The Festival of Dissent!

Lanarkshire, April 6-10, 2005

A chance to form networks of
resistance... A chance to plot, conspire, and dream about resistance to
the G8... To meet people learn skills, share information, practice direct
action, and party together.

The G8 is the annual meeting of the leaders of the worlds most powerful
countries. It is a major symbol of capitalism: a summit where rich
governments plan how to stay rich. Since 1998, these summits have been
resisted wherever they have attempted to meet. Protests have erupted on
every continent, fuelled by the extremes of wealth and poverty, by
military repression, and by environmental breakdown. In July 2005, the G8
comes to the UK.

NY Activist Calendar

March 12, 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.]

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.

"State Your Re-Action to State Repression" Conference

April 24, 2005, Syracuse University

Free!

On September 11, 2001, the political landscape changed
dramatically. Instantaneously, it became unpatriotic to
criticize President Bush, the government, or US policy on
any front. Activist groups like the Sierra Club announced
that they were indefinitely suspending all criticism
against Bush’s pro-corporate agenda as the nation tried to
pull together.” (Best and Nocella, 2004, p. 9).

The
depletion of civil rights and freedoms are nowhere more
obvious than with the October 26, 2001 passage of the USA
PATRIOT Act, which gave the green light to the government
to have unlimited mobility of their powers of
surveillance, search and seizure, detention, and
suppression of dissent. The American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) believes,

Many parts of this sweeping legislation [PATRIOT Act]
take away checks on law enforcement and threaten the
very rights and freedoms that we are struggling to
protect. For example, without a warrant and without
probable cause, the FBI now has the power to access
your most private medical records, your library
records, and your student records... and can prevent
anyone from telling you it was done.

Neo-McCarthyism is upon us and the United States citizens
are dumbfounded.

lelemungo writes

"The War of The Worlds:
Semiotic Warfare, Media Activism, Critical Entertainment"

Friday March 4th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Saturday March 5th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Einstein Auditorium — Barney Building
Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University
34 Stuyvesant Street (at 9th Street between 3rd and 2nd Avenues)
New York City

Featuring
The Yes Men
Yomango
Big Noise
Candida TV
Eddo Stern
retroYou/Nostalg

Presented by d-i-n-a in conjunction with the New
York University Department of Culture and Communication and Department
of Art and Art Professions.

Schedule of Events
Semiotic Warfare
Friday March 4th 2005
4:30 pm Introduction: Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff, Director, Visual
Culture MA Program.
5:00 The Yes Men presents "The Yes Bush Can!" (US)
6:30 Yomango (Spain)

Media Activism and Critical Entertainment
Saturday March 5th 2005
2:00 pm Big Noise (US)
3:30 Candida (Italy)
5:00 Eddo Stern (US)
6:30 Nostalg/retroYou (Spain)

8 pm Reception

"Attacking Academic Freedom in America:

A Conversation with the Critical Art Ensemble"
March 4, 2005, 7–8:30 pm

Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center

Professor Ammiel Alcalay

talks with

Steve Kurtz and Rebecca Schneider.

Steve Kurtz is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Buffalo and one of the co-founders of the Critical Art Ensemble, a collective of artists dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory. Rebecca Schneider is a professor of performance studies at Brown and is representing the CAE Defense Fund. Ammiel Alcalay is a professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern and Asian Languages at Queens College and the Graduate Center.

Reverend Billy Pledges Year-Long, World-Record-Setting Exorcism of Illegal
"Studyhall" Starbucks

Following their 8pm revival show on Wednesday February 23rd at St. Mark's
Church, The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and Reverend Billy will march to the
Cooper Union Starbucks at 4th Avenue and St. Mark's Place. They will announce
their intent to place in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest
EVICTION OF THE DEVIL FROM THE BODY OF AN INNOCENT VICTIM. The Church and
congregation will roust the demonic sweatshop bean, aka Starbucks, from the so
called "study hall" with gospel shouts and incantations from across the land.

"The Future of Food" Screening

New York City, Feb. 15, 2005

You're cordially invited to see the new documentary THE FUTURE OF FOOD which
will be screened this Tuesday, February 15th at 7pm at Sixth Street
Community Center, 638 East 6th Street (between Avenues B & C) in Manhattan.
The documentary runs about 80 minutes (description below).

Howard Brandstein

Sixth Street Community Center/SOS Food

www.thefutureoffood.com

There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables
of America — a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food
we eat.

Biodemocracy 2005: Reclaim the Commons!

Call to Action: Converge in Philadelphia, June 18th to 21st, 2005

CALLING ON ALL PEOPLE who resent the demise of democracy and hold to
the promise of authentic popular empowerment! All who dare to paint
poems of resistance on walls of oppression, dance in city streets in
defiance of police states, and plant seeds of sedition in the shadows
of Empire: come to Philadelphia! As the world?s leading agents of
eco-devastation and medical malpractice meet here in June, we cannot
stand quiet. Join us to challenge the corporate crime, poisons for
profit, and flagrant lies of the biotechnology industry, at the time of
their annual international convention, with a creative uprising for
truth, life and justice!

"Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to
War"

Series Screenings at MOMA starting Feb. 12, 2005

Deep Dish Television announces a MOMA screening of an installment of their
recently completed series "Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to
War." "The Real Face of Occupation," featured among documentaries from around
the world, includes never-before-seen footage of the war in Iraq shot by
videographers David Martinez and Urban Hamid.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political

Michael Hardt and Mary Ann Doane, Keynote Speakers

October 20-22, 2005, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Organized by The Collective for Critical Practices, a group of graduate students in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

This conference is concerned with what it might mean to be “out of time” and its implications and applications for our present moment. Our Collective approaches “out of time” as a sense of urgency, a potential that emerges out of “presentness,” and a transformation of earlier assumptions of temporality. Today, urgency and the potential of the present have been elevated by the presumed waning of modernist notions of history and complex shifts in the relations of production. We are out of time.