GlimpseCulture writes:

"Sixty Cameras Against the War"

Feb. 15, 2004 Documentary

Feb 15 2003 saw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in NYC, and Julie Talen's "Sixty Cameras Against the War" presents a unique document of that day. Talen collected footage from sixty different videographers present at the march, and edited it together in multiple screens. This multichannel narrative at times juxtaposes the experiences of activists across Manhattan, and at other times provides different angles on a single arrest or happening.



The film presents the NYPD's use of pepper spray, horse charges and barricades to cleave the march in two. Feb 15 turned out many people, in NYC and all over the world, but I think if more Americans saw how New Yorkers said "no" in the leadup to war some opinions about Iraq would change. Also, those who see demonstrators as an inhuman mob should see regular people facing extreme cold and claustrophobic conditions to make a moral stand.



The film toured swing states before the election, and has screened in exhibits in NYC and Los Angeles. Anyone can download the film for free, under a Creative Commons license. Take a look at a film that is both visually interesting and painfully relevant.

New York RAT, First Issue Published

New York RAT

The first issue of the New York RAT was printed last week and
is being distibuted all over the city. Look for your copy at
Bluestockings, St. Mark's Books, Clovis Press (in the free drawer),
and various coffeeshops around the city.

If you have any suggestions about where else we can distribute
them, or if you want to help out with distribution, please email us!
We are hoping to get some feedback about the first issue as
well as contributions and suggestions for the next issue. Hope to hear
from you!

Love & resistance,

The Black RAT collective

warpunk-dept. writes:

"Warporn Warpunk!
Autonomous Videopoiesis in Wartime"

Matteo Pasquinelli

Warpunk is a squadron of B52s throwing libidinal bombs and radical images into the heart of the Western imagery.

Grinning Monkeys



How do you think you
can stop war without weapons? The anti-war public opinion that fills squares
worldwide and the cosmetic democracy of International Courts stand powerless in
front of the raging US military. Against the animal instincts of a superpower
reason cannot prevail: a homicidal force can be arrested only by another,
stronger force. Everyday we witness such a Darwinian show: history repeating
itself through a cruel confrontation of forces, whilst what rests is freedom of
speech exercised in drawing-rooms. Pacifists too are accomplices of instinctive
forces, because animal aggressiveness is inside us all. How do we express that
bestiality for which we condemn armies? Underneath the surface of the self-censorship belonging to the
radical left (not only to the conformist majority), it should be admitted
publicly that watching Abu Ghraib pictures of pornographic tortures does not
scandalize us, on the contrary, it rather excites us, in exactly the same way
as the obsessive voyeurism that draws us to videos of 9/11 videos. Through such
images we feel the expression of repressed instincts, the pleasure rising again
after narcotized by consumerism, technologies, goods and images. We show our
teeth as monkeys do, when their aggressive grin looks dreadfully like the human
smile. Contemporary thinkers like Baudrillard and Zizek acknowledge the dark
side inside Western culture. If 9/11 has been a shock for Western
consciousness, Baudrillard puts forward a more shocking thesis: we westerners
were to desire 9/11, as the death drive of a superpower that having reached its
natural limits, knows and desires nothing more than self-destruction and war.
The indignation is hypocrisy; there is always an animal talking behind a video
screen.

"Objection or Obstruction:

The Culture of Protest in the Twenty-First Century"

M/C Reviews, Co-editors: Jodi Crome and Kate Cuthbert

Throughout the twentieth century, protest has been instrumental in
revealing weaknesses in social, political, and environmental foundations.
In the last twelve months, protest documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11
and The President vs. David Hicks have foregrounded once again the ability
of protest to bring salient socio-political issues and concepts to greater
public attention. However, the potency of protest has also spurred debates
over its effectiveness as a tool for social change: can protest educate,
or can it only coerce?

Today's heightened political environment — springing from inquiries into
the Iraq war, questions about choices made in the Middle-East, and
elections on both sides of the Pacific — has reawakened the protest debate.
We would like to examine the concept of the protest and its potential
success or failure in the twenty-first century.

M/C Reviews is looking for new contributors. M/C Reviews is an ongoing
series of reviews of events in culture and the media. It includes the
themed sections 'events', 'screens', 'sounds', 'style', and 'words' which
publish reviews as they come to hand. It also publishes feature issues,
themed groups of reviews centring on a particular cultural event,
category, or genre.

Gavin Evans writes:

Dear InterActivists,

I would be most grateful if you could take the time to visit http://mmseyewitness.org. This is a new platform that utilises the mobile camera phone as means of instantly delivering accounts of human rights abuse, crimes against humanity and environmental destruction. Within seconds an image taken anywhere in the world can be live on the internet. Monitoring groups and local networks can quickly decide upon what course of action to take. I sincerely hope that, in the spirit of freedom of information and empowerment of the individual, mmseyewitness strikes a chord.

The concept of mmseyewitness.org has so far been enthusiastically received. We intend to launch the service shortly and would be grateful for any input, comments, advice or recommendations.

Best wishes in your endeavours,

Gavin Evans

"Flow" Critical Media Forum Site Launches

Flow: A critical forum for television and media culture will launch its first
issue on Friday, October 8, 2004. The Flow web address is www.flowtv.org

Flow’s mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and
the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary
media at the speed that media moves.

FBI seizes Global Indymedia Servers

http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/126066/index.php

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WwwFeaturesWorkpad

infoshop.org story

Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the requesting agency. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied and turned over the requested servers, effectively removing those sites from the internet.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Media EmergenC" Conference

Autonomous, Independent, and Alternative Media

San Diego, October 6–9, 2004

Are you upset about how the corporate media act as cheerleaders from war, while they profit from it?

Are you frustrated about how the corporate media named George Bush as our president before he actually was, supporting the illegal election?

Are you tired of never hearing the words "global warming" come from the mouth of a TV newsperson?

Introducing "The New York RAT"

The first issue of “The New York RAT”, a new, seasonal, anarchist
publication will come out this Fall. It will serve as an informational
resource for our local anarchist communities, outlining New York City-based
groups and collectives that are actively working on projects that others
can plug into. Although traditionally fragmented, the NYC Anarchist scene
is vibrant and strong, with new collectives and projects sprouting up all
the time.

stevphen writes:

Greenpepper Project Launches “Life Beyond the Market"

Greenpepper Magazine (Greenpepper Magazine), an Amsterdam based autonomist and direct action oriented magazine, is proud to announce the release a special issue on the theme of “Life Beyond the Market.” The issue covers a wide variety of topics from gift economies and gender to Yugoslavian worker self-management, community currencies to the occupied factories of Argentina, critically interrogating existing realities and practices to draw out the liberatory possibilities contained within.