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Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at Internationalist Books & Community Center, 405 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill. View a map.

Delicious Indian Dinner to Benefit Prison Books Collective!

Feb 10 2010 - 5:30pm
Feb 10 2010 - 8:00pm

Please join the Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective at a delicious Indian eat in/take out dinner hosted by renowned Chapel Hill cook Vimala Rajendran!

Dinner will begin at 5:30 PM. The location: 105 Lexington Drive in Chapel Hill (Vimala's home) in Heritage Hill, off Smith Level Road. Bringing your own containers to take home food is highly recommended; you are also welcome to stay and eat at the house.

The menu for this Wednesday:
*Usal - Whole yellow peas stewed
*Bhaji - sir fried chopped seasonal, local vegetables
*Tamarind Rice (with or without peanuts - contact ahead for allergies)
*Rice Pudding
*Dahi-wada - Yogurt with bean patties (contact ahead if you are vegan)
*Chopped fresh salad

All proceeds will benefit the Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective, a local prison abolitionist group that sends hundreds of books each month to prisoners in the South. In addition to providing vital political and self-educational resources to prisoners, as well as spreading a radical critique of the prison system on both sides of the wall, the group maintains an extensive radical 'zine catalog, publishes prisoners' art and writing in a bi-annual publication called "Words of Fire", and we hosts a regular prison abolitionist reading group. For more information on getting involved and supporting the collective, including our monthly sustainer program, please visit www.prisonbooks.info.

READING INSURRECTION: The Proletariat (Week 3)

Feb 10 2010 - 8:00pm

READING INSURRECTION is a weekly facilitated reading group exploring contemporary insurrectionary anarchist and critical theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes ranging from biopolitics to rupture to small-c communism to global social war. For more information or details on readings, email reading.insurrection.nc@gmail.com.

Week 3: The Proletariat

Guy Debord-Society Of The Spectacle
Karl Marx-German Ideology & Selected Readings
Antonio Negri & critique-Empire
Christos-Waiting for Barbarians
Prole.Info-Abolish Restaurants

READING INSURRECTION: The Proletariat (Week 4)

Feb 17 2010 - 8:00pm
Feb 17 2010 - 10:00pm

READING INSURRECTION is a weekly reading group exploring insurrectionary anarchist theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes ranging from biopolitics to rupture to small-c communism to global social war. For more information or details on readings, email ief-southeast@riseup.net.

Week 4: The Proletariat

Texts: Guy Debord, Karl Marx, Antonio Negri & critique, Theorie Communiste

READING INSURRECTION: The Proletariat (Week 5)

Feb 24 2010 - 8:00pm
Feb 24 2010 - 10:00pm

READING INSURRECTION is a weekly reading group exploring insurrectionary anarchist theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes ranging from biopolitics to rupture to small-c communism to global social war. For more information or details on readings, email ief-southeast@riseup.net.

Week 5: The Proletariat

Texts: Guy Debord, Karl Marx, Antonio Negri & critique, Theorie Communiste

Acoustic folk-punk concert: Jessie Williams + William Blackart!

Feb 26 2010 - 7:00pm
Feb 26 2010 - 8:30pm

Join us at the Internationalist for a night of passionate acoustic ballads from Jessie Williams and William Blackart!

Jessie Williams hails from Oakland, California, where he strums earnest, politically articulate folk and country tunes. Jessie's ballads, following in the footsteps of Bob Dylan, spin stories of ramblers and ne'er-do-wells struggling to light a flame of inspiration amidst the alienation of modern life. Tune in at http://www.myspace.com/TheSuburbanRevolt.

William Blackart brings a haunting, desolate sincerity to his scratchy-throated acoustic ballads. An Arkansas native, Blackart injects a southern folk-punk twist into territory explored by lo-fi country, Chuck Ragan, Lucero, and Bruce Springsteen on his album Nebraska. Take a listen at http://www.myspace.com/williamblackart.

SOHIPOTOME: Women in Hip Hop Radio, Honors, and Concert!

Mar 11 2010 - 9:00pm
Mar 13 2010 - 11:59pm

Join Internationalist Books as we table at SOHIPOTOME, a weekend of radio/honors/concert events recognizing and honoring women in and of the culture of Hip Hop. The 2nd Annual SOHIPOTOME event takes place March 11-13, 2010, with a radio special via WXYC on the evening of the 11th and events during the day and the evening at the Durham Arts Council.

For more information and a full listing of events, email womenofhiphop@gmail.com or check out http://www.sohipotome.com/.

READING INSURRECTION: Biopolitics (Week 6)

Mar 17 2010 - 8:00pm
Mar 17 2010 - 9:30pm

READING INSURRECTION is a weekly facilitated reading group exploring contemporary insurrectionary anarchist and critical theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes ranging from biopolitics to rupture to small-c communism to global social war. For more information or details on readings, email reading.insurrection.nc@gmail.com.

Lectures on Biopolitics & selected readings-Michael Foucault
What is an Apparatus?-Giorgio Agamben
The Cyborg Manifesto-Donna Haraway
Thesis on the Imaginary Party-Tiqqun

READING INSURRECTION: Biopolitics (Week 7)

Mar 24 2010 - 8:00pm
Mar 24 2010 - 9:30pm

READING INSURRECTION is a weekly facilitated reading group exploring contemporary insurrectionary anarchist and critical theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes ranging from biopolitics to rupture to small-c communism to global social war. For more information or details on readings, email reading.insurrection.nc@gmail.com.

Lectures on Biopolitics & selected readings-Michael Foucault
What is an Apparatus?-Giorgio Agamben
The Cyborg Manifesto-Donna Haraway
Thesis on the Imaginary Party-Tiqqun

READING INSURRECTION: Rupture & Party/Violence (Week 8)

Mar 31 2010 - 8:00pm
Mar 31 2010 - 9:30pm

READING INSURRECTION is a weekly facilitated reading group exploring contemporary insurrectionary anarchist and critical theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes ranging from biopolitics to rupture to small-c communism to global social war. For more information or details on readings, email reading.insurrection.nc@gmail.com.

Thesis on Philosophy & Critique of Violence-Walter Benjamin
At Daggers Drawn-Anonymous
The Concept of the Political-Carl Schmitt
Nomadology:The War Machine-Deluze & Guattari
Introduction to the Civil War-Tiqqun
The Spirit Of Terrorism-Jean Baurdillard
Call-Anonymous

READING INSURRECTION: Rupture & Party/Violence (Week 9)

Apr 14 2010 - 8:00pm
Apr 14 2010 - 9:30pm

READING INSURRECTION is a weekly facilitated reading group exploring contemporary insurrectionary anarchist and critical theory. Every Wednesday at 8 PM, join local radicals in dissecting and discussing different texts on themes ranging from biopolitics to rupture to small-c communism to global social war. For more information or details on readings, email reading.insurrection.nc@gmail.com.

Thesis on Philosophy & Critique of Violence-Walter Benjamin
At Daggers Drawn-Anonymous
The Concept of the Political-Carl Schmitt
Nomadology:The War Machine-Deluze & Guattari
Introduction to the Civil War-Tiqqun
The Spirit Of Terrorism-Jean Baurdillard
Call-Anonymous