BLACK ROSE LECTURE SERIES FALL 1979
Sept. 28: Rudy Perkins--Direct Action Strategy for the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Oct. 19: Elaine Leeder & Carol Ehrlich--Theory and Practice of Anarcha-Feminism
Nov. 2: Lestor Mazor--An Anarchist Vision of the Future City
Nov. 16: Robert Roth & Arnold Sachar--Skokie, Pornography, and Civil Liberties
Nov. 30: The Pacific St. Film Collective--Anarchism & Film
Dec. 7 Vincent Ferrini--The Poem as a Way of Life
MIT Room 9-15o . Fridays 8 PM
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* The Boston Public Library is sponsoring a two-day conference on "The Sacco-Vanzetti Case: Developments and Reconsiderations - 1979" at the Library on Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27. The conference will mark the gift by Anteo and Arthur Felicani, sons of the late Aldino Felicani, of their father's highly important Sacco-Vanzetti collection. Aldino Felicani (1891-1967), Boston printer and devoted anarchist friend of Vanzetti, served as treasurer of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee from the inception of the committee. Speakers will include Paul Avrich, David Wieck, Eric Foner, and Bob D'Attilio. The lectures are free and open to the public. For further information on speakers and session times, call the Library's Programs Office (536-5400).
* Two editors of the Italian anarchist journal of Milan, Rivista "A", came through Boston this summer as did two members of the editorial collective of Free Socialist, Holland's oldest anarchist journal, which is now published in Utrecht. During the course of a cordial evening they met with members of Black Rose, exchanging views and exploring the possibilities of cooperation.
Rivista "A", which is of course published in Italian, would appreciate help from BR readers in getting placed into appropriate libraries throughout North America. Contact Editice "A", CP 3240, 20100-Milano, Italy, if you can help.
* The Essex Institute in Salem, Mass. is currently displaying an exhibition in American social history called "Life and Times in Shoe City: The Shoe Workers of Lynn." The exhibition, which will be open through January 27, 1980, focuses on the daily lives and social organizations of the men and women who worked in the shoe factories of Lynn, Mass., during the peak of production, 1870-1920. An important part of the exhibition consists of free program events, including theater, films, poetry readings, and folk music, to occur in Lynn and Salem. For further information on the exhibition or the program events, call 744-3390.
* Books new and noteworthy:
***Howard Ehrlich, Carol Ehrlich, David DeLeon, and Glenda Morris, Reinventing Anarchy: What Are Anarchists Thinking About These Days? 380 pp., paper back, $10.95, Routledge and Kegan Paul. Despite the high price, which the editors contested and actually got the publisher to lower, this book is a wonderful collection of contemporary anarchist thought. The seven sections of the book are: what is anarchism?; the state and social organization; criticism of the left; old and new; the liberation of self; anarcha-feminism; the liberation of labor; and reinventing anarchist tactics.
'Upton Sinclair, Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. Introduction by Howard Zinn. 799 pp., $15, Robert Bentley. The publisher is to be commended for rescuing this book from the oblivion most good books fall into: being out of print and impossible to find. Don't let the length intimidate you; the book reads very quickly and is the best single volume to read on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. You get an accurate rendition of the history and a vivid feeling for Boston in the 1920's?the Brahmins and the immigrant workers.
***Paula Rayman and Severeyn Bruyn, eds., Nonviolent Action and Social! Change, $18.75 cloth, Irvington Publishers. Includes essays on Gandhi's decentralist vision, nonviolent resistance to occupation: Norway and Czechoslovakia, nonviolence from a feminist perspective, and theater and nonviolent revolution.
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