Black Sheep Books presents:

Sunday, July 9
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Contemporary Anarchism in North America: Two Views
A panel and discussion with Aragorn! and Paul Finch

Free! All welcome!

Aragorn! is a member of the "Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed" magazine
collective, contributes to "Green Anarchy," "Maximum Rock 'n' Roll," and
"Slingshot" magazines, and represents a critical anarchist perspective. His
presentation will incorporate criticism, an indigenous anarchist perspective, and discussion of the work of John Moore, specifically the idea of second-wave anarchy.

Paul Finch has been involved with numerous strikes, antiwar

Black Sheep Books, in collaboration with the
Central Vermont Queer Liberation Army and
Revolutionary Knitters, presents:

STITCH & FLIX: A monthly movie and socializing series

"Before Stonewall"

Tuesday, June 20 at 7:00 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

In 1969, the patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village decided to fight back, transforming a routine police raid into three nights of rioting that marked the beginning of the Gay Liberation movement. The documentary "Before Stonewall" examines the historical background to this sudden burst of political energy--from the social experimentation of the 1920s, to the discovery of the true size of this hidden society during World War II, to the scapegoating of homosexuals in the McCarthy era, to the development of the early homophile rights movement--providing an informative and engaging portrait of the history of homosexual experience in the United States. Using filmed recollections and a wealth of archival material, "Before Stonewall" traces the social, political, and cultural development of the gay and lesbian community.

Black Sheep Books, in collaboration with the Central Vermont Queer Liberation Army and Revolutionary Knitters, presents:

STITCH & FLIX: A monthly movie and socializing series

"The Cockettes"

Tuesday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m.
4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

* with knitters' caucus at 6:30 p.m. (upstairs in Black Sheep Books)

This documentary is an affectionate tribute to the Cockettes, a theatrical troupe of assorted hippies, drag queens, and gay men who embraced the counterculture in San Francisco and performed improvised musicals. Assembled in 1969 by a charismatic free spirit known as Hibiscus to create an act to go on before a midnight film festival, the Cockettes became an immediate sensation. Their popularity and the extravagance of their events grew, and even after the Cockettes drifted apart, their legacy remained in the emergence of glam rock. Filmmakers Bill Weber and David Weissman have lovingly assembled this movie--composed of interviews as well as fascinating footage from the 1960s and 1970s--to examine this groundbreaking troupe, which bridged the hippie and gay/lesbian communities in order to celebrate all kinds of sexuality, and create an outrageous, memorable, and entertaining spectacle while doing it.

Black Sheep Books presents

Thursday, April 27 at 7:00 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, Vermont

"Meeting Face to Face: The Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour,"
27-minute documentary film

Followed by a half-hour discussion with Traven Leyshon,
president of the Washington-Orange-Lamoille Labor Council

On this third anniversary of the outbreak of the Iraq war, the Center for Study of Working Class Life is proud to release "Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour," a 27-minute documentary directed by Jonathan Levin that breaks through mainstream media walls for the first time to bring Iraqi and labor voices into the debate about the war and what the next steps should be.