[Autonogram] Mayday special!
Ben at Autonomedia
ben@autonomedia.org
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greetings, all --
Mayday is just around the corner, so here's your Autonogram full of
relevant material. For some background info, have a close read of
Peter Linebaugh's colorful "Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful
History of MAY DAY" at
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=02/05/02/1029240
.
* * * * *
1. Mayday events in New York and around the world (but not London).
2. Have you read "The Anarchists", speaking of London?
3. Anarcho-historical radio drama, live online next week!
* * * * *
Depending on where you stand with regards to the revolutionary
aspects of poetry or the poetic aspects of revolution, you may find
inspiration in some of the following, all from the Interactivist Info
Exchange at http://info.autonomedia.org -- a good site for analysis
of the sorry state of the world and some modest proposals, as it
were, for its improvement...
*
Mayday Disarmament Rally and Concert in Bryant Park (NYC)
A year after Bush pulled that flight deck stunt, declaring the
"battle of Iraq" over (he really did that on Mayday? What a creep!),
a major rally will be held concurrent with the UN's Disarmament and
Nonproliferation Treaty meeting. Bryant Park is on 42nd Street at 6th
Ave, and the UN is just 5 blocks away at 1st Ave, so maybe this will
actually work. Maybe it'll work so well that not only will the
nuclear threat be abolished, but the State itself will crumble,
alongside the pharmaceutical companies, the military contractors, and
the media consolidators (all in the same neighborhood, of course)...
Here's hoping!
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/04/27/1729235
*
Romantic Mayday Poetry with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hudson Valley)
Peter Lamborn Wilson presents Romantic Mayday Poetry in the Hudson
Valley. Peter will be presenting an afternoon reading featuring
Robert Kelly, Jane Heidgerd, David Levi Strauss, Charlotte Mandell,
Marilyn Stablein, and his own work at the Poet's Walk Romantic
Landscape Park, near Red Hook, New York, on May 1st from 4 - 6 pm.
Poet's Walk is on River Road (Dutchess County Route 103), near Bard
College. From Kingston, take Rhinecliff Bridge, turning left on River
Road; Poet's Walk is a half mile on the left. This event is free.
*
MAYDAY, MAYDAY!! Why Precari@s, Intermittents, Cognitari/e Are
Rebelling Across NEUROPA...
Remember MAYDAY, the global holiday of workers, dear to anarchists
and socialists worldwide, born in America and mummified in Russia and
China, fallen in neglect in Europe as neoliberalism mounted and many
unions sold out? Well, in Milano since 2001 a network of Italian,
French, Catalan, Spanish media hacktivists, rank-and-file unions,
self-run and squatted youth centers, critical mass bikers, radical
networks, student groups, syndicalist collectives, immigrants'
associations, assorted commies, greens, anarcos, gays and feminists
have given life to a MAYDAY PARADE taking place in the afternoon of
May 1st, whose participation and meaning has grown tremendously from
5,000 to 50,000 people, thereby triggering many urban actions and
social conflicts that are spreading
among young temps, part-timers, freelance and contract workers,
researchers and teachers, service and culture workers in Italy,
France, Spain, and elsewhere across Europe.
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/04/15/2352208
*
London Demo Cancelled
Comments by Some Members of the Mayday Collective
Following a meeting held in mid-January the London Mayday Collective
decided not to proceed with plans for an anti-capitalist event this
year. This will be the first time in 5 years that there has not been
an event of its kind in London and we hope what follows will help to
explain the reasoning behind the decision and perhaps begin some
discussion into the prospects for planning future Mayday events,
keeping in mind what has gone before. What follows is a personal
reflection from a couple of participants in this year's collective
rather than a statement issued by the group as a whole.
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/04/26/128230
*
Mayday Dublin 2004
For An Alternative Europe
Irish people have generally seen the European Union as a good thing,
for reasons that include investment in infrastructure and farm
subsidies. But increasingly the EU is an excuse for privatization,
for shifting the burden of taxation onto you and for Ireland's
increasing involvement in military adventures. We are struggling with
others across Europe for a different type of Europe, one that puts
people before profit and does away with top-down decision making.
