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Events

Making the Movement Matter:

An Anti-Capitalist Conference

July 4 - 6, 2002 at the Ontario Institute for Studies In Education (OISE),
252 Bloor St West, Toronto. Featuring the following public forums and workshops

Thursday July 4, 7 pm

From Empire To Ashes : Fighting Imperialism Speakers: Samer Elatrash, a
Palestinian Liberation Activist Claudio Katz, an activist from Argentina
currently working in the unemployed workers' movements and in the
Neighborhood Assemblies Magaly San Martin, an activist in the Latin
American Coalition Against Racism and Ontario Common Front.

Friday, July 5, 7 pm

Another World Is Possible: From Anti-Globalization to Anti-Capitalism

A strategy session for the anti-globalization movement and a book launch
for David McNally's new book, Another World Is Possible: Globalization and
Anti-Capitalism. This session will also include report backs from the
Kananaskis and Ottawa anti-G-8 actions.

HACKMEETING 2002 Bologna, 21-22-23 June 2002

hackmeeting

Hackmeeting is a meeting of Italian digital communities and
countercultures. Three days of workshops, games, parties, debates,
exchanges of viewpoints and ideas and common learning. Hacking as an
attitude: this is our vision, not just computer knowledge.

We are "hackers" all day long, even when we aren't using a computer, when
we fight to change what we don't like, such as the untrue and forced
information, the exploitation of not affordable but expensive technologies,
as the unavoidableness of acknowledging information without any interaction.

We regard hacking to be an attitude that isn't confined to information
technology. Our way of being hackers is apparent in day-to-day life, even
when we're not using computers. It reveals itself when we fight to change
the things we don't like, such as force-fed misinformation, the use of
expensive technologies that are not available to everyone, and having to
accept information dispensed without any interactivity.

Ecology & Community Program

At The Institute for Social Ecology

June 28 - July 27, 2002

The ISE's Ecology and Community program is intended as an intensive educational experience in the field of social ecology. This interdisciplinary, college-level program explores social ecology, nature philosophy, community development, political theory, social movements and activism, popular education, radical agriculture, capitalism and globalization, racism, feminism, and more. The curriculum is holistic and multifaceted, set in the context of an integrative learning approach that helps students understand the underlying principles and philosophy, as well as connections between various disciplines, that comprise social ecology. Moreover, ISE emphasizes a progressive education model that attempts to empower students through the learning process itself.

Empowerment Project and the Anthology Film Archives present:

Thurs. 6/20 & Fri. 6/21
7pm "Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair"
9:15pm "Panama Deception"

Sat. 6/22 & Sun. 6/23
4:15pm "Panama Deception"
7pm "Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair"
9:15pm "Panama Deception"

at the Anthology Film Archives located at 32 2nd Ave. (cross street 2nd St.)

Oscar-winning director, Barbara Trent, will take Q&A after evening
shows.

THE PANAMA DECEPTION -- a riveting critique of the government’s history of militarization made all the more timely by the current war on terrorism; the untold story of the 1989 US invasion of Panama; Gen. Noriega’s longstanding relationship with the CIA, the DEA and George Bush; the shocking events of the assault and its aftermath; the true motivation for the invasion; how and why the mainstream media collaborated with the US government to censor information and deceive the American public.

COVERUP - the shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives, and top US military personnel who are running foreign policy unaccountable to the public; the Reagan/Bush administration’s plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution; an exploration of the loss of civil liberties, strikingly relevant after 9/11.

BARBARA TRENT - Oscar-winning filmmaker, former welfare mother, seasoned activist, and trailblazer for change. Trent’s counter-message incites an increasingly crucial dialogue as the drumbeat for war on terrorism, drugs, the poor, indigenous movements, civil liberties, and dissent thumps ever louder.

