SUNDAY: Black Flags & Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective

Montreal Book Launch:
“Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective”
with Scott Crow
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 5pm-7pm
At QPIRG Concordia, 1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204

Free. Welcome to all.
Wheelchair accessible.
Childcare available on request (please phone by 5pm on October 13)
Part of the QPIRG Concordia Resource Library Author Series.
Scott Crow is a longtime political activist, strategist and author based in Texas in the US.  He will be speaking about his experiences as an anarchist organizing in the US and the creation of the Common Ground Collective–the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history–which formed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  He will also talk about being investigated and labeled a ‘domestic terrorist’  by the US government for 10 years and the rise of the new surveillance state. This event will be a launch for his new book ‘Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective’ which has just been released from PM Press which features a foreword from former Black Panther Party leader Kathleen Cleaver.
Promotional film about the book: http://vimeo.com/27543529
ABOUT THE BOOK:
“Playful, irreverent, and deadly serious, Black Flags and Windmills is
a moving testimony of love, solidarity, betrayal, and the collective
struggle for the freedom that so many of us yearn for.”
— David Naguib Pellow, author Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational
Movements for Environmental Justice
“It is a brilliant, detailed and humble book written with total
frankness and at the same time a revolutionary poet’s passion. It
makes the reader feel that we too, with our emergency heart as our
guide, can do anything, we only need to begin.”
— Marina Sitrin, author Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina
“This is a compelling tale for our times.”
— Bill Ayers, author Fugitive Days
Part of the QPIRG Concordia Resource Library Author Series.
INFO:
www.qpirgconcordia.org
514-848-7585 – info@qpirgconcordia.org
Previous events in the QPIRG Concordia Resource Library Author Series:
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism;
with editor Jessica Yee (May 7, 2011)
info: https://qpirgconcordia.org/librarycirculation/?p=190
Everybody Talks about the Weather: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof;
with editor Professor Karin Bauer (January 27, 2011)
http://qpirgconcordialibrary.tumblr.com/post/2717772294/book-discussion-the-writings-of-ulrike
The Second Palestinian Intifada: Civil Resistance;
with author Concordia professor Julie Norman (November 17, 2010)
http://qpirgconcordialibrary.tumblr.com/post/1520020400/qpirg-book-event-concordia-professor-julie-norman-in