“SOCIALISM IS A PAINFUL TRANSITION BETWEEN CAPITALISM AND CAPITALISM.”
Ketsi:
The Potters House is a café and political bookstore that has a big room in the back, that looks a little bit like a classroom. We were invited there to present our different experiences on the topics of direct democracy, assemblies, consensus and decision/making processes, autonomy and cooptation of “anarchist” tactics, militarization, the nationalism growing in Europe (and over the world), police repression against activists and institutionalization of movements and self-organized activities.
Our fourth presentation felt really tight and I was glad to see that so many interested people showed up. I think there was a bit over 50 people in the room. After the introduction of our contexts and thoughts came many questions and reflections.
The events put up for the discussions with us are for free but we usually ask for donations if anyone feels like they can contribute some coins or dollars for our fuel and travel expenses. If we will be able to cover everything through that, and even gather more money, it will be used to help finance printing of translated To Change Everything in other parts of the world where its not as easy to do that.
Sasha:
The event smoothly turned into informal conversation in which I talked to several different people from whom I mostly remember a person from Maroco who was organizing resistance of women of color in Baltimore with whom I had long and nice conversation and exchange of experiences from our struggles.
Everyone ended up being pretty hungry and our host, comrade and friend invited us to a Salvadorean restaurant which was the best ending of long nine eleven in the capitol of USA. Thank you all for helping us to make this possible!
