FW: Join us: Vacant Lots and a City of Tents

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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:05:43 +0200 (SAST)
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Subject: Join us: Vacant Lots and a City of Tents

   It must be summer. We’ve got a grill, boom box, dog, drill, and assembly line of art-builders on the sidewalk out front. Not An Alternative is back to props production, and this time we’re teaming up with Picture The Homeless to architect a tent city.
 
 The homeless population continues to escalate at the same time that landlords and the city sit on empty buildings. In fact, the total volume of potential apartments in vacant buildings and lots in Manhattan alone exceeds the number of homeless households in shelters and on the street citywide.
 
 From Miami to Sacramento to here in New York City, homeless people aren’t waiting around. This Thursday, July 23rd, Picture The Homeless and allies will liberate the lots and build a tent city installation.
 
 We need you!

 
   Kick down. Money, tents, tarps, pylons, food, water, and money.  No amount too small, all donations are tax deductible. Material donations can be dropped off at The Change You Want To See Gallery, address below.  
 

 
 
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 Sunday - Tuesday, 12pm – 7pm
 
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El Mal y el Malo según "el ruso", Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

"Traicionar la memoria de nuestros muertos. Renegar de lo que somos. Perder la memoria. Vender nuestra dignidad. Avergonzarnos de ser indígenas o negros o chicanos o musulmanes o amarillos o blancos o rojos o gays o lesbianas o transexuales o flacos o gordos o altos o chaparros. Olvidar nuestra historia. Olvidarnos de nosotros mismos. Aceptar lo que nos da de tragar el poderoso. Rendirnos. No luchar. Hacer como que no vemos que los pinches fascistas se están apoderando de todo. Asumir el "dejar hacer, dejar pasar" en nuestras vidas y dejar hacer al poderoso y dejar pasar las chingaderas que están haciendo con nosotros. Dejarnos engañar por los medios de comunicación. Pelearnos entre compañeros de lucha. Pelearnos contra los que están jodidos como nosotros. Dejar que le metan mano a la tierra y la envenenen con sus pinches transgénicos.
Quedarnos callados ante las guerras de dominación. Votar por Bush. Comprar en la Wal-Mart. Mentirnos a nosotros mismos y mentirle a los nuestros.
Dejar que ellos atropellen, maten, saqueen, engañen y, al final, se salgan con la suya. Eso es el Mal. Eso y otras cosas que ahorita no puedo decir porque ya me encabroné. Ahí está su pinche torta."

En Muertos incómodos (Falta lo que falta),
Subcomandante Marcos & Paco Ignacio Taibo II.

Adri Orange(www.adriorange.blogspot.com)Costa Rica

FW: Feminism for the Planet, 3/26 9-4 pm

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Please forward widely this invitation to our Women's Studies Symposium.

***

FEMINISM FOR THE PLANET: Fifth Annual Rutgers Newark Women¹s Studies
Symposium
Thursday, March 26, 9 am- 4 pm

Opening Panel: "Expendible Lives? Women's Responses to Military Conflict
and Displacement"
Natalie Jesionka, International Journalist & Lecturer, Rutgers, "On the
Frontline-Women and the Human Rights Repercussions of War."

An international correspondent for South African and Korean Broadcasting
stations, Natalie Jesionka works with the United Nations and Amnesty
International to promote global human rights. She has reported on human
trafficking in Southeast Asia, the arms trade and civil war in Sub-Saharan
Africa and the 2007 Saffron Revolution in Burma. She lectures at Rutgers
and directs the PRIZM Project, the first global human rights education
organization for young women.

Robyn Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Rutgers New Brunswick,
"Transnational Working Class Feminisms: Women Migrant Workers in Asia and
Beyond"

Prof. Rodriguez's scholarship addresses globalization, the political
economy of labor, and im/migration and citizenship through the lens of
feminist theory. She is author of Brokering Bodies: The Philippine State
and the Globalization of Migrant Workers (forthcoming UMinnesota Press),
which examines the Philippine state's role in the global political economy
of gendered and racialized migrant labor. Rodriguez has been actively
involved in immigrant rights movements in the United States and
internationally for nearly fifteen years.

