Flag Burning With a Side of Potato Salad

From The Assembly

Firestorm Books, an anarchist bookstore collective in Asheville, capped off Labor Day with a potluck and burning the American Flag. The event was organized in response to President Donald Trump’s August 25 executive order declaring that his administration will “prosecute those who incite violence or otherwise violate our laws” while burning the flag.

Asheville: Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair, Sep. 27-28

From Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (instagram)

Over the course of five years (plus a pandemic interruption), ACAB has grown far beyond our initial aspirations, with each interation more ambitious than the last. At the end of the 2024 bookfair, we reflected on how—without intention—the bookfair had become a national gathering, anticipated and attended by comrades living thousands of miles away. While this is a source of joy for us, the scale also complicates our collective efforts.

Asheville Anarchist Rad Fair, Jan. 19

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.

Dispatches from Firestorm in Asheville, NC

From It's Going Down

Original title: “The Utopia we Dream of Becomes Most Visible in the Dark”: Dispatches from Firestorm in Asheville, NC

The following are several dispatches from Firestorm, a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, has become a growing hub of mutual aid and autonomous disaster relief efforts in the area. While these dispatches have been posted to social media, we are publishing them here so people have an opportunity to read them in their entirety.

Disaster Compassion is Real in North Carolina

From Birds Before the Storm by Margaret Killjoy

Late last week, a massive rainstorm hit Asheville, North Carolina and the surrounding areas, dumping eight inches of rain in a single day. Then, the next day, Hurricane Helene hit. This was the worst hurricane to hit the city in its recorded history.

Statement on Fascists at ACAB 2024

From Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair
July 3, 2024

On the afternoon of June 29, two well-known fascists—Monica Buckley and real estate developer David Moritz—attended a bookfair session at the West Asheville Public Library. Their intentions in being at “Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance” were not benign; they were there to provoke a conflict and sell a false narrative that the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair is an antisemitic event.

Vandalism in proposed “Business Improvement District”

From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
June 23, 2024

“Everything stays in line so long as the personal neighborhoods of bosses and judges remain sanctuaries free from the discontents of the class society they maintain: a sanctuary we fully intend on breaking.” – FAI 2014

How anarchists in North Carolina rescued books banned in Florida

From The Washington Post by By Lori Rozsa

A bookshop in left-leaning Asheville is now sending children’s books back to the Sunshine State

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When the managers of a small bookstore in this Appalachian mountain town received a call from a distributor wondering if they could take in 22,000 books rejected by a Florida school district, it felt like a colossal ask.

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