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9/11 Muckraking Journalist Michael Ruppert

to speak in
New York City

Saturday, Sept. 7th, 6:30 pm

New School for Social Research's Tishman Auditorium

66 West 12th Street between 5th & 6th Ave., Manhattan.

Ticket prices: $15 or $10 with validated student ID

and in New Jersey on

Sunday, Sept. 8th , 2 pm - 7 pm

Shea Center for the Performing Arts (capacity 900)

William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ (30 minutes from Manhattan).

Directions are available at ww2.wpunj.edu/aboutus/directions.cfm.

Ticket prices: $10 or $7 with validated student ID

For more event information contact:

1-877-867-5901

FTW@ureach.com

Mike Jay writes

The Institute of Ideas and the British Library present:

Trading Thoughts

The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

Date: 14 September, 2002 Time: 1.30pm - 5.00pm

Tickets: £15.00 (concessions including IoI Associates, £12.00) - includes
afternoon tea or coffee

Booking: Telephone 020 7412 7332 or email
boxoffice@bl.uk

An afternoon conference on the legacy and future of global trade. With the
Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development drawing to a close
Trading Thoughts, on Saturday 14th September, will be an opportunity to
examine and debate changing attitudes towards development.

Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (FRAC)

Founding Conference September 7- 8th

Lansing, MI

We are a federation made up of member collectives. If there are other
people or collectives interested in attending this conference please drop
us
a line. We apologize for the last minute nature of this announcement but
the location and date of the conference was up in the air due to the
activities in DC last weekend. For a copy of all FRAC documents or to
join
our supporter email listserv please email us or send a letter to:

Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (FRAC)

FRAC

PO BOX 4502

East Lansing, MI 48826-4502

nightvision@ziplip.com

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2) Introducing the Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives
(Great
Lakes Region)

The Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (FRAC) is a
revolutionary anarchist federation in the Great Lakes and Midwest region
of
North America. The FRAC was officially founded in June of 2002 through
an
over year long effort by numerous anarchists and anarchist collectives in
the region who wanted to take the theory and practice of anarchism to a
new
level for the 21st century. Inspired by increasing levels of resistance
to
oppression and domination around the world, the FRAC came together in the
spirit of forging a new path for revolutionary anarchists through
blending
fresh theory, practice, and organization. Amidst the smoke and haze of
the
US‚s „War on Terrorism,‰ increasing police brutality and murder, failing
schools and hospitals, and more we know that another world is possible.
Our
goal is to build an organization based on revolutionary anarchist
politics
that can help spark the flame of collective rebellion that will one day
lead
to a world worth living in for everyone.

Burden, Benefit, Trace?

The Legacies of Benevolence

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

11-14 December 2003

Long before Rudyard Kipling urged his readers to take up the white man's
burden, benevolence was integral to cultural domination, whether through
the formal structures of empire, or through associated charitable activities
such as the provision of medical aid, education, or missions. As the rise of
the middle classes and the emphasis on Puritan conscience increasingly
replaced the notion of aristocratic patronage and noblesse oblige,
benevolence functioned as an umbrella term under which imperial and
neo-imperial domination, particularly cultural domination, were rationalised
and promoted within government and among the subjects of empire. For the
British, the burden of benevolence and the work of civilising were seen
as differentiating their own from other European imperial enterprises. To a
certain extent, a similar self-perception is evident now in the policies and
practices of the contemporary worlds dominant imperial power, the United
States. This conference will consider benevolence, and representations of
benevolence, in a wide variety of forms. Papers on the following topics will
be welcomed:

-> Anthropology and academic study

-> Culture

-> Ecology and Environment

-> Education and training

-> Governance and administration

-> History

-> Literary representation

-> Medicine and welfare

-> Migration and resettlement

-> Military and police activity

-> Religion and missionary activity

-> Trade and commerce

For updates and further information, see the conference website:
benevolence

Abstracts should be sent electronically by 30 April 2003 to

Gilbert

Dale

Virtual Sit-In Against the OAS and the Mexican Government
Slated for Åugust 14, 2002

The Electronic Disturbance Theater will launch a FloodNet action
or virtual sit-in against the Government of the Organization of American
States and the government of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico on
August 14 in solidarity with the families of the disappeared and
murdered young women of Juarez.

For more on the Electronic Disturbance Theatre, visit
ecd.

This virtual action will coincide with the arrival to the US of the mothers
of two women who are among the 800 victims of ongoing violence in Juarez,
Mexico. The mothers will lead a march to the Organization of American
States on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at noon.

Franco Barchiesi writes:

"Unmask the W$$D in Johannesburg and around the world!

(A Call To Action from the Social Movements Indaba in
South Africa -- please forward wide and far)

On the 31st of August, tens of thousands of South Africans will swarm the World $ummit on $ustainable Development (W$$D) in Johannesburg. We call on all people concerned about our planet and its people to join us in saying "Enough!" -- enough empty promises and lies, enough neoliberal destruction of the commons, enough impoverishment of people for profit!

Anonymous Comrade writes :"URBAN DRIFT 2002

9th-13th October, Cafe Moskau, Karl-Marx Allee 34, Berlin Mitte, and
workspaces throughout Berlin

FROM FORMALISM TO FLUX

TRANSFORMATIONAL URBANISM AND NEW URBAN STRATEGIES


At last year's urban drift symposium, the architect Cedric Price defined the
term urban drift as one which implied both movement and generosity.
This year from the 9th to the 13th October 2002, urban drift will be able to
do greater justice to its name and will manifest itself as a broad-based
platform made up of a two-day conference, a night space -- a forum for
transformational urbanism -- drawing together artists, architects,
filmmakers, writers, sound artists and DJs in a mutual exchange != and open
workspaces throughout the city.

Manifesto of the Crossover Summer Camp Project

What we want:
Our starting point is the conviction that all the different relations of
power and domination are inseparably bound up with one another, permeating
and often stabilizing each other. We want to develop a practice that
reflects this.

Our aim is to contribute to the construction of a new constellation of
political tendencies.

August 23 marks the 75th anniversary of the judicial
murders of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two
Italian-born anarchists, by the State of Massachusetts.
On August 23 this year, we will hold a mass rally and
memorial in Union Square, New York City, to commemorate
their executions and renew our commitment to the ideals
Sacco and Vanzetti fought for -- a society without the
state, without the church, without capitalism -- a
classless society where everyone can live free.

Under the Influence:

Celebrating the Legacy of Black Mountain College

September 19-22, 2002, in Asheville, Black Mountain and Cullowhee, NC

Website: www.blackmountaincollege.org/festival

A collaborative festival on the 50th anniversary of John Cage's multi-media
"Theatre Piece No. 1".

In the summer of 1952 amid the creative ferment of Black Mountain College in
North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, John Cage created an unscripted
presentation incorporating music, dance, spoken word, visual art and
projections. Later titled "Theatre Piece No. 1", the event achieved renown
as the very first multi-media "Happening". On the 50th anniversary of this
historic event, the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center and its
collaborators are presenting Under the Influence: Celebrating the Legacy of
Black Mountain College.

Revolutionizing the American arts and sciences in the first half of
twentieth century, the influence of Black Mountain College faculty and alums
such as Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster
Fuller, Walter Gropius, M.C. Richards, Alfred Kazin, Willem and Elaine de
Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert
Rauschenberg, Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Creeley, Jonathan Williams, and many
others continues to be felt to this day.

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