Anonymous Comrade submits:

"Free Media Camp Vienna"

Konrad Becker, konrad@t0.or.at

The night of June 27 a broad alliance of independent media initiatives and
cultural organizations including the community radio "Orange", members of
the community media cluster Vienna (CMCV), the magazine MALMOE, the media
lab PVL, and umbrella organizations like IG Kultur, joined Public Netbase
reclaimed the streets by establishing a free media camp in the center of
Vienna.

The illegal squat started with three office containers and a large tent
set on an empty square in the middle of one of the main junctions of inner
city traffic. The Karlsplatz close to the state Opera also happens to be
one of the main hangouts for homeless and addicts and has been in the
focus of restructuring plans for considerable time.

The perspective of gentrification and a new venue for representational
culture and tourist industry has received sharp criticism.
Expropriation/privatization of the commons by neoliberal religious
practice and the attack on public space demands direct action. Austria has
been in the grip of a rightwing government for some years now, with a
substantial effort on societal restructuring which includes increased
control and withdrawal in culture. The city of Vienna which traditionally
has a social democratic majority reacts by increasing control on public
and cultural services themselves, while the political opposition parties
in town are useless or hostile towards civil society's dissent and
struggle. For Public Netbase standing accused of causing damages of 45000
euros at a recent street protest (celebrating the "day of free media"
15.June) conflict is the only response left to deal with the local
situation.

A joint act of civil disobedience by a large coalition of critical culture
is a strong signal that sleepy Vienna is waking up to claim its
birthright: free media culture.

The ceremonial opening of the camp on Friday 23:00 included speakers from
media and cultural organizations, an address from Dieter Schrage, one of
the activists from the first squat in Austria in the 70's (Arena), Ricardo
Dominguez with an electronic Zapatista declaration praising the
technologies of imagination, and ended with an open air notebook concerto
deep into the warm summer night.

Although they issued a warning, police has not been on location and
abstained from direct interference for the time being. The free media
camp, featuring a free wifi, will be a hotspot for information exchange,
workshops, events and parties for the next weeks and months -- or until
removed by brute force :)

Anonymous Comrade submits:

Alternative Media-Tech Convergence, Cancun, September

"Tidal Wave Cancún"

After contacting representatives of groups such as AMARC, Global Indymedia, Greenpeace, Paper Tiger, Deep Dish, Prometheus Radio, Media Act, and people involved in the CRIS and WSIS campaigns during the "OurMedia" (Nuestros Medios) in Barranquilla, Colombia, compañer@s in Indymedia Chiapas have proposed creating an Alternative Media-Tech Convergence in Cancun.

Call to action from Pittsburgh Organizing Group

"Call for a Padded Bloc this November in Miami Shutdown the FTAA!
This November over 100,000 people will travel to Miami, Florida for
one of the most important global justice protests since the WTO
meetings of 1999. The Free Trade Area of the Americas is a proposed
'treaty' that will bind the hands of all people striving for a
more just world. It is 'NAFTA on crack,' and its repercussions
- -- the commodification of every aspect of life, the smashing of unions, and a corporate bill of rights superceding all else -- are intolerable.

jim submits:

Next 5 Minutes 4

International Festival of Tactical Media

Amsterdam, September 11-14, 2003

Preliminary Program

De Balie / Paradiso / Melkweg / Waag Society
NIM Montevideo / Imagine IC / SALTO


www.n5m.org

What is Next 5 Minutes?

Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together art, campaigns,
experiments in media technology, and transcultural politics. Next 5
Minutes revolves around the notion of tactical media, the fusion of
art, politics and media. The festival is organised irregularly, when
the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of the festival together.

Sun, Sand, and Sedition:

Come to Miami in November and this is what you'll see......

In November 2003, Miami, Florida is hosting both the 8th round of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) trade negotiations and the eight Americas Business Forum. Trade Ministers from 34 nations in the Western hemisphere, and hundreds of their closest commerce-inclined friends, will descend on this city for a week of business and pleasure: the business of advancing capitalism's parasitic agenda, the pleasure of getting away with it.

At the Summit of Americas held in Miami in December 1994, 34 heads of state agreed to construct the FTAA. Since then, business and government representatives from these Countries have been secretly drafting this plan with the aim of creating the largest free trading block in the world by 2005. This is to be our region's principal contribution to the much-heralded age of globalization - the inevitable era of opulence and prosperity capitalism promised from its inception. Soon history will draw to a close, and everyone will benefit from the forethought and benevolence of their leaders and elite, Right?

Damon Rich writes:

CUP's upcoming exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Urban Renewal: The City without a Ghetto, has been moved to September. It is now scheduled to open September 4. Sorry for any inconvenience, and we hope that you come and see us in the fall.

If you would like any further information at this time, please call me 212-674-0199."

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Park Fiction presents:
Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space

International Congress and Exhibition of Park Fiction's Documenta 11 Installation
Congress: June 26 - 29, 2003 Exhibition: June 19 - July 6, Reeperbahn 1, Hamburg

One year after Documenta 11, Park Fiction's installation returns to Hamburg. For the first time, the installation will be shown in its place of origin, St. Pauli, on the Reeperbahn. The exhibition will be accompanied by an international congress: Unlikely Encounters (in urban space), with groups from Delhi/India, Tijuana/Mexico, La Plata/Argentina, Milan/Italy and Berlin/Munich/Hamburg.

Anonymous Comrade writes
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A proposal to Zapatista Solidarity Groups.

CALL TO ACTION TO CO-ORDINATE MASS ZAPATISTA ACTION IN EUROPE, AMERICA AND BEYOND.

We the London Zapatista Action (LZA) solidarity group based in London, England are sending you and Zapatista solidarity groups across the world a proposal –

To co-ordinate a mass protest and action on the same day, throughout the world at Mexican embassies and companies which are involved in the Plan Puebla Panama; in order to tell the Mexican government:

NO TO THE EXPULSIONS IN MONTES AZULES !

NO TO THE PPP. !

YES TO THE SAN ANDRES ACCORDS !

AND THAT THE ZAPATISTA STRUGGLE IS ALIVE AND STRONG IN THE 5 CONTINENTS

jim submits:

Critical Mass East Coast Book and Video Tour

With editor Chris Carlsson and other contributors

New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, College Park, Washington, Richmond

July 24-30, 2003



A book reading and film screening to celebrate Critical Mass bike rides.

Critical Mass is a noncommercial,

noncompetitive monthly bike ride held in hundreds of cities in dozens of

countries.

jim submits "This note is to inform you that the full text of the spring 2003 issue of the New Formulation: An Anti-Authoritarian Review of Books is now available online at http://flag.blackened.net/nf/index.htm


It includes the following articles: