hydrarchist writes:

Mayday Dublin 2004
For An Alternative Europe

Irish
people have generally seen the European Union as a
good thing, for reasons that include investment in
infrastructure and farm subsidies.

But
increasingly the EU is an excuse for privatisation,
for shifting the burden of taxation onto you and
for Ireland's increasing involvement in military
adventures.

We are
struggling with others across Europe for a
different type of Europe, one that puts people
before profit and does away with top-down decision
making. Join these protests in the struggle for an
alternative Europe.

Subcultures and Political Resistance

Call for Papers

Journal: Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

Author Deadline: July 15, 2004

Guest Editors: Jeffrey Paris (Philosophy, University of San Francisco) &
Michael Ault (Political Science, CSU Bakersfield)

Length: 2500-3500 words

In recent years, the politics and anti-politics of X-generation youth have
been replaced by the resurgence — and in some cases insurgence — of
subcultural groups. Recent attempts to understand these groups have
brought changes to the older discipline of subcultural studies, and have
even been tentatively dubbed “post-subcultural studies.” Changes linked
to the globalization of culture, music and fashion have made subcultures
less bounded, and the fusion of different styles and politics offers the
possible lens for imagining a global youth counter-culture of diverse
practices of resistance.

Melody Carter-Parker writes Call for submissions
subject: Iraq
Deadline: ongoing
.
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
[Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
global networking is preparing a feature related to Iraq - the war and the periode afterwards, and is looking for proposal of net based art works, papers, articles, comments, links etc which fit in this spectrum.

Accepted works and items must have a clearly defined copyright note and will be included into the new Iraq module to be created. Besides URLs of works or sources, also certain media files are optionally accepted, see specification below.
Please use this form for submitting

1. firstname/name of artist, email, URL
2. a brief bio/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. title and URL or type of media file,
4. a short work description (not more than 300 words),
5. one screen shot (max 800x600 pixels, .jpg)

please send your submission to
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
subject: Iraq

Only these types of media files are accepted:
1. text-->plain email, .txt or .doc
2. image--->.jpg
3. movie--->.swf, .dcr, .mov, .mpeg
.
Deadline -->ongoing
as soon as the first submissions are accepted, they will be included and posted.
**********************
[R][R][F] 2004 --->XP
http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
rrf2004@newmediafest.org
global networking project.

hydrarchist writes:

What is X-Evian?


X-evian is a self-booting, self-installing distribution copy of Debian Gnu-Linux

X-evian is a Live-CD, a complete operating system which installs automatically from the CD-Rom in RAM memory by means of a process of automatic hardware detection. This makes it possible to "parasite" a PC without leaving any trace?without touching the hard disk and without interfering with the operating system or the files already installed on the PC. X-evian also includes a utility for installing the contents of the CD automatically onto the hard disk (without having to erase Windows).

Debian GNU/Linux is much more than an operating system: it is an entire system of program distribution, installation and management built around the Linux kernel (the core of the operating system). Debian GNU/Linux consists of about 10,000 different programs, nearly all of which are free software, bundled and classified for integrated operation. X-evian is a selection and compilation which has been carefully chosen and configured for activist users, for liberated cultural, technological and social production. But Debian is much more than "a complete operating system and an infinite number of programs". Debian is the largest independent free software community on the Net and one of the most firmly established and stable techno-political projects in cyberspace. X-evian is an easy preconfigured way of introducing the user to the best of the resources of this Debian.

hydrarchist writes:

MAYDAY, MAYDAY!! Why Precari@s, Intermittents, Cognitari/e Are Rebelling Across NEUROPA...

Remember MAYDAY, the global holiday of workers, dear to anarchists and socialists worldwide, born in America and mummified in Russia and China, fallen in neglect in Europe as neoliberalism mounted and many unions sold out? Well, in Milano since 2001 a network of Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish media hacktivists, rank-and-file unions, self-run and squatted youth centers, critical mass bikers, radical networks, student groups, syndicalist collectives, immigrants' associations, assorted commies, greens, anarcos, gays and feminists have given life to a MAYDAY PARADE taking place in the afternoon of May 1st, whose participation and meaning has grown tremendously from 5,000 to 50,000 people, thereby triggering many urban actions and social conflicts that are spreading among young temps, partimers, freelance and contract workers, researchers and teachers, service and culture workers in Italy, France, Spain, and elsewhere across Europe.

scott writes PRESS RELEASE
Coalition Provisional Authority
http://www.iraqcoalition.org

April 1, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joe Frazier 914-360-5114.
frazierj@orha.centcom.mil 

Optimists Club Organizes Baghdad Chapter

Optimists International can now claim Baghdad, Iraq as the home of its most recently organized chapter. Founded in 1919 with chapters in 28 countries, Optimists is a service organization best known for “bringing out the best in kids.” The new chapter held its organizational meeting at the former palace of Saddam Hussein, now the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Headquarters in Baghdad. A group of 28 civilian CPA staff and Iraqi nationals attended.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

The documentary video “Dada Changed My Life” will play Anthology Film Archives on Monday, April 19th, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. The screening will be preceded by performances by Dada New York, and music by Rosateresa and Los Polones. (Anthology is at 32 Second Avenue in Manhattan, corner of East 2nd St.)

“Dada Changed My Life” is a documentary about the occupation of the building which housed the Cabaret Voltaire, birthplace of Dada in Zürich, Switzerland, 1916. This work details the two-month international effort by artists to rescue the Cabaret Voltaire which generated the most influential movement in contemporary art, 86 years after its founding, from transformation into luxury apartments and a pharmacy.

Alan Moore writes "Three Minutes to Midnight," Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks on the new nuclear danger in celebration of Earth Day at Wagner College Spiro Hall 2, Thursday, April 22 - 7-9 pm.
Admission free.
Event produced by Peace Action of Staten Island

A video screening on Wednesday, April 14 - 8 pm at the Muddy Cup coffeehouse of "If You Love This Planet," an academy award winning documentary of Dr. Caldicott, and the new film "Arsenal of Hypocrisy." This video screening honors Dr. Caldicott's visit to Staten Island.

MPLU supporter writes The Missouri Prisoners Labor Union (MPLU)(U.S.) has a new website, email list for action alerts and MPLU related news, and a petition to show support for "Jerome White-Bey [president of MPLU] in his continuing struggle to be free."

Website http://www.mplu-support.tk/

Email list http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/mplu

Petition http://users.belgacom.net/mplu/free_jerome_white_b ey.html

Please forward this information to email lists and supporters of MPLU and update your web links for MPLU.

Join us!

Jay Bernstein writes:

THE POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, GENOCIDE, AND TERRORISM:

Plenary Address to be presented by Richard Koenigsberg at Western Social Science Association’s 2004 Conference in Salt Lake City


        This year’s annual meeting of the WESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION will feature a special plenary address by Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 22, at 2:45 p.m. at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel, 150 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101. Please check the WSSA Conference website at http://wssa.asu.edu/wssa_conference.htm for the exact location.


        With no weapons of mass-destruction found in Iraq to date, some now pose the question: Why did Saddam Hussein not let inspectors do their work? If he had acted less provocatively, perhaps the Americans would have backed off. Why did he not make a greater effort to avoid the outbreak of a hopeless war and to prevent attacks that destroyed his palaces and his kingdom, killed his sons, and caused him to end up in a hole in the ground?