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04-25-2009, 04:37 AM
Finding Our Roots is a yearly conference held in Chicago to to discuss anarchist theory and action. The first FOR conference was held April 27-29, 2007, and focused on theory. The second was held April 18-20, 2008 with the theme of “Anarchist Organizing in the Midwest.” The next FOR conference will focus on the concept of “space” and will be held April 24-26, 2009.
Location: Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave (Michigan and Congress)
All listed events take place at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., unless otherwise noted.
Friday 4/24
10am - 6pm :: Check-in @ Lichen Lending Library, 1921 S. Blue Island Ave.
7pm - 10pm :: Chicago Anarchist Film Festival @ Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St.
Saturday 4/25
10:15am :: Table set-up
10:30am :: Check-in and breakfast
11am-12:15pm :: Workshops
* Gentrification: Containment, Displacement, Yuppie Infestations, and the Resistance to Come
* Department of Space and Land Reclamation: 8 years later
* Which Way to Nowhere: A Short History of Anarchist Spatial Theory and Practice
12:30pm - 2pm :: Workshops
* Bash Back 101: Tactically Queering Environments
* “The Left is Dead”: “Ultra-Cutronism” and the “anarcho-autonomous” milieu
* Let’s Organize the Hood: Organizing in Poor Communities of Color and Among Impoverished Populations
2pm - 3pm :: lunch
3pm - 4:15pm :: workshops
* Teaching and Organizing In, Around, Alongside, and Between the Spaces of Academia
* Collective Living Spaces: a roundtable discussion
* Mad Liberation and Safe Space
* The Politics of Nonviolent Action
4:30-6pm :: Workshops
* Teaching and Organizing In, Around, Alongside, and Between the Spaces of Academia (cont.)
* Collective Living Spaces (cont.)
* Spaciality and Transformation
* Prison as Liberated Space: Anarchism and the Revolutionary Prison Movement of the 1970s
7pm - 10pm :: CAFF @ Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St.
Sunday 4/26
10:30am :: check-in and breakfast
11am - 12:15pm :: workshops
* Relationship Anarchism
* Creating and Maintaining Anti-Authoritarian Queer Space
* Anarchist Alternatives to Coerced Living Spaces
* The Seizure of Space and the Public Sphere: Enduring Lessons from the Zapatistas
12:30pm - 2pm :: workshops
* Relationship Anarchism (cont.)
* Creating Safe Space in an Unsafe World: Supporting Survivors whilst respecting their Autonomy
* Grey Pollution and Electronic Toxicity
* Leisure’s Role in Space and the Anarchist Movement
2pm - 3pm :: lunch
3pm - 4:15 :: workshops
* Demilitarizing Space
* Public Sex and Social War
* A Return to the Land
* Sobriety Within the Struggle
4:30pm - 6pm :: Closing Plenary: The History of Anarchist Spaces in Chicago
6pm - 6:30pm :: wrap-up and goodbyes
7pm - 10pm :: CAFF @ Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St.
10:30pm :: The Revolution. Don’t be late.
Location: Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave (Michigan and Congress)
All listed events take place at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., unless otherwise noted.
Friday 4/24
10am - 6pm :: Check-in @ Lichen Lending Library, 1921 S. Blue Island Ave.
7pm - 10pm :: Chicago Anarchist Film Festival @ Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St.
Saturday 4/25
10:15am :: Table set-up
10:30am :: Check-in and breakfast
11am-12:15pm :: Workshops
* Gentrification: Containment, Displacement, Yuppie Infestations, and the Resistance to Come
* Department of Space and Land Reclamation: 8 years later
* Which Way to Nowhere: A Short History of Anarchist Spatial Theory and Practice
12:30pm - 2pm :: Workshops
* Bash Back 101: Tactically Queering Environments
* “The Left is Dead”: “Ultra-Cutronism” and the “anarcho-autonomous” milieu
* Let’s Organize the Hood: Organizing in Poor Communities of Color and Among Impoverished Populations
2pm - 3pm :: lunch
3pm - 4:15pm :: workshops
* Teaching and Organizing In, Around, Alongside, and Between the Spaces of Academia
* Collective Living Spaces: a roundtable discussion
* Mad Liberation and Safe Space
* The Politics of Nonviolent Action
4:30-6pm :: Workshops
* Teaching and Organizing In, Around, Alongside, and Between the Spaces of Academia (cont.)
* Collective Living Spaces (cont.)
* Spaciality and Transformation
* Prison as Liberated Space: Anarchism and the Revolutionary Prison Movement of the 1970s
7pm - 10pm :: CAFF @ Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St.
Sunday 4/26
10:30am :: check-in and breakfast
11am - 12:15pm :: workshops
* Relationship Anarchism
* Creating and Maintaining Anti-Authoritarian Queer Space
* Anarchist Alternatives to Coerced Living Spaces
* The Seizure of Space and the Public Sphere: Enduring Lessons from the Zapatistas
12:30pm - 2pm :: workshops
* Relationship Anarchism (cont.)
* Creating Safe Space in an Unsafe World: Supporting Survivors whilst respecting their Autonomy
* Grey Pollution and Electronic Toxicity
* Leisure’s Role in Space and the Anarchist Movement
2pm - 3pm :: lunch
3pm - 4:15 :: workshops
* Demilitarizing Space
* Public Sex and Social War
* A Return to the Land
* Sobriety Within the Struggle
4:30pm - 6pm :: Closing Plenary: The History of Anarchist Spaces in Chicago
6pm - 6:30pm :: wrap-up and goodbyes
7pm - 10pm :: CAFF @ Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St.
10:30pm :: The Revolution. Don’t be late.