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September 2, 2002 - 2:02pm -- nomadlab
Announcements
Independent Media

Griffin writes "The latest issue (#3) of Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism is now available.


As always, you can download it from the zab.net site or go directly to http://www.zabalaza.net/zabmag.htm#zab3

Find out more about Southern African Anarchism at:
http://www.zabalaza.net


Download free Anarchist reading material from:
http://www.zabalaza.net/zababooks/downloads.htm"

September 1, 2002 - 3:17pm -- nomadlab
Announcements
Independent Media

The Luminary News writes " We are producing a one hour, once a week cable access show in Ithaca NY that focuses on stories both global and local that are ignored or given short shrft by the corporate media.
We have a plan to expand to five nights a week.
By setting our selves up as a non profit enterprise, getting endorsemnts for this idea and showing something technically worth watching, we hope to attract funding for this project.
Do other people have experience doing an alternative news show like this? Any feedback would be helpful. It seems that shows like Democracy Now should be produced on a local level. There is no shortage of newsworthy material to cover.
Please contact Kenny Ritter at theluminarynews@yahoo.com "

August 18, 2002 - 2:26pm -- nomadlab
Announcements
Culture

Kisinis writes "Kisinis Web Art present creations to squats' artists in Paris



Kisinis Web Art, the site of art and artists, announces a rubric dedicated to artists' squats.



In collaboration with squatter's artists from three squats in Paris, "La Maison de la Plage" (The Beach's House), "Chez Robert, Electrons Libres" (At Robert, Free Electrons) and "Hors Champs" (Out of Bounds), KWA offers a virtual visit to see their works in the quarters they are occupying.



Numerous photos allow visitors to discover the creativity of artists outside gallery walls. These reports reveal the diverse creativity that bubbles among artist outside all institutions and galleries, in unoccupied, abandoned spaces.


You might also find information provided by artists' associations, musicians, painters and sculptors, actors, jugglers, video artists, photographers about the numerous artistic activities they offer to the public, as well as a mailing list diffusion dedicated.


Come visit these artists' squats and learn about what squatter artists are doing.


"La Maison de la Plage", no profit organisation for the creative and temporary occupation of uncultivated urban places, is at first a place of life and creation opened to the artists. She would like to arouse of the social link through the space and its actions of creation where each is invited to be more an actor than a spectator.


Also a reportage to the eviction of the squat of the street of Pyrenees, in Paris, with the troops assaults the building occupied by the squatters and oust the rebellious out the roof.


http://www.kisinis.ch/squats/



Michel Kisinis

http://www.kisinis.ch/

kisinis@kisinis.ch"

August 18, 2002 - 7:38am -- jim
Announcements
Events

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

August 14, 2002 - 9:23am -- jim
Announcements
Events

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.

August 12, 2002 - 7:26pm -- Stenglander
Announcements
In the Streets

Bilal Elamine writes:

To all my Arab sisters and brothers. On August 24th, the National
Alliance (NA) is planning "Rock Against Israel" demonstration in
Washington DC. This is a white supremacist group that is claiming to
stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people against the Jews and
the American government. They plan to rally at the Capitol Building
from 11am to 1pm and then meet for dinner and a white power concert
in the evening.

The NA is calling for what they claim will be "the largest gathering
of white nationalists at the US capitol in history". On august 24th
they will probably have the largest gathering of white supremacists
since the mass Ku Klux Klan marches of the 20s. Over the past year
the NA has held 3 rallies at the Israeli embassy and two at the
German embassy. Their last rally at the Israeli embassy had little
organized opposition. We have to stop this racist scum from
polluting the Palestinian cause.

This is a call to all Arabs and especially Palestinians to come out
on August 24th to stop the Nazis from hijacking our cause in order to
use it to justify ethnic cleansing. We have a special responsibility
to say that we have nothing in common with these Nazis. There can be
nothing more effective, to stop this devious strategic maneuver, than
letting them hear it from the horse's mouth: "We are Arabs, we are
Palestinians, and our struggle for liberation is diametrically opposed
to your program of ethnic cleansing. We stand against Zionism but we
stand against anti-Semitism. We make the distinction between the
political movement to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians and the
religion of Judaism. We know that if your rhetoric ever gains
legitimacy we'll be the first on the chopping block."

The East Coast Anti-Fascist Network will be organizing in several
different contingents with various risk levels and levels of
political and tactical unity so a risk-free space will be open for
immigrants. This is call to form an Arab contingent at the anti-nazi
demonstration. This contingent would have a unified message to the
public against the racists. This contingent will be gathered behind
a banner and around chants that express this message and will pass
out fliers to the public and the press. If we don't do this, our
nazi enemies will claim our noble cause and our Zionist enemies will
try to present them as our face.

UP WITH THE INTIFADA! DOWN WITH THE FACISTS!

To help mobilize and organize in NYC, come to this planning meeting:

What: Teach-in and planning meeting to organize NYC antifascist
activists against the National Alliance neo-nazi rally in Washington,
DC on Saturday, August 24th.

When: Monday, August 19th, 7 - 9 PM

Where: 6th Street Community Center, 638 East 6th Street,
212-677-1863, 2nd Floor Lounge

For more info on the planning meeting: opencity45@hotmail.com

For more info on the Arab Block in NYC: zaloom@yahoo.com

August 12, 2002 - 10:47am -- jim
Announcements
Events

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!

August 10, 2002 - 12:47pm -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Events

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.

August 7, 2002 - 9:43am -- jim
Announcements
Culture

Arkline Political Art writes :

Arkline Art features the American Dream Renew Art series including The Clinton Years -- The American Dream Reversed, The American Dream is Burning and The American Worker Locked out of the American Dream. A top newspaper did a story on this art titled Power to the People Art -- see http://www.tapsnewstory.filetap.com The artist and advocate for human dignity in the workday and fair trade mixes thought provoking social economic messages in his art.

August 4, 2002 - 6:21pm -- jim
Announcements
Independent Media

We are putting together a handbook on collective
process, focusing on many of the often unrecognized
abuses that occur and exposing common negative group
dynamics. We hope this project will help collectives
to achieve genuine egalitarian goals.

Currently, we have posted preliminary drafts for Part
One, "Is This What Consensus Looks Like?" We invite
all of you to read these drafts on the Web site as
they develop and send your feedback to:
collectivebook@yahoo.com. We seek further
contributions, including both constructive advice and
personal experiences.

collectivebook.

The Common Wheel Collective

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