Hi folks,

Just wanted to let you know that the following essays have been
reprinted and are now available to download as pdfs from the
Zabalaza Books site:

Several South African anarchist projects -- Bikisha Media
Collective (BMC), Zabalaza Books (ZB) and the Zabalaza
Action Group (ZAG, formerly the Anarchist Union) -- have
signed up as members of the new anarchist network
International Libertarian Solidarity (ILS) of which the
following organisations are also a part: Al Abdil al Taharouri
(AAT, Lebanon), Alternative Libertaire (AL, France &
Belgium), Confederacion General del Trabajo (CGT, Spain),
Organisasion Communiste Libertaire (OCL, France), RÈseau
No Pasaran (France), Consejo IndÌgena Popular de Oaxaca --
"Ricardo Flores Magon" (CIP-RFM, Mexico), Confederation
Nationale du Travail -- "Vignoles" (CNT-V, France), Federacio
Anarquista Ga?cha (FAG, Brazil), Federacion Anarquista
Uruguaya (FAU, Uruguay), Marmitag (Greece), Organizace
RevolucnÌch Anarchistu-Solidarita (ORA-S, Czech Republic),
Organizacion Socialista Libertaria (OSL, Argentina),
Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (OSL, Switzerland), Sveriges
Arbetares Centralorganisation (SAC, Sweden), and the
Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM, Ireland).

Other groups that support the ISL are the Industrial Workers of
the World (IWW, international), Anacho-Sindico (India), the
North-Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC,
Canada & the USA), Sibirskaya Konfederatsia Truda (SKT,
Russia) and Unione Sindacale Italiana -- "Roma" (USI-R, Italy).

A statement from the Muslim Liberation Movement

This email is being sent to progressive organizations throughout the United

States, as a part of our ongoing effort to build bridges between the
Muslim
Community and progressive elements in the US. We encourage all of those
who read
our statement, and agree with its principals to endorse this statement
by
sending us an email.

The MLM publishes two publications bi-monthly, "The Liberator",
alongside with
"The CAU$E" (Committee Against U$ Empire), which is a coalition
organization
dedicated to bringing anti-imperialists of all stripes together. We also
publish "Tahreer", which is a publication dealing more with issues in
the
Muslim community.

COLOMBIA DEMANDS JUSTICE / COLOMBIA CLAMA JUSTICIA

ANNOUNCES THE
ACTIVIST DELEGATION IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA

DECEMBER 2-7, 2002

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA

Colombia is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a
social activist. Targeted by right-wing paramilitary groups who work
hand-in-hand with sectors of the Colombian army and government,
unionists, human rights defenders, and womenís rights activists are
forced to organize under threat of forced displacement, kidnapping,
torture, and death. Trade unionists in particular are under
fireóover 3,800 union members have been killed since 1986, with 116
of those murders taking place since the beginning of 2002.

Despite the intimidation these courageous activists face, their
struggles against war and neo-liberalism continue. Earlier this
year, union workers in Cali and their allies occupied the municipal
services building in a successful attempt to stop the IMF-mandated
privatization of water, electricity, and other public services. And
the Coca-Cola workers' union SINALTRAINAL has recently launched an
international campaign and a lawsuit against the American
multinational to stop its murderous policy of using paramilitaries to
intimidate and kill union members.

Net/Work/Theory

Internet Research 3.0:

Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 13-16 2002

The Internet has become an integral, ubiquitous part of everyday life
in many social domains and international contexts. Yet, most of the
public attention on cyberspace remains fueled by utopian or dystopian
visions, rather than being informed by the growing body of research
on the Internet as a complex fact of modern life.

Internet Research (IR) 3.0, an international and interdisciplinary
conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R.),
will feature a variety of perspectives on Internet research, in order
to develop a better theoretical and pragmatic understanding of the
Internet. Building on the previous well-attended international
conferences, the IR 3.0 will bring together prominent scholars,
researchers, and practitioners from many disciplines, fields and
countries for a program of presentations, panel discussions, and
informal exchanges.

This year's theme is Net/Work/Theory. Contributors are called to
reflect on how to theorize what we know about the Internet and on how
to apply what we know theoretically in practice. The conference will
be held for the first time in Europe, whose intellectual environments
have traditionally been a source of social and cultural theory.

