Three Cities Against the Wall'

Ramallah, Tel Aviv, New York

W: http://www.abcnorio.org/againstthewall/

THREE CITIES AGAINST THE WALL TO OPEN NOVEMBER 9, 2005

ART EXHIBITION IN THREE CITIES SHOWCASES WORK OF PALESTINIAN, ISRAELI, AND AMERICAN ARTISTS OPPOSED TO ISRAEL'S “SEPARATION WALL”

NEW YORK – Artists from three separate but vitally interconnected communities will participate for the first time in a one-of-a-kind art show that opens Nov. 9, 2005, in Ramallah, Palestine; Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York City. Three Cities Against the Wall brings together 56 painters, sculptors, filmmakers, and graphic artists united in opposition to the “Separation Wall” that Israel is constructing in the Occupied Territories of Palestine.

Providence Anarchist Bookfair

Providence, Rhode Island, July 16, 2005

The first Providence Anarchist Bookfair is being held on Saturday, July 16th
in conjunction with AS220’s 20th anniversary celebrations on Empire
Street in Downtown, Providence Rhode Island. The Providence Anarchist
Bookfair is being organized as an opportunity to exchange anarchist and
anti-authoritarian ideas. The Bookfair is for
anarchists and non-anarchists alike. It is free to attend and open to
the public.

Download the flyer here.

Providence Anarchist Bookfair events include book and information
tables, workshops, an anarchist roundtable, walking tours and much more.

"Hip-Hop, Organizing and Culture"

New York City, Friday June 24, 2005

555 Bergen Ave, 3rd Fl, the Bronx

Friday June 24, 2005

Between 2 and 4 pm

Peace come join a great discussion on Hip-Hop, Organizing and Culture
featuring Sacajawea "Saki" Hall and Rosa Ananda Clemente of the
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement as well as M1 from dead prez and Talib
Kweli

Address: 555 Bergen Ave, 3rd Fl, the Bronx

[map http://tinyurl.com/crdfh ]

trains: 2 or 5 train to 3rd Ave and 149th

Free for youth (21 and under)

$2 for Adults

Organized by Uraline Septembre Hager
For more info email
uhager@sobro.org

Manitoba Activist School and Youth Retreat
Manitoba, August 17–21, 2005

The Youth Activist Retreat and the Activist School is now accepting registrations for their joint event being held in Manitoba this summer.

The event is a 5-day retreat for 75 youth (16–30ish) interested in learning, sharing, and discussing ideas about social justice and progressive social/political change.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Envisioning Peoples' Struggles" Conference

Vancouver, June 24–26, 2005

We are organizing the Envisioning People's Struggles Conference to Bring together issues and analysis from the many struggles against war,
capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. The conference will also explore and discuss the history of resistance movements locally and around the world to broaden and contextualize our understanding of current struggles, while emphasizing the need for long-term strategy and vision through open dialogue that builds solidarity between diverse organizing communities.

"Exploiting Potential" Conference

Bristol, July 1, 2005

i-DAT/Submerge would like to invite you to EXPLOITING POTENTIAL, a free
symposium on intellectual property and digital production, taking place on
1st July 2005, 10am – 4pm, at Submerge, L Shed, Industrial Museum, Bristol,
BS1 4RN, UK.

Issues around intellectual property are a key concern for digital artists
and designers. They reveal a range of tensions between the idealism of work
entering the public domain and the pragmatics of making a living. On the one
hand, there is the principle that creativity and innovation thrives from the
sharing of ideas and material, and on the other, that laws are necessary to
protect individual and collective interests.

This informal symposium aims to examine these ideas and to challenge
existing structures and practices for those working at the intersections of
commerce, research and independent production.

Presentations by Prodromos Tsiavos (Creative Commons), Margaret Briffa
(Own-it), Ian ‘Cutswift’ Edgar (Eclectic Method), Hugo de Rijke (i-DAT),
George Grinsted, Chris O'Shea, Dominica Williamson, Grzesiek Sedek, Daniel
James, Ulrike Brückner & Sabine Meyer.

For more information, see
Submerge

For free entry, please contact Submerge: b@submerge.org.uk
or book at the Submerge events reception: L Shed, Industrial Museum, Bristol
Harbourside.

Exploiting Potential is an i-DAT/Submerge initiative in partnership with the
Arts Council England, UWE and Watershed. Thanks also to Piet Zwart
Institute, Rotterdam.

stevphen writes:

Alternatives to Capitalism!
Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) Summer Conference:
Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, Connecticut
Saturday, August 20–Tuesday, August 23, 2005

For several years now, people have asked for a Summer Workshop/Retreat focused on alternatives — what can we do in the face of this brutal hegemonic world social-political-economic order?

This year's workshop will be focused on this (with lots of other topics addressed in the workshops as well). It promises to be very interesting, and given the despair that has overcome fighters for social justice, inspiring — there are plenty of ways to fight back, and beyond that, there are plenty of important challenges to the hegemonic order going on right now.

Afflicted Powers:
Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Verso

Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present -- its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past, calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances.

Capital is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation. But never before has imperialism, and its dominant world power, been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire is confronted by a variety of movement, including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory 'peace', the US-Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror.

Retort is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afflicted Powers arises from the group's efforts to confront the current political moment and forms of resistance to it. Involved in the writing were Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Mattews, and Michael Watts.

Iain Boal & Retort, Afflicted Powers Book Party

New York City, June 22, 2005

“A comprehensive analysis of America’s relationship with the world. No stone is left unturned. The maggots exposed are grotesque.” — Harold Pinter

“This provocative and wide-ranging inquiry—part analysis, part manifest—brings to light a new phase in the historical process of primitive accumulation, a form of bitter class war and social reconstruction now proceeding in the guise of what the authors depict as ‘military neo-liberalism.’ The conclusions and analysis are brought to bear incisively on central events of the contemporary world, and on how its serious threats can be confronted.” — Noam Chomsky

Please join Verso, ABC No Rio for an evening with

IAIN BOAL of RETORT

Discussing the new book

Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

RETORT is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afflicted Powers arises from the group’s efforts to confront the current political movement and forms of resistance to it.

7 pm WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22

ABC No Rio

156 Rivington

New York City

Contact 212 807 9680 for more information

stevphen writes "CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

Making Global Civil Society:
Grassroots Practice and Academic Theory of Globalisation from Below

A weekend gathering for activists and academics.

November 4, 5 & 6 2005
Lancaster University, North West England.

With support of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Lancaster University, the “Knowledge Laboratory on Globalisation from Above and Below” is happy to invite you, your affinity group, your collective, or your organisation to contribute to its first event.

The aim of the gathering is to discuss key aspects of the historical development of the capitalist economy that drives globalisation from above such as enclosures, (precarious) labour, structural violence, colonialism, and their justifying cultural imagery – and to make visible alternative architectures of social organisation emerging through the processes of globalisation from below, that is, through grassroots movements cooperating to create a global civil society based on human rights and mutual aid, and to restore the (intellectual) commons, in the street, on the land, and in cyberspace.