The ex-president of Argentina and all-around criminal
Carlos Menem will be speaking at Fordham University Law School in the Bronx on Monday, June 17, 2002. The Argentine
community is frightened by the new anti-immigrant laws
and has made an outreach to the anti-globalization
community for support in a protest against this man.

TAKE THE CAPITAL!

CALENDAR of EVENTS

June 14-28, 2002


===>>>===>>> June 14, 15 & 16, 2002 <<<===<<<===

*** THE G8 -- BREAKING IT DOWN! ***

A community teach-in about local & global struggles & resistance

Free. * Traduction disponible vers le francais. * Childcare available on
request. * Lunch to be served by donation. * Wheelchair accessible.



---> OPENING PANEL: The G8 - Making The Links

June 14, 2002, 7pm

Ottawa Public Library

120 Metcalfe
(corner of Laurier)

With panelists:

* Patrick Bond (activist and writer from Johannesburg, South Africa)

* Aziz Fall (member of the Group for Research and Initiatives for the
Liberation of Africa)

* Pierre George (indigenous rights activist from the Stoney Point nation)

* Nandita Sharma (Open the Borders!)

* Sharon Venne (Cree activist and writer)

---> PANELS, WORKSHOPS & PLENARIES

June 15 & 16, 2002, 10am-5pm

122 L'Amoureux

University of Ottawa

For more information, the full schedule of panel and workshops, speaker
bios, and panel and workshop topics, please see:
takethecapital

===>>>===>>> JUNE 24, 2002 <<<===<<<===

*** BIKESHEVIKS VELORUTIONAIRES ***

The Bikesheviks Velorutionaires will begin their 2.5 day, 200km trek from
Montreal to Ottawa.

---> 9 AM

---> Complex Guy Favreau on RenÈ Levesque Blvd, Montreal

For more information or to participate: research (ask to be put
on the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421

alternatives

*** Evening ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6 PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the the Welcome Center.)

===>>>===>>> JUNE 25, 2002 <<<===<<<===

*** G8 HIGHWAY BLOCKADES ***

Highways Everywhere En Route to Ottawa...

Across Ontario communities are organizing Highway Caravans that will slow
the speed of traffic on the Hwy. 401 to its posted minimum. Caravans of
vehicles from just a couple to a whole fleet will drive together onto the
Hwy 401, move into both or all lanes, and gradually slow down. Help bring
the economy back under our own control. Grab on tight and slow down

Join us on the highways and in Ottawa in June as we take the capital !

The G8 Highway Blockades are an Ontario Common Front action.

Get in touch to organize or co-ordinate a caravan from your area:
In Kingston or for co-ordination info: (613) 531-3428 or
pcu

In Peterborough: asauer

In Guelph: mandy

In Kitchener-Waterloo: k-wtake the capital

*** Evening ACTION SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6 PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the Welcome Center.)

===>>>===>>> JUNE 26, 2002 <<<===<<<===

*** SNAKE MARCHES ***

Take the Capital!

Disrupt the political operation of the G8 in its Canadian HQ!

Leave your mark on Ottawa!

---> A Snake March will leave from Dundonald Park (Somerset and Lyon,
across from the Beer Store) at 12 PM SHARP.

---> A second Snake March will leave from Confederation Square (The War
Memorial at Wellington and Elgin) at 1 PM SHARP.

(The starting point of each march is subject to last-minute change. Check for
up-to-date information about the starting point on-line at
takethecapital and at the Welcome Center upon your arrival in
Ottawa on June 25 or 26.)

Both marches will be action-oriented, and will re-decorate the bureaucratic
core of the city with colorful and creative symbols of resistance as they
slide through Ottawa.

For more information: Email: take the capital

*** CHILL ZONE ***

---> Starting at 1PM and continuing throughout the days of protest.
---> Dundonald Park (Somerset and Lyon, across from the Beer Store)

At mid-day on June 26, Dundonald Park will be reclaimed to offer a
public, chill and festive space in which radical anti-capitalist and
anti-imperialist opposition to the G8 can be expressed and articulated in
eight thousand creative and artistic ways over the course of the two days
of protest.

The Chill Zone will also be established as the permanent food-serving site
of a number of notorious food collectives on June 26 & 27.

All protesters are asked to respect the chill and festive nature of the
zone.

