BREAD AND PUPPET

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BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER'S
FIRST WORLD INSURRECTION IN CAMBRIDGE

A POST-ELECTION RUCKUS PLAYED OUT FROM NOVEMBER 4-21

(Cambridge, MA) The Bread and Puppet Theater presents the First World Insurrection, a post-election ruckus played out in Cambridge, November 4-21. Performances and Symposium held at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre / Durrell Hall, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, and Art Exhibit installed at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Main Quad on Mellen St. (off Mass. Ave.), between Harvard and Porter Squares. Both venues are wheelchair accessible. For advance tickets, on sale from October 18th on, and information on all events call the Cambridge Family
YMCA (www.cambymca.org) at 617-661-9622, extension 706.

Artistic Director Peter Schumann and his band of eight Vermont puppeteers will join forces with 20 local puppeteers and the Cambridge-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band. Their residency in Cambridge includes three puppet shows (a double-bill geared towards adults and one "family-friendly" show), a "Now What" political art symposium, and an exhibit showcasing Schumann's visual artwork. Each of these opportunities will include the traditional serving of Schumann's famous sourdough rye bread (baked in a temporary outdoor oven in the YMCA parking lot), drizzled with garlic-laden aioli, and the sale of the theater's "cheap art." In November, the city of Cambridge will indeed be the stage upon which much artistic discontent is set - with a few laughs thrown in!

Double Bill of Evening Shows:
WORLD ON FIRE and HOW TO TURN DISTRESS INTO SUCCESS: a Parable of War and Its Making November 4-14, Thurs.-Sun., 8pm (first week); Wed.-Sun., 8pm (second week) $10 general admission for both shows [groups of 10 or more $8]; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Family-Friendly Matinees:
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD CIRCUS
November 6-14, Sat.-Sun., 3pm
$10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Political Art Symposium:
NOW WHAT?
2D ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON SUBVERSIVE PAPIER-MACHE & OTHER TOOLS FOR CREATIVE DISSENT
Monday, November 8, 7pm
including panelists Peter Schumann (Director, Bread and Puppet Theater), Gip Hoppe (Co-Artistic Director, WHAT), Reverend Billy (performance artist) and Reno (performance artist) moderated by Dr. John Bell (Puppet Historian, Emerson College professor and author of Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects) suggested donation $5; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Peter Schumann's Visual Art Installation:
THE U.S. SENATE READS AN EMAIL BY THE LATE RACHEL CORRIE TO HER PARENTS
November 9-21, gallery hours, 9am-8 pm daily; opening reception and artist's talk, Tuesday, November 9, 4-7pm free and open to all; held at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University

Featuring the Bread and Puppet Theater's signature masked characters and giant papier-mache puppets, the individual shows and art exhibit are described below.

WORLD ON FIRE
A group of National Emergency Clowns demonstrates official reactions to the ultimate emergency. The music is by the Asymmetric Prisoner-of-War Orchestra, consisting of local volunteer performers, and their conductor, the Fire Chief.
HOW TO TURN DISTRESS INTO SUCCESS: A Parable of War and Its Making
With the help of the National More-More-More Society, the Student of Success is taught a lesson: how the transformation of distress into success transforms success. The Population is a child in the arms of Truth. But Truth gets employed by the Executive to ready the Population for war. War is learned in a butcher's shop. The dance of the Collateral Damage Dancers concludes the lesson. The puppets are from cardboard; the music is live and includes an ancient Georgian chant.
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD CIRCUS
The circus features upside-down figures, a group of First World representatives trained by a lion, Thomas Jefferson and his patriotic cheerleaders, Gerrard Winstanley and his band of Diggers, the Rotten Idea Theater Company's distillation of political issues and much more, all accompanied by the B&P Circus Band. Political fun for the whole family!
THE U.S. SENATE READS AN EMAIL BY THE LATE RACHEL CORRIE TO HER PARENTS
Peter Schumann dedicates this installation to Rachel Corrie who died at the age of 23 in Palestine in 2003 as she tried to stop a bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home. Her email is dated February 27, 2003.

