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Cablegate: Operation Avenge Assange Begins
Tech Herald
Anonymous responded to Assange's arrest by taking down Swedish government site www.aklagare.se, the hive at 13:15 EST has hit more than 600 users. This is more than enough to cripple a given domain, considering that aklagare.se has minimal infrastructure support.
There are calls in the IRC channel to target MasterCard, Visa, as well as PayPal. However, most of those in the room who are active in the attacks are sticking with a single target.
Josh Fox and His Documentary "Gasland"
What: Josh Fox will be in Brooklyn to present his documentary GASLAND
When: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 7:00 PM
Where: IndieScreen
285 Kent Avenue (at S 2nd Street in Williamsburg)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
To Buy Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/139436
The movie's website: http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/about-the-film
Take action! http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/take-action
About the film
"The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown."
http://www.gaslandthemovie.com
Josh Fox will be there in person to answer questions. It is very urgent to find out the impact the gas drilling in PA and proposed drilling in upstate NY can have on our drinking water!
RSVP to this Meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/Green-New-Yorkers/calendar[url=http://www.meetup.com/Green-New-Yorkers/messages/send/callto:+115655534]/15655534[/url]/
David Wojnarowicz Video Censorship Protest
NYC, Dec. 9, 2010
A David Wojnarowicz video was yanked last week from a show at the National Portrait Gallery. Please join us to take collective action about this outrage - bring your anger and ideas and energy. We're working on plans for a street protest in NYC and lots more - see you Thursday!
Meeting - Thursday Dec. 9, 6:30 pm
Location:
P.P.O.W GALLERY
511 W 25th St., Suite 301 between 10th and 11th Ave.
New York, NY
Gallery phone: (212) 647-1044
STOP THE CENSORSHIP!
"Don't Nuke Our Climate!"
Young Friends of the Earth Europe
Whilst UN climate negotiations take place in Cancun, European youth have been taking action in Brussels to demand climate justice. As part of an international day of action to oppose false solutions to the climate crisis, 30 young people from across Europe today targeted European institutions and corporations which support and fund nuclear energy. The message is simple: nuclear power is unsustainable and unacceptably dangerous.
“Social Science and Cultural Politics”
12th March 2011 - Sociology Department, University of Warwick (UK)
5th Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cultural politics is a concept used to label a complex range of social
phenomena, frequently as diverse as media cultures and ideologies, forms of
political action and social movements, institutional and professional
cultures. However, social sciences themselves are driven (explicitly or
otherwise) by ideological commitments and assumptions about their own role
in society (this being particularly questioned at the moment, especially in
the UK).
Boog City Renegade Press Night, with Autonomedia's Jordan Zinovich
ACA Galleries, 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., NYC on Dec. 14, 2010
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
New York City Small Presses Night
Tues. Dec. 14, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free
with
Argos Books, Autonomedia, Fractious Press, Kaya Press, LoudMouth Press, New York Quarterly
and music from Matteah Baim with Golden Slumbers
Curated by Cristiana Baik and Svetlana Kitto
ACA Galleries, 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., NYC
This is our one event each season in our non-NYC small presses series where
we honor NYC small presses.
Featuring readings from some of the city's finest small presses
as well as publications available from each of the presses.
**Argos Books, E.C. Belli, Iris Cushing, and Elizabeth Clark Wessel, eds.
—Marina Blitshteyn
—Hildred Crill
—Bianca Stone
**Autonomedia
—Jordan Zinovich
**Fractious Press, Veronica Liu, ed. and pub.
—Steven J. Hann
—Nikkiesha N. McLeod
—Buzz Poole
—K. Abigail Walthausen
—Thera Webb
**Kaya Press, Sunyoung Lee, ed. and pub.
—Samantha Chanse
—Lisa Chen
—Ed Lin
—Thaddeus Rutkowski
**LoudMouth Press, Gregory Ayres, pub./dir. of operations
—Geoff Cunningham
—Carla Repice
**New York Quarterly, Raymond Hammond, pres.
—Tony Gloeggler
—Douglas Treem
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Series curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
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Boog City 66, our New York City Small Presses Issue,
published in conjunction with the above event,
with pages put together by the participating six presses,
featuring work from:
**Argos Books—Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Marina Blitshteyn, Hildred Crill, S.C. Hahn, Safiya Sinclair, and Bianca Stone
**Fractious Press—Jacob Albert, John Cotrona, Nikkiesha N. McLeod, Buzz Poole, Seamus Scanlon, K. Abigail Walthausen, and Thera Webb
**Kaya Press—Lisa Chen, Ed Lin, Thaddeus Rutkowski
**New York Quarterly—Tony Gloeggler and Douglas Treem
As well as your usual swell Boog City content: Reviews of Elastic No-No Band's Fustercluck!!!, books from Lucy Ives, Edward Sanders, and Jared Stanley; and poems from Andy Gricevich and Peter Waldor.
