Networks Actual and Potential: Think Tanks, War Games and the Creation of Contemporary American Politics

a discussion with the Information Politics subgroup
of The Coming Community

Wednesday Dec. 1st.
6:30 PM
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse
800 St. Paul St
free

Location:
red emma's
800 St. Paul St.

Cost: free

URL: http:// redemmas.org/infopol.shtml

Shawnee Greens meeting

Shawnee Greens' monthly meeting. Will discuss possible candidates for Carbondale City Council.

Location:
Carbondale Township Hall (217 E. Main, Carbondale, IL, across from the Bank of Carbondale -- please use rear entrance)

Cost: Hat could be passed; no obligation.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.geocities.com/shawneegreen

Update on the War on Terrorism

Update on the War on Terrorism �

SSP Faculty

Brown bag lunch

Sponsored by M.I.T. Security Studies Program � � ��
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web.mit.edu/ssp/

Location:
M.I.T. Room E38-615

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?82874

The Near-Term Future of Wireless Voice Services

Philip J. Fleming (Motorola Wireless Systems Group):
"The Near-Term Future of Wireless Voice Services"

HOSTED BY:
Andy Lippman, MIT Media Lab

SUMMARY:
Your cell phone will soon be capable of being a fully functioning end node in the Internet�on par with your laptop�and will support multiple wireless and wired interfaces such as 802.11, Bluetooth, USB and, of course, "cellular." This naturally leads one to wonder if applications that are currently associated with laptops could be moved to the cell phone. The question is particularly interesting for voice applications such as Voice-over-IP (e.g., Skype) because they enable peer-to-peer voice services and the hope of freeing us from the shackles of the telecom operators and their monthly bills. It may even lead to the standardization of the application programming interface on the cell phone.
This talk provides a glimpse into the future of cellular-style voice services focusing on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) over the new shared packet data channels that will be built out by cellular operators over the next few years. Fleming discusses why this is important and how progress toward using the cell phone as a device for running VoIP over 802.11 could lead to the convergence of the "new cellular" and 802.11. He ends with a discussion around the questions: What will be the future role of peer-to-peer wireless voice services? What are the outstanding issues around its adoption in the mass market? How can researchers contribute to this important nascent cultural shift?

BIO:
Philip J. Fleming is a fellow of the technical staff in the Network Advanced Technology organization, a part of the Wireless Systems Group at Motorola, Inc. He is also the Motorola resident scientist at the MIT Media Lab for the 2004-5 academic year. After receiving a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, he spent a year as assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University before joining Bell Laboratories. In 1991, he joined Motorola and built a group that became a center for simulation and analysis of emerging cellular networking technologies. His most recent work is in the convergence of wireless network standards enabled by Voice-over-IP, 802.11, 802.16, and new cellular data networking standards such as 1X-DO and HSDPA. His research interests are focused on system issues in wireless communication networks and the stochastic modeling and simulation of computer/communication systems.

Location:
Bartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab (E15)

Directions: whereis.mit.edu/bin/map

URL: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/talk-fleming.html

World AIDS Day Event at ICA

World AIDS Day Wednesday, December 1, 4:45 pm

Boston Premiere of Habit (2001) by Gregg Bordowitz
4:45 - 5:45 pm
Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz and Dr. James Meyer
6:30 - 8 pm

AIDS activist Gregg Bordowitz's diverse range of work includes documentaries, educational films, and the first regular cable-television show about AIDS. Bordowitz will introduce his acclaimed film, Habit (2001), and speak about his latest book The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003. Bordowitz will be joined by Dr. James Meyer, Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art History at Emory University, to reexamine and contextualize Bordowitz's developing practice and theories about the AIDS crisis.

Location:
The Institute of Contemporary Art
955 Boylston Street, Hynes/ICA T stop Green line

Cost: $7/$5 for ICA members, students, & seniors. Reservations are required.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.icaboston.org

"Jihad: Struggling with Islam"

featuring director Hina Khan in person

38 Cameron is proud to present the US premiere of this powerful, personal, first-person film of the director, Hina Khan. The Toronto-born 34 year-old broadcaster documents her journey as the events of 9/11 forced her to come to terms with what it means to be a Muslim and if this was a religion she wanted to be a part of.

Filmed in Toronto, Canada and London, England, she meets a variety of Muslims from open and inclusive progressives to fundamentalists who celebrated the events of 9/11

Reception with Hina Khan following the film.

38 Cameron is a unique new event center with a broad offering of public events including film presentations, speaker events and discussions. By creating and hosting public forums to explore different areas of interest, it is fast becoming a thriving community cultural center in North Cambridge. It is also now open as an art gallery.

