Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair

March 25-27, 2005

We would like to invite you to be a part of the 2005 Edmonton
Anarchist Bookfair. The Bookfair is both a presentation of
Anarchist media and a forum for Anarchists in this area of the world
to meet and exchange ideas. It is being held the weekend of March
26, 2005 here in Edmonton.

D. Umpster writes
Save The Date!

A New World in Our Hearts: Building for Revolution May Day Conference will be held in NYC Thursday, April 28 – May 1

There will be workshops, skill shares, music, a really free market, a critical mass bike ride, parties, speakers, films, a soccer tournament and more

Some of the workshops we will be hosting:

-Bridging the Generational Divide: An open dialogue between older and younger radicals with Ashanti Alston.

Institute for Anarchist Studies Soapbox Social

New York City, Feb. 18. 2005

The Institute for Anarchist Studies warmly invites you to our
Soapbox Social, to be held at the al-Alwan Center for the Arts, just a
stone's throw away from the beating heart of Capital (the New York Stock
Exchange!)* Please come join the Directors of the Institute, on the
evening of Friday, February 18th 2005, as we celebrate nine years of
support for radical writers.

The evening begins at 7:00 pm, and includes a full Indian meal
(with meat and vegetarian dishes) served at approximately 8:00 pm. Board
members will provide updates about the Institute and our activities,
including the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference in Vermont and
the Latin American Archives Project in Buenos Aires. Additionally, we
invite you to share information about your projects and activities. Feel
free to bring literature or get up on the soapbox!

Cinema, War and a Society of Spectacle

9 June 2005, University of Cambridge, UK

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH), in association with the Cambridge University Film Seminar, invites
submissions for a one-day conference on cinema and war.

In light of the predominance of a binary between innocence and evil that
frequently characterizes a contemporary political vernacular and Hollywood
representation, the need for critical thought remains crucial. This
conference will interrogate the interplay between the events of war and
their representations in film and video in relation to our implication in
the construction and deconstruction of such imagery.

The New SPACE

(The New School for Pluralistic
Anti-Capitalist Education)

Teachers, speakers, and organizers include:

Stanley Aronowitz, Jack Z. Bratich, Stephen Eric Bronner, Silvia Federici,
Andrea Fishman, Jeannette Gabriel, Loren Goldner, David Graeber, Charles
Herr, Joshua Howard, Anne Jaclard, Andrew Kliman, Louis Kontos, Joel
Kovel, Raymond Lampe, Alan Moore, Bertell Ollman, Howard Seligman, Seth G.
Weiss

UPCOMING CLASSES AND TALKS

"Capital, Volume I." Instructor: Andrew Kliman. Tuesdays, 6-7:30 pm,
March 1-June 14. Tuition: $150-$180, sliding scale.

"Finance Capital, Fictitious Capital, and U.S. Economic Decline."
Instructor: Loren Goldner. Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, March 1-April 12.
Tuition: $88-$115, sliding scale.

"Women, the Witch-hunt in Europe and America, and the Rise of Capitalism:
Rethinking 'Primitive Accumulation' from a Feminist Viewpoint."
Instructor: Silvia Federici. Saturdays, 3-5 pm, 8 sessions starting March
12. Tuition: $88-$115, sliding scale.

"Behind the Continuing Disaster in Acheh, Indonesia: Facts, Politics, and
Theory." Talk by Reyza Zain and Anne Jaclard. Wednesday, March 16, 7-9
pm. Donation: $7-10, sliding scale.

"The Marxist Critique of Ideology: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's
Important — Especially Now." Talk by Bertell Ollman. Wednesday, April
27, 7-9 pm. Donation: $7-10, sliding scale.

"Taxation and Finance." Instructor: Howard F. Seligman. Tuesdays,
7:45-9:45 pm, 8 sessions starting May 3. Tuition: $88 — $115, sliding
scale.

More summer classes and talks coming soon!
For more information, or to register for classes, check our website. See
below for Spring course descriptions.

Website: new-space.mahost.org

e-mail: < a href=mailto:new-space@mutualaid.org>new-space@mutualaid.org

Tel: 1 (800) 377-6183

Humanity and the Earth / L'Homme et la Terre:

The Legacy of Elisée Reclus (1830–1905)

October 28-30, 2005, New Orleans, LA USA

This year marks the 175th anniversary of the birth of
Elisée Reclus and the 100th anniversary of his death.
On the occasion of this double anniversary we will
gather for a conference to discuss the life and work
of Reclus and to investigate the ways in which his
legacy is relevant to our world today.

Reclus is considered by many to be the greatest
geographer of his age and he is generally recognized
as a pioneering figure in the development of social
geography. His sixteen-thousand page Nouvelle
Géographie Universelle was a monumental intellectual
achievement which, as geographer Gary Dunbar observes,
"for a generation was to serve as the ultimate
geographical authority" and constituted "probably the
greatest individual writing feat in the history of
geography." His work culminated in the
thirty-five-hundred-page L'Homme et la Terre, a grand
synthesis of his ideas concerning geography, history,
philosophy, politics, sociology, religion,
anthropology, and many other fields.

2005 Left Forum

New York City, April 125-16, 2005

As many supporters of the Socialist Scholars Conference know, 7 of the 16 members of that conference's Board of Directors resigned last spring in protest of the lack of democratic and participatory governance procedures. Nevertheless, we value the two decades-old tradition of the Socialist Scholars Conference and wish the remaining board members well. However, in response to numerous requests from individuals and organizations, we ourselves have decided to sponsor an event, a conference to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center on the weekend of April 15-16, and we are asking you and others to participate with us in this conference.

Encuentro: a Peoples' Global Action infopoint in New
York City

New York City is joining Peoples' Global Action!

We are popular educators, anti-war and palestinian
solidarity organizers, prison abolitionists, and
anarchist academics — in short, we are rebels...

New York City may have Wall Street, hundreds of
corporate headquarters, and the largest police force
in the world, but it is also home to diverse
communities, beautiful cultures of resistance, and a
legacy of radical struggle. We live here in this major
metropolis of the North with all of its resources
(both material and cultural) and it is from here that
we join Peoples’ Global Action (PGA).

Affordable Housing Rally

New York City, Feb. 2, 2005

Join Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and the Jewish contingent at a rally on Wednesday, February 2, at 4:30 outside City Hall (Broadway, 2 blocks south of Chambers) to demand that City officials guarantee affordable housing to ALL New Yorkers!

This march and rally will underscore five policy changes that can help New York City address it's worsening housing crises and create and preserve homes for the neediest New York City households.

"Epicenter: Aid for Aceh"

New York City, Feb. 3, 2005

Friends of Aceh

Friends of Aceh is raising funds on behalf of locally based grassroots organizations (such as Aceh Kita, Kontras, Flower Aceh, and People¹s Crisis Center) that were operating in Aceh prior to the tsunami. Aceh Kita is an independent media organization in Aceh.  Kontras is the Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence. Flower Aceh is a women¹s organization focusing on economic livelihoods, women¹s empowerment in Aceh, and women¹s human rights.  The People¹s Crisis Center is a humanitarian organization working to build community livelihood, health and education for the peoples of Aceh.

Who: Experimental music and visual artists in collaboration with
Acehnese activists.

What: Fundraiser party to benefit victims of the tsunami in the
Indonesian province of Aceh.

When: Thursday, February 3, 2005 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Where: Clemente Soto Velez Center, 107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey, Manhattan.


Admission: $10-$30, sliding scale;