Anarchist6913 writes
:
"The New York release party for the great new book Wobblies!, co-edited by Nicole Schulman, is set for next Friday at the new(ish) Vox Pop bookstore & coffeehouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Featuring multi-media presentations by: Mac McGill, Sabrina Jones, Tom Keough, Nicole Schulman and Seth Tobocman, it’s sure to be a great event. Come out, buy a book, and say hello.

Kit Bland writes
Friends of Freedom and FreeWheels

Please contact your City Council member immediately!

The U.S. Constitution is under attack in New York City. The City is refusing to grant permits for highly precedented peaceful demonstrations. According to the New York Times, The House Judiciary Committee this week has called for "immediate federal scrutiny" of "troubling reports" of police misconduct and perjury--including doctoring video footage-- in connection with the arrest and prosecution of hundreds of demonstrators during the Republican National Convention. The City has limited the number of permits granted for large gatherings in Central Park to six per year. And to date in 2005, nearly 60 bicyclists have been arrested while taking part in a peaceful monthly group bicycle ride––a legal ride that for ten years was escorted by the NYPD!

It is time to speak up. Still We Speak! is having a free speech rally this Friday night at Union Square South, 5:30 pm. We encourage anyone concerned about the erosion of the rights afforded them by the Constitution of the United States to attend the free speech rally; show the city that repression will not be tolerated. (After much stalling on the part of city officials, a permit has been granted for this event).

"Agonistic Friendship from the Ancient Greeks to Nietzsche"

Horst Hutter, New York, April 30, 2005

Friendship is universal but expresses itself variably in different cultural settings. Given our mobility, solitude, and uncertainty in advanced industrial societies, friendship is very different than the model offered to us by Plato and Aristotle. Dr. Hutter will explore Nietzsche's ideas of having 'beautiful enemies' and 'stellar friends' and how to avoid defective friendships, as well as negotiating the drives to serve some public good on the one hand and natural egoisms on the other.

Horst Hutter will be in New York City at the

Lower East Side Girls Club

51 East 1st Street @ 1st Avenue

6pm * Saturday April 30, 2005 * free

Refreshments. (more information: 646-413-9305)

Rally to Support Critical Mass Bike Rides and Free Expression
Friday, April 29th 5:30, Union Sq. Park, New York City

NYC's Police and Parks Departments have just issued summonses to four people associated with the Critical Mass bicycle rides and are asserting that, not only are un-programmed group bike rides a crime, or any celebratory or other gathering of more than 20 people in a park, without a permit, but most chillingly, that ANNOUNCING THE LOCATION (Union Square) AND TIME (7:30 P.M. ON THE LAST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH) OF ANY SUCH UNAPPROVED EVENT CONSTITUTES A CRIME.

New York Activist Calendar

April 23, 2005

The NY Activist Calendar (formerly the CREED NY Calendar) is a

weekly listing of events of interest to NYC-area activists. It is

compiled by volunteer labor and published by the Nicaragua

Solidarity Network of Greater NY. Send listings and corrections

to: NSN, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012, fax 212-674-9139,

email editor@nycalendar.org (plain text only; no attachments,

please). For info, call 212-674-9499 or email wnu@igc.org New or

updated info is marked **. To subscribe, send a blank email to:

nycalendar-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

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CONTENTS

Events: {1} Regular; {2} Ongoing. Selected Resources: {3} Tours

and Delegations; {4} Classes; {5} Calendars & Event Listings; {6}

Books & Videos; {7} Radio & TV; {8} Other Resources.

Protest New York City Rent Guidelines Board

Rally and Press Conference, May 3, 2005

New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board (RGB), appointed by Mayor
Bloomberg, has been consistently biased towards landlords and has
voted for excessive rent increases, which affect more than 2
million rent stabilized tenants throughout New York City. It is
crucial, now more than ever, that tenants come together to demand
an end to unfair rent hikes!

Rally & Press Conference Tuesday, May 3, 2005 — 5pm

RGB Preliminary Vote
Cooper Union Great Hall
7 E. 7th St. @
3rd Ave.

We will be meeting at GOLES’ office (17 Ave B) at 4:30 pm

Next Major Action: New Yorkers demand

Affordable Rents!

