Alphabet Soup! — Crash Course in Anarchist Organizations

Anarchist Organization? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Not necessarily. Anarchy, anarchist, and anarchism are contentious words.
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Depending on who you ask, these can conjure up associations with punk rockers, hippies, window smashing masked protesters, presidential assassins from a century ago, general social disorder, and a number of other things. Aspects of these associations are warranted but all of them are vast oversimplifications of a complicated body of ideas, actions, groups, and movements with a very long history.
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In this discussion group we will focus on contemporary anarchist organizations. We will read and discuss the principle public statements from groups such as WSA, WSM, NEFAC, IWA, FdCA, Solidarity Federation, and more from the alphabet soup of left libertarians. We will also read occasional older works that current groups take as key touchstones of anarchist ideas. If "anarchist" and "organization" sound to you like a contradiction in terms, come find out why some anarchists don't think this is so. Anyone who is nice is welcome.
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Our first meeting will be at 3pm Sunday March 1st at the East Lake Library.
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Visit the class website at http://anarchistorganizations.blogsome.com for more information, or email crashcourse666@gmail.com to register!
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Day 1: Introductions, Review Readings

Day 2: Love and Rage, A-Fed and Class War

Day 3: Anarcho-Syndicalism

Day 4: The International Workers Assocation, Part 1: WSA (ex-affiliate, no longer part of IWA)

Day 5: IWA, Part 2: CNT, SAC, Solidarity Federation

Day 6: Anarchist Communism and the Platform, Part 1- NEFAC, WSM

Day 7: Anarchist Communism and the Platform, Part 2- FdCA, Zabalaza

Day 8: Especifismo, Latin American Anarchism