---> If you want to perform, distribute materials & propaganda, play
music, organize workshops or contribute to the zone in any other colorful
way, please get in touch with us by emailing at
Email: take the capital or

by phone at 613-788-3310. <---

*** BIKESHEVIKS VELORUTIONAIRES ***


"Take the Capital" Critical Mass

The Bikesheviks Velorutionaires will arrive in Ottawa.

---> Join them for a Critical Mass starting on the bike path north of
Cummings Bridge on the east side of the Rideau river (where Rideau Street
become Montreal Road).

---> 1 PM

For more info or to participate contact: Email: take the capital (ask to be put on
the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421.

alternatives

*** REVOLUTIONARY KNITTING ACTION ***

Knitting Together a World of Peace and Social Justice
In Solidarity with the Revolutionary Knitting Circle

---> 11:30 AM - 1 PM

---> June 26, 2002

---> In front of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives - 90 Sparks St.

We invite the women in our community to knit or crochet 1 foot squares for
our anti-G8 action, which we will link together to form a gigantic "social
safety net" to symbolize a caring, compassionate and peaceful society.

Called by the Ottawa Committee of the World March of Women.

To get involved, contact: Email: womensmarch / (613) 233-0228

*** MARCH AGAINST THE US EMBASSY ***

Exploitation, War, Aggression, Imperialism, Fight the G-8 Gangsters !

---> 4 PM

---> June 26, 2002

---> Starting from Cobourg and Rideau (MacDonald Park)

InitiÈe par la Coordination anti-impÈrialiste / during the "Take the
Capital" Global Days of Actions

For more information contact Email:aicg

*** EVENING SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the Welcome Center)

===>>>===>>> JUNE 27, 2002 <<<===<<<===

*** NO ONE IS ILLEGAL! ***

A March of 1000 Flags of Resistance

* In Solidarity with Self-Determination Struggles

* Pro-Immigrant & Indigenous Rights

* Against War, Imperialism and Racism

---> 1PM

---> Majors Hill Park

(Across from the American Embassy)

Bring your flags of resistance and other symbols of opposition.

As the G8 retreats to the hills of Kananaskis to intensify the so-called
"War on Terror", we will converge in Ottawa against borders, the
criminalization of immigrants and refugees, racism, genocide and war.

In solidarity with refugee and immigrant communities, indigenous struggles
for self-determination, and all the victims of economic and military
imperialism, we assert that NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!

For more information: Email: take the capital or Website:

no one is illegal

### A statement about the character and tone of the NO ONE IS ILLEGAL
MARCH has been sent out by email and is available at:

Website: take the capital

If you plan to attend this march, please read it. ###

*** A PINK BLOC on JUNE 27 ***


Queers have been fighting for decades for equality but how can we be equal
in a fundamentally unequal system? The answer is we can't.

Come out! Come out!

Triangle Trash, Ottawa's radical queer collective, along with queer
activists from Ontario & Quebec, is organizing a "Pink Bloc". This
fabulous anti-capitalist queer contingent will converge on June 27th at

1:00 pm in Majors Hill Park for the NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ! a March of 1000
Flags of Resistance.

For more info on the "Pink Bloc" or Triangle Trash contact us:

Email: triangle trash or call (819) 771-0925

*** BIKESHEVIKS VELORUTIONAIRES ***

"Thousand Flags of Resistance" Critical Mass

---> 1PM

---> Starting on the bike path north of Cummings Bridge on the east side
of the Rideau river (where Rideau Street become Montreal Road)

For more info or to participate contact: Email: research (ask to be put on
the mailing list) or call 514-848-7421.

Website: alternatives

*** EVENING SPOKESCOUNCIL ***

--> Somewhere in Ottawa (Location TBA)

--> 6 PM

(Up-to-date information will be available at the Welcome Center.)

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If you wish to add an autonomously organized action or event to the Take
the Capital! calendar, please send the announcement to

Email: take the capital
The calendar will be updated and sent out weekly.


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TAKE THE CAPITAL!

Ottawa Actions Against the G8

June 26-27, 2002

Website: take the capital

Email: take the capital

613-788-3310 (messages only)

on parle francais.

se habla espanol.

NEW YORK CITY DIRECT ACTION NETWORK /

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE G8 IN NEW YORK!

Wednesday, June 26, 5 p.m., at the International Monetary Fund offices, E45th Street and Second Avenue

Solidarity with activists gathering around the world in opposition to the summit of the world's chief terrorists!

