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ogies of the villagers below yes we can it was said backchannel by the obama administration to the israeli government in advance of the massacre in gaza of a thousand people sure why not it was said by the justice department when it formally announced that it would continue the bush administration s extra legal detentions of afghanis at bagram airforce base you betcha and by immigrations and customs enforcement as it continued terrorizing immigrants at their places of work yes we can 1 comments tuesday february 24 2009 undergoing stress test please standby 0 comments thursday february 19 2009 conference the interdisciplinary marxism working group presents crisis contradiction contestation postwar economy and culture march 6 th 7 th wheeler hall friday march 6 th panels 9 00 4 00 300 wheeler keynote 5 00 maude fife room knowing finance being risk randy martin art and public policy nyu tisch school of the arts saturday march 7 th panels 10 00 5 30 300 wheeler poetry reading 6 30 8 00 maude fife room craig santos perez geoffrey g o brien juliana spahr joshua clover hate socialist collective co sponsored by the critical theory program critical sense a journal of cultural and political theory the department of english the department of history global metropolitan studies the townsend center for the humanities and the katherine bixby hotchkis chair a program with panel titles and abstracts will be available at the imwg website sites google com site imwgucberkeley please direct questions to ajmcc berkeley edu or bernes berkeley edu 0 comments wednesday february 18 2009 home defense campaign i m going to have to miss this event tomorrow but i was at the action in front of martha and eddie daniels s house earlier this month it was a good time sometimes ok mostly marches and rallies and such things are just baldly depressing one goes around and around in front of the enormity of the thing its awfulness and the bad slogans and bad signs persevere in their badness against all odds i can t go i ll go on whatever but the acorn thing was exhilarating largely because it seemed like it could start to have immediate effects that it consisted of a small pragmatic not necessarily radical demand that hit upon the core violence of the present or maybe that s just me i don t know we ll see what happens in any case i m hoping there will be a lot more actions like this and that acorn will be able to summon large surly crowds with very short notice whatever you think about their frankly tepid politics they seem to be handling this campaign quite well there s an excellent article about their work here i m particularly fond of the idea of moving potential evictees into the bank lobby detailed here come join us as we kick off our home defense campaign thursday february 19th 11a m 1p m 2525 ritchie street oakland ca 94605 on feb 19 oakland acorn will join six other cities across the country in announcing its home staying campaign a national foreclosure prevention project in which families facing eviction for foreclosure will refuse to leave their homes read about it in the new york times families like rosa gonzalez her husband and 10 year old daughter who are facing an imminent eviction from their east oakland home sometime this month will announce that they are staying in their homes come and join us to support them and defend their home there are so many families in this same situation losing their homes and it isn t fair said rosa gonzales we have income we want to keep our home we want the bank to negotiate with us work something out and let us stay in our community gonzalez and her family live in an east oakland neighborhood where vacancy and abandonment has been a grim reminder of the crisis sweeping the nation as part of acorn s comprehensive foreclosure campaign foreclosure victims and community activists are building home defender teams to mobilize peacefully to defend a family s right to stay in their home until a fair solution to this crisis is put into place by the new administration oakland acorn is at the front edge of this fight after successfully defending the home of martha and eddie daniels from eviction on february 3 rd while acorn members neighbors and allies gathered outside their home waiting for the sheriff to come acorn housing counselors continued negotiating with the bank to reach an agreement and combined efforts led to the cancellation of the eviction if it hadn t been for the support of other acorn members and the action we did we would be on the street it was something timely and much needed not just for us but for everyone losing their homes said martha daniels who along with members of acorn defended her home from eviction on february 3 rd she offered advice to others in the same situation stay in your home and fight for as long as you can use whatever tools you have and keep fighting taking action and exposing what the banks and brokers are doing to families and communities across the country for more information contact claire haas at 510 434 3110 x241 0 comments monday february 09 2009 on balance i take as particularly auspicious in a good way the combustion of this hotel at the end of the chinese new year celebrations the hotel is a sibling building to the oma s headquarters for china central television bottom one of the most famous recent architectural projects and a metonym for neoliberal globalization for the wealth of the destroyers awkwardly balanced in a weird mid air jointure like a game of twister straddling the rich countries and the industrializing ones and looking as if yes it s about to topple over at any moment i take as particularly illuminating the confusion regarding the meaning of the acronym cctv some disambiguation is more difficult than others and now that it appears no one was harmed in the fire i can enjoy its destruction wholeheartedly don t get me wrong i like rem koolhaas s and oma s writings and i think many of the oma buildings are quite stunning innovative and perhaps even useful for people other than the rich but the cctv building is a gorgeous prison and like all gorgeous prisons the commodity first and foremost it must burn if it won t burn we ll settle for the hotel next door 1 comments tuesday february 03 2009 bad guys and bad banks my son is a huge fan of the president indeed obama is incredibly popular among the pre k set here in berkeley obama has magical powers and he s bad news for bad guys this is one of the things you learn from your parents if you grow up in berkeley because noah is five and also adorable he gets a pass from me he s allowed to believe in obama santa claus the easter bunny all that stuff but i wish that everybody over the age of consent would get real i know that the election of obama has provided a much needed opportunity for middle class white people to feel good about their own tolerant open mindedness and i know that the new meaning of hope is i don t want to think about it but i must now declare the post inauguration grace period over for a while i felt ambivalent about the obama election i could understand its meaningfulness for many and i was happy for people s happiness and i wanted to affirm what i thought and still think are