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SUN OCT 5th -LongHaul Cafe Night Taring Padi radical Indonesian arts collective.

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10/05/2008 - 7:00pm
10/05/2008 - 9:00pm


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LongHaul Cafe Night Sunday Oct. 5th at 7pm. Benefit dinner for the radical art activist collective Taring Padi. Homemade Indonesian meal, screening of the documentary Indonesia: Art Activism and Rock n Roll. There will also be a discussion about Indonesian art, politics and social history along with a video conference call with some of the artists in Indonesia. This is a fundraiser and awareness event to help bring members of Taring Padi to the Zapatista organized First Global Festival of Dignified Rage Dec 26-29, 2008 in Mexico City, and in Chiapas Jan 2-4, 2009.

Known as Taring Padi, the group is self-described as an "independent non-profit cultural community based on the concept of people's culture." They arose in 1998 in the midst of major social uprising and political reformation when the corrupt Indonesian dictator President Surharto was forced out of office by a popular people's movement.

Taring Padi Exhibit in Oakland @ RPS First Friday Oct 3rd

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10/03/2008 - 6:00pm
10/03/2008 - 9:00pm

Hello SPAZ Community its been a while since I updated about Taring Padi. I spent a lot of time working with the group and others to try to bring them to the states. We didnt get funding, but with internal funding we were trying to bring Toni Volunteero over and I had booked an entire art and speaking tour. I tried to help as much as I could to get Toni a US Visa but after months of waiting and crossing of fingers he wasnt able to get one. They wouldn't issue him a tourist visa and he couldnt satisfy the paperwork for a work visa which is what they said he needed as an artist even for unpaid work. All of October was booked west coast and a busy east coast route including DC, Philly, Balitmore Radical Bookfair, a few gigs in NYC including being scheduled to speak at a conference in NYC as part of the Signs of Change Exhibition which Taring Padi work is included in, and the month of November touring with Beehive. Most of this was cancelled due to the fact Toni wasn't able to come, but I have kept a few of the west coast events as benefit events to instead bring them to Mexico this winter. We had Taring Padi artwork up at the Portland Grassroots Media Camp, a film screening at Black Rose in Portland, an artshow at FBK house in Seattle, and now a few bay area gigs. including an artshow opening on Friday Oct 3rd RPS Gallery in Oakland, and a cafe night/film screening at Long Haul Sunday Oct 5th.

Also I just started uploading some photos to a photobucket account and want to try to put up a wordpress/blogspot with info and photo.

www.photobucket.com/taringpadi

Below is the flyer and info for the RockPaperScissors artshow:

webflyer-1.jpg RPS Flyer picture by TaringPadi

Portland Grassroots Media Camp

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09/12/2008 - 8:00pm
09/12/2008 - 11:00pm
Portland Grassroots Media Camp Schedule 
 
The 2008 Camp will take place the weekend of September 12th-14th on the Portland Community College Cascade Campus, in the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building. We will also be holding events each evening at community spaces affiliated with the Media Camp.
 
The Portland Grassroots Media Camp is a weekend of hands-on skill shares, media workshops, presentations, discussions and gatherings aimed to empower people with tools and skills to express themselves. The camp is open to anyone, emphasizing the inclusion of those who are traditionally excluded from media representation, creation and production. Our goal is to create a teaching environment based on a popular education model, where media makers and community organizers can come together to share skills and build connections. We  hope that everyone involved will continue collaboration after the Camp, and that many individuals and groups will have been empowered to effectively tell their story in a media environment that is increasingly hostile to independent voices.
 
For the 2008 Camp we have an amazing lineup of classes and panels covering a wide range of media forms, facilitated by many well known and lesser know local media makers. Mediums covered include; video, audio, computers skills, stenciling, performance art and much more. We have organized these classes into a system of three different tracks; Becoming a Citizen Reporter, Creative Story Telling and Tools for Community Organizers. For a full version of the schedule and program with facilitator bios and class descriptions visit the "Program" section of our website.
 
Registration will be conducted during an open house at PCC on Friday the 12th from 4:30-7:30 PM, or if class space permits on the days of the camp itself. Special pre-registration is available to members of social justice or community organizations. Pre-register by contacting us in advance by phone or email. Registration for the camp is by suggested donation, with no one turned away for lack of funds. We suggest a $5 donation, but those who are able are encouraged to give more.
 
Evening Events: During the open house on Friday from 6-7:30 we will be hosting a caucus on Media Justice, where local media groups are encouraged to come meet and discuss challenges and opportunities in the Portland/Vancouver media landscape. For more information contact the Media Camp.
 
After registration and the caucus we will move to Liberty Hall for an Opening Night Party from 8-11 PM. The party will include an art show featuring pieces from three different art collectives form around the world; Taring Padi of Indonesia, Collectivo TK from Oaxaca, Mexico and Just Seeds from the US. In conjunction with the showing, representatives for each group will hold a panel on the topic of the intersection of art with social movements. Music will be provided by the Underscore Orchestra and Aircrash2000. Liberty Hall is located at 311 N Ivy St. one block south of Fremont and two blocks west of Vancouver Ave.
 
On Saturday night beginning at 6 PM the New Born Tribe African community center will be co-hosting an African dinner along with a screening of various grassroots film projects that we previewed at our "Tell It Like It Is" event. We will be showing the following short documentaries.

THIS SUNDAY May 04! S.P.A.Z. Brunch / Renegade!

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05/04/2008 - 10:23am
05/04/2008 - 3:23pm
Humankind faces a crossroads.

One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness,
the other to total extinction.

Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

SPAZ Brunch
returns
as an outdo' potluck renegade.

10:23 - 3:23
show up early

* Bouncy Castle
* BBQ
* DOUBLE DUTCH
* S.P.A.Z. Soundsystem
with Spukkin' Faceship; Dave Synth; Mega-Bitch; and someone whose spoken name requires (or causes) auto-disembowelment.

...at our new beachfront property in SF:
"Tire Beach," where 24th Street meets the Bay. Click here for directions

Bring food (cooked or not), beverages, dancin' shoes, slingshots...

If someone could bring a MAYPOLE & a goat it would be great.

long haul cafe night - bloomington EF! benefit

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08/12/2007 - 7:00pm
08/12/2007 - 11:00pm

cafe night at the long haul infoshop, 3124 shattuck ave, berkeley

to benefit bloomington indiana's Roadblock Earth First!

in their struggle against the NAFTA superhighway I-69

with olde tyme music and info on how to get involved

DAM NATION: DISPATCHES FROM THE WATER UNDERGROUND

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05/25/2007 - 7:30pm

Friday, May 25th
DAM NATION: DISPATCHES FROM THE WATER UNDERGROUND
Booklaunch with editors Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Laura Allen, and July Oskar
Cole
at AK Press 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland 94612 (btwn MLK & San Pablo)

Detecting and perpetrating covert operations

04/12/2007 - 9:00pm
04/12/2007 - 11:30pm

This thursday Hillegass-Parker Coop (formerly Le Chateau) is hosting back-to-back talks regarding the idea that in real and virtual environments alike, any carefully implemented system can be undone.

Free Evolution Control Committee talk at Dorkbot

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03/14/2007 - 7:30pm

The Evolution Control Committee's TradeMark G. will be giving a talk at Dorkbot ( http://dorkbot.org/ ), the monthly open source geekdown of "people doing strange things with electricity".  This talk has never been given before and will be a "geek's-eye view of The Evolution Control Committee", discussing The ECC's inventions, motives, schemes, and desperate acts of copyright criminality.  This will include detailed discussions and behind-the-scenes revelations of The Thimbletron, Extreme Sampling, CBS Legal Threats, Napster Bombs and Napster Nuggets (aka Mic In Tracks), Music Hacking, Illegal Art.  T'will rock, as long as my sickly voice and the janky Freecycled sound system hold out.

