grumbles writes
"United Kingdom G8 Protest Protest"



A Call out.



The final plenary of the European Peoples' Global Action Conference, which took place in Belgrade, Post-Yugoslavia from 21st-29th July 2004, is calling for a Global Day of Action on July 5-8th 2005 - the opening day of the 2005 G8 Summit to take place at Gleneagles, Perthshire, United Kingdom (Scotland, around 40 miles/70 km from Edinburgh).



They have called for people to join the convergences in Scotland being called for by the Dissent! Network in the UK (www.dissent.org.uk) to disrupt the Summit, and for people to organise and take part in simultaneous actions in villages, towns and cities around the world.

pei.czech writes:

Moving NYC "More Gardens!"

Thursday December 2, 2004, 11am

We need folks from all communities and from all boroughs to come by over the next 4 days and lend a hand. If you can join us please call Aresh @ 917 518-9987 ASAP let us know when you are available to help. Read story below for details.

Press Conference: Environmental Injustice in the Bronx
Community gardeners stood their ground. Half of the original green space is now to be made permanent. Housing and Green Spaces must stay in balance!

Thursday December 2, 2004, 11am
In front of Family Group Garden, E. 158th Street between Courtlandt and Park Aves.

In the South Bronx, over 28,000 square feet of open green space, home to 3 community gardens, are being lost, in a highly inequitable exchange of community space in the most toxic, least green, highest population density, most asthma-riddled neighborhood in the city, and one of the two poorest Congressional districts in the USA.

Gardeners and residents will help move out plants and speak out about their challenges to preserve the remaining 14 community green spaces, and to create more community gardens and truly affordable housing. We will explain the “Homes and Gardens Plan,” a proposal by the community and housing experts, showing how both gardens and more units of housing can be
implemented in the Melrose area.

New Canadian Anarchist Anthology Published

Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology

Edited by Allan Antliff, Published by http://www.arsenalpulp.com>Arensal Pulp Press

Drawing on a wide-range of anarchist publications,
Only a Beginning is the first comprehensive overview
of anarchist theory and practice in North America from
1976 to the present. Compiled and edited by Allan
Antliff, it documents over a quarter-century of
grassroots activism, including protests and
gatherings, art exhibitions, street theatre, Internet
sites, and squats, as well as environmental and
anti-globalization protests, the rise of
anarchist-feminism, the fight for queer rights,
indigenous struggles, and prisoners' liberation.

"Woman and Globalization" Conference

July 27-August 3, 2005, Center for Global Justice, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Co-Sponsored by the Radical Philosophy Association, the Global Studies
Association, and the Argentina Autonomista Project

Of all the social groups impacted by neo-liberal globalization,
perhaps none has felt it more severely than women, especially those in
countries in the global South.  Young women have been the main workforce
in maquiladora sweatshops.  Women must do more work to support families as
incomes decline.  Women have felt the brunt of violence as frustrated
husbands despair about not being able to provide for their families.
 Families have been pushed off the land, women have been left behind to
care for families, and men have gone north to find work. Some women have
also gone north, often as victims of coerced sex trafficking.

  Many
returning men have brought AIDS with them to infect their wives.  World
Bank and IMF-mandated cutbacks in state services have drastically cut
medical care, and public education now has user fees.  These cutbacks
particularly affect women and children, as more women die in childbirth
and children have to leave school at an early age to work.

Similarly,
women are also severely affected in the global North. In the US, welfare
restrictions, increased costs for health care and housing, and declining
state aid for education and other services have disproportionately hurt
women and children, particularly poor women, and have increased the
feminization of poverty. Thus, in both North and South, the social
pathologies engendered by globalization have affected women most
intensely.

"Signature" Conference

Baltimore, Maryland, February 26, 2005

Signature… the petition, the check, the painting, the autograph, the document, the stamp
… of experience, of institutions, of the state, of the everyday, of the spoken, of the human
… forgery, claim, authenticity, acknowledgment, ownership, belonging, become …

Radio Files from "Renewing the Anarchist Tradition" Conference

Anarchist Theory and Praxis

Summary: Cindy Milstein, Andrea Schmidt, Jaggi Singh, S'ra Desantis, Mark
Lance, Andrew Willis, and Hilton Bertalan presenting on a wide range of
topics and their interface with Anarchist Theory and Praxis.

The Life or Death of the Anti-Globalization Movement?

Chuck Morse and
Marina Sitrin carry on the debate that first appeared in the Perspectives
on Anarchist Theory journal.

Sexuality and Anarchism

Summary: A panel examining the relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality
to power, capital and our movements/work. As anarchists/anti-capitalists
who struggle against the world as is, we must be critically aware of the
changing nature of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Kenneth Rexroth Archive on Far Eastern Culture

Bureau of Public Secrets

The following Kenneth Rexroth essays are newly added to the Bureau of Public Secrets website:

"Science and Civilization in China"

"Matteo Ricci's China Journals"

"Sung Dynasty Culture"

"The Tao of Painting"

"Japanese Literature"

"The World of Genji"

"Japanese Noh Plays"

"Far Eastern Poetry in a General Education"

The Editor at FreedomToons.org writes:

"Freedom Toons" OnLine

I am writing to progressive websites and organizations in order to introduce Freedom Toons, a new website featuring daily political cartoons that focus on issues such the war on terror, the attacks on civil liberties, the negligence of the mass media, and the economy.

We are not selling anything. We have only been online for a few weeks now, but have much more material that we will be publishing. Hopefully some of the cartoons will resonate with you, so please take a look!

Sincerely,

The Editor at FreedomToons.org

"Physiognomy of Origin:

Multiplicities, Bodies and Radical Politics"

Sydney, May 5-7, 2005

Keynote speakers: Antonio Negri, Adriana Cavarero

This conference brings together two key figures in the contemporary reconsideration of the concept of origin. Radical theorist and activist, Antonio Negri has introduced a materialist perspective on the concept of origin through his investigations of constituent power and multitudes. Italian feminist philosopher, Adriana Cavarero has been engaged in reconceiving origin through the thought of sexual difference, an ethics of embodiment and more recently, the politics of vocal expression.

"Rethinking Reception" Conference

Durham, NC, March 24-26,2005

This conference both proposes, and interrogates the utility of the concept of reception for understanding audience interaction with texts in all their various forms — be it readers and novels, readers and critical theory, viewers and films, viewers and television, web-users and the internet, listeners and radio, consumers and products, and nations and the trans-national flow of cultural objects. Thus the conference proposes to bring together work on readership, spectatorship, and consumption under the broader analytic of reception, and to initiate a dialogue between work in film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, critical theory, philosophy, and cognitive psychology. The conference aspires to shed light on different aspects of reception and to develop and to refine trans-disciplinary avenues of approach to questions of audience interaction with texts.