Toronto Anarchist Bookfair

Oct. 23-24, 2004

Welcome Party Friday 22 Oct 2004
* Arriving in Toronto early?

* Visit Uprising Books and Infoshop, 6 Kensington Ave

* In Kensington Market, a fresh food marketplace

* Inexpensive places to eat and drink

Bookfair Saturday 23 Oct 2004

* From 10 am - 4 pm

* At the 519 Church St Community Centre

* Introductory workshops at 519 Church

* And above This Ain't The Rosedale Library, at 483 Church St

Ping Pong / Middlesex Declaration / dESFunctionality

Kernow Craig, Greenpepper Magazine

The events at the ESF around issues of precarity were interesting. I've
given a very brief overview of it all as I'm still a little fried by it
all, maybe others that attended can extrapolate on the following...

The initial events taking place within the official european social forum
on precarity was not attended by m/any of the non union groups organising
around this, leaving the 'official' discussions to what have been
described as the political undead. This event was largely seen by those
who withdrew as a photo opportunity for the italian unions to demonstrate
how they are putting this on the eurowide agenda.

"Collage as Cultural Practice"

Iowa City, March 24–26, 2004

Collage as Cultural Practice seeks to examine interventionist collage practices
in all media, with an emphasis on the social, political, and legal implications
of this method of appropriation. The conference, taking place March 24–26,
2005, at the University of Iowa, will interrogate the political and social
dimensions of collage as a practice that enables oppositional commentary across
the cultural spectrum: from the leftist collages of the Dadaists and the
Situationists to the unauthorized use of corporate trademarks, interventions by
queer activists, and the more recent flurry of Internet-distributed antiwar
video collage pieces that appropriate from the mainstream media in satirical
ways.

Not in Our Name NYC writes:

"No Matter Who Is Elected, WE SAY NO! to War and Repression!"
5pm Election Day, November 2, 2004
Union Square, New York City

Mark Your Calendar… Bring Friends & Join Us for a Community Gathering of Opposition to War & Repression! Come debate, discuss, hear spoken word & music. Bring your transistor radios, bring your friends, and your kids. Check out community organization tables. Participate in a mass die-in (representing those lost in this war on the world). Collectively read "Pledge of Resistance". Write a letter to a GI resister or a soldier in Iraq. Make plans w/others to continue building massive resistance to the agenda of war & repression.

"Biofeedback:
Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!"

A Benefit for Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble

New York City, Oct. 21, 2004

Featuring Tony Conrad / HangedUp, Christian Marclay / Dj Olive / Dj North Guinea Hills, Tyondai Braxton, New Humans, Dub Trio, Talibam and others T.B.A.

Thursday October 21, 8pm, $12 (two floors of music)

Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street (between Rivington and Delancy)

CONTACT: Dion Workman, 212-358-7501

The Benefit

"Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!" is an energetic round-up of musicians, entertainers and visual artists who are creating loud and clear feedback in support of Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). This benefit will help raise money for Kurtz's legal fees in a case of FBI harassment and silencing dissent. To date, the CAE Defense Fund has raised an impressive $30,000, but the total costs are estimated at $150,000. There is still hope that the court will realize the absurdity of the case and dismiss Kurtz of charges in December; if this does happen, the fund will be used to help others who may find themselves under similar political scrutiny.

Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization:

An International Conference on Literature by Women of
African Ancestry

NYU, Kimmel Center for University Life

60 Washington Square South

Organization of Women Writers of Africa

October 12-16, 2004

It's a small world after all, as the growing buzz
surrounding the concept of globalization makes clearer
by the day. However, the people of the African diaspora
have experienced its beauty and ugliness for centuries,
chronicled in Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka's tragic
tales of British colonialism, Alain Locke and Frantz
Fanon's scrutinies of blackness on a world stage, and
the lives of Richard Wright and James Baldwin, expats
criticizing a culture that rejected and humiliated
them. With few exceptions, males have dominated this
early examination of blackness on a global scale.

"Old Bottles, New Wine:

Renewing the Anarchist Tradition"

Will Weikart

Anarchists today are relatively united by our dual commitment to anti-capitalism and anti-statism and the general feel that both are necessary in themselves but also insufficient in themselves.

Anonymous comrade writes: "35 years after Stonewall, queer youth of color still fight police brutality...
THE REBELLION IS NOT OVER!"

"Fierce" Rebellion and Ball

New York City, Oct. 16, 2004

FIERCE will take it to the streets again as we move
forward with our Save Our Space campaign — our
struggle to reclaim the West Village from the hands of
wealthy residents, business owners, and the police
that protect their interests.

"Black Marxism" Symposium

Santa Barbara, Nov. 5–7, 2004

in honor of the 20th anniversary of Cedric J. Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center will be hosting a "Symposium on Cedric J. Robinson's Radical Thought: Toward Critical Social Theories and Practice." It will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on November 5-7, 2004.

The Symposium will provide a forum for dialogue about the historical legacy and future development of the Black radical Tradition in the academy as well as an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the important contributions made to that tradition by Professor Robinson's long record of activism and committed scholarship.

Cultural Production and the State

San Diego, March 23–26, 2005

Papers are currently being accepted for the National Popular Culture &
American Cultural Association’s Joint Conferences being held in San Diego March 23–26, 2005.

This year a new Area has been developed entitled “Cultural Production and
The State.” This Area has been created to explore the ways in which
cultural production reproduces and/or undermines the State.

This Area is currently seeking new and provocative papers that illustrate
the critical role popular culture assumes in constructing our collective
understandings of the political landscape(s) in which we live.