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Events
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.
"The world does contain much ugliness and despair, but artists have the divine privilege of reshaping the world to incorporate not a minimum amount of involvement and interpretation, but a maximum amount." -Thomas Kinkaid
In the spirit of the quote above .... COME ONE COME ALL ... Here is a chance to get out in the streets and act for change!! This Saturday the New York Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq will be held at Cooper Union - right on Astor Place. STREET THEATRE - STREET THEATRE - STREET THEATRE
The organizers have secured the rights to the area around Cooper Union and Kayhan Irani and Tricia Wagner are planning on doing some street theatre to draw attention to the meetings and raise awareness. We are planning some newspaper theatre, some image work and short scenes. Please contact us through e- mail or phone if you would like to join us in this endeavor - paw233@nyu.edu or kayhanirani@msn.com
(646)335-3363 or (917)363-3481 We could use some planning help tomorrow as well as people to come act and play with us on Saturday! Attached is more information about the Tribunal We will be meeting SATURDAY at 9:30 at Astor Place! Hope to see you there!! Tricia & Kay
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES THE ISTANBUL PLATFORM TEXT [Istanbul, October 29 2003] -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
Origins of the project The idea of organising an international tribunal against the invasion of Iraq originated nearly simultaneously in several places around the world. It was discussed and in principle supported at Anti-War Meetings during 2003 in Berlin, Jakarta and Geneva, Paris and Cancun. The Jakarta Peace Consensus declared on May 25th, 2003 its commitment to the realisation of an international war crimes tribunal. The proposal was also discussed at the Networking Conference (European Network for Peace and Human Rights) organised by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in Brussels on June 26/27th 2003, and the idea was broadly supported at that meeting. The working group meeting in Brussels discussed the idea and possibilities of convening an international tribunal to investigate and establish the crimes perpetrated against the people of Iraq and humanity. It was decided that it would consist of several hearings around the world, each of them focusing on different aspects of this war and the strategies behind it. The tribunal platform from Turkey was entrusted with the task of acting as the secretariat and the clearing house, and carrying out the coordination in close contact with the groups in Brussels, Hiroshima, New York, London and other cities. This international Coordinating Committee convened a meeting in Istanbul on October 27-29th 2003 to decide the concept, form and aims of the project. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
The legitimacy of the project A war of aggression was launched despite the opposition of people and governments all over the world. However, there is no court or authority that will judge the acts of the US and its allies. If the official authorities fail, then authority derived from universal morals and human rights principles can speak for the world. Our legitimacy derives from: ·the failure of official international institutions to hold accountable those who committed grave international crimes and constitute a continued menace to world peace; ·being part of the worldwide anti-war movement which expressed its opposition to this invasion; ·the Iraqi people resisting occupation; ·the duty of all people of conscience to take action against wars of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other breaches of international law; ·the struggles of the past to develop systems of peaceful co-existence and prevent future aggression and breaches of the UN Charter; ·giving voice to the voiceless victims of this war, articulating the concerns of civil society as expressed by the worldwide social justice and peace movements; ·the will to bring the principles of international law to the forefront. Further, our legitimacy will be earned as we proceed to achieve the aims stated in this document . -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
The tasks of the tribunal ·The first task of the tribunal is to investigate the crimes committed by the US government in launching the Iraq war. In spite of a world movement condemning this war and its clear violations of international law , the US government forced its premeditated war strategy upon the world. Moreover the US-government demands impunity and continues to put itself above all international laws and conventions. ·The second task is to investigate allegations of war crimes during the aggression, crimes against laws of occupation, humanitarian law and crimes against humanity, including genocide. Such an inquiry may include the sanctions imposed against Iraq and the use of illegal weapons which kill over generations, such as depleted uranium. ·The third task is the investigation and exposure of the New Imperial World Order. The tribunal would therefore consider the broader context of the doctrines of "pre-emptive war" and "preventive war" and all the consequences of those doctrines : "benevolent hegemony", "full spectrum dominance" and "multiple simultaneous theatre wars"… As part of this process, some hearings will investigate the vast economic interests involved in this rationalized war-logic. ·The tribunal, after having examined reports and documentary evidence and having listened to witnesses (Iraqi and international victims and various experts), will reach a decision. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
The aims In organising this International Tribunal we pursue four fundamental aims.
