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HOW DO WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT TO SAY AND DO BY USING THE SAME BRAIN ALL AT ONCE?
Monday, May 4, 2009, 5pm
Judson Memorial Church Gymnasium
Conceived by and moderated by Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik
French Precarity Struggles in the Crisis
May 2nd, 7pm
Bluestockings Books 172 Allen St in Manhattan
Part of the' This is Forever' series
Emmanuelle Cosse, former president of Paris ACT UP, will address how French struggles against precarity have been affected by, and responded to, the global capitalist crises. Cosse will emphasize movement tactics, strategies and composition in France, and the implications for precarity struggles elsewhere in Europe. Discussion to follow presentation.
Lindy Blake, Presidio 27 Mutineer, RIP
Dear Friends,
Below is a beautiful tribute to Lindy Blake, one of the Presidio 27 mutineers, written by his friend and comrade Randy Rowland (who, along with Keith Mather, told the story of the Presidio 27 in "Sir! No Sir!"). Lindy died recently at his home in Canada, where he has lived since escaping the Presidio stockade in 1968.
Lindy's Great Escape
It was 40 years ago. We were all young. Facing a potential death sentence for singing "We Shall Overcome," the 27 "mutineers" held a meeting in the cell block of the Presidio Stockade. Everyone who could escape should, we decided. We were not cooperating with the Brass, not even to participate in their kangaroo court-marital. Not long after, some of the Presido 27 did escape. Walter Pawlowski, the guy who stood up during our sit-down, to read our demands to the commandant, was one of the escapees. Keith Mather, one of the "9-For- Peace," and the contact I was supposed to meet up with when I arrived in the stockade, was another. They were recognizable ringleaders in the stockade protest which became known as the Presidio Mutiny. They had good reason to leave. Even before the sit- down strike, both were already facing many years in prison for GI resistance to the US invasion and occupation of Viet Nam. Now they faced additional charges of mutiny, the most serious of military offenses. Military regulations simply say "there is no maximum sentence" for mutiny.
Anarchism Issue Planned for Journal for Study of Radicalism
JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism invites article submissions for a
special issue on anarchism. We particularly are interested in articles that
analyze a particular individual, group, or current within the broader
subject. We encourage articles on lesser known aspects of contemporary or
historical manifestations of anarchism, as well as contested areas within
anarchism. Topics might include black bloc tactics, the history of _Fifth
Estate_, _Green Anarchy_ and other periodicals, conflicts between anarchist
perspectives, violence and non-violence in anarchism, histories of
anarchism, anarchist communities, or international aspects of contemporary
anarchism. Generally speaking, the journal's historical focus is from the
early modern period to the present, and the geographic range is global, so
we'd be interested in articles discussing groups or individuals whose
influence is international, though this is not essential. JSR is an
interdisciplinary journal, and we encourage articles from a range of
disciplinary backgrounds. We are especially interested in articles that
include some original fieldwork, for instance, interviews or use of archival
sources.
"On Décapitalisme"
Granad(a) Collective
I. gravity is the first law of force that is inscribed into our bodies. grammar is the second. social war is the third and self management is the fourth.
II. how do we decapitate capitalism? by cutting of its head. a rhizomatic internet devoid of its tags, a sentence with a lower-case beginning. an always emergent discourse without a title. decentralised institutions that become constellations of extitutions. deindividuated bodies in acéphalous collectives.
III. an “I” that is always decapitalised. we own no proper nouns just as i do not want to own you and you do not want to own me. only the Structures that we imagine to still be standing retain their brand names and ownership capital. structures that must be decapitalised and torn down.
IV. no longer anarchists or socialists or communists or marxists or situationists or nihilists or new hegelians or nietzscheans or surrealists. no longer any ‘ists’ or ‘-ans’ or ‘ishes’ or ‘ics’ and no longer any national identities. no more hyphens hugging our fragmented sense of self identification, only outstretched arms.
