AbolitionNow! writes

On Sunday, May 1, 2005, United for Peace and Justice and Abolition Now! are calling for a massive demonstration for global nuclear disarmament and peace. The demonstration will take place on the day before world leaders and citizens from many countries converge at the UN for a month-long review of the endangered Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. While ignoring their treaty obligations, the nuclear weapon states, led by the US, are hypocritically accusing other nations of seeking nuclear arms.

We will assemble on 1st Ave. from 50th St. north between 11 AM and 12 noon. The march kicks off at 12 noon. The rally will begin at 2 PM at the Heckscher Ballfields in Central Park and conclude by 6 PM.

We urge you to join us and help build the May 1st mobilization for a nuclear weapon free world:
- Endorse the May 1 demonstration for global nuclear disarmament online http://meetups.radicaldesigns.org/modinput4.php?mo din=62
- Get involved in planning and outreach: join the May Day 2005 committee by sending a blank e-mail to MayDay2005-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
- Organize buses, trains and other transportation from your region to the May 1st March and Rally. Parking for out-of-town buses has been arranged near the assembly point. E-mail Fran Geteles fgeteles@igc.org
- Visit www.abolitionnow.org and www.unitedforpeace.org for updates

People can pick up May 1st posters and flyers at the UfPJ office at 322 8th Ave. (entrance is on 26th St.), 9th floor"

Staughton Lynd Celebration

New York City, April 15, 2005

Solidarity: Thinking Globally Acting Locally
and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

This special event celebrates
Staughton Lynd's 75th birthday with a wide-ranging discussion of the labor
movement, solidarity unionism, labor internationalism, civil rights movement,
anti-war movements, and the struggle to defend the rights and lives of all
those in the prison- and military-industrial complex. The speakers discuss
contemporary and historic struggles for justice for African Americans and
people of color, women, the working class, prisoners, and the fight to end
U.S. wars of imperialism. Lynd has been instrumental in fighting for justice
in each of these areas.

A special event on the occasion of the centenary of the Industrial Workers of
the World and the Russian Revolution.

NY Activist Calendar
April 9–16, 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.

GRACE writes:

"60 Years of the Nuclear Age" Lectures

New York City, April 12–15, 2005

The Ralph Bunche Institute–CUNY Graduate Center and GRACE–Global Resource Action Center for the Environment would like to invite you to the following multi-session lectures on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation:

Support Tent State University!

Education, Not War!

Campuses Across the USA, April 18–24, 2005

Across the United States, the right to a public higher education is systematically being denied to our communities. While $150+ billion has already been spent on the war in Iraq, our state and federal governments are systematically de-funding our institutions of higher learning. Tuition continues to skyrocket as the Bush administration wages criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is clear evidence of a devastating shift in national spending priorities for which our younger generations are paying dearly.

Nietzsche & Anarchism Book Party

New York City, April 6, 2005

Book release party for

I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!

Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition

edited by John Moore, with Spencer Sunshine
(Autonomedia).

Wednesday April 6, 2005 — 7pm

ABC No Rio, Lower East Side, NYC

156 Rivington St. b/t Suffolk & Clinton

J / M / F to Delancey

Associate editor Spencer Sunshine will introduce this
collection of works relating to the conjunction of the
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the political
tradition of anti-capitalist anarchism. Eight years in
the making, this groundbreaking collection was left
unfinished at contributing editor John Moore's
untimely death in 2002 at the age of 45, but has now
been completed.

I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!
consists of 11 essays by writers from six countries:
Guy Aldred, Allan Antliff, Max Cafard, Daniel Colson,
Andrew Koch, John Moore, Saul Newman, Franco Riccio,
Leigh Starcross, Salvo Vacarro and Peter Lamborn
Wilson, with an introduction by Jonathan Purkis.

Vegan snacks and refreshments will be served, and
discounted books will be available for sale.

"Is There a New Blacklist?"

New York City, April 13, 2005

Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 7 pm

The Great Hall at The Cooper Union

7 East 7th Street, New York City

Renowned activist Tariq Ali is joined by Joseph Massad, Sara Roy, Monique Dols, and Amy Goodman for a discussion on dissent in the United States. They will be examining the threat to intellectual freedom on universitycampuses and the role of national media in this debate.

NYC Grassroots Media Conference

April 9-10, 2005

New School University
65 5th Avenue, NY
(212) 420-9045

This coming weekend, April 9th and 10th, hundreds of concerned media
makers,
youth organizers and community members will be converging on the New
School in
Manhattan to attend over 60 workshops led by more than 100 panelists
from NYC
organizations.

Caliban and the Witch Book Party and Discussion

New York, March 29, 2005

Tuesday, March 29

7:30 pm, Brecht Forum

212.242.4201

451 West St. Between Bank & Bethune

1,9,2,3 to 14th st. walk west on 12th st, south on 8th ave, then west on
Bethune st.

Caliban and the Witch:

Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to
capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the
witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Silvia Federici shows that
the birth of the proletariat required a war against women, inaugurating a new
sexual pact and a new patriarchal era: the patriarchy of the wage. Firmly
rooted in the history of the persecution of the witches and the disciplining
of the body, her arguments explain why the subjugation of women was as crucial
for the formation of the world proletariat as the enclosures of the land, the
conquest and colonization of the ‘New World,’ and the slave trade.

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15

Anonymous Comrade writes "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

PSY-GEO-PROVFLUX, May 27-29th, 2005.
Providence, RI

Submissions Application and Guidelines

The Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies (PIPS) is looking for experimental projects in contemporary urban exploration and public art. The Provflux hopes to attract a wide range of artists, thinkers, and explorers for a weekend of interventions and entertainment.

The projects can take any form, providing it engages contemporary notions of urban space and psychogeography. Public interventions, actions, installations, projects, videos, and documentation will all be considered.
All disciplines are encouraged to submit material. The deadline for proposals is April 15th, 2005.

Please visit: www.pipsworks.com for more information.
Or email: pipsworks@gmail.com"