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December 2, 2003 - 12:12pm -- jim
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Independent Media

An anonymous coward writes:

"High Noon"

A Call by Geneva03 Initiative!

1 Towards High Noon
In recent years media activism has evolved globally from local pirate radios, video activist groups and paper zines into complex networks of alliances that use ICT to bridge the physical gap in txt, visual and sonic media, as well as those of distance and feasibility. Some of these networks (like Indymedia) have showed the way for others how to structure the information aggregation and dissemination process.

December 1, 2003 - 7:53pm -- jim
Events
Theory

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Roundtable Discussion on Multitudes

New York City, December 5th, 2-5pm, free

Current debates within radical political thought have
once again returned to the question of the
revolutionary subject. Michael Hardt and Antonio
Negri’s provocative claim in Empire that the
Spinozist concept of the multitude best describes the
agent of revolutionary change in today’s society has
become a central topic of discussion within Left
political movements and has engendered a series of
recent interventions by such notable political
theorists as Slavoj Zizek, Alex Callinicos, Ernesto
Laclau, Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou. They have
contrasted the concept of multitude to the concepts of
class and the people have framed the division in terms
of St. Francis versus St. Paul, idealism versus
materialism, and ontology versus event.

October 16, 2003 - 6:16pm -- jim
Events
Events

Melina writes

The Lower Eastside Girls Club will be hosting "Youth Talks," which will be
the Youth component of the Peace Talks held by Middle Church on Nov 7, 8.

October 14, 2003 - 11:51am -- hydrarchist
Events
Prisons & Prisoners

Anonymous Comrade writes:

02.11.03: INTERNATIONAL ACTION DAY IN SUPPORT OF PRISONER MARCO CAMENISCH

dear friends and comrades,

in the last days, eco-anarchist prisoner marco camenisch was once again the target of an international police operation. on 17.09. and 24.09.03 italian state launched in cooperation with swiss federal police forces an immense attack against marco and the vast social and political solidarity he gets from his friends and supporters. while swiss police searched his cell in prison of pfäffikon/ZH (switzerland), in italiy special forces of the carabinieri raided about 40 houses and offices of suspected militants.

September 22, 2003 - 2:34pm -- jim
Events
Events

Anonymous Comrade writes

The Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC) announces:


A Northeast transportation fund for the Anarchist People of Color conference has been established!


All People of Color from the Northeastern Region that want to utilize this fund should contact:

September 13, 2003 - 11:19am -- jim
Events
In the Streets

midwest unrest writes:

Chicago Consulta to Shut Down the FTAA

Nov. 20-21, 2003


On November 20 and 21 the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) will meet at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Miami to unilaterally finalize their vision of an economic policy that threatens the freedom and well being of every living being in this hemisphere. Although ordinary people will not be allowed into the meetings to offer their input, we will be in the streets to welcome them.

August 18, 2003 - 4:48pm -- nolympics
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In the Streets

rncnotwelcome.org writes "August 2003 Critical Mass Ride!:

The Republican National Convention gets UNINVITED!



Hundreds of New York’s cyclists, skaters, and bladers will be taking the streets once again for Friday August 29th’s Critical Mass. The theme for this month’s Critical Mass is uninviting the Republican National Convention.



One year from this ride, the RNC will be in Madison Square Garden to renominate Bush for the 2004 election. Let’s show the RNC now that their oil-thirsty agenda is not welcome in NYC!



Bring signs, banners, and fliers - or just your bikes. Critical Mass starts from Union Square North at 7pm."

August 18, 2003 - 10:10am -- nolympics
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In the Streets

nolympics submits "Umbrella House. 21/23 ave C between 2nd and 3rd.



Friday night has Movies, Norman Finkelstein, bands and DJs.



7.30pm. "Obstacle" by Nida Sinnokrot. 10 min short of new documentary about the Israeli wall being built in the west Bank, followed by a discussion with Norman Finkelstein (author of 'Image and reality of the Palestine/Israel conflict' and 'the Holocaust Industry')



Cul de Sac. hour long documentary about the decline of suburban San Diego, the closure of arms manufacturing plants, and the subsequent social catastrophe of crystal meth and madness which culminates in our hero stealing a US army tank, joyriding thorugh town and ultimately being executed by the cops.



"extraordinary"... James Joyce



After the movies and speaking we will have bands and dj's, refreshments provided. Door pressure....5ds

All Funds will be brought to Cancun to help with any bail monies or medical expenses that may be necessary.

August 12, 2003 - 6:41pm -- nolympics
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Events

Anonymous Comrade submits "Invitation of Via Campesina for Cancun, Mexico September 10-14,
2003.


WTO out of agriculture! Take Food out of the WTO! No Patents on
life forms!


Organizations of peasants, indigenous peoples, family farmers,
fishers, farm
workers, migrants, landless workers, and rural women from
various countries
believes that:


The "liberalization" of agricultural trade - the principle
objective of the
WTO - has exacerbated a crisis in rural societies and has
worsened the
living conditions. Hunger, unemployment, poverty, inequality
and the
degradation of natural resources are increasing in rural areas
around the
world.

August 10, 2003 - 4:55pm -- nolympics
Events
Culture

nolympics writes "Paralax View is a forum for critical work from film/video, radio, activism and scholarship. It happens in Austin, texas from the 19th to 21st september and is free to the public.



this years line up



Friday night

Can the media tell the truth about anything, ever?

Journalist Alexander Cockburn presents a lecture on the state of the US and the media, followed by "The Universal Clock' about the making of La Commune and the work of Peter Watkins, one of the foremost radicals in the documentary world.



Saturday

The return of the social

Illustrators and art provocateurs Eric Drooker and Robbie Conal present slide shows of their work and engage with their public.

"Production Notes", the making of the ad. (and its unmaking)

Richard Porton (author of Anarchism and the Film Imagination and film critic for Cineaste) presents "The Liberal War" from 1972, a fantastic study with dolls and animation of the manner in which the media was instrumentalised during the Vietnam War (by Nick Mcdonald), and "Winstanley", a film about the digger uprising in the 1640's. Christopher Hill worked as a historical consultant on the making of this masterpiece and helped generate the script from the writings of Winstanley in the British library, the same writings used by Marx in developing his early ideas about communism. Both of these are an absolute must see and I urge attendance no matter what the cost.



Sunday

From Globalisation to War

Video from Cancun where the WTO meet the previous weekend. Survivors will be on hand to recount their adventures.

"The fourth world war", US premiere of the new Big Noise opus which travels the world to find the world in which all worlds are possible.

David Martine (survivor of the Oakland docks shootings and the massacres of Aceh) screens video from SF of the shut downs there during the outbreak of the Iraq War.



Check cinematexas.org for times and venues and updates. Tell your friends in Texas."

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