2005 South East Regional APOC Gathering

Asheville, NC, March 5–27, 2005

Asheville APOC chapter

An Open Invitation to People of Color

APOC is an ongoing conversation between youths, elders, and others for revolutionary grassroots solutions for problem facing communities of color. The Asheville, NC chapter of APOC is planning a Southeastern regional gathering in Asheville, NC on March 25, 26 and 27 to be held at the University of North Carolina-Asheville campus. Room and board will be provided, we are planning to have a weekend of community building, skill and knowledge sharing, empowerment and FUN!

If people are interested in doing a workshop or facilitating or volunteering or help us organize let us know...help us make this a revolutionary event! and this will be POC only event.

Alan Moore writes:

"Beats for Peace" Valentines Day Dance Party
New York City, Feb. 12, 2005

Hey Pals, Get on board! February 12th Saturday is the throwdown Benefit for the UU Church Social Concerns Committee speakers fund. We’ve brought you such fine speakers as the Frank Barbaro vs Vito Fossella debate, uber-economist Jeffrey Sachs, Daniel Berrigan, Lynne Stewart, Norman Siegel, Stanley Aronowitz, cartoonist David Rees, the Yes Men and Reverend Billy. (Check out http://uuforum.org/ to see it.)

Help us keep 'em coming!

You gotta make this scene, ‘cause it’s going to be THE happening party in fast-frozen Shaolin Isle! With DJs & disco balls and all that jazz. The event is "night club style," with spicy food and strange drinks (non-alcoholic, but adults may BYO). Under 21's are welcome, but they better step lively! Dance floor and lounges with videos, soft floors and special surprises. Dress as your favorite lounge lizard or nightclub star and get free food inside.

(Gung-ho party-makin' people invited for the committee — call "Rude-Alf" at 917 574 8392.)

UU Forum programs: http://uuforum.org/
Old-fashioned realistic Church website: http://members.aol.com/Uucsi/

Post-Holiday Re-Gifting Freemeet!

New York City, Saturday, January 29, 2005

10am–6pm

Sixth Street Community Center

*FREE*

Bring your unwanted, but useful stuff to give away,
or come by to see what's being offered! Nothing is for
sale — everything goes on a first-come first-served
basis.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

UPDATE: Please note that the deadline for abstracts has been extended to
January 30th.

Grave ReMarx: The Accumulating Dead

The University of Florida’s Marxist Reading Group
Seventh Annual Conference

March 24-26, 2005 at the University of Florida

Keynote speakers: Warren Montag and Mark Neocleous

How has Marx's promise of a spectre haunting Europe been explained away, ridiculed, or destroyed, and at the same time how does Marx himself haunt our thinking and rethinking of the present world? Rather than a revolutionary class haunting the world, today the left lingers on an always familiar political ground and appears stagnant by its own struggles, failures, and deaths. This conference seeks papers that either explore the ways in which the spirit of revolution has been kept alive through its critique of the monstrous side of capitalism, or interrogate circumstances in which that same spirit has itself assumed a monstrous or ghostly face.

This conference acknowledges that capitalism constantly threatens life and tends to reproduce it as monstrous. Indeed, in the global context, daily life becomes a desperately lived struggle as capital continues to undermine, deform, and destroy all forms of life. The presence of the monstrous in capital permits a discussion of the destructive forces of capitalism, and the attempts of the left to resist and rise above such destruction on all fronts, such as economics, politics, and social/spatial relations. We implicitly ask how narratives of the monstrous conjure the spirit of marxism, Marx, and the revolutionary struggle.

And So Forth: A Post-Inaugural Assembly

New York City, Jan. 22-23, 2005

Amnesty International Firefly Project, Theaters Against War (THAW), Art is
Permitted Everywhere and FELT are pleased (overjoyed!) to invite you to
participate in our upcoming conference on arts + activism.

AND SO FORTH: A Post-Inaugural Assembly

January 22nd + 23rd, 2005

OfficeOps in East Williamsburg (L to Morgan)

"All art is a revolt against man's fate." -Andre Malreaux

On January 22 + 23, over 45 artists, producers, curators, activists, and
YOU will come together to share skills and strategies for raising social
and political consciousness through the arts. AND SO FORTH is two days
jam-packed with panel and roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops, film
screenings, collaborative art projects, performances, a gallery exhibition
of political art, and much more.



ASF is open to the public, and costs $10 in advance or $12 at the door.



Check out www.aifirefly.org/andsoforth for the full schedule of events.



:: How to Register ::
Go to www.aifirefly.org/andsoforth and click on "register." Volunteers can
attend the conference for free (volunteer slots are filling up fast!).



:: More about And So Forth ::
Scheduled to coincide with the official beginning of George W. Bush's
second presidential term, ASF was conceived and organized by members of
Amnesty International Firefly Project in response to the surge of
politically-engaged art-making that swept New York City in the months
leading up to the Republican National Convention and the 2004 election.



Prominent members of New York City's burgeoning artist-activist
community will join representatives from politically-oriented and
grassroots arts organizations to discuss topics ranging from the
political potential of gallery exhibitions to documentary filmmaking,
public performance, political satire, and fundraising.

Precair Forum

Amsterdam, Feb. 12, 2005

A one-day series of forums and workshops examining the precarisation of everyday life within and beyond the Netherlands — intersecting the changing nature of work (flex/temp/contingent) and production (knowledge-based and immaterial), migration and informal economies, and new strategies for metropolitan struggles.

12th February, 2005
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Featuring:
De Vrije Ruimte, Okia, Eurowatch (tbc), Sash (tbc), De Bovengrondse (tbc), Respect (tbc), Next Genderation (tbc), Vrouwenbond (tbc), Domestic Workers Netwerk (tbc), Wijkcentrum de Pijp (tbc), StudentenKraakspreekuur (tbc).

International Guests:
NoBorder Network (tbc),
Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris),
The London Particular (London),
P2P Fightsharing (Rome)

http://PrecairForum.nl/

DH Platform writes:

Please join
Barry Pateman (Emma Goldman Papers Project,
Kate Sharpley Library) and the Devin Hoff Platform
featuring Miya Osaki

in a tribute to Denjiro Kotoku, Kanno Suga
and the Japanese Anarchist Martyrs.

A Benefit for the
Kate Sharpley Library

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

8:30 pm

@ 21 Grand (449B 23rd st., Oakland)

$5-10

www.katesharpleylibrary.net

Goldman

www.21grand.org

“Long Live Anarchy!”

Anti-Inaugural Ball #1

New York City, Jan. 21, 2005

Hello All!

Anti-Inaugural Ball at Judson Church, Friday, January 21! Come vent your rage and find some hope at the Anti-Inaugural Ball! We'll channel the spirit of Judson Church's past — combining politics, art, low production values and naked people.

Friday, January 21 * Doors: 8:30pm * Show: 9:00pm

Free admission! Free drinks!

Free dancing! Free thinking!

The Global Flow of Information:

A Conference on Law, Culture and
Political Economy

April 1-3, 2005, New Haven, CT

The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP), The Yale Journal
of Law & Technology (YJoLT) and the International Journal of
Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their
second interdisciplinary writing competition and a call for papers in
conjunction with The Global Flow of Information Conference taking place
on April 1-3, 2005 at Yale Law School. We invite students, scholars,
policy makers, activists and practitioners to submit papers for the
writing competition and/or for publication by YJoLT/IJCLP.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Call For a Militant Anti-Fascist Contingent at the Bush Counter-Inauguration"

On January 20th, 2005 as the Emperor is re-crowned four days of militant anti-fascist action will commence. Blinded by militaristic nationalism and sedated by the opiate of religious fundamentalism, the people of this country have allowed the fascist ideology of neo-conservatism and their culture of fear to seize the day.

We say no longer.