The city from below: call for participation March 27th-29th, 2009 Baltimore http://cityfrombelow.org The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it's a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and, most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater. In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being, hidden histories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink the city from below. To that end, a group of activists and organizers, including Red Emma's, the Indypendent Reader, campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in Baltimore during the weekend of March 27,28,29, 2009 at 2640, a grassroots community center and events venue.

Support the Strike at York University Starting Nov 6, 2008, CUPE 3903, the union representing contract faculty, teaching and research assistants at York University in Toronto, Canada, went on an all-out legal strike. Significant issues include wage increase corresponding with cost of living increase, funding guarantees for graduate students (who also form significant number of workers at York U), improved working conditions (which mean improved learning conditions for students), and job security for contract faculty (some of whom have been teaching for several years on a sessional basis, carrying 1.5-2 times the load of the permanent faculty at 50-75% of the cost for YorkU). Find a summary of all outstanding issues at http://cupe3903.tao.ca.

Global day of action November 15th 2008 Call Resisting Capitalism and it ' Financial and Ecological ' crises during the G20 richest nations summit. Other worlds are possible - A Grassroots Anti-Capitalist call for action. On November 15, the G20 richest nations will convene in Washington to try to put the financial meltdown behind them and repair the international capitalist system. The factories continue to be closed, jobs cut, pensions destroyed, houses evicted, unemployment rises, uncertaintity, horrible anti-immigrant measures are pushed for by right-wingers, homelessness increase, relationships break down and food and basic housing spiral beyond the reach of the poor the world over while the environment around us collapses. We are living through a profound period of rapid and terrifying change, an intensification of the long crisis that is capitalism and this time the meltdown really is global. Even conservative media and staunch economic-rationalists are saying this could be the worst since the great depression... and they are trying to re-organise a Bretton Woods II project for a new capitalism. World over there is direct action and civil disobedience resistance taking many forms and proposals of many types circulating as always and now with new consideration given the cost we will be asked to pay to bail-out this rotten system - food riots, strikes for wage increases and backpay of stolen wages, price reduction campaigns, radical discussions on the crises, fuel protests,the sharing of radical everyday strategies for living in hard times, looting of supermarkets, as yet sporadic but hopefully growing resistance to evictions, sit-downs, protests at financial institutions and districts are spreading, thousands of the italian universities occupation movements saying " we will not pay for your crisis. " As the money and environmental crises intensify so too hopefully the struggles, with this as the stage we offer a humble proposal for this global day of action against capital, the G20 - hoping to see another thread of struggle emerge.

Caucus for a New Political Science Issues Statement, Defends Rashid Khalidi Nicholas Kiersey EMAIL: kiersey@ohio.edu WEB: http://www.apsanet.org/~new/ STATEMENT: http://homepage.mac.com/thenervousfishdown/files/khalidi.html PHONE: (740) 466-5799 The Caucus for a New Political Science issued a statement today condemning recent efforts by John McCain and Sarah Palin to impugn the integrity of Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Founded at the American Political Science Association’s 1967 annual meeting in Chicago, the Caucus is the oldest organized grouping of progressive political scientists in the United States. The Caucus is united by the idea that Political Science as an academic discipline should be committed to advancing progressive political development. Today’s statement follows below.

Journal of Aesthetics & Protest issue #6, theory in 3 acts Over 300 pages of Contemporary action and thought. check out the website -http://www.joaap.org/6/index.html get a copy -http://www.joaap.org/6/issue6.htm An Atlas of Radical Cartography and others available for purchase here -http://www.joaap.org/press.htm -------------

Micropolitics Autumn 08 The Sensible At Work Micropolitics Mondays Beginning 13 October 6:30 PM Housman's Bookshop, 2nd floor 5 Caledonian Road Kings Cross London N1 9DX http://micropolitics.wordpress.com Building on lessons learned from past visitors, Suely Rolnik, Brian Holmes and Franco Berardi, this year, the Micropolitics group will take it slowly. Departing from our drifts, narratives and fables of our experience of Post-Fordist life and labour, we will elaborate concepts from what Suely Rolnik calls the ‘sensible mutations’ found within our current regimes of value production. How do provoke frictions and counter-conducts, structures of support, and other forms of value, for ourselves and with others? How might we intervene into the formats and processes that manage expectations, relationships, the production of knowledge and social care? Part seminar, part analytic support group, micropolitics will meet on the second Monday of each month.

