Yet Another Gay/Queer ?History? Book Perpetuates Old Myths (tags)
Yet another so-called ?Gay history? book, Michael Bronski?s ?A Queer History of the United States,? recycles the tired New York-centric myth that the Queer Liberation movement sprung full-blown from the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City. Leo E. Laurence, who was present at the REAL creation of Queer liberation in San Francisco in March 1969, three months BEFORE Stonewall, comments on Bronski?s book and offers Lambda Literary Award finalist Gale Whittington?s ?Beyond Normal? as an accurate source for the real birth of Gay Lib.
Calling all Animal Liberationists (and supporters) going to the Bash Back conference!! (tags)
Calling all Animal Liberationists (and supporters) going to the Bash Back conference!! On Thursday, May 28 at 1 PM, meet up at the front of the Subway located at 219 W Jackson Blvd to participate in protests at the offices of companies who support Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
Attention Radical Artists! CALL FOR ARTWORK to be published in a new book. Deadline: October 31st, 2005 Reproduce and Revolt!: Radical Graphics for the 21st Century Edited by Josh MacPhee Soft Skull Press Reproduce and Revolt! is a graphic toolbox to be launched into the hands of political activists. The book will contain over 300 new and exciting high-quality illustrations and graphics about social justice and political activism for activists to use on flyers, posters, t-shirts, brochures, stencils or any other graphic aspects of political campaigns. All the graphics will be bold and easy to reproduce, in addition to being open source/anti-copyright. The book will come with clear instructions on how to best utilize the images so as to improve the graphic qualities of political campaigns. It will also contain a short history of political graphics, an archive of political flyers and posters throughout history, as well as information about and a bibliography of further reading for all of the social justice issues the art will cover.
2nd annual Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Conference (tags)
Conference disusses Queer Liberation, Prison Abolition, Environmentalism, Capitalism, and more, in relation to Animal Liberation. Event will take place Saturday, 23 April, 2005 at Syracuse University in Grant Auditorium. Sunday, 24 April 2005, will be dedicated to State Repression Discourse.
International Call for Photos, Art, Graphics, Posters, all Images! (tags)
International call for photos and art for use in an upcoming book called "Rebel Voices," to be published in 2005 in the u.s.