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We are seeking your support as people who believe in alternatives and our collective potential to create a better society built on mutual aid, horizontal relationships and a commitment to liberation from all forms of oppression.
What is AKA?
AKA Autonomous Social Centre is a mixed use organizing venue in
Kingston, Ontario. We opened our doors in August 2008 to create space
for anarchist and autonomous organizing and education. We are proud to
say that we are one of the few collectively owned social centres in
North America.
We are volunteer run and make decisions by consensus.
Current programming and projects include:
- Blue Heron Books and Zines - A radical bookstore and lending library that also offers books and clothing for purchase. Open on Mondays from 3-8pm, come on in the coffee is brewing!
- Drawing Together - a series focused on building anti-racist capacity in Kingston.
- Pineapples Against the Patriarchy (PAPS) - a feminist collective that produces a zine of the same title.
- Really Really Free Markets
- Various workshops, reading groups, film screenings, and book and zine launches.
- Host to group meetings for our collectives and other community groups including People's Social Forum local committee, the Soul Shakedown Collective, Refugees Welcome Kingston, Wellington X and more.
Also, in May 2015, The Artel moved into AKA and now shares the downstairs community space.
In addition to ongoing programming, examples of past events are:
what is anarchism, tenant rights, community responses to racism, anti-authoritarian leadership, class and capitalism, radical disability, collective liberation, permaculture, consensus decision making, anti-oppression, culture jamming and cultural reappropriation, boxing, make your own demon, civil liberties, armour making, street medic skills, direct action, stitch and bitches, independent media, decolonization, Indigenous solidarity, radical open mics, pinkwashing, DIY cervical health, make your own harness, tech security, make your own mestrual pads and more!
Over the past 7 years some of the organizations we have hosted include: Anarchists Against the Wall, No Olympics on Stolen Land, The Red Slam Collective, Test their Logik, Z'otz* Collective, The Immigrant Workers Centre, Corridor Culture, SubMedia, Howl! arts collective, OPIRG Kingston, End the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), Levana Gender Advocacy Centre, Queen's Coalition Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination, Kingston Coalition Against Poverty (KCAP), Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts, Decline9.
For more information about us and what we are up to, visit us on facebook or email us at germinations (at) riseup (dot) net.
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