Keynote Panel, Performance, and Luncheon: Feminist Indigenous Activism and
Comparative Post-Colonial Studies.
Prof. Nilanjana Deb, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India "(Post) Colonial
Indians and American Cousins: Women's Indigenous Activism and the
Rethinking of Democracy"

Dr. Nilanjana Deb is an internationally recognized scholar of Postcolonial
Literatures and Orature, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Translation
Studies, and Fourth World Literatures (including Australian and North
American Aboriginal Writing, Indian Dalit and Adivasi Writing) who has
held fellowships and lectured on the South Asian Diaspora at numerous
universities along the Pacific Rim. Author of the first contemporary
literary histories of the Anishnaabe(Ojibwe) of Canada and Minnesota, and
the Nyoongar of Australia, her current research develops an historical and
cultural account of traffic through the colonial port city of Kolkata to
various parts of the Asia-Pacific region.

Hortensia and Elvira Colorado, Coatlicue Theatre Company, Performance and
Discussion of "Women in Resistance-Women Weaving Struggles"

Hortensia and Elvira Colorado are Chichimec Otomi storytellers,
playwrights, performers and community activists. Raised in the oral
tradition, they weave traditional and contemporary stories to address
issues of racism, discrimination, historical trauma, exploitation,
appropriation and displacement, as well as environmental and health
struggles affecting them and their communties. They have performed and
conducted storytelling theatre workshops nationally and internationally.
Coatlicue's work has been published in numerous theatre journals and
anthologies and they are the recipients of numerous awards and
fellowships. Both are members of the New York Hemispheric Institute of
Performance and Politics, the Network of Ensemble Theatres, Cetiliztli
Nauhcampa and the American Indian Community House.

Closing Panel: "Queer Studies in an International Frame: Thinking the
Global through the Local".

June Dowell-Burton, Executive Director, Newark Essex Pride Coalition,
Inc.,"The Sakia Gunn Murder: A Catalyst for Renewal of LGBT Activism in
Newark."

June Dowell-Burton has served as Director of the Newark Essex Pride
Coalition since 2003. She received the first Rutgers College Queer Caucus
Leadership Award for demonstration of excellence in leadership and
exceptional dedication to the queer community at Rutgers University and
the Taskforce for LGBT Concerns Certificate of Recognition in appreciation
of generous contributions to as well as the creation of a more hospitable
climate for LGBTQ students of color and the rebuilding of LLEGO, Queer
People of Color Alliance. She is completing her Master's Degree in Social
Work at Rutgers Newark.

Darnell L. Moore, Activist and Lecturer at Rutgers New Brunswick, "Among
but not a Part: Examining the Black Presence in the Queer Studies
Project."

Darnell L. Moore holds degrees in both community & clinical counseling and
theological studies. A scholar and teacher of Women and Gender Studies,
his writings explore theological perspectives on sexuality, theories of
the body, African-American religiosity, intersectionality & marginality,
and the concept of "Blackness." Moore research has appeared in Black
Theology and Theology and Sexuality.

Carlos Ulises Decena, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and
Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers, "Eso se Nota: Scenes from
Queer Childhoods."

Carlos Ulises Decena researches immigration and feminist, queer, and
Latino studies. Decena's articles have been published in journals such as
GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Sexualities, Journal of Urban Health and
Papeles de Poblacion. A Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, Decena is
currently completing his book Tacit Subjects: Dominican Transnational
Identities and Male Homosexuality in New York City.

Discussant: Loretta Fitzgibbons, President, RU Pride

All events to be held in Essex Room, Rutgers-Newark, Paul Robeson Campus
Center,
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, NJ 07102. For additional
symposium details please visit http://womenstudies.newark.rutgers.edu
and/or call (973) 353-1026 or e-mail: llomas@andromeda.rutgers.edu.

Sponsored by the Rutgers Newark's Women's Studies Program
and the Committee to Advance our Common Purposes.
Cosponsored by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern
Experience, Division of Global Affairs, the Departments of English,
History and Political Science, the Graduate Program in American Studies,
Office of Student Life and Leadership, the Center for the Study of
Genocide & Human Rights, AWARE, RU-Pride, Spectrum-NJIT, Femworks and
Minuteman Press.

Reception and Sisterhood Dinner featuring an original choreography
entitled "Transformations," by Kory Saunders and performances by JOSH.
5:00pm ­ 8:00pm, Paul Robeson Campus Center, Room 255-257, Rutgers-Newark
Sponsored by the Office of Student Life and Leadership, to RSVP, or for
more information call 973.353.5300

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"crisis"... oportunidad de cambio

CrIsIs

El capitalismo es un sistema, que aparte de salvaje, injusto y desequilibrado, es un sistemas de crisis cíclicas, y los economistas recetan que no hay más remedio que seguir en la crisis, y no paliandola, sino, que la "cura" es peor que la enfermedad, aumentando las causas de la crisis... solicitando más créditos, por parte de la población, de las empresas y de los Estados a los Bancos Centrales en cada país... para seguir en lo mismo, incrementando la deuda, que es impagable per sé.

