[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Anarchists from Spain Wanna Come To RVA

[Alison]

Peter wanted to come through on a book tour a few years ago. I had an email
dialogue with him about why we had decided not to host the event, as I
wanted to be as transparent as possible about the process.
A few people in the community were not into the idea of him being in the
space due to some stuff that happened in harrisonburg a while ago involving
some kind of abuse situation, I honestly don't remember if it was physical,
mental, or what. But I figured I should ask him about it since it made
people not want him here. I need to go back and see if i can find those old
emails.

Peter and I were supposed to meet up and talk about it when he got to town
but it ended up not happening for some reason.

I am a little confused about how to proceed with this. Regardless, I kind
of think only having a few weeks of planning time for this event might be a
problem, but I'm not gonna be able to help organize it so that's not really
my call I guess. I am also curious if Peter knows TFB was contacted, as he
probably remembers he wasn't welcomed here a few years ago. hmmm

I'm gonna pull up those emails now and try to refresh my memory.

update soon.....

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:35 AM, robert cataldo <robert.cataldo at gmail.com>wrote:

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> All of this sounds great, but I do vaguely recall Peter being called
> out on some serious stuff.  To be honest, I think whoever wishes to
> bottom line this should ask him directly.  I could put some feelers
> out to get the other side of the story. thanks salem, rjc
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> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Salem Acuna <salemacuna at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey All,
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> > So, recently, I met these folks from Barcelona who do Anarchist
> organizing. They are in the states and were hoping to stop by in Richmond
> for a discussion on December 22nd. I have no capacity to help organize this
> and I may not be in town but I wanted to pass along the info to see if
> anyone was interesting in hosting this. If so, I'll pass along contact info.
> >
> > The talk will be half in Spanish by Mimi (who is awesome!) and half in
> English by Peter Gelderloos (apparently he's written some books and
> apparently he used to live in VA and did some problematic things but idk
> much about it because I was like, 12, when it happened apparently. so
> yea....).
> >
> > Complementarity and Conflict in the Anarchist Movement in Barcelona
> >
> > Multiple anarchist currents in Spain flowed together to make possible
> the inspiring social revolution of 1936. But in short order, a number of
> strategic errors weakened the revolution and enabled the Communists to
> crush it definitively. This important near success and ultimate failure
> serves as a model for how different anarchist currents can interact for
> better and for worse.
> >
> > After outlining the history of the anarchist movement in Spain, two
> participants will subjectively trace the relationship between different
> currents of struggle from 1996 to the present, covering the introduction of
> insurrectionism, the Juventudes Libertarias, the resurgence of the CNT and
> anarcha-feminism, and the appearance of general strikes organized from the
> base, neighborhood assemblies, and the plaza occupation movement. The
> strategic focus will be on what forms of interaction between different
> currents leads to a strong anarchist space, and what forms have led to
> major errors or defeats.
> >
> >
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