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May 23, 2007 - 1:14pm -- autonomedia
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dr.woooo writes:

Summit: Non-Aligned Initiatives in Education Culture

Berlin, May 24-28, 2007

Two weeks before this years G-8 meeting in Heiligendamm near Rostock
various projects, initiatives and protagonists from the fields of art,
culture and political activism are going to gather in Berlin for
SUMMIT — Non-Aligned Initiatives in Education Culture.

SUMMIT is a proposal to question and to change some of the fundamental
terms of the debate around education, knowledge production and
information society.


SUMMIT seeks to bring together various approaches from different
genres and calls to come forth and unalign. Unalign from both, the
tendencies of bureaucratization and privatization of knowledge and
education. The four-day event focusses on four thematic tracks:
"Knowledge and Migrancy", "Self-authorization, -organization,
-valorization", "Creative Practices" and "Education unrealized and
ongoing".

May 23, 2007 - 1:08pm -- autonomedia
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Events

Kibush 40 writes:

40 Years is Enough!
Six Days of Action against the Occupation of Palestine
June 6–12 2007


Global Day of Action — June 9 2007

Kibush 40 coalition – http://www.kibush40.org

The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war. This is now the longest enduring military occupation in the world. While the Israeli government evades negotiations that would end the occupation and lead to a just peace, the lives of Palestinians continue to be crushed daily by closures and economic strangulation, their land confiscated for settlements and their communities made into prisons by the Segregation Wall.

At the same time, violence in the region continues to supply ideological fuel for the G8 governments in their ‘War on Terror’, explicitly declared as a never-ending, pre-emptive global war which justifies erasing civil liberties, supporting oppressive regimes, and attacking refugees and migrants. We are all victims of this war: in Palestine and Israel, in Iraq and in Colombia, in Germany and in the U.S.A.

May 23, 2007 - 1:02pm -- autonomedia
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Theory

Darren writes:

Rudolf Rocker Reading Group

We are looking to start a reading group to study various "classics of subversion" old and new. Not for some abstract desire to immerse ourselves in philosophy but for the practical purpose of developing a better understanding of our position in class society, capital and our struggles against it. The suggested text for initial reading is:

Rudolf Rocker "Anarcho-Syndicalism"


If interested please join the forum, reading to start May 14th 07. All suggestions and ideas welcome.

enter forum here


"For us, the development of theoretical views is dictated by the necessities of vital life, by the need to solve practical problems. Our theoretical views must lead to new, better, more suitable action and the mastering of practical tasks. Our theory has value only insofar as it confirmed by practice. Everything else, we leave to the intellectual jugglers, to the guardians of the hierarchy of "values." — Wilhelm Reich

May 14, 2007 - 7:32pm -- autonomedia
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Events

80th Anniversary of Sacco & Vanzetti Executions

New York City, August 23, 2007


August 23rd is the 80th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — Italian immigrants who were framed for a robbery and murder and themselves judicially murdered for being anarchists. In this country, has anything really changed?


NYC's Libertarian Book Club is organizing an observance for Thur., Aug. 23 (the day S&V were hanged), in Union Square (the sight of a mass rally of New Yorkers in support of the condemned).

Come to a meeting of the LBC on Wed. May 30, at 7pm at 339 Lafayette Street (the War Resisters League Building), Room 202, to join in planning for this observance. Five years ago, on the 75th anniversary of S&V's execution, we held a memorial in the same location that included music, performance (by the Living Theater), and a lecture by the late historian Paul Avrich.


Today, with Gitmo, the INS, and the ICE cops ruining immigrants' lives and anarchists and supporters of animal rights on a hit list of "terrorists," it's more important than ever to let the state know that we know our history.


339 Lafayette is at Lafayette and Bleecker Streets. It's easily accessible by the R and 6 Subway lines.

May 14, 2007 - 7:14pm -- autonomedia
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Events

Tactics of Resistance: Limitations & Possibilities

London, Ontario, October 12–13, 2007



An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the Study
of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, Canada


The aim of this conference is to discuss various forms of resistance.
Considering late capitalism's ability to accommodate sites of resistance and
the ensuing incapacitation of revolutionary tactics and impulses, we are
faced with the questions: Where can we find sites of resistance today? How
do social, cultural and political constraints impact on the prospects of
emerging forms of resistance? Must tactics always remain 'marginal,'
situational and contextual?


We are looking for papers addressing alternative conceptions and frameworks
of resistance, and their potential for revolutionary change. We welcome
students, professors, artists and activists to re-think resistance through
an interdisciplinary alliance.