(Background of the theater) The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City's Lower Eastside by 70-year old Silesian-born sculptor and choreographer, Peter Schumann. In 1969 a nine-month tour of Europe won recognition and critical acclaim for Bread and Puppet. In 1970, the Theater moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, letting itself be influenced by living in the countryside. Four years later the Theater moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where a 100-year-old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Bread and Puppet Theater does massive spectacles in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Their pageants have a broad theme-oriented appeal to large non-elite audiences. They address social, political and environmental issues or simply the common urgencies of our lives. Some of the awards received by Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet are the Obie Award, the Erasmus Award from Amsterdam, the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, UNIMA-USA's Citation of Excellence and the Puppeteers of America President's Award. Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest non-profit, self-supporting theater companies in the United States. For more information on the Bread and Puppet Theater: www.breadandpuppet.org/, www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/bread_puppet/bibliography.html and www.chelseagreen.com/2004/items/rehearsingwithgods/Preface.
For more information on John Bell's Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects: www-mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp-
824C-8947CCC171B&ttype=2&tid=4192
For an example on Peter Schumann's outdoor bread-baking technique (press on arrow to view photos):
www.wildhack.com/bedrosian/temp/bp/bread.html

Who: The Bread and Puppet Theater
What: First World Insurrection
When: A post-election ruckus played out in Cambridge, November 4-21. Events include:
World On Fire and How To Turn Distress Into Success: a Parable of War and Its Making (a double bill), November 4-14, Thurs.-Sun., 8 pm (first week); Wed.-Sun., 8 pm (second week) Upside Down World Circus (family-friendly), November 6-14, Sat.-Sun., 3pm Now What?: the 2d Annual Symposium On Subversive Papier-Mache And Other Tools For Creative Dissent, Monday, November 8, 7pm
The U.S. Senate Reads An Email By The Late Rachel Corrie To Her Parents, November 9-21, gallery hours, 9 am-8pm daily; opening reception and artist's talk, Tuesday, November 9, 4-7pm
Where: Performances and Symposium held at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre / Durrell Hall, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square. Art Exhibit installed at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Main Quad on Mellen St. (off Mass. Ave.), between Harvard and Porter Squares. Both venues are wheelchair accessible.
Tickets:
World On Fire and How To Turn Distress Into Success (double bill), $10 general admission for both shows [groups of 10 or more $8]
Circus, $10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free
Symposium, suggested donation $5
The Late Rachel Corrie art exhibit, free
For advance tickets, on sale from October 18th on, and information on all events:
Call the Cambridge Family YMCA (www.cambymca.org) at 617-661-9622, extension 706

"dedicated to staging insightful entertainment, particularly in non-traditional venues"

Location:
Cambridge Family YMCA (www.cambymca.org)

Cost: varies

Organizer:

URL: http://www.marycurtinproductions.com

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coaltion General Meeting

The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) is dedicated to ending discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. We educate the public, lobby state and local government, encourage political activism, and empower community members through collective action.

The MTPC’s work is guided by the following values: equal rights and institutional responsibility; working against all forms of oppression; building broad-based participation and community power; developing leaders and building coalitions; drawing strength from diverse experiences and identities; being informed by our history and elders; growing through challenge and critique; being inclusive of those who cannot be fully visible; and accountability to the communities for which we work.

You do not have to be a member to come to a general membership meeting. Anyone who currently has permanent or student residence in Massachusetts can be considered a general member, and accordingly attend meetings, provide input to proposals, and receive information about the organization. General membership will be differentiated from voting membership according to level of participation in the organization.

Location:
JRI Health 132 Boylston St 2nd floor, ring bell for JRI Health.

Cost: free and open to all

Directions: Near Boylston St Green Line stop, close to downtown crossing

Organizer:

URL: http://www.masstpc.org

Radical Cheerleading Informational Meeting

Be a Radical Cheerleader! It's radical feminist performance art, concerning issues such as reproductive rights, violence against women, anti-war, etc etc. We perform at local events and demonstrations.

Learn more at our informational meeting: Monday, November 8, 7pm at the Lucy Parsons Center. There will be snacks!

Lucy Parson Center is near Mass Ave, directions...
www.lucyparsons.org/contact.html

Contact jennifer333-AT-kittymail.com with any questions.

Location:
Lucy Parson Center is near Mass Ave, directions...
http://www.lucyparsons.org/contact.html

Cost: free

Organizer:

1ª Semana de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade

Discutir para quem e como é feita a ciência e tecnologia no Brasil e no mundo. Quais as consequências de uma pesquisa científica? Quais os impactos da automação para a sociedade? Vale tudo em nome da C&T? E a sociedade como fica.
Nosso objetivo é mostrar e informar sobre a indissociabilidade entre Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade.

