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February 7, 2003 - 8:32am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes "The Franklin Furnace announces Activist Art Teacher Training Intensives (March 15-16,
April
12-13, or May 10-11)

Intensive two-day workshops focusing on the following issues: How to
work
with audiences and communities who are starting from very different
places;
various strategies for activist art: working in teams
(non-hierarchical
artist collaboratives) working alone in the studio, working within
grass
roots movements, working with community doing cultural animation;
Action
Research and other hands on projects; various forms of evaluation and
feedback; working within mainstream institutions vs. creating programs
elsewhere; fundraising; and lots of discussion about the urgency of
doing
this work right now.

Slide packages and many other resources will be available.
Registration deadline for March workshop is March 1st
For more details and information about costs, housing, etc. please
contact
Beverly Naidus

February 5, 2003 - 9:13am -- hydrarchist
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The State of the Real



An Interdisciplinary Conference



Glasgow School of Art, UK



21-22 November 2003



Keynote address: Prof. Linda Nochlin, New York University *



"How real can you get?"

The conference organisers propose a debate on the subject of 'the real' in
aesthetic philosophy, criticism and practice.

"When is representation not real?"

Recent years have seen notions of reality discussed in the open. What
relationship do current views developed by this discourse have with those
tenets of realism and representation that once provided the foundation for
aesthetic study? What are the philosophical consequences of the introduction
of technologies that increasingly blur the boundaries between art and
popular culture? What is the effect of aesthetic culture on Realpolitik?
What has happened to the notions of social realism, verisimilitude, and the
imaginary? Are they still relevant, and how have they been changed, if at
all?

"Reclaiming the real."

The organizers are also interested in how notions of reality are affected
by, and continue to affect, aesthetic practice in the fields of art, design,
and media production. With the popularity of haptic technologies, what has
happened to ^real haptics? How do practitioners and academics view older
technologies in the light of their electronic avatars? With the development
of notions of virtual space, what has happened to our understanding of the
body, the mind, and corporeal space?

The organisers particularly welcome proposals on, or dealing with, the
following related subjects:

Reality and realism in Art & Design History; New media technologies
Virtual Reality, CGI photography and cinema, the Internet, haptic
technologies; Modernity and Post-modernity/Modernism and Post-modernism;
Philosophies on ^the real in popular culture; Philosophy and art/design and
cultural practice; Reality television, realism in film.


Proposals for panels (no more than three papers) and workshops are also

welcomed.



Deadline for abstracts: 22 April 2003



Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to:

'The State of the Real',

Dept. of Historical and Critical Studies,

Glasgow School of Art,

167 Renfrew St,

Glasgow,

Scotland, UK.

G3 6RQ.



Abstracts may be sent by email to real@gsa.ac.uk.

January 23, 2003 - 8:43am -- hydrarchist
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Anonymous Comrade writes "Comrades of SIL,

Here is the latest information on the Meeting of Autonomous People's
Organizations:
Circular of the Organizing Committee of the 1st Latin American Meeting of
Autonomous People's Organizations

Comrades

Our meeting is on the horizon we want to share some information about how
the preparations are going. .

January 23, 2003 - 8:31am -- hydrarchist
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Anonymous Comrade writes "[Here is the founding declaration of
United States Labor Against the War,
a new american pacifist syndicalist
organisation. Communicated by the
postal service union people from
NEFAC - North Easy Federation of
Anarcho Communists]

Over 100 unionists from across the country met in Chicago this
weekend to form the organization to promote antiwar sentiment
and organizing throughout the labor movement.
They approved the following statement of unity:

January 22, 2003 - 1:37pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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Events

jim writes "The Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research And Development
(BASTARD) will be holding the 3rd Annual Anarchist Conference on March
30th (the day after the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair).