Fifth Estate #380 (Spring 2009)
issue theme: "Subtext, Subversion & Sabotage"
including
* Henry Reed – “Between Orwell and McCarthy: The Crucifixion of Marie Mason”
* anon – “The Green Scare Rolls On”
* Cara Hoffman and Joe Ricker – “The Jumper”
* Ambrose Nurra – “Miscarriage” and “Proverb”
* Gavin Grindon – “Second-Wave Situationism?”
* Jason Cook – “Eschatology”
* Jacob Bennett – “An Elegy for Malachi Ritscher”
* Jack Bratich - “Subjectivity Rosa: Undercurrent Affairs”
and many more...
"Promissory Notes: From Crisis to Commons"
Midnight Notes and Friends
After five hundred years of existence, capitalists are once again announcing to us that their system is in crisis. They are urging everyone to make sacrifices to save its life. We are told that if we do not make these sacrifices, we together face the prospect of a mutual shipwreck. Such threats should be taken seriously. Already in every part of the planet, workers are paying the price of the crisis in retrenchment, mass unemployment, lost pensions, foreclosures, and death.
16-page printed "Promissory Notes" pamphlet here
The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency
Do We Really Want the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Issuing Our Global Currency
By Ellen Brown, "Global Research"
April 18, 2009 -- In an April 7 article in The London Telegraph titled "The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to
a Global Currency," Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote:
"A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.
"'We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity,' it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.
"In effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global 'quantitative easing'. In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it."
THE RIGHT IN THESE TIMES:
UNDERSTANDING AND COMBATING CONTEMPORARY SHIFTS TO THE RIGHT
Second Annual Conference on "Rightist Movements"
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
Free and Open to the Public
In light of the election of Barack Obama and rollback of the conservative movement’s dominance in the U.S. political arena, analyses have predominantly focused on new openings and possibilities for the left. Yet how various factions on the right proceed at this critical juncture will prove crucial to understanding U.S. political and popular culture for years to come, with significant implications for those working on a wide range of issues, from economic justice and international human rights to racism, immigration, gender discrimination and sexual freedom.
This conference brings together academic researchers, activists, and representatives of non-governmental organizations involved in understanding and contesting both contemporary trends toward the right and rightist efforts, from fiscally or socially conservative movements to hate groups. The aim of the conference is to draw on the insights of those conducting this important work across diverse professional fields toward an understanding of shifts to the right currently underway, as well as to build alliances and encourage collaboration between activists and academic and non-academic thinkers and researchers.
House Magic
April 21 - May 7, 2009
ABC No Rio
"House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence"
is a first step in a project to explore squatted
social centers in Europe. The social center was a
key feature of the Italian Autonomist movement of
the 1970s and 80s. Squats on the Lower East Side
of New York City borrowed elements of English and
German social centers, including cafes,
infoshops, performance spaces and art galleries.
Across Europe, social centers became important
organizing foci of the global justice movement
during the first decade of the new century. House
Magic will present this important movement
through an accumulation of printed material,
videos and public events.
Public events will be held from April 21 through May 7
TUESDAY APRIL 21: GERMANY
"ARCHIV kultur & soziale
bewegung"(Hamburg/Berlin) member Michel Chevalier
presents this group's intervention/contribution
during the Berlin conflict that pit the art-space
Künstlerhaus Bethanien against the squatters at
IZB/NewYorck in 2006.
On that occasion "ARCHIV kultur & soziale
bewegung" comissioned documentary videos from the
squats Forde (Geveva) and La Générale (Paris),
and the filmmakers came up to Berlin to discuss
their perspectives with the NewYorck actvists,
and collectively tackle this broader question:
are 'contemporary art" and democracy
irreconcilably at odds?
http://www.archiv.glizz.net/?page_id=20v
As a bonus, the 30m documetary film "Forde, un
squat a Genève' by Cicero Egli, Sophia Bulliard
and Murièle Begert will be screened.
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