The Rock Dove Collective is happy to invite you to part four of our Herbal Wellness series with Jacoby Ballard: Holistic Care for the Nervous System. The skill share will be held on SATURDAY, JULY 19. Please RSVP to rockdovecollective@riseup.net for the exact address.
----------->Thus Spoke The Spectacle a live video media critique Performed by Eric Goodman and Mike Stevens
@@@@> The June Anarchist Forum >>>>On Tuesday, June 10, at 7:00 pm, the Anarchist Forum will present "Thus Spoke The Spectacle", a live music video critique of media-saturated culture. The performance, based on Guy Debord's landmark Situationist work "The Society of the Spectacle," combines original music with bit and pieces of the media barrage reassembled to draw out their hidden meanings. The Spectacle, according to Debord is "the world of illusion where all attention and consciousness converge," constituting a unified thought-world constructed daily through communication technology. The Spectacle is dominated by images of commercialized community: happy, well-adjusted people connected to each other, and a multitude of products, in meaningful and satisfying ways. The reality is a never-ending psychic invasion causing alienation: separation from the self, from others, and from a genuine experience of life. Music by Eric Goodman, lyrics by Guy Debord, live performance by Eric Goodman and Mike Stevens. The performers will talk with the audience after the show.
Come to a lively discussion of the important role that media
making plays in building the class struggle anarchist movement! The
evening will feature a presentation by class struggle anarchists, followed
by an open conversation on how alternative media projects can help to build and
support social struggles.
Please join us for a multimedia presentation on the history and struggles of the Zapatista movement with very special guest from Chiapas, Mexico, Gloria Muñoz Ramírez. Famed author of the recently translated El Fuego y la Palabra (The Fire and the Word), Gloria is probably the closest person to the Zapatistas in Chiapas to have ever come to NYC. Don't Miss this!
Submitted by moose on February 23, 2008 - 12:00pm.
Mar 13 2008 - 8:00pm
Thursday, March 13th, 8pm @ Brecht Forum
Working through non-profits, autonomous collectives, small socialist or
anarchist organizations, today's generation of anti-capitalist organizers
is bumping up against the limits of existing left forms--just as the 1960s
generation did under different conditions 40 years ago. Learning from past
successes and failures, can we identify fruitful approaches for making a
leap toward a more coherent radical movement in the next two-to-five
years?
Presentation: May First "The Politics of Networks"
The good folks at May First / People Link (authors of book "The Organic
Internet") will discuss the technical implementations and organizational
implications of networks. They'll consider the new modes of political control,
new conditions for political activism, and how remote asymmetry in
communication and power has changed our struggles. Use the sneakernet to join
us meatspace to discuss the flocking of the multitudes.
The Comms group will be hosting a Nuts & Bolts Meeting to discuss plans for the next GA. Join us as we discuss a position on the office in the Muste Building which we will present at GA10. Also, lots of other GA planning; come by and help make it all happen.
Save the date!
LEFT FORUM 2008 will take place March 14-16 at The Cooper Union, New York City.
This year we are excited to present many speakers who are new to Left Forum audiences, from around the world and right here in New York City, as well as many who are joining us again: Naomi Klein, Grace Lee Boggs, Tariq Ali, Staughton Lynd, Billionaires for Bush, Mahmood Mamdani, Adam Hochschild, Jeremy Scahill, David Harvey, Max Elbaum, Stanley Aronowitz, Frances Fox Piven, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Patricia McFadden, Patrick Bond, John Bellamy Foster, Michael Albert, Carlos Vilas, Dennis Brutus, Deepa Fernandes, and many more will participate.
The Planners Book Club discusses built environments, urban history and planning. Its members deliberate New York City's political, economic and physical infrastructures and include planners, geographers and activists. All interested persons are welcome. The club meets every 4th Sunday of the month. Chosen by consensus, this month's book is "Building the Green Economy" edited by Kevin Danaher. Contact plannersbookclub@bluestockings.com for more information.
Historian Peter Cole describes one of America's most incredible, yet little known, unions. In 1913, thousands of Philadelphia dockworkers formed Local 8 of the Industrial Workers of the World. Local 8 was the most progressive, multiethnic union in the nation until its demise. Joining Cole will be New York's Wobblies, who will screen a short film and discuss their present day organizing.
