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"Remembering Julian Beck"
Hanon Reznikov
We are thinking of Julian today, on the twentieth anniversary of his departure from our midst. We remember in living color his voice, his vision, his poetry and the theater he enlarged with them. Tom, Ilion , Malina and myself drove out to Cedar Park Cemetery this morning and gathered at his grave. Judith read Shelley's "The West Wind," which they used to read aloud together and I read the poem below, by Dacia Maraini.
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"Now Julian, You Walk Barefoot"
Dacia Maraini
To Julian Beck
Now Julian, you walk barefoot
Now Julian, you eat frozen roses
Now Julian, all the cats have fled
your lap, not even a flea
would take you for its father
In a hall in Cinecittà
you ate pasta and beans
on a plastic plate
Julian, your fingers dirty with green lacquer,
you spoke of liberty,
your mouth full, your eyes laughing
so white
and so full of air
Julian, what was the theatre
under your thin feet
divided in hot and bitter zones
between gushes of an imaginary reality
the geometry of your intelligence
your colorless ascetic's tongue
made you seem a ferocious monk
but you liked touching walls,
bodies, machines, the earth.
Julian, with your face of a predatory bird,
you smoked like an old Turk,
sliding in your black trousers
along the paths of thought
and Judith with her hair swelled
like a wild owl's wing
gold prospectors you and she bent
under the stage's boards
digging for treasure, so she was born
like a mouse between flying stagelights
and you behind
with an acrobat's grace
in winter's glittering evenings between glass panels
and Dutch linens, between taffeta flowers
and paper crowns, Julian when you will look at us
we will already be faraway
and you, great archer in your world
of ringing silences will look at us
through your reversed binoculars
and we will salute each other as from distant ships
raising our arms and a white rag
There is a wonderful tribute to Julian put together by Gary Brackett here
and another by our Italian comrades at here.
Steve Franco writes:
"Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’
Washington, DC, Nov. 2–Dec. 11, 2005
A Play by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo from spoken evidence
Directed by Serge Seiden
Tight, tense and boldly current, Guantanamo tells the gripping true stories of four British residents imprisoned at Guantanamo and paints an unforgettable portrait of America’s controversial prison. Guantanamo tackles one of the most significant and troubling issues of our time, the U.S. government’s arrest and imprisonment of terrorist suspects without due process. Actor Harsh Nayyar, who played Mr. Begg, father of Guantanamo inmate Moazzam Begg, in the New York production, returns to the role at The Studio Theatre.
Wyette Hertz and Easy Biscuits writes:
We, faraway friends of New Orleans, passed the summer with Okra P. Dingle on a farm in upstate New York. He left his books and circus gear with us and we were to deliver them to New Orleans, late October before going on tour. We are still planning on going to the Southwest and doing circus/cheap art projects with and for Katrina survivors and displacees. We are currently seeking musicians, clowns, stuntspeople, cheap artistes, revelers, mad scientists, cooks, activist librarians, street performers, marching bands and all good time folks who might want to spend the fall/winter travelling through the areas where people have been relocated and spread joy to those who have survived. We will be travelling in a 16 foot box truck, powered by recycled vegetable oil. This is a serious call out to anyone interested. Please e-mail us at whalesbellywondercarnival@yahoo.com
Thanks and Abundant Love,
Wyette Hertz and Easy Biscuits, carnival extrodinaires
"Parallax View 2005"
Austin, Texas, Spet. 14-18, 2005
Parallax View runs from 14th to the 18th of September. The details below are for the fundraiser, happening this weekend. Get down there for real social, cultural and political goodtimes.
The main event includes films by Fernando Solanas the legend of South American film. He will attend Parallax and offers a couple of workshops instructing in the dark arts of revolutionary expression.
Anonymous Comrade writes:
"Call for Autonomous Direct Action"
Buenas Noches Army
A Call for Autonomous Direct Action to Smash the Rise of Fascism and Racism In Our Communities
A Call for Autonomous Direct Action to Smash the Borders That Capitalism Depends On
This is a call to all people who will be converging on the San Diego/Tijuana, Campo and Calexico/Mexicali regions to engage in autonomous direct action to stop the Minutemen, document it and share it with the world.
