MAYAN NEW YEAR: WAJXAQIB’ B’ATZ’

Wajxaqib’ B’atz’ is celebrated as the “Mayan New Year” or the beginning of the Cholq’ij calendar by Native Mayan communities throughout Mesoamerica. This event occurs every 260 days, or roughly nine months. It is a day when ceremonies are held and prayers are made for good things to happen over the course of the next 260 days. Wajxaqib’ is the number 8 in Kiche and is the force of spirituality. B’atz’ is the energy of a new cycle, the couple and also spirituality. On this day, fires will be lit throughout the region with prayers and celebrations being made by the communities. There is actually a period of some days prior to this of spiritual preparation made by the peoples. You can visit the photo gallery to view images from a Mayan New Year celebration in Chichicastenango,

Location:
Your Spirit

Cost: Your Heart

Directions: Sit quietly and listen to the earth

Organizer:

Prison Book Program Volunteer Night

Join us to answer prisoners' letters and send books to them.

Location:
110 Arlington St., Boston

Directions: 2 blocks from Arlington T stop or 3 blocks from Back Bay T stop

Organizer:

URL: http://www.prisonbookprogram.org

A People's History of the United States

Join us as we read and discuss Howard Zinn's telling of history through the eyes of the people whose stories you don't learn about in school or read about in books. We'll attempt to make visible the history of this country that people in power have gone great lengths to hide from us. The readings for each week are posted on the website. Twenty books are available to borrow for the duration of the class thanks to a personal donation from Howard Zinn. To sign up, e-mail Thomas or Seth, the class coordinators. The class runs from April 8th through June 10th.

Location:
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St., Jamaica Plain

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.jpfreeskool.org

II CICLO CULTURA DE GREVE/ GREVE É FORMAÇÃO

O primeiro ciclo /Cultura de Greve, Greve é Formação/ nasceu dos debates da greve de agosto de 2003, nas universidades públicas paulistas contra a Privatização da Previdência. Estes debates reuniram professores e estudantes do curso de Artes Plásticas, da ECA-USP, numa luta comum em defesa da educação e do serviço público.

Ao se estender para além da greve, como grupo de discussões e atos culturais, a organização do ciclo se propôs a novamente reunir professores, estudantes e funcionários em discussões de caráter interdisciplinar, com o objetivo de vivificar as práticas de pesquisa e
de difusão do saber, e num movimento igualitário pela universalização da cultura e das artes e a favor do caráter público e gratuito da educação como direito comum e permanente. Na luta contra a privatização da
universidade, greve é formação e informação pública.

/Cultura de Greve/.

Nas manifestações do II Cultura de Greve, no primeiro
semestre de 2004, as atividades já se iniciam ao mesmo tempo que a mobilização das universidades, contra a privatização do ensino público e por melhores salários, e a comissão organizadora do ciclo passa a incluir também estudantes da FAU-USP e em especial a contar com o apoio da revista /Contravento/. Deste modo, a maioria das sessões terão por tema problemáticas conexas às relações entre /visualidade e espaço urbano./

1) *DIA 20/5*, 18h

LOCAL: auditório Lupe Cotrim, prédio central da ECA, primeiro andar

MESA-REDONDA: */ARQUITETURA, ARTE E ESPAÇO URBANO/*

Eduardo Aquino (arquiteto e artista, Universidade de Manitoba, Canadá), Alexandre Delijaicov (arquiteto e prof. FAU-USP) e Geraldo de Souza Dias (arquiteto, pintor e prof. ECA-USP);

2) *DIA 27/5*, 18h

LOCAL: auditório Freitas Nobre (Aquário-CJE), prédio do departamento de Jornalismo e Editoração (CJE), térreo

PALESTRA: */TENSÕES COM A CIDADE: ALGUNS EXEMPLOS NA PRODUÇÃO CONTEMPORÂNEA/*//

Sônia Salzstein (prof. ECA-USP e curadora);

3) *DIA 3/6*, 18h

LOCAL: auditório Lupe Cotrim, prédio central da ECA, primeiro andar

PALESTRA: */METRóPOLE CONTEMPORÂNEA: Memória e Projeto/*

Abílio Guerra (prof. FAU-PUC-Campinas; editor: /Vitruvius/ e Romano-Guerra)

4) *DIA 17/6*, 18h

LOCAL: auditório Lupe Cotrim, prédio central da ECA, primeiro andar

PALESTRA: */Espaço, América e Geografia/*

Paulo Mendes da Rocha (arquiteto e prof. FAU-USP);

5) *DIA 23/6*, 18h

LOCAL: auditório Lupe Cotrim, prédio central da ECA, primeiro andar

PALESTRA: */ALÉM DA CENA, O OLHAR DO CINEMA MODERNO: "2 OU 3 COISAS QUE EU SEI DELA"/ (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)*

Ismail Xavier (prof. ECA-USP)

Sessões de exibição video:

21 e 22/6, 12h e 18h

23/6, 12h
LOCAL: auditório Paulo Emílio, ECA

Location:
Universidade de São Paulo (maiores informações no próprio texto).

