zip fm: Bericht vom Wiener Kongress 2005

Die Nachrichtensendung zip fm steht vom 11. bis 18. Mai 2005 auf Radio Orange 94.0 im Zeichen des Wiener Kongresses. Es gab bereits einige Sendungen dazu, die zum Teil im einem Sendearchiv gesammelt werden. In der Sendung am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 werden Studiogäste und O-Töne von der Hausbesetzung zu hören sein.

Location:
Radio Orange auf UKW 94.0 in Wien oder via livestream auf http://www.orange.or.at - die Sendungen sind auch im verlinkten Sendearchiv als mp3's zu finden.

URL: http://cba.fro.at/show.php?lang=de&query=send&sen=305&sort=1

Wiener Kongress 2005: inhaltliches Treffen aller AGs

Am Wiener Kongress gab es Arbeitsgreuppen zu verschiedenen Themen. Es wurden Diskussionen, Workshops und Aktionen orgaisiert. Im Rahmen des gemeinsamen Treffens am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 soll es zu einem Austausch über der Diskussionen aus den einzelnen Veranstaltungen kommen und vielleicht ergeben sich daraus auch Strategien für künftige Proteste.

Achtung: Der Ort wurde geändert, die Veranstaltung findet im EKH, Wielandgasse 2-4, 1100 Wien (U1 Keplerplatz) statt.

Location:
EKH, Wielandgasse 2-4, 1100 Wien (U1 Keplerplatz)

URL: http://wienerkongress.info

Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore Meeting

Join the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore as it meets on Monday nights at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) building on York Road. The Pledge, formerly the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, regularly engages in civil disobedience on behalf of our collective civil liberties. Every action is non-violent and is conducted peacefully.

The Pledge has a series of actions planned in the upcoming months that are designed to visibly oppose the Bush administration's "preemptive" warmongering and attacks on the Bill of Rights. If you're concerned about the direction the US is heading to please consider coming out and joining us. (Note: it is always advisable to call in advance to confirm the meeting is being held as scheduled.)

Location:
806 York Road, Baltimore, MD

Organizer:

IMC General Meeting

The Baltimore IMC general meetings are open to the public, and all are welcome and encouraged to participate.

We now have one general meeting that begins at 7:30 rather than splitting the Editorial group and general meetings. We discuss ongoing and upcoming news coverage projects, finances, forthcoming events (speakers, workshops, etc), and any other business related to the IMC.

If you are interested in attending, but aren't sure how you might participate in the group, please come and discuss it with us! We're a friendly group, and there are all sorts of ways to contribute...

Location:
Progressive Action Center
1443 Gorsuch Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21218

Cost: Free

Directions: The PAC (Progressive Action Center) is located at the corner of Gorsuch and Kirk Ave. From the south, go north to 25th street, and head east about 7 blocks to Kirk Avenue (7-11, Allfirst Bank). Turn left and head about 5 blocks to Gorsuch. From the north, take 33rd street east to Loch Raven. Turn right (south) and head a few blocks to traffic light at Gorsuch. Turn left (east) and head 3 blocks to Kirk.

Organizer:

URL: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/

Peace Vigil

Repeating weekly, community members and peace advocates assemble in front of the Federal Courthouse for an hour peace vigil.

Location:
Federal Courthouse, Henry St. Binghamton.

How Technology is Changing Politics

Personal Democracy Forum: How Technology is Changing Politics

Come and join the growing network of political leaders, grass-roots activists, campaign operatives, programmers, hackers and visionary technologists who are reinventing democracy and civic engagement at this one-day conference.

Topics that will be covered will include:
• Best Practices in Online Organizing
• Distributed vs Top-down Campaigns
• Online Communities and Political Candidacies
• The Promise of Podcasting
• Blogs as Message Movers and Collaboration Engines
• How to Mesh Network and Broadcast Politics

Location:
CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY 10016

URL: http://www.freepress.net/action/calendar.php?month=5

Torture, Secrecy and the Rule of Law

ACLUM Annual Meeting of Members

Please join us for a reception and presentation featuring Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU attorney for the lawsuit that led to the recent release of 30,000 documents attesting to detention abuse.

Congressman Ed Markey has been invited to talk about his attempt to stop the practice of "outsourcing torture."

The Luther Knight Macnair award to be presented to Ruth Hubbard Wald, nationally recognized bioethicist.

