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May 7, 2003 - 9:16am -- jim
Announcements
Culture

On Wednesday, 6/4, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND opens at Film Forum. It's a new
documentary that explores the rise and fall of the infamous American
radicals whose goal was to overthrow the U.S. government.


These days, many of us continue to fight capitalism and the actions of the
U.S. government both abroad and at home. This film is riveting-- as a piece
of filmmaking, an historical document and as a catalyst for discussion. THE
WEATHER UNDERGROUND presents portraits of young people who were compelled
to
"bring the war home." It raises myriad questions for us as activists and
global citizens.

May 6, 2003 - 8:20pm -- jim
Announcements
In the Streets

Over the last two days, 68 people have been arrested as part of Operation
Homeland Resistance while blocking the doors of the Federal Building,
headquarters of the INS. (See homelandresistance for more
info.) This powerful protest, linking the war abroad with the war at home,
was initiated by NYC-based and people-of-color-led racial justice and
immigrant's rights activists and organizations.


Operation Homeland Resistance is asking for your support tomorrow,
Wednesday, May 7, during a third day of civil disobedience at the Federal
Building. Please show up at 10:00AM -- people are needed to help out in a
range of capacities.


WHAT: support Operation Homeland Resistance action

WHEN: Wednesday, May 7 at 10:00AM

WHERE: 26 Federal Plaza, in Lower Manhattan


For more information, visit http://www.homelandresistance.org or call
Wol-San at (917) 568-6347

May 6, 2003 - 7:02pm -- jim
Announcements
Reviews

The Spring edition of "Perspectives on Anarchist Theory," the Institute
for Anarchist Studies' biannual newsletter, is now available online.


This issue of "Perspectives" interviews historian and radical critic
Howard Zinn. Also included is a piece on what everyday life is like for
Palestinians who live under a military occupation: what techniques are
used to maintain control; how violence and the threat of such differs
from other colonial regimes; and how anarchists may understand this
conflict and contribute to understanding and resistance. Also included
is Chuck Morse's regular contribution, "What's happening: Books and
Events," which reports on new books, articles, and other resources that
are relevant to the anarchist community.

May 6, 2003 - 8:52am -- jim
Announcements
Independent Media

"Springtime of The Movements"

A 30-minute radio documentary on the current wave of dissent in Italy.

ABC Radio National - The Europeans (see times and frequencies below)

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The political and social struggles in Italy in the recent years have
been a source of innovation and inspiration for political and social
struggles globally. A discussion on the ferment in Italy today - analysis, opinions,
historical background.

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Interviewees:


Wu Ming 1 - Wu Ming collective of radical authors, activist


Franco Berardi ('Bifo') - Writer, activist, veteran of 70s autonomous
workers' movements and Radio Alice


Antonio Di Blase - FIAT factory worker and member of Factory TV -
Sicilian pirate television station


Professor Donatella Della Porta Florence University - researcher of
social
movements

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DATE AND FREQUENCIES

SUNDAY MAY 11, 1.30pm REPEAT TUESDAY MAY 13, 2.15pm


Adelaide 729AM | Brisbane 792AM | Canberra 846AM


Darwin 657AM | Gold Coast 90.1FM | Hobart 585AM


Melbourne 621AM | Newcastle 1512AM | Perth 810AM | Sydney 576AM

Or ANYTIME in streaming audio (after the broadcast) at
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/europe/europe.htm

May 1, 2003 - 5:51am -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Events

Anonymous Comrade submits

Bluestockings Bookstore, Cafe, and Activist Resource Center is NOW
officially re-open and we're having a party on Friday, May 9 at 7 p.m.


172 Allen Street: Lower East Side: F/V train to 2nd Ave.


After two months of activist powered renovations, we are now open with a
new radical focus. Come browse our books, taste our fair-trade coffee,
and celebrate activism alive and well in NYC! -- with performances by the
Mahina Movement and friends.


Check our website for additional events www.bluestockings.com

May 1, 2003 - 5:45am -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Theory

tomobedlam writes:

Please visit Endpage Text Archive For a large library of Autonomist, Libertarian Marxist, Situationist, Anarchist and otherwise fun texts and articles, along with a few mirrored sites. Please feel free to submit texts you feel need archiving (and which won't get my ass sued). Read up, use your brain or someone else will!

April 30, 2003 - 3:13pm -- jim
Announcements
Rants

Anonymous Comrade submits:


Most of you are aware of the deck of cards printed by the "Coalition of the Willing"
(US, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia... etc.) that portrays
the bad guys in Saddam's government. I have even received spam
offering this desk at a bargain price.


Every country should have such a deck, and if you scross down this web
log, you'll see the electronic version of the U.S. deck.


http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2003_04_20_uggabugga _archive.html#93223761"

April 30, 2003 - 9:55am -- jim
Announcements
Independent Media

Anonymous Comrade writes:

I'm happy to announce the sudden, and possibly only, and most likely last web appearance of "Autonomy: A Journal of Libertarian Marxist Theory, Analysis and Discussion," edited and so forth by Chris Wright and probably other people too. Get it while its hot:

Autonomy

April 28, 2003 - 1:19pm -- jim
Announcements
Events

jim submits:

Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global Disorder

A Symposium Organised by WRO Media Art Centre & Institute of Digital Arts and
Technology [i-DAT]
as part of Globalica, WRO 03, 10th International Media
Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May 2003

http://wro03.wrocenter.pl>

http://www.i-dat.org>

Against a backdrop of Poland's impending entry into the European Union (and
neo-liberal capitalism), the symposium aims to investigate the local
tensions around the ways in which artists and commentators respond to global
processes, and the language and strategies they employ to do so. How does
contemporary artistic practice respond to these tensions, especially when
using or reflecting the use of network technologies? Do artists simply
respond using the same fashionable rhetoric as the system they seek to
question? What chance does networked resistance have of being resistant in
such a scenario? What models are there left to aspire to?

April 24, 2003 - 9:54am -- jim
Announcements
Events

Anonymous Comrade writes:

As you most certainly know, the next G8 (Group of the eight most
industrialised countries) summit is expected to take place at
the beginning of June, in Evian, in nearby France.
An international coordination, formed by militant groups from
various backgrounds, gathered last 1st and 2nd March to denounce
the illegitimacy of the G8 and to prepare the ground for a
social resistance.
During this meeting, it was decided in particular to organize
linked demonstrations between Switzerland (GE, VD, VS) and
France.

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