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Events
GNU/Linux Audio Workshop
The August Sound Coalition presents, the first GNU/Linux audio workshop
of the year in the new studio. Details are at this link. Please forward
to your friends or anyone you think will be interested
http://radio.socialtechnology.net/?q=node/12
Our first GNU/Linux audio workshop will be held this Saturday, April 8th
at 1PM. The address is 7 Clifford Place in Greenpoint. That's Brooklyn.
Take the L train to Bedford or the G to Nassau.
The topics will include:
What is Ubuntu? What is GNU? What is Linux? Why three words instead of one?
Key differences from proprietary systems. Bennefits and Detriments.
The Gnome Desktop.
The Jack Audio Connection Kit.
Compatible Hardware.
Simple recording with Alsaplayer, Jack and QArecord.
Simple recording with live input, Jack and QArecord.
Online Resources.
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2006
presented by the NYC and Columbia Law School chapters of the National
Lawyers Guild
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
with a free kickin' after party in Drapkin
featuring DJ Thadeaus!
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL - Jerome Green Hall
115th and Amsterdam
* This conference is FREE for students and activists. It is $25 for
lawyers and professionals. For more info or to pre-register, please
visit here*
PAUL AVRICH MEMORIAL FORUM
LIBERTARIAN BOOK CLUB / ANARCHIST FORUM
On Tuesday, April 11, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's
Anarchist Forum will present a memorial for the beloved anarchist historian
Paul Avrich.
Paul Avrich is considered the most important 20th century American
historian of anarchism. But he is remembered not only for his scholarship
but also for his wit and his human closeness. His research included not
only the discovery of important material dealing with the anarchist actions
in the Russian Revolution but also numerous interviews with American
anarchists as real people not just public figures. His books on anarchist
events in this country were important and numerous. Information on his life and works can be found
here and here.
The event will take place at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street,
Manhattan (between Bank and Bethune streets) (212-242-4201).
Take an A, C, E, or L train to the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway stop
or take a 1, 2, or 3 train to the 14th Street and 7th Avenue stop.
Everybody is welcome and invited to come and to have their say.
Admission is free for the presentation, but a contribution to aid the LBC
is suggested.
If you have questions, contact the LBC /Anarchist Forum, 212-979-8353 or
e-mail: roberterler@erols.com .
Call to Attend the First National Workers’ Gathering
Event to Be Held April 29 in Mexico City
By Unions with the Other Campaign and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation March 26, 2006
To the urban workers that have adhered to the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign
To the workers that fight and to all the exploited:
We the undersigned, members of the Other Campaign that is being developed across the country, invite you to the First National Workers’ Gathering, which will be held Saturday, April 29, in the offices of the National Union of Uniroyal Workers, located at 95 Lago Plava, Huichapan neighborhood, Mexico City, to meet with the following goals:
1. Prepare for our participation in the commemoration of International Workers’ Day, May 1, across the country, in what we will call “The Other May 1.”
2. Democratically discuss a plan of struggle to defeat charrismo (corrupt union leadership) in all its expressions in our union organizations.
3. Promote the formation of a democratic, class-conscious, fighting international organization throughout the Other Campaign that allows us to face the struggle against the bosses and their government — both the current administration and the one that will be elected this July 2.
4. Strengthen our struggles through the formation of currents or groups based in the unions, in order to reclaim our organizations from the hands of agents of the bosses, the charros and the neo-charros.
5. Rescue the basic principles of the working class and our political participation in the life of the country.
6. Discuss a platform of struggle that allows us to reestablish the true role of the workers in society, independently and through struggle, with very clear goals, where the independence of the working class to develop its own political participation prevails.
7. Strengthen our unity with the poor peasant farmers, the indigenous, the popular sectors, the women, the youth, and other exploited and oppressed sectors of the prevailing capitalist society in our country, which are the only allies we can count on.
8. Surround with solidarity the different struggles that many of our compañeros are developing across the county, and create the necessary links with workers of other nations.
This call is completely open to the workers in general and to whoever is interested in this initiative, as long as it will be the workers who enjoy the space to reflect and reach agreements.
Sincerely,
National Revolutionary Union of Hulera Euzkadi Company Workers
National Union of Uniroyal Workers
Workers’ Group from the National Union of General Tire Workers
Workers’ Group from the Hulera Tornel Company
San Luis Potosí Solidarity Front for the Defense of Labor Rights
University of Guadalajara Union of Academic Personnel
National United Front of Active, Retired and Pensioned National Social Security Institute (IMSS) Workers
Collective of Trade Unionists with the Sixth Declaration
Central Unitaria de Trabajadores
Socialist Workers’ Party
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
If interested speak to the hosts of the gathering in Mexico City by calling 5591-0168 or 5703-2244, or by writing to posmex@prodigy.net.mx or
agnmex@yahoo.com.mx
Howard Zinn's Play "Marx in Soho" with Jerry Levy
Two Benefit Performances for Autonomedia
New York City, 8 PM, March 31 & April 1, 2006 Brecht Forum, 451 West St (btw Bank & Bethune St, A/C/E/L to 14th St & 8th Ave, 1/2/3 to 14th St & 7th Ave). $10-$25 donation. Reservations recommended.
