Anonymous Comrade writes:

"(Not Your Usual) Notes on Miami"
PK and Friends

We did not get arrested and we are not naïve enough to believe Miami was the greatest day of modern-day revolutionary activity. However, in light of the wave of dejected accounts from the streets and the jails and the ensuing reflections, we feel a gaping whole has been left in the analyses of the events in Miami. Enough material has already been generated in the past two weeks concerning both the nasty, deliberate consequences of the FTAA and the police repression during the ministerial. This article will not attempt to analyze, nor undermine, the importance of the former and the existence of the latter. Nor do we encourage the dwelling on or fetishization of mass demonstrations. We feel that in spite of all the negativity, fear, and outrage surrounding the ministerial and its aftermath, there was an exciting, fundamental shift in resistance strategy (and its popular acceptance) that, once realized, cannot be lost. That is what this article will discuss; and that is what needs to be addressed, applauded, and further developed without hesitation.

"Michel Foucault and Pornography"

Wendy McElroy

"Feminist scholars, many drawing on the insights
offered by Michel Foucault, have urged us to develop
new ways of thinking and speaking."(1) So write the
editors of the book Analyzing Gender. In their
scholarly work Knowing Women: Feminism and Knowledge,
two different feminist editors explain why the French
philosopher Michel Foucault is quoted extensively
therein: "Foucault's discourse theory and the
'post-structuralist' methods of analysis which depend
on it have become very influential within feminist
studies."(2) Since I have an antipathy to fully
one-third of the words in the preceding sentence, I
tend to screen out such scholarly discussions of
Foucault for the sake of my digestion.

An anonymous coward writes:

The Libre Manifesto

A constellation of interests is now seeking to increase their ownership and control of creativity. They tell us that they require new laws and rights that allow them to control concepts and ideas and protect them from exploitation. They say that this will enrich our lives, create new products and safeguard the possibility of future prosperity. But this is an absolute disaster for creativity, whose health depends on an ongoing, free and open conversation between ideas from the past and the present.

— In response, we wish to defend the idea of a creative sphere of concepts and ideas that are free from ownership.(1)

jim writes:

"Beyond Miami: The Future of the ACG Movement"

Matt Gaines

There are several ways to look at what happened in Miami recently
during the anti-FTAA demonstrations that took place there from November
19th-21st, 2003. No matter how the event is interpreted, however, it must
first and foremost be remembered that the FTAA has not yet been stopped. It
still remains a looming possibility. Trade ministers, although they ended
the meetings earlier than originally scheduled, refused to call it quits
altogether, and unlike many predicated, what occurred in Miami was not
another Cancun. The real significance of Miami was, more than anything
else, how it revealed the true nature of this wider movement that is
dedicated to opposing all forms of corporate power and achieving global
social, economic, and environmental justice.