Y se acabó la cuestión de los gringos de "el sueño americano", ellos tienen que despertarse; porque esa es una ideología que está basada en que el resto del mundo como mierda para que los gringuitos sigan comiéndose y despilfarrando los recursos que no les corresponden, y que no sólo explotan sin conciencia ambiental, sino que los medios que utilizan para otenerlos-robarlos no tienen conciencia social - guerras, invasiones, tratados de libre comercio... y una voracidad desmedida. Aparte de que el sistema capitalista se basa en un pensamiento cortoplasista, y por eso está devorando el ambiente; ahora si van a tener más intervencionismo de Estado, aunque eso contradiga el discurso del neoliberalismo y el libre comercio.

Toda esta cuestión ya predicha por Marx y Engels, hace más de cien años; y resulta que ahora a estos "genios" de Wall Street y a los "sagaces" de los analistas económicos los toma por sorpresa el "setiembre negro", lo más más más lamentable, desde mi parecer, es justo lo que dice Ignacio Ramonet (*), que no hay una contrapropuesta de izquierda, porque ni siquiera en este momento existe una izquierda como tal, que aglomere ideologías y acciones alternativas, no, lo que hay son un montón de izquierditas que no saben para donde agarrar, y así es como pierden fuerzas y simpatizantes, los marxistas, los marxistas leninistas, los stalinistas, los troskistas, las izquierdas "renovadas", hasta las izquierdas "new age"... fue lo mismo que pasó aquí en Costa Rica después del referendum donde se consultó la aprobación o no del Tratado de Libre Comercio con los Estados Unidos, no se pudo aglomerar toda la fuerza y el poder que llegaron a tener los Comités Patrióticos Cantonales (opuestos al TLC), se esfumó todo el esfuerzo porque no había una oposición fuerte, con una ideología clara...

Ramonet afirma que:
"Durante treinta años, los fundamentalistas del mercado repitieron que éste siempre tenía razón, que la globalización era sinónimo de felicidad, y que el capitalismo financiero edificaba el paraíso terrenal para todos. Se equivocaron.

La "edad de oro" de Wall Street se acabó. Y también una etapa de exuberancia y despilfaro, representada por una aristocracia de banqueros de inversión, "amos del universo" ... poseídos por una lógica de rentabilidad a corto plazo. Por la búsqueda de beneficios exorbitantes."

En todo caso ya era hora, esta crisis es un mal necesario, pa que los pueblos se pellizquen y cambien de pensamiento, sólo que aquí el proceso está lento o va para atrás, porque mientras en Suramérica y varios países de Europa la tendencia se viene inclinando por posturas de centro izquierdas y socialistas, solidarias social y ambientalmente, en Costa Rica, Colombia y México lo que presentan los gobiernos es un neoderechismo ideológico.... a ver si se avispan.

Será posible un nuevo Bretton Woods?,otra mentira, yo no sé... tanto que arreglar, y a eso: espero que Barack Obama logre ganar las elecciones estadounidenses, si no seria el colmo, pero bueno, con esa gente nadie sabe, si re-eligieron a Bush, con fraude y todo... se les acabó la gallina de los huevos de oro... y como los pueblos piensan y "escogen" como si la historia fuera unilineal y uniideológica, no hay posturas alternas de las que aferrarse para paliar la crisis y tener propuestas paralelas.... la globalización económica hace que una crisis así se traiga detras a economías más débiles y dependientes...

Ojalá, en algún momento, aunque yo no lo llegue a ver, se socialicen los beneficios, y se transformen las pérdidas... no como sucede actualmente y menciona Ramonet, que se privatizan los beneficios y se socializan las pérdidas, cuestión inherente del capitalismo.

Lo que urge es solidaridad, trascender la materialidad y convertirse en un(a) agente de cambio, socialmente y ambientalmente criti@, responsable y activo@.

Pueden releer a Karl Marx y a John Maynard Keines... lo analizaron desde el siglo antepasado...


Adri Orange, Costa Rica /www.adriorange.blogspot.com/

(*) Ignacio Ramonet es periodista y fundador de ATTAC.

Counter Recruitment!!!

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Umm Kulthum: The Voice of Egypt

Dear Broads,
Check out the voice of Umm Kulthum!