IR 3.0 will be hosted by the International Institute of Infonomics in
the beautiful city of Maastricht in the Netherlands. As the city in
which one of the key treaties of the European Union was signed,
Maastricht also symbolizes a changing Europe in a changing
international setting. The conference will provide opportunities to
network, learn from other researchers, hear from leading players in
Internet development, and enjoy the "art of fine living" of
Maastricht, in the south of the Netherlands.

The full program: aoir

A Temporary Media Laboratory for Tactical Media

@ Imagine IC in Amsterdam Southeast

September 12–22, 2002

Opening Program: Thursday September 12 18.00 hrs

Imagine IC - Bijlmerplein 1006 - 1008 Amsterdam

Full Program and Workshop descriptions can be found on the Next 5 Minutes
website:
n5m

Website Imagine IC

imagine

Imagine IC, the new centre for the visual representation of migration and
cultures, is the location for a temporary public media laboratory from
September 12th till 22nd. Open at all times to the wider audience, artists,
campaigners, local and international media makers and activists will develop
and discuss their work for 10 days, hold workshops with local media groups,
present examples, realise live media programs on-line and via radio and tv,
and
execute various projects. This Tactical Media Laboratory (short: TML) will
be
the first of an international series of TMLs, organised in various cities,
and
on different continents.

KOP: "Kingdom of Piracy"


KOP is an online open workspace that explores piracy as the net's ultimate art form. The project includes links, objects, ideas, software, commissioned artists' projects, critical writing and online streaming media events. It is intended as an open-ended online exhibition; artists and authors will remain sole copyright owners of their works.


Co-Curators: Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch, Yukiko Shikata

Project producer: Ray Wang; Project coordinator: Mia Chen



kop

http://211.73.224.150

Join the Growing Protest at Joint Session of US Congress on Wall St.

A joint session of Congress will convene Friday, September 6, 2002, 11:00 a.m., at the Sub-Treasury Building at Wall and Broad Streets, in a hyperpatriotic war rally, in the name of "solidarity with New York".



Groups opposed to the lockstep frenzy will get together at the SI
ferry terminal on the southern tip of Manhattan, at 10:00 a.m., and then see how close we can get , with or without a permit under current negotiation.



This is the same Congress that passed the draconian "USA PATRIOT" Act, an unconstitutional statute which declares the repeal of the Bill of Rights, and which follows the 1996 Anti-Terrorism act and various omnibus "crime" bills, along with a series of fascist executive orders and court decisions, which are giant steps toward fascism.



The central theme will be opposition to Bush's war, particularly the developing Iraq attack. The war hysteria cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.



Pledges of participation and have already united groups as diverse as Another World is Possible (NYC), the Greens (including NY Governor candidate Stanley Aronowitz, and the International Action Center. The list is growing, and hopefully will include YOU!

9/11 Muckraking Journalist Michael Ruppert

to speak in
New York City

Saturday, Sept. 7th, 6:30 pm

New School for Social Research's Tishman Auditorium

66 West 12th Street between 5th & 6th Ave., Manhattan.

Ticket prices: $15 or $10 with validated student ID

and in New Jersey on

Sunday, Sept. 8th , 2 pm - 7 pm

Shea Center for the Performing Arts (capacity 900)

William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ (30 minutes from Manhattan).

Directions are available at ww2.wpunj.edu/aboutus/directions.cfm.

Ticket prices: $10 or $7 with validated student ID

For more event information contact:

1-877-867-5901

FTW@ureach.com

Mike Jay writes

The Institute of Ideas and the British Library present:

Trading Thoughts

The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

Date: 14 September, 2002 Time: 1.30pm - 5.00pm

Tickets: £15.00 (concessions including IoI Associates, £12.00) - includes
afternoon tea or coffee

Booking: Telephone 020 7412 7332 or email
boxoffice@bl.uk

An afternoon conference on the legacy and future of global trade. With the
Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development drawing to a close
Trading Thoughts, on Saturday 14th September, will be an opportunity to
examine and debate changing attitudes towards development.