Don't Leave Your Friends Behind at NYC Anarchist Bookfair, Sat April 6, 1-2 pm

This Saturday afternoon, DLYFB contributor and mama Jennifer Silverman and I will be facilitating a discussion on ways to create family-friendly, all-ages spaces in our movements and communities as part of the NYC Anarchist Bookfair.

Note that we are NOT at the main bookfair venue. We will be speaking at:

ABC No Rio

156 Rivington Street (between Clinton and Suffolk Streets)

Get directions here.

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind in Washington, DC! Sat, March 9

DC BOOK RELEASE PARTY  

for

Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: 

Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities

 

featuring co-editors Vikki Law, China Martens, and area contributors. 

 

March 9, 2013, at 5 pm

St. Stephen’s Auditorium

1525 Newton St. NW Washington, DC 20010

phone: 202-487-8698

 

Join co-editors China Martens and Vikki Law along with Mark Andersen of Positive Force and We Are Family for a discussion and celebration on ways that social justice movements and communities can support the families in their midst.

This event is for all ages. Bring your families and loved ones!

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind in the Bay Area--March 15 & 16

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind

San Francisco book party

Fri, March 15th, 8 pm

Modern Times, 2919 24 Street, San Francisco (Mission District)
http://moderntimesbookstore.com/

How do we create new, non-hierarchical structures of support and mutual aid and include all ages in the struggle for social justice? Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind is a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. Let's build an all-ages, inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind.

Join co-editor Vikki Law and Bay Area contributors Diana Block, Encian Pastel, Sasha Luci, Mariposa, Maxina Ventura and Tiny, Ingrid DeLeon and the Po' Poets Project/Poetas POBRES Proyecto for a reading, performance, discussion and celebration of ways to support families in social justice movements and communities. Let's build an all-ages, all-inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind! 

This is an event for all ages; bring your children!!

Victoria Law is a mother, writer and photographer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women, which won her the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award. She is also a co-founder of Books Through Bars--NYC and a long-time volunteer at ABC No Rio, a community arts center in the Lower East Side. She parents a 12-year-old daughter who is unimpressed by any of this.

Diana Block has been an activist for forty years. She spent over a decade parenting her two children while underground and on the run from the FBI, an experience she chronicles in Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back.

The Bay Area Childcare Collective was formed in 2002 in response to the very real need for childcare among social justice organizations. We hope to play a part in building a movement that prioritizes the voices and political agendas of women and mothers, especially women of color, low-income women, and immigrant women.

Ingrid DeLeon is a poet, clothing designer, actress, Prensa POBRE reportera, mama of four children, poverty and im/migrant scholar in residence at POOR Magazine and author of El Viaje: The Journey of One Immigrant Mother published by POOR Press.

Mariposa, a POOR Magazine indigenous scholar and Indigenous Peoples Media Project Coordinator, has just recently relocated from a reservation in the Southwest back to her birthplace of San Francisco. She is committed to standing as the source of transformation for our peoples healing and being that source of love even when people don’t even love themselves. She is a co-founder of the Eagle and Condor Healing Project, which aims to support family reunification and birth in Indigenous communities by providing healing spaces, performance art, and one on one consulting with individuals and/or organizations.

 
Maxina Ventura is a longtime anarchist activist who chose not to send her kids to any school. They are great learners and pretty wonderful people, helping most recently to set up the Occupy Berkeley encampment in the SF Bay Area. Max is a singer grown on Bluegrass and Old-Time music, and trained in the classical musical world. For many years, she has been exposing the folly of activist movements trying to separate parents and kids.

Sasha Luci is an unschooling mom of three living in the Bay Area.

Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, Indigenous Taino, Roma mama of Tiburcio, daughter of Dee, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a multi-generational, multi-lingual, poor and indigenous people-led skool for all peoples outside the instition. She founded several cultural art, poetry and theatre projects like the Po Poets Project, the welfareQUEENs, Theatre of the POOR and she co-founded with Tony Robles, Hotel Voices and Born N Raised In Frisco, to name a few. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, published by City Lights, co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution published by POOR Press and currently in production on her second book- Poverty SkolaShip #101- A PeoplesTeXt- due to released in 2014

Po Poets Project/Poetas POBREs Proyecto de Prensa POBRE are Youth, Adults, Elders struggling to stay alive and thrive through race and class oppression using our voices, our poetry, our stories, our art, to create change for poor folks locally and globally.

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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind

East Bay book party

Sat, March 16th, 7pm

Solespace, 1714 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
http://solespaceoakland.com/

How do we create new, non-hierarchical structures of support and mutual aid and include all ages in the struggle for social justice? Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind is a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. Let's build an all-ages, inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind.

Join co-editor VictoriaLaw and Bay Area contributors Tomas Moniz, Lisa Gray-Garcia (aka Tiny of POOR magazine), Jessica Hoffmann, Mari Villaluna and Briana Cavanaugh for a reading, discussion and celebration of ways to support families in social justice movements and communities. Let's build an all-ages, all-inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind! 

