This bookfair event is in collaboration with the May Reshuffle - a cultural community event for all - please click here for other info... reshuffle

Publicity leaflets are being printed now - if you have some time and would like to help with distribution - please get in touch... rib@angryartworks.com

 

12.00-6.00pm MAIN HALL

RIB - BOOKSTALLS
The bookshop is a selection of stalls covering a number of publishers and presses. We stock various books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, dvd’s, cd’s, badges, cards and t-shirts.
Some individual publishers / groups involved as part of the RIB project may also come along and set up stalls.

RIB - LIBRARY
The videotheque is a bank of documentary films - including a selection from previous Document : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festivals. Titles that you can select from and watch with headphones on individual monitors.
The listening post is where you can hear a variety of interesting lectures, talks, discussions and a bit of music too. The backbone of this CD collection is every title published by AK Press Audio.
The reading room is an ongoing collection of current and older counter-culture newsheets, bulletins, newspaper and magazines. These help form a representation of radical and autonomous publications.

RIB - FREE STUFF
The info point. Drop off or take away. A table or two of free things - a mixture of flyers, leaflets, newsheets, stickers, cards and other items.

SUNNY GOVAN RADIO
www.sunnygovan.org
Come along and talk on the radio tell folk what you think, request a 'shout-out".

GALGAEL
www.galgael.org
As well as showing some carving and woodwork skills they will be explaining their training scheme.

MADLAB FOR KIDS
Glasgow University will be here again doing Mad Sciency stuff. Bring the kids and experiment.

CARDBOARD CLUB FOR KIDS
Make big buildings and stuff out of cardboard and then knock em down. Fun for all ages.

ELECTRON CLUB
www.electronclub.org
Do cool things with computers. Find out more about Linux and Free open source software.

MONKEY MACHINE
Relax with a calming back massage from Monkey Machine, while the kids are busy doing their science or building a hut out of cardboard.

BEE KEEPERS
Bee keepers will be buzzing around letting you taste the honey - and you might get to see the bees!

 

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12.00-6.00pm CAFE

CAFE BOHEMIA
Throughout the day there will be hot and cold drinks available as well as tasty grub and snacks.

BROTHMIX
At the last Reshuffle Brothmix helped out in the Cafe and made some great rhubarb and ginger jam. Come along and see what they do this time...
www.brothmix.org

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1.00-8.00pm CAFE

CAFE discussions
Have a cup of tea, meet up with other folk and have a chat about important issues that affect us all.

1 .00- 2.00pm
The rise of car culture in Glasgow.
Focus on motorways and changes to public transport. What campaigns can be taken forward now. what can we do about it

2.00- 3.00pm
Switch on to climate change.

3.00- 4.00pm
Our health; sick man of Europe.
How can grassroots health movements improve the city's health.

5.00- 6.00pm
The Bridge
Find out about the exciting new BRIDGE website where you can tell the community your ideas. Informed by communities’ needs, City Strolls will be developing a new, custom-built website, upgraded to be fully interactive and multi-user accessible.

7.00- 8.00pm
Reshuffle - What Next?
At the end of the day there will be a ‘Reshuffle - What do you think?’ Ideas for future Reshuffles. Want to help out, get involved in the next event then come along and join in. This will be in the cafe.
More information about other events can be found here - www.citystrolls.com/may-08.htm

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2.00-8.00pm EVENTS

2.00-4.00pm
workshop/ discussion - THEATRE
Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB)
PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY, AUTONOMY AND SELF DETERMINATION
...part of the MJB speaking tour across Europe.
As Glasgow undergoes gentrification, hear from New York activists who have been fighting the same attacks on their communities for decades! There will be a talk about their ongoing struggle, followed by a practical workshop exchanging ideas and tips about how to organise to defend our communities.
Gentrification is NOT regeneration - we do want money spent in our communities, but the way Glasgow City Council is doing it, they are clearing us out first, before making the area look nice for those able to spend hundreds of thousands on the new flats going up.

