Why We Write: The Politics and History of Writing for Social Change
Conference March 28-29, 2003 Columbia University New York, NY 10027

As a result of the overwhelming success of last year's interdisciplinary conference on the History of Activism, History as Activism at Columbia University, the graduate students in the history department are currently organizing an interdisciplinary conference on the historical, theoretical, and political dimensions of writing. The objective of the conference is to provide a forum for writers, activists, novelists, screenwriters, poets, journalists, graduate students, and faculty--from all fields and across all time periods and geographic locations--to discuss "why they write."

Anarchist Movement, Groups and Organizations

On November 9th, anarchists from
Pittsbourgh (KS), Topeka (KS), Independence (MO), Salina (KS), Kansas City
(MO), Kansas City (KS), Wichita (KS), Lawrence (KS), Newton (KS), and Omaha
(NE) converged on Lawrence, Kansas for the Kansas Anarchist Caucus.

As you all may know the next round of WTO talks is to be held in Sydney,
Australia on November 14, 2002 many groups have mobilized (including
anti-war
groups, trade unions, and many socialist groups) and are planning to
consolidate the victories to our movement that occured in Seattle and
Genoa and hopefully build on them by putting anti-capitalism back on the
front
pages of newpapers the world over.

There is a Virtual Sit-in planned to correspond with the trade
talks:


toy-soldiers

"Pedagogy, Activism and Research:

Tactical Media in the Space of the University"

Tactical Media Lab at New York University, December 13-15, 2002

(Draft only 11.5.02)

New York University's Center for Media, Culture and History are hosting a Tactical Media Lab from December 13-15.
Below is the provisional program for this development meeting. I have been asked to emphasize the fact that this is only draft and will almost certainly be subject to a number of changes.

Virtual Memorial for World AIDS Day, December 1, 2002

A Virtual Memorial Project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
virtual memorial

"Just Positive!" — Call for Entries

Deadline 20 November 2002

It is already a tradition, the month December on "A Virtual Memorial" is
dedicated to the victims of AIDS on occasion of 1st December — World AIDS
Day. This year, A Virtual Memorial would like to feature several "HIV positive"
artists in an online show, entitled: "Just Positive!"

Global Social Disobedience in Solidarity with Argentina's Popular Rebellion, December 20–21, 2002

As Argentina tumbles further into uncharted financial
crisis, an inspiring popular rebellion has been spreading
across the country. An ongoing movement has
developed that has become a living laboratory of
struggle, a space where the popular politics of the
future are being re-invented. The rising rebellion
exploded on December 20th 2001, when over a million
people took to the streets banging their pots and pans
and ousting the government. This year on the 20th of
December people in Argentina and across the globe
are calling for a global day of Action to demonstrate
that those who are building alternatives to the
dictatorship of the markets are not alone.

The IWW Edmonton General Membership Branch is pleased to be participating
in this conference. We are co-sponsoring along with the University of
Alberta Library and the English Department the display of archival
materials from the University of Berekely Emma Goldman Archives. The
conference will be happening during Edmonton's annual May Week Labour
Festival of Art, Culture and Politics.

Culture and the State Conference:

Past, Present, and Future

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 2-5, 2003

conference

Anti-NATO Web writes:

We appeal to all interested groups, organisations and single persons to
contribute to the action against the “Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz”
(“Munich Security Conference”) at February 1–3, 2002 in Munich, Germany.

Please support our new appeal and help spread it again ...

No to NATO!

antiNATO.cz writes:

A Call for Solidarity to Stop the NATO Summit in Prague, November 17–21, 2002

Our Official Actions:



Sunday, November 17: demonstration against NATO and capitalism

after 13 years of capitalism we need a new revolution

12:00, Albertov



Wednesday, November 20: the oficial dinner for summit delegates

loud protest against this dinner and food not bombs action

*Argentina solidarity block: bring pats and pons for showing solidarity with Argentina's protests

17:00, Na Prikope street



Thursday, November 21: main day of action

the first day of summit and our biggest protest

autonomous actions all around a city and then

14:00, demo on Namesti Miru

* we call groups from abroad coming with their own ideas for
autonomous decentralised actions during morning

Ted Byfield writes concerning the recent US Supreme Court testimony:

The Eldred case is potentially very important, potentially a fiasco.
If it turns out to be the latter, hopefully it'll also be the end of
the popularity/dominance of reformists like Lessig and their affirmative critiques and market worship. On the other hand, if the former pans out — and
the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act gets shot down — things
may get pretty interesting. Not necessarily good, but interesting.

Here's the transcript of Lessig's argument before the court, about as
hot off the presses as it gets.

cheers,

t

Eldred transcript