Meet the Shock Troops of the Christian Youth
Battle Cry for Theocracy!

Sunsara Taylor

If you've been waiting until the Christian fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping them up to do battle in "God's army" to get alarmed, wait no longer.

In recent weeks, Battle Cry, a Christian fundamentalist youth movement, has attracted more than 25,000 to mega-rally rock concerts in San Francisco and Detroit and this weekend they plan to fill Wachovia Stadium in Philadelphia.

NOT BORED! writes:

Karl Appel, 1921–2006
Philippe Dagen

Born in Amsterdam in 1921, Karel Appel received his first lessons in painting from one of his uncles in 1936. From 1940 to 1943, he was a student at Amsterdam's Academy of Beaux Arts, where he became friends with another student one year younger than him, Corneille van Beverloo, who was already called [just] Corneille. In 1946, the two friends found themselves in Liege, hometown of Corneille. Then they showed their work together in Amsterdam in 1948. It was then that they met another Amsteldamois, born in 1920: Constant Nieuwenhuis, surnamed Constant.

Together, on 16 July 1948, they founded the Dutch Experimental Group. In common they had youth, their refusal of all academicism and their taste for Matisse, Picasso and Miro. Several weeks later, they were in Paris, in the company of the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont and the Danish painter Asger Jorn. On 8 November, in a cafe near Notre Dame, they drafted a manifesto of rupture, [entitled] The cause being agreed. Several days later, Dotremont came up with the name of the emerging group: CO for Copenhagen, BR for Brussels, [and] A for Amsterdam. Thus, COBRA. Appel was thus one of the founders of this essential post-war movement.

Creative Resisting In Tampere

Fri - Sun 19-21 May 2006

An evening with 'MY DADS STRIP CLUB'


Friday 19.May 18-20.00

Old Library House (Vanha kirjastotalo), Keskustori 4

English with Finnish translation

A mix of video, comedy and stunts this special My Dads Strip Club
evening brings a unique combination of critical consumption & humour
to the old library house. This social evening offers an insight into
the world
of playful creative resistance acts from around the globe.

Everyone welcome.
Free entry.

ANSWER BACK "No, Macdonalds. I'm NOT Loving It."

Saturday and Sunday 20-21 May 2006

Tampere Central Square 12:30-17:30

( part of DIY city project http://www.teeseitsekaupunki.net/)

Working languages: English with Finnish translation

My Dads Strip Club takes up the challenge to work with local citizens
to 'Answer Back'.

How do we break out of the climate of hypnotized passivity that the
products and adverts cultivate?

"Hey Coke, do you wanna see what The Real Thing feels like"

We want to culture a spirit of answering back with an emphasis on good
time and playfulness. We envisage a mix of 'creatives' and 'resisters'
working together to improvise and make new responses to the city in a
creative and lively way. This DIY approach is a chance to bring
together different ideas and build networks for future creative
actions in Finland. The emphasis will be on fun, building confidence
and relationships.

CONTACTS: For additional information email: me@mydadsstripclub.com
Booking is not essential, but it helps us to know who is coming.
+358 50 929 6887 (english)

Fourth Annual People's Poetry Gathering
New York, May, 2006

Friends, Join us for

THE FOURTH PEOPLE'S POETRY GATHERING

Sponsored by City Lore and the Bowery Poetry Club

Featuring

The Wor(l)d of New York!

and

Poems from the World's Endangered and Contested Languages

Read and performed in their Mother Tongues and English

including the

“Festival within a Festival”

Harpsong: Celtic Poetry and Music

and

The New

New York City Epic Poem

and Poems of our Fair (and sometimes Unfair) City

Read by Twenty Poets Laureate of New York

From May 3rd to 7th, 2006, the People's Poetry Gathering www.peoplespoetry.org - a poetry festival unlike any other, rooted in New York City's hybrid sounds, rhythms, and histories - bursts into life for the fourth time to invite New Yorkers to consider and celebrate the inestimable value of all languages and the artists who sculpt, sing, rant, dance and breathe the Realm of Words.

Eduardo Galeano and Arundhati Roy

New York, May 21, 2006

An Evening of Readings and Conversation with
EDUARDO GALEANO and ARUNDHATI ROY

Presented by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change

7:00 pm, Sunday, May 21, 2006

The Town Hall

123 West 43rd Street, New York

Between 6th Avenue & Broadway

Doors open at 6:15 pm

All seats $15.00. Limit of 8 tickets per person.

ART AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM

Capturing the Moving Mind, ARS 06 Kiasma Rear Window 20.4.-2.7.2006.

