Seven Oaks Magazine is now on-line.

Seven Oaks magazine is based in Vancouver, Canada, with an editorial board composed of local activists, journalists and academics.

In the first issue:

-- The Seven Oaks Manifesto

-- A Feature Interview with David Bacon, American labour journalist just back from occupied Iraq.

-- Child Labour in British Columbia.

-- An American in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

-- The Politics of the Montreal Mega-city Debate.

-- 7 Questions with Vancouver City Councillor Ellen Woodsworth

-- plus Reviews and a Photo Gallery...

For more information, contact:

1-604-324-6059 or info@sevenoaksmag.com

"Arrests at Ground Zero:

Police Claim Ground Zero Sidewalk is 'Private Property'"

Michael Kane, NYC Indymedia

On February 7th, 2004, four activists from the “No Police State Coalition” were arrested at Ground Zero when they refused a police order to move from in front of the World Trade Center Path Train Station. The police claimed the sidewalk directly in front of the train station was “private property” of the Port Authority.

Last Free Radio In Amsterdam Under Serious Threat!!

Dutch Authorities Try To Take Out Free Radio Patapoe In Amsterdam

Last Monday afternoon the Dutch Telecom authorities, Agentschap Telecom
(AT), attempted to take Free Radio Patapoe (97.2 FM, Amsterdam) off the
air. Unable to locate the studio or transmitter they left again, saying
they would be back in force to search the building which they believe
hosts the radio from top to bottom. Free Radio Patapoe is a
non-commercial radio station, run by volunteers and serving free
broadcasts to the Amsterdam community 24/7 for the past 17 years.

Anonymous Comrade writes, Fed up with the corporate media?



Tired of your voice being stifled?

Join hundreds of journalists, scholars, artists, and organizers at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference at New School University on February 28-29 as we discuss how to strengthen and expand the city's vibrant network of independent media. Participants can choose from more than 50 workshops and panels in three different tracks: policy/advocacy, do-it-yourself media, and youth media. Presenters include Jeremy Glick of "Another World is Possible", WBAI's Rosa Clemente, Danny Schechter, the National Association of Hip Hop's Tricia Wang, artist Brett Cook Dizney, and NYC organizations Harlem Live!, Mediarights.org, Brooklyn Rail, ABC No Rio and many more! Admission: $20 advance; $30 day of; $8 youth discount.

This is what media democracy looks like!

For more information on workshops and to register, please visit www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org or call Paper Tiger Television at (212) 420-9045.

nolympics writes, This is from Counterpunch

Offending Valerie

Dealing with Jewish Self-Absorption

By KATHLEEN CHRISTISON

It’s most challenging to go where the silence is and say something.
Amy Goodman

I was kidding a couple of Muslim Palestinian-American friends the other day about being barbarians, by the lights of Israeli historian Benny Morris. This was a day or two after this paragon of dispassionate Israeli scholarship had expostulated in an interview published in Ha’aretz on the benefits (if you’re Jewish) of ethnic cleansing, the critical miscalculation of David Ben-Gurion in not having completed the total ethnic cleansing of Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River in 1948 when he had a chance, and the barbarity of Arab and Muslim culture. “The Arab world as it is today is barbarian,” Morris declared. Islamic and Arab culture is “a world in which human life doesn’t have the same value as it does in the West,” in which freedom and democracy are alien, in which there are “no moral inhibitions.” He was speaking in sweeping terms, of entire cultures, of the mass of individuals in the Arab and the Muslim worlds, not merely of governments that are oppressive or undemocratic. Palestinians in particular, Morris believes, are barbaric, “a very sick society,” and should be treated “the way we treat individuals who are serial killers. . . . Something like a cage has to be built for them.”

"Common Voice:

New Electronic Journal of Non-Market, Anti-Statist Ideas"

Dear Friends,


This is to let you know that the first issue of Common Voice , "an
Electronic Journal of Non-Market, Anti-State ideas" is out now.  You
can access it at commonvoice

"Hearing Noam Chomsky"

Mike Palecek

Being a product of the Nebraska educational system I
didn't hear of Noam Chomsky until I was in my 40s.

Maybe that's not Mr. Bruening's or Mr. Gibson's or
Mrs. Schmeichel's fault, totally. Probably it's mine,
along with the Norfolk Daily News, Omaha
World-Herald, as well as Isabel and Milosh Palecek's.

New "Global Radio" Sound Files of Italian Autonomists

Links to mp3 files of Negri, Piperno, Revelli, Mezzadro, Roggero, Bascetta and many others (most of the latter disobbedienti)...

www.globalradio.it

"Integral War of Attrition in the Rebel Zone of Chiapas"

Hermann Bellinghausen, La Jornada, Wednesday, January 21, 2004

San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, 20th of January. Just as the low
intensity war (GBI) advances without truce in the rebel territories, so do
the studies and the interpretations on this form of covert war, that
officially "does not exist", but is part of the daily life of thousands
of indigenous communities in Chiapas.

The collection is self published in NY, and is reviewed by AK press.

From Brooklyn To Balata:

First Hand Reports and Thoughts From Palestinian Solidarity Activists
Sean Sullivan, et al

pam
No ISBN, $4.00

This is a work of brilliance, that demands to be read. And discussed. Read again. Then acted upon. Herein you'll find first hand accounts of life in occupied Palestine from four NY Solidarity activists. All of their reports are incisive, well-written, eloquent, and illuminating. There are, fortunately, many such accounts, by Westerners and the Palestinians themselves. What makes this thick pamphlet particularly useful is the second half. There are two responses to the report-backs from New York State prisoners - very much bringing the war, and racism back home to America. And perhaps best of all, a lengthy afterword/essay, discussing the role of (largely) white activists in the Middle East, the structure, tactics and effectiveness of the International Solidarity Movement, why solidarity work (both in Palestine and here, at home) is vital, and how such work might be most effective. Some of the best writing to be found anywhere on the conflict, and what we might be doing about it. Really, really good.