"Worse than They Want You to Think: A Marxist Analysis of the Economic Crisis" A Talk by Andrew Kliman The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education) Tuesday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. In their haste to promote redistributive policies and demonize the greed and corruption of Wall Street––and in their desire to avoid advocating a liberatory alternative to capitalism––liberals and leftists have sought to downplay the severity of the current economic crisis. In contrast, Kliman will argue that the crisis is every bit as serious and acute as the fear-mongering financial analysts and officials at the Treasury and Federal Reserve say it is. If the $800 billion rescue plan does not quickly restore lenders’ confidence in the system, the flow of credit may stop, causing the real economy, in the U.S. and abroad, to seize up. Income redistribution, infrastructure investment, financial regulation, and legal protections against foreclosures are not alternatives to the Wall Street bailout. The only alternative is a new, human, socio-economic system.

Call for participation TURN*ON Artivistic 2009 (Fall) Montreal, Canada http://artivistic.org The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and freedom. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply irresistible. New movements are arising at the intersections of sex, politics and technology. These movements are inspired by, as well as critical of, the long traditions of struggle they stem from, remixing gender bending, sex work (and play), and media activism. From body hacking to the implosion of the service economy, where are we today and what new possibilities can we envision and nurture? For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. Discussing, questioning, and imagining the past, present, future, and infinite possibilities of sex. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently.

*Commonplaces of Transition* Screening and talk by Joanne Richardson, D Media, Romania Wed, 24 Sept, 7pm - 9pm Mute, Main Hall, The Whitechapel Center, 85 Myrdle Street, London E1 *Films* In Transit (30 min, 2008) Precarious Lives (excerpt, 43 min, 2008) Two or Three Things about Activism (excerpt, 73 min, 2008) On the following night 'Two or Three Things about Activism' will be screened at RampArt, see http://therampart.wordpress.com/ Commonplaces of Transition is a collaborative project between D Media (Romania), Ak-Kraak (Germany), Interspace (Bulgaria) and K:SAK (Moldova) that has produced 8 videos about the remapping of borders, the transformation of labour and the evolution of activism. Joanne Richardson will screen In Transit (30 min, 2008), Precarious Lives (excerpt, 43 min, 2008) and Two or Three Things about Activism (excerpt, 73 min, 2008), and discuss the connection of the project to video activism and counter-documentary. 'In Transit' is a diary of a journey through space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present, childhood memories and recycled fragments of the past. While traveling across Romania in the year of its EU accession, the monologue reflects on the meaning of transition, the re-writing of history and the relation between images and memory. Multiple layers of signification emerge in references other films by Guy Debord, Chris Marker and Peter Forgacs. Joanne Richardson is living and working in Cluj as a theorist, artist and program director of D Media ( http://www.dmedia.ro ). She is the editor of a webzine ( http://subsol.c3.hu ) and two books on digital culture, has written essays on the radical left, video activism, tactical media, copyleft and has made videos on issues ranging from globalization, to nationalism and postcommunism.

"From the Edge of the Blade" New Documentary on Oaxaca On June 14th 2006, when police forces attacked thousands of striking teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, the annual strike turned into a widespread popular rebellion, demanding the governors' resignation. A broad social movement of teachers, social organizations, unions, students, activists, and indigenous communities took over the city in an effort to change the devastating conditions imposed on them by international trade agreements and corrupt politicians. To watch a preview, and for more info, go to http://www.trickleupfilms.org. "From the Edge of the Blade" tells the story about the 2006 popular uprising in Oaxaca, as put by some of the teachers, activists, workers, students, human rights workers, tortured and imprisoned. Do you want to arrange a screening? I can help! Send an email to contact@trickleupfilms.org.