We will be showing a documentary about the Zapatistas, entitled "A Place Called Chiapas," at Jayson Reynold's & John Ditzler's house this Sunday evening (June 13) at 9:30 pm. "A Place Called Chiapas" garnered the AFI Film Festival's Audience Award & the International Documentary Association's IDA Award for Best Feature Documentary.

Wikipedia article on "A Place Called Chiapas": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_Called_Chiapas

NY Times Review: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/160622/A-Place-Called-Chiapas/overview

Fourth Meeting

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday the 8th at 8:00pm in the Borders cafe. We will be discussing the article Mexico is not only Chiapas nor is the rebellion in Chiapas merely a Mexican affair. It can be found at: http://libcom.org/history/mexico-not-only-chiapas-nor-rebellion-chiapas-merely-mexican-affair

Third Meeting

It has been decided that our next meeting will be on Tuesday, June 1st at 8pm in Scera Park in Orem. We will be discussing The Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists by the group Dielo Truda. It can be found here:
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=1000
Also, everyone try to do some research on either tenants rights or police interaction so that we can start planning a workshop around one of these two issues.

2nd Mtg.: Tue May 25, 2010. 8:00 pm @ Borders Bookstore in Provo.

At our prev. mtg. (Wed. May 19th) we discussed the 1st half of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber; we will be finishing the second half for our second mtg. Text available online as a pdf:
http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/paradigm14.pdf

Critique of Anarchism

So here is an article critiquing anarchism. It's a future option to read if everyone would like.

Critique of Anarchism by Thomas A. Shipka

Meeting May 9, 2010

Today we decided to read the following before our next meeting:

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber

and

Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists

Our next meeting will be Monday May 18, 2010 800pm at the agreed address.

So, this is the first shot at posting and stuff. We can work out all the kinks with the blog with time. Let me know if you have any trouble accessing stuff or posting.