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November 10, 2004 - 2:28pm -- jim
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Visible Evidence X11

Montreal, Aug. 22-25, 2005

Visible Evidence XII will be held at Concordia University, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, August 22 to 25, 2005.

Visible Evidence is a peripatetic international and interdisciplinary
conference on the role of film, video and other media as witness and voice
of social reality, which encompasses a wide range of cultural, political,
social, historical, ethnographic and pedagogical questions and perspectives
from fields such as film studies, communication studies, anthropology,
architecture, art history, ethnic studies, queer studies, history,
journalism, law, medicine, political science, sociology, urban studies and
women's studies.


First held at Duke University in 1993, subsequent editions
have been held at the University of Southern California, Harvard,
Northwestern, San Francisco State, University of Wales (Cardiff), with most
recent editions taking place in Utrecht (2000), Brisbane (2001), Marseilles
(2002), and Bristol (December 2003). Returning to the Americas in 2005, the
2006 version is planned for Brazil.

November 9, 2004 - 9:11am -- jim
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New Delhi's Raqs Media Collective

New York City, Nov. 7, 2004

Wednesday November 10th, 7:00pm

Multipurpose Room in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

Pace University, 3 Spruce Street, between Park Row and Gold Street
(entrance closer to Gold).

Please join us for a panel discussion with India’s Raqs Media Collective,
moderated by Singapore art theorist Gunalan Nadarajan.

The Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata
Sengupta) is a group of media practitioners that works in new media &
digital art practice, documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory &
research, writing, criticism and curation. The collective has been working
together since 1991. Their work explores the power of the unregulated
communications of city life: the experience of movie theater audiences in
Delhi, the illegal posters on the sides of constructions sites, the
traffic on websites and chatrooms, or the illegal bootlegging of the
latest Hollywood DVD's. Based in New Delhi, India, Raqs is one of the
initiators of Sarai: The New Media Initiative, (www.sarai.net) a program
of interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban
culture at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

November 9, 2004 - 7:35am -- jim
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"Only A Beginning: An
Anarchist Anthology"

Edited by Allan Antliff

Launch Party

Wednesday, November 10th @ 7pm — Free

@ Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (b/t Stanton &
Rivington), LES

"Only a Beginning" is the first comprehensive overview
of anarchist theory and practice in North America from
1976 to the present. Edited by Allan Antliff, it
documents over a quarter-century of grassroots
activism, including protests and gatherings, art
exhibitions, street theatre, Internet sites, and
squats, as well as environmental and
anti-globalization protests, the rise of
anarcho-feminism, the fight for queer rights,
indigenous struggles, and prisoners' liberation.

November 8, 2004 - 12:09pm -- nolympics
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nolympics writes:


Paco Ignacio Taibo in New York City

November 11–14, 2004


Spanish/Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo has two dates in NYC this week to promote the new edition of his memoir of the massacre in Thatelolco before the opening of the 1968 olympics in Mexico City. Donald Nicholson Smith, the translator of the book from 7 Stories, wrote about the story here last month.

Tonight, Monday November 11th at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue at 34th St. Skylight Rm. 9th Fl. 6pm.

Thursday 14th November. 7pm. 141 5th Ave Brooklyn. (Park Slope) at the 5th Ave Committee.
Q train to 7th Ave or the 2 or 3 train to bergen.

November 8, 2004 - 10:46am -- jim
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"Resisting the Clash"

Marhaba Europe Tour


Fear is quickly becoming again the main foundation for power in the
post-sept 11 world. For a long time, thanks to the living memory of
colonialism and World War II, those in power had to pay lip service
to the values that stood at the core of liberation struggles in all
continents, such as equality, freedom, justice, anti-racism, a fair
distribution of wealth, democracy of some form or another, etc. But
people are now bombarded all over the world on a daily basis with
messages designed to provoke a shift in their priorities. Human
rights and emancipatory social values, which for 50 years were held
as the goal by most of the world's population, are losing ground at
increasing speed as mainstream media and so-called 'experts'
and 'academics' continue promoting the security paranoia, the idea
that we need a strong state that is able to keep suspicious strangers
under control, and the racist notion that we are at the beginning of
a long-lasting conflict between 'cultures' or 'civilisations'.

