Pictures From the Rally
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SPIRIT AND ACTION

Nov 15 2002

Starhawk Speaks With Austin on the Sacred Dimension of Activism.
Wednesday evening, visionary activist Starhawk spoke with a gathering at the Rhizome Collective warehouse. The poet and ritual artist read from her new book, Webs of Power, ( mp3 [6 MB]) and followed with a 40 minute dialogue with audience members ( part one [13 MB], part two [11 MB]).

Starhawk emphasized creative, imaginative, and beautiful responses to corrupt systems of power. Rooted in earth-based spiritual practices, Starhawk has worked in the peace and sustainability movement for decades and currently focuses on globalization issues.

The previous evening she participated in the International Women's Conference on the University of Texas campus, "Not a Free Market, But a Market-Free Economy," an exploration of gift economies as an alternative to dominant exploitative systems.

CUTTING THE LUMBERMEN DOWN TO SIZE

Nov 11 2002

NAWLA: We're Not Leaving Until You're Out of the Forest.
Activists from across the country successfully disrupted the timber baron's conference in Dallas this weekend. The North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA) held their 110th annual Traders Market at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel. As over 650 lumber trade groups met to expand markets and pitch their products to one another, activists converged on the hotel to voice dissent towards the logging practices of some of the timber giants meeting inside.

On Friday activists were able to penetrate the meeting and let certain members of NAWLA know that people were committed to tell the world about their dirty secrets.

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OCTOBER 26 PEACE MARCH

Nov 1 2002

Texans Turn Out in the Rain to Protest the War Plans of the Bush Administration.
Saturday, October 26, marked a day of global protest to the possibility of yet another Bush oil war, and Texans also turned out to demonstrate their desire for peace. Approximately a thousand people rallied at the capitol to listen to speakers, music and cheers encouraging a continuation of dissent that has thus far stalled the Bush administration’s plans for military action in Iraq. It was a day of hope for many in the movement, as the larger protests in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Rome, Berlin, Stockholm, Mexico City, Tokyo, and various other cities (photos) across the nation and the world turned out in numbers not seen since the Vietnam War. [more...]

MP3 Audio:
Rahul Mahajan Introduction (8:31, 5.8 MB)
Chomsky Talk
   Part One (20:44, 14.2 MB)
   Part Two (20:36, 14.1 MB)
   Part Three (15:25, 10.5 MB)
   Part Four (14:04, 9.6 MB)
Question and Answer
  Part One (16:41, 11.4 MB)
  Part Two (15:34, 10.6 MB)
  Part Three (13:46, 9.4 MB)
  Part Four (13:34, 9.3 MB)
  Part Five (21:03, 14.4 MB)

FING SKETCHES ON POST-FOUCAULDIAN ANARCHY

Oct 31 2002

Speaking Truth to Power.
By Fing.

Excerpt: "The System is composed of our personal interactions. It is something like the sum total or composite of every one of our relationships. This fact has been known to anarchists for some time, and is the impetus for "civil rights" movements such as the feminist or anti-racist causes. We understand that "the personal is the political," and that the first step towards building an anarchist society is to examine our own personal relations for asymmetries in domination..."

My vision, as an anarchist, is that these groups that re-create persons into sharing, loving beings will grow; that eventually they will offer an attractive enough alternative to the people currently plugged into the great state machine that those people will disconnect, and let themselves be transformed."
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MOCK TERROR HITS UT

Oct 29 2002

Disaster Drill Becomes Local Media Puff Piece.
Thursday October 17th, UT campus hosted a controversial "fake bombing" which upset many students. Local professional and student media failed to present the whole story, or address the dissent at all. Anyone surprised?

"Attention the University of Texas at Austin Disaster Drill in Progress Do Not Enter” Remember those earthquake drills from elementary school? Everyone under their desks, the teacher shouting “shut up this is serious”. The most serious threat was girls getting gum in their hair. Well thanks to heightened paranoia everywhere, UT was subjected to a new variation of the classic fire drills last Thursday.
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RALLY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY

Oct 15 2002

3rd Annual Moratorium March.
Saturday October 12, over 350 people marched through downtown Austin to the state capitol to call for an end to the death penalty. People voiced concerns about the ethics of state sponsored killing, the lack of impartiality in its employment, and the actual guilt of all on death row.

“I think it‘s important for citizens to speak out against a system that is racist, classist, and simply unjust. The death penalty is barbaric and it’s time for us to end it.” - Jordan

“We will never be able to guarantee we have not convicted someone wrongfully, but we can guarantee we will not execute someone wrongfully by not executing people.” - Jim

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FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS

Oct 12 2002

Austinites' Stories from S27 IMF/World Bank Protests in DC.
Austin Indymedia Center has asked for stories from activists who made it to the late September IMF/World Bank protests in D.C.

• "In another way though, the mass arrests certainly bolted dissent to global capitalism to the front pages of the nation's newspapers in a way that hadn't been done at least since September 11, 2001. We don't know yet if the movement against corporate globalization can sustain itself in a climate of perpetual war..." [more]

• "The moral of this story is anti-capitalist and anti-corporate globalization protestors need new mass-mobilization tactics. The police know what’s up and only detain, arrest and beat the protestors without much effect. To be effective, in confronting police coercion or shutting down meetings..." [more]

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