For more information: Empowerment Project
2007 Jo Mac Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
(919) 967-1963
project2@mindspring.com

The Underground Publishing Conference (UPC)

Sharing Our Tools, Refusing the Master's

CONTACT: Jason Kucsma, conference organizer

(419) 494-6850

jason@clamormagazine.org

www.clamormagazine.org/upc

WHAT: The fourth annual Underground Publishing Conference (UPC)

WHERE: Bowling Green, Ohio

WHEN: June 21-23, 2002

WHO: Sponsored by Clamor Magazine, Frictionmagazine.com and a host of
other supporters, the Underground Publishing Conference (UPC) is the
world's largest gathering of producers of independent media: zines,
newspapers, books, web, music, and movies. 1000 people are expected for a
weekend of panels, workshops, discussions, and good times. All sessions
are open to the
public.

THE THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION

June 21-23, 2002

Hosted by the Communication Arts Department

Marymount Manhattan College

221 East 71st Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)

New York, NY 10021

media-ecology



--Would you like to spend a coffee break debating the ideas of
Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne Langer, George
Herbert Mead, or Neil Postman?

--Is the history of technology and the culture of those who use it as
important to you as how it is currently being used?

--Are you interested in exploring orality and literacy; print media,
television, and the Internet; language, culture, and consciousness, or
media ecology education and policy; technology and information
systems?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider joining us for
the Third Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association at
Marymount Manhattan College.

Keynote speaker Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of The Printing Press as
an Agent of Change, will address "Old Media in the New Millennium."

Featured presentations by Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet
Versus the Goddess, and Donald Theall, author of The Virtual Marshall
McLuhan.

Special film screening: McLuhan's Wake, by Kevin McMahon.

The ex-president of Argentina and all-around criminal
Carlos Menem will be speaking at Fordham University Law School in the Bronx on Monday, June 17, 2002. The Argentine
community is frightened by the new anti-immigrant laws
and has made an outreach to the anti-globalization
community for support in a protest against this man.

TAKE THE CAPITAL!

CALENDAR of EVENTS

June 14-28, 2002


===>>>===>>> June 14, 15 & 16, 2002

*** THE G8 -- BREAKING IT DOWN! ***

A community teach-in about local & global struggles & resistance

Free. * Traduction disponible vers le francais. * Childcare available on
request. * Lunch to be served by donation. * Wheelchair accessible.



---> OPENING PANEL: The G8 - Making The Links

June 14, 2002, 7pm

Ottawa Public Library

120 Metcalfe
(corner of Laurier)

With panelists:

* Patrick Bond (activist and writer from Johannesburg, South Africa)

* Aziz Fall (member of the Group for Research and Initiatives for the
Liberation of Africa)

* Pierre George (indigenous rights activist from the Stoney Point nation)

* Nandita Sharma (Open the Borders!)

* Sharon Venne (Cree activist and writer)

---> PANELS, WORKSHOPS & PLENARIES

June 15 & 16, 2002, 10am-5pm

122 L'Amoureux

University of Ottawa

For more information, the full schedule of panel and workshops, speaker
bios, and panel and workshop topics, please see:
takethecapital

===>>>===>>> JUNE 24, 2002

*** BIKESHEVIKS VELORUTIONAIRES ***

The Bikesheviks Velorutionaires will begin their 2.5 day, 200km trek from
Montreal to Ottawa.

---> 9 AM

---> Complex Guy Favreau on RenÈ Levesque Blvd, Montreal

For more information or to participate: research (ask to be put
on the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421

alternatives

*** Evening ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6 PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the the Welcome Center.)

===>>>===>>> JUNE 25, 2002

*** G8 HIGHWAY BLOCKADES ***

Highways Everywhere En Route to Ottawa...

Across Ontario communities are organizing Highway Caravans that will slow
the speed of traffic on the Hwy. 401 to its posted minimum. Caravans of
vehicles from just a couple to a whole fleet will drive together onto the
Hwy 401, move into both or all lanes, and gradually slow down. Help bring
the economy back under our own control. Grab on tight and slow down

Join us on the highways and in Ottawa in June as we take the capital !

The G8 Highway Blockades are an Ontario Common Front action.

Get in touch to organize or co-ordinate a caravan from your area:
In Kingston or for co-ordination info: (613) 531-3428 or
pcu

In Peterborough: asauer

In Guelph: mandy

In Kitchener-Waterloo: k-wtake the capital

*** Evening ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6 PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the Welcome Center.)