Join these protests in the struggle for an alternative Europe.
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/04/26/125221
* * *
On the topic of Mayday and London: Autonomedia republished John Henry
Mackay's novel "The Anarchists" for its Centennial a few years back,
ripe with descriptions of the poverty and inequality of the day in
London and Chicago, and the efforts of the London anarchists to
understand and counter this misery. Many historical figures wander
through this novel, including Benjamin Tucker and the Haymarket
anarchists (who figure prominently); the additional materials in the
Centennial Edition include both a guide to these characters and a map
of Mackay's London, which is described in high Victorian detail
throughout the book.
As a special Mayday treat, then, we're selling these off at half
price (I can hear the snickers already -- yes, this is a sales
pitch!) from our web store:
http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.cgi?&pid=7 will get you a $7
copy between now and May 5. There's also a downloadable version of
the table of contents and first chapter at
http://www.autonomedia.org/anarchists.pdf , so have a look.
* * *
Finally, Autonomedia editor Jordan Zinovich has written a radio play
loosely based on the life of American icon Johnny "Appleseed"
Chapman. Jordan writes: "'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 on May 6, and will be web-cast at http://www.free103point9.org .
* * * * *
That's all I have at the moment; look for announcements soon about a
bunch of new books that are just about to emerge from the pipeline.
And as usual, feel free to forward these announcements as you see
fit, or to modify your own subscription via the links at the very top
of this email.
bests,
Ben at Autonomedia
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<div><font color="#000000">greetings, all --</font><br>
</div>
<div><font color="#000000">Mayday is just around the corner, so
here's your Autonogram full of relevant material. For some background
info, have a close read of Peter Linebaugh's colorful
"Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of MAY
DAY" at</font><font color="#1C5F30"><u>
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl<span
></span>?sid=02/05/02/1029240</u></font><font color="#000000"><br>
.<br>
<br>
* * * * *<br>
1. Mayday events in New York and around the world (but not
London).<br>
2. Have you read "The Anarchists", speaking of London?<br>
3. Anarcho-historical radio drama, live online next week!<br>
* * * * *</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Depending on where you stand with regards
to the revolutionary aspects of poetry or the poetic aspects of
revolution, you may find inspiration in some of the following, all
from the Interactivist Info Exchange at</font><font
color="#1C5F30"><u> http://info.autonomedia.org</u></font><font
color="#000000"> -- a good site for analysis of the sorry state of
the world and some modest proposals, as it were, for its
improvement...</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">*</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Mayday Disarmament Rally and Concert in
Bryant Park (NYC)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">A year after Bush pulled that flight deck
stunt, declaring the "battle of Iraq" over (he really did
that on Mayday? What a creep!), a major rally will be held concurrent
with the UN's Disarmament and Nonproliferation Treaty meeting. Bryant
Park is on 42nd Street at 6th Ave, and the UN is just 5 blocks away
at 1st Ave, so maybe this will actually work. Maybe it'll work so
well that not only will the nuclear threat be abolished, but the
State itself will crumble, alongside the pharmaceutical companies,
the military contractors, and the media consolidators (all in the
same neighborhood, of course)... Here's hoping!</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000">http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?<span
></span>sid=04/04/27/1729235</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">*</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Romantic Mayday Poetry with Peter Lamborn
Wilson (Hudson Valley)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Peter Lamborn Wilson presents Romantic
Mayday Poetry in the Hudson Valley. Peter will be presenting an
afternoon reading featuring Robert Kelly, Jane Heidgerd, David Levi
Strauss, Charlotte Mandell, Marilyn Stablein, and his own work at the
Poet's Walk Romantic Landscape Park, near Red Hook, New York, on May
1st from 4 - 6 pm. Poet's Walk is on River Road (Dutchess County
Route 103), near Bard College. From Kingston, take Rhinecliff Bridge,
turning left on River Road; Poet's Walk is a half mile on the left.
