are you asking if IWW contributing to this is a good idea?
Good idea?
Lucy parsons wrote:
Tyne and Wear IWW are organising it if you read the advert properly.
sorry, its 3:15 am over here.
Lucy parsons wrote:
I was asking what people think about bookfairs as a way to spread the IWW.
I think they are great. The anarchist bookfair in the San Francisco is our branches tabling committee bigest oppertunity to make money. Also a great place to sell flags to all the anarcho kiddies so they can feel special at the next protest they go to.
Lucy parsons wrote:
Tyne and Wear IWW are organising it if you read the advert properly.I was asking what people think about bookfairs as a way to spread the IWW.
In the bigger picture you'd want to spread the IWW by building it in your workplace (or other peoples'), but given the current size of the IWW in the UK it is just as alid to get people who are more ideologically drawn to the union rather than materially, to build up a larger network to support industrial activity.
An NUM related event is quite a good place to advance the IWW idea too, given the history of the union.
As for bookfairs specifially, i dunno. I'm talking about some kind of public event in general.
Quoting from the latest IWW magazine, this is being promoted cos there are no left bookshops in the North East, and too few regional events as well;
1st Ever Working Class Bookfair
Saturday November 3rd 2007
10-4pm
St Nicholas Church
Market Place
Durham City
With contributions from community groups, unions, libertarian press
In the spirit of the Big Meeting
Brought to you by Tyne and Wear IWW and the national union of mineworkers