Guardian says sorry to Chomsky...

The Guardian, the 'liberal' paper, has still not got round to saying sorry to Noam Chomsky, for its lies and bull.

About fucking time they did.

more here

diy survival goes to ny

DiY survival is a compilation of cutting edge strategies, and techniques, that deliver a wide range of practices, actions, and issues concerning DiY art, media subversion and the sabotage of cultural markets.

Meet contributors to the book at Blue stockings on the 10th of December at 7pm

Bluestockings is located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington - which means that we are 1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue.

Presentations by:

Leon www.C6.org an introduction to the book.
C6 create subversive participatory art in multiple arenas, linking the street, web & gallery by using various systems and channels. C6 a brand of Interactive Conceptual Marketing.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga www.ambriente.com

In his art work, themes from urbanization and immigration are investigated through the lens of economics. These realities formulate not only the world we live in, but also more importantly the lives we lead.

Eric Doeringer www.ericdoeringer.com

Much of the art of Eric Doeringer has to do with subverting the traditional role of the artwork. He has tattooed copies of his moles onto other people’s bodies and Bootlegs modern masters. His work forces a constant reevaluation of authenticity.

Kanarinka & Pirun from The Institute of Infinitely Small Things www.infinitelysmallthings.net

The only way to fundamentally alter our world is via the discovery and creation of infinitely small things. Before radical shifts there are infinitely small things that have led to miniature reconsiderations.
The Institute document and create on this micropath to revolution.

DiY SURVIVAL (There is no Subculture, only Subversion)

A little about the book,

Ever wanted to stop the mobile phone conversations beside you? Set up your own TV station? Or fund your art without institutional aid? Now you have the chance!

DiY SURVIVAL delivers a mix of Theory, documentary and practical info, in order to disseminate practical knowledge and promote collective collaboration.

www.c6.org/soldout/diy_survival.html

-The Bluestockings Collective

Mission Statement
Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through words, art, food, activism, education, and community, we strive to create a space that welcomes and empowers all people. We actively support movements that challenge hierarchy and all systems of oppression, including but not limited to patriarchy, heterosexism, the gender binary, white supremacy and classism, within society as well as our own movements. We seek to make our space and resources available to such movements for meetings, events, and research. Additionally, we offer educational programming that promotes centered, strategic, and visionary thinking, towards the realization of a society that is infinitely creative, truly democratic, equitable, ecological, and free.

Directions:

By train: F train to 2nd Ave, exit at the 1st Ave, and walk one block south.

By car: If you take the Houston exit off of the FDR, then turn left onto Essex (aka Avenue A), then right on Rivington, and finally right on Allen, you will be very, very close.

scared of santa

we understand how these kids feel,

click here

all the more reason for a by nothing christmas..

http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/

Space Hijackers - Dec Events

The Space Hijackers agent email December 2005

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Upcoming Events:

Book Club Anarchism 01 Dec
SH Christmas Meal 15 Dec
Santacon 17 Dec

Project reports:

Half Price Sale
Nexus Chainstore Massacre

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THU DEC 1st
Book Club Anarchism
Presented by The Vacuum Cleaner and Bristly Pioneer
7pm for a 7:30pm start (sharp)

Space Hijackers HQ
Boxing Club
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Rd
London
E14 7HA

Limehouse DLR
15, 115, D6, D3 or N15 bus

The book club is a non egotistical look at the major influences and ideas that have gone into the thinking of Space Hijackers which takes place on the first Thursday of each month. All agents are more than welcome. This book club is being held at Space Hijackers HQ in Limehouse, bring some food to share.

The theme for this month is “Anarchism”. All input into helping each other gain a fuller understanding of the theme is more than welcome, the book club is definitely seen as a knowledge sharing exercise as opposed to a lecture.

