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How not to translate situationist texts
You'd think the translator of a text that shows that people can't understand texts that have passages left out of them would NOT leave any passages out of his/her translation. But Ken Knabb may not be as good a translator as we'd like to think, because he failed to translate a full third of the situationists' crucial essay "How not to understand situationist books"!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 4:35pm PST
His Baloney Has A First Name...it's "Bizarro"
Animal welfare advocate/ famous cartoonist takes his show on the road...
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 1:21pm PST
DASW picket signs needed for Exhibit
Original DASW anti-war picket signs needed for activist graphics exhibit of works by Jason Justice in SF....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 3:07pm PST
EL ENEMIGO COMUN at special GDI showing (2/16)
El Enemigo Común (the Common Enemy): Austin Indymedia's New Documentary on Capitalism, Empire and Oaxacan Campesinos...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 8:23am PST
Notes from New Palestine: Beefin’ the blues only (a prayer for chris buck) (audio/mpeg 5.8MB)
i just wanted to transform my madness like jaxson did and make tracks like mott the hoople in “Honaloochie Boogie”, compose writs with pacific frontal system, jump in on a chorus with sonic youth or flex a rhyme with patti smith -- maybe be lucky and find a girl like exene. B.u.t. in this country of catagories --being black and proud and liking music loud -- due to the “intergrate or isolate” policy -- I was made invisible and a bit ridiculous for not finding a label to die in. In punk/hardco...
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 4:33pm PST
BENEFIT FOR ARRESTEE ZACHARY JENSON at the Long Haul Infoshop this FRIDAYYYYYYYYY!!!
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Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 5:15pm PST
BILL MAHER “RULES”
Review of Bill Maher's show in San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 1:43pm PST
Good Catholics Use Condoms press release
On St. Valentine’s Day, Condoms4Life Says a Culture of Life Means Caring for One Another...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:02am PST
"I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own
February is African-American History Month. To honor it, we bring you a conversation with the renowned author, poet and activist Alice Walker. She is perhaps best known for her book "The Color Purple" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, becoming the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. The novel was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature length film and has been recently made into a Broadway musical. Alice Walker's latest novel is "Now is the...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:47am PST
IS INDIA THE NEW CREATIVE HOTSPOT?
Eco-Space interview with Yahel Chirinian in Goa by Noor Cipriani for Nova...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:11pm PST
Tuesday Night: Aya de Leon's Love Fest 2006 -- at La Pena (Berkeley)
Buy tickets now! Save $$ & guarantee your seat!
La Pena will add a 10pm show if the first show sells out this week....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 10:41pm PST
In Falun Gong Flap, San Francisco Plays Safe With China
A city with a strong human rights tradition struggles to keep its edge as the sentimental favorite for Chinese investors. Eugenia Chien is a writer and editor for New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 8:04pm PST
Question 9-11 - A Call to Activism
The Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance will be holding a Benefit at the Grand Lake Theater on February 23. This should be an inspiring evening with powerful new documentaries, tools for budding activists, and stories from people whose lives were touched and transformed by 9-11 and have devoted themselves to challenging the official story, bringing the truth to light, and abolishing terrorism and war....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:54am PST
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH YAHEL CHIRINIAN
Fashion Gurus names her "the most creative woman in design" and one trendsetter journalist ranks her as "the only female designer that can virtually guarantee originality and vision to a project "....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 6:32pm PST
Tom Ammiano and Marga Gomez perform at QComedy
Tom Ammiano and Marga Gomez are the featured performer at this installment of SF's twice-monthly queer comedy showcase....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 10:53am PST
CITY OF LOST CHILDREN at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In (2/10)
A lyrical, strange, and hypnotic sci-fi fairy tale. With a mad scientist who kidnaps children to steal their dreams, only a brave young girl and a kindhearted circus strongman can save them....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 9:08pm PST
Mindwalk 30: A Motherless Land
We start out with some sound from a small anti-immigrant rally in Vista, Ca. if less than 20 people constitutes a rally. A poem called True Lies performed by Taalam Acey, Jody Paluson with Bush() v.s. Nixon and Gore Vidal's take on the State of the Union 2006 with a Raymond Lafferty music bed....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 5:13pm PST
Radical Folksingers Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery at 7pm before El Enemigo Común (2/16)
Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery are coming to town! They will be playing at the RCNV on February 16th at 7:00pm before El Enemigo Común, which will start at 8pm.
Ryan and Mark, from Riot-Folk! Records, will be doin' what they do best: playing hard-hitting anarchist folk music.
It's Not Just Bush (It's the System!)
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/itsnotjustbush.mp3...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 4:52pm PST