Events

Anonymous Comrade writes :"URBAN DRIFT 2002

9th-13th October, Cafe Moskau, Karl-Marx Allee 34, Berlin Mitte, and
workspaces throughout Berlin

FROM FORMALISM TO FLUX

TRANSFORMATIONAL URBANISM AND NEW URBAN STRATEGIES


At last year's urban drift symposium, the architect Cedric Price defined the
term urban drift as one which implied both movement and generosity.
This year from the 9th to the 13th October 2002, urban drift will be able to
do greater justice to its name and will manifest itself as a broad-based
platform made up of a two-day conference, a night space -- a forum for
transformational urbanism -- drawing together artists, architects,
filmmakers, writers, sound artists and DJs in a mutual exchange != and open
workspaces throughout the city.

Manifesto of the Crossover Summer Camp Project

What we want:
Our starting point is the conviction that all the different relations of
power and domination are inseparably bound up with one another, permeating
and often stabilizing each other. We want to develop a practice that
reflects this.

Our aim is to contribute to the construction of a new constellation of
political tendencies.

August 23 marks the 75th anniversary of the judicial
murders of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two
Italian-born anarchists, by the State of Massachusetts.
On August 23 this year, we will hold a mass rally and
memorial in Union Square, New York City, to commemorate
their executions and renew our commitment to the ideals
Sacco and Vanzetti fought for -- a society without the
state, without the church, without capitalism -- a
classless society where everyone can live free.

Under the Influence:

Celebrating the Legacy of Black Mountain College

September 19-22, 2002, in Asheville, Black Mountain and Cullowhee, NC

Website: www.blackmountaincollege.org/festival

A collaborative festival on the 50th anniversary of John Cage's multi-media
"Theatre Piece No. 1".

In the summer of 1952 amid the creative ferment of Black Mountain College in
North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, John Cage created an unscripted
presentation incorporating music, dance, spoken word, visual art and
projections. Later titled "Theatre Piece No. 1", the event achieved renown
as the very first multi-media "Happening". On the 50th anniversary of this
historic event, the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center and its
collaborators are presenting Under the Influence: Celebrating the Legacy of
Black Mountain College.

Revolutionizing the American arts and sciences in the first half of
twentieth century, the influence of Black Mountain College faculty and alums
such as Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster
Fuller, Walter Gropius, M.C. Richards, Alfred Kazin, Willem and Elaine de
Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert
Rauschenberg, Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Creeley, Jonathan Williams, and many
others continues to be felt to this day.

The People's Strike A Day of Non-Compliance and Resistance September 27th


Convergence: Skillshares, Meetings and Preperation September 25 and 26th


Date Change!

The IMF and World Bank have moved their meetings in fear of the planned
People's Strike that was to occur on October 1st. They have changed the
meeting dates to September 28 and 29 to try to avoid the toll the Strike
would take on their ability to effectivly hold their meetings in DC on the
1st of October.

We are currently in the process of planning the sixth annual, National
Conference on Organized Resistance. This conference is held towards the end
of January, in Washington D.C., on the campus of American University. The
conference hopes to play a significant role in coordinating a dialogue
between activist groups, and spark in-depth discussion of strategies and
tactics of our various social justice movements. The conference usually
draws 1,000-3,000 people from all over the country, as well as from
outside the United States.

October 12, 2002

International Day of Action Against the Second Colonization of the Americas

The Latin America Solidarity Coalition in alliance with the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council, call for local actions on October 12, the 510th anniversary of the first invasion of the Americas to demand:

1. No to the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement

2. No to Plan Colombia/Andean Initiative

3. Close the School of the Americas/WHISC

4. Close US military bases in Vieques and throughout Latin America

5. End the Drug War's assault on people of color and the poor

6. Free Leonard Peltier and all indigenous political prisoners

7. Respect indigenous treaty, land, and cultural rights

8. Bring to justice those responsible for the genocide in Guatemala

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEA CONVENTION

Sponsored by

The Hofstra University School of Communication

and Hofstra Cultural Center

Hempstead, New York

Remapping Communication Environments

June 5-8, 2003

How is technology reshaping our media landscape?

* New communication platforms and old communication environments

* Information technology and place

* Ghettoes in the global village--the technology divide

* Urban and suburban communication environments

* Media content

* Media and religion

* Ethics in media

* Transforming public life and private life

* Creating social spaces

* Digital economics and the changing media landscape

* Sustainable digital communities

* Non-technological communication in a media world

* Language and the new communication technologies

A BENEFIT PARTY FOR THE AUTONOMADIC BOOKMOBILE & SIDESHOW

Some of the wonders which you may witness will include, but are not limited to:

The piratical puppetry operatics of Raj & Nick of the JOLLYSHIP
WHIZBANG!

The shocking shlockistry of the AUTONOMADIC BOOKMOBILE SIDESHOW,
presented by Dr. Henceforth Flummox & Okra p Dingle, including THE HUMAN PINCUSHION,THE IRON TONGUE, THE HUMAN BLOCKHEAD,
SHAKESPEARIAN SOCK PUPPETRY, and THE KNIVES OF PRESTO-DINGLETATION!

Country-punk rawk of THE YOUNGHEARTS!

The tangy lyrics and underwearian ululations of DUFUS!

The accordian stylistics of MYLA GOLDBERG!

PLUS - The worlds strangest books & zines appearing on the
AUTONOMADIC BOOKTABLE!

PLUS - CHEAP KEG BAR!

PLUS - Special mystery guests and occurances to bend your reality
tunnels!

ONLY 5 BUKS!

ONLY 5 BUKS!

ONLY 5 BUKS!

Proceeds will support FLUX FACTORY and gas/bail money for the
AUTONOMADIC BOOKMOBILE Fall'02 nationwide tour.

WHERE/WHEN:

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 9 pm

FLUX FACTORY

3838 43rd st., Long Island City, Queens

Take V, R, or 6 train to Steinway, or, 7 train to 40th Street.

For more directions, go to: http://fluxfactory.org

For more info about the Bookmobile, check out Autonomadic Bookmobile.

Baltimore Anti-Racist Action writes "

THEY WILL NOT PASS! SHUT DOWN THE NEO-NAZIS IN D.C. AUGUST 24!

Smash the National Alliance's racist rally and white-power show!


On August 24th, the National Alliance is planning "Rock Against Israel": a demonstration of white supremacist Hitler-fetishists protesting against the white supremacist U.S. government's support of white supremacist religious nuts in Israel. (Confused yet?) They plan to rally at the Capitol building from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, and then meet for dinner and a white power concert in the evening.

Syndicate content