To read the pdf version go to:
http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc66.pdf
Press and author bios
**Autonomedia
http://www.autonomedia.org/
Autonomedia is an autonomous zone for arts radicals in old and new media. We publish books on radical media, politics and the arts that seek to transcend party lines, bottom lines, and straight lines. We also maintain the Interactivist Info Exchange, an online forum for discourse and debate on themes relevant to the books we publish.
*Jordan Zinovich
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/2010_FICTION/2010_Fiction_JZ.HTM
Jordan Zinovich is a senior editor at Autonomedia and a member of the Amsterdam Balloon Company. Once, long, long ago in the Dark Forest, he heard Baba Yaga singing and glimpsed her walking hut—an experience that arrested his maturation. Through the passing years he has grown younger, and smaller, tracking her trail of glimmering words. The last piece he published in Big Bridge, “Theodolite’s Survey,” was chosen by Dzanc Books for its Best of the Web 2009 anthology. You can view his work at the above url.
Telling the Truth about Class
Gáspár Miklós Tamás
One of the central questions of social theory has been the relationship between class and knowledge, and this has also been a crucial question in the history of socialism. Differences between people – acting and knowing subjects – may influence our view of the possibility of valid cognition. If there are irreconcilable discrepancies between people’s positions, going perhaps as far as incommensurability, then unified and rational knowledge resulting from a reasoned dialogue among persons is patently impossible. The Humean notion of ‘passions’, the Nietzschean notions of ‘resentment’ and ‘genealogy’, allude to the possible influence of such an incommensurability upon our ability to discover truth.
COP-16 Day 2: The Specter of Tragedy and Klimaforum
Intlibecosoc
The second day of the sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP-16) summit in Cancún follows much the same as the first, a day that saw Mexican President Felipe Calderón assert in remarks before the delegates assembled in Moon Palace—a highly exclusive hotel, center of the COP-16 talks—that the potential failure of the Cancún talks—that is, their failure precisely to look beyond dominant individual and national interests—would be a “tragedy,” and that climate-negotiators should act during the summit’s two weeks with the interests of humanity in mind. He stressed in particular the concern that should be evinced in Cancún for existing children and future generations. In his address to delegates on the same day, Mario Molina, a Mexican scientist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995, declared it to be “necessary and urgent” that COP-16 produce a climate-agreement—this, amidst a widespread lack of confidence among country-governments and commentators that Cancún will produce any agreement at all.
"The Crisis and the Capitalist System Today"
Hillel Ticktin
Saturday 4 December, 1.30pm.
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1, near Farringdon tube.
"The crisis is not simply a periodic crisis, but a crisis in both the strategy of capitalism and its structure, and Keynesians are not addressing these issues, whereas the right, consciously or unconsciously, is trying to come to terms with the real underlying political economic problems of capitalism … Sections of capital have decided to fight to the bitter end in order to inflict an epoch making defeat of the working class ... However one has to wonder whether the bourgeoisie has a death wish ... The cuts can only educate a whole new generation of the population of the need to change the capitalist system ... The contemporary form of the ideology of capitalism is now so threadbare that only a masochist can support it."
(Articles by Ticktin can be found at libcom.org)
COP-16 in Cancún: Day 1
Intlibecosoc
Entering the city of Cancún—site of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change’s sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP-16), which began today—one is struck immediately by the number of ‘areas de revisión’—checkpoints, effectively—maintained by the Mexican police, with the support of the Mexican military. The checkpoints on the highway leading north from the coastal Yucatan cities of Playa del Carmen, Tulum, and Chetumal, like their counterparts throughout Cancún itself, seem for the most part to be mere formalities: drivers are asked to slow down but not stop and are then subsequently hailed on. The purpose for these checkpoints, beyond that of being able to project force and control movement, may then in part be to intimidate onlookers and passersby, to remind members of the subordinated classes of the presently ubiquitous power of the State: any other explanation for the stationing of Hummers that have soldiers manning machine-gun mounts in locations in which large numbers of people congregate would defy the imagination.
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