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April 21, 2005 - 12:09pm -- nolympics
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Culture

Paula Panzarella writes:


Outcry for Justice: Poetry In The Struggle For Freedom Of Sacco And Vanzetti

New York City, May 7 and May 14, 2005

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Sts)
New York City
Saturday, May 7 and May 14

2 PM — $10.

Poetry, music and commentary about Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrant anarchists and labor leaders executed by the State of Massachusetts in 1927.


Cast members: Marlene Buchanan, Joan Cavanagh, Stephen Kobasa, Frank Panzarella, Tony Rosso, Sylvia Forges Ryan, Glenn Stevens, Maggie Testa and Shula Ruth Weinstein. With cello, mandolin and guitar. Produced by Paula Panzarella.

Contact Theater for the New City for tickets:
212-254-1109

April 19, 2005 - 3:43am -- hydrarchist
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Prisons & Prisoners

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Day of Solidarity with the Prisoners of Aachen, Germany
Wednesday 4th of May 2005

Since the 23rd of March 2005, our comrades Gabriel, Jose, Bart and Begona are on trial in Aachen, Germany. Since the day of their arrest, on the 28th of June 2004, it is clear that they are and will be treated with a special vengeance - for months Jose, Gabriel and Bart have been imprisoned in almost complete isolation, for months they have been pictured as dangerous criminals, for months part of the so called radical left movement have kept silent. All this is standard procedure for the defenders of the existing order, normality, morality.

April 16, 2005 - 12:16pm -- hydrarchist
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Culture

Mukhin writes:
Capitalism and other Kids’ Stuff

Calling all anti-capitalists. This is to alert you to a new film – “Capitalism and other Kids’ Stuff” – that has recently been uploaded to the www and can be seen at www.socialist-tv.com , and which argues the anti-capitalist case in simple language.

This is not some crappy Lenininst/Trotsykist effort, but a damned good attempt at explaining the revolutionary case against capitalism in non-copnfrontational language.

The film, made by 4 members of The Socialist Party in the UK, is 49 minutes in duration and, beginning with a look at how we treat our children, explains in non-jargonised terms, the insanity of a system that places profit before human need. Please note, this is not some leftie Party political broadcast, just a sane look at an insane world that is very much crying out for real change, change that can only be brought about by a majority, acting in their own interests and without leaders.

(The Socialist Party was formed in 1904 and has not compromised its principles since its formation. It is a leaderless organisation that rejects reformism and has as its object the abolition of the money system, the common ownership and democratic control of the world's natural and industrial resources by and in the interests of all people).

Comradely regards,

Mukhin"

April 14, 2005 - 5:07am -- hydrarchist
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Theory

NOT BORED! writes:

Figures of the Unthinkable

Cornelius Castoriadis

NOT BORED! has just published a new book in English by the Greek/French theorist Cornelius Castoriadis, who is best known as the founder of the French revolutionary group Socialisme ou Barbarie. Entitled Figures of the Thinkable, it is composed of essays written between 1986 and 1997, the year that Castoriadis died. Translated from the French. Not available anywhere else.

April 12, 2005 - 11:15am -- jim
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Events

Staughton Lynd Celebration

New York City, April 15, 2005

Solidarity: Thinking Globally Acting Locally
and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

This special event celebrates
Staughton Lynd's 75th birthday with a wide-ranging discussion of the labor
movement, solidarity unionism, labor internationalism, civil rights movement,
anti-war movements, and the struggle to defend the rights and lives of all
those in the prison- and military-industrial complex. The speakers discuss
contemporary and historic struggles for justice for African Americans and
people of color, women, the working class, prisoners, and the fight to end
U.S. wars of imperialism. Lynd has been instrumental in fighting for justice
in each of these areas.


A special event on the occasion of the centenary of the Industrial Workers of
the World and the Russian Revolution.

April 10, 2005 - 2:16am -- jim
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Events

NY Activist Calendar
April 9–16, 2005


The NY Activist Calendar (formerly the CREED NY Calendar) is a

weekly listing of events of interest to NYC-area activists. It is

compiled by volunteer labor and published by the Nicaragua

Solidarity Network of Greater NY.

April 7, 2005 - 3:32pm -- jim
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Events

Support Tent State University!

Education, Not War!

Campuses Across the USA, April 18–24, 2005

Across the United States, the right to a public higher education is systematically being denied to our communities. While $150+ billion has already been spent on the war in Iraq, our state and federal governments are systematically de-funding our institutions of higher learning. Tuition continues to skyrocket as the Bush administration wages criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is clear evidence of a devastating shift in national spending priorities for which our younger generations are paying dearly.

April 4, 2005 - 8:32am -- jim
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Work

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Fifth Estate Plans Special "Wobblies and Work" Issue


This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW is the oldest anti-capitalist trade union federation in history. Their mission, the abolition of the wage system, still holds today; their practice of justice and fairness and their commitment to worker empowerment serves as a model for all trade unions.

Fifth Estate will be joining in this centenary celebration by dedicating its Fall issue to the topic of “"Wobblies and Work.”"

We are looking for original articles on the history of the IWW, as well as articles that address the contemporary international radical labor milieu. Submissions of art and images are always welcome. Possible topics include work and anti-work, the unethical nature of the Protestant work ethic, the right to be lazier, proletarian lifestyles, sub-proletarian subcultures, underemployment, unemployment, worker’'s comp scams, workplace sabotage, shopfloor shenanigans, lockouts, factory occupations, slackers, and hobos. We are also interested in hearing about the worst job you ever had and how great it was to quit.

Feature articles and essays: 1500-4000 words
News, reviews, and reports: 800 words

DEADLINE for PROPOSALS: June 1
DEADLINE for FIRST DRAFTS: June 15

Fifth Estate

March 25, 2005 - 2:22pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

Signatories Sought in Response to "Tutorials in Terrorism"


The document below was drafted in response to an article by Keith Windschuttle last week in The Australian. The text of this article can be found online (here).


If you'd like to sign the document below, contact Jon Roffe at overground@imap.cc.


“Civilised values” indeed. What we actually find in Keith Windschuttle’s article, “Tutorials in Terrorism,” (The Australian, March 16 2005*) is a thin polemical canvas thrown over a series of gross simplifications, factual omissions and pre-emptive judgements in relation to the life and work of Italian philosopher Antonio Negri.

March 22, 2005 - 6:50pm -- jim
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Culture

The Yellow House of Cinema

Russian Film Symposium 2005
May 2-7, 2005

University of Pittsburgh

What feast is in the Yellow House afoot,
And wherefore are the multitudes there thronging??
— Boris Pil'niak, Mahogany

"Yellow house," a Russian colloquialism, means "insane asylum." Russia's film union and its principal screening venue is Moscow's famous House of Cinema. This year Pittsburgh's annual Russian Film Symposium invites you to visit the Yellow House of Cinema, a selection of Russia's newest and most interesting films.


"The Yellow House of Cinema" examines the themes, visual practices, and cultural politics in recent Russian cinema around issues of social psychosis, dementia, mania, folly, lunacy, aberration, and the absurd.

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