"Ethnic Cleansing & Slavery in Contemporary Africa"
Anarchist Forum
New York City, May 9, 2006

On Tuesday, May 9, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist Forum
will present a panel discussing Ethnic Cleansing and Slavery in
Contemporary Africa with emphasis on Mauritania, Sudan and Darfur.

The panel
will include Abdarahmane Wone and Mamadou Barry, members of FLAM (African
Liberation Front of Mauritania), and other African activists. They will
describe the frightening situations in North Africa as they really are. We
hear reporters speak of slavery as it is in Africa today and of the deaths
caused by the armed forces of one ethnic group killing the ordinary people
of another ethnic group, but the panel will speak not as reporters but as
people who have lived in the societies where these horrors were taking
place. After the presentation the panel will answer questions from the
audience and speak about what can be done to remedy the situations.

The event will take place at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street,
Manhattan (between Bank and Bethune streets) (212-242-4201).
Take an A, C, E, or L train to the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway stop
or take a 1, 2, or 3 train to the 14th Street and 7th Avenue stop.

Everybody is welcome and invited to come and to have their say.
Admission is free for the presentation, but a contribution to aid the LBC is
suggested.

If you have questions, contact the LBC /Anarchist Forum, 212-979-8353 or
e-mail: roberterler@erols.com

Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian Bloc for A29 Demo in NYC

On Saturday, April 29 there will be a huge anti-war march and peace & justice festival in New York City (Manhattan) being organized by United For Peace and Justice.

Information at www.April29.org

An anarchist/anti-authoritarian bloc will be assembling at the intersection of 20th and Park, SW corner, at 11 am (look for the red and black flags!). This will consist (currently) of various Students For a Democratic Society chapters (all chapters from new york city, as well as Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey), the Industrial Workers of the World, the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists, the War Resisters League, and various other anarchist groups and individuals from New York City and elsewhere. THIS IS NOT A BLACK BLOC, HOWEVER there will be time (march doesn't step off until 12) for anyone who wishes to form a black bloc and/or participate in direct action to group up at the assembly point.

In addition, the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists, Students For A Democratic Society-Pace, and others have called for all anarchists and anti-authoritarians to march in solidarity with the Transit Workers Union and imprisoned Roger Toussaint, to support them against their attack by the City of New York before the main anti-war march. Assemble at the corner of Canal and Centre Street, in front of the Starbucks at 10:00 AM to march passed Toussaint’s jail cell at 10:30 (on Centre between White and Baxter). [Take the N,Q,R,W,J,M,Z, or 6 train to Canal St.]
This march will then proceed to meet up with the main anarchist/anti-authoritarian bloc on 20th St. before the main anti-war march steps off.

See you in the streets!

more info: anarchistNJ@yahoo.com

Anarchism06: 21st Century ideas and Action.

The Occupied Social Centre, 21 Russel Square, London 29th-30th April

Anarchism06 is a 2 day conference celebrating the ideas of anarchism. The aim is to
encourage debate and discussion around the ideas of anarchism and how those ideas can
be, and are applied in practical everyday situations.

Well known speakers from 'the anarchist movement', past, present & future (!) open the
conference celebrating anarchism as a positive political force "a way of getting the various
strands and political movements together, feeding off each other and hopefully learning
from each other, building trust and confidence in our abilities to connect and develop
strategies together, as well as fostering solidarity and a sense of collective purpose in what
we do".

discussions based on current issues along the following themes:-

- workplace struggles

- community struggles

- social struggles

- international struggles

(including: autonomous workers struggles with Gate Gourmet, Laing O'Rourke workers &
tube cleaners; the current uprisings in France from those who have been involved; as well
as the recent Broadway Market occupation in Hackney against gentrification; plus a
discussion on why today there are so few genuine working class anarchists).

