{"id":41,"date":"2026-04-12T20:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:23:21","slug":"statement-of-principles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ZigZag-Learn-from-the-past-colour-257x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"409\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Values and Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Collective affirms and promotes mutual aid, direct democracy, direct action, anti-authoritarianism, autonomy and solidarity. We reiterate our opposition to capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, heterosexism, racism, colonialism, statism and all other forms of oppression; we will not accept participants in the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair who perpetuate or promote such values.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair is a space to network, highlight, and aid struggles, both local and international. We strive to promote anarchist ideas through workshops, cultural activities and the bookfair itself. We have a spirit of openness towards different anarchist traditions, visions, and practices.<\/p>\n<p>Our aims are threefold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to introduce anarchism to the public,<\/li>\n<li>to further elaborate upon current and historical anarchist ideals, and<\/li>\n<li>to foster dialogue between various anarchist tendencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Participants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair\u2019s priorities concentrate upon the written &amp; spoken word (books, pamphlets, zines, audio-visual materials) by individuals and groups including publishers, distributors, and action-oriented associations. We also accept, on a case-by-case basis, information and participation from community\/activist groups, self-publishers, artists and vendors of materials such as buttons, T-shirts or patches who fit within these principles. We do not accept the participation of political parties or candidates in the bookfair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Process<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Decisions are made by consensus at Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Collective meetings. Projects planned for the Festival of Anarchy need only be discussed and agreed to at a Bookfair collective meeting, at which point they are autonomous.<\/p>\n<p>Art by Gord Hill, used with permission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Values and Goals The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Collective affirms and promotes mutual aid, direct democracy, direct action, anti-authoritarianism, autonomy and solidarity. We reiterate our opposition to capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, heterosexism, racism, colonialism, statism and all other forms of oppression; we will not accept participants in the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair who perpetuate or promote such values. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}