Info:
718-963-2603, info@autonomedia.org & www.autonomedia.org
Leopoldina Fortunati
Discussing The Meaning of the Mobile Phone
April 10th, 2006. 3:00-5:00pm
Department of Information Systems in Studio Ciborra, 5th floor, Tower One
Information Systems Department, LSE
ICTs in the Contemporary World: information, management and culture
This decade of research on the mobile phone has been very important in explaining its social co-construction and its subversive and regressive potential at the level of interpersonal, social and business relations. Its identity as an information and communication technology has been widely explored and it has turned out to be particularly ambivalent (attractive/unattractive), but also highly changeable (with rapid shifts from mobile to personal technology, from oral technology to written) and, in part, dissimulative. In fact, the mobile is a device that is only in part communicative, as owing to its costs it allows only rapid exchanges or otherwise written messages, these also very short. Looking at the mobile phone as a technological artefact, its body results largely the fruit of unexpected and innovative behaviour on the part of users.
The limit to this decade of research is that the research has remained so far at the descriptive level. Despite the greater part of empirical studies of this device being focused on its diffusion, use, and consumption in the domestic sphere, they have generally not been connected with any of the theoretical analysis of the domestic sphere which has been carried out in the last decades.
I wish to connect the analysis of the role of the mobile phone to this theoretical analysis, which will enable us to better understand that the mobile phone is a work tool for reproduction, that is, a machine used within the social process governing everyday life. People have certainly used the mobile phone to connect the world of work better with that of the family, by rationalizing organization here and there to their advantage, which means saving time, money and fatigue. But if we see it as a work tool, we will discover that its widespread use has taken on other dimensions. In fact it has had at the same time the effect of making people both in offices and factories and in the domestic sphere more productive, penetrating through the very pores of the working day of men, women, youth and children, sweeping away much rigidity and inertia, and eliminating many of those shadow areas in which people disappeared to “take a breather” as it were, thus avoiding the continuity of command and control by the organization of work or family and, in general, social networks. The widespread use of the mobile phone has had the unexpected effect of depriving workers, and people in general, both of the numerous times and spaces of social disconnection and the thousand defence strategies which counted on this disconnection.
Leopoldina Fortunati
Discussing The Meaning of the Mobile Phone
April 10th, 2006. 3:00-5:00pm
Department of Information Systems in Studio Ciborra, 5th floor, Tower One
Information Systems Department, LSE
ICTs in the Contemporary World: information, management and culture
This decade of research on the mobile phone has been very important in explaining its social co-construction and its subversive and regressive potential at the level of interpersonal, social and business relations. Its identity as an information and communication technology has been widely explored and it has turned out to be particularly ambivalent (attractive/unattractive), but also highly changeable (with rapid shifts from mobile to personal technology, from oral technology to written) and, in part, dissimulative. In fact, the mobile is a device that is only in part communicative, as owing to its costs it allows only rapid exchanges or otherwise written messages, these also very short. Looking at the mobile phone as a technological artefact, its body results largely the fruit of unexpected and innovative behaviour on the part of users.
The limit to this decade of research is that the research has remained so far at the descriptive level. Despite the greater part of empirical studies of this device being focused on its diffusion, use, and consumption in the domestic sphere, they have generally not been connected with any of the theoretical analysis of the domestic sphere which has been carried out in the last decades.
I wish to connect the analysis of the role of the mobile phone to this theoretical analysis, which will enable us to better understand that the mobile phone is a work tool for reproduction, that is, a machine used within the social process governing everyday life. People have certainly used the mobile phone to connect the world of work better with that of the family, by rationalizing organization here and there to their advantage, which means saving time, money and fatigue. But if we see it as a work tool, we will discover that its widespread use has taken on other dimensions. In fact it has had at the same time the effect of making people both in offices and factories and in the domestic sphere more productive, penetrating through the very pores of the working day of men, women, youth and children, sweeping away much rigidity and inertia, and eliminating many of those shadow areas in which people disappeared to “take a breather” as it were, thus avoiding the continuity of command and control by the organization of work or family and, in general, social networks. The widespread use of the mobile phone has had the unexpected effect of depriving workers, and people in general, both of the numerous times and spaces of social disconnection and the thousand defence strategies which counted on this disconnection.
Leopoldina Fortunati
Discussing The Meaning of the Mobile Phone
April 10th, 2006. 3:00-5:00pm
Department of Information Systems in Studio Ciborra, 5th floor, Tower One
Information Systems Department, LSE
ICTs in the Contemporary World: information, management and culture
This decade of research on the mobile phone has been very important in explaining its social co-construction and its subversive and regressive potential at the level of interpersonal, social and business relations. Its identity as an information and communication technology has been widely explored and it has turned out to be particularly ambivalent (attractive/unattractive), but also highly changeable (with rapid shifts from mobile to personal technology, from oral technology to written) and, in part, dissimulative. In fact, the mobile is a device that is only in part communicative, as owing to its costs it allows only rapid exchanges or otherwise written messages, these also very short. Looking at the mobile phone as a technological artefact, its body results largely the fruit of unexpected and innovative behaviour on the part of users.