In September 2005 a meeting took place in the Trans-Siberian train. It gathered a pack of people ... artists, economists, researchers, philosophers, activists who were interested in the new logic of the economy (knowledge economy, attention economy, biopolitical economy), the new forms of war and politics (war against terrorism) and in the new cooperative modes of creation and resistance (precariarity, terrorist cells)... together in a space moving in time. Spatially moving bodies and bodies moving in time (through nine time zones) created an event, a meeting that not really 'was' but 'is going on'.

Capturing the Moving Mind exhibition tells about this organizational experiment. The exhibition at the Kiasma Rear Window is part of the ARS 06 exhibition. It weaves a connection between art and politics, between art as an act of resistance and economy as production of life. Today our thinking and emotional abilities, our imagination and subjectivity are increasingly put to work in economic production. That is why the question of art as an act of resistance and creation of new forms of autonomous and good life – a life in which our ways and acts of living are always about the possibilities of life – intervenes directly at the core of this enterprise. The question of experimental life and the critique of capitalism must today be seen as one.

Anonymous Comrade writes

"1968" Conference

April 7–8, 2006, Ithaca, New York

Ithaca College to Host Symposium on 1968

Scholars and artists from around the country will gather at Ithaca College in upstte New York on April 7 and 8, 2006 to exchange ideas, images, and open discussion at a symposium about the watershed year of 1968. The symposium represents an effort to look at a broad and dramatic historical moment with an eye toward the radical sense of possibility and inquiry that it contained.

"This event will bring together a dynamic range of scholars and media-makers whose work directly engages the period's international breadth of activism and critique — from political protest and social change to radical incursions in philosophical, mass-cultural, and avant-garde art practices," says symposium organizer Cathy Crane, assistant professor of cinema and photography.

Below is a list of programs. All of the events are free and open to the public.

NOT BORED! writes

"Rene Vienet:
The Bad Boy of Sinology"

Helene Hazera

Rene Vienet is one of the only French Sinologists to have denounced the Chinese totalitarian regime and its nihilistic Cultural Revolution, at a time when, on the Right and Left, many looked favorably upon Mao Tse-Tung. Over the course of five broadcasts, A voix nue looks at this uncommon person.

Rene Vienet was born in the Havre, where his father was a dock worker. While a student, he seduced a Girl Scout who was the sister of the companion of Guy Debord; [1] when he showed up in Paris to study Chinese with Jacques Pimpaneau, he joined the Situationist International. Studying in China, he saw the beginnings of the "revo-cul" (the term is his). [2] He was expelled [from China] in 1966, and without difficulty he was among the first in France to denounce the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution."

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, INTERVENTIONS AND COLLABORATIONS

KnowledgeLab III: WHO CARES?

June 30 - July 2 2006

An open weekend gathering for people concerned about themselves, each
other and the world we live in.

Institute for Advanced Studies - Lancaster University, North West England.

"It doesn't matter how you feel, that's just the way it is." Whether
protesting against war, dealing with bureaucracy or a difficult boss, or
trying to communicate in an abusive relationship, we are told again and
again that our feelings don't matter. "Unhappy?" ask the advertisers.
"Just go shopping!" Taking care of yourself, in a corporate world, might
mean trying to get ahead so you have enough money to be able to go on
holiday and relax or buy things to distract yourself. Or maybe it means
feeling like you have to fit in and stay out of trouble.

If you think about caring differently, or want to, this weekend
gathering might be for you.

Unlike most gatherings or conferences at universities, the KnowledgeLab
is a series of self-organised events. This doesn't mean that they
organise themselves(!), but that all participants are encouraged to be
active organisers. Since the gathering will be defined by those who get
involved in preparing it, the lists below are merely suggestions.

The plan is to experiment with formats and settings, looking for
helpful, caring, creative moments. Suggestions so far include having a
mix of longer and shorter sessions, discussions and other ways of
relating/creating.

CONFLUX 2006 - September 14 - 17. 2006

Conflux is the annual New York City festival where visual and sound
artists, writers, urban adventurers, researchers and the public gather for
four days to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.

Say hello to Brooklyn! In 2006, Conflux will be held in Brooklyn for the
first time. McCaig-Welles Gallery in Williamsburg will serve as our
headquarters, with events taking place in and around the gallery.

Conflux 2006 is produced by Glowlab and curated by Glowlab and iKatun.

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HOW TO APPLY

Please read the guidelines below, and enter your submission online at:
http://conflux2006.glowlab.com

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE

10 April, 2006, 11:59pm EST

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CONFLUX SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Participants in Conflux share an interest in psychogeography [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography ]. Projects presented range
from interpretations of the classical approach developed by the
Situationists to emerging artistic, conceptual and technology-based
practices.

At Conflux, participants, along with attendees and the public, put these
investigations into action on the city streets. The city becomes a
playground, a laboratory and a space for the development
of new networks and communities.