Come Join the One Big Union, a group that works both to win gains now and toward abolishing capitalism and replacing it with freedom and equality in all of life. Come meet us this Thursday as we kick off a campaign against Jimmy John's who refuse to meet with frustrated and exploited workers. We will also discuss other local organizing as well.

Problems with your employer or landlord? Unpaid Wages? Injustice at work? Eviction? Denied Deposit? Refused Repairs?
We are a volunteer network of working people and students who defend our rights through collective action. Everyone who wants to learn more or if you are interested in finding ways to collectively fight back and win, should come to this meeting. Feel free to bring food if you want, it is a potluck.

Q&A with philosopher Dr.Robert Paul Wolf on his book In Defense of Anarchism

Amidst the collapse of social movements, a certain segment suggests a return to friendship as the basis of any resistance to capitalism. But what does this entail and what are its implications for revolutionary movement? Part dare, part self-indulgence, this lecture will be an attempt to work through practical and philosophical ideas of friendship, community, and love in the hope of wringing out something useful for the contemporary anarchist revolutionary. Allowing for discussion of what is absent and what is desired, we hope to develop an understanding of what friendship is and what it can become, its possibilities and limitations, and the place it could have in wholly upsetting the order of things.

A concert to benefit Internationalist Books!

Tickets are only $5!

Come join us for some awesome music and a great time.

Location:

The Cave

452 1/2 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill NC

Fellow Workers:

Join us for our monthly IWW meeting, forming a General Membership Branch for North Carolina!

The Industrial Workers of the World, the One Big Union, brought you the end of child labor, the 8 hour day, the weekend, and important gains in US Free Speech rights, protecting the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution.

Join us as we bring workplace democracy to jobs, and Dumb the Bosses of Your Backs!

Details TBA

Writers Elwin Cotman and Chris Fox will read from their published work at Internationalist Books on Saturday, August 7th, 2010, at 7pm. Admission is free

RSVP HERE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147592058588855

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Cotman is a self-described “traditional storyteller” who has read at venues across the country. His performances often include music, dance and song. Following a “do-it-yourself” mentality, he recently completed a 14-city tour by car through the Midwest, and is currently embarked on the 4-city “Southern Bard Tour.”

Cotman is the author of The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, a collection of myth-based stories told from an African-American perspective, many of them based on America’s dark racial history. The book is available through Six Gallery Press.

Chris Fox, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, currently lives and works in Chapel Hill. Fox writes poetry, fiction, and jokes about time travel. He frequently hosts Late Night Standup at the DSI Comedy Theatre in Carrboro. He also performs regionally, including venues in Raleigh, Greensboro, and Boone.

Fox’s poetry has been published in Wavelength and Rosebud, and his fiction is available in The Bishop’s House Review, Slave, and the News and Observer.