Submitted by erler44 on December 15, 2007 - 11:20am.
Dec 19 2007 - 7:00pm
Dec 19 2007 - 8:30pm
The LBC Anarchist Forum group is having a meeting to plan our next three monthly Anarchist Forums. If you can make it into Manhattan on this coming Wednesday evening(Dec. 19)at 7pm, come on down to the Muste Room on the third floor at the Peace Pentagon (you know in the WRL building at 339 Lafayette St on the corner Bleecker.)The subway stop there is Broadway-Lafayette and you can get off there from the D,B,F,or V and it’s also called Bleecker if you taking the 6. Bring your good ideas, which means not only subjects but also possible speakers or panels and maybe even contact information. We’re hoping to have a pleasant time talking together about the visions shining out there.
Submitted by erler44 on December 4, 2007 - 2:55pm.
Dec 11 2007 - 7:30pm
Dec 11 2007 - 9:30pm
@@@@@@@@@@> The December LBC Anarchist Forum What's Really Wrong with the U.S.A. Peter Lamborn Wilson's Chaos Day 2007
On Tuesday, December 11, at 7:30pm, at The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton Street, Manhattan, the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist Forum will present Peter Lamborn Wilson, author of many books and articles on sufism, piracy and anarchist values, who will be making his annual Chaos Day speech. When he speaks about what is really wrong with the U.S.A., he will not be saying the rubbish that one often hears on the street or from the media. Rather, Peter will
explore in a critical and philosophical manner many elements of our lives and environment that one seldom hears discussed but which are still vital parts that need to be changed. As is always the case at the Anarchist Fora, Peter will also listen to the audience and respond to their comments and questions
Submitted by Corker on November 30, 2007 - 12:47am.
Dec 4 2007 - 7:00pm
Dec 4 2007 - 9:00pm
Dear friends,
Rock Dove needs your help. We are building our directory of free and low-cost services in the city (for you!), and we want to know a lot more about all of them--how free/low cost their services are in practice, who they serve, how receptive they are to folks with radical politics, queer folks, undocumented folks, folks of color, folks with criminal records, the quality of their services, the accessibility of their space, childcare options, their openness to non-Western medical practices, and so on. When we know these things, we’ll put them online, and they’ll be available to you and everyone you know and love. We think that will be very useful.
Join the fight against increased profiling, harsh sentences, and demonizing media coverage of queer youth of color in our community.
Participate in a dialogue and panel discussion moderated by Kazembe Balagun, with speakers; Reggie Gosset of Critical Resistance, Bran Fenner Co-Director of FIERCE, Renata Hill's mother Mollie Brown, and other family and friends of the Jersey4.
"A Soldier's Story: Writings By a Revolutionary New African Anarchist" by Kuwasi Balagoon
"Kuwasi Balagoon was one of the Panther 21 that the State tried to frame in 1969. Subsequently a member of the Black Liberation Army, he escaped prison twice prior to being arrested following a failed Brink's expropriation in 1981. He died in prison of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1986. Clocking in at 120 pages, this is the most extensive collection of his writings ever published. Includes essays by David Gilbert, Sundiata Acoli, Meg Starr, and J. Sakai."
Location: Earth Matters Cafe, 177 Ludlow St. just below Houston. F Train to 2nd Ave., JMZ Trains to Essex/Delancey St.
----------------------> People's Media Takeover in Oaxaca: A Screening of "Un Poquito De Tanta Verdad" The November Anarchist Forum >>>On Tuesday, November 13, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's
Anarchist Forum will present a screening of the new documentary
"Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (a little bit of so much truth)" by Corrugated
Films and Mal De Ojo TV. "When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had
enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...
They TOOK the media."
As the occupation of Iraq continues, the US government is now rattling sabers
at Iran. However, despite the renewed public focus, there is scant public
attention to contemporary Iranian social movements. Women, workers and students
are organizing. Come hear from Arya Zahedi, a member of the Iran Solidarity
Group and the Antithesis Collective, about movements in Iran.
We are a group of teachers interested in navigating the education system by
reading pedagogical texts, offering solidarity and advice through projects and
discussion. Radical Teachers meet on the second Sunday of every month. Contact
radicalteachers@bluestockings.com for more information.
