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February 10, 2005 - 1:59pm -- hydrarchist
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D. Umpster writes
Save The Date!

A New World in Our Hearts: Building for Revolution May Day Conference will be held in NYC Thursday, April 28 – May 1

There will be workshops, skill shares, music, a really free market, a critical mass bike ride, parties, speakers, films, a soccer tournament and more

Some of the workshops we will be hosting:

-Bridging the Generational Divide: An open dialogue between older and younger radicals with Ashanti Alston.

January 27, 2005 - 9:02am -- jim
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Reviews

"Helen Macfarlane" Book Party

New York City, Jan. 30, 2005

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth Century England

By David Black (Lexington Books, 2004)

Sunday, JAN. 30, 7:00–9:15 p.m.

A talk by Anne Jaclard, followed by open discussion. Free admission. Book available for purchase.


39 West 14th Street, Rm. 205 (Identity House — ring buzzer 205 and come to second floor), Manhattan (north side of 14th St., between 5th and 6th Aves.; take any train to 14th St. or Union Square)


This intellectual biography plunges the reader into the most revolutionary organizations and ideas of the era. A radical Chartist and colleague of Marx in 1849-50, Macfarlane was the first person to translate the Communist Manifesto into English and the first Britisher to translate and comment on Hegel's works. Yet she was nearly lost to history: no one published her name with her translation of the Manifesto, including the American edition published by the feminist Victoria Woodhull.

January 26, 2005 - 2:48pm -- jim
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Affordable Housing Rally

New York City, Feb. 2, 2005


Join Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and the Jewish contingent at a rally on Wednesday, February 2, at 4:30 outside City Hall (Broadway, 2 blocks south of Chambers) to demand that City officials guarantee affordable housing to ALL New Yorkers!


This march and rally will underscore five policy changes that can help New York City address it's worsening housing crises and create and preserve homes for the neediest New York City households.

January 26, 2005 - 10:55am -- jim
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Ecology

"Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage"

Screening and Discussion, New York City, Jan. 27, 2005


Recycle This! presents:

GONE TOMORROW: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF GARBAGE

[a film + discussion with the film's director and other speakers]

Thursday, January 27, 2005 + 7 PM

Park Slope Food Co-op

782 Union Street (between 6th + 7th Ave)

Park Slope, Brooklyn

FREE + Light Refreshments will be served + Open to the public

Curbside recycling has returned to New York City, but NYC residents
produce some 13,000 tons of garbage a day, which is then exported and
travels to and through poor communities in other states. How can we
reduce our waste and create a more sustainable NYC?

Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage illustrates the links
between modern industrial production, consumer culture and our
disposable lifestyle. With only 5% of the world’s population, the U.S.
consumes more than a quarter of the planet’s resources. Serious yet
wryly humorous, the film’s images portray the unintentional beauty of
production, waste, and the stories our culture tells us about both.



Film (19 min) to be followed by a discussion with:


+ Heather Rogers, the film’s writer/director and a Brooklyn resident

+ Robin Nagle, NYU anthropologist and author of the forthcoming
tentatively titled book: We all Wear Green: Flinging Trash in NYC.

Recycle This! is a grassroots activist group which works creatively
around NYC waste issues and meets in Park Slope.

Find out more about Recycle This at www.RecycleThisNYC.org or write to

info@recyclethisnyc.org or call 212.592.4184.

This event is presented with The Park Slope Food Co-Op Environmental
Committee.

Trains: Q/B to 7th Ave, walk along 7th to Union
or R to Union St, walk up Union St towards 7th Ave.

January 26, 2005 - 9:44am -- jim
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"Epicenter: Aid for Aceh"

New York City, Feb. 3, 2005

Friends of Aceh

Friends of Aceh is raising funds on behalf of locally based grassroots organizations (such as Aceh Kita, Kontras, Flower Aceh, and People¹s Crisis Center) that were operating in Aceh prior to the tsunami. Aceh Kita is an independent media organization in Aceh.  Kontras is the Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence. Flower Aceh is a women¹s organization focusing on economic livelihoods, women¹s empowerment in Aceh, and women¹s human rights.  The People¹s Crisis Center is a humanitarian organization working to build community livelihood, health and education for the peoples of Aceh.


Who: Experimental music and visual artists in collaboration with
Acehnese activists.

What: Fundraiser party to benefit victims of the tsunami in the
Indonesian province of Aceh.

When: Thursday, February 3, 2005 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Where: Clemente Soto Velez Center, 107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey, Manhattan.


Admission: $10-$30, sliding scale;

January 24, 2005 - 8:26am -- jim
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Alan Moore writes:

"Beats for Peace" Valentines Day Dance Party
New York City, Feb. 12, 2005


Hey Pals, Get on board! February 12th Saturday is the throwdown Benefit for the UU Church Social Concerns Committee speakers fund. We’ve brought you such fine speakers as the Frank Barbaro vs Vito Fossella debate, uber-economist Jeffrey Sachs, Daniel Berrigan, Lynne Stewart, Norman Siegel, Stanley Aronowitz, cartoonist David Rees, the Yes Men and Reverend Billy. (Check out http://uuforum.org/ to see it.)