·To establish the facts about what happened in Iraq and to inform the public about the crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes during the occupation, about the real goals behind this war and the dangers of this War logic for world peace. It is especially important to break the web of lies promulgated by the war-coalition and its imbedded press. ·To continue and strengthen the mobilisation of the peace movement and the global anti-war protest. It is intended that the tribunal will not be an academic endeavour but will be backed by a strong international network. Anti-war and peace movements, which carried out the big mass movements against the attack on Iraq have in principle adopted the idea of indicting the aggressors and of setting up a campaign to support the Tribunal process. ·The tribunal is to be considered a continuing process. The investigation of what happened in Iraq is of prime importance to restore truth and preserve collective memory against the constant rewriting of history. We are challenging the silence of international institutions and seeking to put them under pressure to fulfil their obligations under international law. In judging the recent past our aim is to prevent illegal wars in the future. During this process the tribunal can formulate recommendations on international law and expand notions of justice and ethical-political awareness. It can contribute to providing alternatives to 'victors' justice' and give a voice to the victims of the war. In doing so, we support the demands by world public opinion and the Iraqi people to end the occupation and restore Iraqi sovereignty. ·The International Tribunal initiative seeks to be part of a broader movement to stop the establishment of the new imperial world order as a permanent 'state of exception' with constant wars as one of its main tools. The Tribunal can bring a moral, political and judicial judgment that contributes to build a world of peace and justice. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
Form of the tribunal The general plan is to hold an independent world tribunal with: associated events, associated commissions of inquiry, commissions of investigation, hearings and specific issue tribunal sessions in various countries, culminating in a final tribunal session in Istanbul. As for now, other finalized locations for sessions are Brussels and Hiroshima. At the moment other proposals for sites of hearings include New York, Copenhagen, Munich and Mexico. Associated events will be held in London - Legal Inquiry into the Invasion and Military Occupation of Iraq - and at the WSF in Mumbai - World Court on War as Crime. The ICTI (International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq) of Japan that is now preparing for public hearings of Iraq tribunal throughout Japan and various Asian countries is a partner in the World Tribunal on Iraq and will contribute to the final session of WTI in Istanbul with all its findings. Being confronted with the paradox that we want to end impunity but we do not have the enforcement power to do so, we have to follow a middle way between mere political protest and academic symposiums without any judicial ambition on the one hand, and on the other hand, procedural trials of which the outcome is known beforehand. This paradox implies that we are just citizens and therefore have no right to judge in a strict judicial way and have at the same time the duty as citizens to oppose criminal and war policies, which should be our starting point and our strength. Although these commissions of inquiry will be working in conformity with an overall concept that will apply to the whole tribunal (spelled out in the Charter), the hearings will also have some autonomy oncerning format. By approaching the Iraq case from as many angles as possible (international law, geopolitical and economical analysis, we strengthen our common objective to end impunity and resist the imperial wars. In this way the hearings will mutually enforce each other and all the findings will be brought together in the final session in Istanbul. In order to be as inclusive as possible, we will support and recognize endeavours to resist impunity. The project will endorse and support the efforts to bring national authorities and warmakers to national courts (like the complaints filed in various state courts under the doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction ) and to international courts (like the International Criminal Court in the Hague). -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
Timing The core series of hearings will start on Wednesday April 14th 2004 in Brussels and end in a final tribunal session in Istanbul that will start on March 20th 2005, the second anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. These will be preceded by intensive inquiries, networking and campaigning. Appeal to the national and international movements We address an appeal to all organizations and individuals to support this project. We invite organizations to endorse and participate at various levels. They could: 1.Undertake to organize a hearing or an associated event. 2.Host a hearing. 3.Contribute by contacts, names of people who would qualify to take part in the various components of the tribunal and make initial contacts with those people. 4.Contribute names & contacts of persons and organizations of experts who are already researching various aspects of the crimes and violations in question. 5.Undertake to prepare certain reports and make them available for the use of the tribunal. 6.Build a web page in as many languages as possible and see that information is timely posted . 7.Undertake to organize a local campaign in support of the tribunal. 8.Contribute financially towards meeting the expenses involved in realizing this tribunal. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------"
New York City Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq
Cooper Union, Great Hall, Saturday, May 8, 2004
7 East 7th Street at 3rd Av, NYC
ALL DAY — Starts 10:00 a.m., [doors open 9:30 a.m.] FREE — donations welcome
Web: www.worldtribunal-nyc.org
Email: info@worldtribunal-nyc.org
Bombs have been dropped and lives shattered. Much of Iraq lies in ruins,
smashed, looted and then occupied by a hostile and unwanted invasion force.
In the face of the human suffering caused by the war on Iraq we must act
now against the crime of silence and impunity to write a counter-history.