4.00-6.00pm
presentation/ discussion - room to be confirmed
Stevphen Shukaitis
COMBINING CRITICAL PRACTICE, RESEARCH AND THEORY AS POPULAR STRUGGLE
A presentation by Stevphen Shukaitis (with participatory dialogue to follow) on issues raised in the recent publication: Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization (2007) David Graeber & Stevphen Shukaitis (eds.)
Shukaitis will discuss the concepts and practices of class composition, militant research, and workers inquiry. As elaborated within the recently released collection Constituent Imagination, the task will be to elaborate methods of developing knowledge that build upon the energies of social insurgency to find paths for the continual political recomposition, in and through the continual need of capitalism and the state to regenerate itself based upon these very attempts at its negation.
Stevphen Shukaitis is an activist and research fellow / PhD student at the University of London, Queen Mary. As well as an author he is a member of the editorial board of ephemera: theory & politics in organization, the Autonomedia Editorial Collective, and the Planetary Alternatives Network. He seeks to develop non-vanguardist forms of social research as part of the global conspiracy against capitalism. www.stevphen.mahost.org
This will be followed by a chance for questions and participatory dialogue. Constituent Imagination published by AK Press will be available during the bookfair.
www.akuk.com
For more info on this event contact Gordon Asher

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6.00-8.00pm
film screening/ discussion - THEATRE
Camcorder Guerillas
DEADLY CARGO - Tracking the Nuclear Warhead Convoy...
Deadly Cargo, Scotland, 2007 (20 min)
The latest film by award winning collective 'Camcorder Guerillas' uncovers how fully assembled Trident Nuclear warheads are regularly transported in secret convoys on ordinary roads in Britain. How close do they come to you? Find out the chilling truth about those lethal convoys, how they are tracked by ordinary citizens in the Nukewatch network and how you can help to stop them. Followed by mystery film(s) and discussion...
www.camcorderguerillas.net

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RELATED EVENT
Sunday 18th May 1.00-3.00pm
OVERIDENTIFICATION AND/OR BUST?
Public discussion with Stevphen Shukaitis on issues raised by the publication: Cultural Activism Today - The Art of Over-Identification
Uisge Beatha - 232 Woodlands Road - Glasgow G3 6ND
(Kelvinbridge U)
If, as claimed within the autonomist tradition, capitalism derives its lifeblood from attempts to negate it, where does this leave the position of the subversive artist? Of the aesthetics of resistance? Instead of succumbing to society’s demand for small creative acts, should artists over-identify with the ruling, post-historical order and take the latter’s immanent laws to their most extreme, dystopian consequences?
Join us for a meander through the 'Creative' think-wonkery of structural maladjustment, from the urban deployment of the Rebel Clown Army to the perverse counter-play of The Yes Men, and beyond... all welcome - For further information, please see:
www.variant.org.uk/events.html

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RELATED EVENT
Sunday 18th May 7.00-9.00pm
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
LA OTRA CAMPANA
MJB continue their speaking tour...
This event is hosted by the FORUM.
www.forumcollective.wordpress.com
Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace (of George IV Bridge), Edinburgh.

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FUTURE EVENTS

The next main RIB will be held in August - this will include a major collaborative event on May ‘68... “...In light of the emergence and deepening of neoliberalism as an economic, social and cultural project over the last four decades, a much more critical, radical forum is needed to assess and discuss the events 1968 historically, their impacts on society, and their significance in relation to present oppressive cultural, social and economic circumstances under Late Capitalism....”
(more info below)

Also in August the long awaited and much anticipated book launch of An AFAQ - volume one. “The anarchist FAQ has been one of the standout achievements of the last decade in terms of its rigorous treatment of every aspect of the theory. Its translation from screen to print is long overdue.” (Freedom)
www.anarchistfaq.org.uk

 

1968 in 2008
Throughout 2008, a myriad of 40th anniversary 'retrospectives' of the radical social movements and events of 1968 have been staged throughout the western world. These have included: mainstream, journalistic radio programmes and newspaper articles, academic conferences, symbolic school and university 'walkouts', peaceful protests, and similar kinds of events and actions. Most of these, especially in Europe and North America, have tended to be 'celebratory' in nature, rather than asking important, critical questions about whether or how the events of 1968 impacted social, cultural and economic spheres of practice. In light of the emergence and deepening of neoliberalism as an economic, social and cultural project over the last four decades, a much more critical, radical forum is needed to assess and discuss the events 1968 historically, their impacts on society, and their significance in relation to present oppressive cultural, social and economic circumstances under Late Capitalism.
A block of talks, discussions and films to be held at the Radical Indpendent Bookfair in August will address these and other questions, including:
-Did the events of 1968 help or hurt radical left and anticapitalist movements?
-How and why have events and iconography surrounding 1968 been romanticised, appropriated and undermined?
-How do particular commemorative events reinforce ideas about the productive role of peaceful 'protest' tactics in liberal democracies?
-How did the events of 1968 change the role of 'education' over the past four decades?