Location:
Auditório do Colégio Aplicação

URL: http://www.dce.ufsc.br/semana

1ª Semana de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade

Discutir para quem e como é feita a ciência e tecnologia no Brasil e no mundo. Quais as consequências de uma pesquisa científica? Quais os impactos da automação para a sociedade? Vale tudo em nome da C&T? E a sociedade como fica.
Nosso objetivo é mostrar e informar sobre a indissociabilidade entre Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade.

Location:
Auditório do Colégio Aplicação

Organizer:

URL: http://www.dce.ufsc.br/semana

Marc Gavaldá desvela la otra cara de REPSOL en América Latina

Marc Gavaldá es autor del libro 'La recolonización. Repsol en América Latina: invasión y resistencias'. El libro salió a la luz el pasado mes de diciembre, en la editorial Icaria de Barcelona y es fruto de más de 5 años de investigación.

Recoge con profusa documentación, y con detalles que ponen los pelos de punta, las acciones que la multinacional petrolera REPSOL-YPF ha realizado en Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia y Perú.

Para la El Guincho-Ecologistas en Acción, que organiza el acto, el libro de Gavaldá "es un buen texto para poder entender qué futuro nos espera si no alzamos la voz y exigimos a los que nos gobiernan que no decidan de espaldas al interés y al futuro de la sociedad canaria".

La asociación ecologista invita a todos los ciudadanos a que acudan a a la charla-coloquio: "Ante el asunto de REPSOL tenemos la responsabilidad humana y social de no permanecer callados. Desde nuestro compromiso, consideramos que el escenario se presta para generar encuentros, debates y discusiones acerca de lo limitado del modelo de sociedad basada en los recursos energéticos fósiles, poniendo en primer plano los riesgos para la supervivencia de cualquier sociedad que depende a unos niveles como la canaria de recursos agotables y contaminantes".

Location:
Sociedad Torrelavega (Arrecife - Lanzarote)

Directions: c/ Triana

Organizer:

a-n-t-e-n-a-k))))))) -hiriko haizeak / la ciudad en el aire-

Azaroaren 7tik 14ra Bilbon jardunaldi batzuk antolatuko dira, hiria eta Informazio medioen arteko lotura eta hartuemanak eztabaidatzeko. Hiri egitura berrien garai honetan, teknologien ugaltzeak eragindako zenbait fenomenoren azterketa.

Del 8 al 14 de noviembre organizamos unas jornadas de debate en Bilbao sobre el modo en que la ciudad y los medios de informacion se articulan e interactuan. En una epoca de proliferacion de medios tecnologicos y nuevos tejidos urbanos, donde cuerpos, maquinas, imagenes y llamadas perdidas se dan cruce.

Location:
Bilbo

URL: http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/eu/2004/10/17612.shtml

TRAINING for ACTION in Edinburgh - sharing training skills to oppose the G8

It's a day long workshop called "Introduction to Training Skills for
Activists". It's open to people interested in running workshops, training sessions or meetings and covers:

* How to plan and do: workshops, training sessions, short gatherings and meetings
* Tools for making sessions enjoyable, inclusive and effective
* Practising skills and sharing experiences with other activists
* Skills for working without leaders, communication within groups,
accessibility and ways to increase participation
* Planning how to support each other beyond this day.

9.30am arrival, 10.00am start-5.00pm end.

Food - please bring to share
Accommodation - if you need the night before or after the day please call
Access - please get in touch if you have any special needs or want to know about access details for the venues.

The day is organised by Blatant Incitement (BLINC) and Seeds for Change and is part of TRAINING for ACTION - a series of training days for activists.


For BOOKINGS & INFO: 0845 330 7583
info-AT-skillsharing.org.uk

(Please note it is essential to book in advance)


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More about TRAINING for ACTION:

A series of training days helping to prepare ourselves for action at the G8 summit in Scotland, July 2005, and actions before and beyond!

You are: wanting to share your skills with others involved in activism and campaigning, and willing to pass on your experiences.

We are: a small group of activists who have given a number and variety of trainings over the last years.

We are providing a series of "Train the Trainer" style days for people who want to find ways to improve how we work together as activists. People who come on these days can then take skills back to their various groups & communities and organise further trainings.

