The Public Broadcasting Series "American Experience" will screen a new biography called "Emma Goldman" on April 12, 2004.

American Experience

Syracuse Animal Rights writes:

"Animal Liberation Student Association Conference"
April 23-25, 2004 Syracuse, NY, USA

Hosted by Syracuse Animal Rights Organization and Center on Animal Liberation Affairs

A CONFERENCE TO CHANGE THE MOVEMENT AS WE KNOW IT

Don’t forget to register for free!
To register visit: http://www.cala-online.org/Student_Association/reg ister.htm

The conference, spanning three days, will focus on social causes, tactics, education, analysis, actions, philosophy, and history of the Animal Liberation movement. Topics include: Politics of Culture; Building Bridges Between Academics and Activists; Animal Ethics; Pedagogy of a Rebel; Being a Former ALF Member; Feminist Imperatives and the ALF; Human Rights and Animal Rights: Solidarity with the ALF; and more. Presented in panel and discussion form, each topic will be discussed and examined to produce academic dialogue that will advance the movement. Gourmet Cruelty will present Delicacy of Despair, documenting a liberation of ducks on a foie gras farm. And, concluding the conference, a benefit show will be held Sunday night that will showcase bands that support Animal Liberation performing cover songs.

"The Event of War:

American Interventions in the 20th and 21st Centuries"

November 5-7, 2004, Emory University; Atlanta, GA

Keynote Speaker:

Robert Jay Lifton M. D., author of the Superpower Syndrome

Centuries of wars -- world wars, wars of liberation, civil wars,
religious wars, the Cold war -- the 20th century has raised urgent
questions concerning the adequacy of responding to aggression, the limits
of human action, the dangers of technological development, and the status
of the human. How can the humanities respond to the recent shifts in
interventionist policies that threaten the self-determination and
political stability of foreign nations? What responsibility do
intellectuals have in this context?

hydrarchist writes:

First International Gathering on Social Movements and Research

[Jornades Internacionals Moviments Social i Recerca]

The first "International Conference on Social Movements and Research"
(Jornades Internacionals Moviments Social i Recerca), was held at the end
of January 2004 in Barcelona. It brought two hundred participants from
various places around the world together, who are doing activist research
or who are interested into it. It was a space for various discussions on
the relation between research and social movements and it was ideal for
exchanging ideas and to create research networks. A network of activists,
students and researchers from Barcelona organised the meeting.

cy writes "http://flotilla2004.com/

Over 350 people on the boat now known as SIEV X died trying to seek a better life. Countless others have drowned or gone missing in similar circumstances; thousands more have been interned in Australia's camps. The lives of those who are not citizens have been declared without value.

Up until now, those fleeing in boats have been met with military force, slander and the terrible cynicism of electoral rivalry. A new and shifting atlas of excisions and offshore penal colonies has been manufactured to circumvent the search for a better life.

In Australia, an asylum policy remains as fiction. In reality, the movements of people as something other than things for The Economy has been banned. We are all, with different degrees of violence, governed by this restriction on our lives and therefore in solidarity with those who, courageously and with hope, risk everything for freedom.

And so, those who are confined in Australia's concentration camps have put the question of 'freedom or death' starkly before us. It is necessary for the rest of us to make the voyage beyond symbolic indignation and act. It is possible and necessary to refuse the monopoly of governments over action, space and the valuing of lives.

This voyage of this Flotilla recalls the old law of the sea - which obliges us to give assistance to anyone in peril, without regard for flags - and seeks to open a multitude of flows toward a new world for which maps are yet to be created.

Therefore, the Flotilla will use a diversity of tactics: boats converging to Australia's north in mid-2004 crewed by autonomous affinity groups; media streams and online protests; radio waves and OpenFlow events.

Everyone is invited to make the voyage in their own way.

Proposed Special Session: "Anarchism and Literature"
2004 M/MLA Annual Convention

November 4-7, St. Louis, Missouri

Studies of the complex historical relationship between the anarchist movement and literary avant-gardes have proliferated since the publication of Richard Sonn's Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin-de-Siècle France (1989) and David Weir's Anarchy and Culture (1995). What once might have seemed a curiosity now appears to have been central to the development of literary aesthetics: from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Symbolists, from the Expressionists to the Dadas, and from Pound's Vorticism to the Black Mountain poets, modernism is marked by anarchist struggles.

Cultural Typhoon 2004

Okinawa, Japan, July 9-11, 2004

We are pleased to announce the second meeting of Cultural Typhoon which
will be held at University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, in July 2004.

Cultural Typhoon is an annual conference on cultural studies and practices
in Japan.

Typhoon 2004

Date: 9-11 July 2004

Location: University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa

Cultural Typhoon is a Japan-based loose network of those who are
interested in cultural studies and/or in various issues related to
alternative cultural practices.

Software Freedom Day Online, August 28, 2004

The first annual Software Freedom Day will be held on August 28, 2004.
The Software Freedom Day initiative intends to make the world aware of
the existence, availability, and high quality of Free/Open Source
Software (FOSS), and to encourage its use by as many people as
possible. It will be a global grassroots marketing campaign in which
we are inviting volunteers from around the world to participate.

egor writes:

"Radical Pro-Choice Call to Action for DC, April 25, 2004"

Feminists, radical cheerleaders, anti-authoritarians, anarchists and all those concerned with women’s autonomy: join us on April 25th 2004 in Washington, DC for a highly festive mobile cheer bloc!

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Sarai -- A 4th Anniversary Celebration"

1. Evening, February 27, 2004, Friday, 6:30 pm

"What is it that Flows Between Us : Stories From Shadow Cities" -- a spoken
word performance by the practitioners of the Cybermohalla 'Compughar' Media
Labs at Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Basti, Ajmeri Gate, and the Dakshinpuri Colony,
Ambedkar Nagar. The performance is based on texts written by the Cybermohalla
practitioners.
-- In collaboration with Ankur -- Society for Alternatives in Education

Sarai Interface Zone, Basement -- CSDS New Building