Organizer:

Acto de Solidaridad con Cuba.

Invitada de Honor la Delegación Cubana que viene a participar en la III Reunión Cumbre de América Latina, el Caribe - Unión Europea.

Location:
Auditorio Salvador Allende. Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, CUCSH, de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Alcalde y Avenida de los Maestros

Directions: Frente a Glorieta de la Normal.

Consulta Social Europea

NO A LA CONSTITUCIÓ EUROPEA
per l'Europa dels drets socials i dels pobles
no a l'Europa del capital i la guerra!

Rebutgem el projecte de Constitució Europea perquè limita de forma important els drets civils, socials, nacionals i polítics i representa un retrocés en relació a les legislacions (ja prou limitades) vigents als estats que integren la unió. És una Constitució neolliberal, militarista i imperialista, que consagra l'Europa dels Estats, una Constitució patriarcal que reforça la desigualtat de drets i oportunitats entre homes i dones, que només parla de l’economia productiva i oblida la reproductiva i que manté un model de desenvolupament que destrueix el medi. Al mes de juny com a molt tard els caps de govern es proposen ratificar el text, probablement a Madrid.

Però aquest projecte no és una constitució! És un tractat per legitimar els interessos de les multinacionals oposats als dels treballador(e)s i els pobles d'Europa!

Nosaltres que volem una altra Europa, l'Europa dels treballador(e)s i dels pobles, dels drets socials, de les llibertats, democràtica, solidària, pacífica, no xenòfoba i ecològicament sostenible, rebutgem aquest projecte per com s’ha fet i pel que diu.

Location:
arreu

Organizer:

URL: http://noconstitucioeuropea.pangea.org

Projecció de La Toma a Cotxeres

Dijous, 27 de maig a les 20:00 Cotxeres de Sants
projecció de LA TOMA de Naomi Klein i Avi Lewis

L’Assemblea de Barri i el Centre Social de Sants, el Col·lectiu de
Solidaritat Zapatista i la Xarxa solidària contra el tancament
d’empreses us conviden a la projecció de la pel·lícula La Toma

Adjuntem imatge del cartell per què en feu difussió.

Location:
Cotxeres de Sants

Cost: gratuit

Organizer:

Manifestació contra els desallotjaments a Gràcia

GRACIA, OCUPADA PER LA POLICIA
LA POLICIA INTENTA DESALLOTJAR EL CSO MONSTRU I LA CASA OKUPADA DEL CARRER SORS DES DE LES 09.30.
TAMBÉ DESALLOTGEN LA CASA DEL CARRER SORS

Un dispositiu de la Policia Nacional intenta, des de les 09.30 hores, desallotjar el Centre Social Okupat El Monstru del carrer Banyoles al barri de Gràcia, i una altra casa okupada al carrer Sors.
La policia manté tallats els carrers Bailen, Mila i Fontanals, Banyoles i Sors. Totes dues cases tenen al davant concentracions de protesta i solidaritat. El moviment d'okupacions ja ha convocat pre avui a les 20.00 hores una manifestació de protesta a la Plaça de la Virreina, on tamé van ser violentament reprimits el passat mes d'abril

Location:
Plaça Virreina

Barri de Gràcia

Barcelona

Organizer:

URL: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/92949/index.php

3. zintziaste kulturala

, GARAPEN JASANGAITZA
18:30 etan Jaizkibelgo diapo emanaldia
19:30 etan mahai ingurua: AHT Gelditu, Txingudi Bizirik, Parke
eolikoen eta superportu aurkako
taldeetako kideak.

Location:
Herrerian (Zintzilik Irratiaren egoitza). Orereta.

Cost: Doahinik

Organizer:

URL: http://www.sindominio.net/zintzilik

Richard Stallman on The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System

Richard Stallman will speak and about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.

Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. Stallman currently serves as president of the Free Software Foundation. He is the author of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software -- to make sure the software is free for all its users.

