Announcer on Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:35:53 +0100 (CET) |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
<nettime> Publications [10x] |
Table of Contents: Geopolitical designs of US in Iraq and Middle East ronda@ais.org (Ronda Hauben) BOYCOTT AMERICAN PRODUCTS "Anastasia Karaflogka" <a.karaflogka@blueyonder.co.uk> Opensorcery.net text update: 1 interview, 4 texts anne-marie <amschle@cadre.sjsu.edu> PUBS: Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy "Soenke Zehle" <soenke.zehle@web.de> Interview with Isabelle Massu N Bookchin <natalie@action-tank.org> March 2003 Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr> Pubs: Toxics Link Releases Report on E-Waste in India "Soenke Zehle" <soenke.zehle@web.de> BIOTECH-NEWSWIRE | neRAGE.org Ryan Griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> Pr=?ISO-8859-1?B?6XNlbnRhdGlvbiBkdSBOsCAxMiBkZSBs?= =?ISO-8859-1?B?YSBSZXZ1ZSBN "emmanuel.videcoq" <emmanuel.videcoq@wanadoo.fr> mark(s) online quarterly Deb King <debkking@yahoo.com> Dusted Magazine: In Memorium, Peace "tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@techno.ca> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:26:10 -0500 (EST) From: ronda@ais.org (Ronda Hauben) Subject: Geopolitical designs of US in Iraq and Middle East This article in the current issue of Mother Jones is helpful: The Thirty Year Itch by Robert Dreyfuss http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/10/ma_273_01.html It puts the current U.S. plans to start a war against Iraq in a larger context of geopolitical designs. Ronda ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:32:52 -0000 From: "Anastasia Karaflogka" <a.karaflogka@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: BOYCOTT AMERICAN PRODUCTS This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0035_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0" - ------=_NextPart_001_0035_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nettimers, I received this and I thought that it is a good idea to take on board. Two and a half years ago -this is when the United States decided to invade Afganistan - I realised that there is absolutely no way that this decision could be reversed; even if one billion citizens demonstrated against it all over the world. This was the first time that I realised how insignificant my opinion and my actual life were, not only for the global and national 'society' to which I belong, but also for my own life and my immediate environment. I realised that even if I actually agreed with the punishment of those responsible, I still could not protect myself and my immediate environment from the side effects of such a war. Side effects upon the air that I inhale and the climatic pollution due to bombing. Side effects due to the permanent disastrous effects to the planet itself and -last but not least- actual damage in my general welfare. However, there is a minimum personal free choice that I did have! This was to refuse to sponsor -or simply pay- those who I considered to be really responsible for all this. In a very indirect and minimum way! I therefore refused to consume any North American products, or even products which were related to American companies. I didn't consider this personal stance as the beginning of a new crusade. It could potentially grow to become one. But until that moment in time, I have been getting the personal satisfaction that my opposition had also a practical meaning. Now, once again, humanity is watching a similar 'play' which takes place despite the emense public opposition. I invite everyone to start together a minimun personal campaign that is not only a message to those who are about to start this new war. Furthermore, it is a campaign which offers the satisfaction of doing something practical about it! Between the 20th and the 30th of March lets not consume ANY American products. The maximun that could be gained out of such an effort is that at least 10 million people worldwide can deprive the American economy of $2,5 for 10 consecutive days. (This adds up to $250.000.000 -assuming that this is how much a packet of American cigarettes and a can of coca cola would cost)! The minimum that can certainly be gained is the personal satisfaction of actually doing something! You can therefore start a personal embargo to as many American products as you can. Stop consuming them or substitute them with European, Asian, or simply national and/or local products! Anyway, most of the time local or national products are healthier, are aesthetically more attractive(!), and they help local economies! How can one start? First of all sending this mail to as many contacts as they can. If this e-mail is sent to a minimum of 5 people from every recipient, then -at least in theory- within 10 days, a maximum of 9.765.625 people will have it in their mailbox. I m only saying this to emphasize the potential of such a move. Even if you cannot resist to the magic of American products but you agree with this move, at least send it to as many as you can. Others may be able to resist consuming them! YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, BUT YOU ALSO DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS AND BE HEARD! AS A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD! - ------=_NextPart_001_0035_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:dt=3D"uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta name=3D"Microsoft Theme 2.00" content=3D"blends 111"> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <meta name=3DProgId content=3DWord.Document> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=3DOriginator content=3D"Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=3DFile-List href=3D"cid:filelist.xml@01C2EDF2.1FA46050"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:DoNotRelyOnCSS/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DocumentKind>DocumentEmail</w:DocumentKind> <w:EnvelopeVis/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:7 0 0 0 19 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;} h1 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:1; font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:blue; mso-font-kerning:16.0pt; font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;} h2 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:2; font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:blue; font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-style:italic;} h3 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:3; font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:blue; font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;} h4 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:4; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; color:blue; font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;} h5 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-outline-level:5; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; color:blue; font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-style:italic;} h6 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-outline-level:6; font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; color:blue; font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:#993300; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p.MsoAutoSig, li.MsoAutoSig, div.MsoAutoSig {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;} span.EmailStyle15 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} - --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026"/> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body bgcolor=3Dwhite background=3D"cid:image001.gif@01C2EDF2.1FA46050" = lang=3DEN-GB link=3D"#993300" vlink=3Dblue style=3D'tab-interval:36.0pt'> <img src=3D"cid:image001.gif@01C2EDF2.1FA46050" v:src=3D"cid:image001.gif@01C2EDF2.1FA46050" v:shapes=3D"_x0000_Mail" = width=3D0 height=3D0 class=3Dshape style=3D'display:none;width:0;height:0'><!