Portland Anti Capitalist Action is organizing a weekends worth of
activities, workshops, films, soccer, food, discussions, solidarity
actions, speakers, and trainings this spring.

Tentative date is: April 25th-27th, 2002. Mark Your Calendars!

Anonymous Comrade writes "Portland Anti Capitalist Action is organizing a weekend's worth of
activities, workshops, films, soccer, food, discussions, solidarity
actions, speakers, and trainings this spring.

Tentative date is: April 25th-27th MARK YOUR CALENDERS!!

We are looking for groups and collectives who are anti-authoritarian
/anti-capitalist to table the event. This is a regional fair so only
those from the North West should contact us. We want to include
revolutionaries from Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Olympia, Portland
and Eugene (and all places in between!). We hope by brining these
groups together it will facilitate better communication and info
sharing throughout the North West in hopes of thinking of ourselves
in the context of a real movement for social change, rather than
isolated pockets of resistance.

We are also accepting workshop and speaker proposals. Please write a
description of what you would like to do, and provide contact info.

We need local contacts throughout the North West to send posters to
that will insure that they go up throughout their cities and towns!

Housing and Childcare are being worked on, as well as food, and other
logistics.

E-mail us or Write us ASAP with questions, proposals, info for
tabling, etc:

E-MAIL: pdxaca@ziplip.com
WRITE: ACA
3439 NE Sandy Blvd
PO BOX 510
Portland, OR 97232
(please note its relating to the bookfair!)

Also keep in mind:
May First there will be a massive spirited march through downtown in
solidarity with workers and against the capitalist class.
May First will also begin Portland's 2nd Annual Anarchist Film
Festival."

MutualAid writes

NEWS RELEASE - 31st October 2002

Armed Badgers Storm Oxford Street Starbucks in Central London to Build Illegal Settlement - "If Israel can, we can"

On Thursday 31st October at 3.00pm, 30 badgers armed with waterpistols stormed the Starbucks on Oxford St claiming it as their ancestral home. Using the logic of Israeli settlers1 the badgers evicted some of the customers and erected the first badger settlement in London.

With placards proclaiming "If it works in Palestine why not here" and "It's ours because we say so" the self-styled Badger Defence Force set up checkpoints to inspect shoppers and tourists for concealed weapons. "If they're not a badger, they could be a terrorist" a spokesbadger said. They handed out copies of the badger bible which proves their ownership of Starbucks and a fact sheet which answered Frequently Asked Questions about their activities (see documents attached together with 9 photos).

The badgers have selected the store for their settlement because of the role of its CEO as a major supporter of the Israeli state. The company has become a prime target of an international boycott of companies with ties to Israel.

A spokesbadger said "Since the chief executive of this company clearly believes it is ok for one group of people to grab land belonging to another and say they have a right to it, we believe they won't mind if we take some of theirs".

NCOR 2003 Collective writes:

The 2003 National Conference on Organized Resistance will take place January 24-26 at the Ward Circle Building of American University, Washington, DC.

Now in its sixth year as a space for radical discourse and collective empowerment, this year's NCOR features more workshops, panel discussions and skillshares than ever before, with over sixty confirmed for Saturday and Sunday. For a website-ready blurb on NCOR please scroll to the END of this message.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

The New York City Social Forum

Date: Saturday, January, 11, 2003

Location: Hunter College, 68th Street & Lexington Ave.

People Before Profits: Another City Is Possible!

Feel like you're getting nowhere fighting alone? Time to come together! Join low-income individuals, students, activists, progressive academics, and
more for a day of strategizing and re-energizing!

A press release from Darragh Sheehan (516-429-7549):

Students and Faculty Protest
Role of Bob Kerrey,

President of New School University,

in the Right-wing "Committee

for the Liberation of Iraq"

Kerry Agrees to Forum
after Students Sit-In at his Office

and Demand
Public Accounting for his Pro-War Stance

When: Wednesday, December 4th 1-3pm;

PressConference at 12:30 pm

Where: Tishman Auditorium, New School, 66 West 12th Street (near 6th
Avenue)

Bob Kerrey, New School University‚s controversial President and former
Senator from Nebraska, has once again created a storm of protest, this
time around his decision to join the Committee for the Liberation of
Iraq. The Committee is "a small group of well-placed right-wing
activists with close ties to the offices of Pentagon chief Donald
Rumsfeld and Vice-President Dick Cheney and soon Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott" according to a November 2002 report by Foreign Policy in
Focus (fpif).

global roots writes:

The following letter has been sent to several hundred European social and left-wing movements and organisations:

This fall the Danish government holds the presidency of the European Union. From Friday the 13th of December to Sunday the 15th, the final summit of the presidency will be held in Copenhagen. From Thursday the12th to Sunday the 15th there will be protests and actions against the European Union all over Copenhagen. Global Roots invite you to come and join us in this resistance against the EU: an undemocratic, capitalist project made solely to improve conditions for large cooperations, at the cost of people, democracy and the environment.

Conference: "Karl Marx's Legacy

and Challenges of the 21st Century"

La Habana, Cuba

Dates: 5-7 May 2003

Place: Salones de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba

Organized by: Instituto de Filosofia del Ministerio de Ciencia, Technologia
y Medio Ambiente de Cuba

action@dcaclu.org writes:

Stop the Pentagon Plan to Invade our Privacy!

In the past few days, press reports have revealed that a little-known Defense Department office has begun developing a computer system that would provide officials with the ability to snoop into all aspects of our private lives without a search warrant or proof of criminal wrongdoing.

Adrienne Moumin writes

Documentary Photography Project Featured

at NYC Urban Experience Museum



Four black & white photographs by Adrienne Moumin will be included in an upcoming show at the NYC Urban Experience Museum. Ms. Moumin’s Project, Do You See What I See: Women’s Bodies in Advertising, 1992-2000, deals with the ways in which women’s bodies are used as advertising in public places throughout New York City.