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Bike Warrior writes: Activists Promote Alternative Transportation Through Cross Country Bike Ride Student activists from two universities will be bicycling cross-country from New York City to Portland, Oregon this summer as part of the Bikes Against Big Oil campaign, to express concern over rising gas prices as oil companies continue to show windfall profits. Lauren Giaccone, a student at Pace University in New York City, said this about the campaign:
We are riding to spread awareness of alternatives to cars as a primary means of transportation, and to encourage people, especially those living in major cities, not to sit back and let the big oil companies shaft them in this way. People are disillusioned that a solution can be reached in the near future, because the government has done nothing to help them. The government could easily step in to regulate gas prices if it wanted to, and without sacrificing environmental safety standards.
Bill Templer writes:
"Al-Nakba Day"
Bill Templer
Monday May 15 is al-Nakba Day, the day commemorating the Palestinian ‘catastrophe’ of the loss of their land and expulsion in May 1948. This is the most emotional day in the Palestinian calendar. And there will be demonstrations by Jews and Palestinians together, to mark that commemoration of destruction. Like the Israeli activists at zochrot (Remembering), protesting against the crimes of their country at its birth: here.
A strong article by Eitan Bronstein on the Nakba and Israeli reception of it is timely reading today: here.
The site Palestine Remembered has many excellent materials about the Palestine-Israel conflict and especially the war and its ‘ethnic cleansing’ in 1948.
Not Sheep writes:
"Not Sheep"
New Urban Enclosures and Commons
Vancouver, May 13–20, 2006
Opening Friday, May 12, 8pm
ARTSPEAK
233 Carrall Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6B 2J2
Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons gathers a varied set of examples and speculations on new urban enclosures and commons from more than 30 international artists, writers, architects and theorists. The title of the project takes its name from the wooly emblem of the historical enclosure of common land that began in 16th century England as peasants were driven from arable farming land to make room for sheep-walks. But rather than being a mythical moment in capitalism, the enclosing of commons is a process that is in full force today, and visible in the changing shape of cities globally.
Not Sheep looks at the ways that city territories are becoming increasingly closed off and common goods and spaces enclosed, privatized or gated off. From the privatization of Dresden’s public housing stock to pay the city’s debts, the eviction of community gardeners to make warehouse space in Los Angeles, to more subtle shifts in the production of public space, the process of enclosure is a strategy that is remaking urban experience today. Yet examples of “commoning”, the making of common spaces and resources, are also visible: Caracas turning urban brown space into sites of urban agriculture, squatting actions such as Woodsquat in Vancouver and the Pope Squat in Toronto challenging an ownership model that closes off housing space, and the opening of wireless LAN systems such as Bristol Wireless.
The Precarity Map is online!
http://www.precarity-map.net/
It is the first step of The WebRing for Communication and Militant
Research on
Precarity which intends to produce and share knowledge, experiences and
materials
among labour conflicts and life struggles around precarity.
The P_WR is an open platform and an evolving network connecting activism
already
involved in the EuroMayDay mobilisations. Its main aims are: to
visualize and
intensify the density of militant groups and struggles, to outline a
space for
debate, research and political action, and finally to construct common
practices,
concepts and notions for developing a militant co-research “with”
(instead of
“on”) precarious subjects and their/our struggles.
In the next time the map will be interactive and you could join directly
your
experiences. At now to connect your militant groups or struggle with the
Precarity
Map you can link the web site and fill the nod card.
Lets go, fill the cards and join the P_WR
... And we say: MayDay MayDay!
Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan writes:
Call for Artwork
NYC Benefit Gallery Show for Daniel McGowan
June 23, 2006 at ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street,
between Clinton and Suffolk Street in the Lower East Side
Co-sponsored by Visual Resistance and Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan
Deadline: June 1, 2006
Email Contact: visual.resistance@gmail.com
On December 7th, my friend was arrested at his workplace by federal marshals. The friend I know as a tireless activist and a funny, generous, caring person was ripped from his friends and family without warning and held without bail in federal prison, facing multiple felony charges and life in prison.
I met Daniel McGowan during the buildup to the protests against the Republican National Convention in New York. The Visual Resistance crew was organizing the No RNC Poster Project and Daniel was our first ally. In the time since, Daniel has been a personal friend to all of us in VR and to many more in the larger New York activist community. His constant smile and good humor belied his selfless devotion to making this world a better place.
And on December 9th, he was disappeared. Daniel was extradited to Oregon and held without bail for two months on charges whose statute of limitations were close to expiring. His arrest came as part of a massive government crackdown on the radical environmental movement which many are referring to as the “Green Scare.” His arrest left the community in shock.
Anonymous Comrade writes: El Kilombo Intergalactico Web-Site
"In this period of frustration and disappointment, we must turn from negation to affirmation, from the ever-lasting "No" to the everlasting
"Yes" — W.E.B. Dubois, 1934
El Kilombo Intergalactico officially announces the creation of its website at El Kilombo Intergalactico. Our website includes:
— An amazing blog from one of our members who is currently traveling with the
Zapatista's "Other Campaign." Get photos, news, analysis and constant updates from the New Mexican Revolution and participate in the global Zapatista community through our discussion forums.
— Blogs from Paris, with news, video and analysi from the November 2005 and March 2006 riots and protests, as well as updates from Toni Negri's "Multitudes" seminar.
— Exciting page filled with links about the history and current struggles of People of Color—The Black Panthers, Angela Davis, C.L.R. James, The Younglords, AIM, Red Guards, Elizam Escobar…etc., As Fred Hampton would have wanted — a real "Rainbow Coalition!"
