Anonymous Comrade writes:

Proposal: Freedom of Movement
A North American No Border Network

Through our work we have met some amazing sisters and brothers in struggle in Mexico, Canada, the United States and all across the world. We have begun to learn about each other and as a result, learn more about other groups and struggles emanating from what we believe to be similar and related causes...

We are therefore proposing the creation of a no border activist network between groups in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. We have taken only a few steps toward the realization of this network. This is obviously a huge and complex endeavor, so our goal is to place enough tangible information before you so that many aspects can be developed more collectively and organically...

Radia.FM Launch

The Radia Network is pleased to announce the launch of its new website!
Developed in cooperation with Radio.territories, the website evolved from
the best of Europe's artist run, free cultural, & community radios. The
site hosts information about radio praxis, projects and software.

The growing network of cultural radios consists of:
Radio Campus Bruxelles; Radio Cult, Sofia; Radio Grenouille, Marseille;
Kanal 103, Skopje; Kunstradio, Vienna; Radio Orange, Vienna;
Radioswap, Bruxelles; Reboot.fm, Berlin; Resonance104.4fm, London; Riist,
Lisbon; Tilos Radio, Budapest.

The Radia Network emerged from a series of meetings, clandestine events,
late night club discussions and a lot of email exchanges between cultural
radio producers across Europe. The topics vary and the reasons for forming
a network are many, but Radia has become a concrete manifestation of the
desire to use radio as an art form.

The approaches differ, as do the local
contexts; from commissioned radio art works to struggles for frequencies
to copyright concerns, all the radios share the goal of an audio space
where something different can happen. That different is also a form in the
making — radio sounds different in each city, on each frequency. Taking
radio as an art form, claiming that space for creative production in the
mediascape and cracking apart the notion of radio is what Radia does.

www.radia.fm

Radia.fm proudly highlights RADIO.TERRITORIES, a series of urban and
acoustic interventions taking place across Europe. Stay tuned for upcoming
calls for the artist residency programs and actions in your local European
City. From October 2005 to September 2006, various events will take place
in Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Cluj, Lisbon, Mooste, Prague, London,
Sofia and Vienna. A final conference is planned for September 2006, in
Vienna.

Territories

bootlab e.v.

tucholskystr 6

10117 berlin/germany

bootlab at bootlab dot org

www.bootlab.org

Waseda University Arrest, Tokyo

A Statement of Protest

Around noon on December 20th 2005, on the campus of Waseda University in
Tokyo, a person was distributing flyers protesting some university reforms.
Suddenly seven to eight professors and officials of the Literature
Department surrounded him and took him to the office of the security
services. The police were called in by the professors to arrest him on the
claim of intrusion of private property.

We believe that this incident is more than a local episode and should
be cause for alarm: it is not just a matter of one university, but of the
entire university system and Japanese society today. Moreover, the action
taken at Waseda University recalls an earlier history of university
repression that had taken place on a worldwide scale. What the event at
Waseda dramatizes is a sad and instructive example of how the last remaining
stronghold for protecting the freedom of expression simply decided to
abdicate its responsibility and abandon its principal vocation. The larger
consequence of the Waseda incident reveals a dangerous tendency today of
society’s determination to erase the last ethical line between the domain of
free inquiry and critical space from the interest of the state that needs to
be defended.