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Last summer was full of adventures: cooking in outdoor kitchens, building tripods, planning actions, sleeping in treehouses in the middle of NYC. I traveled up the east coast, coming to a new city every week. In the process, I fell for my traveling partner’s partner. As a local organizer who had participated in several collective projects that involved facilitated meetings and complex protocol, I’d thought I already knew all there was to know about process; but now, deeply immersed in the beginning of my first polyamory love triangle, I discovered it could extend to a whole new level. There were long conversations to work out simple questions like who would sleep with whom each night, and ongoing efforts to keep each other aware of all our feelings about every issue. It was often an arduous process, but consequently, I developed a very open and expressive relationship with my new partner, and that felt healthy and good.

You are a woman in a capitalist society. You get pissed off: about the job, about the bills, about your husband (or ex), about the kids' school, the housework, being pretty, not being pretty, being looked at, not being looked at (and either way, not listened to), etc. If you think about all these things and how they fit together and what has to be changed, and then you look around for some words to hold all these thoughts together in abbreviated form, you almost have to come up with 'socialist feminism.' 1

The Fourth Anarchist Bookfair in Zagreb will take place on April 11th to April 13th, 2008.
Anarchist Bookfair in Zagreb (ASK - Anarhistički sajam knjiga) aims to become a long-term, developing project. First three (2005, 2006 and 2007) bookfairs went well, and we hope to bring in more and more people every year as participants, publishers, groups, projects - whoever is interested in what the bookfair has to offer.
ASK will take place in Zagreb every spring, as a local resource for anarchist and libertarian books and other publications. We also aim to open discussion on subjects that are important for the anarchist movement, or for our local community.

Participation:
To help us organize the Bookfair and finish the program on time, we need you to confirm your participation soon as possible. Our e-mail address is: ask-zagreb [at] net [dot] hr.

YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 9TH MARCH FEMINIST GATHERING IN LONDON, UK.

The event comes the day after International Women's Day, 8th March 2008 and the Million Women Rise (www.millionwomenrise.com) demonstration for women's rights in Central London.

We act like wolves to each other because of the production capitalist hierarchy that places us in these positions. The ones who only earn money and grow rich by our work, even though they themselves do not have to do anything, benefit from this inauspicious state. For that reason they need us to be wolves, wolves that will prey on each other. The fact that we act like wolves to each other is not natural, it is not part of our nature. Anytime we build our relationships by ourselves, we build them on the principle of solidarity, reciprocity and equality.

Recently it is full of feminism or feminists all around us. There is not only one feminism, but many often antagonistic theoretical ideas are concerned.
One definition says that feminism is a struggle against sexism, oppression based on gender. It is the indoctrinating of social stereotypes – women taking care of the home while men earn money, little boys playing with toy cars, beautiful girls and ambitious, assertive boys…

Social revolution starts within ourselves.
It starts with getting over the stereotypes that are all around us and that we adopt. It starts with realizing that we are not born with them, but that we have learned them during our evolution. It starts with building equal relationships and destroying the prejudices of our mutual ownership.
Social change will not fall from heaven but it will come from us, the people. And to be really deep, to shake the foundations of all the forms of oppression around us, it is necessary to fight now, today, in the everyday revolution.