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
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!
The most satisfying thing to come out of Charlottesville is Christopher Cantwell of Keane, NH. This guy, who runs a Nazi podcast out of Keane, New Hampshire, was all about the shit talk in a video posted by Vice hours after Charlottesville blew up on Aug. 12. Scheduled to be one of the speakers, he boasted about being a racist and called for more violence on the part of himself and his fellow boneheads. In fact, he all but cheered on the death of Heather Heyer during the rally, saying “I think that a lot more people are going to die before we’re done here.” For a refresher, this is the full video:
And when he got news about a warrant for his arrest and this gem was placed in everyone’s laps:
On Aug. 24, Cantwell surrendered to authorities and was charged with two felony counts of illegal use of tear gas and one felony count of malicious bodily injury by means of a caustic substance. Denied bond, he has been locked up ever since in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail and will more than likely be there until at least a preliminary hearing on Oct. 12, his next court appearance. We can only hope that he gives us even more tears as this case goes along, especially since he is looking at twenty years!