jim submits:

Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global Disorder

A Symposium Organised by WRO Media Art Centre & Institute of Digital Arts and
Technology [i-DAT]
as part of Globalica, WRO 03, 10th International Media
Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May 2003

http://wro03.wrocenter.pl>

http://www.i-dat.org>

Against a backdrop of Poland's impending entry into the European Union (and
neo-liberal capitalism), the symposium aims to investigate the local
tensions around the ways in which artists and commentators respond to global
processes, and the language and strategies they employ to do so. How does
contemporary artistic practice respond to these tensions, especially when
using or reflecting the use of network technologies? Do artists simply
respond using the same fashionable rhetoric as the system they seek to
question? What chance does networked resistance have of being resistant in
such a scenario? What models are there left to aspire to?

Anonymous Comrade writes:

As you most certainly know, the next G8 (Group of the eight most
industrialised countries) summit is expected to take place at
the beginning of June, in Evian, in nearby France.
An international coordination, formed by militant groups from
various backgrounds, gathered last 1st and 2nd March to denounce
the illegitimacy of the G8 and to prepare the ground for a
social resistance.
During this meeting, it was decided in particular to organize
linked demonstrations between Switzerland (GE, VD, VS) and
France.

Redblack writes:

"Throwing a Wrench in the Warmachine" Conference

Kent State University, May 3-4, 2003

Anti-authoritarian organizing against war, occupation
and the system that spawns them.
A conference of discussion, debate, direct action
training, & fun.
Initiated by the Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist
Collectives
Kent State University -- Saturday May 3rd, Action Sunday May 4th

Anonymnous Comrade writes:

The Federation of Anarchist Communists has launched its new
English-language website. The site will contain news, statements
and documents regarding the work of the FdCA and its involvement
in international initiatives.

The FdCA, founded in 1986, is the most recent organizational
experience of anarchist communists in Italy.

Asger writes:

I'm hoping everyone here as heard about the coming Australian National
Anarchist Conference in Brisbane 2-4 May, @ Visible Ink, 139 Constanace St,
Fortitude Valley.

There is an Information Booklet available about the conference in PDF. It
can be downloaded from http://www.nomasters.org/Members/anarcon/promos/bo ok1
or try this link
http://www.nomasters.org/Members/anarcon/promos/bo ok1/file_view?portal_status_message=Your+file+chan ges+have+been+saved.
Feel free to print out a couple of copies and give to your friends.

The main conference website can be found at http://ronny.imess.net/anarcon.
Hope to see lot's a people there! It's free entry and no registration required.

Asger

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Autonomous Brisbane

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Happy Anarchy

http://www.freewebz.com/happyanarchy/

jim writes:

May Week Labor Arts Festival

Edmonton, Alberta, April 28-May 10, 2003

Working Class Culture Takes Centre Stage

This is the 7th Annual Edmonton May Week Festival of Working Class Culture.
Check our web site for May Day event updates from Edmonton as well as about
May Day events across Canada and around the world.

Anonymous Comrade writes
"From June 23-25th 2003 the Ministers of Trade, Agriculture and Environment from 180 nations, including all member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will meet in Sacramento California at a summit hosted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), USAID, and the US State Department. This meeting will be a stepping stone to the September WTO Ministerial in Cancun and the Summit of the Americas scheduled for Miami in November. This meeting will be held the same time as an "Expo On Agricultural Science and Technology" which will be showing off the "benefits" of transnational agribusiness and biotechnology.

Alan Moore writes "The "Green Home" show is opening at the Winter Palace in Staten Island April 27th, 2003, as part of the Staten Island Greens' Eco-Fest for a Sane and Sustainable Future.

The question is, how do we live in this world? How do we understand ourselves in relation to the rest of creation, and how is this relation expressed in works of art? The show will combine the global and the local -- prescriptive conceptual art and work, mostly by regional artists, on the theme of a domestic relation with nature.

John A writes:

"STOP THE WAR ON OUR HEALTH!

Support the HUNGER STRIKERS

MAY 6-13, NEW YORK CITY

Despite their failing health on May 6 a group of injured workers will begin a seven-day hunger strike in front of Governor George Pataki's office here in New York City. Other members of the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops have urged them to take caution due to their personal health situations. However the hunger strikers feel that -- together with other injured workers-hurt on the job or by 9-11 -- they have exhausted all other avenues to compel Pataki to address the health concerns of working people.
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Alan Moore writes

"Green Home" Art Show Opens Eco-Fest

Staten Island, NYC, Opening Saturday, April 26, 7-10 p.m.

The "Green Home" show is a group exhibition for the first Staten Island Greens Eco-Fest. It combines arts conceptual, installation, and activist with traditional media. The theme is now -- modern war is the ultimate unsustainable practice, robbing us of our future.

Artists include: Mary Walling Blackburn, Robert Bingham, Nancy Bonior, Mary Campbell, Jackie Cassen, Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), Peggy Cyphers, Stefan Eins, Steve Faust, John Fekner, Peter Fend, Karen Fitzgerald, Green Circus, Richard Hambleton, Virginia Hoge, Rebecca Howland, Sheryl Humphrey, Landscape Project, Su-Jung Lee, William T. Meyer, III, Robin Locke-Monda, Ron Moresan, Hillary Mushkin, Paulette Nenner, Adam Padavano, Claire Pentecost, Kristi Pfister, Cynthia Roberts, Tom Ronce, Christy Rupp Samoa, Phil Sanders, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Willoughby Sharp (video of Joseph Beuys), Frank Shifreen and Thom Corn, Anne-Katrin Spiess, James Teschner, Time's Up, Alyssa Wood and more added.

"Green Home" will be open weekends 12-6 thru May.

Evening events TBA. Call (718) 556-9008;

Email: sigreenfest2003@yahoo.com.
Website: Staten island Greens