Training for Action brings you:
* Training Skills
* Groupwork skills
* Action skills
* Legal skills

Dates
8 November Introduction to Training Skills for Activists in Edinburgh
From January 2005 Direct Action Trainers workshop in lasgow, Lancaster and Oxford
From March 2005 Arrest and Legal Skills at 3 venues across these islands
PLUS other trainings to be arranged

www.skillsharing.org.uk

Blatant Incitement and Seeds for Change
www.eco-action.org/blinc
www.seedsforchange.org.uk

BOOKINGS & INFO: 0845 330 7583
info-AT-skillsharing.org.uk

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POSTERS AND FLYERS AVAILABLE - GET IN TOUCH AS ABOVE

Location:
Muirhouse Millenium Centre, North Edinburgh

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.skillsharing.org.uk

HARVESTING JUSTICE CONFERENCE

Rural & Migrant Ministry
&
The Rochester Labor-Religion Coalition
are honored to host the
HARVESTING JUSTICE CONFERENCE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2004

Harvesting Justice is a conference for members of the faith community, lay and ordained, who seek a deeper understanding of the issues confronting low-income workers. Farmworkers and workers in the industrial laundry business will be the special focus and give testimony of their experiences. Authorities in the religion and labor communities will provide insight and practical ministry building tools.

Location:
First Unitarian Church
220 South Winton Road, Rochester, NY
10:30 am – 4:00 pm

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ruralmigrantministry.org/event110804.asp

HARVESTING JUSTICE CONFERENCE

In the Labor Day issue of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle we
read: New York farmworkers even those who work year-round for the same
employer do not qualify for disability payments or overtime pay and
receive no health insurance[and] do not have the right to form a union
to collectively bargain for these benefits. In addition
farmworkers are legally excluded from the right to a day of rest per
week.
Locally and nationally, workers at Cintas Corp. have accused the
industrial laundry giant of mistreating workers, polluting the
environment, and using unlawful union busting tactics.

What is the response of the faith community to these injustices?

To assist members of the faith community in understanding issues of
worker justice, we have organized the Harvesting Justice Conference on
Monday, November 8, 2004 from 10:30 am until 4:00 pm at the First
Unitarian Church, 220 South Winton Road, Rochester. This conference
is focused on providing members of faith communities both lay and
ordained with a deeper understanding of the issues that confront
low-income workers in our communities. Workshops will also focus on
how to engage the youth of your congregation, how to preach on these
political issues, and ways to connect with local worker justice
efforts.
If you have any questions about the conference or would like us to
assist you in offering this opportunity to your faith community,
please feel free to contact Bill Abom at Rural and Migrant Ministry
(585-637-8360) or Marv Mich at Rochester LaborReligion
(585-262-7021). Please invite members of your faith community to
attend with you.

Location:
First Unitarian Church
220 South Winton Road, Rochester, NY

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ruralmigrantministry.org/upcomingevents.asp

Santa Cruz Indymedia meeting

SANTA CRUZ INDYMEDIA NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Keeping up this site as a source of news and events for the activist community is hard work, and we are always looking for new faces and fresh voices! There are tons of ways to get involved with the local, people-controlled media that we call Indymedia. (People-controlled media... what a radical idea!)

We need original reporting! First and foremost, Indymedia is the place where you can tell your stories and report on what the corporate media won't tell you. Go to an action? Write about what you saw here. See an eye-opening presentation? Write about what you learned here. It only takes a second to hit the publish button, and you can get your story out!

Santa Cruz Indymedia currently meets the second and fourth Monday of each month, 5:00 PM, at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos (1817 Soquel Ave).

Next Santa Cruz Indymedia Meeting:

second and fourth Monday each month!
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Barrios Unidos

If you would like to get more involved with Santa Cruz Indymedia, please send an email to:
scimc (at) indymedia.org

Location:
Barrios Unidos
1817 Soquel Avenue

Cost: FREE

Directions: Barrios Unidos is located at 1817 Soquel Avenue.
It is on the left side of Soquel Ave., just before Capitola Rd., if you are coming from downtown Santa Cruz.

Organizer:

URL: http://santacruz.indymedia.org/mod/info/display/questions/index.php

Ulali & Red-Hills Singers

An all Native women's acapella group with a unique style strong in traditional roots and personal contemporary styles will perform at FSU with opening act Red-Hills Singers.

