hydrarchist writes... since the release of this article libertarians in Dublin and the Wombles in London have been the subject of a tabloid attack linking them to terrorists etc. Of course this is rather routine. However it is not routine for the journalist to get drunk and reveal her true purpose whilst 'infiltrating' a publicly announced discussion on the black block. Nor to publicly refute the value of ethics. See comments attached at end. Enjoy!

For more news, see Indymedia Ireland and Earrach/Samhradh 2004

Dublin Grassroots Calls European Days of Action on May Day Weekend"

Activists from the Dublin Grassroots network are calling for a European day of action in Dublin on Saturday, May 1st, as the highlight of a weekend of action from Friday April 30th, to Monday May 3rd. These days of action will focus on symbols of all that is wrong with the EU as it currently stands: militarism, neo-liberalism, fortress Europe and the EU police state. We are inviting people from all over Europe, and the world, to join us in Dublin on Mayday to show our leaders that their agenda for EU integration, driven by the wealthy and powerful, will face resistance. We will also be using the days of action to highlight local issues and campaigns which are linked to the broader problems of corporate globalisation and the EU.

We will be holding an initial planning meeting for the days of action on Saturday February 7th, at 2pm in the Teachers Club on Parnell Square. This meeting is open to all and all ideas and suggestions are welcome. This meeting will be participatory in nature, designed to give everybody a say and to involve everybody in the planning and decision making, rather than merely turning up to listen to experts. No matter how much experience or political expertise you may have, we welcome your active involvement on an equal level with everybody else.

Anonymous Comrade writes, Fed up with the corporate media?



Tired of your voice being stifled?

Join hundreds of journalists, scholars, artists, and organizers at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference at New School University on February 28-29 as we discuss how to strengthen and expand the city's vibrant network of independent media. Participants can choose from more than 50 workshops and panels in three different tracks: policy/advocacy, do-it-yourself media, and youth media. Presenters include Jeremy Glick of "Another World is Possible", WBAI's Rosa Clemente, Danny Schechter, the National Association of Hip Hop's Tricia Wang, artist Brett Cook Dizney, and NYC organizations Harlem Live!, Mediarights.org, Brooklyn Rail, ABC No Rio and many more! Admission: $20 advance; $30 day of; $8 youth discount.

This is what media democracy looks like!

For more information on workshops and to register, please visit www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org or call Paper Tiger Television at (212) 420-9045.

"Desiring Dissent": Bodies and/ of/ in Resistance

A Conference organised by the Essex Management Centre,

University of Essex, UK, 5-6 May 2004

"What are the new types of struggle, which are
transversal and immediate rather than centralized
and mediatized? What are the ‘intellectual’s’ new
functions, which are specific or ‘particular’ rather
than universal? What are the new modes of subjectivation,
which tend to have no identity? This is the present
triple root of the question: What can I do, What do
I know, What am I?...What is our light and what is our
language, that is to say, our ‘truth’ today? What powers
must we confront, and what is our capacity for resistance,
today when we can no longer be content to say that the
old struggles are no longer worth anything? And do we not
perhaps above all bear witness to and even participate in
the ‘production of a new subjectivity’? Do not the changes
in capitalism find an unexpected ‘encounter’ in the slow
emergence of a new Self as a centre of resistance?
Each time there is social change, is there not a movement
of subjective reconversion, with its ambiguities but also
its potential?" (Gilles Deleuze, Foucault)

One of the key aspects of academic thought is the analysis and
questioning of the ideological orders of social reality that have come
to dominate specific times and spaces. The aim of such an endeavour is
to produce concepts which are able not simply to describe such orders
but dissent from, interrupt and resist the techniques and desires that
produce and sustain them. Indeed a focal point of academic debate over
the past decades has been to conceptualise the MULTIPLE forms of
resistance that are mobilised against different BODIES OF ORGANISED
POWER. While the realisation that resistance is a multiplicity that
takes all sorts of shapes and forms is, without a doubt, an important
one, it seems that what has been somewhat celebrated in recent times is
a conception of resistance that can take place simply everywhere. That
is, what can sometimes be observed is that any difference or otherness
is fetishised for its PARTICULAR form of resistance without assessing
its EFFECTIVENESS within larger formations of social struggle.

debbie writes

"Could you help get the word out? Thanks, Debbie, Caring Activist Against Fur"

Anti-Fur Protest

34th Between 7th and Broadway, NYC

Noon, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004

Hello to all the animal lovers.

We need to unite against the fur wearing freaks in NYC!! Fur coats and fur trim are everywhere!! Lets let them know we don't approve of this murder of innocent animals!!