National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR)
January 23-25, 2004, Washington, DC

A Call for Workshop Proposals!



The National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) collective is
currently accepting workshop proposals for the 7th annual NCOR, which will
take place January 23-25, 2004 at American University in Washington, DC.

NCOR is an annual event that brings together activists from a variety of
issues, struggles, ideologies and backgrounds for a weekend of learning
and reflecting on the state of progressive movements occurring locally,
nationally and worldwide. Through workshops, panel discussions,
skillshares, tabling, and the creation of an open and safe space, the
conference aims at promoting organized action amongst participants against
the injustices and inequalities that are present in our daily lives.

rncnotwelcome.org collective writes:


"We Interupt this Empire" Screenings in New York City

  • Tuesday September 30th as part of Freedom Cinema at Walker Stage, 56 Walker Street, [2 blocks south of Canal]. Subway: N, R, J, M, Z, Q, 6 to Canal. 8PM. $5-7 at the door. Hosted by the rncnotwelcome.org collective and the NYC IMC Video Collective.

  • Thursday, October 2 at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street [between Suffolk & Clinton] in the Lower East Side. [View map] Two shows! 7 & 9PM! $5-10 sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will be split between the Video Activist Network (VAN) and rncnotwelcome.org

    The most talked about anti-war documentary from the Bay Area is here in NYC.

  • Panel Discussion of Peter Linebaugh's
    The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

    September 30, 8 PM

    National Arts Club

    (Sculpture Court, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC

    phone : 212-475-3424)


    Panel Participants:

    PETER LINEBAUGH, ROBIN BLACKBURN, ERIC FONER, MICHAEL RATNER, ROBIN KELLEY


    The London Hanged has been widely praised as as an exemplary, trail-blazing and indispensable history of crime and society in the eighteenth century and on the rise of capitalism. Its highly original and provocative analysis of the
    links between new forms of private property and the criminalization of the
    poor, illustrated in the public hangings at the Tyburn gallows, has made it a
    powerful model for understanding globalization and local struggles today.

    Info@glowlab.com writes:


    Greetings, fellow psycheogeographers, artists of all stripes, curiosity-seekers, interested bystanders!


    Welcome to the first Glowlab newsletter. We'd like to take this opportunity to catch you up on everything that's been going down with us over the summer -- a busy summer, as it turns out (aren't they always?). We bowed to a giant dinosaur, walked with angels, were treated to the unsettling and wondrous sight of a darkened city skyline, and pounded the pavements of Brooklyn seeking hidden vistas.

    Anonymous Comrade writes:

    Global Networks after de Landa, Hardt and Negri

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 15-18, 2004

    The American Comparative Literature Association will host a meeting April 15-18, 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Please read the Call for Papers below or
    online at http://www.umich.edu/~acla/index.html. Please note that the
    deadline for abstracts is 10-8-03.

    ----------
    Global Networks after de Landas A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and
    Negris Empire

    Taking its point of departure from two texts -- de Landa's A Thousand Years
    of Non-Linear History,
    and Hardt and Negri's Empire -- proposals should
    address any of these texts in the context of contemporary issues of
    globalization. Specific proposals addressing the ways in which these texts
    transform the concept of networks in a comparative and/or global context
    are especially welcome.

    Please send abstracts to both Phillip Armstrong, armstrong.202@osu.edu and
    Gene Holland, holland.1@osu.edu.

    Phillip Armstrong and Gene Holland
    Ohio Statue University
    armstrong.202@osu.edu & holland.l@osu.edu
    Department of Comparative Studies
    Ohio State University
    308 Dulles Hall
    230 West 17th Avenue
    Columbus, OH 43210

    South Florida FTAA Update:

    September 2003


    The following is the second of four South Florida Anti-Capitalist FTAA
    mobilization updates. These updates will try to provide an on-the-ground
    perspective into how all local efforts against the FTAA are progressing
    and will also disseminate all confirmed information about security
    preparations for the November ministerial meetings. Pre-requisite: a
    map
    of downtown Miami (mapquest, yahoo, or assorted others will suffice).

    hydrarchist writes:

    MetalloMediaLab

    For the European Social Forum in Paris which will be held during November 11th-16th 2003, an area with workshops including experimentations and comparative discussions between the european alternative media will be open at "la Maison des Métallos", which is the former and historical stealworkers's trade union center.

    The MetalloMediaLab laboratory wants to be an opportunity for activists of independent media to present their work, to confront themselves with other similar experiments, to meet other activists, to exchange know-how and expertise, but also to discuss about the current european situation and to release from the prospects for actions and common initiatives.

    nolympics writes

    "We Are Winning"
    By Writers Bloc


    By the time news that negotiations inside the WTO had imploded in the face of an open and unified insurrection by delegates of the global south, the party was in full swing. Members of the resistance --peasants from South Africa, Thailand, Central America and Korea with a large crowd of global justice activists still high from the success of the previous day's 'grande manifestation' -- danced around the fountain. At kilometer zero, the spot where Lee Kyung Have fell by his own hand just a few days earlier, ecstatic celebration mixed with memorial, an American hippie drummer joined the Korean percussionists. Mexican campesinos sported Korean headbands and a handsome schoolteacher from Seoul stood slightly apart from the joyous crowd in dark sunglasses and an embroidered ladies indigenous blouse.

    Presenting:

    The Autonomous Social Movements Caravan

    in collaboration with the

    Argentina Autonomista Tour

    October 20-November 24, 2003

    --Offering: speakers, videos, collective banner (quilt) project, workshops, puppet shows, creative performances and other
    resources.

    --Build and inspire your local movements, host an event!

    --Argentinean delegates will speak about what has been called "the most inspiring popular movement since the
    Zapatistas." (autonomista)

    Shut Down School of the Assassins

    Fort Benning, GA, Nov. 21-23, 2003

    Join thousands at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia from November 21-23,
    2003 to commemorate all victims of military and economic violence and
    demand an end to impunity. Stand up for justice and against the double
    standard in the "War on Terrorism" -- organize to close the SOA (renamed
    Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).