"John Chapman's Harvest"
Jordan Zinovich, Radio BION
Autonomedia editor Jordan Zinovich has written a radio play loosely based on the life of American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman.
"John Chapman's Harvest" is a picaresque scramble through the mind of Chapman's 21st century avatar. Written as a four-voice radio play — with the Narratrix creating the world, Mercury providing itineraries, and Pomona as nurturing divinity — Chapman moves from the Rocky Mountains to Amsterdam to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with stops on the barricades at Quebec City and at the lost anarchist utopia of Fools' Paradise. En route he surveils 18 extraordinary varieties of heritage apple in a search for knowledge and satisfaction.
"John Chapman's Harvest" will be broadcast on BION Radio, a community radio micro-casting project in Bushwick, Brooklyn, run by the transmission arts organization Free103point9.
The show will air at 7 pm EDT on May 6, and will be web-cast at www.free103point9.org
"(as if) beauty never ends..." and Other Video Works
Jayce Salloum, New York City, May 8, 2004
Jayce Salloum will present his "untitled" project, an ongoing videotape addressing social and political realities, representations, enunciations, and the conditions of living between polarities of culture, geography, history, and ideology. In part 1: "everything and nothing" (1999-2001, 40 mins.), Salloum, off-camera, talks with Soha Bechara, the ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter who was detained for 10 years in the notorious El-Khiam torture and interrogation center in South Lebanon. In a riveting and intimate conversation, Salloum inquires about home, being interviewed to death, resistance, survival, and the distance between Paris, where Bechara now lives, and Khiam.
In part 2: "beauty and the east" (1999–2002, 50 mins.), Salloum turns obliquely to the former Yugoslavia after the NATO bombing. In a kaleidoscope of interviews, refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, and cultural producers address topics ranging from identity and fascism to nationalism and monsters. In both anecdotal and theoretical recountings, they lay out the issues currently at stake in this region of displacement and redefinition; their words are located within images of cities and landscapes.
Also shown will be part 3: "(as if) beauty never ends..." (2003, 11 mins.), in which ambient footage including a montage of orchids blooming and material from the site of the 1982 massacres at Lebanon's Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps are juxtaposed with the voice Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine. The tape permeates into an essay on dystopia in contemporary times, and provides an elegiac response to the Palestinian dispossession.
North East Mutual Aid Gathering
New York City, May 7-9, 2004
Please contact us as soon as possible if you plan on coming (and thanks to
those who already have!). When you rsvp let us know if you need childcare
or sleeping accommodations. We can’t guaruntee anything to those who don’t
register by May 1, but we sure will try!
The first Saturday in May, people all around the world gather to celebrate a plant and to demand freedom. The annual Million Marijuana March will take place in hundreds of cities worldwide the first Saturday of May, May 1, 2004.
Details for the New York City event appear below. Details for hundreds of cities worldwide may be found here.
Psy.Geo.Conflux 2004
New York City, May 13-16, 2004
Location and hours:
Participant Inc., 95 Rivington St. New York, NY 10002
Thursday May 13, 12-9pm with an opening reception from 7-9pm
Friday May 14 - Sunday, May 16, 10-7pm
[with additional evening events; see schedule here.]
Contacts:
Glowlab: Christina Ray ray@glowlab.com, Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com
www.glowlab.com, www.psygeocon.org
Participant Inc.: Lia Gangitano, tel: 212.254.4334
Glowlab is pleased to announce Psy.Geo.Conflux 2004, the second in an annual series dedicated to current artistic and social investigations in psychogeography (the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals). Part festival and part conference, it brings visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public together to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.
Evan Hoffman writes:
"The Peaceworker Bootcamp"
Ottawa, Summer, 2004
We are pleased to announce that we will offer the "Peaceworker Bootcamp" this summer!!
We've had very strong and positive feedback to the design and unique features of the Camp — to the proposed rural setting, to it's low tech and realistic flavour.
After an extensive scouting mission we have secured a beautiful, rugged piece of land in an old mountain range two hours west of Ottawa. That's where we'll be holding the Peaceworker Bootcamp.
Fifth Annual Anarchist Bookfair & Festival of Anarchy
Montreal, Saturday, May 15–16, 2004
10am to 6pm
2515, rue Delisle (near metro Lionel-Groulx)
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is the largest anarchist cultural
gathering in northeastern North America, and an important exchange of
anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideas. The Bookfair is for anarchist and
non-anarchists alike, in English, French and Spanish, with participants
from all over North America and beyond.
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