Anonymous Comrade writes

Art of Resistance Conference

Seattle, May 13-16, 2004

The 2004 conference is the first annual gathering of political artists from around the country and the world. The conference will consist of two days of workshops, speakers and events exploring political art. Conference participants will receive hands-on skills and practical knowledge, a broader understanding of the history and current state of political art and benefit from the rare opportunity of being able to spend a weekend in a building full of political artists from across the country. We hope to strengthen the movement of artists for global justice by linking together communities of artists whether geographically bound or connected by specific issue.

The Art of Resistance conference will be a weekend full of inspiring art, creative communication and powerful expression. Participants in the conference will be able to participate in up to five workshops out of a total of 12-15 options. Workshops will be hosted by political artists from all over the country, skilled in diverse mediums. Participants will take part in two days of programs including speakers and performance and can attend the many events leading up to and during the conference. Our calendar will list related events occurring before the conference. We will host three open events featuring film, performance, spoken word, music and visual art on the evenings of Thursday, Friday and Saturday at locations in Seattle. The Art of Resistance will also host a political art exhibit which will be on display throughout the conference. Please submit your art to the show. All art in the exhibit and the art created during the conference will be on display on Sunday evening when we open the Arts Brewery to the public.

For more information, check out the rest of the site or contact us at artofresistance@riseup.net

Anonymous Comrade writes

We Are Everywhere Book Tour

We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism was described by Canadian writer Naomi Klein as “...the first book to truly capture and embody the exuberant creativity and radical intellect of the protest movements.”

Two of the book’s co-producers, author Jennifer Whitney and photojournalist Andrew Stern, are traveling throughout the US in order to present, not only the book, but also the results of their further research and investigation into international protest movements and their ties to the growing anti-war movement.

National Rifle Association "Hunt the Rich" Orange Bloc
Pittsburgh, April 17, 2004

Note: Although this is a completely real call, for those who don't grasp it, much of the rhetoric is obvious satire. This is a non-violent action.

From April 16-18th, The National Rifle Association will hold their annual meetings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dick Cheney is scheduled as their keynote speaker. As the billboards they've plastered Pittsburgh with so aptly say, "4 acres of guns and gear". In response, hundreds of people from our region will be gathering to protest what the NRA stands for.

Prophets and Gain: New Russian Cinema

May 3-8, 2004, Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium 2004

Much has been written in the past decade about the crises besetting the film industry in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. These crises, however, were simply the inevitable consequence of capital's struggle to differentiate itself from money — that is, a painful transition from funding individual film projects (by the state, by Klondike capitalists, by the underworld) to the investment of funds with an expectation of generating surplus value; a transition that transformed the film industry by shifting the focus from products to profits. Even the film studios inherited from the recent Soviet past — Mosfilm, Lenfilm, Gor'kii Film Studio — were forced to allocate their now limited resources in a new way: film projects had to be packaged both in terms of their "social (or artistic) merits" and their projected ability to return capital investments to the studios.

Mobtown Anti-Racist Action writes:

Anti-Fascist Bloc at March for Choice

Washington, DC, April 25, 2004

Anti-Racist Action is calling for a visible antifascist bloc on April 25th in Washington DC as part of the March For Women's Lives. The climate of fear engendered in this country by the Bush administration's military agression and assult on civil liberties has created an opportunity for the forces of the right wing to consolidate their power and work together to push through an agenda which is oppressive in many ways, one of the most visible today being the assault on sexual and reproductive freedom. This calls for nothing less than total resistance, and it is critical for anti-authoritarians to make our presence felt as part of this opposition.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

The documentary video “Dada Changed My Life” will play Anthology Film Archives on Monday, April 19th, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. The screening will be preceded by performances by Dada New York, and music by Rosateresa and Los Polones. (Anthology is at 32 Second Avenue in Manhattan, corner of East 2nd St.)

“Dada Changed My Life” is a documentary about the occupation of the building which housed the Cabaret Voltaire, birthplace of Dada in Zürich, Switzerland, 1916. This work details the two-month international effort by artists to rescue the Cabaret Voltaire which generated the most influential movement in contemporary art, 86 years after its founding, from transformation into luxury apartments and a pharmacy.

Alan Moore writes "Three Minutes to Midnight," Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks on the new nuclear danger in celebration of Earth Day at Wagner College Spiro Hall 2, Thursday, April 22 - 7-9 pm.
Admission free.
Event produced by Peace Action of Staten Island

A video screening on Wednesday, April 14 - 8 pm at the Muddy Cup coffeehouse of "If You Love This Planet," an academy award winning documentary of Dr. Caldicott, and the new film "Arsenal of Hypocrisy." This video screening honors Dr. Caldicott's visit to Staten Island.

Jay Bernstein writes:

THE POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, GENOCIDE, AND TERRORISM:

Plenary Address to be presented by Richard Koenigsberg at Western Social Science Association’s 2004 Conference in Salt Lake City


        This year’s annual meeting of the WESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION will feature a special plenary address by Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 22, at 2:45 p.m. at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel, 150 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101. Please check the WSSA Conference website at http://wssa.asu.edu/wssa_conference.htm for the exact location.


        With no weapons of mass-destruction found in Iraq to date, some now pose the question: Why did Saddam Hussein not let inspectors do their work? If he had acted less provocatively, perhaps the Americans would have backed off. Why did he not make a greater effort to avoid the outbreak of a hopeless war and to prevent attacks that destroyed his palaces and his kingdom, killed his sons, and caused him to end up in a hole in the ground?

"Sixth Cuban International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium"

Havana, June 22-24, 2004

The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, with the support of the Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (the City Historian), HIVOS, ENET / ETECSA Cubasí Portal, and the collaboration of the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema (ICAIC) and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum), announces the VI Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital (Sixth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium) with the purpose of promoting artistic and cultural values created with new technologies.

Resistance 101: A Pro-Peace & Justice Teach-In

Hunter College, New York City, April 17, 2004

This FREE all-day event on Saturday, April 17th will include interactive panels and workshops with human rights and civil liberties experts and renowned theater artist-activists, capped off with THAW's monthly political theater performance cabaret, The Freedom Freedom Follies, held in the evening.