September 25, 26, 27, 2020
14th NYC Virtual Anarchist Book Fair

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held virtually this year, with a few limited outdoor events. Our website will host presses, live digital conversations and workshops, prerecorded talks and roundtables, a film festival, and archival materials from previous events.

Parallel Worlds: Creating Autonomous Communities

When we construct parallel worlds (worlds guided by logics other than consumerism, accumulation, and hierarchy) we lay the groundwork for a viable anti-capitalist life, one free from police and prisons, hunger, propriety, money, and the systemic violence levelled against the physical, psychological, spiritual and communal health of all beings.

Covid-19, despite the personal and social tragedy it continues to unleash, has nonetheless opened up a potential (as well as an urgent need) to live differently. It has revealed the profound inadequacy of capitalist-white-supremacist-heteropatriarchy and has sent the governing structures into a once-in-a-generation spiral of crises. Facing a global health crisis, climate catastrophe, economic impoverishment, and relentless state violence, the Black Lives Matter movement and the formation of autonomous zones it sparked have stepped up to demand and begin to create new ways of living together outside of the oppressive systems inherited from racist, sexist, and classist colonial frameworks. We stand with them in struggle. The revolution is now—we are building the worlds we want to live in.

We invite our comrades, fellow-travelers, allies, and friends to participate in the formation of self-governing alternative systems.
We are particularly interested in hosting workshops, conversations, artworks, and films around: communal care networks, decolonized futures, black liberation, anti-dharma-capitalist medicine and healing, food autonomy, zero-money economies, resistance organizing and anti-capitalist media.

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Participate: 2020 Open Call

  • Publisher / Vendor / Collective

    • Yes, I am a publisher, vendor or collective interested in participating.

  • Workshop / Skill-share / Conversation

    • Please fill out the form if you are interested in hosting a workshop, skill-share or conversation.

  • Film

    • Deadline for submissions is August 17th, 2020. 

    The Emma Goldman Anarchist Film Festival celebrates the spirit of resistance against the domineering forces of the state, the capitalist economic system and all forms of social repression. 

    Our 2020 Edition will be online and welcomes short films from across the globe. 
    All films must have been completed starting January 2017, be up to 40 minutes and have English subtitles. 

    Themes:Considering the current situation of our planet and the amount of relevant issues we are dealing with, the 2020 edition welcomes a variety of topics around our general theme “Resistance: Creating Autonomous Communities.”

    Films can be related but aren’t limited to:

    Communal Care Networks; Decolonized Futures; Black Liberation; Anti-Pharma- Capitalist Medicine and Healing; Food Autonomy; Zero-Money Economies;  Resistance Organizing (such as BLM, LGBTQIA+, Immigrants, indigenous, etc), among other topics that might involve deconstructing and resisting against capitalism, sexism, racism, xenophobism and all forms of social repression. 

    The revolution is now! Let’s build the worlds we want to live in. 

    *Please note that by submitting your work, you agree to have it shown online during the weekend of the festival in September 2020.  
    ** For additional information or questions, please contact: anarchistfilms@protonmail.com

  • Art

    • Submission Deadline August 23
    We are inviting you to submit your ideas for Art that can be shared digitally – this includes but is not limited to livestreaming or recordings of live performance, short videos, photography, etc.

    Art work can be related but isn’t limited to:

    Communal Care Networks; Decolonized Futures; Black Liberation; Anti-Pharma-Capitalist Medicine and Healing; Food Autonomy; Zero-Money Economies; Resistance Organizing (such as BLM, LGBTQIA+, Immigrants, indigenous, etc), Anti Capitalist Media. Among other topics that might involve deconstructing and resisting against capitalism, sexism, racism, xenophobia and all forms of social repression.

    To apply please answer following questions:

  • Care Session

    • Please fill out the form if you are interested in providing care…

  • Volunteer

    • Please fill out the form if you are interested in volunteering.