"Grey Tuesday" Civil Disobedience Planned February 24th Against Copyright
Cartel

DOWNHILL BATTLE (February 18, 2004) -- A coalition of websites will join
in an online protest to offer free downloads of a critically acclaimed
album that is being censored by a lawsuit threat from EMI Records. The
action is an act of civil disobedience against a copyright regime that
routinely suppresses musical innovation. The Grey Album, which remixes
Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatles' White Album, has been hailed as a
innovative hip-hop triumph, but EMI sent cease-and-desist letters to any
record store that stocked it. This Tuesday ("Grey Tuesday") the coalition
of sites will offer free downloads of the Grey Album, and turn their pages
grey, to take a stand against a copyright regime that serves neither
musicians nor the public interest.

Appeal for Testimonies from Gothenborg 2001

by Gerd P. in Gothnburg, Sweden

Make a complaint to the court of appeal of Gothenburg, Sweden, that you were really locked in by the police at the school of Hvitfeldtska during the EU summit of Gothenburg2001!

During the EU summit in Gothenburg2001, on the14th of June, the Swedish police surrounded the school of Hvitfeldtska and locked 650 lodgers in .
450 of these lodgers were deprived of their freedom for more than 12 hours and many were badly treated by the police.

The former commander of the police of Gothenburg, Jaldung, was recently charged at the court of Gothenburg with depriving all these demonstrators of their freedom on this occasion,
But last week this commander-in-chief was acquitted of the charges on the basis that the court didn´t find it proved that any of the lodgers really was deprived of his or her freedom.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Sarai -- A 4th Anniversary Celebration"

1. Evening, February 27, 2004, Friday, 6:30 pm

"What is it that Flows Between Us : Stories From Shadow Cities" -- a spoken
word performance by the practitioners of the Cybermohalla 'Compughar' Media
Labs at Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Basti, Ajmeri Gate, and the Dakshinpuri Colony,
Ambedkar Nagar. The performance is based on texts written by the Cybermohalla
practitioners.
-- In collaboration with Ankur -- Society for Alternatives in Education

Sarai Interface Zone, Basement -- CSDS New Building

"Participatory Detournement:

A Collaborative Evisceration of Jack T. Chick's 'Charlie's Ants'"

Detourn, deploy, detourn again:

http://aphid.org/CA

Seven Oaks Magazine is now on-line.

Seven Oaks magazine is based in Vancouver, Canada, with an editorial board composed of local activists, journalists and academics.

In the first issue:

-- The Seven Oaks Manifesto

-- A Feature Interview with David Bacon, American labour journalist just back from occupied Iraq.

-- Child Labour in British Columbia.

-- An American in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

-- The Politics of the Montreal Mega-city Debate.

-- 7 Questions with Vancouver City Councillor Ellen Woodsworth

-- plus Reviews and a Photo Gallery...

For more information, contact:

1-604-324-6059 or info@sevenoaksmag.com

Francisco Trindade writes:

A Apologia de Proudhon

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The Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Website has new materials available for teaching Castoriadis.
agorainternationa

alejo writes

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"Next Step" Collective Seeks Political Convention Protest Contacts

Hey everyone--

  A local group of activists here in Olympia [Washington] formed the Next Step Collective a few weeks ago in the hopes that we could rekindle the creative spirit that the "movement" once had, by proposing a 220 mile march from the Democratic National Convention to the Republican National Convention this summer. The attachment lays out a proposal that we would like to have dispersed as widely as possible in the hopes that we can take on this monumental project from a very diverse set of backgrounds. Please read the attachment and get back to me with any thoughts when you can. Much love and look forward to spreading the
revolution with all of you.

Adam Burger
Next Step Collective
Email: greenerlocks@hotmail.com

Anonymous Comrade writes

"State of Emergency"

A Convergence of Ideas, Actions and Experiments

Melbourne, May 21-24, 2004

Armed guards patrol 'civilian' aircraft. Travellers from suspicious
states entering the USA are fingerprinted and photographed. Anti-terror laws
allow anyone to be arrested without warrants or legal representation. Arms
budgets inflate. The US runs a police state in Iraq while Australia becomes the
'sheriff' of the Asia-Pacific: interning its unwanted visitors here,
providing military intervention there. Fear of the 'invading hordes' is
the law. For the rulers of the global empire, the time since 9/11/2001 has
been a 'state of emergency'.

But for the exploited, the poor, the different, the disenfranchised,
nothing much has changed. Capitalism has always manufactured panics. It has
always exploited our bodies, our minds, our time, our creativity, the planet on
which we live. It has always forced us to move or given us no choice but
to flee, reclassified us as illegal to suit its needs, barricaded itself
against our strength and life and designed ever more spurious 'threats'
to the state in order to shut down its people. Our daily lives are just as
difficult as before. The state of emergency is not the exception, but
the rule.