Morrissey Kressi writes:
Monday, December 27th @ 7pm - Free

Bluestockings Revolutionary Potluck Discussion Series

Topic: Escape, Exodus, and Secession

Increasingly, political theory is attempting to understand the desirability of exodus as a resistance strategy. In U.S. post-election milieu, secession from America is only being discussed half-heartedly, yet for much of the world the question of exodus and escape is a topic of serious discussion. But with no 'frontier' and no 'outside' in which to flee, what does escape mean? And how might exodus as a mode of resistance be practiced in world that is 'borderless'? Why is withdrawal not simply an act of resignation, and how might it become an act of creation?

"Secession: Creating New Autonomous Zones"

Peter Lamborn Wilson, Annual "Chaos Day" Lecture

7:30 PM, Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Brecht Forum, 122 W. 27th Street, 10th floor

Sponsor: Libertarian Book Club

Contribution requested

For more information: 212-979-8353

Email: wsany@hotmail.com

Onto writes:

"For a Global Disruption of Empire"

A Call for Decentralized, Local Actions Around the World on J20

In Solidarity with the DAWN (DC Anti-War Network,
http://www.dawndc.net/) call for groups to converge from around the
country and around the world to converge on DC, we call on those who
cannot make the trip to DC to organize local actions in their own
communities.

An internationalist collective based in Berlin writes:

One-Day Protest Strike on J20

The "election" that has sentenced the world to four more years of the most right-wing government in US history is merely the most glaring recent expression of a global crisis of democracy. We simply miss the point if we focus our outrage on the narrow question of whether the election was stolen, lost through incompetence or conceded too early. A process so dominated by money and corporate interests is by definition non-democratic. The fact that the choice in this election was effectively limited to Kerry or Bush, excluding any real alternative from the start, is only one symptom.

Interactive Telecommunications Project Winter Show

New York City, Dec. 19-29, 2004

ITP Winter Show 2004

Sunday, December 19 from 2 to 6pm

Monday, December 20 from 5 to 9pm

A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from
the student artists and innovators at ITP.

An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs,
rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP — the
Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first
graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into
a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers,
designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries
of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach
to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun
house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an
extended network of the technology industry's most daring and
prolific practitioners.

"Combating the Christian Fascists:

Who Are They, Are They Really That Serious and How Can They Be Defeated?"

7 PM, Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Revolution Books, 9 W. 19th St., New York City

With: Debra Sweet from Refuse & Resist! and

Osage Bell, writer for the Revolutionary Worker newspaper

Phone: 212-691-3345

Please join us in a conversation Wednesday night to discuss the urgent moment confronting us all.

"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"

Book Party for John Perkins, Brooklyn, Dec. 16, 2004

Who: New York Times best-selling author, John Perkins

When: Wednesday, December 16th, 7pm

Where: Vox Pop

1022 Cortelyou Rd. (the corner of Stratford)

Q train to Cortelyou, 4 blocks west of train station

Email: voxpopnet.net
or 718.940.2084 for more information

(ask for Emmy)

What:

Book party for Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses
Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions

In Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins,
a former international banker, describes how, as a
highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat
poor countries around the globe. John Perkins accuses
the financial system of cheating "developing"
countries out of trillions of dollars by lending them
more money than they could possibly repay and then
taking over their economies.

*Meredith* writes:

"Let Fury Have the Hour:

The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer"

New York City, Dec. 9, 2004

Book Party/Reading/Performance

(Antonino D'Ambrosio with Ricanstruction, the 512 Collective, the White Shadow & Others TBA)

7:30 pm, Brecht Forum

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15

"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin, and a pair of bondage trousers," writes Billy Bragg, and documentarian/activist DAmbrosio proves it with this gathering of skillfully selected articles and essays on Clash front man Joe Strummer (1952-2002), from the likes of Lester Bangs, Chuck D, Greil Marcus and DAmbrosio himself." — Publisher's Weekly, 11/8/04

"Joe was speaking about things he saw in his life — the things right in front of his face that no one wanted to talk about — and taking his message around the world...Public Enemy is an American group but we address the same issues — political, social, musical — on an international level. I learned the importance of that from Joe Strummer." — From the Preface by Chuck D

A quintessential rude boy, punker, rebel musician, artist and activist. Joe Strummer wrote some of the most important music of the last century. His most influential songs include "Guns of Brixton," "The Washington Bullets," "Spanish Bombs," "London's Burning," and "Garageland." Effectively melding raw creativity with radical politics, Strummer transformed punk rock from its early associations with reactionary and nihilistic politics into a social movement.

New York City SantaCon 2004

Saturday Dec. 11, 2004

What is Santacon?

It's a not-for-profit, non-political, non-religious & non-logical Santa Claus convention. We do it for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

SantaCon happens in major cities all over the world. NYC SantaCon 1998 was a blissful three-day affair with more than 100 Santa's flying in from all over the country as NYC hosted the national event. SantaCon 1999 was extremely successful with one longer day and approximately 80 dirty Clauses. SantaCon 2001 was a single day condensed non-stop blowout with over 150 red suits of naughtiness! 2002 was chock-full of bars, parties, subway rides, shock appeal, dirty xxx-mas carols, jingle balls, elf insubordination, Harry Hanukkah, and non-stop ho-ho-hos, with plenty of visitors from around the globe, many friends from L.A. and SF to boot.

And last year, with close to 400 Santa's, we wowed them in Grand Central & roamed across Harlem & caroled outside the Apollo Theater. There were stripping Santas in the East Village and bowling reindeer games in Central Park all accompanied by the usual decadence and debauchery only residents of the North Pole could appreciate.

grumbles writes
"United Kingdom G8 Protest Protest"



A Call out.



The final plenary of the European Peoples' Global Action Conference, which took place in Belgrade, Post-Yugoslavia from 21st-29th July 2004, is calling for a Global Day of Action on July 5-8th 2005 - the opening day of the 2005 G8 Summit to take place at Gleneagles, Perthshire, United Kingdom (Scotland, around 40 miles/70 km from Edinburgh).



They have called for people to join the convergences in Scotland being called for by the Dissent! Network in the UK (www.dissent.org.uk) to disrupt the Summit, and for people to organise and take part in simultaneous actions in villages, towns and cities around the world.