--[if = gte mso 9]><xml> <v:background id=3D"_x0000_s1025" o:bwmode=3D"white" = o:targetscreensize=3D"800,600"> <v:fill src=3D"cid:image001.gif@01C2EDF2.1FA46050" = o:title=3D"blegtext" type=3D"frame"/> </v:background></xml><![endif]--> <div class=3DSection1> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>Nettimers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>I received this and I thought that it is a = good idea to take on board.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>Two and a half years ago -this is when the = United States decided to invade Afganistan - I realised that there is = absolutely no way that this decision could be reversed; even if one billion citizens = demonstrated against it all over the world. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>This was the first time that I realised how insignificant my opinion and my actual life were, not only for the = global and national 'society' to which I belong, but also for my own life and my = immediate environment. I realised that even if I actually agreed with the = punishment of those responsible, I still could not protect myself and my immediate environment from the side effects of such a war. Side effects upon the = air that I inhale and the climatic pollution due to bombing. Side effects due to = the permanent disastrous effects to the planet itself and -last but not least- actual = damage in my general welfare. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>However, there is a minimum personal free = choice that I did have! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>This was to refuse to sponsor -or simply pay- = those who I considered to be really responsible for all this. In a very = indirect and minimum way! I therefore refused to consume any North American products, = or even products which were related to American companies. I didn't = consider this personal stance as the beginning of a new crusade. It could potentially = grow to become one. But until that moment in time, I have been getting the = personal satisfaction that my opposition had also a practical meaning. = <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>Now, once again, humanity is watching a = similar 'play' which takes place despite the emense public opposition. I invite = everyone to start together a minimun personal campaign that is not only a message to = those who are about to start this new war. Furthermore, it is a campaign which = offers the satisfaction of doing something practical about it! Between the 20th and = the 30th of March lets not consume ANY American products. The maximun that = could be gained out of such an effort is that at least 10 million = <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>people worldwide can deprive the American = economy of $2,5 for 10 consecutive <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>days. (This adds up to $250.000.000 -assuming = that this is how much a packet of American cigarettes and a can of coca cola = would cost)! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>The minimum that can certainly be gained is = the personal satisfaction of actually doing something! = <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>You can therefore start a personal embargo to = as many American products as you can. Stop consuming them or substitute them = with European, Asian, or simply national and/or local products! Anyway, most = of the time <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>local or national products are healthier, are aesthetically more attractive(!), and they help local economies! = <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><span style=3D"mso-spacerun: = yes"> </span>How can one start? First of all sending this mail to as many contacts as they = can. If this e-mail is sent to a minimum of 5 people from every recipient, then = - -at least in theory- within 10 days, a maximum of 9.765.625 = <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>people will have it in their mailbox. I m = only saying this to emphasize the potential of such a move. Even if you cannot = resist to the magic of American <span style=3D"mso-spacerun: = yes"> </span>products but you agree with this move, at least send it to as many as you = <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>can. Others may be able to resist consuming = them! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, BUT YOU = ALSO DO HAVE THE RIGHT <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3D"Trebuchet = MS"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>TO SPEAK UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS AND BE HEARD! AS = A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 = color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Arial'><![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> </div> </body> </html> - ------=_NextPart_001_0035_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0-- - ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; - ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; - ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C2EDF2.218D6BA0-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:19:23 +0100 From: anne-marie <amschle@cadre.sjsu.edu> Subject: Opensorcery.net text update: 1 interview, 4 texts 1 interview, 4 texts by Anne-Marie Schleiner newly accessible from opensorcery.net http://www.opensorcery.net/texts.html 1. E-mail Interview by Pedro Soler 2. Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders, and Future Artists 3. Das Fliesende und die Gegensaetze 4. 2 Reviews: Untitled Game and Ego Image Shooter 5. Velvet-Strike Manifesto: War Times and Reality Games 6. Countdown to Collective Insurgence: Cyberfeminism and Hacker Strategies ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:21:22 +0100 From: "Soenke Zehle" <soenke.zehle@web.de> Subject: PUBS: Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy Clapp, Jennifer. "Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy". Confronting Consumption. Ed. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 155-76. As the exceptionally crude slogan 'no-blood-for-oil' suggests, serious consideration of the structural effects of overconsunsumption is not a very popular topic, not even among enviros (but do take at look at Arianna Huffington's latest project <http://www.detroitproject.com/> for what you might call the environmentalization of the war against terrorism). Which is probably why a rather unremarkable anthology on the issue has been hailed as a 'landmark' by scholars like Ramachandra Guha, happy to see the issue addressed at all. The roster of authors is very parochial, lest the US reader, sensitive to the indispensability of the principle of consumption in US politics at home and abroad (see Wolfe's review of _A Consumers' Republic_ at http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030317&s=wolfe031703) be confronted with the agenda of uppity third world political ecologist. Needless to say, the entire North-South debate on an 'ecological debt', critiques of global emission trade regimes by Sunita Narain of the Indian Centre for Science and Environment etc. are absent. For the eco-nettimers, see at least the essay by Clapp (a list of her other pubs at <http://www.trentu.ca/ers/Clapp.shtml>). Soenke ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:17:48 -0800 From: N Bookchin <natalie@action-tank.org> Subject: Interview with Isabelle Massu Hi nettimers, I know its hard to think about much right now except for the