A Letter to Our German Comrades Abahlali baseMjondolo
A Letter from Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban, South Africa, to Basta! in Wuppertal, German, Saturday 19 June 2010
Friede unter den HüttenbewohnerInnen - Kampf der Macht der Reichen!
"Peace amongst the shack dwellers - struggle against the power of the rich"
The rich are killing our world. The rich in business, in government and in civil society are killing our world. They are killing our world with a top down system and by putting money before human beings.
"Serving our Life Sentence in the Shacks" Abahlali baseMjondolo
People all over South Africa have been asking the leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo as to why the government continues to ignore the demands of the shack dwellers. They have been asking why after all the marches, statements, reports and meetings the Kennedy Road settlement continues to get burnt down through the endless shack fires. They have been referring in particular to the recent Kennedy Road shack fire on Sunday, 4 July 2010 that took four lives, leaving more than three thousand people displaced and homeless.
Rewriting Lyotard Conference University of Alberta, February 11-13, 2011
Call for Papers
The last few years have seen a resurgence in scholarship on Jean-François Lyotard, including a series of recent and on-going translations of his work into English (Enthusiasm, Discourse, Figure), the bi-lingual five-volume Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists, and a number of recent publications of essays on his work in both French and English (Minima Memoria, Gender After Lyotard, Les Transformateurs Lyotard, and the collection in French entitled simply Lyotard).
Crews Rush To Contain Massive Oil Spill in Kalamazoo River Jim Lynch, The Detroit News
At least 16 miles of the Kalamazoo River system have been touched by crude oil in what could rank as the Midwest's worst spill.
An unexplained rupture of an underground pipe south of Marshall has released more than 800,000 gallons of oil that has made its way to the river via Talmadge Creek.
Interview with Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...
Hacktivists Attack European Climate Exchange Website
On Friday, July 23 at 23:23 UTC, the public website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), the leading marketplace for trading CO2 emissions in Europe, has been targetted by hacktivists of the autonomous tech collective *decocidio* (#ϴ).
"We've Lost The Battle, But We Haven't Lost The War" Haiti Six Months After The Earthquake Beverly Bell
Truthout - July 15, 2010, http://www.truth-out.org/weve-lost-battle-we-havent-lost-war-haiti-six-m...
Haiti during the World Cup is much like my hometown of New Orleans was during the Superbowl. Don't try to make plans with anyone to do anything during a game. (In the more cash- rich New Orleans, the ban on non-game-related activity stretched back a day or two before a game, because there was
Tuli Kupferberg, Anarchist, Bohemian, Dead at 86 Albert Amateau
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_377/kupferg.html Volume 80, Number 7 July 14 -21, 2010
Tuli Kupferberg, poet, singer and rambunctious jester, who was a co-founder of the Fugs, the anarchic band of the 1960s, died Mon., July 12, in Manhattan at the age of 86.
In poor health for more than two years, he suffered two strokes last year, according to Ed Sanders, his friend and fellow Fugs founder.
By the time Kupferberg was singing such songs as “Kill for Peace” with
Institute for Anarchist Studies Grants, 2010
Grant Application Deadline - January 15th, 2010
Announcing the 4th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair April 17, 2010 11am-7pm Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
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