pei.czech writes:

Moving NYC "More Gardens!"

Thursday December 2, 2004, 11am

We need folks from all communities and from all boroughs to come by over the next 4 days and lend a hand. If you can join us please call Aresh @ 917 518-9987 ASAP let us know when you are available to help. Read story below for details.

Press Conference: Environmental Injustice in the Bronx
Community gardeners stood their ground. Half of the original green space is now to be made permanent. Housing and Green Spaces must stay in balance!

Thursday December 2, 2004, 11am
In front of Family Group Garden, E. 158th Street between Courtlandt and Park Aves.

In the South Bronx, over 28,000 square feet of open green space, home to 3 community gardens, are being lost, in a highly inequitable exchange of community space in the most toxic, least green, highest population density, most asthma-riddled neighborhood in the city, and one of the two poorest Congressional districts in the USA.

Gardeners and residents will help move out plants and speak out about their challenges to preserve the remaining 14 community green spaces, and to create more community gardens and truly affordable housing. We will explain the “Homes and Gardens Plan,” a proposal by the community and housing experts, showing how both gardens and more units of housing can be
implemented in the Melrose area.

New York City Meeting to Discuss the Presidential Inauguration

7 PM, Thursday, December 2nd

Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South

Bush may have been elected, but we didn't elect him and we won't obey him!
We cannot wait another four years to stand against the war and rampant
social injustice of another Bush Administration. On January 20, thousands
of activists will descend on Washington, DC to protest the second
inauguration of George Walker Bush.

Join a citywide discussion on protests around the upcoming presidential
inauguration in the garden room at Judson Memorial Church. This meeting
will provide a place for different organizations, collectives, affinity
groups, and other groups organizing to protest the inauguration to share
resources and ideas. We will also discuss transportation to Washington DC
and housing there, what DC-based groups already have planned for the
inauguration, and what NYC-based actions can be organized for J20. For
more information, e-mail nyc-counter-inaugural@lists.riseup.net.

The meeting will be held in Judson Memorial Church's garden room which can
be entered through the side entrance, on the west side of Thompson St.
between Washington Sq. South (W. 4th St.) and W. 3d St.

(Subways: A,B,C,D,E,F lines
to WEST FOURTH ST.; R to EIGHTH ST.; 6 to BLEECKER ST.; 1/9 to
CHRISTOPHER/SHERIDAN; L to SIXTH AVE.)

"Woman and Globalization" Conference

July 27-August 3, 2005, Center for Global Justice, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Co-Sponsored by the Radical Philosophy Association, the Global Studies
Association, and the Argentina Autonomista Project

Of all the social groups impacted by neo-liberal globalization,
perhaps none has felt it more severely than women, especially those in
countries in the global South.  Young women have been the main workforce
in maquiladora sweatshops.  Women must do more work to support families as
incomes decline.  Women have felt the brunt of violence as frustrated
husbands despair about not being able to provide for their families.
 Families have been pushed off the land, women have been left behind to
care for families, and men have gone north to find work. Some women have
also gone north, often as victims of coerced sex trafficking.

  Many
returning men have brought AIDS with them to infect their wives.  World
Bank and IMF-mandated cutbacks in state services have drastically cut
medical care, and public education now has user fees.  These cutbacks
particularly affect women and children, as more women die in childbirth
and children have to leave school at an early age to work.

Similarly,
women are also severely affected in the global North. In the US, welfare
restrictions, increased costs for health care and housing, and declining
state aid for education and other services have disproportionately hurt
women and children, particularly poor women, and have increased the
feminization of poverty. Thus, in both North and South, the social
pathologies engendered by globalization have affected women most
intensely.

Paper Tiger Television writes:

Paper Tiger TV Celebrates

New York City, Dec. 11, 2004

In light of the recent election, our country's need for media free from corporate interests has never been clearer.

Working steadfastly to prevent further erosion of our civil liberties, Paper Tiger TV (PTTV) celebrates its long history of media activism and its continuos commitment to media democracy.

"Signature" Conference

Baltimore, Maryland, February 26, 2005

Signature… the petition, the check, the painting, the autograph, the document, the stamp
… of experience, of institutions, of the state, of the everyday, of the spoken, of the human
… forgery, claim, authenticity, acknowledgment, ownership, belonging, become …

"Physiognomy of Origin:

Multiplicities, Bodies and Radical Politics"

Sydney, May 5-7, 2005

Keynote speakers: Antonio Negri, Adriana Cavarero

This conference brings together two key figures in the contemporary reconsideration of the concept of origin. Radical theorist and activist, Antonio Negri has introduced a materialist perspective on the concept of origin through his investigations of constituent power and multitudes. Italian feminist philosopher, Adriana Cavarero has been engaged in reconceiving origin through the thought of sexual difference, an ethics of embodiment and more recently, the politics of vocal expression.

"Yama: Attack to Attack"

The Most Powerful Film Documenting the Lives and
Struggles in Japan’s Day-Workers’ Ghetto

November 23rd, at 7:30 PM

ABC NO RIO

156 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002

Suggested Donation ($2-10)

PROGRAM:

Introduction by Go Hirasawa (Film Critic and Activist)

YAMA-ATTACK TO ATTACK

Directors: Mitsuo Sato and Kyoichi Yamaoka

Production: “YAMA” Production and Exhibition Committee

1985 / Color / 110 min / English Subtitles

Talk by Takashi Sakai (Social Critic and Activist)


With a shorter version of "The Public Park" (2004) directed by Munenori Yamakawa
in collaboration with Takashi Sakai

"Cinema & Situations:

Japanese Experimental Film Night"

Film Works of Motoharu Jonouchi and
Yoshihiro Kato (Zero Dimension)

November 21st, at 8:00 PM

TONIC, 107 Norfolk Street, New York, NY 10002

212·358·7501

Admission $7

PROGRAM A: Films by Motoharu Jonouchi

“Hi Red Center Shelter Plan” 1964

“WOLS” 1965

“The Mass Collective Bargaining At Nihon University” 1968

“Gewaltopia Trailer” 1968

PROGRAM B: A Film by Yoshihiro Kato (Zero Dimension)

“The White Hare of Inaba” 1970 (2004 version)

Information about the directors is available below.

"Rethinking Reception" Conference

Durham, NC, March 24-26,2005

This conference both proposes, and interrogates the utility of the concept of reception for understanding audience interaction with texts in all their various forms — be it readers and novels, readers and critical theory, viewers and films, viewers and television, web-users and the internet, listeners and radio, consumers and products, and nations and the trans-national flow of cultural objects. Thus the conference proposes to bring together work on readership, spectatorship, and consumption under the broader analytic of reception, and to initiate a dialogue between work in film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, critical theory, philosophy, and cognitive psychology. The conference aspires to shed light on different aspects of reception and to develop and to refine trans-disciplinary avenues of approach to questions of audience interaction with texts.

"Contesting Capitalism: Practices and Strategies"

University of Leicester, May 18, 2005

Collective for Alternative Organization Studies (CAOS)

University of Leicester Management Centre

Call for Papers

Following the success of CAOS inaugural workshop in June 2004, we are
organising a second event to coincide with Katherine Gibson (University of
Massachussetts) and Julie Graham’s (Australian National University) visit
to the University of Leicester Management Centre. We are inviting papers
from all disciplines within social sciences and humanities on the theme of
‘Contesting Capitalism’.