Anonymous Comrade writes:

War and Peace in the Global Economy

New York City, Dec. 28-30, 2005

The Society for Social and Political Philosophy (SSPP):

Historical, Continental, and Feminist Perspectives

Call for Papers For the Society's Meetings To Be Held in Conjunction With the American Philosophical Association (APA) in 2005


The SSPP invites papers for two conference panels. We are seeking papers that address issues pertaining to:

1) WAR: the rhetorics and realities of war, including: wars on poverty, drugs, terror, etc., current conflicts (Sudan, Iraq, Congo, etc.), pre-emptive war, the justifying of war, civilians and war, depleted uranium munitions, the selling of war, war and empire, “war by other means”, proxy wars, resources wars, war and nationalism, war and genocide.


  2) PEACE: the politics and culture of peace, including: human rights, peace movements, perpetual peace, stateless peoples, minority rights, internal conflicts, the UN, the international criminal court, resource distribution, truth and reconciliation committees.

Complete papers of 3000-5000 words (that can be summarized and presented in 20-30 minutes) should be submitted for consideration for the 2005 meeting (deadline: March 1, 2005). The meeting will be scheduled for December 28-30, 2005 in New York City. Authors should include their name(s) and contact information on the cover page ONLY. Papers should be emailed as attachments in Word or RTF format to papers@sspp.us. For information on the society, and to become a member, please consult our web page at www.sspp.us. For other questions or information, please email us at information@sspp.us.

Institute for Anarchist Studies Soapbox Social

New York City, Feb. 18. 2005

The Institute for Anarchist Studies warmly invites you to our
Soapbox Social, to be held at the al-Alwan Center for the Arts, just a
stone's throw away from the beating heart of Capital (the New York Stock
Exchange!)* Please come join the Directors of the Institute, on the
evening of Friday, February 18th 2005, as we celebrate nine years of
support for radical writers.

The evening begins at 7:00 pm, and includes a full Indian meal
(with meat and vegetarian dishes) served at approximately 8:00 pm. Board
members will provide updates about the Institute and our activities,
including the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference in Vermont and
the Latin American Archives Project in Buenos Aires. Additionally, we
invite you to share information about your projects and activities. Feel
free to bring literature or get up on the soapbox!

"Blood on the Upholstery of Jeep Liberty"

A Dialogue About Murder in Toledo

Manuel Yang and Peter Linebaugh, CounterPunch

Manuel: I still can't believe the horrible, horrible homicide and suicide that took place at the DaimlerChrysler Stickney Avenue plant last night, Wednesday, 26 January, on the second shift.

Peter: Yeh, say it. Let's try to think about it.

Manuel: How Myles Meyers, 54 years old, came to work with a double-barreled shotgun hidden under a long black coat and wrought terror in the body shop. That he shot one of his supervisors, Roy Thacker, point blank in the head and wounded another boss, an area manager. He wounded a team leader as a third victim, before putting a slug into his own head. This man, Myles, the shooter worked at Jeep for 31 years.

Peter: Yes, I read about it in the paper, The Blade, and everyone was talking about it after the evening news. It was horrible tragedy, so horrible we couldn't discuss anything else at our Marxist study group this morning when, originally, we were to talk about Sections 3 & 4 ("Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to the Working Day" and "Day and Night Work") from Chapter 10 on the Working Day in Capital Volume One. During our conversation, a Jeep worker told us that the media was circulating the company's lie about Myles's motive for "going postal" at the plant, as when the Toledo Blade says he "recently faced disciplinary action by the company because he reportedly argued with a supervisor"; in fact, Myles's fellow worker told us that the bosses Myles shot were those who carried out Daimler-Chrysler's policy of eliminating jobs by headcounts.

Humanity and the Earth / L'Homme et la Terre:

The Legacy of Elisée Reclus (1830–1905)

October 28-30, 2005, New Orleans, LA USA

This year marks the 175th anniversary of the birth of
Elisée Reclus and the 100th anniversary of his death.
On the occasion of this double anniversary we will
gather for a conference to discuss the life and work
of Reclus and to investigate the ways in which his
legacy is relevant to our world today.

Reclus is considered by many to be the greatest
geographer of his age and he is generally recognized
as a pioneering figure in the development of social
geography. His sixteen-thousand page Nouvelle
Géographie Universelle was a monumental intellectual
achievement which, as geographer Gary Dunbar observes,
"for a generation was to serve as the ultimate
geographical authority" and constituted "probably the
greatest individual writing feat in the history of
geography." His work culminated in the
thirty-five-hundred-page L'Homme et la Terre, a grand
synthesis of his ideas concerning geography, history,
philosophy, politics, sociology, religion,
anthropology, and many other fields.