Discussion: Irish Anarchist Andrew Flood
This will be an informal conversation for local activists and other interested people.
When: 5:30pm, Friday May 9th
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, next to the Eureka Muni
Cost: Donations are appreciated
About the speaker: Andrew Flood is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. More recently, he has been become a member of NEFAC and is a founder member of Common Cause, Ontario. His publishing record includes well over one hundred articles, translated into over nine languages, chapters published in three books, and articles in seven English language anti-authoritarian magazines and newspapers. As well as numerous events in Ireland he has been the speaker at meetings in Britain, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic and the USA and attended conferences in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico.
He has been editor of the anarchist publications Workers Solidarity, Red & Black Revolution, Against War and Terror and Linchpin. He was on the editorial group of the first anarchist site to use the internet, Spunk Press, which predated the invention of the web (it used gopher). He has or is also on the editorial groups of A-Infos, Anarkismo.net, WSM.ie and Struggle.ws. He is currently involved in the launch of the new anarchist discussion site AnarchistBlackCat.org.
A partial archive of Andrew’s writings, radio interviews and translations can be found at http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html
You can email him at AndrewNFlood [at] gmail [dot] com
You can follow the progress of the speaking tour at http://anarchism.pageabode.com