Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Update

Happy New Year! 2006 promises to be a great year for Cirkus spectacle.
This update includes:

* Annual Bindlestiff Family Cirkus New York City Winter Cabaret Season in Brooklyn. Fridays in March and April 2006.

* Bindlestiff's Cavalcade of Youth at Abrons Art Center, Manhattan. March 26 and April 2, 2006.

* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Makor, Manhattan. March 19, 2006

* No Applause, Just Throw Money Book Release events featuring Bindlestiffs. March 2006.

* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, in Association with Magic Hat Brewing Company, summer tour, Eastern United States.

* Seeking Young Variety Acts, under 21 years of age, for Cavalcade of Youth

* Seeking acts for 2006 Winter Cabaret
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* Seeking venues for summer tour. Bring the Cirkus to your town.

* Volunteer and/or intern with the Cirkus

* Bindlestiff Family Cirkus documentary featuring the first ten years of Bindlestiff. Produced by Alan Plotkin.

* Help Support the Variety Arts

Anarchisms Research Group

New York City, Feb. 2, 2006

When: Thursday, Feb. 2nd, 2006 at 6 PM

Where: City University of New York Graduate Center,
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City.
Room 6112, the Sociology Department Lounge on the sixth floor. Directions and maps available here.

CUNY students call for the formation of a new student group to pursue interests in anarchist thought, and to advance its legitimacy in the academy. The new student group, which is applying for incorporation by the Doctoral Student Council at the Graduate Center, has three proposed aims:

1. To promote the analysis of the history, plurality, and trajectory of anarchism as a theory and practice.

2. To facilitate the development of anarchist research and theory at CUNY and in the academy at large.

3. And to promote the study and teaching of anarchism within CUNY and the academy at large.

For more information, please contact anarchisms-request@lists.riseup.net

National Call-in Day to Repair the USA PATRIOT Act

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Thank you for all your calls and visits to Congress, your resolutions, and your other actions to defend civil liberties. In December, a bipartisan group of senators stopped a bill that would have reauthorized expiring PATRIOT Act provisions from coming to a vote because it failed to safeguard essential civil liberties. In anticipation of the new February 3 deadline for the PATRIOT Act's reauthorization, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee has designated January 25, 2006, as National PATRIOT Act Call-In Day. Dozens of other organizations are joining us (see below).

US Coordination for Zapatista "Otros" Campaign

Hola Compañer@s,

This is a call to those in resistance, especially
the Youth:
We are organizing in solidarity with the Zapatista
Movement and their
"Other Campaign." The idea is to have events
throughout the US (but not
limited to) on the same date.

The proposed date is Saturday April 22nd, 2006,
during this time the
"Other Campaign" tour will be in Mexico City. With
this date we should
have enough time to work on our own events in our
respective communities.
There is space for different ideas and proposals,
just make sure to
integrate the work load and short time we have.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Proposal: Freedom of Movement
A North American No Border Network

Through our work we have met some amazing sisters and brothers in struggle in Mexico, Canada, the United States and all across the world. We have begun to learn about each other and as a result, learn more about other groups and struggles emanating from what we believe to be similar and related causes...

We are therefore proposing the creation of a no border activist network between groups in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. We have taken only a few steps toward the realization of this network. This is obviously a huge and complex endeavor, so our goal is to place enough tangible information before you so that many aspects can be developed more collectively and organically...

"Hack the Knowledge" Lab

Technology, Creativity, Social Organization

Lancaster, England, Feb. 3–5, 2006

A Weekend Gathering For Collaborative and Creative Reflection

Lancaster University (Institute for Advanced
Studies)
North West England.

1. WHAT IS THE KNOWLEDGE LAB?

The Knowledge Lab is an attempt to provide a collective space for
anti-capitalist reflection. It is located at the margin of the
university, an institution essentially geared towards the production
of knowledge as a resource for corporate interest and as justification
for particular constellations of power relations.
The Knowledge Lab is hence also an attempt to claim back some of the
university's space, resources and know-how from the military-industrial
complex and make them available for people concerned about and working
against the status quo of unceasing commodification, exploitation, war,
and biospherical destruction.

Radia.FM Launch

The Radia Network is pleased to announce the launch of its new website!
Developed in cooperation with Radio.territories, the website evolved from
the best of Europe's artist run, free cultural, & community radios. The
site hosts information about radio praxis, projects and software.

The growing network of cultural radios consists of:
Radio Campus Bruxelles; Radio Cult, Sofia; Radio Grenouille, Marseille;
Kanal 103, Skopje; Kunstradio, Vienna; Radio Orange, Vienna;
Radioswap, Bruxelles; Reboot.fm, Berlin; Resonance104.4fm, London; Riist,
Lisbon; Tilos Radio, Budapest.

The Radia Network emerged from a series of meetings, clandestine events,
late night club discussions and a lot of email exchanges between cultural
radio producers across Europe. The topics vary and the reasons for forming
a network are many, but Radia has become a concrete manifestation of the
desire to use radio as an art form.

The approaches differ, as do the local
contexts; from commissioned radio art works to struggles for frequencies
to copyright concerns, all the radios share the goal of an audio space
where something different can happen. That different is also a form in the
making — radio sounds different in each city, on each frequency. Taking
radio as an art form, claiming that space for creative production in the
mediascape and cracking apart the notion of radio is what Radia does.

www.radia.fm

Radia.fm proudly highlights RADIO.TERRITORIES, a series of urban and
acoustic interventions taking place across Europe. Stay tuned for upcoming
calls for the artist residency programs and actions in your local European
City. From October 2005 to September 2006, various events will take place
in Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Cluj, Lisbon, Mooste, Prague, London,
Sofia and Vienna. A final conference is planned for September 2006, in
Vienna.

Territories

bootlab e.v.

tucholskystr 6

10117 berlin/germany

bootlab at bootlab dot org

www.bootlab.org

NOT BORED! writes:

Guy Debord Film Retrospective
New York City, March 5, 2006

In response to the way he was slandered in the French press during its coverage of the murder of his friend, Gerard Lebovici, on 5 March 1984, Guy Debord withdrew all six of his films from world-wide distribution. It wasn’t until shortly after his death (a suicide) on 30 November 1994 that two of Debord’s films were finally screened on French TV.

Finally, in November 2005, Debord’s films were re-released as a collection. Most of these films have never been screened in New York. In this retrospective, all six of Debord’s films will be shown in chronological order and in the original French. No subtitles. Translations and other relevant printed materials will be available.

5 pm Hurlements en faveur de Sade (1952)
7 pm Sur le Passage de Quelques Personnes (1959)
8 pm Critique de la Separation (1961)
9 pm La Societe du Spectacle (1973)
11 pm Refutation de tous les Jugements (1975)
midnight In girum imus nocte et consumimu igni (1978)

Tickets: $30 for the whole evening, $20 after 9 pm, $10 after 11 pm.
Doors open at 4:30pm.

CHASHAMA
217 East 42d Street (between 3rd and 2d Ave.)
New York City

NOT BORED!

Waseda University Arrest, Tokyo

A Statement of Protest

Around noon on December 20th 2005, on the campus of Waseda University in
Tokyo, a person was distributing flyers protesting some university reforms.
Suddenly seven to eight professors and officials of the Literature
Department surrounded him and took him to the office of the security
services. The police were called in by the professors to arrest him on the
claim of intrusion of private property.

We believe that this incident is more than a local episode and should
be cause for alarm: it is not just a matter of one university, but of the
entire university system and Japanese society today. Moreover, the action
taken at Waseda University recalls an earlier history of university
repression that had taken place on a worldwide scale. What the event at
Waseda dramatizes is a sad and instructive example of how the last remaining
stronghold for protecting the freedom of expression simply decided to
abdicate its responsibility and abandon its principal vocation. The larger
consequence of the Waseda incident reveals a dangerous tendency today of
society’s determination to erase the last ethical line between the domain of
free inquiry and critical space from the interest of the state that needs to
be defended.

NYC SPACE, Winter Courses 2006

The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)

Winter 2006 Courses

THE SPIRIT OF UTOPIA

Alex Steinberg

Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

8 sessions: January 25 - March 22

(no class February 8)

Tuition: $90 - $115, sliding scale

MARX'S _CAPITAL_, VOLUMES II AND III

Andrew Kliman

Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

15 sessions: January 25 - May 17

(except for March 22 and April 12)

Tuition: $150 - $180, sliding scale

(Vol. II only: $75 - $100; Vol. III only: $100 - $120)

ERICH FROMM'S ENCOUNTER WITH MARX AND FREUD

Charles Herr

Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

6 Sessions: January 31 - March 7

Tuition: $75 - $100, sliding scale

FROM DADA TO ANTHROPOFFERJISM

Erika Biddle

Alternate Tuesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

6 Sessions: January 31, February 14, 28,
March 14, 28 and April 4

Tuition: $75 - $100, Sliding Scale

See course descriptions below. Please see the New SPACE website for
additional information on courses and registration.