There are still available places if people, or their groups, wish to contribute discussion topics
(email anarchism2006-at-hushmail.com). Should ideally fall within the 4 themes with the
emphasis of how anarchism does, or should, positively contribute to these struggles.

"MesoAmerica Resiste"

Beehive Collective
New York, April 27, 2006

The Beehive Collective is coming to the New School to present their new
graphic on Plan Puebla Panama. Please come and see!

Thurs, April 27th, 6–9pm

65 Fifth Ave, Room 201

New School

A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective — a non-profit,
volunteer driven, political arts organization based in eastern Maine — is
headed this way. The group's mission is to "cross pollinate the
grassroots" through the creation of images as an effective medium for
deconstructing and educating the public about complex geopolitical issues.

Most interesting is their methodology. The bees create collaborative,
hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork
"quilts" of personal stories related to them in their travels.

Regional SDS Conference
Providence, April 23, 2006

Bethany, Ct. April 13, 2006 — Long time anti-war activist Thomas Good, 47 year old member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the War Resistors League living in New York City announced today that on April 23rd, the first regional conference will be held by the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Good, who is helping organize the conference, explained that the new SDS is significantly different from the old SDS. "First off, it's multi-generational," said Good. "Secondly, I am hopeful that our brand of participatory democracy will provide a true umbrella for student and other activists who are into a decentralized, grassroots approach." Good reported that in only a few months of activity, the re-born SDS has established seventy-seven chapters nationwide.

Paul Buhle, a historian at Brown University and SDS activist in the 1960s is enthusiastically at work planning the conference. Buhle said, "The voice of the young and the most democratic social movement of the 1960s, is back again...with a new generation."

More than thirty years ago, during the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement, SDS was the most important student activist organization in the United States. SDS reached the pinnacle of its influence in 1968 and then fragmented and fell apart in 1969. Now a group of present day student activists along with members of SDS active in the 60s, have joined together to form a new SDS to further the already re-emerging campus and community progressive anti-war and social justice movement.

All people interested in finding out about or becoming involved in the new SDS are invited to attend the regional conference to be held on Sunday April 23, 2006 from 11:00AM–6:00PM in Salomon Hall at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island. Attendance is free.

Speakers include student activist Alana Makowitz who organized a new chapter of SDS at Salve Regina University. Also speaking are Thomas Good and Patrick Korte, two of the organizers of the new SDS, and Ambre Ivol from the Sorbonne who will report on the French student movement. Speakers from the sixties SDS include Bob Ross, one of the organization's founders, former national president, Carl Oglesby, Paul Buhle, former editor of SDS magazine, "Radical America," and Bernadine Dohrn, former SDS national leader and founding member of the Weather Underground.

For Conference details see SDS

For information contact Bert Garskof (Former Faculty Advisor to Michigan State University SDS)
Phone: 203.393.3213, Cell 203.232.8455 or Email: bgarskof@adelphia.net

Email: info@studentsforademocraticsociety.org

Website: SDS

Neo Phobe

A Mystery Novel by Jim Feast with Ron Kolm

Book Party and Awards Ceremony, New York City, April 16, 2006

Book Party and Awards Ceremony for the
First Annual Franz Kafka Literary Medal

To be presented by the FusionArts Museum to Feast for Neo Phobe and his other fictional achievements.

Sunday, April 16, 2006 — 4 p.m.

FusionArts Museum,
57 Stanton Street,
between Eldridge and Forsythe

(212) 995-5290

Reading from Neo Phobe:

Steve Dalachinsky

Jim Feast

Bonnie Finberg

Ron Kolm

Tsaurah Litzky

Yuko Otomo

Michael Randall

Jill Rapaport

Carl Watson

Carol Wierzbicki

"Civilization: Its Origins and Collapse"
John Zerzan and Kevin Tucker

New York City, April 15, 2006

Ever think there was something horribly wrong with the way things are?
According to anarcho-primitivists, those social, ecological, spiritual and
political problems that we all face are a part of civilization. The most
basic human needs were shaped and met by the nomadic gatherer-hunter
existence that has defined over 99.99% of human life. Looking back to the
settling of some human societies, to an increased dependency off of stored
and grown foods, through the rise of political power, emergence of work,
patriarchy, warfare, and expansionism, we can get a clearer picture of the
processes at work in our daily lives to keep us domesticated and docile to a
world that runs against our being.