For some initial reading on anarchism please visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism


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THU DEC 15th
THE SPACE HIJACKERS CHRISTMAS MEAL
7pm
Dinner will be served at 8:30pm prompt

Space Hijackers HQ
Boxing Club
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Rd
London
E14 7HA

Limehouse DLR
15, 115, D6, D3 or N15 bus

The Space Hijackers Christmas meal is the social event of the year. Held in our 3000 sq foot ballroom it is a meal, dance and exhibition all in one. All agents are asked to come in their finest attire, three piece suits and ballgowns if possible.

In order to make this the greatest shin dig ever all agents are asked to bring:

1 - A dish to share in order to make the meal
2 - their 3 favourite ever songs on CD
3 - a piece of art to display in our secret art show

Please RSVP to let us know to expect you

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SAT DEC 17th
SANTACON

Meeting place to be announced

Santacon is the holiest experience you are ever likely to have. Join hundreds of other Santa’s on a drunken rampage through central London. Bring your Santa outfit and a firm liver.

More details coming soon,
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Project reports:

Half Price Sale

Imagine the fun that can be had when you print up a bundle of half price sale t-shirts and then wander around London's shopping mecca?

http://www.spacehijackers.org


Nexus Chainstore Massacre

In celebration of Buy Nothing Day, the Space Hijackers held a logo fuelled mad dash through Oxford Street, all purchases resulted in instant disqualification, the person with the best collection of corporate logos and memorablilia won. Game on..

http://www.spacehijackers.org

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Space Hijackers HQ over and out

bnd

yesterday was buy nothing day.
each year i get more unhappy with the lack of anything really pushing the boat. This year wasn't really any different.

but here's some stuff that happened.


"and in the UK,the Radical Cheerleaders and the Nexus Chainstore Massacre have their sights set on London's shopping Mecca, xxxx Street. Check all this out at the BND hub:"
<www.adbusters.org>
http://www.spacehijackers.org

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and this from london adbusters group

'Buy Nothing Day' is a day of fun and frolics, combined with a serious political message. All around the world, like minded individuals will be trying to catch the public's eye in a variety of novel ways in order to convince them to stop consuming for just one day. With four shopping weeks left before Christmas and amidst retail industry pleas for bewildered shoppers to spend in order to 'keep the economy afloat', a voice of dissent can be heard on the streets of London's Oxford Street.

“Please, buy nothing today!”

The London Jammer Group of Adbuster's are putting on a day of anarchic fun and public information. Meeting on the Oxford Street side of Soho Square, at 11am on Saturday 26th November, they will be joined by London's one and only Clown Army and intend to inform and amuse all those intent on throwing away their money that there is more to life than shopping !

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk


Subject: Happy Buy Nothing Day at Artists' Television Access Nov 25th!

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody ! and Happy Buy Nothing Day !
yes, the day after Thanksgiving. To celebrate it Shae, Penny and myself have curated an special event at ATA this Friday. Come by! Best things in life are free although at ATA we always accept donations...

ATA celebrates BUY NOTHING DAY 2005 with video screenings and
installations by local and international artists and activists. Also, Music of Middleclass Assassins and I will kill you fucker and the special performance of the "Social Critic". Drinks... doors at 8, videos at 8:30
and bands at 10.

PROGRAM: http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=1610

Buy Nothing Day is an Adbusters Campaign since 1992.

G8 - Can You Hear Us? on-line

you can find the g8 film, in which we featured here

http://www.archive.org/details/G8CanYouHearUs

Mapping the riots in France

>>>> from netbehaviour

The riots in France have been going on for quite awhile now but there has been a dearth of good maps on the subject. The best of the lot that I’ve seen comes from The Economist- finally a decent ly large map with some detail (scroll part way down the page). The maps in The Economist, by the way, are usually much smaller but follow a consistent style.

http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2005/11/mapping-riots-in-france.html

Cartography:
A weblog for members of the Canadian Cartographic Association and other individuals interested in all things cartographic.

dvblog

a blog for quicktime videos...

it is as good as it sounds

http://dvblog.org

Royal Mail News

Either by fluke or other tactical means 7 out of the 8 letters that we posted to the G8 leaders have been delivered.
www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/mentalbloc/tigerinu/

Originally we posted 8 letters to Gleneagles, Soctland, G8 4YA. Having waited for a good six months for them to be ‘returned to sender’ we have only received one, which was addressed to Vladimir Putin – Although perhaps a smaller goal, we feel that this objective was much more successful than making poverty history, which remains a problem to date. Remember make poverty history – read more here. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article322382.ece

i can't stand shopping

Hiya,

Corneilius here, I am a singer/songwriter living in London, UK.

