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September 15, 2004 - 8:39am -- jim
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Shut Down the School of Assassins!

Fort Benning, Georgia, Nov. 19–21, 2004

The School of the Americas (SOA), renamed the Western
Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or
WHINSEC, is a combat training school for Latin American
security personnel located at Fort Benning, Georgia.


Initially established in Panama in 1946, the SOA was
kicked out of that country in 1984 under the terms of
the Panama Canal Treaty. Former Panamanian President
Jorge Illueca stated that the School of the Americas
was the "biggest base for destabilization in Latin
America." The SOA/WHINSEC, funded by US taxpayer money,
has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in such
courses as counterinsurgency techniques, sniper
training, commando and psychological warfare, military
intelligence and interrogation tactics.

September 15, 2004 - 8:27am -- jim
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Events

philly_ara@yahoo.com writes:

Pennsylvania Nazis Protest

September 25th, 2004

Valley Forge National Battlefield, Valley Forge, PA

With the Bush administration firmly entrenched in power, true fascists —
an assortment of neo-Nazi and other far-right groups — are no longer
afraid to organize publicly, far from their home base of support. The
National Socialist Movement (NSM) is planning a large public demonstration
on September 25th in Valley Forge, PA. The NSM, who refer to themselves as
America's Nazi Party, feel no need to hide in their homes in Minnesota,
and have instead chosen a location on the East Coast less than half an
hour from the very multi-racial and multi-cultural City of Philadelphia.
We in Anti-Racist Action are planning a counter-demonstration to oppose
these fascists, and are inviting all those who believe in freedom and
equality to join us in sending the NSM a strong message that fascist scum
are not welcome in Pennsylvania!

September 13, 2004 - 2:23pm -- jim
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molizzard writes:

"On Political Hope and Persistence"

New York City, September 19–20, 2004

Peace Action of New York, the Nation, CUNY Granduate Center and All Souls Unitarian Church Peace Task Force are sponsoring 2 days of conversations on Political Hope and Persistence.


The conversations will be moderated by Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take a Little While, Hope in a Time of Fear.

Sunday, September 19, 1:00 - 3:30 pm

CUNY Graduate Center Auditorium, 365 5th Ave., NYC

Speakers: Mary Catherine Bateson, anthropologist and author of Composing a Life; Bill McKibben, author of Hope, Human and Wild; Martin Espada, poet and author of Imagine the Angels of Bread and Jack DuVall, producer of public broadcasting series A Force More Powerful.

Monday, September 20, 7:30 - 9:30 pm

All Souls Unitarian Church Sanctuary, 80th St. and Lexington Ave. NYC

Speakers: Joe Trippi, former Dean campaign manager and author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; Susan Griffin, feminist and author of Women and Nature; Walter Wink, religious scholar and author of Engaging the Powers and Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo and author of My Heart Will Cross this Ocean.

Suggested Donation: $10 per event ($5 low income), $15 both events ($8 low income)


Reservations 212-817-8215

September 9, 2004 - 12:45pm -- jim
Events
The State

Orion Anderson writes:

"Psychoanalysis and Democracy" Conference

New York City, October 15–17, 2004

Recent debates about democracy, and current events on a global scale, call for a re-examination of the basic concepts that lie at the intersection between psychoanalysis and democracy today, from notions of citizenship, human rights, and justice, to practices of punishment, freedom, equal representation, and other political "technologies of the self." How might psychoanalysis help to address the social questions that challenge or reconfigure democratic culture today? What does psychoanalysis have to say about citizenship and subjectivity in the world today?


The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) is holding its annual conference at the Union Theological Seminary of Columbia University. The theme of this year's conference is: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND DEMOCRACY.


The conference will take place on October 15-17, 2004, just prior to the American presidential election. The aim of the conference is to explore how psychoanalysis might help to address some of the major issues facing democratic institutions and ideals, both in the United States and at a more broadly global level.

