“Forging a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century”
Black Radical Congress, June 20-22, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri

With the launch of the Black Radical Congress (BRC) in 1998, a current of optimism rippled through the social justice movement. In the tradition of other black political gatherings such as the National Negro Congress, the National Black Political Convention and other more recent ones, the BRC set out on a mammoth challenge to build unity within the Black Liberation Movement (BLM) and consensus around the Freedom Agenda.

New Radical Subjectivities: Re-thinking Agency for the 21st Century
The University of Nottingham, UK
Friday, September 19th, 2008

Keynote Speaker – Professor Peter Hallward (Middlesex University)

This one day conference for postgraduate students and early career
researchers explores recent articulations of subjectivity and
political agency in critical theory and cultural studies. The
continued ascent of neo-liberalism and economic globalisation, along
with postmodern and poststructuralist theorising around subjectivity,
potentially sets a dangerously de-politicised subject against the
expanding forces and inequalities of contemporary capitalism.

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Delhi Solidarity Group, 26 April 2008

CALL TO JOIN NATIONAL LEVEL ACTION

Join hands to raise our collective voice against Displacement & Un-Democratic, Unjust, Anti-People & Pro-Corporate Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act, 2007 and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2007

Join Dharna at Jantar Mantar, Delhi 28th to 30 April, 2008

Dear Friends,

Fifth Annual Peoples Global Action Gathering

PGA - People's Global Action - started in 1998, it has been a tool and a
diffuse structure coordinating groups and people sharing common struggles
and practices, in accordance with various anticapitalist and
anti-authoritarian principles (see the hallmarks). PGA initiated the
Intercontinental caravan in 1999, as well as international action days of
actions against the G8, the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF... In Seattle,
Genoa, Prague, and in a number of less popular events, PGA was a driving
force behind numerous actions and reflections. At the convergence of
international initiatives and local struggles, groups close to the PGA are
now looking for new drives to challenge stagnation.

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Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
Monday 21 April 2008

Abahlali baseMjondolo to Mourn UnFreedom Day Once Again

Time: 9:00 a.m., Sunday 27 April 2008
Venue: Community Hall, Kennedy Road Shack Settlement, Clare Estate, Durban

Legal Team Founded for Japanese Anti-G8 Actions

Hello,

the legal team WATCH which aims to support civil movements around the G8
summit is now officially founded.

Please visit the English blog under:
http://watch08summit.blogspot.com/

The blog has started just today.

In the coming weeks, the legal team will publish news and information
about immigration and other subjects which might be interesting for the
international activists.

Kind regards,
Ko

Call to Support for Our Action Against the G8
Development Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo:
Stop G8! Solidarity March in the South and the North

The Japanese government will host some Ministerial meetings before the
G8summit in Toyako in July. As a part of the meetings, the G8
DevelopmentMinisterial Meeting is planned in Tokyo on 5-6 April. Those
kinds ofMeetings had been held around the same time as the IMF and the
WorldBank's annual meetings before 2002. This shows that the Meeting has
beenstrongly influenced by major powers and big businesses.

G8 countries and transnational companies promoted 'development' in
poorcountries, but it causes various problems everywhere such as abuse
ofhuman rights, illegitimate debts, and global warming. Nonetheless,
theJapanese government the host country does not think seriously about
thepast failures.

Ruckus Society Stages Golden Gate Bridge "Free Tibet" Demonstration

Hello Ruckus Family,

I write right now with the utmost pride. Right now three activists, including one of our beloved Ruckutistas, are climbing up the suspension cables of the Golden Gate Bridge in an action to support Tibetan independence.

San Francisco is the only city hosting the torch in the United States, and Students for a Free Tibet are responding. The message is clear and visionary: FREE TIBET!!!

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Second Annual C.L.R. James Scholar Essay Contest

We are constantly bombarded with images concerning the victimized state of
women around the globe. Politicians, academics, and even some social
justice activists tell us that women’s liberation is little more than a
mirage. Yet, these images hide a reality much more profound, inspiring,
and courageous.

There is a proud tradition of women who have refused to accept subordinate
roles to their families or to the state. Whether organizing rent strikes

In the Middle of a Whirlwind:
2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements

A one-off online journal of theory, art, activism and organizing to be released May 15th!
www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info

Coordinated by: Team Colors (Militant Research Collective)
Published by: The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press