We are pleased to announce that we are taking applications for the second
annual Anarchy Summer Camp, August 6 – 9, 2010, in northern Virginia. The
specific location will be given after the application has been approved.

The Anarchy Summer Camp will help you prepare for the upcoming International
Monetary Fund demonstrations this fall in Washington, D.C. The camp will
also feature a variety of DIY workshops, physical training exercises, and
important discussions.

Why oppose the IMF and organize against it? Several years ago, the IMF was
losing global influence. Resistance to its austerity programs was growing and
alternatives to the IMF were increasing. However, the global financial
crisis that began several years ago provided the G20 cover to prop up the
discredited financial institution with more than $500 billion in new
funding, as well as stronger political backing.

The IMF and its backers predicted that people around the world were going to
accept its new demands of budget cutbacks, privatization, and resulting
unemployment and poverty. However, a torrent of resistance has developed on
the streets in cities around the world. The future is unwritten, although
one thing is certain, as things come crashing down, we are going to need to
be organized and prepared.

The Self Described Anarchist Collective is helping organize demonstrations
against the IMF this October in Washington, D.C. The Anarchy Summer Camp
will prepare participants for the demonstrations through workshops on
international financial institutions, including the IMF, as well as real
life exercises, such as tactical simulations.

The weekend will have workshops divided into a series of tracks like
tactics, issues, theory, physical education, as well as a street medic track
(note: if you come for the street medic training, then you can only take
workshops on that track), and a track for kids.

If you didn’t get a chance to submit a workshop description, we still have a few slots for guerrilla workshops. In addition to workshops, there will be constant cooking in an industrial kitchen (we know, we’re not exactly roughing it), an anarchist arts and crafts area, nature walks, sparring station, free store, chores (we prefer mutual aid), and a playground.

$10 – $50 per person (sliding scale of course).

You must register early, so we can make sure you have a reserved spot. Please use the form below. If you would like to suggest a workshop or do one yourself, then please let us know.

Raise the Resistance,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Insurgents at the Self Described Anarchist
Collective

Fortunately, none of that matters to us any more. The Self Described
Anarchist Collective (SDAC) has decided to abandon tiresome activism, and
instead become filthy rich through the creation of the Anticapitalathon
(TM) Games. The Anticapitalathon (TM) Games are not meant to protest the
worldwide destruction wrought by global capital, and we certainly have no
intention of showing solidarity with those affected by IMF policies.

The Anticapitalathon (TM) Games are being held at the same time and place
as the spring WB/IMF meetings– not to highlight the connection between
neoliberalism and economic misery, but to scam free publicity for our
budding sports empire.

In that spirit, we make the following suggestions concerning athletic
equipment: there will be no need for gas masks or goggles, and helmets and
reinforced banners will only slow you down. Don’t bother with masks;
after all, you can’t become a famous extreme athlete if nobody knows who
you are, right? Our friends at the DC Metropolitan Police Department,
sports fans all, will surely be too enthralled by our acrobatic grace and
athletic prowess to do anything so antisocial as actually arrest anyone.
However, if your paranoia overcomes your competitive instincts, wear as
much armor as you like, we won’t stop you.

The Anticapitalathon (TM) will be a dramatic weekend of games, scavenger
hunts and walking tours of the opulent downtown neighborhoods of the
empire’s capital.

So bring a team or come as a solo competitor to DC in April. Homemade
prizes, delicious food and radical levels of fun are sure to follow!

Interested in Getting Involved in the organizing, training or strategizing for the Anticapitalathon games, click here.

Friday, April 23

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Run on the Bank (5K Run and Rally). Meet at Malcolm X
Park (also called Meridian Hill Park).

2:15: Opening Rally and Press Conference meeting the runners as they come through the ‘finish line’.  Murrow Park (18th and H and Pennsylvania Ave NW)

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Walking Tour of Downtown DC. Meet at Farragut Square.
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm: Workshop Block 1 at convergence space:
Technology/Communications
Legal Team Meeting/Training
Health and Safety
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Dinner at convergence space with know your rights
overview.
10:00 pm: Fútbol/Soccer Game. Meet at Dupont Circle.

Saturday, April 24

9:00 am -10:30 am: Workshop Block 2 at convergence space:
Financial Collapse.
World Trade Organization.
11:30 am – 3:00 pm: Scavenger Hunt and Bag Lunch. Meet at Murrow Park. Wraps and snacks to be distributed at the park. Must be back from the hunt by 2:30 pm in order to be counted.

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Workshop Block 3: West End Library Small Meeting Room:
Bretton Woods 101.
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Baseball. Meet at Murrow Park.
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm: Downtime and dinner (Food to be distributed in the park).
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Capture the Flag, Meet at Murrow Park.

10:00 pm: Closing Ceremony and ceremonial procession of athletes. Meet at
Murrow Park.

Sunday, April 25

10:30 am: Consulta and planning meeting for the October WB/IMF
demonstrations. Convergence space.