The Minutemen have demonstrated that they are willing to change their plans out of fear of disruption by Anarchists. The Minutemen have experienced continuous disruption from the Buenas Noches Brigade in Campo, and are changing the way they operate as a result.
Annual Review of Critical Psychology 4 - "Feminisms and Activisms"
The fourth issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology is hot off the print! A dedicated issue, on ‘Feminisms and Activisms’, it fosters a large international collection of articles as well as poetry, art work and interactive media, with contributions spanning the academic / activist divide in different national contexts including Brazil, Italy, South Africa, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Catalunya, Germany and the UK, in multiple, challenging and original ways. The production of the journal as a collaborative project is represented in the diversity of the
editorial team - Barbara Biglia from Catalunya/Italy, Jude Clark from South Africa/UK, Johanna Motzkau from Germany /UK and Alexandra Zavos from Greece/UK – who have collated a wide range of resources to illustrate the many possible yet different discourses and practices available or claimed by and for feminist and critical social mobilizations.
As a taster check the table of contents at the end of this message. So, get a copy (or a few!) and be part of the exciting and cutting edge debates! For individual subscribers it costs only £10 (€15; $18) and includes a free CD rom with art pieces, images of actions, music, and a conceptual multimedia map of activist research projects… And, we will post you the issue for free!
Punching Out Collective writes "Strike!" Sept. 2005
Anarchist News and Commentary
Vol.1, Issue 3
(Ontario Edition)
Contents:
-CBC Workers Locked Out — J.Shantz
-Community Power vs. Fire-power: Getting to the Root of Gun Violence in Toronto — G.Sweetman
-Anarchy in New Orleans? — P.Lilley
-Labour Day: From Parades to Pickets — J.Shantz
-Bad Boss of the month: Amato Pizza
+ Community Events Listings
Download and distribute!
http://users.resist.ca/~gidget/nefac/strike/strike 3.pdf
V. Castellarin writes: "Mistaken Identity: Sikhs in America"
Ottawa, Sept. 12, 2005
Premiere screening (By Invitation Only) in Canada of "Mistaken Identity:Sikhs in America" on 12 September. It will commemorate the 4th anniversary of 9/11 and 2nd month of 7/7 in London, UK. Member of Parliament, Honorable David Kilgour, MP, will be hosting the "Unity in Diversity" event from 3–5 PM, at the House of Commons, Parliament Hill, Room 200, West Block, Ottawa, Ontario. There will be a 15 minutes press conference before the 3:30 screening, where MP Kilgour will announce the need for more "unity in cultural and religious diversity" in Canada and the world. After the film, there will be 30 min for Q & A and network in discuss in short 3 mins.
Sarah Kanouse writes:
"Urban, Rural, Wild" Exhibition
Chicago, September 8–October 22, 2005
Based at I space (230 W. Superior, Chicago);
Related events at other locations
http://www.walkinginplace.org/ispace
“Urban, Rural, Wild” presents new work by eight artists addressing the historical and contemporary relationships among metropolitan Chicago, rural downstate Illinois, and the places where the conceptual, associative, and physical urban-rural divide breaks down. Part exhibition and part investigative platform, “Urban, Rural, Wild” presents gallery installations, associated off-site events, a resource center, and a film series to interrogate, rethink, and re-imagine city and country in the midwest.
NOT BORED! writes:
"Is the Reichstag Burning?"
True Authors Identified
Not Bored!
It is commonly thought than Gianfranco Sanguinetti — the author of "On Terrorism and the State" (1978) — also wrote "Il Reichstag Brucia?" ("Is the Reichstag Burning?" 1969), which is a classic situationist denunciation of terrorism executed by the State (in this case, the secret services of Italy). But recently translated materials (see below) indicate that the tract's real author were other situationists: Eduardo Rothe and Paul Cesoni.
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