The Scranton Radical Book Fair and Really Really Free Market is held yearly at the Nazareth Student Center at Marywood University. The book fair aims to promote the ideas of social, environmental and economic justice in the Scranton area. The book fair will include an exposition of lectures, demonstrations, books, zines, pamphlets, art, video, and other cultural and political creations.
Bring what you can; take what you need. A really, really free market puts in to practice the anarchist principal of mutual aid. Basically we are challenging the notion that the capitalist “free markets” are “free” (or even fair!). Instead of being free, capitalist markets depend on scarcity to keep prices for goods and services high. This scarcity means that, by design, some people can’t afford to get what they need, but it does create profit for capitalists.
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE (in progress)
12:00 P.M. – Jess Meoni – The Graphic Design Techniques and Cultural History of Radical Publications
12:30 P.M. – Shalefield Organizing Committee
1:15 p.m. – John Dobbs
1:45 P.M. – Daryle Lamont Jenkins – Standing Up and Shutting Down PA’s Fascists
2:15 P.M. – Break
2:30 P.M. – Mitch Troutman – Coal Region, Stories and Potential: Organizing in the Anthracite Region Today
3:00 P.M. – Margo and Marnie Azzarelli – Labor Unrest in Scranton
3:30 p.m. – Break
3:45 p.m. – Suren Moodliar – The Human Right to Water as a Movement Building Project
4:15 p.m. – Joe Ramsey – The Critical Communist Writings of Richard Wright: Lessons for us Today
5:00 p.m. – Jamie Longazel – Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania
6:00 p.m. – Poetry Reading Featuring: Amanda J. Bradley, Maggie Gilbertson, Brian Fanelli, Sarah Zane Lewis and Daryl Sznyter
The the so-called (and frankly, misnamed) “alt-right” has been making a name for itself with this year’s Presidential election season, and folks want to know more about who these characters are and where they come from since they want to make themselves a part of the mainstream so much they are contributing to art shows this weekend. So since we have been going after this crowd since before One People’s Project even began, DLJ has been making the media rounds over the past few months basically trying to catch people up to what we have been seeing all these years. He makes one of those rounds on Friday, when he makes an appearance on the Karen Hunter Radio Show.
This will be the first time DLJ has ever been on the West Coast, so we hope to see a lot of our friends while we are out there that we waited a long time to connect with. It takes place just a week before Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, and with all the neo-Fascists thinking that is their big chance to shine, we all need to get together and figure out the best way to dim their lights significantly. There is definitely a lot to discuss!