Art and Culture

FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE e LETTER, Berlin/Germany November 2007 http://members.aol.com/bicdance www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de www.black-international-cinema.com Please send replies to / Bitte senden Sie Antworten an bicdance@aol.com CALL FOR ENTRIES "Diverse & Together" in co-operation with Foundation Diversity Forum, Warsaw/Poland in association with Classic In Black Production & Direction: Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre XXIII. Black International Cinema Berlin/Germany, Warsaw/Poland & U.S.A.  read more »

By Arthem Chapeye, Indymedia Ukraine | 11.15.2007
November 17. Kyiv, Ukraine. Grasstroot organizing.
People in different insurgent costumes protest against illegal government-sponsored construction in a World Heritage Site.
please take the following call into serious consideration.

President of Ukraine (with family) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Ukraine destroy UNESCO World Heritage Site

Ukraine: thousands gather in the "Rebel Carnival" in the historical
center of Kyiv to prevent the crime against history.  read more »

by Thomas Riggins

Clive James' "Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the margin of my time" is 896 pages long and made up of 106 essays ranging over the cultural and historical debris of the 20th century. It is reviewed by Adam Bresnick in the TLS for 9-14-2007.

In a busy world with zillions of books should you invest your time in reading this gigantic tome? If the review is any indication of the contents of the book I would say both yes and no. It depends on your intellectual commitments. Clive is supposedly a "humanist" and opposes the hoary and meaningless abstraction of "totalitarianism." He appears, from the review, to be merely a conservative pro-imperialist intellectual snob. If you like that kind of writing this is the book for you.  read more »

Link to a fantastic look inside the scary, scary world of the racist, fascist lunatics who make up the hard core of the far right. A reporter from The Independant UK goes on a cruise with the readership of the National Review, the grandpappy of conservative magazines, and gets to hear how Pinochet saved Chili ("and privatized social security"), how we've already lost Europe to "the Muslims", and how the glory of the Iraq War will only be overshadowed by the coming majesty of the invasion of Iran. Fascinating, scary, hilarious reading.

here's a couple listserve posts about the indymedia newsreal. Tells how to get involved in a good project that needs some energy, and will even pay a little.

Hi all,

In June we received ZERO submissions for the July Newsreal, and were
only able to put together a show from a couple previous submissions we
had left, a piece I did in Germany at the G8, and another piece from
the internet.

So, we really need stuff for August. If I don't get anything by July
16 there won't be an August show. Please spread the word in your local
collectives and fellow videoactivists...  read more »

from the EFF via boingboing

It's been four or five years since Electronic Frontier Foundation joined the fight against the United Nations' "broadcast treaty," and this week, just as things were looking darkest, we scored our most definitive victory,  read more »

Olympia's erstwhile radio pirates have reclaimed the liberated frequency 98.5 fm! If you're in the area, tune in for their fantastic selection of local and independant music, public affairs programming, and entertaining Dj names.

Everyone's invited to celebratory secret cafe this Sunday at 4 pm at the Crooked House, 1215 Marion St off of Pine on the Eastside hill.

Congratulations and solidarity to FRO from Media Island!

Check out this fantastically good mashup of old Disney crap explaining copyright and fair use!