RSVP for this free event to
Gabrielle Kulin, gkulin-AT-aclu-mass.org
or 617-482-3170 x335

Location:
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street, Boston
(adjacent to Park Street T station)

Cost: free

URL: http://www.aclu-mass.org/upcomingevents/index.html

Mat Callahan: The Trouble With Music

THE TROUBLE WITH MUSIC
with AK Press author, musician, and social comentator Mat Callahan

Monday, May 16, 7pm

Mat Callahan, a member of the music industry for over 30 years, will discuss his new book, which argues there is a crisis facing music. Positing that the signs are everywhere, from the saturation of public space by tuneful trivia to the
digital downloading controversy. Quantity has replaced quality. The number of units sold is now the criteria by which music is judged and high-gloss, mass-produced, low-content music is everywhere. You can't shop, eat, ride a bus or see a movie without hearing it as each day you are inundated with enticements to buy it. Like the replacement of essential nutriment by junk food, music lovers are expected to surrender their critical faculties and consume the phony McMusic that can be more effectively controlled and profitably sold than the genuine article.

Callahan unravels and elucidates the crises facing music as well as its liberatory potential. 'The Trouble with Music' includes discussions of technology and its effects on music making and listening; superabundance and the absense of critical thought; the development of radio; music criticism;
copyright; the digital domain and the internet; labor and music making; and the special relationships between words, dance, politics, and music. A large segment of the general public seeks a relationship to music, which turns an exceptional profit for those who own and control it. Callahan provides a means of evaluating music and a powerful critique of the music industry. Whether you whistle at
work, sing in the shower or conduct concertos, Callahan and The Trouble with Music will challenge and enhance how you think about music.

MAT CALLAHAN has been involved in the music industry for over 30 years. He was the founder of the legendary San Francisco performance space / venue / recording studio / audio magazine Komotion, and founder / singer / songwriter / guitarist of Island recording artists The Looters, who in 1980, were instrumental in creating "world" music. He has worked as an engineer, manager and producer. He currently lives in Switzerland, where he works full-time as a producer, and continues to perform his own material as a solo artist. Callahan has just released a new CD on Broken Arrow records called "A Wild Bouquet".

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ON THE TROUBLE WITH MUSIC

"Yes-let's break the grip of Stars and Hits. Music could change the world. Read this book." -Pete Seeger

"The Trouble with Music isn't anything like most books about music. Those other books start by assuming that today's music world looked just the same yesterday and will be the same tomorrow. Mat Callahan understands that today's music world is a product of the past, struggling to bear the future. His story begins with reexamining what all music fundamentally shares, then sets about showing the ways in which those fundamentals have been distorted, all the while
insisting we can free the music-and ourselves-to achieve a future worth celebrating. This isn't just a theory: Callahan, a working musician, crams his book with as much detail as opinion-and there's a LOT of ideas.

"Making music is a process as old as the human species,which means that if the music's in trouble because humanity as a whole is in trouble. The Trouble with Music speaks to those troubles and it maps a way out. It's invaluable." -Dave Marsh, Rock & Rap Confidential

"Author Mat Callahan swings a big stick at the inflated piñata that is the corporate music industry in his new book The Trouble With Music. He puts forth a theory that the music business has created a culture of anti-music (in the same way that McDonald's would be anti-food), and as a result has removed it from music-making's crucial community-based functions. Drawing on a wide variety of
informational sources, Callahan's argument is a cogent one that needs to be heardŠ" -Exclaim! Magazine

"If your most pressing concern with today's music is whether Justin Timerlake's acting career will detract from his pop sensibilities, go ahead and skip this book... 'cause you're part of the problem." -Giant Magazine

"...a highly accessible, surprisingly optimistic essay that will change the way you think about music." -Zink Magazine

"This book will change the way you think about music forever. The world needs more thinkers like Mat Callahan.." -Slug Magazine

"Written by an intellectual with over thirty years of experience in the music field, this book chronicles exactly what is wrong with music today. If you have an interest in the direction pop music is going, this is a must read."
-Heartland Reviews

Location:
Lucy Parsons Center,
549 Columbus Ave, Boston
tel: (617) 267-6272

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.lucyparsons.org

No us volem

En motiu de la desfilada militar a A Corunha del proper 28 de Maig, Columna Rosalía, un grup de gallecs, asturians, bascos i catalans residents a l'estranger, a més d'altres persones compromeses amb la causa antimilitar, convoca una protesta a Dublín davant de l'embaixada espanyola els dies 26 i 27. En la protesta, en coordinació amb lesprotestes a A Carunha, es reivindicarà la identitat de les nacions de la península i el seu rebuig a l'exèrcit espanyol.

