CCNY Strike Remembrance, April 22, 2004

City College SLAM, Professor Bill Crain and other student, faculty and community activists are planning a day of events at City College on Thursday, April 22nd to commemorate the 1969 City College Student Strike led by Black and Puerto Rican students that established Open Admissions and ethnic studies departments at every college in CUNY.

Art for Change, with the collaboration of the Diversity Studies Initiative of the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University presents:

Dissecting Diversity: Art Takes Over the Discussion

April 3rd, 2004, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center,

100 Washington Square East,

New York University

Art for Change, with the collaboration of the Diversity Studies Initiative of the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University presents "Dissecting Diversity". This symposium is part of an ongoing Art for Change "Breaking Barriers" program that intends to create a space where community organizations, art organizations, artists and scholars can meet and forge new social practices that promote social justice and civic participation.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Seasonal Update

The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus thanks everyone for their support and participation in the 2003/2004

Palace of Variety and Free Museum of Times Square season at chashama.

In the three month run Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presented over 50 acts on the variety stage and

played host to over 20 different productions ranging from circus to sideshow to theater.

High Heels & Red Noses, the Palace of Variety's featured BFC show, was featured in

the Village Voice, Time Out, Big Apple Parent, the New Yorker, and many more.

Memefest 2004, Radical Communications Festival

Memefest, the international festival of radical communications, invites
undergraduate and graduate students in Communications Studies and
Sociology to look back to the dawn of the Information Age and respond to
the article, "Cyberwar is Coming." Penned in 1993 for the RAND
Corporation, this article coins terms like Cyberwar and Netwar and makes
predictions about how information will be used to sway public opinion,
pressure governments and corporations, and even wage war.

2004 Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference

Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, June 25-28, 2004

We are pleased to announce our that we are now processing registration requests for the Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, to be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from June 25-28, 2004. The theme of the conference is “Policing the Crisis.” You may register online via the official conference website: Crossroads 2004

king4peace writes:

"Label Virtuel and the FIDH are producing a DVD showing the historical role of the Universal declaration of human rights and its impact today through the Global Party for a Human Planet.

It is a new campaign combining visual arts, music, multimedia and humanity in order to prevent and fight against a famine threatening 12 millions people in Ethiopia, with the ultimate aim of seeing "all human rights for all" applied.

All the proceeds of this DVD will go to Ethiopian human rights organizations.

Celebrating the release of this DVD , a concert will be organized in Ethiopia in Meskal Square, Addis Ababa's main square, and will be webcast live. This concert will be the occasion to bring in Ethiopia non Genetically modified seeds that are adapted to african soils, in partnership with Confederation Pyasanne.
Planet Generation Global Move

Billionaire Tea Time Social

Peacemarch Afterparty

New York, March 20, 2004 4PM - 8PM

We invite you to join the Billionaires, FEVA and other arts groups in
a peace march after-party.

The Billionaires secured a beautiful space to relax and enjoy good
music after the peace rally: a Turn-of-the-Century French (Freedom)
Ballroom on Broadway, an easy 10-15 minute walk from the Madison Park
rally. Take a break from workshops, rehearsals and meetings, have a
good time and meet your other compatriots.

Saturday March 20th 4-8p all ages welcome

[Arrive early to get in, or come later at 6p]

Uniting Women's Response Against Wars of Aggression & Globalization

A WAIL (Women's Anti-Imperialist League
Conference)

Saturday, 27 March 2004, Brooklyn, New York

3PM-8PM

The Audre Lorde Project, 85 South Oxford St.

(bet. Fulton St. & Lafayette Ave.), Brooklyn, NYC

Space Limited. Please register by March 24: WAIL@gabnet.org or
1212.592.3507. See below for more registration info. Registration fee
(payable at the door): sliding scale: $5-15 (no one will be turned away
for lack of funds).
Dinner and Snacks provided. For more info or to volunteer: email
WAIL@gabnet.org call 1212.592.3507.

Program follows below.

NY News and Letters invites you to a series of seven classes on

Alternatives to Capitalism

Beginning Sunday, March 21, from 7:00-9:15 p.m.

Continuing every other Sunday

Special speaker March 21: Peter Hudis,
National Co-Organizer of News and Letters Committees
39 West 14th Street, Rm. 205 (ring bell #3, Identity House), Manhattan
north side of 14th St., between 5th and 6th Aves.; take any train to 14th St. or Union Square

Free admission; free and open discussion. Most readings can be purchased from us.

Call (212) 663-3631 for more information, or e-mail nandl and ask about
New York classes. You can visit our website at News and Letters

"All negation is determination; all determination is negation." -- Karl Marx, draft of Vol. II of Capital

News and Letters' 2003-2004 Perspectives state: What distinguishes a Marxist-Humanist response to imperialist war and terrorism is not just that we oppose both sides of the conflict, but that we take responsibility for projecting a vision of a new society that transcends capitalism...Marx's humanism remains for us the measure of any effort to create a new society. Standing for a new society does not simply mean being for practical struggles for a new society once they arise. Standing for a new society also means theoretically discerning the elements for creating a new society before such struggles arise.

March 20 Iraq Invasion Anniversary Protests Planned Worldwide

We are now eight days away from the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and organizing for the Global Day of Action has kicked into high gear. In addition to the major regional demonstration here in New York City, there are over 200 March 20 protests planned throughout the United States, plus demonstrations in more than 50 countries around the world.