Join anarcho-primitivist thinkers and writers, Kevin Tucker and John Zerzan
for a discussion of the origins of civilization and their consequences from
the beginnings of settled societies through the culture of cities and into
our current globalized modernity. Talk revolves around a critique of
civilization and possible directions for moving beyond it and the short
comings of contemporary resistance movements.

Second General Assembly of NYC Anarchists

Calling all anarchists, anti-authoritarians, horizontalists and grassroots activists!

Mark your calendars: You are cordially invited to the next General Assembly of the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists / Alianza de Anarquistas del área metropolitana de Nueva York (NYMAA).

Time: Saturday, April 8, 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Place: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk Street, corner of Rivington Street, in Manhattan), 2nd floor gallery space

On March 4, 65 radicals, revolutionists, and anarchists came together in an historic gathering and founded an explicitly anarchist organization- the first of its kind in NYC in nearly 100 years! Since then, much has been accomplished, yet much more must be done in order to forge a lasting anti-authoritarian presence on the streets of New York.

In order for the ideas of horizontalism and revolution to firmly take root among broad swaths of people, anarchists need to band together for the purpose of initiating and nurturing a wide range of projects. Our aim is to build momentum and contribute to a genuine movement of resistance and liberation that can ultimately uproot the brutality of authoritarianism, capitalism, and oppression.

NYMAA is in the process of planting the seeds of capitalist destruction by forming, building, and growing local "chapters" and working groups. Much of the initial work in this regard is accomplished at our General Assemblies, at which ample time is allotted for both casual socializing and face-to-face discussion. Food and drink, as well as childcare, is also provided.

You can read more about NYMAA and familiarize yourself with its basic organizational structure (we strongly encourage this) by visiting:
http://www.anarco-nyc.net/nymaa.html

Proposals and other agenda items for the General Assembly are welcomed. Please e-mail them along with any RSVPs (especially if you're bringing kids!) to:
nymaa-comms [at] riseup [dot] net

History / Herstory in the making! Don't miss it!

See you there!

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The New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists (NYMAA) is a broad organization of anarchists and anti-authoritarians who live in the New York metropolitan area. NYMAA is a social revolutionary organization. Thus, our ultimate aim is to eradicate all forms of authoritarianism, hierarchy, and domination and help build a genuinely liberatory, self-managed, directly democratic society. To that end, our immediate aim is to bring anarchists together on a common plane of struggle for the purpose of growing and expanding the movement and spreading our ideas.

Cindy writes

Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference
CALL FOR PROPOSALS (due July 1, 2006)

September 29 to October 1, 2006
at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
http://www.homemadejam.org/renew

The Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference, sponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies, will again take place at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont over the September 29-October 1, 2006 weekend. The conference aims to provide a scholarly space in which to both reexamine and reinvigorate the social and political tradition of anarchism. RAT is meant as one contribution to the project of developing a more rigorous as well as contemporary theoretical framework for anarchism, and to assist in nurturing new generations of anti-authoritarian public intellectuals. As in the past, we hope that RAT continues to raise difficult questions in a support, participatory environment among anarchist peers.

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFERENCE

SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2006

presented by the NYC and Columbia Law School chapters of the National
Lawyers Guild

10:00 am to 5:00 pm

with a free kickin' after party in Drapkin
featuring DJ Thadeaus!

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL - Jerome Green Hall
115th and Amsterdam

* This conference is FREE for students and activists. It is $25 for
lawyers and professionals. For more info or to pre-register, please
visit here*