From Anita David, artist living in Iraq

Hi,

I hope spring is as beautiful in Chicago as it is here. It's green and the weather is just fine, more than fine. I am fine. This is the best feeling I've had on team since Baghdad. Nothing is settled but I'm not worried.



We completed a non-violence/reconciliation training for 25 people. Worked out very well. We were invited to present the training in their homes in Tikrit, Mosul, Salahadin province, Diala province, Kirkuk. Cannot happen as these are some of the most dangerous places in Iraq. Blank stares and then laughter when we asked about security.



More Turkish bombing in the Qandil mountains at the start of May and it continues. This time no village was hit and no animals were left stacked atop one another dying. However, there are alligations of the use of "unusual weapons" by Turkey during the December bombings. Will let you know when we know more later.



Headline in local paper: 14 women die in 10 days. The story reports 7 suicides and 7 were murdered. Suicide and "honor killing" are problems the Kurdish Regional Government is not trying to hide and wants to see end. I know women's groups here are working to stem it but I have no idea of activity by the KRG.



IDP camp is here in the city. 1,400 people from central and southern Iraq, Sunni, Shi'a, Kurdish live in a refugee camp here. Visited it a few days ago. It's just like in the movies but it's real. The head man said the authorities are moving the camp to an area about 20 minutes from the city. He was not a part of the move discussions and has not seen the area to which the displaced people with be taken. Have an appointment on Saturday to ask what's the harm in letting him see the new place.



Sent the letter to 2 friends from Baghdad. The first reply is from a man who, with his immediate family, fled Baghdad because he received a death threat. He is from Sadr City and his family continues to live there. The second is from a man who continues to live in Baghdad, not far from Sadr City.

From Anita: I just read that the Iraqi and U.S. army told people in Sadr City they must leave their homes and move to tents in 2 soccer fields somewhere in Baghdad. Have you heard from you family? What will they do? What do you think of this mess? I think it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Love, A

Reply 1:

Yah. That is wrong but who is the wronger ? al Sadr, U.S and Iraqi army, the people in Sadr city?

My sister’s son died before 4 days. He is delicate he hate’s Sadr and the war. Moktada al Sadr caused decay of Iraq. He deceived the people in Sadr city. The Mahde army delivered photos and some papers inside the city that said: any person or family goes out of the city, the Mahdi army explodes your home.

The U.S and Iraqi army said: everyone still in the block, the army shoot him. Can you tell me where the people going?



My brother tell me that Sadr city is hell and Moktada enjoy this bekuz he feels he’s heroooooooooooo.

When this deception finish? Moktada has not esteem for the life and the people. I’m sure Moktada in the end will flee to Iran and all the people will be dead. The fight will finish in Iraq when the Islamic men out the Iraq



I’m sad.


2.

Hello A-

Yes people are leaving their houses there , i can see that on the streets , they are carring their belongings and moving to different areas , i saw a guy today carring his things on the top of his old old taxi car ( his mattress ,,...,.......) .
I didn't hear about the soccer fields yet .



well , i disagree with you that this is wrong , people here are very angery with the Mahdi army,and everyone i see (a shiite of course ,mostly ,and sunnie ) they want this thing ends very fast , great number of them are really happy that the american army is taking action against them ,sure innocent people are paying the bill for that , but , believe methere is no other way to handle that . these people are very mean ( Mahdi miltia )they have uncovered their ugly faces , they even have turned against their own people in the same neighborhood ( Sader city ) , people here are sure now that these militia are really criminals,and they don't have any kind of noble cause . My opinion they are similar to Hizbullah in Lebanon in some ways , and also, they are much much worse than Al- Qaida .



Your real friend

Sooo, If you want to know about other violence in Iraq, you should see my new hair cut. Or maybe not.

One piece of good news, maybe...A woman I met at the training has a 12 year old daughter. The family lives in Diala which is a provence right around the corner from Hell. 4 years ago her daughter was shot in the hip. She now has a left leg considerably shorter than the right leg. She has not been able to leave the country for treatment. How is this good news? We just learned Doctors Without Borders is here in downtown Suli. We took the medical records to them. This morning I received a call from the Doctors saying they would see the girl tomorrow morning at 8:30 am. I called the mother and between my good intentions and her minimal English she understood me to say she should call. And she did. And maybe, maybe, in this one case, something good or pretty good will happen. I'm not ready to put money on it yet.

Love, love, love,

A

The Fight Stuff by Susan Faludi

Notable in the Indiana and North Carolina primary results and in many recent polls are signs of a change in the gender weather: white men are warming to Hillary Clinton--at least enough to vote for her. It's no small shift. These men have historically been her fiercest antagonists. Their converstion may point less to a new kind of male voter than to a new kind of female vote-getter.

Pundits have been quick to attribute the erosion in Barack Obama’s white male support to a newfound racism. What they have failed to consider is the degree to which white male voters witnessing Senator Clinton’s metamorphosis are being forced to rethink precepts they’ve long held about women in American politics.

For years, the prevailing theory has been that white men are often uneasy with female politicians because they can’t abide strong women. But if that’s so, why haven’t they deserted Senator Clinton? More particularly, why haven’t they deserted her as she has become ever more pugnacious in her campaign?

Maybe the white male electorate just can’t abide strong women whom they suspect of being of a certain sort. To adopt a particularly lamentable white male construct, the sports metaphor, political strength comes in two varieties: the power of the umpire, who controls the game by application of the rules but who never gets hit; and the power of the participant, who has no rules except to hit hard, not complain, bounce back and endeavor to prevail in the end.

For virtually all of American political history, the strong female contestant has been cast not as the player but the rules keeper, the purse-lipped killjoy who passes strait-laced judgment on feral boy fun. The animosity toward the rules keeper is fueled by the suspicion that she (and in American life, the regulator is inevitably coded feminine, whatever his or her sex) is the agent of people so privileged that they don’t need to fight, people who can dominate more decisively when the rules are decorous. American political misogyny is inflamed by anger at this clucking overclass: who are they to do battle by imposing rectitude instead of by actually doing battle?

The specter of the prissy hall monitor is, in part, the legacy of the great female reformers of Victorian America. In fact, these women were the opposite of fainting flowers. Susan B. Anthony barely flinched in the face of epithets, hurled eggs and death threats. Carry A. Nation swung an ax. Yet they were regarded by men as the regulators outside the game. Indeed, many 19th-century female reformers defined themselves that way — as reluctant trespassers in the public sphere who had left the domestic circle only to fulfill their duty as the morally superior sex, housekeepers scouring away a nation’s vice.

While the populace might concede the merits of the female reformers’ cause, it found them repellent on a more glandular level. In that visceral subbasement of the national imagination — the one that underlies all the blood-and-guts sports imagery our culture holds so dear — the laurels go to the slugger who ignores the censors, the outrider who navigates the frontier without a chaperone.

Certainly through the many early primaries, Hillary Clinton was often defined by these old standards, and judged harshly. She was forever the entitled chaperone. But that was then. As Thelma, the housewife turned renegade, says to her friend in “Thelma & Louise” as the two women flee the law through the American West, “Something’s crossed over in me.”

Senator Clinton might well say the same. In the final stretch of the primary season, she seems to have stepped across an unstated gender divide, transforming herself from referee to contender.

What’s more, she seems to have taken to her new role with a Thelma-like relish. We are witnessing a female competitor delighting in the undomesticated fray. Her new no-holds-barred pugnacity and gleeful perseverance have revamped her image in the eyes of begrudging white male voters, who previously saw her as the sanctioning “sivilizer,” a political Aunt Polly whose goody-goody directives made them want to head for the hills.

It’s the unforeseen precedent of an unprecedented candidacy: our first major female presidential candidate isn’t doing what men always accuse women of doing. She’s not summoning the rules committee over every infraction. (Her attempt to rewrite the rules for Michigan and Florida are less a timeout than rough play.) Not once has she demanded that the umpire stop the fight. Indeed, she’s asking for more unregulated action, proposing a debate with no press-corps intermediaries.

If anyone has been guarding the rules this election, it’s been the press, which has been primly thumbing the pages of Queensberry and scolding her for being “ruthless” and “nasty,” a “brawler” who fights “dirty.”

But while the commentators have been tut-tutting, Senator Clinton has been converting white males, assuring them that she’s come into their tavern not to smash the bottles, but to join the brawl.

Deep in the American grain, particularly in the grain of white male working-class voters, that is the more trusted archetype. Whether Senator Clinton’s pugilism has elevated the current race for the nomination is debatable. But the strategy has certainly remade the political world for future female politicians, who may now cast off the assumption that when the going gets tough, the tough girl will resort to unilateral rectitude. When a woman does ascend through the glass ceiling into the White House, it will be, in part, because of the race of 2008, when Hillary Clinton broke through the glass floor and got down with the boys.

Susan Faludi is the author of “Backlash,” “Stiffed” and “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America.”