Location:
38 Cameron Avenue, Suite 100
(just outside of Davis Square)
Cambridge, MA 02140
**Note: There are two 38 Cameron addresses on Cameron Avenue! Be sure to go to the one 100 yards away from Massachusetts Avenue on the Cambridge side!

Cost: $10 (students: $5)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.38cameron.com

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin was one of history's bravest crusaders for racial justice. Rustin's commitment to pacifism and advocacy of nonviolence made him a pioneer in the 1940s. In 1963 Rustin organized the historic March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever witnessed. But Rustin was also seen as a political liability. He was openly gay during the fiercely homophobic era of the 40s and 50s; as a result, he was frequently shunned by the very civil rights movement he helped create. The compelling film "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin" chronicles Rustin's complex life story, a tale of race, prejudice, and idealism at the heart of 20th century America.
www.rustin.org/

Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre

Cost: $7

Directions: By train: take the Green Line (C branch to Cleveland Circle) trolley from downtown to Coolidge Corner via Beacon Street. The Coolidge Corner stop is at Harvard Street, 5-10 minutes from Kenmore Square.

By bus: take bus #66, Dudley/Harvard Square.

All buses and trolleys stop at the Harvard Street/ Beacon Street intersection.
Both lines are also on the night owl route - operating until 2:00am on Friday and Saturday nights.

From Mass Pike, 90: Take exit 18 Allston/Brighton. As you exit tolls, stay to left for Allston exit and merge with Cambridge St. Follow until you reach Harvard Ave on your left, after the overpass at the intersection with the frightening "Captain Fishbones" sign. Take the left onto Harvard Ave and follow through Allston and across Commonwealth Ave, continuing for about 1.5 miles. Just before reaching the major intersection of Harvard and Beacon St, you will notice our giant theatre marquee on your right.

From Interstate 93: Take the Storrow Drive exit and follow to Storrow Drive (this navigation changes periodically because of Big Dig construction, so watch for the signs). Take Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Square exit. As the exit splits, stay in the right hand lane. Take the first right onto Beacon St. Follow Beacon St through Kenmore Square (past the legendary Citgo sign), staying in the center lane. After you cross the overpass, keep going straight ahead, following the trolley tracks along Beacon St until you reach the intersection of Beacon and Harvard St, landmarked by a large Tudor style building with a clocktower (and a Walgreens) on the corner. You'll see us one half block up Harvard, but continue on Beacon to Center St and turn right to access our parking lot behind the building.

From Route 9: Route 9 inbound to the Brookline Village/Harvard St intersection. The Brookline fire station is on your right. Go through the intersection and take a right immediately after the fire station, and loop around the back. You can now turn right and cross back over Route 9 onto Harvard St. Follow Harvard St through Brookline Village, about one mile to Beacon St. Cross Beacon St and you will immediately see our marquee on your left. Parking is along Beacon, or go around the block and enter the lot behind our building on Center St.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.coolidge.org

End The Media Blackout on Election Fraud

Meet on Wednesday to protest and demand an end to the media blackout on Election Fraud coverage by the Denver Post, owner William Dean Singleton, and his company www.medianewsgroup.com. Media News Group has the power to put millions of people in a news blackout. They have over 40 newspapers (each with a web site), along with radio and now television stations. We are trying to coordinate protests in all cities. Help spread the word post post post. And please come and protest. Demand an end to the media BLACKOUT.

Location:
MediaNews Group
1560 Broadway, Suite 2100
Denver, Colorado 80202

Cost: if you don't come????? your freedom?

Directions: Colfax and Broadway at Civic Center Station.

Organizer:

URL: http://denvervoice.org

Meeting to Start Radical Rocky Mountain Paper

Some sort of radical paper/zine/newsletter/something
is starting up for the Rocky Mountain area. This will
be our first meeting to form a collective. Come and
bring some dish (pref. vegan) and any zines,
magazines, papers, etc. that you like. We'll be
brainstorming and just talking about our "vision" for
this project over some food.

Spread the Word, Far and Wide!!

Location:
7:00pm @ CAVE Infoshop
908 La Porte Ave, Ft. Collins

Cost: free

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Location:
Oslo, verden

Cost: o

Directions: o

Organizer:

Xerrada sobre la Constituci� Europea

Xerrada amb la pres�ncia de Roser Palol, de la Campanya dels Pa�sos Catalans contra la Constituci� Europea

Location:
Aula Adam Smith, a la Facultat d'Econ�miques de la Universitat de Barcelona

Cost: gratu�t

Directions: Av. Diagonal, 690
08034 Barcelona
(Pa�sos Catalans)

Organizer:

Troops Out of Iraq

Troops Out (Glasgow) is a non-aligned, non party
political, grassroots organisation united around a
single issue - that the occupying troops should be
brought out of Iraq.