actions of the axis of evil: Blair, Bush and Aznar, but for a diversion, here is an interview I did with freedom I mean french artist and activist Isabelle Massu in the fall for 2002 for a spanish journal Red Digital You can read it in spanish with illustrations here: http://reddigital.cnice.mecd.es/3/entrevista_comp_2.html best, natalie Isabelle Massu: Between Two Worlds: An Interview with Natalie Bookchin Isabelle Massu is an artist currently working on a Net art project called aux2mondes. She has a longstanding involvement with public art and alternative media. In 1995, she collaborated with Margaret Tedesco on a year-long collaboration with a group of homeless people from San Francisco's Coalition on Homelessness. Parlor Game: a Popular Version was a series of board games depicting the city rules and regulations San Francisco's homeless had to bypass or confront in order to survive. Six different board games represented the different issues and branches of the association such as Housing - Not Borders and Shelter Outreach. The games were displayed as posters on Market Street in downtown San Francisco, and as an insert in the coalition's newspaper "Street Sheet" (www.sf-homeless-coalition.org). In 1996 Massu joined the French feminist association Les Pénélopes (www.penelopes.org) which had, at the time, the only significant Internet presence representing the feminist movement in France. They produced a newsletter and a Web TV program offering world news on women's issues and feminist analyses of neo-liberal globalization. Les Pénélopes is more than a media outlet; Massu traveled throughout Africa, Europe, and Latin America giving workshops to women on media literacy and the strategic use of new technologies. In 1999 Massu became a member of La Compagnie, (www.la-compagnie.org), an artist collective and an exhibition space in the heart of downtown Marseille, in a neighborhood called Belsunce. The majority of Marseille's substantial North African residents live and work in Belsunce, which has, since the nineteenth century, received immigrants from across the Mediterranean. Belsunce and Marseille are both currently the targets of local and European Union funded "rehabilitation" initiatives, the latter known as the Euroméditerranée Project. Approximately one and a half billion Euros are being invested in Marseille with the hopes of transforming the city into a booming commercial center and a tourist attraction. This is the largest amount ever given to a European city by the EU, and the funds are being allocated for downtown real estate development and restoration projects, aimed at attracting international investors and businesses. Downtown is being "cleaned up," pricing out its current occupants to make room for a new population of professionals, businesses, and tourists. A new high-speed train linking Paris to Marseille has been installed. Marseille's considerable immigrant population and its rampant unemployment and poverty are an aftermath of another era's commercial (and more overtly racist) enterprise, French colonialism. During the height of colonialism in the nineteenth century, Marseille, nicknamed `Porte de l'Orient,' flourished as the main port for travel and trade to the French colonies. Throughout the twentieth century, immigrants, primarily from the Maghreb countries of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, were recruited to France as "guest" workers. Men were shipped over without their families and offered deplorable living conditions to discourage settlement when the work ran out. Recruitment and immigration accelerated in the 1960s during France's economic boom and into the 1970s, when an estimated two million North Africans immigrated to France, many remaining in Marseille. With the end of colonialism, activities around the port of Marseille began to dwindle, ushering in widespread unemployment. The end of the Algerian war in 1962 brought massive migration from the newly independent country, including about 150,000 pieds-noirs, French citizens who had settled in Algeria, returning to their homeland. Many of the guest workers who had stayed on after their work had finished were permitted by the French government to send for their families. With the sudden increase in the population, unemployment and poverty, already a problem in Marseille, became endemic. The middle class began to abandon the city, leaving the poor and the immigrant population to deal with its crumbling infrastructure. In 1999, Massu her current collaborators inherited La Compagnie from a collective of artists who had previously run the organization for five years. The new collective began to put considerable effort into defining their role and position in relation to the uneasy situation in Belsunce. Their goal has been to bring diverse cultural activities to the neighborhood, but they are also very cautious of the role their existence can play in accelerating the gentrification process. They have initiated, supported and developed a variety of projects including aux2mondes.With aux2mondes Massu and her collaborators are developing an on-line game and archive exposing the gentrification strategies of the city and the current situation in Belsunce.The rules of the game will be inspired by city and state political rules and regulations. They are planning the release date to coincide with the inauguration of a new public library in Belsunce, a major event and symbol of the "rehabilitation" project. Natalie Bookchin: What brought you to live and work in Marseille? Isabelle Massu: I lived in San Francisco for 10 years. In 1996, I decided it was time to return home, and spent a year looking for places to live. I am originally from Paris and didn't want to go back to a place that felt so familiar. I visited a friend in Marseille and fell in love with the city. Part of my attraction was that, like San Francisco, Marseille is a cosmopolitan port city, and although it is France, it doesn't look and feel like the rest of the country. Mediterranean culture is very present. It is a very intense city, partly due to its geographical positioning at the edge of the continent. After all the orderliness and quaintness of San Francisco, I was looking for a city with more of an edge. Marseille is the second biggest city in France, yet had been generally disregarded by the French government until recently. It is the only city left in France where the downtown is poor and the immigrant population, the majority of which is Algerian, lives in the center of the city. The two other large French cities, Paris and Lyon, have already "rehabilitated" and gentrified their centers, which are now richer and whiter, and the immigrants have been pushed to the suburbs. When I came to Marseille I moved to Belsunce, a small neighborhood sandwiched between the main train station, the entrance to the city's freeway, and the port. Belsunce brought back familiar feelings and sensations of growing up in the suburbs of Paris. When I was six years old, my stepfather decided to move to the projects, which was typical of a French proletarian family in need of a bargain apartment. The projects had just been constructed, and were being sold as attractive, new, and modern. This was the 1970s and the projects were also being used for temporarily relocating some of the newly arriving Algerian population. We were in the minority as so called Français de souche, (roughly translated as "old stock or native French). This was the first time I encountered immigrants, and I witnessed a lot of racism. The immigrants were seen as intruders. Their religious practices, which were completely unfamiliar to us, were seen as evil and barbarian. From the dead lamb in the cellar to the henna on my friend's hands and