Please submit your own comments on the last year, remedy the gaping holes in the review of events, other signioficant deaths, favourite article, books etc. whatever, alcoholic existential ramblings....

"Instead of an Almanac..."

Hydrarchist

Okay so this is addressed to you, and that means:

sho, lunacharsky, malatesta, pde, olly abbot, A cheeba, Daaaaih Looong, mobiustrip, pvh, tiliting, NMPW, antiproperty mxyzptlk, sark han T, nolympics, ducasse, praxcologer, MRGIMP, worldrevolt, shoplift, billydub, dureevital, mr oblivion, albamuth, mobiustrip44, grumpy, who have made comments when logged in as well AWM, Phuq Hedd and Chuck0 who never log-in but always sign their contributions. Also for La Citta Invisibile and Rekombinant who run RSS boxes to our headlines.

Here's the stats: there were 845 stories and 545 comments. So the difficulty in being participatory, rather than modelled on a traditional broadcast model, is plain. The following panoramic view of the site's activity makes no claim to cover all of the salient events of the year; many things are missing, notably commentary on the US's financial scandals, news from the social and economic earthquakes of Uruguay and Brazil, and commentary that would do justice to the fight in Israel-Palestine, just to name a few. In fact, the value of this summary lies in the lacunae revealed. Nonetheless it reflects the interests of the site's administrators and users, mirrored in the subject matter of the popular stories posted, those which generated discussion (still all too few) and those that decisively more readers than the rest.

Earth First! Journal collective writes:

The Earth First! Journal is seeking out photographs and images in digital, paint, sketch and other formats for use in our radical environmental magazine. The Journal has a readership of around 10,000 and is distributed many places all over North America and around the world.

edmar writes

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:: Digital Arts Convergence :: March 26-30 2003 :: Chicago :: Technotopia vs Technopacalypse ::::
exploring the multitudes of technology, society, arts, activism and culture ::
Co-presented by Select Media and the Museum of Contemporary Art

For its second annual
festival of digital media arts, the MCA and Select Media
examine two forceful trends, Globalization (the merging
of economies) and Singularity (the adaptation of man to
machine), as seen, created, and debated by programmers,
artists, scientists, activists and critical thinkers.
The five-day festival, Technotopia vs. Technopacalypse,
brings together emerging and leading practitioners employing
or responding to the latest advancements in virtual reality,
robotics, biotech, and other such technology defining
our time. The roster featured in concerts, films, installation
labs, workshops, and panel discussions consists of proponents
as well as critics of the latest developments.

Anonymous Comrade writes

"The Jacob and Bessye Blaufarb Award for Video Tape Productions Relating
to the American Labor Movement.

The Jacob and Bessye Blaufarb Videotape Library of the American Labor
Movement was established at New York University in 1981 to preserve the
memories of the American labor movement. It always been closely
associated with the Tamiment Library and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
It is housed in the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.

daybrea anarchist collective writes "Write for Daybreak! #4!

Tentative Deadline: Jan 15 2003

Daybreak! is a completely volunteer-run midwestern anarchist newspaper. In order for us to keep publishing we need for you to provide articles and art that people want to look at. We've chosen not to be just another newspaper filled with theoretical gobbley-gook or radical posturing, but one that provides inspiring and useful news and information to people both in and outside radical communities. Send us local and international news, art, information, DIY, Reviews, Letters, art, comics, exciting history, fun stuff etc! Send us SOMETHING, if you don't who will?

This issue is partly focused on the twin evils of work and school (though lots of other things will be included). We're looking particularly for short (paragraph) accounts of ways that people have resisted, sabotaged, or fucked with their work or school for our column, When Wage Slaves Attack.

We prefer the articles be sent to our email with a contact address or number, and only edit for length and with writers approval. On a side note distributors in infoshops or distros in the US should get ahold of us to get copies of the next issue, and we highly suggest individual Midwesterners to get their shit together and hand them out to your friends and neighbors.

Daybreak PO Box 14007 MINNEAPOLIS MN 55404

www.freespeech.org/mn/daybreak

daybreak@tao.ca"

Bryan Smith writes:

FCC Agents Raid Berkeley Liberation Radio!

Protest Rally at the Oakland Federal Building

1301 Clay Street, on Wednesday, December 18 at noon!

On the morning of December 11, 2002, agents of the Federal Communications Commision confiscated the broadcast equipment of Berkeley Liberation Radio 104.1 FM. Using a little known legal tactic, the FCC acquired an arrest warrant for the transmitting devices. "This is a free speech issue and the FCC is trying to prevent us from exercising our First Amendment right," said Bryan Smith (BPM Smith), a Berkeley Liberation Radio DJ. "If more people ran radio stations without their endorsement then the FCC would lose power. That makes them attack us but the FCC cannot govern us and they cannot extort money from us by way of fines."

Anonymous Comrade writes:"This important discussion going on at Infoshop.org at the moment. The link at the bottom will take you there.

The Sad Decline of Indymedia

by Chuck0

for Infoshop News

It was a great idea when the Independent Media Center opened up its first website for the Seattle anti-WTO protests in December 1999. The first IMC website came out of years of alternative and grassroots media activism. By a strange quirk of fate, the Seattle IMC also included something called the "open newswire," an experiment that allowed every reader to be a reporter, if they wanted to get involved in DIY, participatory media production. The IMC network recently observed its 3rd anniversary and the 100th IMC went online, but the IMC project is facing some serious problems which, if they aren't addressed by the supporters of the IMC network, will eventually destroy the wonderful idea that is Indymedia.

There are some that would argue that the Indymedia network needs a stronger organization to address its current and persistent problems. This may be somewhat true, but those of us who have pressed for reforms find ourselves at the mercy of a network of people who are afraid to step forward and make tough decisions. It might help if there were some more organized processes, but I see the chief problem with Indymedia these days to be a political one, not an organizational or technical problem.

Read the rest of this article."

Anonymous Comrade writes: Call For Papers for

disClosure: A journal of Social Theory

Issue #13: Pangaea

Many scientists have come to accept Alfred Wegener's continental drift theory that, 200 million years ago, the continents of the Earth were connected, forming one super-continent, Pangaea. Today, theories of globalization address the arrival of new forms of transcontinental connections through the development of technologies, social and political practices, Capital, global human and environmental epidemics, etc. This issue of disClosure seeks submissions exploring the ways that distances between global spaces are collapsing, contracting, spreading, fracturing, suturing, unifying, and subducting through developments in social life.

Challenge Magazine writes "CHALLENGE http://www.hanitzotz.com/challenge/index.html
is a bi-monthly leftist magazine focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict within a global context. Published in Jaffa by Arabs and Jews, it
features political analysis, investigative reporting, interviews,
eye-witness reports, gender studies, arts, and more.

South Asia Citizens Web writes:

""The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva"
By Sabrang Communications (India)

and South Asia Citizens Web (France)

20 November 2002

A detailed investigative report on the use of American corporate funds by the US-based India Development and Relief Fund to promote the projects of Hindu supremacist groups in India.