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February 12, 2003 - 9:32pm -- Uncle Fluffy
Announcements
Technology

Autonomous Geek writes "The POI (POSIX Organizing Initiative) in Portland, OR is putting out this draft conference call to gather interested parties and supporters together to plan the Portland Oregon Social Information Xchange for June, 2003.



What we would like you to do is read the preliminary ideas we have put

together, and let us know if you are interested in helping us organize

this conference, speaking at it, providing training or anything else.

February 11, 2003 - 5:17pm -- nomadlab
Announcements
News

Mobilize NY writes "(a bit of Feb 14 theatrics, with the much coveted Mobilize NY seal of approval)

This Valentine's Day, Bring Them Home: Bring Them Home Now is a network of concerned Americans who wish to protect our men and women in uniform. We believe that the proposed war on Iraq is unnecessary and immoral. Under such circumstances the only way to be pro-soldier is to be anti-war.

The atrocity of September 11 should have changed the way we think about national security forever. It did, but we appear to have learned the wrong lesson. War will not make us safer. It will do just the opposite. (Take it from the CIA.) This Valentine's Day, come out and show your love for our troops whose lives are now at risk.

WHAT: Gathering to call for the immediate return of U.S. troops now stationed near Iraq.

WHERE: Times Square Military Recruiting Station (43rd where Broadway and 7th meet)

WHEN: Friday, 14 February, 7 p.m.

WHAT TO BRING: Yellow flowers. We'll decorate the recruiting station and hand out yellow ribbons to passers-by.

http://www.BringThemHomeNow.com
"

February 10, 2003 - 3:42pm -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Culture

Anonymous Comrade writes


"A Civilian Occupation

The Politics of Israeli Architecture

Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman

February 12-–March 30, 2003

Opening reception: February 12, 7-–9 p.m.

Storefront for Art and Architecture

97 Kenmare Street

New York, NY 10012

t. 212.431.5795

e. info@storefrontnews.org

February 7, 2003 - 8:32am -- jim
Announcements
Events

Anonymous Comrade writes "The Franklin Furnace announces Activist Art Teacher Training Intensives (March 15-16,
April
12-13, or May 10-11)

Intensive two-day workshops focusing on the following issues: How to
work
with audiences and communities who are starting from very different
places;
various strategies for activist art: working in teams
(non-hierarchical
artist collaboratives) working alone in the studio, working within
grass
roots movements, working with community doing cultural animation;
Action
Research and other hands on projects; various forms of evaluation and
feedback; working within mainstream institutions vs. creating programs
elsewhere; fundraising; and lots of discussion about the urgency of
doing
this work right now.

Slide packages and many other resources will be available.
Registration deadline for March workshop is March 1st
For more details and information about costs, housing, etc. please
contact
Beverly Naidus

February 5, 2003 - 9:16am -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Technology

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/31/intern et.saint/index.html



(CNN) -- Fed up with hackers, a flood of spam and lousy connections, Italian Roman Catholics have launched a search for a patron saint of the Internet. And they hope their online poll will yield a holy Web protector by Easter.



So far, about 5,000 visitors are casting their votes daily on
http://www.santiebeati.it, something that delights Monsignor James P. Moroney, an expert on prayer and worship for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

February 5, 2003 - 9:13am -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Events

The State of the Real



An Interdisciplinary Conference



Glasgow School of Art, UK



21-22 November 2003



Keynote address: Prof. Linda Nochlin, New York University *



"How real can you get?"

The conference organisers propose a debate on the subject of 'the real' in
aesthetic philosophy, criticism and practice.

"When is representation not real?"

Recent years have seen notions of reality discussed in the open. What
relationship do current views developed by this discourse have with those
tenets of realism and representation that once provided the foundation for
aesthetic study? What are the philosophical consequences of the introduction
of technologies that increasingly blur the boundaries between art and
popular culture? What is the effect of aesthetic culture on Realpolitik?
What has happened to the notions of social realism, verisimilitude, and the
imaginary? Are they still relevant, and how have they been changed, if at
all?

"Reclaiming the real."

The organizers are also interested in how notions of reality are affected
by, and continue to affect, aesthetic practice in the fields of art, design,
and media production. With the popularity of haptic technologies, what has
happened to ^real haptics? How do practitioners and academics view older
technologies in the light of their electronic avatars? With the development
of notions of virtual space, what has happened to our understanding of the
body, the mind, and corporeal space?

The organisers particularly welcome proposals on, or dealing with, the
following related subjects:

Reality and realism in Art & Design History; New media technologies
Virtual Reality, CGI photography and cinema, the Internet, haptic
technologies; Modernity and Post-modernity/Modernism and Post-modernism;
Philosophies on ^the real in popular culture; Philosophy and art/design and
cultural practice; Reality television, realism in film.


Proposals for panels (no more than three papers) and workshops are also

welcomed.



Deadline for abstracts: 22 April 2003



Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to:

'The State of the Real',

Dept. of Historical and Critical Studies,

Glasgow School of Art,

167 Renfrew St,

Glasgow,

Scotland, UK.

G3 6RQ.



Abstracts may be sent by email to real@gsa.ac.uk.

January 30, 2003 - 6:21pm -- jim
Announcements
Independent Media


Earth First! Journal collective writes:

The Earth First! Journal is seeking out photographs and images in digital, paint, sketch and other formats for use in our radical environmental magazine. The Journal has a readership of around 10,000 and is distributed many places all over North America and around the world.

January 30, 2003 - 8:56am -- jim
Announcements
Drug War

Drug War Vigil Memorial Group writes:

2nd Annual "Drug War Vigil" Film Festival

Drug War Vigil Memorial Group (14 Mar, 2003)

Entries must be registered by March 14, 2003

The Drug War Vigil Memorial Group is a social justice think tank that was founded in the fall of 2000. We are five medical cannabis users, dedicated to ending the War on Drugs. We as a group collectively recognize that the militarization of this medical issue and the criminalization of the chronically sick, terminally ill and chemically dependent has resulted in the needless loss of human life, and that this is the true crime.

January 28, 2003 - 5:19am -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Rants

Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives writes

The following is the text from a new poster from the Federation of Revolutionary
Anarchist Collectives (FRAC).  The poster is the first in a series and
is in both english and spanish.  If you would like more information
on FRAC or would like to find out how to get a copy of the poster please
email: nightvision@ziplip.com or write:



FRAC

PO Box 4502

East Lansing, MI 48826



************************************************** *****



No to Capitalist War, Yes to Anarchist Revolution!



You are holding the first in a series of posters produced by the Federation
of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives of the Great Lakes Region (FRAC).
We are anarchist revolutionaries who struggle to put militant grassroots
action at the heart of social movements in our region and across North America.
The impending war on Iraq and the ongoing "war on terrorism" threaten the
lives and freedoms of millions. At the same time, they damage the prospects
for building a revolutionary movement to challenge white supremacy, patriarchy,
capitalism and the state. We oppose the war being forced down our throats
by Bush and the rest of his lot.



This poster examines the root causes of the impending war, possible methods
of resistance here in North America, and our vision of a free society. We
encourage you to place it in a prominent place where its message can be seen
by as wide a range of people as possible. At the end you will find contact
information for FRAC; check us out if you like what you see.



 


January 23, 2003 - 8:43am -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Events

Anonymous Comrade writes "Comrades of SIL,

Here is the latest information on the Meeting of Autonomous People's
Organizations:
Circular of the Organizing Committee of the 1st Latin American Meeting of
Autonomous People's Organizations

Comrades

Our meeting is on the horizon we want to share some information about how
the preparations are going. .

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