feet, I had a lot of questions that were never answered by my family or school. France's role in Algeria was not discussed. We learned about World War II, but never a word was mentioned about what amounted to almost a century of French colonization. No one talked about the protectorates, yet the schools were suddenly filled with kids from these places. Returning to Belsunce in France in 1996 reminded me of the confusion I felt as a child, and I began to think about the situation as an adult. I felt very comfortable in Marseille, feeling that I simultaneously belonged and didn't belong. I knew there was something in this that I wanted to investigate, but I didn't know exactly what form that investigation would take. NB: You left France when you were twenty-two and spent ten years, much of your adult life, as an immigrant in San Francisco. Now you are back in France, and carry an American and a French passport. You have worked in activist organizations as an artist, and in artist collectives as an activist. You are attracted to Marseille as a city located between the north and the south, between France and North Africa. Your project aux2mondes resides between physical and virtual spaces. It seems that you value the "in-between" not as a transitional space, but a place to locate oneself and one's work. Can you talk about your interest in the "in-between?" IM: I don't know if it's an interest as much as a way of being in the world, something that I have had to be all my life. I don't want to be too psychoanalytical, but I will say that the first "in-between" was between my mother and my father, who divorced when I was very young and lived in different places. It was between the two of them that I really found myself, and still do. I have always been drawn to the interstices, whether it is between places or identities. To be "in-between" is to not have a closed-in, secure, or fixed position. Maybe it's not a very determined way of being in the world, but for me, any other position is too constraining. Being fixed in one position does not allow you to see the other side, whereas being "in-between" allows for movement and insight. And of course one can talk about the strategy of the "in-between" in aux2mondes. The project is based in Belsunce, where most people are between two worlds, between Algeria and Marseille, between the secular state of France and the religious state of Algeria, between being welcomed as a citizen and being an illegal alien. But the in-between aspect of the project really lies in how it structures and defines public space. aux2mondes looks at both the limits and possibilities of physical spaces and the virtual spaces. We are using the Net as a public space to reinvent situations, propose alternatives, and denounce the progress of gentrification. aux2mondes needs both spaces: the physical space of La Compagnie is a direct and critical link with the people who are threatened by the gentrification. NB: Marseille seems to be trying to erase Belsunce. If the local population is made invisible, there is no need to address them. Can you talk about how aux2mondes works against this process? IM: The city, the state, and the newspapers praise the expansion of urban renewal plans. The process is said to be socially, economically, and culturally enriching, but for whom? The rhetoric is always addressed to a privileged population, as if the population being displaced did not exist. Politicians describe this center as the "throbbing heart that it once was" before the arrival of the immigrants. The politician's goal is revealed through their vocabulary: rehabilitation, restitution, reanimation, reorientation, reinforcement, resurrection, and above all re-conquest. We intend to give a more realistic picture of the so-called "enhancement" of a city. By collectively writing another story, we reiterate the universal droit de cité. This is in some respects how we are depicting the situation as a game in aux2mondes: like most popular games, we are recreating a real situation. Think of Monopoly, Sim City, Europa, games involving commerce, city planning, colonization. In aux2mondes, the city and state political rules and regulations are our sources of inspiration. We are inventing another site, inventing a "counter" Belsunce,another Belsunce, another public space, one where we could strategically play with equal opportunities to win or lose, one where voices could be heard, a public space where one could interfere, exchange, network, a non-static net within the net. It is the Net, and it is fluid, not fixed in space or time, allowing us to continue the story we are experiencing here, and to invent other stories, strategies, and challenges, as the gentrification process continues here and everywhere. "the population in downtown is for the most part people with a very low income; we need to crush this phenomena." la Marseillaise (local newspaper) 24.05.96 NB:You are now in your second year of working on your project, yet do not seem to be in any hurry to publish anything on the Net. Can you talk a bit about your work process? IM: The whole first year we did extensive research into the historical, social, and political situation in Belsunce. We have been conducting workshops and interviewing people who are or have lived in the neighborhood. For a year, Martine Derain and I have been working with a group of local women. Other members of the collective are working on other projects and workshops, such as Johanne Larrouzé who organizes workshops for kids and adults that relate to the events taking place in our space. She and David Bouvard, another member of the collective, are working on a mini festival of Scopitone films for next year. Scopitone films were the 1960s precursor to today's music videos. They were distributed on 16 mm film with sound and shown on a Scopitone film jukebox, found in bars across France. Joanne and David are focusing on scopitones made for immigrants. Most of them were about working hard in France, leaving the country, wanting to go back or wanting to remain. A lot of them had strong sexual connotations, perhaps in an attempt to entertain lonely male workers who were brought over without wives and families. Debates and lectures at La Compagnie often address problems in the neighborhood, such as the local economy, as well as national and international issues such as rehabilitation projects in other cities and how other collectives and associations work with immigrants. We also have an artist residency program, which tries to introduce an outside perspective on the situation. Martine and Dalila Madjhoub, two members of La Compagnie, are currently working on a proposal for a public art piece in Belsunce in collaboration with two French architects. Their extensive research on city politics will be added to the database of aux2mondes, as will the work of the others mentioned above. We are calling the archive and database of aux2mondes "The Library." It will mirror the "real" library currently under construction, which is viewed as a major symbol of the gentrification process in Belsunce. Its strategic geographical position is supposed to placate the local population. However, it will also attract students from nearby and newly constructed universities, which are attracting a younger generation to the area. They will probably be among the first new settlers in Belsunce. Therefore, as most locals would agree, this library is not really for them. "When you go to Aix Street, they give you low income housing for around 3000frs. What does it mean? It's not the poor people who are going to live there, especially with "Marseille-habitat". If you want an apartment they'll know where to find you one, a one room in Belsunce or a 6 room apartment in the north of Marseille. The choice of course is quickly made!" "La Cité de La Musique, they did not build it for us. The minimum you need to pay for classes for your kid is 400frs!! I'm telling you, this is not for usŠ The library, I don't think it's gonna be for us either, I really don't think so!" Fatima Rhazi, resident of Belsunce, 2001 NB:Can you talk about the workshops you have been running with the women from the neighborhood? IM: The workshops came partly out of my feminist experience, and from working in a neighborhood where public space is mainly inhabited and controlled by men. Women appear primarily in private spaces, mostly at home. What really stood out for me is their invisibility. Muslim and Algerian women are doubly invisible: they are invisible as Muslims and Algerians in France, and invisible as women in Muslim culture. The women would come to La Compagnie with their kids. The men from the neighborhood would come and go, but some women kept on coming back. We began to develop friendships, while simultaneously developing a series of workshops. They wanted to learn how to use the Internet. It seemed that after one year what was most important to them had to do with communication: email and forums. The Net became a way for them to have a voice and to access information on their own, without having to rely solely on television or reports of the outside world by the men. For some, the interest was to feel closer to their home country, and they would participate in online forums dedicated to Mzabite culture (a group well known for its puritanism in Algeria). The anonymity in this context allowed "feminist" voices to come out. These were forums where it appeared that only men were chatting, but, as would happen in an ideal public space, they were suddenly filled with women's voices, challenging misogynist beliefs in a very direct manner. Later on, as they became more at ease with the use of computers, the women started to write their own stories of their arrival in Belsunce. They trusted that their voices would be heard but their identities never revealed-some of them are illegal aliens in France. We will make audio and text material from the workshops available in aux2monde's Library. NB: Tell me about the funding of aux2mondes. Are your funders aware of your intentions? IM: We have been given fairly substantial funds from the city and the Ministry of Culture despite the fact that Marseille doesn't have much money for culture and the arts. I believe that this has to do, in part, with our strategic location in Belsunce and our potential as artists in the neighborhood to placate the population. Politicians believe that if people are distracted by culture they wont need to dwell on the unpleasantness of their situation. The cultural events are supposed to act as a crutch, to compensate for what the city is not offering them-a decent education, parks, and playgrounds. None of this exists in Belsunce. In a neighborhood which has been labeled as disreputable, La Compagnie bridges the different populations throughout the various events we organize in Belsunce. As artists, we have to be very diligent about what we are offering in this context. We need to constantly look very critically at our own position and the one placed on us by the government, which believes it is useful to have a public art space in this "targeted" neighborhood. We are not fooling ourselves into thinking that we can restrain gentrification that has been happening for over ten years. But at the same time, we are not willing to fully satisfy our funder's expectations, and we refuse to permanently occupy the position they outline for us, though at times this position is unavoidable. For the most part we have been free to do as we please, but I suppose aux2mondes will trigger a lot of political debate once it is online. NB: Why do you assume that gentrification is inevitable? Is there any attempt, from your group or others, to resist the rehabilitation project, which could prove to be disastrous to the hundreds of immigrants living and working in the neighborhood? This rehabilitation project has been studied by sociologists, urban planners, and the city for quite some time now, and has convinced much of the population that it is being done in their interest. And some of it probably is, but lies and promises are being used successfully as strategic weapons. For example, the city is offering families the same rent to move into the projects on the edge of the city as they now pay to live in Belsunce. This could be seen as a good opportunity for some, but others, like old and single men living in cheap hotels (a substantial portion of Belsunce's population), do not want to be displaced or isolated one from one another. The working population does not want to have to commute long distances to work in downtown Marseille. Why should they have to be the ones to move to the projects? Resisting an underhanded, tricky government is more challenging then one that is blatantly violent. Some groups are organizing to inform people of their rights as citizens and tenants, but there is not much being done for the illegal immigrants. It is difficult to fight for people's right to stay here when technically they do not have such rights. Our form of resistance is at times made up of small daily gestures. We are offering a critical perspective, and that is in itself an act of resistance. aux2mondes has no pretenses about changing the world, and locates itself in between activism and art. But from both perspectives the intention remains the same: making its participants visible. That is our plot in the game. www.aux2mondes.org The first part of the project will be on-line October 2004. Edited by Claire Barliant and Natalie Bookchin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:06:17 +0100 (CET) From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr> Subject: March 2003 Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- March 2003 In this issue: Edward Said, the other America; Arundhati Roy, resisting empire; France stands firm like De Gaulle did; the US invents demons; and makes up the news; Turkey demands its price; China keeps quiet; Arafat is worried; Afghan women cover up and hurry by plus why the South has no cheap drugs, the new Chinese movies and more You can have our new print edition delivered direct to your door. Subscriptions include online access to all articles on our website. To subscribe, click here to be taken to our secure server. https://www.granta.com/mondediplo GLOBAL CRISIS OVER IRAQ Poles apart By IGNACIO RAMONET Translated by Ed Emery and Luke Sandford <http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/03/01polesapart> The alternative United States * By EDWARD W SAID The rift in the United Nations Security Council does not reflect the world's true opinion: people across Europe, the Islamic world and in the South, firmly oppose war in Iraq and told the United States so through huge worldwide demonstrations in February. Even inside the US itself, behind the show of unanimity staged by the media subservient to the government, there is another America that rejects the likely military adventure in Iraq. Original text in English United States: inventing demons By PHILIP S GOLUB There is a coalition of the radical right in the United States, including the odd Democrat, that has long held that patriotic mobilisation is important in holding American society together. When detente broke out in the 1970s, these hawks worried about any reduction in international tension, however slight. Since 11 September 2001 they have had no more worries. Translated by Barbara Wilson <http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/03/03radicalright> United States: making up news * By ERIC ALTERMAN The independent reputation of the media in the United States, dating from Watergate in the 1970s, has suffered badly since the Reagan era. And currently a pact between rightwing print media and broadcast networks is destroying the last vestiges of independence and neutrality in the media. Original text in English Turkey: price of alliance * By NIELS KADRITZKE Despite a dramatic reversal in parliament on 1 March, the Turkish ruling party, under acute pressure from the United States, seems likely to push for a second vote that, if successful, will bring the country around in direct US aid and secure future Turkish influence in the Kurdish northern region of Iraq. Translated by Barry Smerin Turkey: post-Islamists in power By WENDY KRISTIANASEN The belated entry into parliament of Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP leader, coincides with serious problems over Turkey's likely role in the looming war with Iraq. What will happen now to the party in power in parliament? Original text in English <http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/03/06turkey> A short history of Franco-US discord By PAUL-MARIE DE LA GORCE The current frost between France and the United States is not new. They have often disagreed over the past 45 years: France refused to allow US missiles stationed on its soil, withdrew from Nato's command structure, and recognised communist China even though it horrified the US. Translated by Harry Forster <http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/03/07franceusa> China hides its intentions again * By FU BO China is much more reticent internationally than it used to be. The Chinese authorities have been subordinating their foreign policy to their economic policies, especially the opening of the nation to trade and investment, since the late 1970s. Commercially dependent on the West, China bases its foreign policy on good relations with the United States. Original text in English The view from Palestine * By ERIC ROULEAU How will a war on Iraq affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? From Yasser Arafat to the Labour party leader, Amran Mitzna, there is anxiety. Palestinians worry about a population 'transfer' - ethnic cleansing - despite assurances from the United States. Israelis worry about daily security and the worsening economic crisis. Translated by Linda Butler Afghanistan: the Taliban's smiling face * By JUDITH HUBER IN KABUL women hurry as they go about their business. Most look like blue ghosts in their cover-all burkas. The distinctive walk of those in high heels gives a fleeting glimpse of the embroidered hems of their trousers beneath. These women seem to dress with care. Even the daring few who brave the streets without a burka still bustle, rushing past bearded men, armed and uniformed, sitting lazily on rickety chairs in front of government offices. The men's official headgear is pushed over their foreheads to shield their watchful gaze, always on the look-out for distraction. Translated by Luke Sandford Changing the rules of war * By BETH DAPONTE Original text in English WTO RENEGES ON DRUG PATENTS Prescription for pain * By JAMES LOVE Despite the promise made by the World Trade Organisation in 2001, Northern pharmaceutical companies and wealthy Western nations are still preventing Southern countries from getting desperately needed drugs cheaply. Original text in English CINEMA China's new indie movies * By BÉRÉNICE REYNAUD For a decade there have been two Chinese cinemas: the official cinema that does well at the box office, and independent cinema, often banned, but triumphant at international festivals. In 1993 reforms demanded that studios become economically viable. Most could not. They sold production quotas to private production houses. After 2001 independent directors could apply for a production permit. A hybrid sector is now developing. Translated by Gulliver Cragg GLOBAL CRISIS OVER IRAQ Resistance is never futile * By ARUNDHATI ROY Original text in English ________________________________________________________________ _ (*) Star-marked articles are available to paid subscribers only. Yearly subscription fee: 24 US $ (Institutions 48 US $). ______________________________________________________________ For more information on our English edition, please visit http://MondeDiplo.com/ To subscribe to our free "dispatch" mailing-list, send an (empty) e-mail to: dispatch-on@monde-diplomatique.fr To unsubscribe from this list, send an (empty) e-mail to: dispatch-off@monde-diplomatique.fr English language editorial director: Wendy Kristianasen _______________________________________________________ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 1997-2003 Le Monde diplomatique ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:54:18 +0100 From: "Soenke Zehle" <soenke.zehle@web.de> Subject: Pubs: Toxics Link Releases Report on E-Waste in India Dear Friends, The large increase of electronic products' consumption rates leads to the question of electronic waste (e-waste) management, which has already become an issue of grave environment and health concern -particularly as computer waste is concerned! The increasing obsolescence rates of IT products added to the huge import of junk computers from abroad create dramatic scenario for solid waste management in India. Toxics Link is very happy to share with you its latest report, Scrapping the hi-tech myth - Computer waste in India! Based on a one-year investigation in Delhi, among the IT industries, computer retailers, scrap dealers, importers and so on, as well as on secondary data, this report focuses on the issue of electronic waste (e-waste) management in India, and particularly on computer waste. Rich in exclusive data and figures, the report looks in detail at e-waste generation and its management options, the economics of e-waste trade and finally confronts our findings to the existing policies, formulating recommendations for the future policies to be more responsive to e-waste-related issues. You can download the report now at http://www.toxicslink.org/publicationsdet.php?id=31! Enjoy your reading! The Toxics Link Team Toxics Link H-2 Jungpura Extn. New Delhi - 110 014 Ph: + 91 11 2432 8006, 2432 0711 Fax: + 91 11 2432 1747 Email - ruchita@toxicslink.org Website - www.toxicslink.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:53:09 -0800 (PST) From: Ryan Griffis <grifray@yahoo.com> Subject: BIOTECH-NEWSWIRE | neRAGE.org BIOTECH-NEWSWIRE | neRAGE.org NYT: F.D.A. Says Food Supply May Contain Altered Pigs http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/17/7084095 NZ: $10m fines to back GM laws http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/12/8704498 GE: Rift Between Consumers and Farmers http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/11/3237596 INDIA: Resistance to GE cotton http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/11/3119208 INDIA: Creating Autonomous Regulatory Authority for GE Crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/11/2458274 Monsanto: Net Loss of 1.693 Billion Dollars http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/11/0303966 Biotech firms pay $110 million to settle StarLink lawsuit http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/11/0205802 California regulators adopt rules for bioengineered fish http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/08/2363262 INDIA: US is Derailing Biosafety to Allow GM Imports http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/24/1471698 Novartis Looking to Accquire Roche http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/23/6378042 India: Nurition Experts Sound Caution on GM Foods