"Life and Death Among the Pirates:

The Real Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean"

Marcus Rediker

A lecture given by Marcus Rediker at Emmanuel College
in Boston on October 9, 2003 and recorded by Roger
Leisner of Radio Free Maine (to order, see below).

Reviewed by Nikos Raptis

Historically the elite of any society have been able
to force upon the ordinary people of that society a
worldview which they (the elite) had constructed. The
elite of western societies are very adept in
constructing such a system of views. This they
accomplish by hammering these views in the heads of
ordinary people since childhood.

Free radios meeting in Naples January 16-18


Assaulting the airwaves

(let's fight for radio and information rights in Italy)

Between 1975 and 1975, thanks to the liberalization of the airwaves, several independent and free radios were born in Italy. Experiences which were born thanks to frequency occupation and which were for the most part acknowledged by the authorities that assigned frequencies. Some of them still exist and play an important role in information in the political debate in the movements, and are structures that guarantee freeedom and pluralism, creative expression and information in Italy. Since that time till the end of the 90's just sporadic and happy experiences, born by movements and students' occupations, followed the same path. Recently, thanks to the diffusion of new technologies, there's the chance to use new ways of communication, avoiding red tapes and legal problems. Not just ways that stay on written pages, but ways that find their own voice: streaming! At the end of the the 90's web radios start to stream. With web broadcasting former radio experiences on airwaves found a bigger diffusion, and at the same time, local groups, which couldn't have any chance to broadcast on the airwaves, had the chance to send their signal. New technologies also made a change creating new networks between new and old experiences.

akinori aka bakuto writes:

An infoshop called Irregular Rhythm Asylum was opened in Shinjuku, Tokyo i
n January 4th, 2004! You will find not only vinyls, CDs, fanzines, books,
T-shirts, and other goodies, but also alternative and independent informat
ion. If you live in Tokyo metropolitan area, please come over and talk to the staff.
After its closing time, small events like film showing, exhibit ions, acoustic music,
and so on will be held in the future. If you have so me nice ideas, please let them know.

Irregular Rhythm Asylum Open 13:00 - Close 21:00

1-30-12-302 Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022, Japan

Tel: 03-3352-6916 (domestic);

+81-3-3352-6916 (from abroad)
http://a.sanpal.co.jp/irregular (under construction now)

For a World of Direct Democracy and Mutual Aid

---

akinori mitachi a.k.a. bakuto morikawa

"be realistic and do the impossible""

Prologue: Several weeks ago, myself and Prothap visited a school that wassupposed to be repaired by Bechtel, which they had not done any work on to speak of. The headmistress fixed me a cup of tea, and after I had finished drinking it, she read the tea leaves in the bottom of the cup. This is what she said they told: You will receive a Big Fish. In Iraq this means a fortune, a benefit, or a gift. But the gift will be shared. You will split it with someone else, someone whose name begins with an A. But you will receive the lion’s share of the benefit. I thanked her and told her I would keep an eye out for any such developments.

"Democracy Now!" Internship Postions

"Democracy Now!" is an award-winning non-commercial daily radio/TV news hour pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S. and broadcasting on over 180 stations; we are one of the fastest growing programs in public broadcasting.

We are looking for 2 interns to work on organizing college students to bring Democracy Now! to their local radio/tv stations. There are over 500 college radio stations in the United States.

Skills needed:

We are looking for energetic, organized, self-motivated, efficient, resourceful people with good interpersonal skills. The ability to organize your own work and work on multiple tasks in a busy environment is necessary, as well as friendly phone manner and good writing skills. You should also be computer literate including knowledge of word, excel and some database software. Political organizing experience preferable. Familiarity with Democracy Now! is important.

We are not offering a salary but college credit can be arranged.

To apply:

Send an email to Julie with subject header OUTREACH INTERN. Please tell us why you would be a good match for this internship. Attaching your resume is optional.

hydrarchist writes this from the cover page of the pamphlet P2P Fightsharing produced by the WSIS We Seize! group in Rome.

Seizing -- You Can't Beat the Feeling!

The WSIS positions itself as an opportunity to develop a common vision of an 'information society' and bundles with it a series of promises; a just world; more transparent government; bridging of digital divides. An examination of the material propositions, trade agreeement (WTO, FTAA) realpolitik, and the positions of market dominance and social misery left untouched, and unmentioned, tell a different story.

As communications networks spread information becomes central to both production and the organization of social institutions. But rather than making life easier, informationalization supplements and intensifies production and labor. Spiralling demand for productivity imposes close-quarters labor surveillance; dockers’ movements tracked as they move palettes around a warehouse; the waitress whose orders are memorized and who must balance her float exactly at the end of the shift; the temporary worker assigned to a new data entry office or call center every couple of days. Benefits of digitalization accrue principally to those who have the capital resources and power to capture them, and the fight over the laws regulating the digital sphere is a struggle over the destination of this wealth between global regions and social classes.

"Babylon Archive"

A found-footage compilation examining the interplay between technology, militarism, and corporate propaganda in American culture.

Produced by UFO (Unknown Frame Observatory, Barcelona)

Screening at ABC No Rio

Thursday, December 18 at 8:00pm

Followed by Craig Baldwin's found-footage masterpiece of underground agitprop:
"Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America"

--$5--Proceeds to benefit the ABC No Rio Computer Center.

ABC No Rio

156 Rivington Street

(between Clinton & Suffolk)

NYC

http://www.abcnorio.org

Anonymous Comrade writes:

" 'Information' Double-Issue of Greenpepper Magazine:

Launch at Polymedia Lab"

Greenpepper Editorial Collectif

An anonymous coward writes:

"High Noon"

A Call by Geneva03 Initiative!

1 Towards High Noon
In recent years media activism has evolved globally from local pirate radios, video activist groups and paper zines into complex networks of alliances that use ICT to bridge the physical gap in txt, visual and sonic media, as well as those of distance and feasibility. Some of these networks (like Indymedia) have showed the way for others how to structure the information aggregation and dissemination process.

Mama APOC writes:

APOC Zine Call for Submissions
 
Fifty years ago, Ella Baker said: “Strong people don’t need leaders.” This sentiment is being expressed on the streets of New York, Philadelphia, Durban, Caracas, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Seattle and Michigan. Within this growing anti-authoritarian movement has been the emergence of diverse voices of people of color. Coming off the recent APOC Conference in Detroit, and the follow-up meetings of APOC-NYC, we recognize the need for a space for anti-authoritarian POCs to share ideas, experiences, analyses and creative expressions.

Thus, we are putting together a zine of writings, art, and anything creative or even helpful by anti-authoritarian POCs on the East Coast. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* anti-racism
* environmental justice/sustainable communities
* gender identity
* sexuality
* racism and sexism within activist movements
* day-to-day survivals (when you feel like you’re not contributing anything to the “movement”, but actually are fighting – daily resistance to those exercising power over you)
* how-to practical guides (anything from navigating social bureaucracies to fixing a bike to cheap, healthy cooking)
* global movements of resistance

 
Suggested Guidelines: Prose pieces should be in the range of 250-1000 words. Poetry is welcome as well, as is artwork (which includes drawings, photographs and cartoons). If you send stuff by snail mail and you want it returned, you must send a SASE!! Otherwise, it will become part of our personal collections J. Please send submissions by e-mail to apoczine@aol.com. Snail mail address also available. Please e-mail us to get it."