jim submits:

Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global Disorder

A Symposium Organised by WRO Media Art Centre & Institute of Digital Arts and
Technology [i-DAT]
as part of Globalica, WRO 03, 10th International Media
Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May 2003

http://wro03.wrocenter.pl>

http://www.i-dat.org>

Against a backdrop of Poland's impending entry into the European Union (and
neo-liberal capitalism), the symposium aims to investigate the local
tensions around the ways in which artists and commentators respond to global
processes, and the language and strategies they employ to do so. How does
contemporary artistic practice respond to these tensions, especially when
using or reflecting the use of network technologies? Do artists simply
respond using the same fashionable rhetoric as the system they seek to
question? What chance does networked resistance have of being resistant in
such a scenario? What models are there left to aspire to?

my dear kasamas and friends,

i hope you're all doing well. i would like to inform you about an emergency indignation rally happening tomorrow, saturday, april 26th, 6-7pm in front of the philippine consulate. it's to condemn the murder of 2 prominent kasamas in the philippines.
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

As you most certainly know, the next G8 (Group of the eight most
industrialised countries) summit is expected to take place at
the beginning of June, in Evian, in nearby France.
An international coordination, formed by militant groups from
various backgrounds, gathered last 1st and 2nd March to denounce
the illegitimacy of the G8 and to prepare the ground for a
social resistance.
During this meeting, it was decided in particular to organize
linked demonstrations between Switzerland (GE, VD, VS) and
France.

Redblack writes:

"Throwing a Wrench in the Warmachine" Conference

Kent State University, May 3-4, 2003

Anti-authoritarian organizing against war, occupation
and the system that spawns them.
A conference of discussion, debate, direct action
training, & fun.
Initiated by the Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist
Collectives
Kent State University -- Saturday May 3rd, Action Sunday May 4th

Asger writes:

I'm hoping everyone here as heard about the coming Australian National
Anarchist Conference in Brisbane 2-4 May, @ Visible Ink, 139 Constanace St,
Fortitude Valley.

There is an Information Booklet available about the conference in PDF. It
can be downloaded from http://www.nomasters.org/Members/anarcon/promos/bo ok1
or try this link
http://www.nomasters.org/Members/anarcon/promos/bo ok1/file_view?portal_status_message=Your+file+chan ges+have+been+saved.
Feel free to print out a couple of copies and give to your friends.

The main conference website can be found at http://ronny.imess.net/anarcon.
Hope to see lot's a people there! It's free entry and no registration required.

Asger

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Autonomous Brisbane

http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a utonomous-brisbane

Happy Anarchy

http://www.freewebz.com/happyanarchy/

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Celebrate May Day in New York City with bands Hooverville, Spunk Lads & Champions of Sound! Proceeds go to Umbrella House & to the Immolokee Tomato Pickers, currently on strike against Taco Bell for receiving the same wages since 1975, or less than a penny a tomato. Sat. May 3rd 7PM to Midnight. Exciting raffle, guest speakers from NMASS & the IWW & refreshing beverages. Location: Umbrella House on Av. C btwn E 1st & E. 2nd Streets, Lower East Side, New York City. For more info on this and the Taco Bell demo before it from 4-6PM, call 212 979 8353. Sponsored by make the Road by Walking and Workers Solidarity Alliance."

jim writes:

May Week Labor Arts Festival

Edmonton, Alberta, April 28-May 10, 2003

Working Class Culture Takes Centre Stage

This is the 7th Annual Edmonton May Week Festival of Working Class Culture.
Check our web site for May Day event updates from Edmonton as well as about
May Day events across Canada and around the world.

John A writes:

"STOP THE WAR ON OUR HEALTH!

Support the HUNGER STRIKERS

MAY 6-13, NEW YORK CITY

Despite their failing health on May 6 a group of injured workers will begin a seven-day hunger strike in front of Governor George Pataki's office here in New York City. Other members of the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops have urged them to take caution due to their personal health situations. However the hunger strikers feel that -- together with other injured workers-hurt on the job or by 9-11 -- they have exhausted all other avenues to compel Pataki to address the health concerns of working people.
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jinx writes:

The Institute of African Studies, Columbia University

Spring 2003 Brown Bag Seminar Series

Presents

"Changing Configurations of Social Conflict in
post-Apartheid South Africa"

Franco Barchiesi, University of Bologna

April 17 2003

12.00-2.00pm

Rm 1134

International Affairs Building, 420

W 118th Str, off Amsterdam Ave

Franco Barchiesi is currently lecturer in African
Studies in the Department of Politics at the
University of Bologna (Italy). Between 1996 and 2002
he taught in the Department of Sociology at
the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His
latest book is Franco Barchiesi, Tom Bramble (eds),
Rethinking the Labour Movement in the 'New' South
Africa (scheduled July 2003).

patrick writes:

"Radfest 2003 Midwest Social Forum

20th Anniversary"



Aurora University George Williams - Lake Geneva Campus

Williams Bay, WI May 30-June 1, 2003

radfest



Dear friend:



I would like to invite you to RadFest 2003, an annual

weekend conference for progressive activists and

academics organized by the A. E. Havens Center for the

Study of Social Structure and Social Change at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison. The central goal of

the conference is to provide an opportunity for

progressive activists, organizers, and intellectuals to

come together to discuss issues of mutual interest and

concern, strengthen networks, and devise strategies for

progressive social, economic, and political change.

RadFest has grown significantly in recent years,

becoming an important annual gathering for

progressives. Last year, for example, approximately 300

people from throughout the upper Midwest and beyond

attended. This year, which will be the 20th anniversary

of the conference, we expect a considerably larger

turnout.