from acabookfair
Dear anarchist writers, publishers, zinesters, and propagandists! We invite and encourage you to submit your vendor applications for the 2026 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB), taking place September 18th through 20th on Cherokee land in Asheville, NC.
From Rednecks Rising Media
On Surviving Helene, Building Heaven on Earth, and Seeing God in Each Other
“Does anyone have a boat?” Asked the message that flashed across my screen around 4pm on Tuesday, August 17th, 2021. Haywood County was being pummeled by Tropical Storm Fred and two dear friends of mine needed help. My friend Jon described how the Pigeon River was raging through his sister, Natasha’s, home, and how the two of them were taking refuge on top of the bunkbeds in one of the kids’ rooms. The only road in or out was under water.
From Firestorm Books
New administration, same regime! Asheville is home to longstanding anarchist organizing, because regardless of who's at the top, the whole system is rotten. On Sunday, January 19th—one day before Trump's inauguration—we'll join dozens of cities across the US where communities are organizing festivals of resistance to prepare for escalating attacks by both the State and the far Right.
From It's Going Down
Original title: "Combat Sports and Revolution: A Report Back from Fight Weekend in North Carolina"
Through the weekend of October 18th-20th, the triangle-area of North Carolina hosted a series of events to bring combat sports and revolutionary politics together. This weekend was put together by a handful of comrades and friends who have been training, fighting, and coaching together, some of us for more than a decade.
From CrimethInc.
Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire region. At a time when misinformation, rising authoritarianism, and disasters exacerbated by industrially-produced climate change are creating a feedback loop of escalating crisis, it’s crucial to understand disaster response as an integral part of community defense and strategize about how this can play a part in movements for liberation. In the following reflection, a local anarchist involved in longstanding disaster response efforts in Appalachia recounts the lessons that they have learned over the past six weeks and offers advice about how to prepare for the disasters to come.
From Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair
July 3, 2024
On the afternoon of June 29, two well-known fascists—Monica Buckley and real estate developer David Moritz—attended a bookfair session at the West Asheville Public Library. Their intentions in being at “Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance” were not benign; they were there to provoke a conflict and sell a false narrative that the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair is an antisemitic event.
From It's Going Down
Announcing the annual Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB) from June 28th to 30th in so-called Asheville, NC.
From Commonweal (February 2024 issue)
By Aaron Lake Smith
January 30, 2024
I sought and found the Holy Spirit elsewhere, in punk music, which quickly led to anarchist hardcore music, radical politics, rioting, rallies, and trips across the world to disrupt World Economic Forum meetings. The anti-globalization movement was in full swing at the time. I embraced this world based on gut emotions, rather than sustained study of all the Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn books we shoplifted from Barnes & Noble.
From Police Magazine
August 15, 2023
An investigation is underway after someone set two marked Asheville (NC) Police Department vehicles on fire early Monday, Aug. 14. The destroyed vehicles were not occupied at the time the attack.
During this time, an anarchist book fair was being hosted in Asheville, News 13 reports.
Via Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair
Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair is back from COVID hiatus and will be held in Asheville, NC from August 11-13. This year we will be working once again with our comrades in Pansy Collective, who will complement days of workshops and tabling with evenings of queer music and parties. It’s a special year, as well, since we’ll be helping our local, collectively-owned anarchist bookstore inaugurate their new location as a hub for the bookfair.