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The 2026 Upstate Anarchist Book Fair!

May 2 & 3

Binghamton, NY

*** Rain or Shine ***

2026 Vendor Application


About

 

The PM Press Warehouse at 21 Emma Street in Binghamton, NY will be hosting the Third Annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair on May 2nd and 3rd, 2026.

In celebration of International Workers’ Day, the two-day fair will feature book/zine vendors, a warehouse sale, community organizations, two full days of panels, live music from the loading dock, and much more. All are welcome to join us in creating community, sharing skills and passions, and debating the best way to overthrow the (patriarchal, racist, cis het) capitalist system.

The book fair is an opportunity not only to sell and promote but to create community. You don’t need to identify as an anarchist to attend or participate in the book fair!

Why an Upstate Anarchist Book Fair in Binghamton, NY?

The practical reason: PM Press bought a 17,000 square ft warehouse in Binghamton in 2021. We also purchased a used bookstore – Autumn Leaves – in Ithaca, NY. Over the last few years, we’ve filled the warehouse with racks on racks of leftist literature (both PM Press and other comrade publishers). Today it is surely one of the largest repositories of leftist literature in the world. We also have a big parking lot, a developing event space, and connections to a local DIY community with the skills to put together a fun, productive, and thoughtful event. 

The political reason: Binghamton is the post-industrial crater left by anti-union, paternalistic warmongers like IBM and the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company. The former headquarters of the New York KKK and current epicenter of upstate mass incarceration, Binghamton is, like many small Rust Belt cities, run by reactionaries who grew up in the city’s golden age and are convinced we’re just a few tax breaks and drug raids away from a return to 1959. We also have a small but dedicated community of activists fighting to liberate Binghamton from these slumlord/cop/petit bourgeois business creep/political elite overlords. We hope events like the UABF will bring together like-minded comrades and crews from across the region to share knowledge, skills, and joy to expand our little networks of radical agitation into a collective force that can challenge capitalism across the county, state, and beyond!

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Contact

upstateanarchistbookfair@protonmail.com

PM Press

21 Emma Street

Binghamton, NY 13905

Comments

anonymous (not verified) Sun, 02/22/2026 - 03:23

Plz ELI5 why is NYC "Hell on Earth". Is it coz "liburulls"?

Anyways, looking forward to try one of these heavenly ICE prisons!

anonymous (not verified) Sun, 02/22/2026 - 07:49

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

in the customary nomenclature, "hell" refers to a place full of unrestrained acts of passion, where sinners are rampant and intensity never ceases.
meanwhile, "heaven" refers to a place where either sameness or totalizing power have stripped all of desire or agency and the same boring day plays on loop, over and over.
get it?

anonymous (not verified) Sun, 02/22/2026 - 11:13

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

"where sinners are rampant and intensity never ceases."

Sounds like a buncha people with severe self-control issues, as well as abuse of khetamine or MDMA. So to say... I'd love to operate a law firm down there for all the cases of sexual misconduct! The trials must be UNHINGED too.

anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/23/2026 - 07:39

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

Pretty sure the customary nomenclature (a bad wording for "traditional views") depicts Hell as a desert. And more commonly a very hot one.

"Heaven" only refers to the skies, or the cosmos. The aseptic boring view of "living in the clouds" only came from the Greek pantheon, which btw was pagan.

You have no idea what lies beyond death, if anything. That's what makes it so fascinating.

anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/23/2026 - 09:51

In reply to by anonymous (not verified)

someone's feeling literal today #%@!

none of my comment was intended to refer to what lies "beyond death". it was purely addressing "heaven" and "hell" as concepts used by some living people to self-hypnotize and group-hypnotize. definitely not placing any weight in the existence of places as suggested by the concepts taken naively. and "customary nomenclature" was used to make fun of and subvert "traditional views" by using descriptions that match well enough to an institutional xtian interpretation of the concepts, but invoke nontraditional connotations based on the differently emphasized parts of the definition. "nomenclature" was also intended to invoke the foolishness of a state/central entity attempting to fix and regulate the meanings/ usages of words, when it's well established there is nothing fixed about language. Sorry if that wasn't clear!

anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/24/2026 - 02:36

upstate ny is objectively superior to nyc by any imaginable metric. saying otherwise is science-denial

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