Anarchist6913 writes:

Benefit Cncert for “Three Cities Against the Wall”
New York City, Dec. 5, 2005

Palestinian, Israeli, American artists work together for a just peace; lineup to include Seth Tobocman, ex-Lion Tamer, Bonfire Madigan, and Wharton Tiers Ensemble

What: Benefit for Three Cities Against the Wall

When: Mon., Dec. 5, 8 p.m. (doors)
Where: Tonic, 107 Norfolk St. (between Delancey & Rivington Sts.), NY 10002

Donation: $12 to $20.

Artists performing at the benefit are:

"Anarchists & Libertarians: Friends or Enemies?"

New York City, Dec. 1, 2005

Richard Kostelanetz and Peter Lamborn Wilson will be discussing "Anarchists & Libertarians: Friends or Enemies," at the regular monthly gathering of the Junto, an anti-state discussion group, at the General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street. Admission is free. Simply walk right into the ground floor space. Time is 7 PM.

Wilson, a prolific author, has long ranked among the most imaginative anarchist thinkers in America, while Kostelanetz has contributed to anarchist and literary journals for decades, in addition to doing his writing and media art.

The Junto is a friendly intellectual environment conducive to audience participation in discussions. The two discussants' mutual publisher, Autonomedia, will be present with books by both authors to purchase and get signed.

Santos writes:

Fur Free Friday

New York City, Nov. 25, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Here are some pictures of four lucky animals that were rescued in Brooklyn yesterday by Eddie and Edita. — > RESCUE

Also-

Today, November 25th, is Fur Free Friday and NYC Activists who wish to participate will have two events to choose from.

Columbus Circle

This is the MAIN FUR FREE FRIDAY EVENT in NYC and is being supported by CAAF, FoA, PETA, HSUS, The Fund for Animals, IDA, NYC Animal Rights and NJARA. CAAF has obtained sound permits for both events.

12:45 – 2:00 Time Warner Shopping Center in Columbus Circle (by 59th Street), then we march down Central Park South (2:00 – 2:25pm) and turn onto 5th Ave, where we protest in front of Prada (725 5th Ave. by 57th Street) 2:30 – 3:30 pm

the other:

Dennis Basso

This event is unfortunate as it may undermine our local animal rights community's efforts to unite on the once-a-year FUR FREE FRIDAY event. Regardless of your views on the different a/r groups, we ask that you put them aside, and join NYC Animal Rights at Columbus Circle.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Zapatista Fair Trade Shopping Tour

Bay Area, Dec. 3-4, 2005

Zapatista women's crafts will be on sale in San Rafael and San Francisco, December 3 and 4. Proceeds from these fair trade shopping events help to support economic development projects in Chiapas, Mexico.

The program includes Mayan dance performances by Grupo Jaranero Chan Kajal in Marin and Grupo Jaranero Mayab and Grupo Jaranero Orgullo Yucateco in San Francisco.

A video message will be shown from Mujeres por la Dignidad, the women’s cooperative of Zapatista indigenous weavers whose art will be available for purchase. Speakers will discuss the Zapatista struggle for indigenous rights, the impact of globalization on indigenous people in Mexico, and the movement to promote fair trade and social justice.

Social Movements Conference
Manchester, UK, Apr. 19-21, 2006

From 1995 to 2005, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted a
series of very successful annual international conferences on
'ALTERNATIVE FUTURES and POPULAR PROTEST'.

We're very happy to announce that the Eleventh AF&PP
Conference will be held, between Wednesday 19th April and
Friday 21st April 2006.

The Conference rubric remains as in previous years. The aim is to
explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas
which animate their activists and supporters and which contribute
to shaping their fate.

Reflecting the inherent cross-disciplinary nature of the issues,
previous participants (from over 40 countries) have come from
such specialisms as sociology, politics, cultural studies, social
psychology, economics, history and geography. The Manchester
conferences have also been notable for discovering a fruitful and
friendly meeting ground between activism and academia.

An anonymous coward writes:

This is Fur War

New York City, Nov. 25, 2005

Gassing, trapping and anal electrocution….these are the ways that fur bearers are murdered, before having their skin cruelly ripped off their bodies, often while they are still alive & fully conscious. For what? Money, Greed, Pride, Vanity & Fashion.

Friday November 25, 2005, join Win Animal Rights for one of the most important anti-fur events of the year, Fur Free Friday. On this day, we will continue our on-going campaign as we again confront one of the most notorious fur mongers in New York City, Dennis Basso. Join us and send a loud and clear message to Basso and to all of the other fur scum along NYC's trendy and fashionable Madison Avenue.

WAFRICA-Women Of Africa writes:

Women of Africa, "Love, Labor, Loss" Documentary
San Francisco, Nov. 20-21, 2005

WAFRICA — Women of Africa — will host a Bay area first this November with the Screening of “Love, Labor, Loss”, a Documentary Film on Obstetric Fistula, the severe and painful childbirth injury affecting many women in the developing world.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with New York city based Film Producer Lisa Russell, Dr. Amreen Husain (Stanford Medical Center Fistula in Eritrea), Dr. Eiman Mahmoud (AISC) and Diane Harrison (Planned Parenthood Golden Gate).

Venezuelan Anarchists Invitation to Alternative Social Forum

Caracas, Jan 24-29, 2005

The Venezuelan anarchist movement invites you to participate in the Alternative Social Forum at Caracas in January 2006, a gathering of anti-establishment social movements, in response to the bureaucratic World Social Forum promoted by the Venezuelan government.

Groups and individuals from the radical, antiauthoritarian left in Venezuela are promoting an Alternative Social Forum (ASF), in parallel with the "official" (and state-managed) World Social Forum (WSF) that will take place from January 24 to 29, 2006, in Caracas. In this initiative are involved the local anarchists, including the CRA (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas), the CESL (Centro de Estudios Sociales Libertarios), the newspaper El Libertario and similar collectives. When discussing the defining characteristics of this ASF, we insisted that it should give wide room to the anarchist proposals and experiences for social struggle, which has been widely accepted by the rest of the event promoters, since certainly they have great interest in listening and debating what we have to say.

bhagat writes:

Josh MacPhee on Anarchist Visual Landscapes

New York City, Nov. 20, 2005

The Institute for Anarchist Studies is pleased to announce our new Anarchist Theory at Bluestockings series, a bi-monthly event featuring IAS supported writers and an anarchist perspective on contemporary issues.

The first event in the series will be a presentation by Josh MacPhee, Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape, a talk and slide show "about how our visual environment controls our social space from the top down, and ways to contest this." (Full description below.)

CUNY Grad Center Hosts "Anarchisms Research Group"

When: Friday, 2 Dec., 2005 at 5 PM

Where: Sociology Lounge, Room 6112 on the sixth floor of the CUNY
Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC.
(Directions and
maps available here).

Throughout its history anarchism as a theory and a socio-political
movement has gone through periodic peaks and troughs in popularity and
notoriety. Over the past ten years anarchism has again been on the rise.

CUNY students call for the formation of a new student group to pursue
interests in anarchist thought, and to advance its legitimacy in the
academy. The new student group, which is applying for incorporation by
the Doctoral Student Council at the Graduate Center, has three proposed
aims: