
From Firestorm Books
New administration, same regime! Asheville is home to longstanding anarchist organizing, because regardless of who's at the top, the whole system is rotten. On Sunday, January 19th—one day before Trump's inauguration—we'll join dozens of cities across the US where communities are organizing festivals of resistance to prepare for escalating attacks by both the State and the far Right.
The Asheville Anarchist Rad Fair (AARF!) invites community members to learn more about local grassroots projects focused on abolition, mutual aid, and collective liberation. Pick up free literature, ask hard questions, make new friends, get involved, start your FBI file on a fun note! There will be treats for dogs and their humans!
This event is part of a weekend of activities to kick off the next four years of resistance. Stay tuned!
This is an outdoor event at 1022 Haywood Rd and will be postponed to the following week (1/26) if it's below 45 degrees or raining. Dress warm, wear a mask, and bring your pup!
Stick around afterwards for an event on resistance to mass deportations with author Jessica Pishko and CIMA at 4pm, then our co-op will host a screening of "Fell in Love with Fire," a documentary about Chile's 2019 popular uprising, at 6:30pm.
6:30pm – 8:00pm
"Fell in Love with Fire" Film Screening
On the eve of Trump's second inauguration, join friends and neighbors for a community screening of Fell in Love with Fire, a feature-length documentary about the popular uprising that swept Chile in 2019.
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
This is an inspiring portrayal of the tactics that gave demonstrators control of the streets, the organizing strategies that enabled the movement to act effectively while remaining leaderless, and the importance of time and space in revolt. It is also a cautionary tale about how the government used the promise of a new constitutional process to recover enough legitimacy to regain control. It chronicles a high point of action in a struggle that continues today.
From the director: "I’ve presented the live version of Fell In Love With Fire within autonomous territory held in defiance of state power—in Weelaunee Forest, at a Los Panchos community in Mexico City, in People’s Park, where the audience sat on a trashed excavator left from the last riots to retake the park in 2022. It is my hope that this videozine, this documentalgo, can serve as tool to bring those kinds of spaces onto the map of other projects of rebellious self-determination across the globe and across time."
Watch the trailer at https://kolektiva.media/w/3chRBy46GNSg8CVeYuPrz8.
Comments
Great.. announcing it just 5…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 10:10
Great.. announcing it just 5 days in advance. For sure we all travel across NA at around Mach 15 with the use of free-energy vimanas created at some Rainbow Gathering's secret talk circle so that our regular engagements won't be disrupted for short weekend trips... sheesh!
That you get your news only…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 11:08
In reply to Great.. announcing it just 5… by anon (not verified)
That you get your news only on delay from when Anews reposts it is laughable and a your problem, brah. Stay home and complain more over bowls of your dumpster poutine or be free and show up. Sheesh!
When/where was that…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 13:59
In reply to That you get your news only… by anon (not verified)
When/where was that announced earlier?
Earlier than complained…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 14:10
In reply to When/where was that… by anon (not verified)
Earlier than complained about./The usual places where people post announcements (their websites and also socials). We anarch event attenders do not rely on aggregators to spoon feed us information about when events occur we capably find out for outselves as Stirner intended.
So, uhh, Dr In-Crowd Dipshit...
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 16:25
In reply to Earlier than complained… by anon (not verified)
...why even sharing an event publicly on an "aggregator" if you already got your people attending?
Yes... to attract more people to it. Woah dude! Full circle back to Step 1.
So no dumpster poutine for u... :-(
Look this tOotally smart…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 17:48
In reply to So, uhh, Dr In-Crowd Dipshit... by anon (not verified)
Look this tOotally smart fellow thinks anarchist websites submit content TO Anews instead of Anews copying and pasting it from other anarchist websites. What a maroon! LOL.
Say your prayers, brother. Take your vitamins.
O brother! I'm sooooOoooo…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 18:23
In reply to Look this tOotally smart… by anon (not verified)
O brother! I'm sooooOoooo smart that I just noticed this feature right on top of the site in the "Links" section: https://anarchistnews.org/node/add
Back down the cesspit, brow! Have a good one.
LOL YOU think just because…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 18:36
In reply to O brother! I'm sooooOoooo… by anon (not verified)
LOL YOU think just because there is an add feature that the articles are actually submitted by other anarchist sites that all despise Anews? COME ON, BROW. YOU KNOW BETTER, BROW. Also, do you REALLY think ANYONE thought you were REALLY gonna bi-cycle from your dumpster poutine igloo to Asheville for a gathering, brow? COME ON, BROW! There is no poutines in Asheville!
Oh I mean I would have taken…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 20:34
In reply to LOL YOU think just because… by anon (not verified)
Oh I mean I would have taken care of "preserving" it at the bottom of my panniers so to force-feed your big mouth with it when we meet up (again). But that's fine I'll just wait for the reportback (with pics!) for that non-event so you get yerself the pleasure of having me seeeeethe ressentiment from this invitation-only orgy at the dog park, rite?
And I don't meant to give you original ideas but since you ain't got any.... brow... NICE TALKING TO YOU! Die now.
You could have just said, …
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 20:52
In reply to Oh I mean I would have taken… by anon (not verified)
You could have just said, "Dang! I wish I had know about this based Asheville event sooner because I would have like to attend!" But nOooo you had to be a dick about it and place the blame on everybody but yourself, brAHHHh! No dog park orgy for you! Back to rainbow stalking.
Can I bring my cat?
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 13:09
Also I'd like to be able to tear-gas angry dogs making my cat go insane, if you please. I'm sure you'll understand it's painful when they plant their claws in my flesh out of sheer freight, and this gets pretty stressful and unpleasant in general.
Cat is invited. You are not…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 13:44
In reply to Can I bring my cat? by anon (not verified)
Cat is invited. You are not.
Now that you have received meaningless dopamine hit from your shitpost being replied to by a living human you can high-five yourself and get back to vidya-game-lyfe.
Camping sounds way better…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 20:09
Camping sounds way better than bothering with Trump which worked out phenomenally for the anarchist movement in the states last time.
Uh okay. Go camping then?…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 20:36
In reply to Camping sounds way better… by anon (not verified)
Uh okay. Go camping then? You don't even have to announce it.
Why is everyone so mean? It…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 21:05
Why is everyone so mean? It's like a cheap replacement for being critical. It's tiresome for anyone who reads a thread like this. It must be even more tiresome for you all who are writing it, right? Are you all who are commenting too self-absorbed to take a step back and look at the environment you are creating for the rest of us to endure, and for anyone new to this site to be repulsed?
Amen! (And a woman)
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 21:22
In reply to Why is everyone so mean? It… by anon (not verified)
Amen!
(And a woman)
There's a couple of regular…
anon (not verified) Tue, 01/14/2025 - 21:59
In reply to Why is everyone so mean? It… by anon (not verified)
There's a couple of regular hostile manchilds (like the doxxer dude) here who're just fine with that last part, and add to it on purpose. This is an account-free yet moderated website, and anarchism ain't a very popular idea, so it's predictable to have a few bad apples.
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