===>>>===>>> JUNE 26, 2002

*** SNAKE MARCHES ***

Take the Capital!

Disrupt the political operation of the G8 in its Canadian HQ!

Leave your mark on Ottawa!

---> A Snake March will leave from Dundonald Park (Somerset and Lyon,
across from the Beer Store) at 12 PM SHARP.

---> A second Snake March will leave from Confederation Square (The War
Memorial at Wellington and Elgin) at 1 PM SHARP.

(The starting point of each march is subject to last-minute change. Check for
up-to-date information about the starting point on-line at
takethecapital and at the Welcome Center upon your arrival in
Ottawa on June 25 or 26.)

Both marches will be action-oriented, and will re-decorate the bureaucratic
core of the city with colorful and creative symbols of resistance as they
slide through Ottawa.

For more information: Email: take the capital

*** CHILL ZONE ***

---> Starting at 1PM and continuing throughout the days of protest.
---> Dundonald Park (Somerset and Lyon, across from the Beer Store)

At mid-day on June 26, Dundonald Park will be reclaimed to offer a
public, chill and festive space in which radical anti-capitalist and
anti-imperialist opposition to the G8 can be expressed and articulated in
eight thousand creative and artistic ways over the course of the two days
of protest.

The Chill Zone will also be established as the permanent food-serving site
of a number of notorious food collectives on June 26 & 27.

All protesters are asked to respect the chill and festive nature of the
zone.

---> If you want to perform, distribute materials & propaganda, play
music, organize workshops or contribute to the zone in any other colorful
way, please get in touch with us by emailing at
Email: take the capital or

by phone at 613-788-3310.

*** BIKESHEVIKS VELORUTIONAIRES ***


"Take the Capital" Critical Mass

The Bikesheviks Velorutionaires will arrive in Ottawa.

---> Join them for a Critical Mass starting on the bike path north of
Cummings Bridge on the east side of the Rideau river (where Rideau Street
become Montreal Road).

---> 1 PM

For more info or to participate contact: Email: take the capital (ask to be put on
the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421.

alternatives

*** REVOLUTIONARY KNITTING ACTION ***

Knitting Together a World of Peace and Social Justice
In Solidarity with the Revolutionary Knitting Circle

---> 11:30 AM - 1 PM

---> June 26, 2002

---> In front of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives - 90 Sparks St.

We invite the women in our community to knit or crochet 1 foot squares for
our anti-G8 action, which we will link together to form a gigantic "social
safety net" to symbolize a caring, compassionate and peaceful society.

Called by the Ottawa Committee of the World March of Women.

To get involved, contact: Email: womensmarch / (613) 233-0228

*** MARCH AGAINST THE US EMBASSY ***

Exploitation, War, Aggression, Imperialism, Fight the G-8 Gangsters !

---> 4 PM

---> June 26, 2002

---> Starting from Cobourg and Rideau (MacDonald Park)

InitiÈe par la Coordination anti-impÈrialiste / during the "Take the
Capital" Global Days of Actions

For more information contact Email:aicg

*** EVENING SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the Welcome Center)

===>>>===>>> JUNE 27, 2002

*** NO ONE IS ILLEGAL! ***

A March of 1000 Flags of Resistance

* In Solidarity with Self-Determination Struggles

* Pro-Immigrant & Indigenous Rights

* Against War, Imperialism and Racism

---> 1PM

---> Majors Hill Park

(Across from the American Embassy)

Bring your flags of resistance and other symbols of opposition.

As the G8 retreats to the hills of Kananaskis to intensify the so-called
"War on Terror", we will converge in Ottawa against borders, the
criminalization of immigrants and refugees, racism, genocide and war.

In solidarity with refugee and immigrant communities, indigenous struggles
for self-determination, and all the victims of economic and military
imperialism, we assert that NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!

