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From Brooklyn To Balata:

First Hand Reports and Thoughts From Palestinian Solidarity Activists
Sean Sullivan, et al


pam
No ISBN, $4.00

This is a work of brilliance, that demands to be read. And discussed. Read again. Then acted upon. Herein you'll find first hand accounts of life in occupied Palestine from four NY Solidarity activists. All of their reports are incisive, well-written, eloquent, and illuminating. There are, fortunately, many such accounts, by Westerners and the Palestinians themselves. What makes this thick pamphlet particularly useful is the second half. There are two responses to the report-backs from New York State prisoners - very much bringing the war, and racism back home to America. And perhaps best of all, a lengthy afterword/essay, discussing the role of (largely) white activists in the Middle East, the structure, tactics and effectiveness of the International Solidarity Movement, why solidarity work (both in Palestine and here, at home) is vital, and how such work might be most effective. Some of the best writing to be found anywhere on the conflict, and what we might be doing about it. Really, really good.

"Life and Death Among the Pirates:

The Real Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean"

Marcus Rediker

A lecture given by Marcus Rediker at Emmanuel College
in Boston on October 9, 2003 and recorded by Roger
Leisner of Radio Free Maine (to order, see below).


Reviewed by Nikos Raptis


Historically the elite of any society have been able
to force upon the ordinary people of that society a
worldview which they (the elite) had constructed. The
elite of western societies are very adept in
constructing such a system of views. This they
accomplish by hammering these views in the heads of
ordinary people since childhood.

Free radios meeting in Naples January 16-18


Assaulting the airwaves

(let's fight for radio and information rights in Italy)

Between 1975 and 1975, thanks to the liberalization of the airwaves, several independent and free radios were born in Italy. Experiences which were born thanks to frequency occupation and which were for the most part acknowledged by the authorities that assigned frequencies. Some of them still exist and play an important role in information in the political debate in the movements, and are structures that guarantee freeedom and pluralism, creative expression and information in Italy. Since that time till the end of the 90's just sporadic and happy experiences, born by movements and students' occupations, followed the same path. Recently, thanks to the diffusion of new technologies, there's the chance to use new ways of communication, avoiding red tapes and legal problems. Not just ways that stay on written pages, but ways that find their own voice: streaming! At the end of the the 90's web radios start to stream. With web broadcasting former radio experiences on airwaves found a bigger diffusion, and at the same time, local groups, which couldn't have any chance to broadcast on the airwaves, had the chance to send their signal. New technologies also made a change creating new networks between new and old experiences.

akinori aka bakuto writes:

An infoshop called Irregular Rhythm Asylum was opened in Shinjuku, Tokyo i
n January 4th, 2004! You will find not only vinyls, CDs, fanzines, books,
T-shirts, and other goodies, but also alternative and independent informat
ion. If you live in Tokyo metropolitan area, please come over and talk to the staff.
After its closing time, small events like film showing, exhibit ions, acoustic music,
and so on will be held in the future. If you have so me nice ideas, please let them know.

Irregular Rhythm Asylum Open 13:00 - Close 21:00

1-30-12-302 Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022, Japan

Tel: 03-3352-6916 (domestic);

+81-3-3352-6916 (from abroad)
http://a.sanpal.co.jp/irregular (under construction now)

For a World of Direct Democracy and Mutual Aid

---

akinori mitachi a.k.a. bakuto morikawa

"be realistic and do the impossible""

Prologue: Several weeks ago, myself and Prothap visited a school that wassupposed to be repaired by Bechtel, which they had not done any work on to speak of. The headmistress fixed me a cup of tea, and after I had finished drinking it, she read the tea leaves in the bottom of the cup. This is what she said they told: You will receive a Big Fish. In Iraq this means a fortune, a benefit, or a gift. But the gift will be shared. You will split it with someone else, someone whose name begins with an A. But you will receive the lion’s share of the benefit. I thanked her and told her I would keep an eye out for any such developments.

"Democracy Now!" Internship Postions

"Democracy Now!" is an award-winning non-commercial daily radio/TV news hour pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S. and broadcasting on over 180 stations; we are one of the fastest growing programs in public broadcasting.


We are looking for 2 interns to work on organizing college students to bring Democracy Now! to their local radio/tv stations. There are over 500 college radio stations in the United States.


Skills needed:

We are looking for energetic, organized, self-motivated, efficient, resourceful people with good interpersonal skills. The ability to organize your own work and work on multiple tasks in a busy environment is necessary, as well as friendly phone manner and good writing skills. You should also be computer literate including knowledge of word, excel and some database software. Political organizing experience preferable. Familiarity with Democracy Now! is important.


We are not offering a salary but college credit can be arranged.


To apply:

Send an email to Julie with subject header OUTREACH INTERN. Please tell us why you would be a good match for this internship. Attaching your resume is optional.

hydrarchist writes this from the cover page of the pamphlet P2P Fightsharing produced by the WSIS We Seize! group in Rome.

Seizing -- You Can't Beat the Feeling!

The WSIS positions itself as an opportunity to develop a common vision of an 'information society' and bundles with it a series of promises; a just world; more transparent government; bridging of digital divides. An examination of the material propositions, trade agreeement (WTO, FTAA) realpolitik, and the positions of market dominance and social misery left untouched, and unmentioned, tell a different story.

As communications networks spread information becomes central to both production and the organization of social institutions. But rather than making life easier, informationalization supplements and intensifies production and labor. Spiralling demand for productivity imposes close-quarters labor surveillance; dockers’ movements tracked as they move palettes around a warehouse; the waitress whose orders are memorized and who must balance her float exactly at the end of the shift; the temporary worker assigned to a new data entry office or call center every couple of days. Benefits of digitalization accrue principally to those who have the capital resources and power to capture them, and the fight over the laws regulating the digital sphere is a struggle over the destination of this wealth between global regions and social classes.

"Babylon Archive"

A found-footage compilation examining the interplay between technology, militarism, and corporate propaganda in American culture.

Produced by UFO (Unknown Frame Observatory, Barcelona)


Screening at ABC No Rio

Thursday, December 18 at 8:00pm

Followed by Craig Baldwin's found-footage masterpiece of underground agitprop:
"Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America"

--$5--Proceeds to benefit the ABC No Rio Computer Center.

ABC No Rio

156 Rivington Street

(between Clinton & Suffolk)

NYC

http://www.abcnorio.org

Anonymous Comrade writes:

" 'Information' Double-Issue of Greenpepper> Magazine:

Launch at Polymedia Lab"

Greenpepper Editorial Collectif

The Greenpepper double-issue on information is a 64-page magazine published in the run-up to the WSIS and beyond.

An anonymous coward writes:

"High Noon"

A Call by Geneva03 Initiative!


1 Towards High Noon
In recent years media activism has evolved globally from local pirate radios, video activist groups and paper zines into complex networks of alliances that use ICT to bridge the physical gap in txt, visual and sonic media, as well as those of distance and feasibility. Some of these networks (like Indymedia) have showed the way for others how to structure the information aggregation and dissemination process.

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