crudo writes:

Modesto Anarcho #1 Out Now

Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians,

"Modesto Anarcho" is a new journal produced by the Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians (DAAA) Collective, based out of Modesto, CA in the Central Valley.

The goal of the journal is to document, analyze, and give spotlight to the autonomous social struggles in the area, as well as organizing work that the collective is engaging in. The journal is also meant to be tool of propaganda, to show young people and those interested in working on local projects what is going on in the city. We are looking to get the journal out to outside collectives, (especially those in California), as well as info shops, individuals, bookstores, and various other anarchist/anti-authoritarian groupings. Some of the articles have already been posted online, and more will be posted as time goes on.

Also included in this post after the ordering information, is the introduction to the journal — enjoy!

CALL FOR PAPERS, COLLABORATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS: AESTHETICS AND
RADICAL POLITICS

Fri 2nd Feb 2007, University of Manchester

There has always been a strong connection historically between
aesthetics and radical politics, and this is no less true for the
global justice movement's current preoccupation with cultural
approaches to political action. This conference seeks to bring
radical artists, activists, theorists and academics together to
discuss past and present convergences between the theories and
practices of artists and writers and the theories and practices of
movements for radical social change.

There is already a massive amount of literature on Marxist
approaches to aesthetics, art and literature, and whilst we welcome
papers engaging with such approaches, we would also encourage
presentations and discussions that address these issues from other
radical critical positions - whether they be anarchist, autonomist,
ecological or otherwise. Such perspectives have often been
overlooked historically, but it is arguable that they now more
centrally influence the activities of radical artists and
activists.

The event will be defined by those who participate. What would you
like to see happen? What kind of discussions do you think are
important? Would you like to present a paper, facilitate a
discussion, propose a panel presentation, organise a workshop or
contribute in other ways?

CONFLUX 2006

September 14 - 17, 2006 . Brooklyn




Conflux is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets. At Conflux, the city becomes a playground, a nomadic laboratory and a space for the development of creative communities.

Currently in its third year, Conflux will take place September 14 - 17th in Brooklyn. Over 80 artists from across the US and countries including Canada, UK, Spain, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Australia will come to Williamsburg to present projects including experimental walking, biking, boat and public-transport tours; street games and tech workshops; mobile broadcasts, performances and temporary installations.

New York City IWW Internship Description

Position: Union Organizer

What is The New York City IWW?

The New York City IWW is one of many rejuvenated
branches of the Industrial Workers of the World. The IWW is a grassroots union that places
emphasis on union democracy and direct action. In
NYC we are currently organizing in sectors of the
economy where few unions are daring to go.

The IWW is forging new ground among retail workers.
Under the principles of solidarity unionism we are
organizing workers at Starbucks. Through direct
action we have been able to raise wages, get
consistent schedules, receive guaranteed hours and
address individual grievances. As Starbucks attempts
to silence workers by firing organizers our union
continues to grow.

In Brooklyn the IWW in conjunction with Make the Road
by Walking is currently organizing among undocumented
warehouse workers. Workers who have been receiving
less than the minimum wage are standing up for better
conditions. Although employers have put fierce
opposition towards the union we have made several
gains and are currently in negotiations.

Paolo writes:

"Ctrl-Alt-Del" Sticker Art Project

Organization for the Liberation of the Pixel

I invite everyone to see and join the "CTRL–ALT–DEL" Art Project.
It is a sticker-art collective project that has recently won the first prize at Memefest 2006, International Festival of Radical Communication in Ljubljana.
You can find it on the web here.

Please help me to shutdown the system!!

Short Description

Press Ctrl Alt Del (Canc in Italy) to reboot the system.
This is a political street-sticker action made up of four stickers attached to any location within a city.
To reboot the system you don't need ancient ideologies or violent revolutions,but you just have to press the three keys together !!

Unfortunately, alone you can't do it, because of the distance between them.

I invite all of you to print the three keys images (in A3 or A4 size )as well as the image "press ctrl-alt-del to reboot the system" and to affix them on a building or location of your choice.Please keeep the original proportions and distance (as the image shows).

Photograph it and please send me an image of your intervention to be published on line. Together, these images of urban intervention will become a collective call to reboot the system.

