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October 5, 2004 - 8:15am -- jim
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"Doubletalk and Doublethink"

David Levi Strauss on Abu Ghraib and Images


Autonomedia author and critic David Levi Strauss is participating in four New York City area events in the next few weeks concerning Abu Ghraib prison and the media politics of the image.


The schedules of these events is below:

October 5, 2004 - 7:54am -- jim
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Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!

A Benefit for Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble

Featuring Tony Conrad / HangedUp, Dj Olive / Toshio Kajiwara / Markus Miller / Dj North Guinea Hills, Tyondai Braxton, Services, New Humans, Dub Trio, Talibam, Martha Wilson


Thursday October 21, 8pm, $12 (two floors of music)

Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street (between Rivington and Delancy)

Contact: Dion Workman, 212-358-7501

The Benefit

"Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!" is an energetic round-up of musicians, entertainers and visual artists who are creating loud and clear feedback in support of Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). This benefit will help raise money for Kurtz's legal fees in a case of FBI harassment and silencing dissent. To date, the CAE Defense Fund has raised an impressive $30,000, but the total costs are estimated at $150,000. There is still hope that the court will realize the absurdity of the case and dismiss Kurtz of charges in December; if this does happen, the fund will be used to help others who may find themselves under similar political scrutiny.

September 27, 2004 - 11:00am -- jim
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Film Screening, Talk & Benefit for the Critical Art Ensemble

Organized by Autonomedia and Marianne Shaneen

Sunday October 3, 2004 at 7pm — Price: $6

Ocularis at: Galapagos Art & Performance Space

70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent)

Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211

nearest subway: Bedford Ave L Train

venue tel/fax: 718-388-8713

FILMS BY:

Manual DeLanda, the Critical Art Ensemble, Keith Sanborn,
Peggy Ahwesh, Eli Elliott, Dara Greenwald, Eric Henry, Rachel Mayeri,
and the United States Dept of Defense


WITH COMMENTARY BY:

Jim Costanzo, Greg Sholette, Keith Sanborn, and John Henry

September 27, 2004 - 2:15am -- jim
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Technology

Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art, and the City

October 1–3 from 12–4 PM, New York City, City Hall Park

Spectropolis is a three-day event (October 1-3, 2004) in Lower Manhattan that highlights the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voice. The increasing presence of mobile communication technologies is transforming the ways we live, construct and move through our built environment. The participants of Spectropolis make obvious or play with this shift, creating new urban perceptions and social interactions with cell phones, laptops, wireless internet, PDAs and radio. Don't forget to bring your Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA  for an added encounter!

September 26, 2004 - 10:58am -- jim
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Independent Media

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Media EmergenC" Conference

Autonomous, Independent, and Alternative Media

San Diego, October 6–9, 2004

Are you upset about how the corporate media act as cheerleaders from war, while they profit from it?


Are you frustrated about how the corporate media named George Bush as our president before he actually was, supporting the illegal election?


Are you tired of never hearing the words "global warming" come from the mouth of a TV newsperson?

September 22, 2004 - 1:43pm -- jim
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Massachusetts Democracy School

Peter Kellman, Mary Zepernick and Adam Sacks

Boston, October 1–3, 2004

The POCLAD-inspired Center for Democracy & the Constitution is hosting a Democracy School at Boston College the first weekend in October.


Democracy School is a stimulating and illuminating course that teaches citizens and activists how to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single issue work (such as opposing toxic dumps, quarries, factory
farms, etc.) in a way that we can confront corporate control on a powerful single front: people's constitutional rights.

September 22, 2004 - 1:09pm -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Books Against Borders"
St. Louis Independent Bookfair
Saturday, October 2, 2004, 10am-5pm

St. Louis, Missouri
3664 Arsenal St.

THIS EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

An open invitation...
to an all-day celebration and exhibition (a bookfair!) of independent and alternative publishers and distributors. The day will be anchored by tablers from dozens of North American publishers and distributors. Such notables as Left Bank Books, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., Third World Press, Arsenal Magazine, Mama Specific Productions, the Denver Zine Library, and Midwest Books to Prisoners will be on hand. Come and check out independently produced books, zines, journals, newspapers, comics, poetry, and pamphlets that are all too elusive to be found in the mammoth chain bookstores that litter our landscape.

September 17, 2004 - 6:49pm -- nolympics
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Culture

THE CULTURE PROJECT (home of The Exonerated and Sarah Jones Bridge and Tunnel) presents the new HIT political drama…

GUANTANAMO: HONOR BOUND To DEFEND FREEDOM.

Called “The Most Important civil liberties case in half a century ” by The New York Times.

Summary: Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion, and political debate, Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' looks at the questions surrounding the detentions in Guantánamo Bay, and asks how much damage is being done to Western democratic values during the 'war on terror.'

“Given the material, there is no need for histrionic acting. The facts literally speak for themselves. The evening left one stirred, questioning and with a sense that one could no longer seek refuge in ignorance.”-The Independent on Sunday.

“I want anyone who is seriously interested in the values that sustain civilization to see this production.”-The Financial Times.
Plays Tuesday-Saturday at 8PM and Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday at 3PM.
GET TICKETS on the web or over the phone through Ticketmaster.com or #212-307 4100, or in person from 12:30-7:30PM daily at the box office at 45 Bleecker St. (@ Lafayette) #212-253-9983.


Tickets Normally $55/60.

***SPECIAL INTER ACTIVIST DISCOUNT ONLY $25!***


Use secret code JGACT. Offer expires 10/19.

September 17, 2004 - 6:37pm -- nolympics
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Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images


Cinematexas, Austin TX, September 24, 25, 26, 2004


All events are free


Sundays Schedule now includes a marine recently returned from fighting in Iraq who is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War

Venue: The Warehouse at American Youthworks, 216 E. 4th St (between Brazos St. and San Jacinto Blvd.).


Friday 24th


Up Shit Creek


6:30-7:00 Obstacle (excerpt).

Directed by Nida Sinnokrot.

English and Arabic. 30 minutes

Obstacle journeys along the Israeli wall currently being built inside the West Bank in Palestine. The wall has been carefully designed to annex much of the West Banks water and most of its good land.


7:00-8:30pm Bi Dam (With Blood)

English and Arabic. 50 minutes

Directed by Juliana Fredman & Dan O'Reilly-Rowe.
Bi Dam reveals the extent to which the Israeli occupation is sundering Palestinian health services. Densely populated areas are routinely ‘closed’ to patients traveling for treatment, ambulances have been attacked and water polluted, [ergo up shit creek]. Dan O’Reilly-Rowe will be available to answer questions after the screening.

September 15, 2004 - 11:57am -- jim
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Culture

"Splendid Isolation: Urban and Rural Flows and Counterflows in Electronic
Music and Related Media"

February 10-12, 2005, Berlin, Germany

Held in conjunction with club transmediale.05 [BASICS]


The relationship between communication technologies and the city has been a
long and complicated one, where the density of communicative activity has
often been taken as defining characteristic of urban life. By contrast,
rural areas have been idealized and marked by the relative absence of these
technologies, a perception which tends to obscure the social and spatial
consequences of communication technologies in rural areas. Out of this
dichotomous set of associations has emerged a constellation of forces,
ideas, images and experiences which have defined both the city and rural
zones in unique and singular ways.

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