We welcome new people and ideas

Location:
Woodside Halls. 36 Glenfarg Street. G20 7QF

Directions: Between St George’s Rd and Clarendon St at the bottom
of Maryhill Rd. Nearest underground station is St
George’s Cross.

If you have difficulty finding it, phone 07952 969102

www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll

Organizer:

URL: http://members.boardhost.com/FallujaForum/

Poor People United - General planning meeting.

General planning meeting.

Location:
402 South Avenue
Rochester NY
14624

URL: http://poorpeopleunited.org

RIT Anti War Meeting

--Wed. Dec 1, 8pm, Rm 06-3214: RIT Anti War Meeting, we're discussing what we're going to be doing this quarter and discussing several key changes in our situation, including RIT's invitation of the racist neo-conservative, Daniel Pipes, to speak this April.

Location:
RIT Campus off Jefferson Road
Liberal Arts Building (Bldg 6)
Rm 06-3214

Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom (HUFF)

HUFF is a civil rights organization of housed and unhoused folk intent on overturning laws and practices that criminalize poor people.

Location:
Baker's Square Restaurant 1107 Ocean St. Santa Cruz

Cost: Free

Directions: Just off Highway 17 half-way between Denny's Restaurant and the County Building.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.huffsantacruz.org

Street Performer Weekly Gig with SAFE

SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) will have regular weekly Sing Outs on the Sidewalk in front of New Leaf Market 6pm every Wednesday evening.

SAFE calls for the restoration of the Voluntary Street Performers Guidelines and the end to onerous restrictions on peformers downtown.

One local Downtown Ordinance dictates the 10' forbidden zones limiting performers to less than 20% of downtown sidewalks. Another literally excludes them from narrower sidewalks in other business districts. Another is the "Move Along Law" which mandates criminal penalties for not "moving along" every hour.

Bring your instrument or just your ears. Bring a friend.

Hot soup by Joe Schultz.

Take back our public spaces from some creeping privatization, favored by a segment of the merchants.

We also share information on recent police and "host" harassment of performers.

Location:
In front of downtown New Leaf Market at Pacific and Lincoln Aves. between the Cafe Campesino and Alfresco's kiosks.

Cost: Free, but bring quarters and scraps to throw to performers!

Perspectives on 9/11: Exposing the Lies of the Official Story and Seeking the Truth

Using excerpts from eleven videos, the award winning Bay area media producer Ken Jenkins explores the historical context as well as what really happened on September 11, 2001. Discussion after presentation moderated by speaker, Ken Jenkins

Location:
Veterans' Hall, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz

Cost: Donation of $5. (no one turned away).

Organizer:

MEPA's Operation Iraqi Children

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.mepa.us FOR MORE DETAILS.

This semester, the Middle East Peace Association is taking part in Operation: Iraqi Children, and bringing it to the attention of the Tallahassee community. The project entails sending standardized school supply kits to Iraq, where they are badly needed.

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.mepa.us FOR MORE DETAILS.

Location:
Landis Green @ FSU (big green lawn in front of the Strozier library). Ask any student for directions.

Directions: Landis Green.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mepa.us/siteindex/

The Grower's Market at Lake Ella

THE GROWER�S MARKET AT LAKE ELLA IS HAVING ITS -GRAND OPENING.

Just in Time for Your Holidays . . .
Eat Healthy, Eat in Season!!!


Come out, Experience, and Rediscover . . .
Located on Lake Ella Drive at the American Legion, Wednesdays evenings (3:00 pm - 6:30 pm) provides an easy and accessible organic market for our community.

Come out and meet your local organic small farmers and gardeners while you shop - at The Grower's Market.

The Growers will be providing their organic, local, seasonal, farm fresh produce for sale: Lettuces, Asian Greens, Sugar Cane, Garlic, Herbs, Squash, Mustards, Turnips, Arugula, Shiitake Mushrooms, Kale, Cut Flowers, Speciality Flowers; Food demonstrations, and much, much more.

In collaboration with our Local Growers/Small Farmers, The American Legion, and Black Dog Cafe.

For additional information please contact: Jennifer Taylor or O. Reis, at FAMU Small Farm Programs/Cooperative Extension Programs, 850 599-3546.

