John Holloway on "Crack Capitalism"
7-9pm, Monday 26th October, London
At the height of the anti-capitalist movement, John Holloway’s book Change The World without Taking Power provoked an international debate*. Eight years later, after the failure of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined with the failure of the capitalist economy, anti-capitalism is back on the agenda.
London Anarchist Bookfair, Mute Magazine Discussion with John Holloway
4-6pm, Saturday 24th October, London
Capitalism’s Present Crisis - How Will It End?
The capitalist system is facing years of crisis and social instability. This raises two questions:
1) what caused the crisis? Was it ‘greedy bankers’, the natural tendencies of the capitalist system, or the resistance of the working class?
2) how will the crisis end? Will it be with more state regulation, more cuts in living standards or with working class revolution?
When They Kick Out Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come? Tortuga Defense
On October 1st, 2009, at 6:00am, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (a union of local police departments and the FBI), kicked out the front door to our home—an anarchist collective house in Queens, NY, affectionately known as Tortuga. The first crashes of the battering ram were quickly followed by more upstairs, as the police broke in on 3 sleeping people, destroying bedroom doors that were unlocked.
"Anarchist Bombing Wave Hits Mexico" John Ross
No Borders Groups Call to Action for Copenhagen Climate Change
This is a call out to action to international no borders groups during the COP 15 in Copenhagen!
Starting December 7, 2009
New York Anarchist Accused of Using Twitter to Direct G-20 Protesters
Elliott Madison was arrested by FBI and charged with using social networking site to help demonstrators evade Pittsburgh police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/man-arrested-twitter-g20- us/print
Imperceptible Strategies, Unidentified Autonomous Organizations:: A Drifting Seminar :: London, October 23rd, 2009 ::
"Living on Third Street" Reviewed by Claudia Costa Pederson, Liminalities
Book Review Living on Third Street: Plays of the Living Theatre, 1989–1992. Hanon Reznikov. New York: Autonomedia, 2009. 208 pp.
Zines and Beyond: Independent Publishing in the Real and the Virtual Panelists: Michael Carter, Jim Fleming, Fly, Billy Miller and Seth TobocmanABC No Rio 156 Rivington St. New York, NY 10002 Wednesday, October 14, 7-9pm
"Art in Russia Under Attack: Artists, Curators on Trial" Konstantin Akinsha
With trials, harassment, and other forms of intimidation, Russian authorities are striking out against curators and artists—who are, in turn, organizing projects that are increasingly provocative and political.