"Searching for Truth on Monte Verità"

Dale Bechtel, Swissinfo

Ascona is Switzerland’s most popular southern resort, but
the cradle of European counterculture is only a shadow of
its former self.

Swiss-Germans and Germans come for a relaxing holiday on the
lakeside, most unaware that leading European anarchists once
tried to build a utopian society here.

Moore's Anti-Bush Film Wins Top Cannes Award

Houston Chronicle

CANNES, France — Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" won the Palme d'Or best film award at the Cannes film festival today. Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a scathing attack on the White House, was up against French director Agnes Jaoui's sharp, literate ugly-duckling tale Look at Me; South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook's savagely energetic vengeance saga Old Boy; and Brazilian Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, a portrait of rebel Che Guevara as a young romantic.

Moore Turns Up Heat on White House

Charlotte Higgins, Agence France Presse

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is without doubt the film the Cannes film
festival crowds all want to see. And with good reason, because Moore hopes
it will bring down the US Government.

The American film-maker has hitherto kept a tight lid on the contents of
the documentary, and said only that it includes evidence of links between
the Bush and bin Laden families.

"Apocalypse Please"

George Monbiot, London Guardian

US policy towards the Middle East is driven by a rarefied form of madness.
It's time we took it seriously.

To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must first
understand what is happening in Texas. To understand what is happening
there, you should read the resolutions passed at the state's Republican
party conventions last month. Take a look, for example, at the decisions
made in Harris County, which covers much of Houston.1

The delegates began by nodding through a few uncontroversial matters:
homosexuality is contrary to the truths ordained by God; "any mechanism to
process, license, record, register or monitor the ownership of guns" should
be repealed; income tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and corporation
tax should be abolished; and immigrants should be deterred by electric
fences.2

Thus fortified, they turned to the real issue: the affairs of a
small state 7000 miles away. It was then, according to a participant, that
the "screaming and near fistfights" began.

Anonymous Comrade writes:


rogressive Art Institutions in the Age of Dissolving Welfare States

The new issue of the multilingual republicart web-journal is now online-

In the institutions of the art field the indissoluble link between power and resistance, as described by Foucault and Deleuze, is especially evident. Progressive art institutions try to act as buffers against the influence of state and capital on critical art practices, but at the same time function as machines of a soft instrumentalization of resistance.

DRIPHT writes Press Release 17/05/04
HEAR DRIPHT'S 'MARK BARNSLEY' ON LINE - VIDEO TO BE LAUNCHED THIS WEEK!

Dripht's forthcoming single 'Mark Barnsley' is available for download in the News and Media/Audio sections of www.dripht.com . The track will form part of Dripht's EP, recorded at Temple Studios, which will be officially launched on 3rd July at Signals Tal-Qroqq in a live concert with supporting act Subculture.

Dripht shall also be launching the video of 'Mark Barnsley', produced by No Sweat Productions, next Friday 21st May on D GENERATION, TVM at 7.30pm.
Dripht shall also be playing other tracks "Acid Fight" and "Continental Drift" during the programme.

The 'Mark Barnsley' video features an exclusive message by Mark Barnsley, extensive live and studio footage of Dripht as well as exclusive footage of activities by progressive NGOs Moviment Graffitti and Move! Organisation.

Anonymous Comrade writes
Camp for Oppositional Architecture

Berlin, Germany, June 25th till 27th 2004

From June 25th till 27th 2004, the political architectural journal An Architektur organizes the "Camp for Oppositional Architecture". This international, open congress is searching for possibilities of resistance within the field of architecture and planning.

Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 25-28, 2004

We are living in a time of global uncertainty when violence is
everywhere, democracy is under attack, and the United States is
engaged in a war without end, a permanent war on the world. A
politics of fear has offset a politics of hope. In light of these uncertain
and violent times, poets, writers, artists and cultural studies scholars
from across the world will gather together in common purpose to
seek a new politics of resistance and hope.

At the Fifth International
Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, we will advocate
nonviolent regimes of truth that honor culture, universal human rights
and the sacred. We will explore critical methodologies that protest,
resist and help us represent and imagine radically free utopian
spaces.

hydrarchist writes

"Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush"

Jim Rutenberg

The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, executives at both Disney and Miramax said Tuesday.

The film, "Fahrenheit 911," links Mr. Bush and prominent Saudis — including the family of Osama bin Laden — and criticizes Mr. Bush's actions before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Hubert Selby Jr. Dies at 75; Wrote Last Exit to Brooklyn

Anthony DePalma, NY Times, April 27, 2004

Hubert Selby Jr., the Brooklyn-born ex-merchant mariner who turned to drugs and to writing after cheating death and created a lasting vision of urban hell in his novel "Last Exit to Brooklyn," died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75.