Help us keep 'em coming!


You gotta make this scene, ‘cause it’s going to be THE happening party in fast-frozen Shaolin Isle! With DJs & disco balls and all that jazz. The event is "night club style," with spicy food and strange drinks (non-alcoholic, but adults may BYO). Under 21's are welcome, but they better step lively! Dance floor and lounges with videos, soft floors and special surprises. Dress as your favorite lounge lizard or nightclub star and get free food inside.


(Gung-ho party-makin' people invited for the committee — call "Rude-Alf" at 917 574 8392.)

UU Forum programs: http://uuforum.org/
Old-fashioned realistic Church website: http://members.aol.com/Uucsi/

January 23, 2005 - 10:02am -- jim
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Post-Holiday Re-Gifting Freemeet!

New York City, Saturday, January 29, 2005

10am–6pm

Sixth Street Community Center

*FREE*

Bring your unwanted, but useful stuff to give away,
or come by to see what's being offered! Nothing is for
sale — everything goes on a first-come first-served
basis.

January 21, 2005 - 5:15pm -- Stenglander
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Ecology

ABC No Rio writes:

SPICE: photo exhibition & auction to benefit Tsunami relief


A photography show and anonymous silent auction to benefit Architecture For Humanity's building effort in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.


Contributing photographers include Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas, Burt Glinn, Steve McCurry, David Alan Harvey, Stuart Franklin, Chris Rainier, Zana Briski, Abbas and many others...


Silent Auction begins with Gallery Opening at ABC No Rio

THURSDAY JANUARY 27 7:00pm to 10:00pm

Viewing through Tuesday February 8

Viewing Hours: Sundays 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:00pm to 7:00pm


ABC No Rio

156 Rivington Street

(between Clinton & Suffolk)

NYC


Silent Auction concludes with closing party

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 9 7:00pm to 10:00pm

CARRIAGE HOUSE CENTER for GLOBAL ISSUES

149 East 38th Street

NYC


For more information: www.architectureforhumanity.org/SPICE.htm


Sponsored by Magnum Photos, Architecture for Humanity, ABC No Rio and Earth Pledge.

January 19, 2005 - 3:28pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

UPDATE: Please note that the deadline for abstracts has been extended to
January 30th.

Grave ReMarx: The Accumulating Dead

The University of Florida’s Marxist Reading Group
Seventh Annual Conference

March 24-26, 2005 at the University of Florida


Keynote speakers: Warren Montag and Mark Neocleous

How has Marx's promise of a spectre haunting Europe been explained away, ridiculed, or destroyed, and at the same time how does Marx himself haunt our thinking and rethinking of the present world? Rather than a revolutionary class haunting the world, today the left lingers on an always familiar political ground and appears stagnant by its own struggles, failures, and deaths. This conference seeks papers that either explore the ways in which the spirit of revolution has been kept alive through its critique of the monstrous side of capitalism, or interrogate circumstances in which that same spirit has itself assumed a monstrous or ghostly face.


This conference acknowledges that capitalism constantly threatens life and tends to reproduce it as monstrous. Indeed, in the global context, daily life becomes a desperately lived struggle as capital continues to undermine, deform, and destroy all forms of life. The presence of the monstrous in capital permits a discussion of the destructive forces of capitalism, and the attempts of the left to resist and rise above such destruction on all fronts, such as economics, politics, and social/spatial relations. We implicitly ask how narratives of the monstrous conjure the spirit of marxism, Marx, and the revolutionary struggle.

January 19, 2005 - 2:59pm -- jim
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And So Forth: A Post-Inaugural Assembly

New York City, Jan. 22-23, 2005

Amnesty International Firefly Project, Theaters Against War (THAW), Art is
Permitted Everywhere and FELT are pleased (overjoyed!) to invite you to
participate in our upcoming conference on arts + activism.


AND SO FORTH: A Post-Inaugural Assembly

January 22nd + 23rd, 2005

OfficeOps in East Williamsburg (L to Morgan)

"All art is a revolt against man's fate." -Andre Malreaux

On January 22 + 23, over 45 artists, producers, curators, activists, and
YOU will come together to share skills and strategies for raising social
and political consciousness through the arts. AND SO FORTH is two days
jam-packed with panel and roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops, film
screenings, collaborative art projects, performances, a gallery exhibition
of political art, and much more.



ASF is open to the public, and costs $10 in advance or $12 at the door.



Check out www.aifirefly.org/andsoforth for the full schedule of events.



:: How to Register ::
Go to www.aifirefly.org/andsoforth and click on "register." Volunteers can
attend the conference for free (volunteer slots are filling up fast!).



:: More about And So Forth ::
Scheduled to coincide with the official beginning of George W. Bush's
second presidential term, ASF was conceived and organized by members of
Amnesty International Firefly Project in response to the surge of
politically-engaged art-making that swept New York City in the months
leading up to the Republican National Convention and the 2004 election.



Prominent members of New York City's burgeoning artist-activist
community will join representatives from politically-oriented and
grassroots arts organizations to discuss topics ranging from the
political potential of gallery exhibitions to documentary filmmaking,
public performance, political satire, and fundraising.


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