Thank you.

Location:
Located at 229 Lake Ella Drive/The American Legion and Black Dog Cafe (facing the Lake)
Tallahassee, Florida

Cost: All are Welcome

Directions: On Monroe Street
Take a right onto Lake Ella Drive
Located at 229 Lake Ella Drive (The American Legion and Black Dog Cafe). We are facing the Lake.
Come and enjoy.

Organizer:

Peace Coalition Meeting

Join Nashville's most hated and loved group of peace and justice activists as they plot more ways to challenge themselves and the world around them.

Location:
Nashville Peace and Justice Center (1016 18th Avenue South).

Firebrand Community Center Meeting

Join local activists and members of Food Not Bombs, Moxie Zine Distro, Tennessee Indymedia, and the Fifth Estate as they work on various projects related to the creation of the Firebrand Community Center, a proposed community center/infoshop in East Nashville. Meeting locations vary. For more info visit www.thefirebrand.org.

Location:

General Meeting

Our weekly meeting

Location:
4 S. Court Street Ruttan Block Suite 19a

Organizer:

AlliantACTION Vigil

Ninth year of a weekly vigil outside international war merchant Alliant Techsystem's corporate headquarters. Although we are opposed to specific weapon systems produced by ATK, our main concern is the violent solutions this Minnesota based company represents to complex world problems. We ask who profits and who dies?

Location:
Alliant’s corporate Headquarters, 5050 Lincoln Drive, Edina. Take Hwy 169 north or south toward Hopkins. Take the 5th St/Lincoln Dr. exit. Turn east one block.

Networking continues at breakfast for those interested following the vigil.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.circlevision.org/alliantaction.html

Public Testimony Preparation Workshop for Dec 9 FCC Media Concentration Forum

Learn how media policy
-affects ownership and content control
-limits the information that we need to participate effectively in a democracy

Workshops will give you the chance to
-consider your own hopes for a media system that would meet your community's needs
-prepare a two minute testimony to present to the Commissioners at the Forum.

All Workshops are free and open to the public.





Wednesday, December 1, 2004


Contact: Stephen 612-747-2854, Stephen-AT-counterprop.org

Location:
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis

Cost: All Workshops are free and open to the public.

URL: http://www.freepress.net/future

PEACE VIGIL

This weekly vigil is held on the Lake Street Bridge (Lake Street and River Road)--the Peace Bridge. All people who are antiwar and wish to vigil for peace and justice are invited to stand with us.

This vigil has been ongoing since 1999 and will continue weekly regardless of weather: 4:30 to 5:30 every Wednesday.

Pick up a sign there or bring your own.

Location:
Lake Street Bridge, River Road and Lake Street/Marshall. Vigil begins on the St. Paul side. (The bridge connects Minneapolis and St. Paul.)

Organizer:

Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace Potluck

Once per month (usually on the last Wednesday of each month, but this is flexible during November and December), Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace holds a social potluck dinner at 6:00 p.m. at a member's home. This month's potluck will be held on Wednesday, December 1, from 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Location: Please e-mail us at info-AT-mppeace.org or call Krista at (651) 641-7592 for the location of this month's potluck.

Cost: Free, but bring a dish or beverage to share.

Other Events: Visit our web site for a complete listing of all of our upcoming and ongoing events: www.mppeace.org/events/

Other Neighbors for Peace Groups: To find a neighborhood peace/justice group near you, visit Minnesota Neighbors for Peace at www.mnneighbors4peace.org

Location:
Please e-mail us at info@mppeace.org or call Krista at (651) 641-7592 for the location of this month's potluck.

Cost: Free, but bring a dish to share.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mppeace.org/events

Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace Potluck

Once per month (usually on the last Wednesday of each month, but this is flexible during November and December), Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace holds a social potluck dinner at 6:00 p.m. at a member's home. This month's potluck will be held on Wednesday, December 1, from 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Location: Please e-mail us at info-AT-mppeace.org or call Krista at (651) 641-7592 for the location of this month's potluck.

Cost: Free, but bring a dish or beverage to share.

Other Events: Visit our web site for a complete listing of all of our upcoming and ongoing events: www.mppeace.org/events/

Other Neighbors for Peace Groups: To find a neighborhood peace/justice group near you, visit Minnesota Neighbors for Peace at www.mnneighbors4peace.org

Location:
Please e-mail us at info@mppeace.org or call Krista at (651) 641-7592 for the location of this month's potluck.