Also speaking:
dan maynes aminzade - interactive audience games (and other fun with cameras) ( http://www.stanford.edu/~monzy/ )
afshin mehin - color changing cement, talking t-shirts, passenger poking car seats and interactive tools for product design ( http://afshinmehin.com/ )
         WHAT: Dorkbot, with TradeMark G. of The ECC and other dorkalicious speakers
         WHEN: TOMORROW, Wednesday, 14-March-2007 @ 7:30pm
         WHERE:  7hz ( http://7hz.org ), 1814 Illinois St (1 block SE of Cesar Chavez and 3rd Street)
                   map:  < http://xrl.us/7hzsf >
                 "Dress warm and BYOC!  (Seating is limited you may want to bring your own chair)
                  CASH BAR!"
        HOW MUCH: Free!  (donations to the space gratefully accepted)

Next Stop: "Free Speech Ain't Free!"  benefit for the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) by RU Sirius, March 22nd

12th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair (2nd of 2 days)

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03/18/2007 - 11:00am
03/18/2007 - 5:00pm

EVERYONE is invited to the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair! This event is FREE.

@ San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way

The Anarchist Bookfair has been a San Francisco tradition for over a decade, and has become one of the largest annual gatherings of anarchists and radical books in the world. Last year, during the 11th Annual Anarchist Bookfair in March 2006, over four thousand people–from every walk of life, locals from San Francisco and visitors from around the world–enjoyed good conversation, speakers, art, and of course books!

12th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair (1st of 2 days)

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03/17/2007 - 10:00am
03/17/2007 - 6:00pm

EVERYONE is invited to the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair! This event is FREE.

@ San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way

The Anarchist Bookfair has been a San Francisco tradition for over a decade, and has become one of the largest annual gatherings of anarchists and radical books in the world. Last year, during the 11th Annual Anarchist Bookfair in March 2006, over four thousand people–from every walk of life, locals from San Francisco and visitors from around the world–enjoyed good conversation, speakers, art, and of course books!

It was easy to spend the entire day between browsing the long tables of books, magazines, zines, artwork, videos and other wares, sitting in the sun eating sandwiches from the worker-owned café or listening to a wide variety of speakers who took on subjects from the need to abolish the institution of the state (Ward Churchill), to a young dyke’s adventures in San Francisco in the mid 90s (Michelle Tea).

With so much to do and see, the Bookfair has expanded into two days for 2007! Approximately 50 anarchist groups and alternative book, magazine, and publishing people will be represented at tables selling and distributing books and materials you won’t find anywhere else.

The plans for the event also include a cafe, spoken word presentations, kid & family space, free bike valet and an art gallery.

The Dissent! G8 Infotour @ the Long Haul

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03/08/2007 - 6:30pm
03/08/2007 - 8:30pm

A presentation about the history of and resistance to the G8, brought to you by the people organizing in Germany for June 2007.
@ the Long Haul, 3124 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley http://www.thelonghaul.org/

Realizing the Impossible - booklaunch/celebration

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03/19/2007 - 7:00pm

Monday, March 19th, 7PM

Realizing the Impossible
booklaunch/celebration
with Josh MacPhee and Erick Lyle

Needles + Pens
3253 16th Street (between Guerrero & Dolores), San Francisco

Co-Hosted by AK Press

BASTARD anarchist conference

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03/18/2007 - 10:00am
03/18/2007 - 6:00pm

The BASTARDs (Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research and
Development) are proud to announce the Seventh Annual Anarchist Theory
Conference. The conference will take place at Dwinell Hall on the
University of California, Berkeley campus on Sunday, March 18th, 2007 from
10am to 6pm.

Smashing the G8 Summit 2007 in Germany

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03/06/2007 - 8:00pm

Smashing the G8 Summit 2007 in Germany!
SF INFOTOUR

March 6th, TUESDAY
8pm

Station 40
3030b 16th st. (&Mission), San Francisco

Once a year the leaders of the 8 richest nations meet behind closed doors in secret with no publicized agenda or published minutes, to discuss the fate of the world. They’ve been making empty promises for decades about improving the environment, poverty in Africa, and lots more, but the fact is that the G8 is not the solution to these ills, it is the problem! We are preparing in Germany for large scale protests against the G8 meeting this June 6-8, 2007, and plan to come tell you about what is going on here. We have done over 200 presentations in 25+ countries since November 2005, and are now coming to your town!

"Copyright vs. Community" talk by rms

02/22/2007 - 9:00pm
02/22/2007 - 11:00pm

Tonight RMS, digital activist, is going to be giving a talk at my coop. 
bring a beverage if you like.
sorry for the late notice - this was just confirmed.


"Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks"
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