dollars, but no one turned away for lack of funds.

We’ll have vegan, gluten free, and soy free pancakes along with regular! Please spread the word.

Know Your Rights and Legal Worker Trainings

Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota

Saturday, September 29th

Walker Church

3104 16th Ave S

10:00 AM

Lauren Regan an attorney for the CLDC will be giving two trainings on Sept 29th at walker church. From 10am-1pm she will be leading a workshop on movement legal work for non-lawyers. From 2-5 she will give a know your rights training focusing on direct action and digital security. These are not to be missed! Lauren is a very experienced and knowledgeable attorney. Both trainings are free and open to anyone interested.

 

Set It Off Cinema: Fall Schedule

From Set It Off Cinema

Alternating Wednesdays

Boneshaker Books

2002 23rd Ave S

6:00 PM

September 19th: Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky

Directed by Ngai Choi Lam (1991)

#PrisonStrike #Martial Arts

October 3rd: Funeral Parade Of Roses

Directed by Toshio Matsumoto (1969)

#Queer #Revolutionary Japan

October 17th: The People Under The Stairs

Directed by Wes Craven (1991)

#Anti-Gentrification Horror #Fuck Landlords

November 14th: Annihilation

Directed by Alex Garland (2018)

#Beauty In Undoing #Let The End Come

Prison Strike Info Night & Letter Writing

From #PrisonStrikeMpls

Friday, September 21st

Boneshaker Books

2002 23rd Ave S

6:00 PM

Starting August 21st, prisoners around the country are taking action against prison slavery and their conditions of confinement in a monumental prison strike. Join us to learn about the strike, what has gone down on the inside, and how to support those targeted for repression because of the strike.

This includes writing letters to show prisoners that people on the outside have their backs and allow them to continue to take risks when fighting for freedom.