Free As in Freedom

For more info contact: hhalpin at ibiblio.org
The Free Software Foundation - GNU Project: www.gnu.org
For more information on Free Software in Scotland: www.yourmachines.org

Location:
George Square Lecture Theatre
Edinburgh

Cost: Free

Directions: position 34 on the Central Campus Map:
www.ed.ac.uk/maps/

Organizer:

URL: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/colloquium/

ID Card public meeting in Glasgow

We have started having regular meetings every Thursday evening at 7pm, and are calling a public meeting on Thursday the 20th May at 7pm, at the Printworks Social Centre.

Location:
Printworks Social Centre,
58 Albion St.

Cost: Free

Directions: In the merchant city

Organizer:

URL: http://www.glasgow-autonomy.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=2

Big Blockade 2004 Launch Party & Meeting

Come along to the launch of 2004's Big Blockade of Faslane at the Printwork's Social Centre on Albion Street, Glasgow at 7.30pm on Thursday 27th May 2004.

We'll be showing video's of previous Big Blockades at Faslane, letting people know how they can get involved with organising the blockade and giving away publicity materials for it. The Launch will mark the start of preparations for the blockade so if you want to be involved - come along!

This year the blockade which will take place on Monday 23rd August will be different as it will happen at the same time as Trident Ploughshares camp at Coulport when TP activists make repeated attempts to break in or swim into the Trident bases on the Clyde. As well as the blockade of the gates at Faslane we expect there will be other actions happening as well.

Location:
GAP Printworks Social Centre, 58 Albion Street, Glasgow

Directions: The Social Centre is on the corner of Albion Street and Bell Street and is only 5 minutes walk from George Square and Queen Street station. It is very close to the Trongate.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.tridentploughshares.org

Anarchist Black Cross Letter Writing

The Anarchist Black Cross has sought to bring attention to the plight of all prisoners and to inspire an Anarchist resistance and support movement on the outside. We fund-raise on behalf of prisoners or defense committees in need of funds for legal cases or otherwise, and organize demonstrations of solidarity with imprisoned Anarchists and other prisoners.
Please attend a letter writing session before attending a regular meeting.

Location:
Solidarity!
13 W. 14th Street
Lawrence

Cost: free

Directions: Between Massachusetts and Vermont, on the south side.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.kansasanarchist.net/ABC/

Sen. Gregg to hear concerns about Central American Free Trade Agreement

Members of the New Hampshire Fair Trade Campaign will visit the Concord office of Sen. Judd Gregg at 125 North Main Street on May 27th at 3 PM, to discuss concerns about the impact of trade agreements, such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), on New Hampshire jobs, the environment, and the ability of local and state officials to govern without foreign interference. CAFTA, a proposed regional agreement between the U.S. and five Central American Countries as well as the Dominican Republic, is scheduled to be formally in signed in Washington the next day.

The Fair Trade activists will urge Sen. Gregg to demonstrate support for fair and equitable trade policies by voting against CAFTA. They will ask Sen. Gregg to only support trade agreements that include internationally recognized labor and environmental right in the core text of the agreement with enforcement provisions as strong as those for intellectual property rights.

Representatives of the New Hampshire Fair Trade Campaign, a coalition of labor, faith-based, student, academic, environmental and social-justice groups, will also request that Sen. Gregg oppose any trade agreements with provisions that permit corporations to challenge domestic labor, environmental, and consumer protection laws and that increase pressure to deregulate and privatize public services regardless of the will of citizens and elected officials.

"For more than ten years trade agreements like CAFTA have demonstrated how bad trade policies can set back our economy, injure workers, and pollute our environment," said Mark MacKenzie, President of the NH AFL-CIO. "It is important that Senator Gregg oppose CAFTA and in doing so respond in a decisive manner to the numerous valid concerns of New Hampshire citizens adversely affected by a flawed trade policy.”

The plight of factory workers who have lost their jobs from trade related plant closings is well known,” said Jaime Contois of the New Hampshire Fair Trade Campaign, “as is the offshoring of information technology jobs. Increasing numbers of citizens are concerned about the impact of trade agreements on environmental protection, human rights, and public services.”

"New Hampshire is part of a global economy and agreements like CAFTA will impact every citizen of our state," says Arnie Alpert of the NH American Friends Service Committee. “CAFTA would greatly limit the ability of the state legislature to enact laws that ensure tax dollars are spent responsibly and in a manner that reflects the values of our citizens."

Recently, governors from six states, Maine, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin, told US trade officials that their states will not be a part of trade agreements, like CAFTA, that limit their ability to determine state procurement policy.