The theme of this years conference is Anarchist economics. We request
workshop proposals on economics, economic related issues, and general
anarchist theory. The event will be held at New College again this year,
777 Valencia St. in San Francisco, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

BASTARD Website http://sfbay-anarchists.org/

conference email address conference@sfbay-anarchists.org"

January 12, 2003 - 7:49pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes

The nascent Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere, the
Department of English, and the Marxist Reading Group presents:

Born of Desertion: Singularity, Collectivity, Revolution

March 20-22 at the University of Florida, Gainesville

Keynote Speakers: Michael Hardt and Kristin Ross

Where is the Left now? How do we materialize collective
formations, and enact a justice in their name? How do we do this
at a moment when the world market and the right-wing body politic,
prodigiously engineering and rewriting the global imaginary, have
appeared as the frightening answer to certain strains of a
communal impulse so crucial to the Left?

December 26, 2002 - 6:09pm -- jim
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Portland Anti Capitalist Action is organizing a weekends worth of
activities, workshops, films, soccer, food, discussions, solidarity
actions, speakers, and trainings this spring.

Tentative date is: April 25th-27th, 2002. Mark Your Calendars!

December 26, 2002 - 3:20pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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Anonymous Comrade writes "Portland Anti Capitalist Action is organizing a weekend's worth of
activities, workshops, films, soccer, food, discussions, solidarity
actions, speakers, and trainings this spring.

Tentative date is: April 25th-27th MARK YOUR CALENDERS!!

We are looking for groups and collectives who are anti-authoritarian
/anti-capitalist to table the event. This is a regional fair so only
those from the North West should contact us. We want to include
revolutionaries from Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Olympia, Portland
and Eugene (and all places in between!). We hope by brining these
groups together it will facilitate better communication and info
sharing throughout the North West in hopes of thinking of ourselves
in the context of a real movement for social change, rather than
isolated pockets of resistance.

We are also accepting workshop and speaker proposals. Please write a
description of what you would like to do, and provide contact info.

We need local contacts throughout the North West to send posters to
that will insure that they go up throughout their cities and towns!

Housing and Childcare are being worked on, as well as food, and other
logistics.

E-mail us or Write us ASAP with questions, proposals, info for
tabling, etc:

E-MAIL: pdxaca@ziplip.com
WRITE: ACA
3439 NE Sandy Blvd
PO BOX 510
Portland, OR 97232
(please note its relating to the bookfair!)

Also keep in mind:
May First there will be a massive spirited march through downtown in
solidarity with workers and against the capitalist class.
May First will also begin Portland's 2nd Annual Anarchist Film
Festival."

December 25, 2002 - 1:08pm -- hydrarchist
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MutualAid writes

NEWS RELEASE - 31st October 2002

Armed Badgers Storm Oxford Street Starbucks in Central London to Build Illegal Settlement - "If Israel can, we can"

On Thursday 31st October at 3.00pm, 30 badgers armed with waterpistols stormed the Starbucks on Oxford St claiming it as their ancestral home. Using the logic of Israeli settlers1 the badgers evicted some of the customers and erected the first badger settlement in London.

With placards proclaiming "If it works in Palestine why not here" and "It's ours because we say so" the self-styled Badger Defence Force set up checkpoints to inspect shoppers and tourists for concealed weapons. "If they're not a badger, they could be a terrorist" a spokesbadger said. They handed out copies of the badger bible which proves their ownership of Starbucks and a fact sheet which answered Frequently Asked Questions about their activities (see documents attached together with 9 photos).

The badgers have selected the store for their settlement because of the role of its CEO as a major supporter of the Israeli state. The company has become a prime target of an international boycott of companies with ties to Israel.

A spokesbadger said "Since the chief executive of this company clearly believes it is ok for one group of people to grab land belonging to another and say they have a right to it, we believe they won't mind if we take some of theirs".

December 19, 2002 - 9:39pm -- jim
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NCOR 2003 Collective writes:

The 2003 National Conference on Organized Resistance will take place January 24-26 at the Ward Circle Building of American University, Washington, DC.

Now in its sixth year as a space for radical discourse and collective empowerment, this year's NCOR features more workshops, panel discussions and skillshares than ever before, with over sixty confirmed for Saturday and Sunday. For a website-ready blurb on NCOR please scroll to the END of this message.

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