New York City Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq

Cooper Union, Great Hall, Saturday, May 8, 2004

7 East 7th Street at 3rd Av, NYC

ALL DAY — Starts 10:00 a.m., [doors open 9:30 a.m.]
FREE — donations welcome


Web: www.worldtribunal-nyc.org

Email: info@worldtribunal-nyc.org

Bombs have been dropped and lives shattered. Much of Iraq lies in ruins,
smashed, looted and then occupied by a hostile and unwanted invasion force.
In the face of the human suffering caused by the war on Iraq we must act
now against the crime of silence and impunity to write a counter-history.

"John Chapman's Harvest"

Jordan Zinovich, Radio BION

Autonomedia editor Jordan Zinovich has written a radio play loosely based on the life of American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman.

"John Chapman's Harvest" is a picaresque scramble through the mind of Chapman's 21st century avatar.  Written as a four-voice radio play — with the Narratrix creating the world, Mercury providing itineraries, and Pomona as nurturing divinity — Chapman moves from the Rocky Mountains to Amsterdam to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with stops on the barricades at Quebec City and at the lost anarchist utopia of Fools' Paradise.  En route he surveils 18 extraordinary varieties of heritage apple in a search for knowledge and satisfaction.

 
"John Chapman's Harvest" will be broadcast on BION Radio, a community radio micro-casting project in Bushwick, Brooklyn, run by the transmission arts organization Free103point9.

The show will air at 7 pm EDT on May 6, and will be web-cast at www.free103point9.org

"(as if) beauty never ends..." and Other Video Works

Jayce Salloum, New York City, May 8, 2004

Jayce Salloum will present his "untitled" project, an ongoing videotape addressing social and political realities, representations, enunciations, and the conditions of living between polarities of culture, geography, history, and ideology. In part 1: "everything and nothing" (1999-2001, 40 mins.), Salloum, off-camera, talks with Soha Bechara, the ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter who was detained for 10 years in the notorious El-Khiam torture and interrogation center in South Lebanon. In a riveting and intimate conversation, Salloum inquires about home, being interviewed to death, resistance, survival, and the distance between Paris, where Bechara now lives, and Khiam.

In part 2: "beauty and the east" (1999–2002, 50 mins.), Salloum turns obliquely to the former Yugoslavia after the NATO bombing. In a kaleidoscope of interviews, refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, and cultural producers address topics ranging from identity and fascism to nationalism and monsters. In both anecdotal and theoretical recountings, they lay out the issues currently at stake in this region of displacement and redefinition; their words are located within images of cities and landscapes.

Also shown will be part 3: "(as if) beauty never ends..." (2003, 11 mins.), in which ambient footage including a montage of orchids blooming and material from the site of the 1982 massacres at Lebanon's Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps are juxtaposed with the voice Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine. The tape permeates into an essay on dystopia in contemporary times, and provides an elegiac response to the Palestinian dispossession.

North East Mutual Aid Gathering

New York City, May 7-9, 2004

Please contact us as soon as possible if you plan on coming (and thanks to
those who already have!). When you rsvp let us know if you need childcare
or sleeping accommodations. We can’t guaruntee anything to those who don’t
register by May 1, but we sure will try!

Psy.Geo.Conflux 2004

New York City, May 13-16, 2004

Location and hours:

Participant Inc., 95 Rivington St. New York, NY 10002

Thursday May 13, 12-9pm with an opening reception from 7-9pm

Friday May 14 - Sunday, May 16, 10-7pm

[with additional evening events; see schedule here.]

Contacts:

Glowlab: Christina Ray ray@glowlab.com, Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com

www.glowlab.com, www.psygeocon.org

Participant Inc.: Lia Gangitano, tel: 212.254.4334

Glowlab is pleased to announce Psy.Geo.Conflux 2004, the second in an annual series dedicated to current artistic and social investigations in psychogeography (the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals). Part festival and part conference, it brings visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public together to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.

Evan Hoffman writes:

"The Peaceworker Bootcamp"

Ottawa, Summer, 2004

We are pleased to announce that we will offer the "Peaceworker Bootcamp" this summer!!
We've had very strong and positive feedback to the design and unique features of the Camp — to the proposed rural setting, to it's low tech and realistic flavour.

After an extensive scouting mission we have secured a beautiful, rugged piece of land in an old mountain range two hours west of Ottawa. That's where we'll be holding the Peaceworker Bootcamp.

Fifth Annual Anarchist Bookfair & Festival of Anarchy

Montreal, Saturday, May 15–16, 2004

10am to 6pm

2515, rue Delisle (near metro Lionel-Groulx)


The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is the largest anarchist cultural
gathering in northeastern North America, and an important exchange of
anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideas. The Bookfair is for anarchist and
non-anarchists alike, in English, French and Spanish, with participants
from all over North America and beyond.

Hungry March Band "Satyricon A-Go-Go"

New York City, April 30, 2004

A dense frottage of the gorgeous & the grotesque, brought to
you by Hungry March Band & endorsed by the following fine
co-conspirators:

Anonymous Comrade writes

Disarm America!! Rally

Bryant Park, New York City, May 1, 2004

MAY DAY 2004: We Found The WMD; No More Nuclear Excuses for War!
Global Disarmament Starts at Home — It's Time to Disarm America!!

On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush declared victory from the flight deck of
the USS Abraham Lincoln. Standing under a Mission Accomplished banner,
he proclaimed that, "major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the
battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." With
war hanging in the balance, Bush had told the American public that we
cannot wait for the final proof the smoking gun that could come in the
form of a mushroom cloud. He didnt tell us that the mushroom cloud was
more likely to emanate from the U.S. than from Iraq.

On May 1, 2004 we will demand: No More Nuclear Excuses for War!

The Italian Effect:

Radical Thought, Biopolitics and Cultural Subversion

Sydney University, September 9-11, 2004

Presented by: the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney and the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University.