November 8, 2004 - 10:09am -- jim
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Call for a Second European Day of Action and Mobilisation

April 2, 2005

Last year a European day of action, on January 31st, against
detention centres and for the legalisation of undocumented migrants was
launched during ESF in Paris. On the 31st of January 2004 demonstrations and
actions were held in more than fourty cities in Europe; it was an important day
in the development of a networking process amongst migrant struggles and
activists on a European level.


We propose a second day of action and demonstrations on April 2nd, 2005,
claiming freedom of movement and the right to stay as an alternative to the
european constitutional process based on exclusion and exploitation.

November 6, 2004 - 12:26pm -- jim
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National Conference on Organized Resistance

Washington, DC, February 3-6, 2005

Call for Proposals

 

The National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) has happened each January in Washington, DC at American University for the last 7 years. It has served as a vibrant meeting space for radical activists of all varieties. There have also been countless amazing workshops, discussions, skillshares and more. Each year NCOR has gotten a little bigger and hopefully a little better. But it has also gotten a little, dare we say it, predictable? You know which friends you'll see, your favorite old standard workshops from years past-familiar faces and themes. This year we want to shake things up.

November 5, 2004 - 11:38am -- jim
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"Gourmet Cruelty" Lecture

New York City, Nov. 8. 2004


Come out and hear Ryan Shapiro of Gourmet Cruelty speak about the campaign against the foie gras industry.

Kimmel Center, NYU

60 Washington Square South, between Thompson and LaGuardia), Room 901
7:30-9:30 PM

further questions: seal.club@nyu.edu

*non-NYU students, please bring ID

**There will be refreshments served**

Additional Details:

GourmetCruelty.com is a coalition dedicated to exposing the cruelty of the foie gras industry. Just two companies are
responsible for the barbaric practice of foie gras production in the United States — Hudson Valley Foie Gras in New York and Sonoma Foie Gras in California.


Over the course of many months, the coalition conducted a nationwide investigation into the domestic foie gras industry.
GourmetCruelty.com uncovered filthy, crowded conditions and documented an industry standard of disregard for the pain and
suffering inherent to foie gras production.


Investigators took undercover footage of the immensely traumatic forced-feeding process, and rescued 15 of these long-suffering
ducks.

November 4, 2004 - 7:13am -- jim
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"Material Culture" Symposium

Winterthur, Delaware, Aprill 23, 2005


The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware
is pleased to announce the Third Annual Material Culture Symposium for
Emerging Scholars (MCSES) to be held Saturday, April 23, 2005 at the
Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Winterthur, Delaware.


Purpose of the Forum: This symposium provides emerging scholars with a venue
for interdisciplinary dialogue centering on material culture. By freeing
scholars of chronological and topical restraints, the symposium encourages
discussion across perceived boundaries of time, space and discipline.

November 3, 2004 - 1:26pm -- jim
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"After the Fall of America"

Middlebury, Vermont, Nov. 5-7, 2004

In September 2001 the Fourth World organization, based in Wessex, England, sponsored an international conference in Swindon, England, called Radical Consultation I. I am writing to invite you to Radical Consultation II which will be held at the Middlebury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont, on November 5-7, 2004.

RADCON II will be cosponsored with The Second Vermont Republic. The theme of this year's consultation, which will feature a series of lively roundtable discusssions, is AFTER THE FALL OF AMERICA, THEN WHAT?

The underlying premise of RADCON II is that the United States has become ungovernable and unsustainable. If that is indeed the case, then do we go down with the Titanic or seek other alternatives? Among the options to be discussed at Woodstock are denial, compliance, and political reform, proven to be deadends; revolution, rebellion, and implosion, equally problematic; and decentralization, devolution, and peaceful dissolution..

The Second Vermont Republic is a peaceful, democratic, grassroots, solidarity movement committed to the return of Vermont to its rightful status as an independent republic. The Fourth World, which publishes The Fourth World Review, a periodical inspired by Leopold Kohr and Fritz Schumacher, is committed to small nations, small communities, small farms, small shops, the human scale, and the inalienable sovereignty of the human spirit.

Among the speakers and participants at RADCON II will be Human Scale author Kirkpatrick Sale, Emory University Philosophy Professor Donald Livingston, management consultant and author Robert Allio, and former Duke University Economics Professor Thomas H. Naylor.


The conference begins with dinner on November 5 and runs until noon on November 7. We are asking a fee of $85-125 for the dinner and expenses, though you will be responsible for the lodging itself. We hope it will be possible for you to join us for this ground-breaking event.


Schedule is below:

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