Events

Time: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown, Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Free
Poets Neil Marcus and Petra Kuppers read from their new book. Cripple
Poetics: A Love Story (Homofactus Press, 2008) follows the movement of
Bay Area poet and activist Neil Marcus and his partner Petra's
courtship through traditional poems, emails, essayistic meditations
and Internet Relay Chat. Through variations in form, these pieces ask
us to think of our conceptions of mobility, immobility, physical pain,
as well as means of travel, touch, and communication. As a part of the
Disability Culture movement, the collection shows both non-disabled
and disabled people how rich the poets' lives are, not in spite of
their disabilities, but with and through them.

For those of you in the Bay Area:

As part of the Nonsite Collective's "Poetics of Disablement" curriculum, Bhanu Kapil will facilitate a discussion around a short selection from Elizabeth Grosz's *Chaos, Territory, Art,* attached as a pdf below.

Saturday September 20, at 3 pm
935 Natoma,
between 10th and 11th, and between Mission and Howard
Close to Van Ness and Market (Muni)
or Civic Center BART

• For information regarding wheelchair accessibility, please contact rob[dot]halpern[at]gmail[dot]com.

About her approach, Bhanu writes:

Dont Rhine, of the audio activist collective Ultra-red--whose collage based site recordings like *Second Nature* and *Structural Adjustment* combine theory and politics with queer electronica, and engage with crises around HIV and racism--will lead a discussion around two texts his group has drafted, texts that come out of an ongoing effort to further develop their approach to art and activism across specific political investigations and self-organized pedagogy. (Both texts available at links below.)

Ultra-red, who now refer to themselves as a "political-aesthetic organization," appears on the cover of the current issue of WIRE, which features a great article on the collective, a pdf of which is available on this website: http://nonsitecollective.org/ultra-red_wire

Join the Nonsite / Ultra-red discussion:

Get Lost Travel Books
Monday September 22
1825 Market Street
(betwn Valencia and Guerrero)
San Francisco
7pm.

Texts under discussion on 9/22:

1) "Some theses on militant sound investigation, or, listening for a change."

http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/some-theses-on-militant-sound-investigationor-listening-for-a-change/

2) "A Preliminary Outline of Paulo Friere's 'Thematic Investigation' as Cultural Action."

[see attached pdf: click on “1 attachment,” below.]

For more information on Ultra-red, see www.ultrared.org. The collective will be participating in Critical Resistance 10, Sept. 26-28 in Oakland (see “Events” at nonsitecollective.org)

Audio activists Ultra-red present strategy session "Art and Organizing Prevention Justice" and screen their recent video "Untitled (for six voices)" as part of performance series at the Tenth Anniversary gathering of Critical Resistance.

Critical Resistance 10
Saturday, 27 September 2008, 2:00- 4:00 pm
Oakland, California

Lighthouse Charter School
900 Fallon Street
"Watson Room"
There is no door fee and all are welcome.

The audio activist collective Ultra-red are proud to be participating in the Tenth Anniversary convergence of Critical Resistance. CR10 brings together activists and organizers from around the U.S. to strategize and share experiences in the struggle against the prison industrial complex. Ultra-red will present their recent work in the "Untitled" series, an on-going investigation into the potential links between AIDS activism and prison justice. Collective members will screen a single-channel version of our video, "Untitled (for six voices)" and then facilitate an open strategy-session with participants in the project together with movement activists and organizers. We invite everyone in the Bay Area to join us for CR10 and the Ultra-red workshop.

Since 2005, the collective Ultra-red has been involved in an extensive militant investigation into the present conditions of the AIDS crisis in North America and globally. Conceptually rooted in Paulo Freire's radical pedagogy, Ultra-red have developed a series of performances and installations that engage audiences in analyzing the conditions of poverty, racism, and homophobia in the perpetuation of the epidemic. In this workshop, Ultra-red will introduce their work and their partnerships with community organizations including the national organization CHAMP (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project) whose Project UNSHACKLE has informed Ultra-red's approach to AIDS cultural analysis, prevention justice and prison abolition.

This is a series of five programs on the experience and testimony of those who fight in armed conflicts around the globe. The series is called "How We Fight" as a reference to the original WWII era Frank Capra motivation/propaganda series "Why We Fight" which was produced to win over American public sentiment towards entry into the war.

We replace "why" with "how," meaning how do they get along, make do, struggle with their roles and actions, rationalize or question themselves. As noncombatants we struggle to find rhetoric and action which will influence policy positively and progressively. At the same time we want to learn about the experience and thinking of combatants of all sides. We also wish to question the categories that create false images of actual people.

