The charming rascals at Silent City Distro are circulating a proposal that collectives, groups, and individuals publicly stream G-Infinity – Pittsburgh Indymedia’s coverage of the G-20.
The installations will be points of contact for people to learn about the G-20, the IMF and World Bank, learn how to help with jail support and would serve to further educate the public about the nature of state repression. They will also be a good point of introduction to radical projects in your area. If you have the resources, you can also project youtube and indymedia videos from the streets as they come online alongside of the audio.
If you’d like to plan such an intervention, send any questions, suggestions or comments to counterconventionaudio@riseup.net.
This week’s review is a pop quiz! Sharpen your #2 pencils, open new browser tabs, and breathe a sigh of relief because we’re giving you the answers.
Q: Do you know where Marx wrote Capital?
A: In a museum.
Q: What does anti-fascist photomontage look like?
A: This is what anti-fascist photomontage looks like.
Q: What is the PostNatural Organism of the Month?
A: E. Coli x1776
Q: How do you hack corporate culture?
A: Take the advice of the Yes Men.
Q: Who was the recipient of the Anne Elizabeth Moore Award for Excellence in Awesomeness?
A: The venerable Laurie Jo Reynolds!
Members of the Red Sun Press Cooperative
Our favorite local print shop, Red Sun Press, is celebrating thirty five years as a movement printer with a retrospective of works they’ve published.
The show is offered in conjunction with Jamaica Plain Open Studios and higlights “progressive activism . . . focusing on peace, justice and a sustainable world,” and is the second show the Press has produced. Impressions for Change is preceded by Freedom of the Press, a 1994 collaboration between the Progressive Printers Network and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
This year’s festival will converge in Davis Square, Somerville, MA on October 9-11, 2009.
The HONK! Festival is rapidly approaching; just less than two months time remains between now and the start of festivities on Friday, October 9th.
Groundswell officially kicks off its festival preview (see last year’s coverage here), with a call for participants in the HONK! Parade: Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet:
a giant processional performance that will take place Sunday, October 11 from noon to 2 p.m., starting at Davis Square in Somerville and ending at Harvard Square.
Can you and your organization join us this year? We would love to have your participation! It would be great if you could
Disclosure: I am a member of the HONK! Festival organizing committee, and helped put on last year’s event.
Filmed before the 2005 Israeli evacuation of the West Bank, Wild Seeds (2005) offers a parodic simulation of the conflict within Israel over its relationship to Palestine and its occupation.
Still from Yael Bartana’s Wild Seeds, via
As the Israeli government prepared to remove its citizens from occupied lands, video artist Yael Bartana staged a game with a group of third-generation Zionist teenagers in the hills outside of Prat’s Settlement. The teens, who created the game, oppose the occupation, and the game’s symmetry to the violent confrontation between soldiers and settlers at Gilad’s Farms in 2002 is intentional.
Huddled together, and with limbs entangled, the players tried maintain their grip with others attempted to extract their bodies from the mass. Much laughing and shouting ensued, which Bartana translated into English and chose to project opposite the video of the game, so as to force the viewer to choose between watching the video or its translation.
Wild Seeds feels right at home across from Artur Zmijewski’s THEM (SIE) (2007), also on show at the ICA’s Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video. These two films are the highlights of the show, and one can’t help but compare them, given both their similar subject matter and side-by-side placement in the gallery. Visitors have the opportunity to view both films, as well as three others, until October 18, 2009.
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