Join GOLES for strategizing meetings, rallies and protests of the
RGB from May through June

For More Information on the RGB and how you can participate in
RGB protests, call Shoshana @ GOLES, 212.533.2541 or email
skrieger@goles.org

Hidayat Inayat Khan and Jordan Zinovich Reading
New York City, April 24, 2005

From 4-6 pm on Sunday, April 24th, at the FusionArts Museum, 57 Stanton
Street, Hidayat Inayat Khan will launch his latest title, *Reflections on
Inner Sufi Teachings* in conjunction with the launch of *The Company I
Keep* a new poetry collection by Jordan Zinovich, a Canadian writer
resident in New York. The event is free and refreshments will be
provided.

Hidayat Inayat Khan is the leader of the International Sufi Movement, a
global philosophical organization based in the Netherlands. His father
was one of India's greatest musicians, and his grandfather was known as
the "Beethoven of India." His sister was the well known W.W.II heroine,
Noorunisa Inayat Khan (code name Madeleine), who received both the Croix
de Guerre and the George Cross and is the subject of the recent
biographical novel *The Tiger Claw.* Hidayat is a composer whose
symphonies, string quartets and choral works have been performed by
important European orchestras and are available on disk. His music blends
modern western composition (he studied in Paris under the renowned Nadia
Boulanger) with ancient Indian ragas for a true 'Fusion' of the
traditional and the avant-garde.

*Reflections on Inner Sufi Teachings* is
the latest in a series of books he has written interpreting Sufi teachings
for contemporary readers — all of which are published by Ekstasis
Editions of Victoria, BC under the Mystic Ocean Imprint (see
www.ekstasiseditions.com or www.canadabooks.ca).

Jordan Zinovich is a senior editor with the Autonomedia Collective. He
has authored seven books, was an early associate of The Unbearables,
helped birth the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, is an active member of the
Amsterdam Balloon Company, and is one of the organizers of the annual
Fiery Tongues Poetry Festival — which takes place every Whitsun weekend
in Amsterdam, Holland. *The Company I Keep* is his first publication with
Ekstasis Editions.

The FusionArts Museum launch is sponsored by FusionArts Museum and
Ekstasis Editions. It is one of a series of April events celebrating
poetry and the International Sufi Movement, including two notable ones: at
7 pm Tuesday, April 19, the Canadian Consulate and Poet's House will host
a reception celebrating Canadian poetry. (Contact Poet's House (212)
431-7920 for further information.) And on Friday, April 22, at 7:30 pm
Hidayat Khan's string quartet "La Monotonia," which is dedicated to his
martyred sister, will be performed as part of an evening of Sufi mystical
music and arts at St. Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue.

(Further
information is available from:
aishah1@iwon.com

Alternatives to Capitalism

Two-Day Participatory Seminar

New York City, April 23–April 24, 2005

Bluestockings and The Institute for Social Ecology present:


A Two-Day Intensive Participatory Seminar on Alternatives to Capitalism Facilitated by Peter Staudenmaier (see bio below)

When: Saturday–Sunday April 23rd–24th @ 4–6pm & 7–9pm (2 two-hour sessions/day)

Where: Meeting at Bluestockings (172 Allen Street NYC)

Price: $40 (scholarships available — no one turned away for lack of $)

Pre-Registration REQUIRED: here.

Must commit to at least 3 of the 4 sessions (no drop-ins)

As discontent with capitalism grows around the globe, those of us involved in struggles for a better world face challenging questions about just what form of society we are working toward. Questions of political economy, in particular, present a series of dilemmas for anti-capitalist activists. This intensive course aims to work through several of these core questions collectively and critically.

New York City Activist Calendar

April 16–23, 2005

The NY Activist Calendar (formerly the CREED NY Calendar) is a

weekly listing of events of interest to NYC-area activists. It is

compiled by volunteer labor and published by the Nicaragua

Solidarity Network of Greater NY. Send listings and corrections

to: NSN, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012, fax 212-674-9139,

email editor@nycalendar.org (plain text only; no attachments,

please). For info, call 212-674-9499 or email wnu@igc.org New or

updated info is marked **. To subscribe, send a blank email to:

nycalendar-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

Archived at: http://nycalendar.org

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"Anarchism Now" Conference
Santa Cruz, California, Saturday, May 7, 2005

University of California, Santa Cruz
Oakes 105 / 10 AM-5:30 PM

Since the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the open-ended War
on Terror, the dominant ideologies, categories, antagonists, analyses
of power and the modes in which it is exercised have changed.
Accordingly, the theories and practices of resistance are changing as
well.

Among these, anarchism has re-emerged in the last several years as a
prominent element within radical social movements in North America
and Europe, particularly among those which aspire to act in
solidarity with those movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America
that are on the offensive against neoliberalism and U.S. imperialism.