Location:
Dublín

Organizer:

taller d costura a miles

tots els dillus, taller d costura a miles.

Location:
Miles de Viviendas
passeig juan de borbó 11

Organizer:

programa sobre antipsiquiatria y contrapsicologia 104.5 fm

Programa de difusion sobre el movimiento de la antipsiquiatria y contrapsicologia. en Radio Bronka 104.5 fm.Programa -la invasion de los barbaros- acogiendo al que sera el locutor del proximo programa -aprendiendo a aprender- en Radio Linea 4
103.9 fm.Programa de divagacion cultural.

Location:
Radio Bronka 104.5 fm

Cost: tiempo libre

Organizer:

kanpora!

Las fuerzas armadas españolas realizaran el desfile militar el próximo 29 de mayo en A Corunha. En contra de este acto han surgido varios colectivos que se manifestarán en varios puntos del estado español, al igual que en el resto de europa. Como pueblo solidario que somos debemos unirnos a esta lucha. No al ejercito!No a España!No a la represión de las naciones!

Location:
En todas partes...k se oiga bien alto!

Organizing for Social Change - Reveille!!

Paul Revere rode swiftly through the foggy darkness trumpeting the call - Reveille! Reveille! Calling all Citizens to take up their places against the tyranny!

Check out this event - plan on attending! RSVP - ASAP!!!

Organizing for Social Change
Sat, May 21st
8:45am-2:30pm
30 North Union Street (NYSUT Bldg)
sliding fee $20-$100 (pay as much as you can afford--scholarships available to
those in need)
lunch provided
RSVP 325-2560 by Friday


The Metro Justice Leadership Development Initiative is proud to present a workshop by Larry Bresler, Executive Director of Organize Ohio.

Bresler is a remarkable organizer. A 30-year veteran of the movement for social change, he has honed his skills as an activist in pursuit of strategies and tactics that have proven effective in changing public policy. This is a great opportunity to learn new tactics, improve skills, build confidence, and network with other Rochester activists working for social change.

-Jon Greenbaum, Metro Justice Organizer

Location:
30 North Union Street (NYSUT Teachers Union Bldg) A jewel of a building in the rough!)

Cost: A Thrifty $100 or see above for details

Directions: I come from the east - taking 490 and get off at the Inner Loop Exit - proceed across the intersection at the light and veer to the right - follow that road for about 6 blocks or so and see the Teachers Union Building on the right - about two blocks beyond 'The Bug Jar'.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.metrojustice.org/

Rochester Environment Meetup Group

Rochester Environment Meetup Group

Meeting: Monday May 16 7 PM at Borders Henrietta

You may register with this group at environment.meetup.com/75.

The main theme of the next discussion is how the reality of "peak oil" is to affect us right now and the future. We also have broad perceptions of how everything is affected by "problems" (things we would like to see changed), such as the lack of coverage of issues in the mainstream media. Our goal is to see solutions to the "problems" despite the "problems".

RSVP to the website of Bob Walter 323-9611.

Location:
Borders Books, Market Place Mall, Henrietta

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: http://environment.meetup.com/75

Rochester Environment Meetup Group

Rochester Environment Meetup Group

Meeting: Monday May 16 7 PM at Borders Henrietta

You may register with this group at environment.meetup.com/75.

The main theme of the next discussion is how the reality of "peak oil" is to affect us right now and the future. We also have broad perceptions of how everything is affected by "problems" (things we would like to see changed), such as the lack of coverage of issues in the mainstream media. Our goal is to see solutions to the "problems" despite the "problems".

RSVP to the website of Bob Walter 323-9611.

Location:
Borders Books, Market Place Mall, Henrietta

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: http://environment.meetup.com/75

Phone Slam in Support of RISE act

PHONE SLAM CALIFORNIA SENATORS TO REPEAL THE HEA DRUG PROVISION

MONDAY MAY 16TH 2005

Added in 1998 as an amendment to the Higher Education Act (HEA), the Drug Provision excludes students with drug convictions from receiving federal financial aid to attend institutions of higher learning. The provision has had the effect of disqualifying 165,000 deserving, low- to middle-income students from receiving federal aid to attend college for what are often relatively minor drug offenses.

Legislation has been introduced in the House, and will soon be introduced in the Senate that would repeal the Drug Provision, ending this damaging practice. We need your help to make sure that our Senators in California support this bill. Senator Feinstein sits on the Judiciary Committee and will play a major role in the fate of the Removing Impediments to Students Education act (RISE). For more information on the HEA Drug Provision please see ssdp.org/home/hea_legislative.htm

Please contact the Senators at their Washington D.C. offices anytime on Monday May 16th to voice your concern about the HEA drug Provision, and their lack of public support for its repeal. Below you will find a script you can use when contacting their offices. Thanks for participating in democracy.