”Opposition to CAFTA is equally about safeguarding New Hampshire values such as promoting local economic development, retaining local land-use decision-making ability, and protecting water resources from the whims of foreign investors, as it is about preventing the extension of a faulty and undemocratic trade model to Central America,” says John Friede of Worldview, Ltd.





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Location:
125 North Main Street, Concord, NH

Cost: Free

Organizer:

TV DINNER SHOW

Every Thursday eve. (8:30pm-9:00Pm) on cable channel 15 in the city of Rochester Indymedia produces the TV Dinner show. The show provides a range of local, national and international, political and socially conscious, video work. Tune in to view this weeks show...

Location:
Cable channel 15 city of Rochester

Cost: cost of basic cable

Organizer:

Brew&View /9: Stick It to the Man!

BREW&VIEW BRINGS TOGETHER A COLLECTION OF FILMS, ACQUIRED BY JOHN-RYAN SHEA, GAVIN ALLEN, & JUSTIN MICKLISH, THAT COMBINES VARYING STYLES FROM DIRECTORS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. FROM ANIMATION, NARRATIVE, AND MUSIC VIDEO - BREW&VIEW IS FILLED WITH AWARD WINNING FILMS FROM DIRECTORS WHOSE LOVE OF CINEMA AND THE RIGHT TO DRINK WHILE WATCHING IT HAS BROUGHT THEM INTO A PRIVELEGED FOLD THAT ENCOURAGES THE OPEN EXCHANGE OF CINEMA...WELL, AS LONG AS YOU DONATE SOME FRIGGIN' DOUGH TO THE CAUSE.

**This screening inclueds a 5 min. IMC film by lotus called "The World Still Says No To War!" about the anti-war demonstrations on March 20th, 2004.


See the website for descriptions of the films.

Location:
Whistle Stop Bar (2236 Fern St.)

Cost: cover - $3 21+up

Directions: www.whistlestopbar.com

Organizer:

URL: http://brewandview.net

The Real Patch Adams,Sustainable &Caring Health Care

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network ECO-Film Night
Presents:

The Real Patch Adams
A documentary film by Judith Bourque
Thurs, May 27, 7pm, $3donation
SB Public Main Library, Faulkner Gallery


Patch Adams, physician, clown, & founder of the Gesundheit Institute(www.patchadams.org), has been putting into practice the idea that "healing should be a loving human interchange, not a business", for more than 20 years.

Join us and our co sponsors as we explore the idea of sustainable & caring health care with this film and two other shorts:
The Canadian Single Payer Health System, A Model for Reform
Health for All Californians Campaign SB 921




which discuss successful national health care in Canada and what might be possible for California in the future.


For more info: (805) 962-2571, or sbpcnet-AT-silcom.com,www.sbpermaculture.org
Cosponsored by Health Care for All California www.healthcareforall.org Santa Barbara Chpt, ,(805) 682-5183



EcoFilm Night "Sustainable &Caring Health Care" Thurs, May 27, 7pm
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network ECO-Film Night Presents:The Real Patch Adams A documentary film by Judith BourqueThurs, May 27, 7pm, $3donationSB Public Main Library, Faulkner Gallery.
Meet Patch Adams, the real person behind the hit movie "Patch Adams," starring Robin Williams. Patch is both a medical doctor and a clown...but he is also a social activist who has for the last 30 years devoted his life to changing America's healthcare system; a system which he describes as expensive and elitist.

American filmmaker Judith Bourque, long-term resident of Sweden, traveled to West Virginia to the Gesundheit Institute, the non-profit foundation that Patch created to make real the building of a dream. There, among beautiful mountains, hardwood forests and waterfalls, Gesundheit! advocates hope to construct a holistic rural hospital and healthcare community based on the vision of what healthcare should be like. That means patient care where laughter, joy and creativity will be an integral part of the healing process. Healthcare will be provided without cost and doctors will carry no malpractice insurance. Doctors and patients will relate to each other on the basis of mutual trust, and patients will receive plenty of time from their doctors. Allopathic doctors and practitioners of alternative medicine will work side by side.If you think that all sounds like a utopian impossibility, it isn't. Patch and his colleagues practiced medicine together that way for 12 years in what he calls their "pilot project." They saw 15,000 patients.Through an in depth interview with Patch you will hear his story...about the journey from suicidal despair in his youth to making the decision to devote his life to the study of what makes people happy. The viewer will also get to follow Patch on his travels to other countries as he clowns for sick children or teaches courses in "The Joy of Living."
This film provides the opportunity to think about some very important subjects in a light hearted and thoroughly entertaining manner. It is of interest to anyone who works in healthcare, as well as anyone who is or will ever be a patient...in other words, everyone.


