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November 27, 2006 - 11:28am -- autonomedia
Announcements
Independent Media

New 2007 Jubilee Saints Calendar

Autonomedia

Autonomedia's new Jubilee Saints Calendar for 2007 is now back from the printers, for our fifteenth year in a row.


Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project — a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the "New World" and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. It is increasingly clear — at the dawn of this new millennium — that the Planetary Work Machine will not rule forever! Celebrate with this calendar on which every day is a holiday!


Please note:

The list price is US $9.95, but orders of 5-9 copies of the calendar will receive a 20% discount ($7.96 each). Orders of 10 or more copies will receive a 40% discount ($5.97 each). Orders for the 2007 calendar, individually or with discounts on orders in these small quantities, can be placed here.

November 20, 2006 - 8:43am -- autonomedia
Announcements
Events

SPACE Course Listing for Spring 2007


The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)
presents:


MARX’S CAPITAL, VOLUME I

Andrew Kliman

Thursdays, Feb. 15 - May 24, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

(No class March 22)

Tuition: $150–$180, sliding scale

This 14-week course is devoted to Volume I of Karl Marx's _Capital: A
critique of political economy_. Marx analyzes the capital relation as a
process of “self-expanding value.” Throughout the course, we will stress
the relevance of this concept to the contemporary expansionism of the
capitalist system and the new movements against global capitalism. The
specific character of Marx's critique of capital, and its differences from
others' critiques, will also be highlighted.

November 14, 2006 - 12:18pm -- autonomedia
Announcements
Independent Media

Audio Recording of Brad Will Memorial

New York City, Nov. 11, 2006


Audio recorded and compiled by your friends at the August Sound
Coalition

Brad Will Memorial

St Mark's Church

New York, NY

November 11, 2006


Segment

John Wright "Hobo's Lullabye" (partial)

Frank Morales Introduction

Simon discusses current situation in Oaxaca

"Brad's Song" by Stephanie Rogers

Brandon Jourdan

Dyan Neary + video


Segment 2

David Rovics

Rockdove Collective Meditation

Jenny Smith, John Wright and Mark Read sing "I'll Fly Away"

Al Penley speaks

Ann Waldman, Phil Good and Bernadette Mayer read poems

Julie Patton

Pastrami sings "A Drop of Water"

Roger Manning

Segment 3


Brant Sharman

Lower East Side video footage of Brad

Aresh Javadi, Harry Bubbins and Emily Nobel Maxwell read excerpts from
"We Are Everywhere"

Tofu sings "Willie Says"

Pria/Warcry

Andy Stern + Brad's sister Wendy read Brad's last dispatch from Oaxaca

Stephan Said sings "It Rose from the Dead" to Hungry March Band
procession (partial)

November 14, 2006 - 11:54am -- autonomedia
Announcements
Theory

og writes

Presenting Toni Negri's Goodbye Mr. Socialism Milano, Nov. 16, 2006


Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation has announced that there will be a presentation of Antonio Negri's new book, Goodbye Mr. Socialism, which was just published by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore. Christian Marazzi and Raf Valvola Scelsi will discuss the book along with its author. Date and venue details, and information on the book are below.

Thursday, 16 November at 5:30 p.m. in Via Romagnosi, 3 - 20121 Milano, Italy

Goodbye Mr. Socialism

November 14, 2006 - 11:38am -- autonomedia
Announcements
Events

Revolutionary Literature
Victor Serge and Communist Totalitarianism
A Talk by Richard Greeman


Sunday Nov. 19 at 7:00 p.m.
New York City

Victor Serge, author of “Birth of Our Power,” “Men in Prison” and other works, participated in the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Revolution, and the Mexican Revolution. He spent over 10 years in French and Russian prisons. Born in 1890 of Russian émigré parents in Brussels, he died a refugee in Mexico 57 years later
—a man with no possessions and no nationality. His work captures with rare authority the spirit and life of the revolutions of the first half of the 20th century.


The translator and biographer of Victor Serge, Richard Greeman is now based in Montpellier, France, where he is Secretary of the International Victor Serge Foundation. He is also a member of Praxis Center (Moscow). He was a professor at Columbia, Wesleyan and the University of Hartford, as well as an activist since the 1950s in anti-racist, anti-war, human rights and labor struggles in the U.S. and internationally.


Free admission. All welcome. Open discussion.

Location: 39 West 14th Street, Rm. 205 (Identity House—ring buzzer 205 and come to second floor), Manhattan (north side of 14th St., between 5th and 6th Aves.; take any train to 14th St. or Union Square).