Hi, I'm ____ from ______ and I'm calling to encourage the Senator to support reinstating aid to students who've lost eligibility due to drug convictions. Keeping students out of school will not keep them off drugs, and it's time to finally correct the mistake that Congress made in 1998 by enacting the drug provision to the Higher Education Act. Please co-sponsor and support the RISE Act, a bill soon to be introduced by Senator Durbin to repeal this amendment. Thanks, _______"


Senator Feinstein Contact Information
Phone: Washington DC (202) 224-3841
San Francisco (415)393-0707

Senator Boxer Contact Information
Phone: Washington DC (202) 224-3553
San Francisco (415) 403-0100

Contact NORML/SSDP of Santa Cruz
www.scdruglawreform.com
scdruglawreform-AT-gmail.com

Location:
Any phone in the country

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: http://www.scdruglawreform.com

Running Successful Housemeetings

Do you have a family or housemates? Are they from a different planet? Do they ever do stuff that drives you crazy? Or maybe they're great, and you want more connection time? This workshop is on how to use House Meetings to have fun, resolve issues, and to build community. Our house meeting has evolved over the past 8 years to include students, families with teenagers, and freethinkers.

Handouts and Snax provided.

Contact: Jeff jeff_caplan-AT-sbcglobal.net

Location:
1990 Newport Ave Near Capitola Road & 30th

Cost: Free Skool classes are free, donations are accepted for materials if applicable

Organizer:

URL: http://santacruz.freeskool.org/

César Chavez Celebration with Luiz Valdez

Second Annual César Chavez Celebration with Keynote Speaker Luiz Valdez

Monday, May 16
7:00 PM
College Nine/Ten Multipurpose Room

Poster available: www2.ucsc.edu/raza/
Tickets Available starting May 9, 2005

Admission is free of charge. We will have tickets available starting the week of May 9th. For more information or for disability related needs call 459-5449.

Luis Valdez, one of the nation's foremost contemporary playwright and founding director of the internationally renowned El Teatro Campesino, whose own history emerges out of the farmworkers struggle. Founded in The Convocation honors the memory of César Chávez, his achievements, commitment to social justice/civil rights, his unrelenting efforts to cultivate grassroots leadership, and his successful formation of the United Farmworkers Union (UFW). The goal of the Convocation is to provide a platform to engage the campus and Santa Cruz community in a dialogue on Latino leadership and social justice issues. Luis Valdez is this year's Keynote Speaker.

Luis Valdez, one of the nation's foremost contemporary playwright and founding director of the internationally renowned El Teatro Campesino, whose own history emerges out of the farm workers struggle. Founded in 1965 on the picket lines of the Great Delano Grape Strike and an integral part of the struggle to organize a national farm workers' union, El Teatro Campesino has been and continues to be a vital force in the Chicano community.

Location:
College Nine/Ten Multipurpose Room
UCSC

Cost: Free

URL: http://www2.ucsc.edu/raza

Closet Free Radio

Closet Free Radio is the country's longest-running queer radio program, broadcasting from KZSC every Monday evening fom 7-8:30 pm at 88.1 fm.

Location:
88.1 fm

Organizer:

URL: http://www.closetfreeradio.org

Tennessee Progress Report on Radio Free Nashville

Tennessee Progress Report Mondays 5-6 PM on Radio Free Nashville, 98.9 FM or online at radiofreenashville.org.

I do hope you will tune in!

Nell Levin

Location:

Bill 183

Queens Park in Toronto is seeking public submissions or presentations to speak to Bill 183, for open adoption records.

Please read more at

Location:
Toronto Queens Park

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: http://web.ncf.ca/news.html

Cornell for Peace & Justice Meeting

This is the weekly meeting for Cornell for Peace and Justice. All are welcome.

Location:
Big Red Barn, Cornell University

Cost: none

Organizer:

URL: www.cujustice.net

Ithaca Health Alliance Annual Meeting

Learn about co-op health financing and our free clinic. Free refreshments.

Location:
public library, Green & Cayuga

Cost: free

URL: http://www.ithacahealth.org

Al-Nakba protest

Remembering when 415 Palestinian villages were destroyed and almost a million made refugees

Location:
Hennepin County Government Center Plaze, 300 S. 6th Street, Minneapolis

Organizer:

URL: www.antiwarcommittee.org