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August 25, 2005 - 12:06pm -- stevphen
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South East Asian Anarchist Contingent (Gathering in Malaysia)

We'll be having an Inter-Border event next month in September (late Sept. to be exact till October onwards..) We're inviting Asian countries to participate on this event, we specifically wanna get more wimmin involved too and of course the
gathering will be inclusive to anyone who wanna help us establish this Network in Asia, we certainly need assistance to facilitate and make workshops as this happens to be our first initiative to meet up collectives and individuals across and beyon Asia. Attached on this email is the explanation bout the event and the invitation letter. Some parts of the letter you will notice has specifically pointed out south east asian countries b'coz they're the first ones to discuss and contact each other for this event.

We look forward to our friends participation on this gathering, since the highlight of this event is to come up with concrete actions
against the WTO in HongKong by december and to establish a network to strengthen solidarity amongst Asian countries. Looking forward to
hear form you. Stay in touch. We look forward to hear from everyone.

August 25, 2005 - 11:05am -- hydrarchist
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Childish Acts writes

Childish Acts of Rebellion Foundation

Ladies, Gentlemen, and children alike….

We find ourselves awakening at the dawn of globalisation imperialism…. An age where the “clinically obese” people of the world are spoilt with a variety of “New Improved flavours” and “100% Beef”… A reality in which the fashionable dominate the headlines and a world that is rife with the smell of death on our local high streets.
The sad truths of the world today sound to most like a fiction… tales of corporate rule, and the rich man deceiving the working classes, and many a time have I been told that my ideas, though smart, and vivid, are purely fictitious… constantly I am told that it is impossible to live our lives in a different way, “we NEED them, who else would is going to supply me with an easy way to get the food and clothing I need? And where am I going to find top quality snacks for good prices?” are the questions I am constantly faced with.

August 20, 2005 - 6:50pm -- jim
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darkveggy writes:

"From Free Software to Street Activism & Vice Versa"

DarkVeggy

Contemporary societies have now endorsed computer technology, to the
point of turning its use into an attractive social duty. But while some
computers power market-economy, other machines remain busy with myriads
of software alternatives, counter-initiatives & community offensives.
What follows is a quick walk-through some of the cracks in the official
computer picture; a surface exploration of the convergence between
digital alternatives and political subversives.

.:. FREE SOFTWARE: THE BIRTH OF A COMPUTED RESISTANCE.:.

> Analog recipes and digital bakery

Computers do not speak anything but binary language; that is, a
succession of 0 and 1. Since hardly any human can communicate in such a
way, intermediary languages have been developed for programmers to use
when creating programs. This human-readable combination of words,
punctuation and mathematical expressions is called "source code".

Software and cakes have a lot in common. Both involve a list of
instructions to follow, ingredients to mix, and a transformation process
to go through. Cooking is about producing and following a recipe, just
as programming is about generating and typing a source code. Just like
cakes, programs have to be baked too. The process of turning source code
into binary form that computers can eat is called "compiling".

Just as cakes can be cooked for you, computer programs often come
pre-compiled & ready to run. Fine. But what if the cake was so good you
want to bake your own? What if the program was so impressive you want to
understand how it works? What it you want to share the cake's recipe
with friends? What if the program lacked an important feature you need
and feel like adding? You need the recipe; you need the source-code!

August 20, 2005 - 5:24pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
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Red & Anarchist Action Network (Nachie ) writes:

"Bolivanarchism:
The Venezuela Question in Our Movement"

Nachie, Red & Anarchist Action Network (RAAN)[1]

"...We are trying to contribute a different vision from what the media is giving (even those that call themselves "alternative"). We are neither for Chavez, nor for Fedecamaras or CTV or Coordinadora Democratica... We are for fomenting autonomy and self-management.” — Rafa of the CRA (Commission of Anarchist Relationships) of Venezuela

In the past several months we have noticed a growing curiosity over developments in the South American country of Venezuela. Everywhere in our day-to-day projects, people are talking and asking about the populist government of Hugo Chavez and his self-proclaimed “Bolivarian Revolution”[2].


This is unsurprising due to the accelerating pace of events in the country and the an increasing amount of negative press about Chavez in the international media. Through observing and participating in these informal discussions, however, we became particularly concerned in noticing no corresponding increase in anarchist knowledge of the situation.

Although as historians we’ve dipped our toes into the issue before, for the most part there has been an outright reluctance to engage ourselves in it, this despite the fact that insomuch as Chavez’ reforms represent a national movement and policy, they concern the future of millions of people across the entire region. In view of this and with the goal of expanding the nascent dialogue within our wider movement, we have prepared the following statement on behalf of RAAN.

August 18, 2005 - 1:38pm -- Rob Eshelman
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Everything for Everyone, and For Free, Too!
A Conversation with Berlin Umsonst

Initiated in the Spring of 2003, Berlin Umsonst (Berlin For Free) began as a campaign to develop a “culture of everyday resistance” to the official discourse of scarcity, cutbacks and structural adjustment in the city of Berlin. It evolved into an open campaign label or action form that has spread to other German cities, including Hamburg, Cologne and Dresden. The Umsonst slogan (“Alles für alle, und zwar umsonst!”) is now heard from the anti-capitalist bloc at all the big Berlin demos. This conversation with three members of Berlin Umsonst was recorded in late July 2005. At their request, they are identified here by pseudonyms.

