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Memorial to Loukanikos “Riot Dog” to Appear at November RRFM

October 30, 2014

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From Really Free Carrboro

This coming Saturday’s Really Really Free Market will follow hot on the heels of Halloween. That’s why it will feature the Haunted Gazebo and Ballot Box Piñata—representative democracy is getting scarier by the day! But Saturday is also the Day of the Dead—so RRFM participants will also be setting up a small memorial to Loukanikos, the world-famous “riot dog” of Athens, Greece who recently passed away.

From 2008 to 2012, Greece experienced massive protests against capitalist austerity programs. Loukanikos, a street dog living in downtown Athens, was always at the forefront of these clashes, taking the side of demonstrators against the riot police. Undaunted by tear gas, loyal to friends and comrades even in the face of rubber bullets and concussion grenades, he set an example of cross-species solidarity—showing that the struggle against authoritarian governments and economic frameworks is of pressing concern not only to humans but to all life on earth. It’s not strange, after all, that man’s best friend would be capitalism’s worst enemy!

The memorial will present photographs of Loukanikos in action, including a slideshow of important events from his life. In the spirit of the Really Really Free Market, we will also freely distribute pins bearing his likeness. From Athens, Greece to Carrboro, NC, may our resistance be as transnational as capital!

Learn more about Loukanikos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_dog

In other news, don’t miss the encore appearance this Saturday of Fed Up!—a new group determined to provide free gourmet meals at all the Triangle Area’s Really Really Free Markets!

Feel free to write us to announce your own plans for forthcoming Really Really Free Markets: carrbororrfm (at) riseup (dot) net (more…)

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This Saturday, 11/1: A Very Spooky Really Free Market

October 27, 2014

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From Really Free Carrboro

Saturday, November 1st

@ 2pm

@ The Carrboro Town Commons

 This Saturday, come check out our very spooky Really Really Free Market. Autonomous free marketeers are planning a haunted gazebo, a ballot box piñata, and some Halloween themed games.

Everyone is welcome at this free event, where all are encouraged to give, receive, and create on their own terms. This free and open market will be a celebration of the cooperation and gift-giving that make life possible beyond the constraints of capitalist markets. The event is self-organized by everyone who participates. No authority rules over the RRFM. As at previous events, we trust that people sharing rather than competing will be able to find their own ways to cooperate with each other and function smoothly.

Everyone is invited to arrive at 2pm with goods, services, skills, performances, stories, crafts, food, games, music, clothing, furniture, plants, and resources to give and share with others in the community. There is no buying, selling or exchanging involved—in this market, everything is strictly free. Better than a yard sale, the Really Really Free Market has no price tags! (more…)

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STUDENT ANARCHIST BREAKOUT TALK (SABOT) AT THE 5TH ANNUAL CARRBORO ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR

October 22, 2014

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Hey, are you in a college anarchist group looking for comrades? An anarchist graduate student stuck in a boring Marxist reading group? A student radical who shares affinity with anarchist aspirations? A high-school student looking for friends who want to tear this system down?

We want you to come to the Student Anarchist Breakout Talk (SABOT) at 5:00 PM at the 5th annual Carrboro Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday, November 22 at The Nightlight
405 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, NC

We’re the UNControllables, an anarchist student club at UNC-Chapel Hill in its third year of existence. We do a lot at UNC–we host anarchist reading groups, we publish an annual “Disorientation Guide,” and we get money from UNC’s Student Congress to fly in international anarchist speakers–but we want to see even more happen, both here and at every other university in North Carolina! (more…)

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Propaganda By the Screed! One Month Until the Carrboro Anarchist Bookfair

October 20, 2014

cupcake@The fifth Anarchist Book Fair in Carrboro, North Carolina is right around the corner, on the weekend of November 22. In this announcement, we offer a preview of the events, presenters, and participants, along with a bevy of new promotional materials. Don’t miss this opportunity to join anarchists and other brilliant, beautiful, and courageous individuals from around the world in strategizing against tyranny and celebrating our collective power.

This year’s presenters will speak on topics from encryption and digital security to anarchist perspectives on sex work. We’ll hear multiple perspectives on green anarchism and different kinds of prisoner support. A poet who lived in Cairo through the Egyptian revolution will translate poetry from the movement there; a comrade from Barcelona will speak on the successful struggle against the attempt to evict the Can Vies occupation. We’re especially excited to welcome speakers from St. Louis who participated in the events in Ferguson last August. (more…)

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