28th Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. This year’s theme is: Going Analog: Fighting Technofascism, Reinvesting in Each Other

We will prioritize workshops that relate to this year’s theme, workshops for children, or workshops that center disability justice. Please click the link below for more information and to submit your proposal.

Workshop Proposals Cryptpad Form

This years full theme is: 
Tech companies run by ultra rich oligarchs are revving up neocolonialism by continuing to extract wealth, land, resources, and labor from the Global South and within the heart of empire. Technological development is focused on warfare, surveillance, artificial intelligence, and monetizing the attention economy and the ways we live and connect. Yet as we find ourselves hurtling further into dystopia, we remember that this destructive form of technological “advancement” is being and has always been met with resistance. In an age of mass collapse and rising technofascism, how can we create alternative technologies to further our goals? What strategies and tactics are at our disposal to fight big tech? And how can we meaningfully divest from mainstream technology? As we confront this dytopian technofascist present, we are also reaching back to the past, bringing forward analog technologies to carry with us into the future. We are turning away from systems of genocide and war, mass surveillance, AI slop, and sensational propaganda and investing in our neighbors and the human connections that give the world meaning. We keep us safe. And we are tapping into our creativity, that life force that insists on another, more beautiful, liberated, and healed world.

This year, we invite workshop submissions that help us make sense of these many modes of resistance we’re broadly calling “analog.”

Location: Humanist Hall (390 27th St, Oakland, CA 94612)

The Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair is a free family friendly event. Masks will be required indoors and very strongly encouraged outdoors. Please note the date shift to accommodate more of our community members. We can’t wait to see you there!

Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
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