Stop US Congress From Using DEA Money to Attack Medical Marijuana Movement!



CALL RIGHT NOW - VERY URGENT. Vote is Morning of Thursday, May 22nd, 2003



Earlier this week we asked you to call the House Government Reform Committee and urge them to remove provisions from HR 2086 that would allow the White House to use the billion-dollar anti-drug ad campaign for partisan political purposes. Thanks to you, Congress is listening. Your calls have created a firestorm on the Committee that we hope will ultimately lead to the repeal of the propaganda provision.



Now, we need your help to take out another bad provision.

These groups and comrades are organizing around initiatives of many municipalities and regions in the USA to defy the Patriot Act and other elements of federal internal repression and control.

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

"Weapons for the Oppressed"

Bill Posters

Six machine guns and six hand guns cast in handmade
paper will be sent around the world to countries
including Chile, Ireland, Argentina, Italy, Indonesia,
USA, Brazil, Norway, Reunion Island Germany, England
and Holland. Each package will contain a with
compliments slip with the "facsimile weapon
without a firing-pin" referring to a statement by
Debord which refers to the appearance of radical
thought which perhaps inadvertently only supports the
dominant organisation of power.

Spectre is a network of Sydney marxist activists that have come together in recognition of the gravely low level of genuine debate and independent theoretical engagement on the revolutionary left in Australia. We have a common interest in creating a non-sectarian, open minded and serious space for political interchange. We are united by a common interest in revolutionary marxism as a basis for understanding the world, and for theorising the state of the class struggle and various social movements in which we participate. We are keen to engage with a variety of marxist currents as well as with other revolutionary ideas, within a framework that respects diversity of opinion and encourages the widest possible speculative activity.

We plan to convene a series of political exchanges about history, theory and practice, addressing questions relevant to today's movement, in a relaxed atmosphere over a few drinks. Rather than being purely academic, these discussions will strive to bridge the gap between theory and practice -- ie, assist in developing a truly revolutionary praxis for the twenty-first century.

Call of the Hemispheric and Global Assembly against
the FTAA and the WTO

Mexico City, May 11-12, 2003

We, the participants in this historic Hemispheric and
Global Assembly against the Free Trade of the Americas
and the World Trade Organization, held in Mexico City
on May 11-12, 2003, declare our intention and
commitment to derail the Fifth Ministerial of the
World Trade Organization that will take place in
Cancun in September of this year.

tomobedlam writes:

I have just completed the wrist busting task of converting all the Echanges Et Movements Issues from some ancient Wordperfect format to text/html so they are web browsable, and therefore hopefully saved them from file format death. They are all HERE at EndPage.

Enjoy,
Tom

Anonymous Comrade writes:

New issue::movement, bodies, sites vol 2 no 1 2003
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/

:::in the latest issue...

"Tango is the dance of the milieu – the in-between...tango never finds
its rightful place, dancing instead at the borders of existence in the
interloping worlds between here and there." Erin Manning

"The airport not only transforms a body on the ground into a body in the
air, but it also involves the incorporeal transformation of the
travelling body — as a citizen, a passenger (pax), a baggage allowance,
an accused or an innocent." Gillian Fuller

"Whether God or the law—or indeed capital—are decreed as sovereign, in
each case this sovereignty consists not in the recognition of universal
human rights but in the stipulation of who has the right to be regarded
as human, and who has not. In this way, there is always a space created
for those who are excluded from the community and from definitions of
humanity: non-citizen, non-believer and the uncommodifiable." Angela
Mitropoulos

"...what took place in Seattle was a kind of explosion that lead to the
construction of a new global imaginary...It seemed to us [DeriveApprodi]
that this was the first time in the history of anti-systemic movements
that a movement had emerged that took the unification of the planet not
as an end but as a starting point." Sandro Mezzadra

"Worriers cannot care about their nation because they have not been and
are not being cared for properly by it." Ghassan Hage

jim submits:

"Marxism and the World Stage"

6-9 November 2003, Univ. Mass., Amherst

http://www.marxismandtheworldstage.org

Join with Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Slavoj Zizek, Jim Crotty, Leo
Panitch, Saskia Sassen, Rick Wolff, Amitava Kumar, Steve Resnick,
Stephen Cullenberg, Julie Graham, Jack Amariglio, Dennis Adams,
Ludovic Burel, Javier Cambre, Rutherford Chang, Mark Dion, Grady
Gerbracht, Paul Isenrath, Jesal Kapadia, Nina Katchadourian, William
Kentridge, Emily Jacir & Anton Sinkewich, Susan Jahoda, Pia Lindman,
Mark Lombardi, Jeorge Macchi, Liz Miller, Santu Mofokeng, Olu Oguibe,
Inhwan Oh, Josh On & Future Farmers, David Opdyke, Kyong Park, Cesare
Pietrousti, Walid Raad, Micheal Rakowitz, Allan Sekula, Trebor Scholz
& Carol Flax, Superflex, Minette Vari, Alex Villar, Peter Walsh,
Krzystof Wodiczko, Kumi Yamashita and many others in Rethinking
Marxism's 5th International Gala Conference.

Life's (Re-)Emergence: Philosophy, Culture, and Politics



A one-day conference * Friday 23 May 2003 * Goldsmiths College * London

Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre * 10am - 6pm



Speakers:

Brian Massumi (University of Montreal): Living Memory

John Mullarkey (University of Sunderland): Bio-Aesthetics or the Memory of

the Senses

Luciana Parisi (University of East London): Abstract Sex: bio-digital

machines and symbiotic micropolitics

Jamie King (Mute/University of Minnesota) and Matthew Hyland (Wolverine): An

inherited agenda for annihilating nothingness

Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College): Life and Energy

Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College): Comments on "Living Memory"

hydrarchist submits:

Open letter and call for papers from the Italian magazine DeriveApprodi to
social movements in Latin America, Africa, and Asia

Who
we are

This
letter is from the editorial collective of the Italian magazine DeriveApprodi,
a publication of the radical left. DeriveApprodi was first published
about ten years ago and since then has appeared at irregular intervals. It was
founded at the beginning of the 1990s with a view to continuing the project of
critical thought and practical politics initiated by the autonomist Marxist and
revolutionary "workerist" movements. In the 1960s and 1970s, these
movements were active in interpreting and orienting the worker, proletarian, and
student struggles that had made Italy into an extraordinary laboratory of
revolution in the West, truly the "weak link" in the chain of
imperialist command. During the 1980s, however, the continuity of these
struggles was violently disrupted: thousands of militants from the radical left
were imprisoned, aggressive capitalist restructuring completely redefined the
geography and forms of production, large working class concentrations
disappeared, and the power of trade unions was gradually weakened. Individualism,
cynicism, and careerism triumphed within institutional politics and throughout
society at large.