Meetings include Eyewitness Afghanistan - the current political situation in Afghanistan as told through interviews conducted with Afghan politicians, artists, religious leaders, community organizers, journalists and activists; a Forum on Radical and Underground Publishing; Racism in the Recession with a speaker from the Traveller community; The Sue Richardson panel: My Life in Struggle, Women Speak - a forum on women in activism; Is it kicking off in Ireland? – discussion on the Irish response to austerity; a talk on Dublin’s Other History hosted by the authors of the popular blog Come Here to Me, a GP speaks on the Right to Choose, a debate on the fiscal treaty referendum as well as introductions to anarchism and the WSM.
The Bookfair will also host a showing of “Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey” with a Q&A session with director Leila Doolan and “The Viking Way”, a documentary about how Iceland responded to the crisis.
Bookstalls carrying
an array of radical literature will be set up for the day. Among the
organisations from home and abroad will be: PM Press, AK
Press, WSM, RAG (Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group), Manchester
Anarchist Federation, Solidarity Books, Look Left magazine, Organise
and Just Books, Oxfam, the Irish Labour History Society, Corporate
Watch and Freedom Press.
Several campaign groups will
be present with information stalls including: IPSC (Ireland Palestine
Solidarity Campaign), Choice Ireland, Shell to Sea, LASC (Latin America
Solidarity Centre), FEE (Free Education for Everyone), AFA (Anti
Fascist Action) and the Campaign against Household and Water Taxes.
More details at http://www.wsm.ie/bookfair