The limit to this decade of research is that the research has remained so far at the descriptive level. Despite the greater part of empirical studies of this device being focused on its diffusion, use, and consumption in the domestic sphere, they have generally not been connected with any of the theoretical analysis of the domestic sphere which has been carried out in the last decades.
I wish to connect the analysis of the role of the mobile phone to this theoretical analysis, which will enable us to better understand that the mobile phone is a work tool for reproduction, that is, a machine used within the social process governing everyday life. People have certainly used the mobile phone to connect the world of work better with that of the family, by rationalizing organization here and there to their advantage, which means saving time, money and fatigue. But if we see it as a work tool, we will discover that its widespread use has taken on other dimensions. In fact it has had at the same time the effect of making people both in offices and factories and in the domestic sphere more productive, penetrating through the very pores of the working day of men, women, youth and children, sweeping away much rigidity and inertia, and eliminating many of those shadow areas in which people disappeared to “take a breather” as it were, thus avoiding the continuity of command and control by the organization of work or family and, in general, social networks. The widespread use of the mobile phone has had the unexpected effect of depriving workers, and people in general, both of the numerous times and spaces of social disconnection and the thousand defence strategies which counted on this disconnection.
Beyond Biopolitics: State Racism and the Politics of Life and Death
New York City, March 16–17, 2006
The Center for the Study of Women and Society/CUNY
March 16–17, 2006
At the Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Room 9206–9207
Thursday, March 16
9:00 – 10:00 AM Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 AM Welcome: Patricia Clough
10:00 - 11:30 AM Race, population and technologies
of control Eugene Thacker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Moderator: Patricia Clough, The CUNY Graduate Center
11:30 - 1:00 PM Detention, death and documentation
Cagatay Topal, Queen’s University
Sora Han, UCLA School of Law
Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia
Moderator: Jeff Bussolini, College of Staten Island, CUNY
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 PM Indebtedness, freedom and state
racism Ann Anagnost, University of Washington
Richard Dienst, Rutgers University
Stefano Harney, University of Leicester
Fred Moten, University of Southern California
Moderator: Craig Willse, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:00 - 5:30 PM Commentary
Craig Willse, The CUNY Graduate Center
Anahid Kassabian, University of Liverpool
Randy Martin, New York University
Jackie Orr, Syracuse University
Joseph W. Schneider, Drake University
Friday, March 17
9:00 – 10:00 AM Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 AM Welcome: Patricia Clough
10:00 – 11:30 AM Invested nature and the science of
death Michael Dorsey, Dartmouth College
Richard Doyle, Pennsylvania State
Cori Hayden, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Ananya Mukerjea, College of Staten Island CUNY
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Eventuation, bodies and memories
Saidiya Hartman, UC Berkeley
Brian Massumi, Université de Montréal
Amit Rai, Florida State University
May Joseph, Pratt Institute
Moderator: Couze Venn, Nottingham Trent University
1:00 - 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 – 4:00 Commentary & discussion Jamie
Bianco, Queens College, CUNY
Grace Mitchell, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Couze Venn, Nottingham Trent University
Peter Hitchcock, The CUNY Graduate Center
Patricia Clough, The CUNY Graduate Center
LIBERTARIAN BOOK CLUB / ANARCHIST FORUM
ALTERNATIVE WORKER ORGANIZING and THE CRISIS IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT
panelists from Workers Solidarity Alliance; Industrial Workers of the World; Make the Road by Walking; Million Worker March
On Tuesday, March 14, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist Forum
will present a panel of rank and file labor group members who will describe
their response to the current crisis in the U.S. labor movement. This crisis
is one in which the established unions continue to decline in membership
and the recent controversies in the official labor movement have done
little to show a new way forward. At the same time the power of the workers
on the job and in society in general continues to decrease.
The panel will also present alternative ways of worker organizing that can
restore the power of the labor movement. Recent experiences with immigrant
workers in Brooklyn, with the Starbucks organizing campaign and with
rank-and-file struggles among auto workers and in other sectors around the
country have shown that workers can organize without bureaucracy and as an
integral part of a struggle within the community for justice and equity.
The panelists will draw on their recent experiences and place them in the
larger context of the needed changes in the labor movmenet today.
After the presentation the panel will have an extensive open discussion
among themselves and with the audience about the state of the labor
movement and strategies for the future.
The event will take place at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street,
Manhattan (between Bank and Bethune streets) (212-242-4201).
Take an A, C, E, or L train to the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway stop
or take a 1, 2, or 3 train to the 14th Street and 7th Avenue stop.
Everybody is welcome and invited to come and to have their say.
Admission is free for the presentation, but a contribution to aid the LBC is
suggested.
If you have questions, contact the LBC /Anarchist Forum, 212-979-8353 or
e-mail: roberterler@erols.com .
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