http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1780065 How to feed the world? http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1705359 FAO: Biotech Research Fails to Aid Poor http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1475224 USA abandons plan to take EU to WTO over GM crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1301603 Poor farmers warned against Internet transgenic crop deals http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1246756 Are Farmer funds promoting genetically engineered wheat? http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/0944810 Portuguese Government Approves Law Regulating Deliberate Release of GMOs http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/0584055 NZ: GM rules find even balance http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/6171183 Development of Biotech Crops Is Booming in Asia http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/5956744 Journalist rBGH Lawsuit Reversed http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/20/6310102 USA: North Dakota Senate Upends GM Wheat Bill http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/20/6138538 Roundup Unready http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/20/5951654 Greenpeace Shuts Down Shaw's Markets Main Distribution Center http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/19/1601234 Caution in China over GM crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/18/0961078 NYT: F.D.A. Says Food Supply May Contain Altered Pigs http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/17/7084095 Event date: 05/16/2003 Event title: Biodevastation URL: http://www.neRAGE.org/pages.php?node=02/01/27/8514378&action=display&view=day&day=16&month=05&year=2003 Grocery Manufacturers of America Calls for Better Biopharm Regulation http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/02/4631454 New Study Shows Consolidation in Biotech R&D http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/02/4511136 Town Day brings debates on genetically modified foods http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/28/2881861 Kraft CEO Says Stronger Regulation Of Biotech Needed http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/28/2760493 Maine to Monsanto: Milk keeps Quality Seal http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/28/2642199 Tennessee man pleads guilty of stealing Monsanto seed http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/2599591 There Are Better Ways To Feed Africa Then With GE Crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/03/4652121 Grocery Manufacturers of America Calls for Better Biopharm Regulation http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/02/4631454 New Study Shows Consolidation in Biotech R&D http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/02/4511136 Town Day brings debates on genetically modified foods http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/28/2881861 Kraft CEO Says Stronger Regulation Of Biotech Needed http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/28/2760493 Maine to Monsanto: Milk keeps Quality Seal http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/28/2642199 Tennessee man pleads guilty of stealing Monsanto seed http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/2599591 CA: Farmers told "If you don't want GM wheat, don't buy RoundUp" http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/0745826 CA: At Least 12 Experimental GE Farms Across the Country http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/0542059 Foreign genes in GMOs can move from cell's chloroplast to nucleus http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/0466973 Nitrogen may increase Bt levels in corn http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/0428962 Corn That Clones Itself http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/0371690 Development of Biotech Crops Is Booming in Asia http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/27/0200487 INDIA: US is Derailing Biosafety to Allow GM Imports http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/24/1471698 Novartis Looking to Accquire Roche http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/23/6378042 India: Nurition Experts Sound Caution on GM Foods http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1780065 How to feed the world? http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1705359 FAO: Biotech Research Fails to Aid Poor http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1475224 USA abandons plan to take EU to WTO over GM crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1301603 Poor farmers warned against Internet transgenic crop deals http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/1246756 Are Farmer funds promoting genetically engineered wheat? http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/0944810 Portuguese Government Approves Law Regulating Deliberate Release of GMOs http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/0584055 NZ: GM rules find even balance http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/6171183 Development of Biotech Crops Is Booming in Asia http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/21/5956744 Journalist rBGH Lawsuit Reversed http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/02/20/6310102 US derailing India's biosafety regulatory system to allow import of Bt Corn-Soya blend http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/09/0334015 Stricter Rules for Modified Crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/08/2354923 US Working On Coalition To Challenge EU on GMO http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/06/7349093 Monsanto Seeks Aproval For Rootworm Resistant Corn http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/06/7069244 The risks of modified wheat http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/06/6913088 CA: National Farmers Union: No To RoundUp http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/06/6535197 Monsanto courts farmers on gene-altered wheat http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/06/6292514 GE FREE VT RALLY! THURS 3/13--12 NOON--MONTP. http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/06/1710444 Outreach for Colombia Mobilization Actions in Hartford, CT http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/04/6549238 Canadian farmer imports wary views of genetically modifed crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/04/6421905 2000 Protest WTO AG Policy in Japan http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/04/9361495 AUS: State Bans GE Crops for Three Years http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/04/9230888 There Are Better Ways To Feed Africa Then With GE Crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/03/4652121 Mandatory premarket notification fails to make FDA’s A-list http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/4069730 Brazil to allow selloff of biotech soybeans http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/4023438 Food Experts Set Guidelines to Judge Biotech Risks http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3964014 USDA mulls strict rules for Monsanto biotech wheat http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3908096 US Justice Dept. probing Monsanto antitrust issues http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3835602 Thailand: GMO push under fire http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3745907 White House under fire for biotech foods policy http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3688795 Iowa officials note state's biotech investments 'risky' http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3632030 