Cost: Free, but bring a dish to share.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mppeace.org/events

STOP THE WAR WEEK

December 3-11
STOP THE WAR WEEK
Activities across the country include:
Boycott Holiday Shopping To Stop the War! No business as usual as
long as the war and occupation continue. Protest in front of retailers and
businesses, including Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and others.
Friday December 3 - National Student Walk-Out - Youth organizers are
calling for students to walk out in protest of the war across the country
and take part in protests against Bush's War Crimes.
Saturday December 4 - Emergency Anti-War Conference in New York City
- www.NoDraftNoWay.org.
Wednesday December 8 - National Day of Action to Stop Military
Recruiting
Friday December 10 - International Human Rights Day
Saturday December 11 - Solidarity with the People of Palestine on
the anniversary of the adoption of UN Resolution 194 affirming the right to
return.
Info: WMass International Action Center,
mailto:wmassiac-AT-hotmail.com, www.iacenter.org.

Location:

Organizer:

STOP THE WAR WEEK

December 3-11
STOP THE WAR WEEK
Activities across the country include:
Boycott Holiday Shopping To Stop the War! No business as usual as
long as the war and occupation continue. Protest in front of retailers and
businesses, including Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and others.
Friday December 3 - National Student Walk-Out - Youth organizers are
calling for students to walk out in protest of the war across the country
and take part in protests against Bush's War Crimes.
Saturday December 4 - Emergency Anti-War Conference in New York City
- www.NoDraftNoWay.org.
Wednesday December 8 - National Day of Action to Stop Military
Recruiting
Friday December 10 - International Human Rights Day
Saturday December 11 - Solidarity with the People of Palestine on
the anniversary of the adoption of UN Resolution 194 affirming the right to
return.
Info: WMass International Action Center,
mailto:wmassiac-AT-hotmail.com, www.iacenter.org.

Location:

Organizer:

Economic Injustice & Violations of Human Rights in Colombia

Miguel Fernandez, president of the Central Trade Union Federation (CUT)-Cauca in Colombia, will speak on Economic Injustice and Violations of Human Rights in Colombia. He has over 25 years experience in mobilizing and defending the labor and human rights of union workers, farmers and indigenous groups in Colombia.

Location:
Donahue building room 368
Holyoke Community College

Cost: Free - open to all

Directions: driving directions:
www.hcc.mass.edu/html/Banner_Pages/People_places/DrivingDirections.html
campus map:
www.hcc.mass.edu/html/Banner_Pages/People_places/Campus_map.html

Organizer:

Public Forum on Living in a Reactor Community

For those interested in the social, environmental and health issues surrounding nuclear energy (and in the eventual shut-down of the VT Yankee nuclear reactor), come join neighbors to share concerns about the nearby VT Yankee nuclear reactor proposed "uprate." Situated just nine miles from the center of Gill, the Entergy Corporation intends to increase the risks to our health and safety in order to increase its profits by running the VT Yankee nuclear reactor at 120% of its design capacity before its license runs out in 2012 and its spent fuel pool fills up in 2008. There will be opportunities to ask questions, get answers, and join the efforts of many concerned citizens who are participating in the regulatory process for the safety of our children, our families and our homes.

See the video "Fatal Fall-Out," an award-winning documentary which features nuclear physicists and medical professionals describing the actual health risks of "low-level radiation" released into the air by commercial nuclear reactors such as VT Yankee. The risks of ingested or inhaled alpha or beta particles (such as those emitted by radioactive Strontium, Iodine, and Cesium, routinely released into the air or water by operating nuclear reactors) have been long downplayed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the nuclear industry. Instead, risk assessment by the NRC has used a model of whole body irradiation based on flawed studies of the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

According to Raymond Shadis (an expert on nuclear power generation who is staff advisor to the New England Coalition, in his testimony before the VT State Nuclear Advisory Panel), the 20% uprate of the VT Yankee Reactor will:

increase the likelihood of a nuclear accident
increase the consequences of a major accident by 30-40%
increase routine radiation releases to public space by 20-30%
increase high-level waste production over the life of the reactor by 20%

NRC Exit Interview Cancelled

The NRC planned, then cancelled, a public "exit meeting" November 9th with Entergy at which they were to present the findings of the scaled-down engineering assessment at VT Yankee and their review of the lost fuel rods fiasco. Due to pressure from the press and public officials in VT, the NRC will hold an exit meeting during which the public will be allowed to comment, at a time and place to be announced.

In the meantime, we have an opportunity to get informed and plan responsible action as we await the NRC meeting. Please help spread the word, and join us if you can.

Location:
Gill Town Hall, Main Road in Gill

Cost: none