Anarchisms Research Group

New York City, Dec. 2, 2005

When: FRIDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2005 AT 5 PM

Where: THE SOCIOLOGY LOUNGE, Room 6112 on the sixth floor of the CUNY
Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC. (Directions
and maps available: here).

Throughout its history anarchism as a theory and a socio-political
movement has gone through periodic peaks and troughs in popularity
and notoriety. Over the past ten years anarchism has again been on
the rise.

CUNY students call for the formation of a new student group to pursue
interests in anarchist thought, and to advance its legitimacy in the
academy. The new student group, which is applying for incorporation
by the Doctoral Student Council at the Graduate Center, has three
proposed aims:

1. To promote the analysis of the history, plurality, and
trajectory of anarchism as a theory and practice.

2. To facilitate the development of anarchist research and theory
at CUNY and in the academy at large.

3. And to promote the study and teaching of anarchism within CUNY
and the academy at large.

We will have our first meeting to discuss the mission, projects, and
organization of the new student group (to be named "The Anarchisms
Research Group") on Friday, 2 December 2005 at 5 PM in the Sociology
Lounge, located in room 6112, on the sixth floor of the CUNY Graduate
Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC. You must have photo
I.D. to enter the building if you are not a CUNY Grad Center student.

We invite students from various disciplines, backgrounds, political
practice and struggles, and CUNY campuses to join our first meeting.
Please bring ideas, proposals for projects, and your enthusiasm.
Vegetarian pizza will be served at the meeting!

For more information, please contact Yvonne Liu at YLiu5@gc.cuny.edu.

Zapatista Intercontinental Encuentro

Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee –
General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Mexico, November of 2005

To the Peoples of the World:

Brothers and Sisters:

Concerning the Intercontinental proposed in the Sixth Declaration of the
Selva Lacandona, and in general regarding the international aspects of
this statement, the CCRI-CG of the EZLN says its word:

First — The Intergalactic Committee of the EZLN, headed by Lieutenant
Colonel Insurgente Moisés, has been named for the coordination and
monitoring of the international part of the Sexta. There will be a
rotating team of comandantes and comandantas from the CCRI-CG of the EZLN,
in addition to help from the EZLN’s Sixth Committee.

Modern Crisis Theory:
Its Relationship to Economic/Financial Crises

A Talk by Roz Bologh and Len Mell

New York City

Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Is it important to have a theory of crisis? Is it necessary to have a
theory of how society undergoes maturational crises? Is it important to
have a theory of the evolution of society? Is it necessary to have a
theory of the development of social reason?

This is an introductory talk, workshop, and discussion on crisis theory
that requires no prior background. Traditionally the main power that
progressive movements have had is the power of ideas. We don’t have the
power of money, the media or the military; therefore we must regain the
power of ideas. An essential component of progressive movements has always
been a conception of how crises would come about and a theory of the
necessity of the further development of social reason.

"Anarchists & Libertarians: Friends or Enemies?"

New York City, Dec. 1, 2005

Richard Kostelanetz and Peter Lamborn Wilson will be discussing "Anarchists & Libertarians: Friends or Enemies," at the regular monthly gathering of the Junto, an anti-state discussion group, at the General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street. Admission is free. Simply walk right into the ground floor space. Time is 7 PM.

Wilson, a prolific author, has long ranked among the most imaginative anarchist thinkers in America, while Kostelanetz has contributed to anarchist and literary journals for decades, in addition to doing his writing and media art.

The Junto is a friendly intellectual environment conducive to audience participation in discussions. The two discussants' mutual publisher, Autonomedia, will be present with books by both authors to purchase and get signed.