May 6, 2007 - 2:38pm -- stevphen
Announcements
In the Streets

40 Years is Enough!

Six Days of Action against the Occupation of Palestine - June 6-12 2007

Global Day of Action - June 9 2007

Kibush 40 coalition

The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war. This is now the longest
enduring military occupation in the world. While the Israeli government
evades negotiations that would end the occupation and lead to a just
peace, the lives of Palestinians continue to be crushed daily by closures
and economic strangulation, their land confiscated for settlements and
their communities made into prisons by the Segregation Wall.

At the same time, violence in the region continues to supply ideological
fuel for the G8 governments in their ‘War on Terror’, explicitly
declared as a never-ending, pre-emptive global war which justifies
erasing civil liberties, supporting oppressive regimes, and attacking
refugees and migrants. We are all victims of this war: in Palestine and
Israel, in Iraq and in Colombia, in Germany and in the U.S.A.

April 30, 2007 - 7:41pm -- autonomedia
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Culture

The Situational Drive

Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement

New York City, May 12-13, 2007

Free Weekend Conference

May 12 and 13, 2007

May 12, 10am – 7pm

May 13, 10:45am – 6:15pm

Cooper Union, The Great Hall

7th Street, btw 3rd and 4th Ave, NYC

Organized by Joshua Decter

A partnership between
inSite/ San Diego-Tijuana and Creative Time, New York
in collaboration with
The Cooper Union School of Art

In the network society everyone puts together their own city. Naturally
this touches on the essence of the concept of public domain…Public domain
experiences occur at the boundary between friction and freedom.
— Maarten Hajer and Arnold Reijndorp, In Search of New Public Domain

inSite/ San Diego-Tijuana and Creative Time, New York are pleased to
present The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement, a
two-day multidisciplinary sequence of panel discussions, conversations,
and art projects rethinking the challenges of artistic, curatorial,
architectural and theoretical engagement in urban and other public
spheres.

April 30, 2007 - 11:31am -- autonomedia
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Events

Call Out for No Border Camp in Ukraine 2007

The camp will take place from the 11th to the 20th of August 2007 in
the main region of transit and labor migration in Ukraine:
Transcarpathia.


The eastward expansion of the European Union has resulted in moving
the walls of "Fortress Europe" to the Western border of Ukraine. The
Ukrainian region of Transcarpatia, of which the biggest cities are
Uzhgorod and Mukachevo, has become a new borderline, with increasing
militarization and major concentration of detention camps for refugees
from the countries of Global South and former USSR, who try to escape
war, totalitarianism or misery to the European Union countries. It is
hard to find any "open" information about the conditions in the
majority of these camps.


The condition of the refugees in Ukraine is very unstable: freedom of
movement is restricted; it is hard to get a job or medical care, and
no social security is provided. When one gets refugee status, the only
support they get from the state is a single payment of a petty 3
euros.
In recent years Ukraine has even extradited asylum seekers to places
like Uzbekistan, where they were imprisoned for years in the notorious
authoritarian regime's gulags.

March 30, 2007 - 9:22pm -- stevphen
Announcements
In the Streets

THE ‘BLOCK G8’ CAMPAIGN CONCEPT FOR A MASS BLOCKADE OF THE G8 SUMMIT IN
HEILIGENDAMM

On June 6 2007, we want to – and will – massively and effectively blockade the
opening of the G8 Summit, the meeting of the heads of government of the
world’s
8 most powerful states, in Heiligendamm, near Rostock in Germany.

With blockades of civil disobedience in which thousands of people from
different
political, social and cultural backgrounds can participate, we will express a
unmistakable “NO!” against the G8. A radical “NO!” which cannot be ignored. A
public, offensive and practical expression of the lack of legitimacy of the G8
and their policies of neoliberal, globalised capitalism; of wars; of social
and
racist exclusion; and of environmental destruction. We will actively disrupt
the
G8, occupying and blockading the streets required by the diplomats,
translators
and supply vehicles to reach Heiligendamm. We want to practically and
effectively stop the Summit and cut it off from its infrastructure.

The central expression of our blockade will be to show that thousands of
highly
diverse people have decided, together, to personally – and with their bodies –
blockade the Summit. Many will announce their participation in the blockade
publicly, showing their names and faces. Regardless of how and where we arrive
at the camps and on the streets around Heiligendamm, we have a common project:
One mass blockade with diverse cultural articulations. Those not organised in
groups – and without blockading experience – will also be able to participate
and receive the solidarity of others. There will be no limits to our
creativity. We see the connection between the functionality and political
articulation of the mass blockade as important. The ‘Überflüssigen’ (i.e. ‘The
Superfluous’ – a direct action group who have been visible in many of the
social protests in Germany over the past few years) with their red sweatshirts
and white face-masks have already announced their intended presence, rebel
clowns will also be there, as will samba drummers. Colourful does not mean
black, but black belongs to colourful.