On June 26 and 27, the Group of 8 -- the so-called leaders of the industrialized world -- will gather under massive security in the secluded Canadian ski resort of Kananaskis for their annual meeting.

They can run, but they can't hide.

Steve Bloom wrote:

June 11, 2002

At an informal dinner gathering last week activists
from more than a dozen
organizations in the NYC area began kicking around
the idea of what
peace/anti-war forces should do in this city to mark
the first anniversary
of September 11. It became clear to us that this was
the kind of question
where a broad consultation with many groups and
constituencies was
essential, and we decided to work toward a meeting
which could initiate such
a process. The date of Thursday, June 20, seemed
like a good one, with no
conflicts that we were aware of.

Consulting with others in the week since we discover
that many have, indeed,
been thinking about what needs to be done in NYC in
September, and it does
seem likely that a reasonably broad consultative
meeting could take place on
June 20. However, we also discovered one potential
scheduling conflict. The
"Not In Our Name" organization (NION), which has
been circulating a "pledge
of resistance" also has a meeting scheduled for that
night, part of a
regular series of Thursday evening meetings.

We have initiated a discussion about how to deal
with this scheduling
difficulty with the people organizing the NION
meeting. However, even if we
end up with two meetings on the same evening we
think it is important not to
wait, to at least begin the broader consultation
process we envision. We
know that June 20 is a reasonable date for many, and
whatever date we pick
in NYC there will be scheduling difficulties for
someone. It will simply be
necessary for both meetings to proceed with full
awareness that another
process is also going on, and that coordination and
further consultation
will be necessary if we are going to achieve the
broad consensus and
collective action we need. So we are asking that
folks plan to attend on
June 20, at 6:30 pm (place to be announced).

Although this process is open to all, the concept is
not necessarily to
build June 20 as a mass meeting, attended by all
activists, but rather to
conceive it as a representative gathering, involving
a range of
constituences and organizations, to begin a process
of discussion and
consultation which we hope will lead to a concensus
about what to do on or
around September 11. The sooner we come together to
begin planning this
event, the broader/more inclusive it can be and the
more time we will have
to organize it and publicize it.

Your input is essential if we are going to help
define our common interests
and plan an action which reflects that interest.
Please plan for someone
from your organization/constituency to be there. And
urge others to do the
same.

Guido writes "


A call to action for a convergence of total liberation against colonialism -- against the celebration of genocide -- against Columbus Day in Denver, Colorado 2002.



Comrades. Our world is in flames.

And there is an entity with many names responsible for this.

Some call it a machine with no engines. Some call it a demon -- infecting the meek. Some call it leviathan -- devouring worlds. Some call it a god -- at war with the goddess. Its names are endless, but there is one thing for sure. It will stop at nothing in its annihilation of all things truthful.

Fourth Annual Southern Girls Convention

July 19 - 21, 2002, Athens, Georgia

southern girls

Please visit the new website, and learn more about this exciting upcoming
event!

WHAT IS THE SOUTHERN GIRLS CONVENTION?

The Southern Girls Convention is an annual grassroots meeting of social
justice activists devoted to empowering women and girls in the South, and
discussing Southern culture, views and stereotypes of the South, and the
struggle for social justice. Each year's convention is hosted by a different
Southern community and facilitated by local organizers. Past conventions were
held in Memphis, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and Auburn, Alabama. Last
year's convention in Auburn drew over 500 participants from all over the
South and beyond.

This year's SGC invites activists from across the country to meet in ATHENS,
GEORGIA on the weekend of July 19-21. Hundreds of activists will meet for a
weekend of discussion, action, and entertainment devoted to building
pro-woman community in the South.

"Trajectories of the Self"

Language-Communication-Culture Conference

Évora, Portugal, Nov 27-30, 2002

Organisers: Ana Clara Birrento acbirrento

Margarida Morgado morgadofrazao

"Writing the self" has become a wide area of research from multiple
research positions. The self as object of inquiry is at the heart of many
identity projects and feminist approaches as well as of discussions of
postmodern conditions of living.
The self as ontological being and subject of experience, problems of
referentiality and identity formation are important aspects of discussion
about writing the self that we would like to see articulated with the self
as cultural and linguistic assumption and as matter of interpretation based
on cultural codes, institutional and material formations, following lines
opened by Elspeth Probyn in her Sexing the Self (1993, p. 4): "The
possibility of the self rests within a filigree of institutional, material,
discursive lines that either erase or can be used to enable spaces in which
"we" can be differently spoken".

