Category: 2025

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Deadline Extended

Extended proposal and vendor submission deadline just dropped: AUGUST 7th!

We wanted to give y’all more time to submit whatever revolutionary, wingnutty, brilliant ideas y’all have been cooking up. Executive dysfunction is a brat and time isn’t real; who couldn’t use a crumb of deadline extensions in these trying times?

We also realized our intentions for a more regional-centric bookfair weren’t as clear as we had hoped. In the past, we were able to help folks from all over attend/host workshops at/vend at the bookfair. This year we’re focusing our resources towards assisting those from the South and Appalachia, as well as prioritizing submissions from those in the region. But by all means, submit your proposals regardless of wherever you’re currently situated! And absolutely still come out and attend.

(For those who already sent a submission: this also pushes back the date that you’ll hear from us in regards to accepting proposals. Endless thanks for your patience, we are simply but a handful of freaks doing the best that we can.)

Session form: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/fY62WeZNKygYhyGQRcE46Ao1mpcp3oQjg4u-d20de8c/

Vendor form: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Dc48KeZeiriORIBVYbfHW6Ij7O+0BYI9TLnrHsbLc3A/

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Call for Session Proposals!

ACAB is now accepting session proposals

Hello friends and fellow trouble makers! We are writing to invite and encourage you to submit a session proposal for the 2025 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB), taking place September 27th and 28th on Cherokee land in Asheville, NC.

This year our intention is to host a scaled-down, more regionally focused version of the bookfair, in part to honor the impacts Hurricane Helene on our collective capacities and nervous systems. Most sessions will be scheduled for Saturday, September 27th.

We invite you to submit a workshop, presentation, or activity exploring the intersections of survival and resistance in this epoch. In times of ongoing genocide, ecological disaster, settler colonial violence and rising fascism, what ideas, tools, and joyful trouble can anarchists use to ignite bold action against the empire?

Because of this year’s reduced schedule, we may not be able to accommodate every proposal we receive; however, we are planning to leave open space for self-organized and spontaneous content during the weekend. We welcome the ideas and participation of comrades from all corners, but please understand that we will be prioritizing proposals from groups and individuals in our region.

Deadline: August 1st
Submission form: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/fY62WeZNKygYhyGQRcE46Ao1mpcp3oQjg4u-d20de8c/

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Call for Vendors! 📚

ACAB is now accepting vendor applications!

Dear anarchist writers, publishers, zinesters, and propagandists! We invite and encourage you to submit your vendor proposal for the 2025 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB), taking place September 27th and 28th on Cherokee land in Asheville, NC.

This year our intention is to host a scaled down, more regionally focused version of the bookfair, in part to honor the impacts of Hurricane Helene on our collective capacities and nervous systems. Vending will occur on Saturday, September 27th with outdoor covered vending space available.

We invite you to describe your media project, radical press, anarchist periodical or local community organization on this form. We are excited to uplift vendors exploring the intersections of anti-colonial, anti-fascist and ecological resist in past and present timelines of struggle.

Due to limited space and capacity, we will not be accepting craft-focused vendors at this time. While we welcome all interested comrades to apply, due to the scaled-down nature of the bookfair we will prioritize limited space for regional vendors.

Deadline: August 1st
Signup form: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Dc48KeZeiriORIBVYbfHW6Ij7O+0BYI9TLnrHsbLc3A/

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Save the Date! ACAB 2025! 🏴

Mark your calendar for the 2025 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB), September 27th and 28th on Cherokee land in Asheville, NC.

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. We quietly joked about “degrowthing” the bookfair, subverting the more-is-better assumption of endless expansion; but after Hurricane Helene, it truly became necessary for us as organizers to envision a lighter, more regionally responsive bookfair.*

In 2025, we intend to focus on the unique contributions organizers, thinkers, and actionists living in the South and Appalachia can bring to anarchist and autonomous movements. We invite comrades in the region to gather for a weekend to nourish our connections and stoke our resistance in the struggles that lay before and ahead of us. Falling on the one-year anniversary of the historic storm that laid waste to these mountains, we invoke this iteration of ACAB as an opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned from a year of responding to both ecological disaster and the ongoing disasters of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and state power. How can anarchism provide a compass for building the worlds we desire as forces of oppression tighten and the pace of collapse escalates?

Please plan to bring good ideas, good friends, and good trouble!

* ACAB remains an event that welcomes attendees from anywhere, we just want to be clear that the gathering we’re planning in 2025 will be more modest in scale, with content largely tailored to our region.