looking for artists (submission call) /west-coast Anti-War survey/ late-nite parking-lot event

in the middle of the whirlwind
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Artist Submission Call

Team Colors is coordinating a new Journal Press Project,
a web and poster-based one-off issue meant as a textual intervention
into this summers' DNC/RNC.

on the project
http://www.joaap.org/projects/whirlwind.htm

on team colors
http://www.warmachines.info/

For their project, we are looking for art to round out the project
(this is an amazing project)

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1. Artists! in the middle of a whirlwind call
2. writers for the middle of a whirlwind (more project info)
3. westcoast anti-war survey
4. parking lot fun

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1. Artists! in the middle of a whirlwind call
(see more info here.... http://www.scribd.com/full/2400308?

access_key=key-1wkf1rk4zvzqo0o75s4b

in the middle of a whirlwind (Whirlwinds) looks at current organizing
efforts in the US, and through that process, assembles a strategic
analysis of current political composition as a tool for building
political power.

Whirlwinds' strategic context is this summer's RNC and DNC protests;
through these documents and the discussions that erupt from them we
hope to directly impact the anti-Convention organizing. In a larger
sense, and in the long-term, Whirlwinds is intended to provide a set
of useful documents for contemporary radical organizing. Each essay
and interview addresses the issues of movement, working class power
and composition, and/or gives strategic insight into organizing, and
the strengths and weaknesses of current movement/s in the U.S.

Note: Conceptual, web friendly projects (photos, audio, video,
websites) work best with this project.
Note: Additionally, agit-prop documentations also may work well.
Note: Community-based projects also work.

what we are looking for then:
• Materials that focus on current political movements and struggles
addressed by the contributors to Whirlwinds.

• Materials that are produced by or in partnership with community
based organizations, social spaces, and radical groups that further
and amplify their activities.

• Materials that document and explore the state of art and artists
own lives under contemporary conditions; the state of the radical art
community; building community support for interventionist art
projects; developing projects that support artists and a diy ethic,
and simultaneously challenge the museum, gallery, and foundation
hierarchy.

• Interventions into and explorations of the conditions of everyday
life, work, social relations, and daily life patterns in the United
States; as a form of struggle, resistance, and exodus against the
attempts and impositions by capital and the state-apparatus.

Those interested in contributing should contact:
whirlwinds(at)inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info, teamcolors(at)
warmachines.info and/or editors(at)joaap.org

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2. writers for the middle of a whirlwind (more project info)

for more info, go to
http://www.scribd.com/full/2400308?access_key=key-1wkf1rk4zvzqo0o75s4b

confirmed writers for the project include:

Jen Angel | Bay Area Radical Health Collective
Bluestockings Books, Café and Activist Center (NYC; written by Malav
Kanuga) | George Caffentzis
Chris Carlsson | Maribel Casas-Cortest & Sebastion Cobarrubias
(Counter Cartographies Collective)
Centro de Jornaleros de Freeport (Long Island) | Emma Cosse
(Precarity Map Europe)
Crimethinc | Direct Action to Stop the War (San Francisco)
Domestic Workers United & Right to the City Alliance in dialog
(facilitated by Harmony Goldberg) | Family Farm Defenders
Silvia Federici | Michael Hardt
The Icarus Project | IWW Starbucks Workers Union
Just Seeds | El Kilombo Intergaláctico (Durham, NC)
Latino Health Outreach Project (New Orleans; written by Jennifer
Whitney) | Peter Linebaugh
Daniel McGowan | Philly Stands Up (written by Esteban Kelly)
Restorative Justice Community Action (Minneapolis; written by Stevie
Peace) | Gigi Roggero (Edu-Factory)
Maggie Schmitt (Precarias a la Dervia) | Ben Shepard
Basav Sen | smartMeme
Brian Tokar | Dan Tucker (AREA Chicago)
US Federation of Workers Cooperatives | United States Social Forum
(Documentation Committee; written by Marina Karides) Interviews with:
Ashanti Alston and various anti-RNC/DNC organizers & groups.

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3. westcoast anti-war survey

For our upcoming issue (#6), we are still looking for (american west
coast) people to participate in our: ANTIWAR SURVEY AND ANALYSIS

We are seeking a range of respondents for a survey of the West Coast
(CA, OR, WA) that examines individuals and collective's active
responses to the "Global War on Terror". By providing space for
people to present and reflect upon what they have done, we hope to
help envision tomorrow's resistance today. If you have initiated or
participated in an activity generated in response to this, our
current predicament, please write to the JOAAP for the survey form.
What are you up to in Weed? How are you smashing the war machine in
Seattle? What kind of blockading is happening in Bend? Sitting-in in
Santa Barbara? Arguing for anti-war art in Aptos? Dropping out in
Drain? If you wish to participate (and please do) in this open-survey
please contact us immediately and we'll send you a list of questions.
We are also seeking short pieces that provide an analysis of current
forms of anti-war activism

contact editors(at)joaap.org
for more info.

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4. parking lot performance

On April 20th at 9.45 pm, in collaboration with Routes and Methods,
we are planning an LA release party for An Atlas for Radical
Cartography (Lex Bhagat and Lize Mogel editors) and as a final event
for Issue #5 (released last year, designed by Jessica Fleischmann).

Mark your calendars, get hungry for a good Alvarado Street taco, and
stay tuned for further details.

ps. an atlas and issue 5 are still available for purchase
http://www.joaap.org/press.htm

pps. check out Routes and Methods here
http://routesandmethods.org/

ppps. we mean Alvarado Street in LA