From Sept 25 thru Nov 23 five programs take place at
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia
San Francisco, CA

for film descriptions please visit http://www.atasite.org/

schedule as follows

THU Sept 25th
<strong>HOW WE FIGHT Program 1: Iraqi Short Films</strong>
 <em>Iraqi Short Films</em> by Mauro Andrizzi (Argentina, 2008, 94 min)

THU Oct 9th
<strong>HOW WE FIGHT Program 2: Conscripts</strong>
<em>Interviews with My Lai Veterans</em>  by Joseph Strick, (USA, 1971, 22 minutes)
 <em>Clean Thursday</em>  by Aleksandr Rastorguev (Russia, 2002, 45 minutes)

THU Oct 30th
<strong>HOW WE FIGHT Program 3: Terrorists</strong>
 <em>Notes of a Kurdish Rebel</em> by Stefano Savona (France, 2005, 78 minutes)
 <em>November</em> by Hito Steyerl (Germany, 2004, 24 minutes)

SUN Nov 9th
<strong>HOW WE FIGHT Program 4: Peacekeepers</strong>
 <em>Crazy</em> by Hedy Honigmann (Holland, 1999, 97 minutes)

and pending confirmation from the distributor
SUN Nov 23
<strong>HOW WE FIGHT PROGRAM 5: Mercenaries</strong> 
 <em>Warheads</em>  Romuald Karmaker, (Germany, 1992, 182 minutes)

CRITICAL RESISTANCE 10 [CR10]
Strategy & Struggle to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex

26 - 28 September 2008
Oakland, California

[From Press Release] In September 1998, thousands gathered in Berkeley, California, for a conference that founded Critical Resistance’s movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Each participant, with their own experiences of oppression and resistance, watched as diverse struggles were unified: by humanity, hope, and the shared vision of a different world. We witnessed a vision of a world with truly safe, healthy, and whole communities; a world with unconditional access to self-determination and dignity for all; and, critically, a world without imprisonment, policing, and other forms of punishment and control. To celebrate 10 years of Critical Resistance, thousands will converge once more, September 26-28, 2008, in Oakland, California, for CR10, a 10th Anniversary Celebration and Strategy Session.

For more information about CR10 and to register for attendance, visit www.criticalresistance.org

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CHAMP (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project) and Project UNSHACKLE present
Unlocking HIV Prevention: Using Research as an Advocacy Tool to Confront HIV and Imprisonment

25 September 2008, 9:30am to 5pm
Applied Research Center (ARC)
900 Alice Street, Suite 400, Oakland, California

[From Press Release] CHAMP's Project UNSHACKLE is sponsoring a FREE daylong institute about the intersection between HIV and imprisonment in Oakland, California from 9:30am to 5pm on Thursday, September 25th, the day before CR10, the 10th anniversary celebration and strategy session of Critical Resistance. The institute will equip HIV and social justice activists with the tools, skills and information to understand and utilize research findings at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and imprisonment to ensure that research addresses community concerns and experiences. All community members and advocates are welcome.

CRITICAL RESISTANCE 10 [CR10]
Strategy & Struggle to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex

26 - 28 September 2008
Oakland, California

[From Press Release] In September 1998, thousands gathered in Berkeley, California, for a conference that founded Critical Resistance’s movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Each participant, with their own experiences of oppression and resistance, watched as diverse struggles were unified: by humanity, hope, and the shared vision of a different world. We witnessed a vision of a world with truly safe, healthy, and whole communities; a world with unconditional access to self-determination and dignity for all; and, critically, a world without imprisonment, policing, and other forms of punishment and control. To celebrate 10 years of Critical Resistance, thousands will converge once more, September 26-28, 2008, in Oakland, California, for CR10, a 10th Anniversary Celebration and Strategy Session.

For more information about CR10 and to register for attendance, visit www.criticalresistance.org

+ + + +

CHAMP (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project) and Project UNSHACKLE present
Unlocking HIV Prevention: Using Research as an Advocacy Tool to Confront HIV and Imprisonment

25 September 2008, 9:30am to 5pm
Applied Research Center (ARC)
900 Alice Street, Suite 400, Oakland, California

[From Press Release] CHAMP's Project UNSHACKLE is sponsoring a FREE daylong institute about the intersection between HIV and imprisonment in Oakland, California from 9:30am to 5pm on Thursday, September 25th, the day before CR10, the 10th anniversary celebration and strategy session of Critical Resistance. The institute will equip HIV and social justice activists with the tools, skills and information to understand and utilize research findings at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and imprisonment to ensure that research addresses community concerns and experiences. All community members and advocates are welcome.

Audio activists Ultra-red present strategy session "Art and Organizing Prevention Justice" and screen their recent video "Untitled (for six voices)" as part of performance series at the Tenth Anniversary gathering of Critical Resistance.

Critical Resistance 10
Saturday, 27 September 2008, 2:00- 4:00 pm
Oakland, California

Lighthouse Charter School
900 Fallon Street
"Watson Room"
There is no door fee and all are welcome.

The audio activist collective Ultra-red are proud to be participating in the Tenth Anniversary convergence of Critical Resistance. CR10 brings together activists and organizers from around the U.S. to strategize and share experiences in the struggle against the prison industrial complex. Ultra-red will present their recent work in the "Untitled" series, an on-going investigation into the potential links between AIDS activism and prison justice. Collective members will screen a single-channel version of our video, "Untitled (for six voices)" and then facilitate an open strategy-session with participants in the project together with movement activists and organizers. We invite everyone in the Bay Area to join us for CR10 and the Ultra-red workshop.

Since 2005, the collective Ultra-red has been involved in an extensive militant investigation into the present conditions of the AIDS crisis in North America and globally. Conceptually rooted in Paulo Freire's radical pedagogy, Ultra-red have developed a series of performances and installations that engage audiences in analyzing the conditions of poverty, racism, and homophobia in the perpetuation of the epidemic. In this workshop, Ultra-red will introduce their work and their partnerships with community organizations including the national organization CHAMP (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project) whose Project UNSHACKLE has informed Ultra-red's approach to AIDS cultural analysis, prevention justice and prison abolition.