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Anonymous Comrade writes: "A Bridge to Africa"
A caravan of artists, media activists, scientists and technicians from all over the world is presently gathering in Andalucia in the south of Spain. The Euro-African project will cross the Straits of Gibraltar in December, and move south along the west-coast of Africa [map], reclaiming the Straits as a bridge, not a boundary. The Caravan describes itself as "a sound system, a circus, a mobile cinema and a stage for theatre and performance". It is constantly open for everyone who wants to participate.
Mama APOC writes: APOC Zine Call for Submissions
Fifty years ago, Ella Baker said: “Strong people don’t need leaders.” This sentiment is being expressed on the streets of New York, Philadelphia, Durban, Caracas, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Seattle and Michigan. Within this growing anti-authoritarian movement has been the emergence of diverse voices of people of color. Coming off the recent APOC Conference in Detroit, and the follow-up meetings of APOC-NYC, we recognize the need for a space for anti-authoritarian POCs to share ideas, experiences, analyses and creative expressions.
Thus, we are putting together a zine of writings, art, and anything creative or even helpful by anti-authoritarian POCs on the East Coast. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* anti-racism
* environmental justice/sustainable communities
* gender identity
* sexuality
* racism and sexism within activist movements
* day-to-day survivals (when you feel like you’re not contributing anything to the “movement”, but actually are fighting – daily resistance to those exercising power over you)
* how-to practical guides (anything from navigating social bureaucracies to fixing a bike to cheap, healthy cooking)
* global movements of resistance
Suggested Guidelines: Prose pieces should be in the range of 250-1000 words. Poetry is welcome as well, as is artwork (which includes drawings, photographs and cartoons). If you send stuff by snail mail and you want it returned, you must send a SASE!! Otherwise, it will become part of our personal collections J. Please send submissions by e-mail to apoczine@aol.com. Snail mail address also available. Please e-mail us to get it."
anonymous kumquat writes:
On Monday & Tuesday, December 8-9, 2003 in Washington DC, the
Religious Working Group on the IMF/ World Bank will hold an
extraordinary national conference on
"Faith in Practice:
Connecting the Dots for Global Economic Justice."
For anyone who wants to develop a deeper spiritual/ religious
understanding of "globalization" from the top-down and from
the bottom up, combining knowledge of the facts with wisdom
about the choices, this could be am important education.
Shalom, Arthur
jim writes: "Race and Labor Matters"
hosted by the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education
Thursday, December 4th 6pm-10pm
Friday, December 5th 8am-6pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.), New York City
Historically, labor has played an important, if under analyzed, role in the struggle against racism. However, the U.S. labor movement has never fully addressed the complex and enduring issues of race and racism. Profound and ongoing structural, political, technological, and demographic transformations have fundamentally changed the dynamics of race and labor in America and in the globalized work force. What are the new problems, opportunities, and features of labor's 21st century color barrier?
Join leading labor scholars and trade union activists for a reframing of the relationship between race and labor in America. Through interdisciplinary approaches to the subject, panelists will consider significant economic, social, historical, and political conditions affecting racial stratification in union and non-union labor. Panels will discuss U.S. labor and race matters in relation to affirmative action, immigration, labor-community relations, diversity, globalization, anti-racist union efforts, union democracy, gender and possibilities for social change.
http://www.raceandlabor.org/index.htm"
jim writes:
"American Studies Association Panel on Culture, Activism, and Power:
Social Reform and Strategies for Change"
November 11-14, 2004
This panel will investigate how social activists deploy forms of culture as tool for reform. From the nineteenth century to the present, American reformers and community activists have staffed reading rooms, held sporting events, taught literature and language, and engaged in other practices that depend upon transmitting cultural forms across class or experiential boundaries. In the process, they also engage another aspect of culture by attempting to cross the boundaries that characterize distinct ethnic, middle-class, working-class or upper-class cultures.
This panel will investigate how cultural exchange reflects social power dynamics and challenges or reinforces class, ethnic, and racial boundaries in the pursuit of social reform and/or social justice. Contributors to this panel might address, for example, community activism past or present by insiders or outsiders to the community; union organizing and the uses of culture; missionary work in the United States or abroad; or prison voluntarism.
The panel also welcomes submissions from community activists about their own experiences.
Please send a 250-word abstract of your proposed paper and a one-page vita by December 31, 2003, to Emily Mieras, American Studies Department/Box 8262,
Stetson University, DeLand, FL 32723, or e-mail to emieras@stetson.edu.
Direct Action Contingency, Miami writes
This week thousands of protestors came to Miami to oppose the FTAA. The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas is an international trade agreement that aims to extend corporate control throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Prior to the mass action there was a calculated campaign on the part of the police to intimidate and harass protestors. One officer characterized this campaign by saying "You can beat the rap, but not the ride".
As we feared, our protests were met by a massive show of state repression, backed by $8.5 million in US Government funding. Miami Police Commissioner John Timoney oversaw a massive, paramilitary assault on our constitutional and human rights
http://www.geneva03.org writes
High Noon call by geneva03 initiative!
1 Towards HIGHNOON
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 agregation and desemination process.
Launch of "EZLN: 20 &10: Fire and Word" Campaign
Subcomandante Marcos
To the people of Mexico and the peoples of the world:
To the national and international press:
Brothers and sisters:
We are informing you that on this November 17, 2003 it will have been 20
years since the birth of the EZLN.
That is why the Caracoles of Oventic, La Realidad, La Garrucha, Roberto
Barrios and Morelia will be closed to the national and international
press, and to national and international civil society, from November 15
through the 20th of the same month. The same measures will be put into
force in those villages which are predominantly zapatista. Access will not
be allowed during those days. Without exception.
US Imperialism in the 21st Century
Conference, December 5, 2003
Casa Italiana, Columbia University
Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, the US declared a
global "War on Terrorism" and increased its powers of repression at
home and intervention abroad.
This one-day conference aims to: explain the political and economic
causes of the perpetual US drive for global domination; assess its
impact on the US and the rest of the world, especially on Africa,
Europe, and the Middle East; and scrutinize new forms of anti-war
activism, challenge, and opposition.
Our main objective is to critically examine both the strengths and
weaknesses of 'War on Terrorism' as a strategy for US global
supremacy and the resistances it has generated.
altar_magazine writes:
Altar Magazine, a forum for critical thought, coalition building, artistic creativity, and activism, is kicking off its second issue. With more pages and better print quality, this issue will feature articles such as Myopia by Inga Muscio, Hajira: Part Two by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Arting Up the Revolution by Jonathan Culp, Concrete Blonde Interview, Celie’s Revenge: Hip-hop Betrays Black Women by Jennifer McLune, No Justice No Peace: a critique within the peace movement, Scott Heron Interview (Prefuse 73, Savath + Savalas) and much more from writers and artists living all over the world.
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