jim submits:

"Reframing 9/11: Alternatives to Endless War"

September 11, 12, 13, 14

The Riverside Church & Cathedral of Saint John the Divine



Join over 40 local, national and global grassroots activists, scholars, journalists in New York on this second anniversary of September 11 to firmly extract the tragic day from the cynical and deadly embrace of the Neo-Cons and imprint it with the Peace and Justice Agenda emerging globally from the grassroots people's movements.

"The 1st Palestine Walkathon in the Tri-State Area"

Alliance for World Awareness of Rights and Equality (Aware)

Walk for the children of Palestine! Register to Walk now!
AWARE, The Alliance for World Awareness of Rights and Equality, is proud to sponsor the First Annual Walkathon for Palestine. The proceeds from this year's walkathon will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund [PCRF] in order to help Palestinian children who are in desperate need of medical care.

jim submits:

"Vox Pop: Locating and Constructing the 'Voice of the People'"

6th Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference

26-28 February, 2004, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Building from a millennia-old maxim -- the voice of the people is the voice
of God -- the desire to locate, fabricate, and appropriate the vox populi has
been especially pervasive for at least the last two centuries. What
defines this voice of the people? Is it a voice charged with lore from the
ancient past or one as new as today's poll numbers? How is it mediated:
who speaks on behalf of the "grass roots," "the American people," the "Arab
street"?

The concept can challenge authority, promoting populist
subversions of hierarchy (carnival, protest, revolution), yet it also feeds
an age-old temptation to construct a monologic Voice of a monolithic
People, silencing heterogeneous, dialogic voices. Whether sought in
man-on-the-street interviews, the "voices of the People in song" (for
Herder these included everyone from Homer, to Shakespeare, to Ossian), or
contemporary advertising trends, the consensus of popular sentiment remains
as elusive (and deceptive) an ideal as ever.

The "Vox Pop" conference will consider the multitudes of peoples and voices
that have come under the heading of vox populi, from the ancient populus or
hoi polloi to the various "Peoples" of modern nationalism (das Volk, le
peuple, narod), and from folksong to political discourse to "the writing on
the wall." The conference invites a wide-ranging interrogation of the idea
of the voice of the people by scholars from a range of fields.

Multiculturalism in the Arts

A Discussion with Jeffrey Collins-Harper

Jeffrey Collins-Harper is the Director of Off-Broadway’s “Sacrifice to Eros”, Co-Artistic Director, Luvchild Theatre Ensemble, and Director/Producer, Common Ground Productions, Inc.

Racism and discrimination is a hot topic in the media in an era where
allegedly we have equal access and equal opportunity in education,
employment, etc. But what about the arts? Is the establishment of a
black theatre a step forward or a step backwards? Is it opportunity or
segregation?

Anonymous Comrade submits "CulturePoles:

City Spaces, Urban Politics & Metropolitan Theory

Canadian Association of Cultural Studies

February 13-15, 2004, Hamilton, Ontario

Cultural Studies has, as Colin Sparks remarked twenty-five years ago, been constituted out of a "veritable rag bag" of competing ideas. Yet the leitmotifs of the field (commodification, reproduction, hegemony, mass culture, popular culture, and the culture industry) are suggestive of a shared genealogy in the historical transition from the manufacturing centre to the suburbanized spatialities of consumer society. In this respect, North American and European cultural studies can be viewed as a project almost coterminous with the shifting structure of the first-world capitalist city.

In the era of mechanical reproduction, the linkage between capital,
population and cultural production seemed unproblematic: New York, London,Tokyo, Shanghai and Paris were calculated as the five largest cities in the world. The diffusion of cultural goods from metropolitan to the periphery was a secondary question most often answered in terms of infrastructural capacity. Current economic, technological and demographic tendencies undermine this perceived position of the city as supra/structural template for mapping the production and consumption of social meaning. The concept of the "culturepole" seeks to facilitate a rethinking of this oft naturalized relation between cultural studies and the first-world capitalist city.

