heresy writes:

"Advertising, treated as commercial speech and invested with First Amendment rights, enables giant private economic entities, in direct proportion to their command of resources, to shape national economic activity as well as national consciousness. The needs of individuals -– actual individuals –- hardly are congruent with the goals of billion-dollar companies.” –- Howard Schiller, Culture, Inc.

New York City’s public spaces are under seige by government collusion with private interests, in a business arrangement that would clearly undermine democratic principle and practice in the informational-cultural sphere.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Culture and the Unconscious Conference

London, July 9-10, 2004

After our highly successful launch event in July this year, we are very
pleased to announce the second Culture and the Unconscious conference to be
held at SOAS, London on 9th and 10th July 2004. Bringing together,
psychoanalysts, artists and academics, this conference aims to bring the
clinically-based insights of psychoanalysts and the theoretical and critical
approaches of academics into dialogue with one another.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

On Thursday, Dec 4, 2003 the geneva03 collective wrote a press release explaining their "We Seize" project during the WSIS -- UN World Summit of the Information Society.

WSIS Press Release

Geneva03 Collective

The World Summit On Infomation Society (WSIS) takes place in Geneva from the 10th-12th December, 2003. While the official agenda of this UN/ITU Summit talks about free access to information, the digital divide and equality of opportunities, in reality its doors are closed, its discussions exclusive and the agendas of those who attend it concealed [dissimulé]. What is more, the right to demonstrate and protest has been suspended in Geneva at this time as the usual parade of despots and tyrants fly in to Switzerland to define policy for their own citizens, and the rest of the world, based on the agendas of corporate multinations, media conglomerates and infrastructure owners.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"A Bridge to Africa"

A caravan of artists, media activists, scientists and technicians from all over the world is presently gathering in Andalucia in the south of Spain. The Euro-African project will cross the Straits of Gibraltar in December, and move south along the west-coast of Africa [map], reclaiming the Straits as a bridge, not a boundary. The Caravan describes itself as "a sound system, a circus, a mobile cinema and a stage for theatre and performance". It is constantly open for everyone who wants to participate.