Organization for the Liberation of the Pixel
olp@virgilio.it

Ben_Meyers writes:

Massive Autonomedia Booksale
Through September 1, 2006

Autonomedia

Autonomedia — the host of the Interactivist Info Exchange — is having a fundraising and shelf-clearing warehouse sale. Nearly every Autonomedia title in the bookstore is discounted from 20–70%, in an effort to clear out some stock and generate some cash to pay the printers for our upcoming season of new titles. There are many, many hidden gems in our warehouse, and we're eager to use this sale to move them into your hands.

Some examples:


"This World We Must Leave," a collection of essays from the challenging ultra-leftist French/Italian writer Jacques Camatte, for less than $5.

"Lab U.S.A.," an illustrated investigation into racially and authoritarian motivated science, by World War 3 Illustrated artist Kevin Pyle. $7.18 (was $18).

"The Anarchists," by John Henry Mackay, a great novel set in Victorian London at the time of the Haymarket riots. This book was originally published in 1891, and reissued by Autonomedia just over a century later, and it's under-read, to say the least. It's great! And we've got it on sale for $6 and change!

And there are many more. Go to the Autonomedia Bookstore for a full list of Autonomedia books, and please consider picking up something you haven't heard of, and maybe another copy of a favorite book as a gift, or a charged object to be left in a public place...

Call for Submissions
Please Post Widely

Advertising Anarchism:
The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Propaganda


For some, the word “propaganda” elicits fear. For others, it suggests a musty sort of nostalgia for the early part of the twentieth century when anarchists and revolutionaries used it to promote alternative visions of social organization. With the rise of advertising and government agencies entirely devoted to shaping public opinion, “propaganda” took on frightening connotations of manipulation and deceit.


With state and corporate appropriation of propaganda, anarchists and revolutionaries shied away from rhetorically superior forms of persuasion. The anti-authoritarian impulse to shun all forms of coercion is fraught with an obvious problem. How can anti-authoritarians persuade their audiences of the virtues of their visions of social transformation without resorting to tried rhetorical methods often dismissed as “propagandistic?”

By negating strategies of advertising, branding, and propaganda, anarchists and revolutionaries have often failed to successfully create winning campaigns in the marketplace of ideas. The sad result is that by waging poorly conceived campaigns, anti-authoritarians have defeated their visions before communicating them to the public at large. Without a viable communication and public relations strategy, anarchism has turned into an anachronism.


In an effort to remedy this perilous defeatism, artists, activists, propagandists, historians, technologists, psychologists, theorists, and cultural critics are hereby invited to submit essays for an upcoming anthology tentatively titled: Advertising Anarchism:The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Propaganda. Starting with the premise that anarchists do have something valuable to communicate, many provocative and vital questions emerge.

Socialism of the Twenty-First Century International Internet Institute

Dear colleagues and friends,

We are currently seeking to establish a project to be called the Socialism
of the Twenty-First Century International Internet Institute. While we are
aware that you are heavily burdened with academic work and other
commitments, we ask you to lend your attention to this initiative.

In Russia and other “former socialist” countries, socialist scholars are
working to develop the ideas of creative Marxism. Although many of these
scholars have impressive theoretical backgrounds, they are almost totally
isolated from world developments in socialist theory. At the same time,
socialist scholars in other countries have very little information about the
studies undertaken by both Soviet and post-Soviet creative Marxists.

July 26th 2006 Communiqué from the Intergalactic Commission of the EZLN
Translation El Kilombo Intergalactico

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION

MEXICO

July, 2006

Compañeros and compañeras adherents of the Zezta Internazional,
Brother and Sisters of Planet Earth:

This is Insurgent Lieutenant Colonel Moisés writing to share with you the results of more than seven months of consultation on the next Intergalactic Encounter. As we said in our November 2005 communiqué, the objective, the idea that is, of the Intergalactic is that it is really up to all of you to determine how we organize this Encounter.

We truly want all adherents to participate in its organization, that the Intergalactic not be a decision of the EZLN. In the seven months of consultation that have passed since December 1st, 2005, there have been preparatory meetings in different countries, as well as cybernetic consultations. From these meetings we have received proposals for the Intercontinental, on themes to be discussed as well as the date and place for the Encounter.

Like we said above, here we want to report on how the consultations have gone up until now, and the proposals and discussions that have come up. You should let us know if we are missing something and what it is that we are missing. We will be here working, and waiting for your input.

Our opinion is that we continue with more discussion and more proposals. We think it is necessary to continue thinking and accumulating ideas before coming together at the Encounter, seeing as it’s a fact that we’re going to have the Intergalactic, and that it will belong to all of us that create it.

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