This is an event for all ages; bring your children!!
 
Briana Cavanaugh has been a community organizer for more than twenty years. Her focus has been primarily on collaborative “human services” public policy with a love of community and spiritual group facilitation. She’s been an activist single mom since 2002 and made the surprisingly terrifying leap to homeschooling her tween in 2010, by his request.

Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, Indigenous Taino, Roma mama of Tiburcio, daughter of Dee, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America. 
 

Jessica Hoffmann is a coeditor/copublisher of make/shift magazine and auntie of the marvelous Ruby Joy Hoffmann.

Victoria Law (editor) is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award and earned her the 2011 Brooklyn College Young Alumna Award. She parents a 12-year-old daughter who is unimpressed by any of this.

Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for the award winning zine Rad Dad (anthologized as a book in 2011). Looking for radical parenting community, he created Rad Dad to provide the space for parents (and in particular fathers) to share, commiserate, plan, and support each other in challenging patriarchy one diaper at a time. He is helping to raise three children and lives with a menagerie of animals in Berkeley, California.

 

Radical Parenting and Sustaining a Multi-Generational Movement: A conversation with Vikki Law & China Martens on "The Final Straw" - Ashville FM!!

Listen to our first radio interview together on Ashville FM. 
Thanx Bursts!

This week we speak to Vikki Law and China Martens about the newly published book,Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (PM Press, 2012) , which they edited and contributed to. We talk about multigenerationality in struggle as well as intersections of age, class, gender and race.

This show will be streaming from 12/17-12/23/2012 at Ashevillefm.org and available for podcast and download at Radio4all.net

Having so much fun at our book signing at Facing Race Conference, Nov. 17 in Baltimore

Here is Maegan La Mala Ortiz and I at our book signing @ the PM PRESS TABLE. It felt great being able to sign books and talk about the issues with everyone. Maegan was also interviewed for this radio segment on Facing Race: and is in the last 5 minutes talking about childcare, access & DLYFB. Way to go! She wrote a book review about DLYFB as well. I hope I can meet and read with all of the contributors eventually (It was so great to meet so many of you on the "magical midwest book tour") and we can all have our special "book moments" together.

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind review in Truthout

Writer, teacher and feminist activist Eleanor J. Bader reviewed Don't Leave Your Friends Behind for the news website Truthout:

In many ways, the two kids I helped raise had great childhoods. There were four adults who loved them - a mom and stepmom, a dad and stepdad - and they were surrounded by role models who were engaged in efforts to improve their communities and world. They learned early that different people have different strengths and grew to appreciate variation in both style and substance. That said, regardless of which house they were living in on a particular day, they always bristled when they were dropped off in activist-sponsored child care or dragged to demonstrations. "It's boring," they'd whine. "There's nothing for us to do."

More often than not, they were right.

Activist mothers Victoria Law and China Martens have compiled an anthology aimed at changing this. Fifty-one essays offer practical ideas - outlining specific ways to integrate kids into conferences, rallies and meetings and ensure that babies and toddlers are well tended. The goal? To enable exhausted parents and caregivers to participate in movements for social justice by offering concrete support to them and their offspring. What's more, several contributors address caring for parents and other elders and highlight how best to bolster comrades and friends when they are grieving. Furthermore, the importance of maintaining one's own mental and physical health is spotlighted as a political imperative.

For the full review, click here.

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind in Seattle & PDX!

Looking for details about China's Magical Midwest Book Tour? Click here.

While China Martens travels the magical midwest, her co-editor Vikki Law will be in Seattle & PDX to celebrate the book (and the impending all-ages revolution)!

Seattle Book Launch
 
Fri. Nov 9, 7 pm

Garden House
2336 15^th Ave S., Seattle, WA 98144

How do we create new, non-hierarchical structures of support and mutual aid and include all ages in the struggle for social justice? Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind is a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. Let's build an all-ages, inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind. 

Join co-editor Victoria Law and Seattle-area contributors Andrea Givens and Simon Knaphus for a reading, discussion and celebration of ways to support families in social justice movements and communities. Let's build an all-ages, all-inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind! 

This is an event for all ages; bring your children!!

PDX Book Release!

Sunday, November 11th, 2 to 4 pm

Reading Frenzy 

921 SW Oak St. PDX

Join us to welcome editor/author Vikki Law and to celebrate the release of Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements & Communities (PM Press, 2012) a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. Let's build an all-ages, inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind.

Vikki Law is a mother, writer and photographer. She is a co-founder of Books Through Bars--NYC, the editor of Tenacious: Art & Writings from Women in Prison, and the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women (winner of the 2009 PASS Award).

Jason Gonzales lives with his partner and two children in the big trees and wildness of Oregon's Coast Range. Recently, their family's activism is geared to forest defense, and creating multi-generational spaces and family supportive behaviors in the various fights to save the ancient giants of the Pacific Northwest.

 

Hope to see you there!!