— Video Interviews and articles of the latest round of Migrant Protests in the U.S.
— Links and recovered histories from autonomist movement in North America.
— The latest, New, Analysis and Translations from The Movement of Movements around the world (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, South Korea, South Africa, etc…)
Police Notice
MAYDAY VICTORY CELEBRATIONS
Status: For general distribution within force
2pm Monday 1 May 2006
Bank of England
(Uniformed Officers Only)
It is our pleasure to announce that the Police Mayday Victory Celebrations
will be going ahead as planned. With the "Anarchists" having no plans than a
little marching as part of the usual Trade Union March, it is safe to
declare that we have won! Yes, finally this ancient pagan day of celebration
and disrespect for authority has been conquered - and it's time to have a
party.
We encourage all police men and women who would normally be policing the
anarchist activities to meet for a big street party outside the Bank of
England at 2pm on May 1 2006. Since the lack of any protester activity this
year means that we are all missing out on a fair lump of overtime pay, we
are requesting that all officers supply food and drinks, and anything else
becoming of a uniformed police officer on Mayday, to share with their
fellows.
Please forward to all of your colleagues in the station, and post a copy of
this up on your officers mess notice board.
The Space Hijackers Police Force.
Making London Safer
NOTES:
1) All officers are expected to be in uniform. Anyone attempting to be funny
and arriving dressed as one of the great unwashed hippie or anarchist crowd
may feel the blows of our truncheons. Riot vans are welcome although please
note that parking restrictions may apply (consult your station master).
2) Police bands are more than welcome, also please remember to bring a radio
to listen to the police frequencies.
3) Once again, this is a party for UNIFORMED POLICE ONLY, no terrorist
protestors or bank robbers.
http://www.spacehijackers.org
ART AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
Capturing the Moving Mind, ARS 06 Kiasma Rear Window 20.4.-2.7.2006.
In September 2005 a meeting took place in the Trans-Siberian train. It gathered a pack of people ... artists, economists, researchers, philosophers, activists who were interested in the new logic of the economy (knowledge economy, attention economy, biopolitical economy), the new forms of war and politics (war against terrorism) and in the new cooperative modes of creation and resistance (precariarity, terrorist cells)... together in a space moving in time. Spatially moving bodies and bodies moving in time (through nine time zones) created an event, a meeting that not really 'was' but 'is going on'.
Capturing the Moving Mind exhibition tells about this organizational experiment. The exhibition at the Kiasma Rear Window is part of the ARS 06 exhibition. It weaves a connection between art and politics, between art as an act of resistance and economy as production of life. Today our thinking and emotional abilities, our imagination and subjectivity are increasingly put to work in economic production. That is why the question of art as an act of resistance and creation of new forms of autonomous and good life – a life in which our ways and acts of living are always about the possibilities of life – intervenes directly at the core of this enterprise. The question of experimental life and the critique of capitalism must today be seen as one.
ephemera
volume 6, number 1 (february 2006)
The new issue (6.1) of ephemera: theory & politics in organization,
entitled 'In Times, in and as Global Conflict', has just been published at
http://www.ephemeraweb.org. The issue includes a special section with papers
originally published in the Italian journal Conflitti Globali, a new
translation of an interview with Antonio Negri as well as a 'note' and three
'reviews'.
Zapatista Network Call
To the compañer@s in every corner of the so-called US and Canada,
To all the peoples of the continent named America,
To the struggling Peoples of the Global South and the world,
To all the adherents of the Sixth Declaration, the Other Campaign, and the
International Campaign,
To the national and international alternative press
We, the Zapatista Network, are reaching out as a newly emerging “network of
networks” to invite companer@s in the so-called U.S. and Canada to “walk
together” as Zapatista grassroots and community-based groups who support the
Zapatistas and are inspired by Zapatismo. Our intent has been to create
spaces of
encounter so that diverse groups can share ideas, resources and projects
as part
of a larger process to strengthen each collectives’ work, solidarity
efforts, and
rebellion. We also aim to promote and support the formation of new Zapatista
inspired collectives. By saying “network of networks” we propose one of many
overlapping webs of resistance taking place all over the world.
Since January 1, 1994 when the EZLN declared ¡Ya Basta! Mexican and
International
Civil Society have responded in solidarity creating a broad base of
support. The
Zapatistas’ commitment to encounter and dialogue has made it possible to
collectively imagine “a world where many worlds fit.” Some communities
working in
solidarity with the Zapatistas have responded with aid, while others used
direct
action to help halt the military and state repression, drawing attention
to the
low intensity war directed against the Zapatistas. The response to the
Zapatista
rebellion has been unique not only in its diversity but its intensity.
Solidarity
efforts have served to keep people informed, provide material support, and
protest the cruel excesses of military and state repression. More
importantly,
communities around the world and in the US have pursued their own resistance
locally, attempting to imagine and realize a different way of doing politics.
In August 2004 the Committee of Indigenous Solidarity-DC-Zapatistas sent
out a
call to form a zapatista network in the U.S. and Canada that was initially
referred to as red “Plan Morelia-Polo Norte” (in response to and in
solidarity
with the Plan La Realidad-Tijuana in Mexico). This call was made in order to
construct one avenue of many for zapatista inspired groups in this region of
America to dialogue and construct networks of support. Of the Zapatista
related
collectives and groups who responded to this initial call, we began talking
together about encuentro, Zapatismo, Zapatista solidarity and how to reach
out to
others so that we all know that we are not alone.
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