Caillech writes:

"We are happy to announce that as of August 20, 2004, Gaizao.org — Radical Voice of East Asia — is serving the international community with news, forums and issue-specific information aimed at unifying East Asian activists and fostering solidarity with anarchists, anti-imperialists, and anti-authoritarian collectives and organizations world-wide.

The site hosts bulletin boards and a news service in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese; along with a library, and an action calender for the entire region (sorted by country).

Onto writes:

Media EmergenC Gathering

Oct. 6-9, 2004, San Diego, CA [anti-NAB]

In San Diego, California, we are suffocating from media
pollution. Hence, San Diego
Indymedia is organizing an alternative media conference called Media EmergenC. It is a counter conference to the
NAB's Radio Road Show which is being held in San Diego Oct. 6-8. Our
counter conference is October 6-9. Please see http://www.mediaemergenc.org
for details.

redundanz writes "(deutsche Version unterhalb)

+++ Call for entries +++

+++ Deadline 15th of September, 2004 +++

+++ We will be glad to receive your entries and we would be pleased if you
could offer this information to interested filmmakers. +++

International Video Reporting Award

The »International Video Reporting Award« is an international competition for short, innovative, non-fiction digital filmmaking. The documentaries must be helmed by a single person who is solely responsible for content, direction,camera, sound and editing, and who fully explores the creative dimensions of digital technology. The filmmaker should also be taking on the challenge of autonomous production and distribution.

Oliver Shykles writes
Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton's Band
Why Venezuela has Voted Again for Their 'Negro e Indio' President
by Greg Palast

Monday, August 16, 2004 -- There's so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. Let's begin with this: 77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.'

I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I've ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, "Chavez - dic-ta-dor!" The plantation owner griped about the "socialismo" of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible.

hydrarchist writes... this from the Brooklyn Rail

In the Belly of the Beast

by Saul Austerlitz

July 2004

The Corporation Download vis suprnova using bit torrent

Directed by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan

Making a feature film about corporations is a bit like trying to cram the entire history of the United States on the back of an index card. After all, the corporation is a phenomenon that has existed for well over 100 years, and its tentacles extend into every aspect of modern life the world over. Yet while Mark Achbar (director of Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media) and his two collaborators, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, have done plenty of cramming in The Corporation, they emerge largely successful. This briskly edited 145-minute tour of corporate influence covers a wide swath of topics: the history of corporations, the damage done by their human-unfriendly policies, and potential areas of transition in the corporate outlook.

Joasia Krysa writes:

The European Journal of Higher Arts Education

Call for Contributions, Issue 2, November 2004

"Economies of Knowledge: New Technologies in Higher Arts Education"

The deadline for submissions 30 September 2004.

This issue of the European Journal of Higher Arts Education explores ideas
around the production (research and enterprise) and distribution (teaching
and learning) of knowledge in higher arts education in relation to digital technologies.

Recent changes in the mode of production and dissemination of knowledge have
been often described in the context of what has been fashionably termed as knowledge economy. Manuel Castells in The Rise of the Network Society, (1996) points to the change in the ways technological processes are
organised — from a mode of development focussed on economic growth and surplus-value (industrialism) to one based on the pursuit of knowledge and increased levels of complexity of information (informationalism).In this way, new technologies have enhanced the effectiveness of global
apitalism, enabling it to become more flexible, adaptable, faster,
efficient and pervasive. Culture, too, and indeed the education system, has
become integrated in the process of the creation of capital, with cultural
regeneration and a link between research and enterprise as an example of
capital's renewal. In this context it is clear that art and art education follow economic imperatives for the most part but do they also offer the possibility of influencing it? To what extent can the spaces of
determination be creatively reclaimed?

Anonymous Comrade writes "Join us for an evening with Tel Aviv media artist and peace activist
Horit Herman Peled and political scientist Yoav Peled discussing
digital cultural production and civil rights.

Wednesday, July 21, 7pm

THE THING

601 West 26th Street

New York, New York 10001

Tel: 212-937 0443

Email: info@thing.net

(organized by Trebor Scholz in collaboration with The Thing)

Horit Herman Peled is a net artist and PhD student in media philosophy
at
the European Graduate School. She teaches digital art and theory of
digital
culture at the Art Institute at Oranim College in Israel. Her work
deals
with Israeli colonialism and the ways in which it renders an artistic
terrain that makes it imperative for artists to choose to engage their
work
as responsible citizens.

from us ol' Journal editors writes:

New Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Available

Issue #3 of The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest — a cavalcade of productive thoughts on community, conversation, communication (between collectives and to the media) and such. Cause' no matter who wins this election, the government does.... :)

www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org

"The Weather Underground"

A Film by Sam Green and Bill Siegel

[Download it on Bit Torrent. See Fahrenheit 911 thread for more instructions.]

An Interview with Documentary Filmmaker, Sam Green
Alexander Laurence

"Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war... within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." — Bernardine Dohrn

Thirty years ago a group of American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home." Outraged over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground bombed targets across the country that they considered emblematic. The group's carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history.

Fifth Estate Seeks Contributions on Radical Education

Fifth Estate seeks articles, anecdotes, essays, and experiences on
radical education.

Whether you are active on the front lines of urban
public education, a rural college of social rest, a small alternative
school, or even a home school setting, we are asking for creative learning
in adverse times.