hydrarchist writes:

Eminem's Anti-Bush Video

Undoubtedly Eminem's video for his anti-Bush rap "Mosh"is all over the web at this point but I think it's an interesting thing which people should see.

It can be downloaded using Bit Torrent from Internet Vets For Truth. The video was made by Guerrilla News Network, who have shot some excellent pieces with Talib Kewli and have a political slant. On the other hand they produced some materials on 911 which have a clear conspiracy slant and include the dodgy Mike Rupert. Nonetheless this is yet another "intervention" in the US election and it has a weird tone which vacillates between encouraging insurrection, makes a class-based case against Bush but whose bottom line is vote, get him out.

If you are having any technical problems please ask, or check the Fahrenheit 911 thread where quite a few people cut their teeth using p2p to download video. To watch it install Mplayer or Video Lan Client.

"Redrawing Democracy"

Visual Resistance

The Visual Resistance collective calls on all all artists, graphic designers, stencilists, graffitti writers and audacious amateurs! The last time you heard from us, we were gearing up for the protests against the Republican National Convention in New York City. After some jail time and a short rest, we're launching a new site that will document and archive political art from NYC and across the globe.

nolympics writes:

"Broadcasting Legend John Peel Dies, Aged 65
The Guardian

'It feels like John Peel invented Radio 1'

John Peel, the veteran DJ who discovered dozens of major bands during a broadcasting career spanning 40 years, has died after suffering a heart attack. Peel, who was 65, was taken ill during a working holiday with his wife, Sheila, in the city of Cuzco, Peru, and never recovered. The Radio 1 controller, Andy Parfitt, described Peel as a "broadcasting legend"

Anthony Rudolf writes:

Fermin Rocker, 1907–2004

Anarchist's Artist Son

Anthony Rudolf, The Independent

Fermin Rocker, painter and graphic artist: born London 22 December 1907; married 1954 Ruth Robins (died 1989; one son); died London 18 October 2004.

Last night, at the Chambers Gallery in London, took place the private view of what was acknowledged by the painter himself to be his final exhibition.

For some time Fermin Rocker had been tired. His eyes were not as good as they were, and walking the few yards to the studio with its north light — at the back of his top-floor flat in Tufnell Park — was becoming difficult. It was even possible that the private view would be his last or penultimate excursion from the flat, for even with the help of his devoted son and amanuensis, Philip, going down all those mansion-block stairs presented formidable problems. But, after a 48-hour flu, the 96-year-old Rocker died in his bed on Monday. There had always been a good chance he would die brush in hand, but it was not to be.

The eBay Reader

Editors: Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Nathan Epley

This anthology, under contract with Routledge and scheduled for Spring
2006 publication, is the first book-length academic inquiry within the
humanities into the cultural implications of eBay. The essays collected
analyze specific socio-economic, cultural and political practices
engendered by eBay; the site's structural organization, material/technical
interface, and cultural appeal; the "experience economy" eBay has been
central in developing and promoting; and the kinds of cultural changes
this has wrought to aspects of everyday life.

Radha Vij writes:

"The Colonization of Perception:
Government Seduction Blocks Visions of Truth"

Radha Vij

Over two hundred and fifty thousand voices sung over fifty different protest songs in discordant harmony at the RNC in New York City, opposing what some have termed the Bush Dictatorship. Torn t-shirts, designer handbags, good will bargains, high heel stilettos, jeweled necks, and college hemp-wear paraded from Midtown to Union Square defying conventional “convention behavior.” Though there were umbrella concepts tying together the rally — the end to the war, a women’s right to chose, gay rights, the failing economy, etc. — the protesters were just as diverse in their political opinions as they were in their background and fashion style — testament to the fact that the true beauty of New York City is its insuppressible diversity.

NomIg writes

"Revolution: USA"

A Coldcut/NomIg Project

Revolution USA is an online, multimedia political art project put together by Coldcut and collaborators NomIg. Using samples of the last 40 years of American presidents and media figures, we have created an online Archive of Political Corruption and Scandals.

This site features an interactive timeline of major US political scandals and corruption with an integrated database containing: pertinent video clips and samples for download and streaming; pictures; a textual description of each event and offsite links for further research. The site contains hundreds of clips of US politicians in ‘awkward’ moments and other relevant footage, free audio loops and tracks created by Coldcut which are available for download (currently totaling over 13GBs).

carter writes:

Scandinavian Exhibition on American Activist Art

After spending one month in Vancouver, B.C., working with Adbusters I came to New York yesterday. I am curating an exhibition with the name "America vs. America". We want to give activists and artists a medium to speak to an audience of 7 cities in Scandinavia during spring and summer of 2005. The process of this fall's work and the response we get on the exhibition in Scandinavia will be put together into a documentary film. The idea is to try and create contacts across the Atlantic and to show the Scandinavian people a little bit of what the grassroots in the US are doing. We do this because we know that not all americans are stupid, ignorant, lazy Hollywood-plastics who vote for Bush and think that war is a good thing for democracy — many people in Europe and Scandinavia do think that way though.

"Keep Warm, Burn Britain!" Screening, New York, Oct. 3, 2004

"Keep Warm, Burn Britain!" is filmmaker Ross Lipman's documentary/memoir of
the
squatting movement in England in the mid 1980s. It chronicles the lives of
the anarchists, outcasts, and punks who lived in a small enclave of
abandoned buildings south of the Thames in East London; an area known in
the anarchist community as "Squatter's Paradise". After a brief outsider
renaissance the buildings were destroyed and their dwellers dispersed; a
forgotten moment in the broadscale gentrification of Docklands
Development.

"Keep Warm, Burn Britain!" moves freely from the chaotic lives
of the squatters to the broad social canvas in which their tales unfold;
buildings and lives swept up in the sea of change that swallows cities and
time.

A Review of "The Take"

Daniel Morduchowicz, ZNet

In the early 90’s, Argentina was largely regarded in the mainstream as
the poster child for neoliberal globalization. Time magazine announced,
in one of its covers, “Menem’s Miracle”, referring to the country’s
president at the time and his success in turning the economy around
after many decades of serious downturn. Moreover, he did so by adhering
strictly to the mandates of the IMF and the World Bank, privatizating
everything in sight and putting every state owned company up for a fire
sale.