This event is free.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
*</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">MAYDAY, MAYDAY!! Why Precari@s,
Intermittents, Cognitari/e Are Rebelling Across NEUROPA...</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Remember MAYDAY, the global holiday of
workers, dear to anarchists and socialists worldwide, born in America
and mummified in Russia and China, fallen in neglect in Europe as
neoliberalism mounted and many unions sold out? Well, in Milano since
2001 a network of Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish media
hacktivists, rank-and-file unions, self-run and squatted youth
centers, critical mass bikers, radical networks, student groups,
syndicalist collectives, immigrants' associations, assorted commies,
greens, anarcos, gays and feminists have given life to a MAYDAY
PARADE taking place in the afternoon of May 1st, whose participation
and meaning has grown tremendously from 5,000 to 50,000 people,
thereby triggering many urban actions and social conflicts that are
spreading</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">among young temps, part-timers, freelance
and contract workers, researchers and teachers, service and culture
workers in Italy, France, Spain, and elsewhere across Europe.<br>
</font><font
color="#1C5F30"><u>http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?<span
></span>sid=04/04/15/2352208</u></font><font color="#000000"><br>
<br>
*<br>
<br>
London Demo Cancelled<br>
Comments by Some Members of the Mayday Collective</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Following a meeting held in mid-January
the London Mayday Collective decided not to proceed with plans for an
anti-capitalist event this year. This will be the first time in 5
years that there has not been an event of its kind in London and we
hope what follows will help to explain the reasoning behind the
decision and perhaps begin some discussion into the prospects for
planning future Mayday events, keeping in mind what has gone before.
What follows is a personal reflection from a couple of participants
in this year's collective rather than a statement issued by the
group as a whole.</font></div>
<div><font
color="#1C5F30"><u>http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?<span
></span>sid=04/04/26/128230</u></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
*<br>
<br>
Mayday Dublin 2004<br>
For An Alternative Europe</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Irish people have generally seen the
European Union as a good thing, for reasons that include investment
in infrastructure and farm subsidies. But increasingly the EU is an
excuse for privatization, for shifting the burden of taxation onto
you and for Ireland's increasing involvement in military adventures.
We are struggling with others across Europe for a different type of
Europe, one that puts people before profit and does away with
top-down decision making. Join these protests in the struggle for an
alternative Europe.<br>
</font><font
color="#1C5F30"><u>http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?<span
></span>sid=04/04/26/125221</u></font><font color="#000000"><br>
<br>
* * *</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">On the topic of Mayday and London:
Autonomedia republished John Henry Mackay's novel "The
Anarchists" for its Centennial a few years back, ripe with
descriptions of the poverty and inequality of the day in London and
Chicago, and the efforts of the London anarchists to understand and
counter this misery. Many historical figures wander through this
novel, including Benjamin Tucker and the Haymarket anarchists (who
figure prominently); the additional materials in the Centennial
Edition include both a guide to these characters and a map of
Mackay's London, which is described in high Victorian detail
throughout the book.</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">As a special Mayday treat, then, we're
selling these off at half price (I can hear the snickers already --
yes, this is a sales pitch!) from our web store:</font><font
color="#1C5F30"><u> http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.c<span
></span>gi?&pid=7</u></font><font color="#000000"> will get you a
$7 copy between now and May 5. There's also a downloadable version of
the table of contents and first chapter at</font><font
color="#1C5F30"><u> http://www.autonomedia.org/anarchists.pd<span
></span>f</u></font><font color="#000000"> , so have a look.<br>
<br>
* * *</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Finally, Autonomedia editor Jordan
Zinovich has written a radio play loosely based on the life of
American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman. Jordan writes:
"'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<br>
apple in a search for knowledge and satisfaction."</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">"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 on May 6, and will be
web-cast at</font><font color="#1C5F30"><u>
http://www.free103point9.org</u></font><font color="#000000"> .<br>
<br>
* * * * *</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">That's all I have at the moment; look for
announcements soon about a bunch of new books that are just about to
emerge from the pipeline. And as usual, feel free to forward these
announcements as you see fit, or to modify your own subscription via
the links at the very top of this email.<br>
<br>
bests,<br>
Ben at Autonomedia</font><br>
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