We welcome 20-minute papers dealing with some of the questions that are
listed below:

- How do writings of the self put the self to work?

- How do narratives of the self inscribe the subject in language, in
imagination, in society?

- How do narratives of the self rethink identity, subjectivity and the body?

- What do projects of writing (or rewriting) the self include, reject,
repudiate, and why? What is brought to the surface and into visibility and
what remains hidden?

- How do autobiographies and other writings of the self dispute and
negotiate boundaries and barriers of social formations?

- How do images of the self and the self as an image comment on the
conjuncture of discourses and everyday commonplaces (Probyn)?

Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 30, 2002

Andrew Stern writes "Argentina Ahora: A Movement Beyond Politics

An exhibit featuring photos, words, films and posters
documenting a nation's collapse and a people's
creative response. The work of photographers from the
Buenos Aires based art & media collective Argentina
Arde, as well as independent photographers from New
York and Seattle, displayed with narrative text
excerpts and a selection of posters and street art.

Tuesday June 4th, 6pm-Midnight @ Walker Stage

At Walker Stage on the 4th, Ocote Soul Sound will play
with Martin and members of Antibalas. The doors open
at 6pm, the screening is at 8pm and Ocote Soul Sound
goes on at 10pm. Admission is sliding scale $5-$10.
All proceeds go to benefit independent media makers in
Argentina.

Friday June 7th, 6pm-Midnight @ La Peña del Bronx

At La Peña del Bronx on the 7th, the doors also open
at 6pm and the screening is at 8pm. Special musical
guests, to be announced, will play from 10pm on. La
Peña is a latino political info and cultural center in
the Bronx. All proceeds from this show will go to
benefit independent media makers in Argentina as well.

Walker Stage
56 Walker St.
Between West Broadway and Church
212-905-2835

La Peña del Bronx
226 E 144th St.
(718) 402-9411
http://www.lapenadelbronx.com
Take 2, 4 or 5 trains to 149th/Grand Concourse, La
Peña is 1.5 blocks from the subway.

Resources:
To see a sneak preview of photos from the show go to:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=251 91&group=webcast

For background information on the situation in
Argentina check out this article at:
http://argosy.mta.ca/argosy01-02/03.14.02/13.html

Or read "A Postscript for the Global Anti-Capitalist
Movement" taken from "Que Se Vayan Todos: Argentina’s
Popular Rebellion", a beautiful publication with
writing by
John Jordan, Jennifer Whitney and photography by
Andrew Stern at:
http://nologo.org/resources/02/05/07/1341226.shtml

For ongoing coverage of events in Argentina go to:
http://argentina.indymedia.org

For more information about Argentina Arde, other
featured artists, details about the documentary
screening, and dates of this exhibit in other cities:
http://www.postworldindustries.org"

Dear Friends,

I have come to the unhappy determination that I cannot afford to keep Eco
Books open at our present rent. Eco Books will close at the end of
June. I will put the books in storage and spend the coming months looking
for less expensive space in which to relocate. I am considering relocating
in New York City or outside the city.

Between now and the end of June, I hope you will join us for one or more of
the many events we have scheduled. Our events are listed below and on our
website at www.ecobooks.com/events.htm The various groups that meet at Eco
Books will continue to meet in other locations. In a future email I will
ask you to let me know if you would like your email address to be given to
any of these groups so that you can be kept current with their future events.

Eco Books will be closed this coming weekend from Thursday, May 23 to
Monday, May 27.

UPCOMING EVENTS

WW3Report writes "Israeli Refusenik Haggai Matar, co-author of the Senior's Letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, will be making the following appearances in NYC:

Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:00 PM

Riverside Church Global Justice and Peace Ministry

490 Riverside Drive (between 120th and 122nd Streets)

contact: Global Justice Ministry, 212-870-6853

Cosponsorsed by the Interfaith Community.

Saturday, May 25, 2002 (morning service)

Congregation B'nai Jeshurun

Church of Saint Paul & Saint Andrew

86th Street and West End Avenue

For more nformation call 212-787-7600

Haggai Matar will speak briefly during the morning service and meet
with members of the congregation afterwards.

Audio and Video of Matar in Madison: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/275 18.html