National Conference on Organized Resistance

Washington, DC, February 3-6, 2005

Call for Proposals

The National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) has happened each January in Washington, DC at American University for the last 7 years. It has served as a vibrant meeting space for radical activists of all varieties. There have also been countless amazing workshops, discussions, skillshares and more. Each year NCOR has gotten a little bigger and hopefully a little better. But it has also gotten a little, dare we say it, predictable? You know which friends you'll see, your favorite old standard workshops from years past-familiar faces and themes. This year we want to shake things up.

"Gourmet Cruelty" Lecture

New York City, Nov. 8. 2004

Come out and hear Ryan Shapiro of Gourmet Cruelty speak about the campaign against the foie gras industry.

Kimmel Center, NYU

60 Washington Square South, between Thompson and LaGuardia), Room 901
7:30-9:30 PM

further questions: seal.club@nyu.edu

*non-NYU students, please bring ID

**There will be refreshments served**

Additional Details:

GourmetCruelty.com is a coalition dedicated to exposing the cruelty of the foie gras industry. Just two companies are
responsible for the barbaric practice of foie gras production in the United States — Hudson Valley Foie Gras in New York and Sonoma Foie Gras in California.

Over the course of many months, the coalition conducted a nationwide investigation into the domestic foie gras industry.
GourmetCruelty.com uncovered filthy, crowded conditions and documented an industry standard of disregard for the pain and
suffering inherent to foie gras production.

Investigators took undercover footage of the immensely traumatic forced-feeding process, and rescued 15 of these long-suffering
ducks.

"Material Culture" Symposium

Winterthur, Delaware, Aprill 23, 2005

The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware
is pleased to announce the Third Annual Material Culture Symposium for
Emerging Scholars (MCSES) to be held Saturday, April 23, 2005 at the
Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Winterthur, Delaware.

Purpose of the Forum: This symposium provides emerging scholars with a venue
for interdisciplinary dialogue centering on material culture. By freeing
scholars of chronological and topical restraints, the symposium encourages
discussion across perceived boundaries of time, space and discipline.

"After the Fall of America"

Middlebury, Vermont, Nov. 5-7, 2004

In September 2001 the Fourth World organization, based in Wessex, England, sponsored an international conference in Swindon, England, called Radical Consultation I. I am writing to invite you to Radical Consultation II which will be held at the Middlebury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont, on November 5-7, 2004.

RADCON II will be cosponsored with The Second Vermont Republic. The theme of this year's consultation, which will feature a series of lively roundtable discusssions, is AFTER THE FALL OF AMERICA, THEN WHAT?

The underlying premise of RADCON II is that the United States has become ungovernable and unsustainable. If that is indeed the case, then do we go down with the Titanic or seek other alternatives? Among the options to be discussed at Woodstock are denial, compliance, and political reform, proven to be deadends; revolution, rebellion, and implosion, equally problematic; and decentralization, devolution, and peaceful dissolution..

The Second Vermont Republic is a peaceful, democratic, grassroots, solidarity movement committed to the return of Vermont to its rightful status as an independent republic. The Fourth World, which publishes The Fourth World Review, a periodical inspired by Leopold Kohr and Fritz Schumacher, is committed to small nations, small communities, small farms, small shops, the human scale, and the inalienable sovereignty of the human spirit.

Among the speakers and participants at RADCON II will be Human Scale author Kirkpatrick Sale, Emory University Philosophy Professor Donald Livingston, management consultant and author Robert Allio, and former Duke University Economics Professor Thomas H. Naylor.

The conference begins with dinner on November 5 and runs until noon on November 7. We are asking a fee of $85-125 for the dinner and expenses, though you will be responsible for the lodging itself. We hope it will be possible for you to join us for this ground-breaking event.

Schedule is below:

¡MayDay!: Europrecarious and Flexworkers in Action

Precarious Workers European Meeting

Málaga, December 3-6, 2004

Life conditions in the neoliberal age are no longer conjugated in the
third person.

A galaxy of wage-earning work atypical figures has ceased to belong
exclusively to the "horror catalogues" of the labor relations´
devastation, of the social guarantees´ neoliberal breakdown. From the
exclusion statement they are passing through to the joyful passions of
affirmative resistance, to the exigency of guaranteing the conditions
in which the "new species" can combine its productive cooperation
power with new spaces for the public act and speech, with new freedom
conditions for everybody, against the concentration of the workfare
and forced flexibility universe that seems to be at the core of the
European Constitution project´s social doctrine.

First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 5-7, 2005

The First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 5-7, 2005. The theme
of the First International Congress of Qualitative Research focuses on
"Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global Uncertainty." The mission of the
conference is to provide a forum for conversations on the interdisciplinary
implications of positivist legislation and academia for critical qualitative
scholarship especially in indigenous, border, feminist, race, queer, and
ethnic studies, and to build and expand the already robust tradition of
Qualitative Inquiry.

No Matter Who Is Elected,

Say No to War and Repression

Not In Our Name

November 2nd, 2004, 5–10pm Election Day

Union Square south, NYC

Instead of sitting in our homes feeling
powerless while the
election footage dominates the television, bring
your
constituency to Union Square where there will be
an opportunity for us to
come together to debate, watch resistance
footage and silent
election footage , discuss, hear spoken word
and DJ's will provide music.


We will be doing die-ins, face
painting, writing letters to GI
resisters in Iraq and interactive art.

New York City Social Forum

Oct. 28-30, 2004

The New York City Social Forum is this week! (Oct28-30).
Be sure to check out the schedule below and at www.nycsocialforum.org for more details on the sessions and participants.   

There is a sliding scale of $5/$10/$15 for entry to
the entire event, but we promise the NO ONE will be
turned away.

"The ESF Looks in the Mirror"

James Heartfield

Leftist Hilary Wainwright called the World Social Forum the 'people's UN'. But as the festival of the anti-capitalist movement developed it has fragmented along regional and now national lines, and lost its collegiate style and optimism. Gathering in London, the European Social Forum last weekend drew anti-globalization activists from many countries, but could not disguise the loss of momentum. A demonstration against the occupation of Iraq did follow, but the more lively actions were taken against the platform — when assorted 'Wombles' and anarchists sought to prevent first an Iraqi 'trade unionist' and then London Mayor Ken Livingstone from speaking. Across London, meetings were held with the title of 'Alternative Social Forum' or 'Beyond the Social Forum', before the London ESF had even begun.

International Symposium on Modernity and Contemporaneity
Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 4-6, 2004

A detailed schedule, with confirmed presenters (including Fredric
Jameson, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri, Rosalind Krauss, and Boris Groys)
for the Pittsburgh symposium "Modernity and Contemporaneity," 4-6
November, is now posted at www.mc.pitt.edu. More details below.