Patch Adams, physician, clown, & founder of the Gesundheit Institute(www.patchadams.org), has been putting into practice the idea that "healing should be a loving human interchange, not a business", for more than 20 years.


Join us and our co sponsors as we explore the idea of sustainable & caring health care with this film and two other shorts: The Canadian Single Payer Health System: and A Model for Reform and Health for All Californians Campaign SB 921 which interviews Californians who have been impacted by the rising cost of premiums and lack of access to care despite having insurance, graphically demonstrate the need for structural reform of our fragmented health care system. The video explains how California Senate Bill 921 (Kuehl), proposes unifying California's present fragmented health system financing, with a single state agency collecting affordable premiums and paying fair reimbursement to current providers. With all Californians paying a fair share, the cost for quality, comprehensive care is affordable for all. With unified administration, the cost is controllable.


For more info: (805) 962-2571, or sbpcnet-AT-silcom.com,www.sbpermaculture.org
Cosponsored by Health Care for All California www.healthcareforall.org Santa Barbara Chpt, ,(805) 682-5183

Location:
SB Public Main Library, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara

Cost: Donation $3

Organizer:

URL: http://www.sbpermaculture.org,www.healthcareforall.org

Iraqi Perspectives: Humanitarian, Religious, and Legal

A Panel Discussion with:

Ilham Al-Sarraf
Clinical Psychologist

Sermid Al-Sarraf
International Human Rights Law Institute

Hussein al-Qazwini
UC Berkeley

Co-Sponsored by Associated Students, Center for Middle East Studies, Office of the Chancellor, Law and Society Program, Department of Political Science, Davidson Library, and the Residence Halls Association

Location:
Thursday, May 27, 2004
7:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, Sixth Floor, Humanities and Social Sciences Building,
UCSB

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Appearances: A Play by Paula Weston Solano

Paula Weston Solano's hilarious characters are keeping up, eating away, surgically altering and making appearances throughout different decades of 20th century U.S. From the lyrical to the outrageous, the political to the personal, these Asian women experience what happens when there's too much or just not enough!

Location:
UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater

Cost: free

Organizer:

Lesbian March, Mexico City - Report Back and Film Screening

All welcome! please spread the word!!

2nd Annual Lesbian March, Mexico City
Report Back and Documentary Film Screening

Thursday, May 27th, 5:30-7:30 pm
at the Lionel Cantu GLBTI Resource Center, UCSC

This spring a group UCSC women marched in solidarity with over 1,500 women at the 2nd Annual Lesbian March in Mexico City, the only event of its kind to take place in Latin American history.

This trip was inspired by keynote speaker Juana Guzman who spoke about the lesbian feminist movement in Mexico as a lead organizer of the march and co-founder of the lesbian feminist organization, Les Voz, at the UCSC conference, Women as Social Warriors II: Stigmas of Sexuality.

This event brought women activists from both sides of the U.S. - Mexico border to speak on how to bridge Chicana and Mexicana lesbian feminist movements across borders.

While in Mexico, UCSC women worked with Les Voz to further develop the cross border solidarity begun on campus in support of queer rights and visibility.

Join us on Thursday, May 27th at 5:30 pm at the New Lionel Cantu GLBTI Resource Center for a report back event featuring a short documentary film, photography exhibit, and personal accounts about the march, and the impact of the lesbian feminist movement on women's human rights and gender
relations in Mexico.

For more information, please call 459-2468

Location:
Lionel Cantu GLBTI Resource Center, UCSC

PALESTINE: PRESENT REALITY AND HISTORICAL NECESSITY

Reports from Palestine by local solidarity activists recently returning from the Middle East.

Mahera Silmi- The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, SUSTAIN!(Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now!) and the International Solidarity Movement

Luke Newton- SUSTAIN! (Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now!) and the Global Intifada.

Jacob Pace- The Resource Center for Nonviolence

Location:
The Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway, SC

Cost: $5-10 suggested donation (none turned away)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.rcnv.org

Thursday Peace Witness

Capitol Vigil Thursday

Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Students United for Peace, Thursdays in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFIELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS; AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES - GIs DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
www.tnjp.org
organize-AT-TNJP.org
www.legitgov.org/peaceprotests.html

Location:
The Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

Cost: free

Organizer: