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June 22, 2005 - 9:32am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Envisioning Peoples' Struggles" Conference

Vancouver, June 24–26, 2005

We are organizing the Envisioning People's Struggles Conference to Bring together issues and analysis from the many struggles against war,
capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. The conference will also explore and discuss the history of resistance movements locally and around the world to broaden and contextualize our understanding of current struggles, while emphasizing the need for long-term strategy and vision through open dialogue that builds solidarity between diverse organizing communities.

June 21, 2005 - 9:03am -- jim
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"Exploiting Potential" Conference

Bristol, July 1, 2005

i-DAT/Submerge would like to invite you to EXPLOITING POTENTIAL, a free
symposium on intellectual property and digital production, taking place on
1st July 2005, 10am – 4pm, at Submerge, L Shed, Industrial Museum, Bristol,
BS1 4RN, UK.


Issues around intellectual property are a key concern for digital artists
and designers. They reveal a range of tensions between the idealism of work
entering the public domain and the pragmatics of making a living. On the one
hand, there is the principle that creativity and innovation thrives from the
sharing of ideas and material, and on the other, that laws are necessary to
protect individual and collective interests.


This informal symposium aims to examine these ideas and to challenge
existing structures and practices for those working at the intersections of
commerce, research and independent production.


Presentations by Prodromos Tsiavos (Creative Commons), Margaret Briffa
(Own-it), Ian ‘Cutswift’ Edgar (Eclectic Method), Hugo de Rijke (i-DAT),
George Grinsted, Chris O'Shea, Dominica Williamson, Grzesiek Sedek, Daniel
James, Ulrike Brückner & Sabine Meyer.


For more information, see
Submerge


For free entry, please contact Submerge: b@submerge.org.uk
or book at the Submerge events reception: L Shed, Industrial Museum, Bristol
Harbourside.


Exploiting Potential is an i-DAT/Submerge initiative in partnership with the
Arts Council England, UWE and Watershed. Thanks also to Piet Zwart
Institute, Rotterdam.

June 16, 2005 - 4:47pm -- jim
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stevphen writes:

Alternatives to Capitalism!
Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) Summer Conference:
Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, Connecticut
Saturday, August 20–Tuesday, August 23, 2005

For several years now, people have asked for a Summer Workshop/Retreat focused on alternatives — what can we do in the face of this brutal hegemonic world social-political-economic order?

This year's workshop will be focused on this (with lots of other topics addressed in the workshops as well). It promises to be very interesting, and given the despair that has overcome fighters for social justice, inspiring — there are plenty of ways to fight back, and beyond that, there are plenty of important challenges to the hegemonic order going on right now.

June 12, 2005 - 8:01pm -- Rob Eshelman
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Afflicted Powers:
Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Verso

Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present -- its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past, calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances.

Capital is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation. But never before has imperialism, and its dominant world power, been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire is confronted by a variety of movement, including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory 'peace', the US-Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror.

Retort is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afflicted Powers arises from the group's efforts to confront the current political moment and forms of resistance to it. Involved in the writing were Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Mattews, and Michael Watts.

June 10, 2005 - 2:22am -- jim
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Iain Boal & Retort, Afflicted Powers Book Party

New York City, June 22, 2005

“A comprehensive analysis of America’s relationship with the world. No stone is left unturned. The maggots exposed are grotesque.” — Harold Pinter

“This provocative and wide-ranging inquiry—part analysis, part manifest—brings to light a new phase in the historical process of primitive accumulation, a form of bitter class war and social reconstruction now proceeding in the guise of what the authors depict as ‘military neo-liberalism.’ The conclusions and analysis are brought to bear incisively on central events of the contemporary world, and on how its serious threats can be confronted.” — Noam Chomsky

Please join Verso, ABC No Rio for an evening with

IAIN BOAL of RETORT

Discussing the new book

Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

RETORT is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afflicted Powers arises from the group’s efforts to confront the current political movement and forms of resistance to it.


