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March 8, 2004 - 12:13am -- nolympics
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cy writes "http://flotilla2004.com/

Over 350 people on the boat now known as SIEV X died trying to seek a better life. Countless others have drowned or gone missing in similar circumstances; thousands more have been interned in Australia's camps. The lives of those who are not citizens have been declared without value.

Up until now, those fleeing in boats have been met with military force, slander and the terrible cynicism of electoral rivalry. A new and shifting atlas of excisions and offshore penal colonies has been manufactured to circumvent the search for a better life.

In Australia, an asylum policy remains as fiction. In reality, the movements of people as something other than things for The Economy has been banned. We are all, with different degrees of violence, governed by this restriction on our lives and therefore in solidarity with those who, courageously and with hope, risk everything for freedom.

And so, those who are confined in Australia's concentration camps have put the question of 'freedom or death' starkly before us. It is necessary for the rest of us to make the voyage beyond symbolic indignation and act. It is possible and necessary to refuse the monopoly of governments over action, space and the valuing of lives.

This voyage of this Flotilla recalls the old law of the sea - which obliges us to give assistance to anyone in peril, without regard for flags - and seeks to open a multitude of flows toward a new world for which maps are yet to be created.

Therefore, the Flotilla will use a diversity of tactics: boats converging to Australia's north in mid-2004 crewed by autonomous affinity groups; media streams and online protests; radio waves and OpenFlow events.

Everyone is invited to make the voyage in their own way.

March 5, 2004 - 2:29am -- jim
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Proposed Special Session: "Anarchism and Literature"
2004 M/MLA Annual Convention

November 4-7, St. Louis, Missouri

Studies of the complex historical relationship between the anarchist movement and literary avant-gardes have proliferated since the publication of Richard Sonn's Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin-de-Siècle France (1989) and David Weir's Anarchy and Culture (1995). What once might have seemed a curiosity now appears to have been central to the development of literary aesthetics: from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Symbolists, from the Expressionists to the Dadas, and from Pound's Vorticism to the Black Mountain poets, modernism is marked by anarchist struggles.

March 1, 2004 - 2:48am -- jim
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Cultural Typhoon 2004

Okinawa, Japan, July 9-11, 2004

We are pleased to announce the second meeting of Cultural Typhoon which
will be held at University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, in July 2004.


Cultural Typhoon is an annual conference on cultural studies and practices
in Japan.


Typhoon 2004

Date: 9-11 July 2004

Location: University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa

Cultural Typhoon is a Japan-based loose network of those who are
interested in cultural studies and/or in various issues related to
alternative cultural practices.

February 29, 2004 - 7:32pm -- jim
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Software Freedom Day Online, August 28, 2004

The first annual Software Freedom Day will be held on August 28, 2004.
The Software Freedom Day initiative intends to make the world aware of
the existence, availability, and high quality of Free/Open Source
Software (FOSS), and to encourage its use by as many people as
possible. It will be a global grassroots marketing campaign in which
we are inviting volunteers from around the world to participate.

February 28, 2004 - 5:21pm -- jim
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egor writes:

"Radical Pro-Choice Call to Action for DC, April 25, 2004"

Feminists, radical cheerleaders, anti-authoritarians, anarchists and all those concerned with women’s autonomy: join us on April 25th 2004 in Washington, DC for a highly festive mobile cheer bloc!

February 24, 2004 - 9:53pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Sarai -- A 4th Anniversary Celebration"

1. Evening, February 27, 2004, Friday, 6:30 pm


"What is it that Flows Between Us : Stories From Shadow Cities" -- a spoken
word performance by the practitioners of the Cybermohalla 'Compughar' Media
Labs at Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Basti, Ajmeri Gate, and the Dakshinpuri Colony,
Ambedkar Nagar. The performance is based on texts written by the Cybermohalla
practitioners.
-- In collaboration with Ankur -- Society for Alternatives in Education

Sarai Interface Zone, Basement -- CSDS New Building

February 16, 2004 - 12:03pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes

"State of Emergency"

A Convergence of Ideas, Actions and Experiments

Melbourne, May 21-24, 2004


RED ALERT

Armed guards patrol 'civilian' aircraft. Travellers from suspicious
states entering the USA are fingerprinted and photographed. Anti-terror laws
allow anyone to be arrested without warrants or legal representation. Arms
budgets inflate. The US runs a police state in Iraq while Australia becomes the
'sheriff' of the Asia-Pacific: interning its unwanted visitors here,
providing military intervention there. Fear of the 'invading hordes' is
the law. For the rulers of the global empire, the time since 9/11/2001 has
been a 'state of emergency'.


But for the exploited, the poor, the different, the disenfranchised,
nothing much has changed. Capitalism has always manufactured panics. It has
always exploited our bodies, our minds, our time, our creativity, the planet on
which we live. It has always forced us to move or given us no choice but
to flee, reclassified us as illegal to suit its needs, barricaded itself
against our strength and life and designed ever more spurious 'threats'
to the state in order to shut down its people. Our daily lives are just as
difficult as before. The state of emergency is not the exception, but
the rule.

February 13, 2004 - 12:47pm -- hydrarchist
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hydrarchist writes:

Proposal to form a maillist/network of antiauthoritarian groups to coordinate issues concerning ESF2004

We, activists in different Nordic anticapitalist movements, would like to propose to our "colleges" of anticapitalist/antiauthorian/zapatist/disobedient groups and collectives all over Europe to initiate some kind of coordination of our intervention in the European social Forum2004, - in the preparatory process as well as in the Forum event.

February 10, 2004 - 11:57am -- jim
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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

New York City, February, 2004


The Cirkus Is In Town!


Only 21 more days until the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
must close the doors of the Palace of Variety at chashama,
NYC's last vaudeville/variety house. If you have not visited this 42nd Street legend, make plans immediately.

February 9, 2004 - 9:40am -- jim
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The New Formulation

Volume Two, Number Two -- Winter Spring 2004


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