US: Pharmaceutical Crop Guidelines Expected http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3585355 US: Activists to sue feds over genetic crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/18/3540608 CA: Voluntary labelling process melts down http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/16/0130009 Switzerland: GM crop trial blocked by Federal Court http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/14/7903257 Monsanto, duPont, Syngenta, Dow and Rockefeller in Africa http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/14/7280097 NGFA Urges for Stringent Conditions on Pharma-Crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/14/7138388 Zoellick seeks international coalition for WTO biotech case http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/14/6736466 Kinko's Rejects GE Trees http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/14/5841354 EU: GM Ban Will Stay In Effect Till At Least October http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/12/2084999 Public 'not fundamentally opposed' to GM crops http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/12/0552193 UK: Royal Society Under Fire for Pro GM Stance http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/12/0041981 Biotech companies try again to crack European market, but resistance remains http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/12/9770839 ProdiGene Retools http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/12/9723833 US derailing India's biosafety regulatory system to allow import of Bt Corn-Soya blend http://www.neRAGE.org/stories.php?story=03/03/09/0334015 _______________________________________________ biotech-newswire mailing list biotech-newswire@social-ecology.org http://www.social-ecology.org/mailman/listinfo/biotech-newswire Send biotech-newswire mailing list submissions to biotech-newswire@social-ecology.org End of biotech-newswire Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8 ********************************************** __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:53:23 +0100 From: "emmanuel.videcoq" <emmanuel.videcoq@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Pr=?ISO-8859-1?B?6XNlbnRhdGlvbiBkdSBOsCAxMiBkZSBs?= =?ISO-8859-1?B?YSBSZXZ1ZSBNdWx0aXR1ZGVzIOAgbCfp?=cole des beaux-arts le Jeudi 27 Mars 14h30 LE JEUDI 27 MARS 03 ,à 14H30 A l'occasion de la sortie en Librairie du N°12 de la Revue Multitudes Présentation des dossiers "FÉMINISMES,QUEER,MULTITUDES" ET "DEVENIR-FEMME DU TRAVAIL ET DE LA POLITIQUE" par Antonella Corsani, économiste, et du dossier "BORDER", par Ludovic Burel, artiste. CID, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts 14 rue Bonaparte — 75006 Paris — M° St-Germain-des-Près Palais des études, escalier droite, premier étage http://www.ensba.fr +/> Tél : 0147035045 / martine.markovits@ensba.fr MULTITUDES N°12 Féminismes, queer, multitudes / Devenir-femme du travail et de la politique Le féminisme a commencé par la défense des femmes et la dénonciation de la domination masculine. Il se poursuit aujourd'hui dans de nouvelles luttes et dans d'inépuisables désirs de libération qui concerne tous les humains. Il n'y a pas un féminisme mais des féminismes, et chacun d'eux est une rencontre joyeuse et singulière entre des pratiques et des pensées d'horizons différents. Ces post-féminismes se rejoignent dans le numéro 12 de la revue MULTITUDES, auquel des femmes de toute l'Europe ont contribué (il est pour l'essentiel publié également en Italie dans la revue Posse). Des italiennes, des néerlandaises, des belges, des espagnoles, des anglaises, des serbes, des croates et des françaises, y tracent quelques trajets d'un ³ penser-femmes ², illustrant la multiplicité des devenirs possibles. Ce penser-femmes est évidemment au pluriel. La Femme n'existe que dans la langue, pas dans le désir et dans la vie. ³ Fini la servante du seigneur, la femme de son mari, la bonne de son maître, la secrétaire de son patron. Vive les femmes ² dit l'en tête de ce numéro. Les féminismes travaillent à déconstruire l'essence de la femme, éclate le sujet ³ femme ² unique dans lequel certains ont cherché la légitimité et la vérité de leurs luttes. Les pensées post-féministes et queer, issues du féminisme radical américain, et du féminisme transnational des femmes de couleur et des femmes du tiers monde, sont encore mal connues en France. Les femmes qui ont participé à ce numéro sont toutes "queer" à leurs manières, refusent les assignations identitaires, et brouillent les cases du grand tableau dans lequel les pouvoirs aimeraient nous voir tous rangés. Es-tu homme ou femme ? Homo ou hétéro ? Fuir ces questions, devenir étranger à l'image de soi, faire varier les limites des genres : telles sont les premières mesures d'une politique queer. Les catégories traditionnelles de la politique (citoyen, représentationŠ) tremblent au contact de ces tentatives de penser la politique à partir de la prolifération des différences. Un défi est lancé aux institutions démocratiques: devenir capables de politiques par lesquelles les particularités ne soient pas broyées mais invitées à agir et à interagir ensemble. Devenir capables de politiques des minorités, de politiques des multitudes. Des politiques qui débordent les structures hiérarchiques et les invitent à penser et mettre en pratique leur dépérissement. De l'organisation des luttes à la production de la science, la question de la sortie de la domination de l'un sur l'autre est celle qui préoccupe le plus ces mouvements et qui les conduit à inventer de nouvelles formes de vie, de nouveaux rapports à l'espace et au temps. C'est ici que le slogan féministe" le personnel est politique " prend tout son sens. La politique devient femme. Le travail, comme la consommation, comme les soins du corps, comme le spectacle, sont pris dans un devenir-femme irréversible : en se faisant service et communication le travail rejoint l'étendue incommensurable des savoir-faire féminins, entre productions de biens et reproduction de la vie, entre affects et savoirs. Le numéro 12 de MULTITUDES brise joyeusement le miroir de l'unité féminine, laisse loin derrière lui le rappel à l'ordre des chiennes de garde pour dresser la carte du tendre d'une critique radicale et créatrice, la carte des féminismes, et faire un premier relevé topographique des multitudes. . . M U L T I T U D E S Liste de travail des rédacteurs de la revue Pour envoyer un message : multitudes_l@samizdat.net Administration de la liste : laurent@samizdat.net matheron.francois@wanadoo.fr Pour toutes questions techniques : laurent@samizdat.net Pour accéder aux archives, se désabonner, se mettre temporairement en"no-mail": http://listes.samizdat.net/wws/info/multitudes_l Site Web de la revue multitudes : http://www.samizdat.net/multitudes ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:37:26 -0800 (PST) From: Deb King <debkking@yahoo.com> Subject: mark(s) online quarterly mark(s) is pleased to announce the release of v3.04 featuring digital animations by Dawn Nye, Brett Stalbaum's net.work essay, 'Big Data, 'Nelson Smith's flash deconstruction of his work, Vito Valdezes scream against casinos in Detroit and the poetry of Craig Watson and Ed Roberson. http://www.markszine.com. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:27:25 -0500 From: "tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@techno.ca> Subject: Dusted Magazine: In Memorium, Peace ... http://www.dustedmagazine.com/ Black screen is self-explanatory. Peace. tobias c. van Veen ----------- http://www.quadrantcrossing.org http://www.thisistheonlyart.com - ------------- tobias@techno.ca - ---McGill Communications------ ICQ: 18766209 | AOL: thesaibot ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net