7 pm WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22


ABC No Rio

156 Rivington

New York City

Contact 212 807 9680 for more information

June 8, 2005 - 6:45pm -- hydrarchist
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stevphen writes "CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

Making Global Civil Society:
Grassroots Practice and Academic Theory of Globalisation from Below

A weekend gathering for activists and academics.

November 4, 5 & 6 2005
Lancaster University, North West England.

With support of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Lancaster University, the “Knowledge Laboratory on Globalisation from Above and Below” is happy to invite you, your affinity group, your collective, or your organisation to contribute to its first event.

The aim of the gathering is to discuss key aspects of the historical development of the capitalist economy that drives globalisation from above such as enclosures, (precarious) labour, structural violence, colonialism, and their justifying cultural imagery – and to make visible alternative architectures of social organisation emerging through the processes of globalisation from below, that is, through grassroots movements cooperating to create a global civil society based on human rights and mutual aid, and to restore the (intellectual) commons, in the street, on the land, and in cyberspace.

June 7, 2005 - 9:20am -- jim
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Marxism and Communications Conference

Boston, Nov. 16, 2005

"Marxism and Communication Studies: Key Debates and Core Concepts"


Announcing: A one day Preconvention Seminar Conference at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting

8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, Boston, MA


Seminar Leaders: Lee Artz, Purdue University, Calumet; Dana Cloud, University of Texas, Austin; Stephen Macek, North Central College


Seminar Description: The current explosion of critical communication scholarship would be unthinkable without the achievements and insights of classical and Western Marxist thought. Notions derived from the Marxist tradition — "ideology," "hegemony," "reification," "commodification," "the dialectic," and "imperialism" — are regularly deployed in NCA conference presentations and journals such as Critical Studies in Media Communication and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. They even show up from time to time in textbooks on rhetorical and communication theory. Yet far too often such concepts are used in ways that obscure their Marxist roots and divorce them from any hint of materialism or recognition of class conflict.

June 6, 2005 - 2:33pm -- jim
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Mario Savio and the 60's Free Speech Movement
How the Radical Movement Began

New York CIty, June 9, 2005

The June Anarchist Forum



On Thursday, June 9, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist
Forum will present NYU scholar Robert Cohen speaking on Mario Savio and the
60’s Free Speech Movement. Cohen has edited a book on that remarkable
period in Berkeley, California which sparked the transforming times in the
60s and 70s, when civil rights, anti-war actions, and radical change became
the center of American political life. Cohen’s biography of Mario Savio,
the hero of the Free Speech Movement, will be published soon and reveal
much about Savio that had until now been hidden. After Cohen speaks there
will be an open discussion session, when questions can be answered and
memories shared.


The event will take place at the New SPACE in the Fusion Arts Museum
57 Stanton Street, Manhattan, one block south of the 2nd Ave-Houston St. F
and V subway stop.


There is no set fee for the presentation, but a contribution to aid
the LBC is suggested. If you have questions, contact the LBC /Anarchist
Forum, 212-979-8353 or e-mail: roberterler@erols.com

June 5, 2005 - 5:03am -- jim
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New York Activist Calendar

June 6-12, 2005

The NY Activist Calendar (formerly the CREED NY Calendar) is a

weekly listing of events of interest to NYC-area activists. It is

compiled by volunteer labor and published by the Nicaragua

Solidarity Network of Greater NY. Send listings and corrections

to: NSN, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012, fax 212-674-9139,

email editor@nycalendar.org or nicadlw@earthlink.net (plain text

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June 1, 2005 - 11:50am -- jim
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jerry goralnick wrote:


"Not In My Name" Living Theatre Workshop
New York City, June 18–19, 2005

The Living Theatre has been performing "Not In My Name" in New York City's Times Square on
days when there is an execution in the U.S. for the past ten years. Every
year we have a free workshop to rehearse new actors for the play.

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