For more information: Email: take the capital or Website:

no one is illegal

### A statement about the character and tone of the NO ONE IS ILLEGAL
MARCH has been sent out by email and is available at:

Website: take the capital

If you plan to attend this march, please read it. ###

*** A PINK BLOC on JUNE 27 ***


Queers have been fighting for decades for equality but how can we be equal
in a fundamentally unequal system? The answer is we can't.

Come out! Come out!

Triangle Trash, Ottawa's radical queer collective, along with queer
activists from Ontario & Quebec, is organizing a "Pink Bloc". This
fabulous anti-capitalist queer contingent will converge on June 27th at

1:00 pm in Majors Hill Park for the NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ! a March of 1000
Flags of Resistance.

For more info on the "Pink Bloc" or Triangle Trash contact us:

Email: triangle trash or call (819) 771-0925

*** BIKESHEVIKS VELORUTIONAIRES ***

"Thousand Flags of Resistance" Critical Mass

---> 1PM

---> Starting on the bike path north of Cummings Bridge on the east side
of the Rideau river (where Rideau Street become Montreal Road)

For more info or to participate contact: Email: research (ask to be put on
the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421.

Website: alternatives

*** EVENING SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6 PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the Welcome Center.)


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If you wish to add an autonomously organized action or event to the Take
the Capital! calendar, please send the announcement to

Email: take the capital
The calendar will be updated and sent out weekly.


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TAKE THE CAPITAL!

Ottawa Actions Against the G8

June 26-27, 2002

Website: take the capital

Email: take the capital

613-788-3310 (messages only)

on parle francais.

se habla espanol.

NEW YORK CITY DIRECT ACTION NETWORK /

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE G8 IN NEW YORK!

Wednesday, June 26, 5 p.m., at the International Monetary Fund offices, E45th Street and Second Avenue

Solidarity with activists gathering around the world in opposition to the summit of the world's chief terrorists!

On June 26 and 27, the Group of 8 -- the so-called leaders of the industrialized world -- will gather under massive security in the secluded Canadian ski resort of Kananaskis for their annual meeting.

They can run, but they can't hide.

Steve Bloom wrote:

June 11, 2002

At an informal dinner gathering last week activists
from more than a dozen
organizations in the NYC area began kicking around
the idea of what
peace/anti-war forces should do in this city to mark
the first anniversary
of September 11. It became clear to us that this was
the kind of question
where a broad consultation with many groups and
constituencies was
essential, and we decided to work toward a meeting
which could initiate such
a process. The date of Thursday, June 20, seemed
like a good one, with no
conflicts that we were aware of.

Consulting with others in the week since we discover
that many have, indeed,
been thinking about what needs to be done in NYC in
September, and it does
seem likely that a reasonably broad consultative
meeting could take place on
June 20. However, we also discovered one potential
scheduling conflict. The
"Not In Our Name" organization (NION), which has
been circulating a "pledge
of resistance" also has a meeting scheduled for that
night, part of a
regular series of Thursday evening meetings.

We have initiated a discussion about how to deal
with this scheduling
difficulty with the people organizing the NION
meeting. However, even if we
end up with two meetings on the same evening we
think it is important not to
wait, to at least begin the broader consultation
process we envision. We
know that June 20 is a reasonable date for many, and
whatever date we pick
in NYC there will be scheduling difficulties for
someone. It will simply be
necessary for both meetings to proceed with full
awareness that another
process is also going on, and that coordination and
further consultation
will be necessary if we are going to achieve the
broad consensus and
collective action we need. So we are asking that
folks plan to attend on
June 20, at 6:30 pm (place to be announced).

Although this process is open to all, the concept is
not necessarily to
build June 20 as a mass meeting, attended by all
activists, but rather to
conceive it as a representative gathering, involving
a range of
constituences and organizations, to begin a process
of discussion and
consultation which we hope will lead to a concensus
about what to do on or
around September 11. The sooner we come together to
begin planning this
event, the broader/more inclusive it can be and the
more time we will have
to organize it and publicize it.

Your input is essential if we are going to help
define our common interests
and plan an action which reflects that interest.
Please plan for someone
from your organization/constituency to be there. And
urge others to do the
same.

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