March 29, 2007 - 1:24pm -- autonomedia
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Culture

Campaign for Nawal El Saadawi
Arab Women's Solidarity Association (AWSA)— Belgium

International campaign for freedom of thought and creativity and for solidarity with the Egyptian novelist and writer Nawal El Saadawi


Arab Women's Solidarity Association — Belgium invites you to sign this petition for freedom of thought and creativity, and thanks you in advance for diffusing it as widely as possible.

جمعية تضامن المرأة العربية- بلجيكا تدعوكم لتوقيع هذه العريضة من أجل حرية الفكر و الابداع و تشكركم سلفا لنشرها على أوسع نطاق ممكن.


Pour signer / to sign /للتوقيع :

here.

The Egyptian writer and novelist Nawal El Saadawi, well known both in the Arab world and internationally, is facing a political and religious campaign mounted against her by the authorities of Al-Azhar. Basing themselves on a play written by her entitled "God Resigns at the Summit Meeting," published during the month of January 2007 in Cairo, they are accusing her of apostasy and disrespect for the principles of Islam.


The theater play is a work of fiction and should be judged by the men and women who read works destined for the theater and not by religious dignitaries whose areas of concern are totally different. To bring a writer to trial before a court relying on dangerous accusations of this kind can be a license for her assassination.


Accusations such as this which should not hold sway in the twenty-first century are being leveled against a woman of letters, a woman from the medical profession who has given to the Arab world forty-five works ranging from novels, plays, short stories, autobiography to scientific and intellectual studies which have served the cause of women's liberation and that of men and have been translated into thirty languages covering different regions of our globe.


This is not the first time that Nawal El Saadawi has had to face campaigns of this kind. The accusation here also was that of apostasy.


We the signatories of this petition demand that this repressive campaign come to an end immediately. We call upon all the men and women of conscience all over the world, in the Arab countries and in Egypt to take the action they see fit in order to defend freedom of thought and creativity. We call upon all the associations and organizations of civil society, the unions of workers, on journalists, on all free women and men in the different countries, on the associations and organizations of women and on democratic progressive political parties to join us in our efforts to defend freedom.
Arab Women's Solidarity Association – Belgium

ألحملة الدولية من أجل حرية الفكر و الابداع تضامناً مع قضية الدكتورة نوال.


تتعرض الكاتبة المصرية نوال السعداوي، ألمعروفة عالمياً و عربياً، لحملة سياسية دينية يقودها الأزهر في مصر لتقديمها للمحاكمة و ادانتها بتهمة الكفر و ازدراء الأديان بسبب مسرحية لها نشرت في القاهرة باللغة العربية في يناير ألماضي
.


تندرج هذه المسرحية تحت أعمال الخيال و الابداع و المفروض أن يحكم عليها القراء و القارئات و نقاد المسرح و الأدب و ليس رجال الدين. ولهذا يعتبر تحويل كاتبة مبدعة الى المحاكمة بهذه التهم الخطيرة طريقا يؤدي الى اهدار دمها. هذه التهم لا تليق بالقرن الواحد والعشرين وتنال من كاتبة، أديبة و طبيبة، قدمت للمكتبة العربية خمسة و أربعين مؤلفا ما بين الرواية و المسرحية والقصص القصيرة و السيرة الذاتية و الأعمال العلمية و الفكرية التي تربط بين قضايا تحرير الانسان و قضايا تحرير النساء، ترجمت الى أكثر من ثلاثين لغة في العالم. وقد سبق لنوال السعداوي أن تعرضت لحملات من هذا النوع و منها محاولة تفريقها بالقوة من زوجها بتهمة الكفر أيضاً ووضع اسمها على قوائم الموتى لعدد من السنوات.


ولهذا فاننا نطالب بايقاف هذا القهر فوراً وندعو كل أصحاب و صاحبات الضمائر في العالم وفي البلاد العربية و في مصر أن يهبوا للدفاع عن حرية الفكر و الابداع و لرفع أيدي السلطة الدينية السياسية في مصر عن نوال السعداوي و أن تتبنى هذه الحملة المنظمات الشعبية واتحادات الكتاب و الأدباء و الصحافيين والأحرار من الرجال و النساء في كل بلد و كذلك المنظمات النسائية و الأحزاب السياسية المتنورة.


جمعية تضامن المرأة العربية - بلجيكا


Arab Women's Solidarity Association — Belgique ASBL


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1070 Bruxelles

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Email: awsabe@gmail.com

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