October 26, 2006 - 5:02pm -- autonomedia
Announcements
In the Streets

Panoply Lab writes:

50 Actions in Union Square

Panoply Lab


The guerrilla arts org Panoply Laboratory is planning this year's "50 Actions in Union Square" for the last day of 2006, 1pm. All artists/activists/performers are invited to participate with less-than-one-minute actions. Send a description of your action and its title to panoplylab@hotmail.com to be included in the one page free handout that will be provided to the public.

October 26, 2006 - 4:49pm -- autonomedia
Announcements
Culture

michel chevalier writes:


target: autonopop

Michel Chevalier

Has something fundamental changed in the art world in the last few years?
Or, let's say: since the '70s, since the outset of western capitalism's ongoing crisis? Have mechanisms set in that narrow the range of what artists/critics/curators can do?

«target: autonopop» answers yes to all these questions and takes aim at the commercial art gallery circuit, its products, and the somewhat less (overtly) market-oriented art-institutional context. Safe generalizations that spare people's feelings and preserve confortable arrangements are not on the agenda; instead: a regularly updated process in which art is "consumed" in a different way.

«target: autonopop» examines the articulation between the market/gallery and institutional spheres, their cooptational and coercive instances, their aversion to any critique which has real consequences.

Visual, social, and historical investigations supplement a project which is not merely theoretical: to retrace and critique the art-circuit's tacit dogma of ambivalence and non-oppositionality. On the curatorial and production level, «target: autonopop» has been fostering and generating activity which avails itself to exactly these "unartistic", unambiguous and frontal means when necessary, be it in an art or a non-art context.

«target: autonopop»
is featured at the XV Biennale de Paris

October 4, 2006 - 12:14pm -- autonomedia
Announcements
Events

Emilia Sixtensson writes:

"Black Gold"
Wake up and Smell the Coffee


Official Invite: Screening

Do you know where your coffee comes from?
We promise that it will never taste the same again after watching.
This documentary style film which probes into the global grind behind your indulgent Latte and asks blunt questions like:
Why does just 1 or 2 cents of the $4 we pay for designer caffeine go to the bean farmers?

The film follows Tadesse Meskela (the General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union in Ethiopia ) on his mission to save 74,000 struggling coffee bean farmers from bankruptcy. Against the backdrop of Tadasee's journey around the world, trying to find buyers willing to pay fair market price, the enormous power of the players that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent.

At the end of this film you will have a whole new understanding of Fair Trade and you will probably view your corner coffee shop in a whole new light, but you may also see how a single consumer can help change the destiny of thousands of people.

The film is followed by an in-theater Q&A session attended by the films leading role Mr. Tadesse Meskela

We continue discussion at Smorgas Chef Restaurant & Lounge.

October 4, 2006 - 11:57am -- autonomedia
Announcements
Independent Media

crudo writes:


Modesto Anarcho #1 Out Now

Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians,


"Modesto Anarcho" is a new journal produced by the Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians (DAAA) Collective, based out of Modesto, CA in the Central Valley.


The goal of the journal is to document, analyze, and give spotlight to the autonomous social struggles in the area, as well as organizing work that the collective is engaging in. The journal is also meant to be tool of propaganda, to show young people and those interested in working on local projects what is going on in the city. We are looking to get the journal out to outside collectives, (especially those in California), as well as info shops, individuals, bookstores, and various other anarchist/anti-authoritarian groupings. Some of the articles have already been posted online, and more will be posted as time goes on.


Also included in this post after the ordering information, is the introduction to the journal — enjoy!

September 6, 2006 - 2:35pm -- stevphen
Announcements
Events

CALL FOR PAPERS, COLLABORATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS: AESTHETICS AND
RADICAL POLITICS

Fri 2nd Feb 2007, University of Manchester

There has always been a strong connection historically between
aesthetics and radical politics, and this is no less true for the
global justice movement's current preoccupation with cultural
approaches to political action. This conference seeks to bring
radical artists, activists, theorists and academics together to
discuss past and present convergences between the theories and
practices of artists and writers and the theories and practices of
movements for radical social change.

There is already a massive amount of literature on Marxist
approaches to aesthetics, art and literature, and whilst we welcome
papers engaging with such approaches, we would also encourage
presentations and discussions that address these issues from other
radical critical positions - whether they be anarchist, autonomist,
ecological or otherwise. Such perspectives have often been
overlooked historically, but it is arguable that they now more
centrally influence the activities of radical artists and
activists.

The event will be defined by those who participate. What would you
like to see happen? What kind of discussions do you think are
important? Would you like to present a paper, facilitate a
discussion, propose a panel presentation, organise a workshop or
contribute in other ways?

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