I have just re-released my free christmas electronic virtual double "a" side anti-commercialism single, with "i can't stand shopping" and "christmess", on the independent wmusic website amplifeye.com

Please click on the link below to go to the single, where you can listen to it, or download it, all for free!!

http://www.amplifeye.com/unsigned/lookwood/music

You can listen while you're doing other stuff!

Enjoy!

Kindest regards

Corneilius

www.corneilius.net

No Logo - Required reading for..

Perhaps it isn't surprising that Naomi's book 'No Logo' has become a standard text for every ad and pr hack in the country to read.

see
here
and sickly
here

perhaps it is some comfort to know that we are always one step ahead, and that the counter culture will always be cooler than any number of nike ads... shame that the ad and pr hacks have a much bigger budget though.

Heinz Soup Is For Shit Lovers

we're not being funny or anything.. but if your only getting two minutes worth of fun from your special one you should work on it rather than having some shitty soup...

"ethical"media.com

my arse...

follow it through, do the math.

go to
http://www.ethicalmedia.com

then go to
http://www.green-alliance.org.uk
(a green((wash)) lobby group)
a site designed by 'ethical'media

then go to
http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/membership/CurrentCorporateMembers_page120.aspx

you know some people will try very hard to look good and caring. Sadly at the end of the day if you are Shell UK, you a bunch of murdering fuck wits however you dress it up...

rant over.

Evolution Control Committee

Rebel Without a Pause
and
Spandau Filt

copyright violation for the nation...

Who shall we invade next?

Who shall we (usa/uk) invade next?

cnnn take to the streets to find out...

http://media.putfile.com/On-The-Streets-Of-America-3

The Meatrix

http://www.themeatrix.com/

you'll need a fast connection. It's a little unsubtle, but worth it.

Mark Achbar - GNN Interview

The ever great GNN has an interview with Mark Achbar, one of the folks that made 'the corporation' film.

watch it here.

http://gnn.tv/videos/42/Mark_Achbar

Starbucks to serve up God with a skinny cappuccino

Coffee drinkers in the US could soon get Jesus with their morning jolt as Starbucks plans to put a religious message on its cups next spring.

The cups will carry a religious quote from the Rev Rick Warren, the author of the blockbuster self-help book The Purpose-Driven Life. Mr Warren said he had had the idea after seeing a quote on one of the store's cups on evolution by the paleontologist Louise Leakey.

His quote reads: "You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny."

Starbucks has printed 63 quotes from writers, performers, academics and politicians on its cups over the past year as part of a campaign called The Way I See It. This is the first one that is explicitly religious. Last month a contractor for Baylor University, a Baptist institution in Texas, removed cups carrying a quote by the author Armistead Maupin saying: "My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long ... life is too damn short."

While the religious inscription may be a first for Starbucks, packaging goods with a message from God has been done before. For the past 30 years Alaska Airlines has put prayer cards on food trays. The California-based fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger has long carried verses from the Bible on its wrappers.

When the founder of the clothing chain Forever 21 and XXI saw them he included a quote from John 3:16 on his shopping bags, declaring: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The quotes were "evidence of faith", a spokesman, Larry Meyer, told USA Today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1598049,00.html

Journal of Aesthetics and Protest

the latest one is on-line now - here

if you haven't come across the journal of before it's well worth a read..

includes an interesting criticial look at adbusters.. here