August 15, 2005 - 11:28pm -- jim
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nolympics writes:

"August 27, 2005 Benefit for ABC No Rio"

Friends! Allies! Ex-Lovers! Future Conspirators! Join us for this night of rebel sounds and misbehavin'...

A Benefit for ABC No Rio
Saturday, August 27, 2005, 8 p.m.

FEATURING:
Hiretsukan
(lyrically incendiary, raging, dissonant, melodic hardcore!)

The Stockyard Stoics
(energetic, good-humored, politically aware, 85% chance of pogo!!)

God is My Co-Pilot
(infamous free-jazz punkers!!!)

World Inferno Friendship Society
(NYC's vaudevillian, circus-related, red wine-infused, punk orchestra!!!!)

Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street at Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
lucky $13 in advance, $15 day of show, 16+

Tickets/Directions/Info:
212 533-2111, www.boweryballroom.com

**

IN SUPPORT OF A CULTURE OF OPPOSITION

For twenty-five years ABC No Rio has been host to exhibitions, performance art, poetry readings, film and video screenings, punk shows, open mics, experimental music performances and free drawing, photography and filmmaking classes for neighborhood kids. We've developed new facilities - a darkroom, printshop and computer center - increasing our ability to serve artists, activists and the community at large. Our Zine Library is one of the largest collections of its type. We provide a home to Food Not Bombs and to Books Through Bars. Thousands of artists, performers, poets and musicians have found a supportive home for their expression and experimentation at ABC No Rio.

ABC No Rio has meant many things to many people. But our commitment to political and social engagement has remained consistent. We need your help to continue this tradition. Proceeds from this benefit will go towards ABC No Rio's Building Renovation Fund.

For the latest on our situation as well as up-coming events, check out:
www.abcnorio.org"

August 12, 2005 - 1:25pm -- jim
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Call for Support for Haitian Father Jean-Juste

Here's an action you can take for Father Jean-Juste, prominent Haitian priest,
popular among the poor, and a possible presidential candidate that the interim
regime in Haiti is attempting to silence. See an excellent Village Voice
article below that describes his arrest, his ongoing detention, and the
possible reasons why the Haitian regime is doing this.

August 3, 2005 - 1:29pm -- stevphen
Events
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Virgina Anarchist Gathering October 20-23

Harrisonburg, VA

October, 20-23, Harrisonburg will host the first ever Virginia Anarchist Gathering. From Thursday to Sunday we'll have workshops, passion groups, skillshares, community activities, and a show or two. A website is under construction, check it out at here.

We're hoping to get workshop proposals by September. Please send a description of the workshop, the amount of time and other resources you'll need, scheduling needs or requests, a brief bio and any experiences you've had with the topic or giving this workshop to vagathering@yahoo.com We especially encourage people of color to offer workshops, and we'll give you priority in the scheduling.

We're specifically looking for someone to give an anti-racism training and someone to give, or collaborate on, a security culture workshop, but we also want a lot of other ideas so send us anything you have!

The Rising Up Collective

Harrisonburg, VA

July 26, 2005 - 10:13am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
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Horizontalidad in Argentina

by Marina Sitrin

"Horizontalism" is one of the ways in which so many here describe part of what they are doing and how they are doing it. Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship -- a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked,that range from hundreds of occupied and producing factories using forms of direct democracy and collective decision making, to dozens of neighborhood asambleas (assemblies), to dozens of piquetero groups, many of whom are organized into a network of the Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD), and hundreds of autonomous neighborhood kitchens and centers of popular education.

The following is a small selection of interviews with protagonists in the autonomous social movements in Argentina, the second in a series that will continue to appear here in the coming months. These are among the many voices that I have the privilege to be compiling into an oral history to be published bilingually in the near future.

July 22, 2005 - 4:33pm -- Rob Eshelman
News
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Yemen appeals for calm after price riots kill 13
By Mohammed Sudam

SANAA, July 20 (Reuters) - Yemen's prime minister called for calm on Wednesday after 13 people were killed in clashes between police and rioters protesting a sharp rise in fuel prices.

"I ask the people to calm down, we are improving your conditions. We must differentiate between freedom of expression and freedom of destruction, which is completely rejected," Prime Minister Abdul-Qader Bagammal said in a television address.

"We are not accusing anyone but we call those infiltrating the masses to stop harming society. They are the true saboteurs and we will confront them," he said without elaborating.

It was the government's first response to riots sparked by a state decision to cut fuel subsidies that nearly doubled prices.

An Interior Ministry official said an unspecified number of protestors were arrested, Saba news agency said.

Yemen, which announced the cuts on Tuesday, said they were in line with high global oil prices and were part of reforms launched in 1995 and backed by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, to help prevent an economic collapse.

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