Autonomadic Bookmobile

2003 Summer / Fall Tour Schedule

What Is It?

The Autonomadic Bookmobile is a travelling "medicine show" of small press publications. It consists of a brightly painted truck stocked with books and zines, touted by two sideshow performers, and is a project of two nonprofit arts organizations: the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, a circus and variety troupe which tours nationally, and Autonomedia, a New York book publishing collective.

The Bookmobile began in 1994 as a table at venues where the Cirkus played, and in 2001 moved into the truck, in which it tours both independently and with the Cirkus.

Carrying books and zines from a number of independent publishers, the Bookmobile has brought radical cultural theory into the Florida swamps and the Nevada desert, and self-published statements of dissent to smalltown streets across the country.

The Show

Drs. Henceforth Flummox and Okra P. Dingle frequently perform a full sideshow. They have performed at clubs, colleges, collective spaces, and festivals, sometimes with the Bookmobile open to all the world, and sometimes far away from its good holdings.

The show lasts anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes and includes classic sideshow feats including glass walking, knife throwing, fire eating, the human pincushion, and the bed of nails, with the musical accompaniment of the accordian and the musical saw.

The Tour

Just because you don't see a listing here for your town, that doesn't mean the bookmobile won't be stopping there. only certain gigs are listed. if you see that the bookmobile will be nearby, look for it on a heavily pedestrian street in your own town. better yet, email bookmobile@bindlestiff.org with questions and suggestions.

Further dates and locations will be posted later. Let us know if you're on the route and have a suggested venue: email a_nomadic@yahoo.com

Back to Bookmobile Central.
Take me to the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.
Drop me off at Autonomedia

Tour schedule follows below:

Anonymous Comrade submits: "Stop all deportations! Close all detention and deportation centers for refugees and migrants!
Refugee call for the Camp-Closure-Days from September 11-14, 2003 in Fürth/Nürnberg (von: Karawane für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen in Deutschland)"

New "No Border" Camp Closure Days

Fürth/Nürnberg, Gerrmany, Sept. 11-14, 2003

When the people of continents such as Africa, Asia or Latin America first came to Europe, we were brought over as slaves, and many of us were literally placed in human zoos WHERE the Europeans could see how exotic, savage animals looked and dressed. In our homelands, millions throughout the world died under the colonial expansion and exploitation of our wealth and resources. Left behind were the neo-colonial servants and slaves drivers, also known as our supposed governmental leaders, so that the capitalistic machinery could continue.

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"PlaythingSymposium:

Choose Your Weapons!"

Digital Games Symposium: October 10-12, 2003

Location: Sydney University, Eastern Ave Auditorium

dLux media arts in association with University of Sydney present

Future Screen 2003:


Plaything is a major international symposium focusing on current and
future trends in the field of digital games, featuring key Australian
and International game designers theorists and artists.

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"International New Media Encuentro"

Yucatan, Mexico

Cartodigital.org - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán (MACAY)
Presentan/Present

Interactiva'03 (www.cartodigital.org/interactiva)
Un encuentro bienal internacional de las Artes Mediáticas y Electrónicas
An interantional biennale of New Media and Electronic Art

En/At MACAY: 11 de Julio-Agosto 30/July 11-August 30
Expsoción/Exhibit Virtual: 6 de Agosto-20 de Septiembre/August 6-September
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Anonymous Comrade submits "The Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, and United for a Fair Economy present:

"Ruck U: Global Justice Advanced Action Camp"

October 10-17, 2003, Arcadia, Florida

The Free Trade Area of the Americas will hold its 2003 annual ministerial meeting in Miami in November... and they’ll have company. Social and economic justice activists, environmentalists, and people of conscience will confront the ministers, nonviolently challenging their legitimacy right where it counts… in the schools, the community centers, the union halls, and in the streets.