Opsound writes:

Opsound Copyleft Record Label Launch

New York City, Dec. 2, 2005

EVENT WEB LINK:
(http://www.opsound.org/opsound/events/catalpaparty .html )

THURSDAY DECEMBER 2 - CD RELEASE PARTY & OPSOUND LABEL LAUNCH AT CBGB LOUNGE, 8PM - MIDNIGHT, $5 COVER.

New York, November 18, 2004. Opsound ( http://opsound.org ) an online sound pool of copylefted music, launches its experimental record label with a release party for the electroacoustic band Catalpa Catalpa's debut album, Hardoncity.

Opsound writes

Thursday December 2 - CD Relase Party & opsound Label Launch At CBGB Lounge, 8PM - Midnight, $5.

New York, November 18, 2004. Opspund, an online sound pool of copylefted music, launches its experimental record label with a release party for the electroacoustic band Catalpa Catalpa's debut album, Hardoncity. The evening will feature live performances from Catalpa Catalpa, Ben Owen & Andy Graydon, Scavenger, and Weapons of Mass Destruction and will take place at the CBGB Lounge, 313 Bowery from 8pm to midnight on Thursday, December 2, 2004. There will be a cover charge of $5. The first 25 guests will receive free schwag bags.

"Going Public: Radical Resistance in Education"

March 5, 2005, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

A Multi-Disciplinary Conference

Call for Presentations

The Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University is pleased to
announce the Fifth Annual Ohio Graduate Student and Faculty Conference on
Leadership, Culture, and Schooling. This conference is a multi-disciplinary
forum for graduate students to present their research and scholarship in the
leadership, culture, and schooling arena. Faculty collaboration and
participation in support of graduate student projects are encouraged. The
conference is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at the
Marcum Center located on the Oxford Campus of Miami University.

HLanger writes:

"Grave ReMarx: The Dead Keep Accumulating"
March 24-26, 2005, University of Florida

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

Visible Evidence X11

Montreal, Aug. 22-25, 2005

Visible Evidence XII will be held at Concordia University, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, August 22 to 25, 2005.

Visible Evidence is a peripatetic international and interdisciplinary
conference on the role of film, video and other media as witness and voice
of social reality, which encompasses a wide range of cultural, political,
social, historical, ethnographic and pedagogical questions and perspectives
from fields such as film studies, communication studies, anthropology,
architecture, art history, ethnic studies, queer studies, history,
journalism, law, medicine, political science, sociology, urban studies and
women's studies.

First held at Duke University in 1993, subsequent editions
have been held at the University of Southern California, Harvard,
Northwestern, San Francisco State, University of Wales (Cardiff), with most
recent editions taking place in Utrecht (2000), Brisbane (2001), Marseilles
(2002), and Bristol (December 2003). Returning to the Americas in 2005, the
2006 version is planned for Brazil.

New Delhi's Raqs Media Collective

New York City, Nov. 7, 2004

Wednesday November 10th, 7:00pm

Multipurpose Room in the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

Pace University, 3 Spruce Street, between Park Row and Gold Street
(entrance closer to Gold).

Please join us for a panel discussion with India’s Raqs Media Collective,
moderated by Singapore art theorist Gunalan Nadarajan.

The Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata
Sengupta) is a group of media practitioners that works in new media &
digital art practice, documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory &
research, writing, criticism and curation. The collective has been working
together since 1991. Their work explores the power of the unregulated
communications of city life: the experience of movie theater audiences in
Delhi, the illegal posters on the sides of constructions sites, the
traffic on websites and chatrooms, or the illegal bootlegging of the
latest Hollywood DVD's. Based in New Delhi, India, Raqs is one of the
initiators of Sarai: The New Media Initiative, (www.sarai.net) a program
of interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban
culture at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

"Only A Beginning: An
Anarchist Anthology"

Edited by Allan Antliff

Launch Party

Wednesday, November 10th @ 7pm — Free

@ Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (b/t Stanton &
Rivington), LES

"Only a Beginning" is the first comprehensive overview
of anarchist theory and practice in North America from
1976 to the present. Edited by Allan Antliff, it
documents over a quarter-century of grassroots
activism, including protests and gatherings, art
exhibitions, street theatre, Internet sites, and
squats, as well as environmental and
anti-globalization protests, the rise of
anarcho-feminism, the fight for queer rights,
indigenous struggles, and prisoners' liberation.

nolympics writes:

Paco Ignacio Taibo in New York City

November 11–14, 2004

Spanish/Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo has two dates in NYC this week to promote the new edition of his memoir of the massacre in Thatelolco before the opening of the 1968 olympics in Mexico City. Donald Nicholson Smith, the translator of the book from 7 Stories, wrote about the story here last month.

Tonight, Monday November 11th at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue at 34th St. Skylight Rm. 9th Fl. 6pm.

Thursday 14th November. 7pm. 141 5th Ave Brooklyn. (Park Slope) at the 5th Ave Committee.
Q train to 7th Ave or the 2 or 3 train to bergen.

"Resisting the Clash"

Marhaba Europe Tour

Fear is quickly becoming again the main foundation for power in the
post-sept 11 world. For a long time, thanks to the living memory of
colonialism and World War II, those in power had to pay lip service
to the values that stood at the core of liberation struggles in all
continents, such as equality, freedom, justice, anti-racism, a fair
distribution of wealth, democracy of some form or another, etc. But
people are now bombarded all over the world on a daily basis with
messages designed to provoke a shift in their priorities. Human
rights and emancipatory social values, which for 50 years were held
as the goal by most of the world's population, are losing ground at
increasing speed as mainstream media and so-called 'experts'
and 'academics' continue promoting the security paranoia, the idea
that we need a strong state that is able to keep suspicious strangers
under control, and the racist notion that we are at the beginning of
a long-lasting conflict between 'cultures' or 'civilisations'.

Call for a Second European Day of Action and Mobilisation

April 2, 2005

Last year a European day of action, on January 31st, against
detention centres and for the legalisation of undocumented migrants was
launched during ESF in Paris. On the 31st of January 2004 demonstrations and
actions were held in more than fourty cities in Europe; it was an important day
in the development of a networking process amongst migrant struggles and
activists on a European level.

We propose a second day of action and demonstrations on April 2nd, 2005,
claiming freedom of movement and the right to stay as an alternative to the
european constitutional process based on exclusion and exploitation.