Location:
Club Down Under in the Oglesby Student Union at FSU.

Cost: FEE!!!!!

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ulali.com

Fallujah - emergency demonstration

An emergency demonstration has been called for this afternoon to respond to the escalating assault upon Fallujah. It is important for us to be visible NOW in order to show our opposition to the escalation of the war that is occurring now that the elections are over. What is about to happen to Fallujah is horrendous to contemplate. If the US is "successful", the same barbarity is likely to be a model for further assaults on the Iraqi people, especially on those who stand up for their independence and freedom from occupation.

Fallujah has suffered heavy aerial bombardment for the last week, and the ground assault is beginning. Civilian casualties are already high. The US has demolished one hospital and has captured another. The situation for the people of Fallujah is desperate and urgent. The US says that this will be a military action on a scale not seen since Vietnam.

The civilized world must respond. And we are. Demonstrations are called for in cities around the world. Here in the Twin Cities, a call has been put out, initiated by the Antiwar Committee. People from all groups, and those not yet participating in any group, are invited to join us.

Here are the details:
Demonstration (signs and banners) at Mayday Plaza, right next to Mayday Bookstore on the West Bank at 301 S. Cedar Ave., Mpls (same building as Midwest Mountaineering).

Time: 4:30 til 6:00 PM TODAY! (Monday, November 8)

Now is the time to stop the Bush administration!! What more do we need to wait for to know that we have to act?

Below is some further information about Fallujah from the announcement sent out by the Antiwar Committee.

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U.S. forces have been pounding Fallujah with airstrikes since Friday, and a ground assault with more than 10,000 troops has begun. The attack is being hailed as the largest single military offensive since the Vietnam War.

At the behest of the Bush administration, U.S. appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi abandoned successful and ongoing negotiations with the people of Fallujah in favor of a full-scale military assault that is intended to break the will of the Iraqi people. Allawi has declared a 60 day state of emergency throughout most of the country.

More than 600 people were killed in the last assault by US forces on Fallujah. While Bush and Allawi claim that 80% of the civillian population has left Fallujah, upwards of 30,000 men, women and children remain trapped in their homes without food, running water or electricity. This new attack will undoubtedly result in the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of innocent people.

A survey published in The Lancet, Britain's premier medical
journal, reveals that the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been responsible for the deaths of as many as 100,000 Iraqis since the war began.

In solidarity with the people of Fallujah, emergency response protests will take place around the world today. Please join us for an emergency response in Minneapolis.

Location:
Mayday Plaza - just outside Mayday Bookstore, on the West Bank. 301 Cedar Ave. S., Mpls (same building as Midwest Mountaineering)

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://antiwarcommittee.org

Domestic Fair Trade Thanksgiving

The Domestic Fair Trade Working Group (DFTG) is hosting a Fair Trade Thanksgiving at Seward Café, 2129 E Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis on Monday, November 8, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Food not Bombs will cook a vegetarian feast.

Local sustainable farmers interested in upholding social justice principles will speak about domestic fair trade, and local bluegrass band, The Whistlepigs will play.

Using long term grassroots methods, DFTG works towards social justice in sustainable agriculture so that every trade relationship in the system is equitable and founded in trust and open exchange of information. Each dish served at the Thanksgivings will be fairly produced and procured from local sustainable growers participating in DFTG's pilot project fostering adherence to fair trade principles.

DFTG's domestic fair trade pilot project is one of very few in the U.S. and is part of a burgeoning North American movement to incorporate human rights standards in the organic and sustainable foods sectors. USDA organic oversight was intentionally established to concern only the methods of production—and not to concern human rights. This fact is one of the major forces behind the domestic fair trade movement.

The Fair Trade Thanksgiving will celebrate eating healthy, delicious and ethically clean food; learning about a budding North American social justice movement; and getting to know DFTG participant farmers, among them Full Circle Organic Growers Cooperative and the White Earth Land Recovery Project's Native Harvest.

Tickets available for Seward at Seward Café, North Country Co-op, Resource Center of the Americas, Hampden Park Co-op, or by contacting DFTG: foodjusticemn-AT-yahoo.com or 612-879-7560.

Location:
Seward Cafe
2129 E. Franklin Ave.

Cost: sliding scale, min. $5

Organizer: