amy writes
"The Time in Court Has Finally Come For The 7-Year Squatters!

CHARTER MOTIONS

August 30th-September in court room 35, Elgin St. Ottawa.

At the superior court of Ontario we will be bringing three motions forward addressing how long our procedures have dragged on (26 months causing us much inconvience), our inability to access legal aid due to our decision to self defend, and our constitutional right to freedom of expression in a meaningful and relevant way.

TRIAL BY JURY

From 27th-October 22nd in court room 35, Elgin St. Ottawa. We will be collectively self-defending ourselves against six indictable Offenses. Our struggle with the Crown to disclose all relevant evidence
continues, making our preparations for trial laborious and wearisome. Regardless of the obstacles we’ve faced, we remain dedicated to the process, and empowering ourselves via self-defence.

Joasia Krysa writes:

The European Journal of Higher Arts Education

Call for Contributions, Issue 2, November 2004

"Economies of Knowledge: New Technologies in Higher Arts Education"

The deadline for submissions 30 September 2004.

This issue of the European Journal of Higher Arts Education explores ideas
around the production (research and enterprise) and distribution (teaching
and learning) of knowledge in higher arts education in relation to digital technologies.

Recent changes in the mode of production and dissemination of knowledge have
been often described in the context of what has been fashionably termed as knowledge economy. Manuel Castells in The Rise of the Network Society, (1996) points to the change in the ways technological processes are
organised — from a mode of development focussed on economic growth and surplus-value (industrialism) to one based on the pursuit of knowledge and increased levels of complexity of information (informationalism).In this way, new technologies have enhanced the effectiveness of global
apitalism, enabling it to become more flexible, adaptable, faster,
efficient and pervasive. Culture, too, and indeed the education system, has
become integrated in the process of the creation of capital, with cultural
regeneration and a link between research and enterprise as an example of
capital's renewal. In this context it is clear that art and art education follow economic imperatives for the most part but do they also offer the possibility of influencing it? To what extent can the spaces of
determination be creatively reclaimed?

Bill Templer writes "Israeli and Palestinian progressives mourn the death of libertarian activist, anti-Zionist and grand pacifist Toma Sik (1939-2004), killed in a tragic accident on his farm in his native Hungary, to which he returned from Tel Aviv in 1996. He died on the fields of the pacifist organic commune of "new peasants" he was building.

Fundrace.org

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from us ol' Journal editors writes:

New Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Available

Issue #3 of The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest — a cavalcade of productive thoughts on community, conversation, communication (between collectives and to the media) and such. Cause' no matter who wins this election, the government does.... :)

www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org

Mike B writes "Moviment Graffitti - What is it?

Moviment Graffitti is active against oppression and exploitation of people, environment and animals; with a vision of freedom and radical democracy.

Moviment Graffitti's activism consists primarily of two strategies:

Direct Action. Moviment Graffitti is active in various areas such such as social justice and protection of the environment. This includes the years-long activism in local community struggles such as the Front Against the Hilton, Front Against the Golf Course and Save Kalkara Valley Front. This also activities for the emancipation of the working class (such as participation in demonstrations by progressive trade unions); peace and neutrality (such as activities against the visit of warships); civil rights (such as divorce and anti-sexism); human rights (such as the rights of asylum seekers); and animal rights (such as anti-furcoat protests). Moviment Graffitti has organised various activities that were concurrently taking place around the world. These include Workers' Day, Peace Marches, the World Anti McDonalds Day, as well as various activities against capitalist globalisation and in favour of global social justice.

North American Anarchist Convergence

August 12-15th, 2004, Athens, Ohio USA

www.naac2004.org

A weekend of community-focused discussions on freedom, prosperity,
and responsible society.

Brave New Classrooms:

Educational Democracy and the
Internet

One of the most idealistic promises of the internet as a
medium has been its democratic potential. In working to keep faith with
that promise, many educators seek reinforcement for a progressive
political belief that good education leads towards social justice.
Although this promise still glimmers, teachers who want to pursue the
democratic potential of the internet and electronic education have
increasingly encountered forces of homogenization, standardization,
censorship, hierarchy and corporatization. This edited volume,
entitled Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet,
will examine the "other" side of online learning.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia's 2004 Grant Cycle is now underway. NACC seeks grant applications from grassroots groups that organize around issues of peace, social justice, and community empowerment. Grant applications and general information are available through the office, or online at here. The application deadline is August 15, 2004; and grants will be awarded on October 1, 2004. The funding limit is $2,000.

Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia
4554 12th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 547-0952
http://seanacc.org

Please help us spread the word — forward and tell your friends. thanks....

Genocide: Forms, Causes, Consequences

Berlin, January 13-15, 2005.

Invitation, Announcement and Call for Posters

European Network of Genocide Scholars [ENOGS]: Foundational
Meeting (Berlin, January 13-15, 2005)

Without doubt, genocide is one of the most horrific crimes
in the history of humankind. In the twentieth century, the
Holocaust proved the destructive potential of a utopian
biopolitics that aimed at an ethnically or racially
homogeneous "societas perfecta". Unfortunately, it was not
the first genocide of the last century, as in 1904 the
Herero and Nama people had been slaughtered by the imperial
German army, and ten years later during World War I, more
than 800,000 Armenians were deported and killed by the Young
Turks. Nor was the Holocaust the last. Despite the United
Nations Genocide Convention of 1948, genocides took place in
Cambodia and Rwanda to name just a few.