meeting

The G8 From Germany to Japan: A Different Repetition?

03/10/2008 - 7:00pm
03/11/2008 - 9:00pm

Please join us for two evenings dedicated to the G8 mobilizations in Germany (2007) and Japan (2008) by artists and organizers involved in the events. Presenters include Not An Alternative, Hate The G8 Action Faction, Go Hirasawa and Sabu Kohso of Japan's No! G8 Action.

Monday, March 10th, 7:30pm and Tuesday, March 11th, 7:30pm

The G8: A Different Repetition?
In many ways, last year’s G8 summit on Germany’s Baltic coast was as we had expected it would be: a repetition of previous counter-summit mobilizations from Seattle onwards (Prague, Gothenburg, Genoa, Evian, Cancun, Gleneagles…).

However, what appears like mere repetition is not necessarily a repetition at all; at least not in the sense that it is simply the same thing taking place over and over again. Rather than a return to a particular point in a cycle (bringing Seattle to Germany, for example), Heiligendamm may have represented a break in what has become a familiar trajectory. Is it possible that what came back with 2007 G8 was the reemergence of something unknown?

How are we to understand the mass mobilizations that occur every year around the G8? Are they part of an unforeseeable process of becoming – one that has the potential to go beyond the achievements and limits of the past? If so, how can they function less as a repetition that seeks to mimic and more as a new experiment in the production of politics - overcoming rather than reaffirming existing identities?

Monday, March 10th, 7:30pm
Act 1: Multimedia report-back and analysis from the June 2007 G8 mobilization in Heiligendamm by members of Not An Alternative and Hate The G8 Action Faction.

Act 2: Info-tour and screenings with representatives from No! G8 Action, a Japan-based network of anti-authoritarians and anarchists mobilizing towards the 2008 G8.

Brad, One More Night at the Barricades

02/08/2008 - 7:30pm
02/08/2008 - 9:30pm

Please join us this Friday for a screening of the new film "Brad, One More Night at the Barricades" (50 min). Brazilian filmmaker and media activist Miguel will be hand to discuss his documentary tribute to a fallen friend.

When Mexican paramilitary forces shot Brad Will in the chest, killing him, his camera fell from his hands. But it didn't stop recording. It continued moving from hand to hand, telling Brad's story, as well as the story of the movement of movements that he was a part of. From the squats of New York to the forests of Oregon, from the anti-globalization protests in Seattle, Prague, Quebec to the popular uprising in Oaxaca, Brad's camera paints us a picture of what his life was about, and what so many of his friends continue to struggle for.

After the film, Friends of Brad Will will kick off a strategy and action brainstorm with a screening of their public service announcement called "Plan Mexico" (3 min). Stick around to roll up your sleeves compadres.

Friday, February 8th, 7:30pm, free

About Brad Will:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Will
http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2008/01/18/brad-will-in-rolling-stone/

About the Oaxaca Uprising:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Oaxaca_protests

About Plan Mexico:

Syndicate content