September 3, 2004 - 10:01am -- hydrarchist
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Independent Media

Onto writes:


Media EmergenC Gathering

Oct. 6-9, 2004, San Diego, CA [anti-NAB]

In San Diego, California, we are suffocating from media
pollution. Hence, San Diego
Indymedia is organizing an alternative media conference called Media EmergenC. It is a counter conference to the
NAB's Radio Road Show which is being held in San Diego Oct. 6-8. Our
counter conference is October 6-9. Please see http://www.mediaemergenc.org
for details.

August 7, 2004 - 7:14pm -- nolympics
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Economy

Siv writes

The first public conference of the New Energy Movement (NEM) will be in Portland, Oregon. The venue is Reed College 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. on September 25th, and Portland State University auditorium from 1 p.m. on September 26th.

Confirmed Speakers:



Martin Burger

Mark Comings

Nick Cook

John Dash

Dr. Steven Greer

Win Lambertson

Jeane Manning

Brian O'Leary

Tom Valone

William Baumgartner

Peter LaVaute
...and others

For conference details go to http://www.NewEnergyMovement.org/



GlobalZees is hosting a rideboard here.

August 4, 2004 - 12:30pm -- jim
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"Life After Capitalism" Conference
New York City, August 20-22, 2004

The protests around the Republican National Convention taking place in New
York City later this summer are shaping up to be perhaps the largest this
country has ever seen. As folks from all over the United States have
started booking their flights, organizing their local communities into
busses and vans, and collecting that last bit of gas money from in between
the pillows of their couches — organizers are quietly discussing the
possibility of having over 1 million people converging in the streets of
New York City during the week of Aug 28th-September 2nd....

July 21, 2004 - 10:39am -- hydrarchist
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Independent Media

Anonymous Comrade writes "Join us for an evening with Tel Aviv media artist and peace activist
Horit Herman Peled and political scientist Yoav Peled discussing
digital cultural production and civil rights.

Wednesday, July 21, 7pm

THE THING

601 West 26th Street

New York, New York 10001

Tel: 212-937 0443

Email: info@thing.net

(organized by Trebor Scholz in collaboration with The Thing)

Horit Herman Peled is a net artist and PhD student in media philosophy
at
the European Graduate School. She teaches digital art and theory of
digital
culture at the Art Institute at Oranim College in Israel. Her work
deals
with Israeli colonialism and the ways in which it renders an artistic
terrain that makes it imperative for artists to choose to engage their
work
as responsible citizens.

July 15, 2004 - 11:46am -- jim
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"Life After Capitalism" Conference

New York City, August 20-22, 2004


www.lifeaftercapitalism.org


The protests around the Republican National Convention taking place in New
York City later this summer are shaping up to be perhaps the largest this
country has ever seen.


As folks from all over the United States have
started booking their flights, organizing their local communities into
busses and vans, and collecting that last bit of gas money from in between
the pillows of their couches — organizers are quietly discussing the
possibility of having over 1 million people converging in the streets of
New York City during the week of Aug 28th-September 2nd....

July 9, 2004 - 2:45pm -- jim
Events
Culture

Laurie Mimosa writes:

This would be a great event to cover — as a cultural demonstration against repression of free space in nyc.


2nd Annual "I LOVE NY?" Poetry Festival

Tompkins Square Park, July 17, 2004

"art is permitted everywhere" presents the second annual "I LOVE NY?" Poetry Festival — A festival of words celebrating New York City in one of the finest public places in New York. This is a time to support public speaking at a time of great unrest and suppression of public voice.


Date: Saturday July 17th, 2004

Place: Tompkins Square Park Lower East Side 9th Street and A Old Bandshell area

Time: 2–6pm

Cost: Free


Featured: Over fifty poets, musicians, bards, and bitter and elated New yorkers from around New York City who will gather to read and speak about New York City — those who have lived and loved and hated the city from days to decades. Featuring over fify New York Bards, Poets, Musicians including: magdelena alagna, urayoen noel, chi chi valenti, ryn gargulynski, bob hershon, jim feast, bronx buffallo poets, Danny Shot....


See www.artispermittedeverywhere.com for full listing and updates.


Contact: Laurie Schoeman 917 664 6649 or ljsmimosa@yahoo.com

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