mostly benevolent aspirations on the part of the electorate but ambivalence also ends and i ve been really almost too irritated and dispirited to write anything here i can feel nothing now but antipathy for a president who stays silent while our immaculate ally in israel massacres starves and humiliates the people of gaza it s a pretty lonely place over here with the handful of haters revolted by the crypto reaganite rhetoric of american exceptionalism and personal responsibility that apparently impressed people in his inauguration speech as it seems to me the true meaning of obama s claims that the financial crisis was caused by people living beyond their means or refusing to make tough choices is that people must now prepare to hand their wages over to the banks and take whatever shit jobs they can find i feel no special relief about obama s economic stimulus package with its capitulation to the ideology of tax breaks the infrastructure programs that people think the bill contained and which have provoked absurd comparisons with fdr amount to pennies really less than 100 billion all told most of which will no doubt be sucked up by the creative accounting of contractors i mean there is 32 billion for clean energy a figure that is guaranteed to make absolutely no difference for climate change looked at beside the 2 4 trillion that they re getting ready to dump into the banking system and in light of the rate at which the economy is hemorraghing jobs this is simply laughable but i am supposed to feel calmed by obama s performance of anger last week after the news which is no news about banking bonuses finally percolated into the mainstream media sitting beside one of the engineers of the original bank giveaway in the person of his treasury secretary obama tells us he s going to have a serious talk with the bankers a talk about responsibility those bad bankers they need a bad bank i do admit that i am intrigued by the resonances of the term bad bank i am reminded of the wide variety of pre capitalist responses to crises of accumulation many of them proactive from the burying of excess precious metals in order to preserve the value of holdings to the jewish practice of declaring a jubilee year every fifty years in which all debts were forgiven all slaves freed and all contracts anulled one wants however not merely to return the system to homeostasis but to end it once and for all i propose therefore that we come up with our own proposal for a bad bank or sacrificial economy whereby we might zero out any and all debts annul contracts we find injurious print and distribute poetic monies of all flavors and colors seize the means of production throw parties get divorced and or married many times in the same day make puppets hold free concerts etc the purpose of this bad bank will be to lose money rather than make it i nominate anne boyer for ceo 5 comments wednesday january 14 2009 taxt benefit i ll have an exhibit based on my taxt chapbook desequencer at this event the chapbook has been delayed a bit and won t be ready by sunday but you can get a taster and see what all of the other taxt ites are up to join us this sunday january 18 2009 at 6 30pm for a very special ensemble performance gala in spirit and cozy at heart in the intimate manner of carnival coin toss or old school tents of wonder a dozen poets will present their work fairground style with all performances happening at once around the space expect real time twitter feeds slide shows other sweet surprises listen in on headphones have a poem whispered in your ear observe in groups of two or three or all at once or all alone there might even be a real kissing booth our star studded taxt cast of contributors and performers includes stefani barber jasper bernes lindsey boldt david brazil david buuck geneva chao del ray cross chris girard michael nicoloff eleni stecopoulos john sakkis jerrold shiroma this event is a taxt fundraiser all proceeds will go towards the printing stapling mailing of the 2009 series of taxt chapbooks taxt appreciates your support about the press taxt works to make visible the work of contemporary bay area poets writers artists previously under represented in publication the chapbooks are produced at home in oakland on an irregular but consistent basis will continue to appear thus until i get tired of folding pages this editor s role is to provide a physical space in which writers artists may do whatever work they choose the site is always 24pgs in the 5 5 x 8 5 framework this publisher s desire is to work with each contributor to produce a simple book that makes its consideration as both object and container taxt chapbooks are always free keep yours or pass it on share the wealth there will never be more than 100 copies of each book sorry if you can t come to the kissing booth but would still like to support taxt or would just like more information about the press please visit http www taxtpress blogspot com or email the press directly taxt mindspring com 0 comments sunday december 21 2008 mla off site reading i m not quite sure why we ll be wearing masks is it a counterpoint to all the facey face of the mla but if laura says masks then masked we must be sunday december 28th from 7 10 00pm the forum at yerba buena center for the arts 701 mission street san francisco free and ada accessible to the public co sponsored by small press distribution and the poetry foundation over 60 poets reading just 2 minutes each aaron kunin alan bernheimer aldon nielsen andrew osborn barrett watten bill howe bill luoma bill mohr brian kim stefans c s giscombe carla harryman christian bok chris stroffolino dale smith craig perez dan featherston david buuck dennis barone donna de la perriere durriel harris dodie bellamy elizabeth hatmaker etel adnan jasper bernes jeffrey robinson javier huerta jeanne heuving jennifer scappettone jerry rothenberg joe amato john emil vincent joseph lease joshua clover joshua marie wilkinson julian brolaski kasey mohammad kass fleisher kazim ali kevin killian kit robinson kristin prevallet lisa howe lisa robertson lorraine graham maxine chernoff michael davidson norma cole paolo javier patrick durgin paul hoover philip metres rob halpern sarah schulman rusty morrison standard schaefer stephanie young stephen cope suzanne stein timothy yu tom orange tyrone williams walter lew and more poets in masks refreshments books books books books by the readers for sale from small press distribution spdbooks org poetryfoundation org small press distribution 1341 7th street berkeley ca 9471 0 comments thursday december 18 2008 noah noah turned five on tuesday it s impossible to believe that anna and i have survived parenthood this long impossible too to imagine a world before noah not that i lack for selfishness as a parent or think about him every second of every day but you know it s as if he has threaded through every capillary of my sense of the world stamped every thought with some peculiar cast expanded to the limits of my dim memories of things even if only as a faint trace a whisper it s terrifying to love someone so much and to think what i think of the future of the world we live in and of course it s that anxiety that certainty of the limits to present society such as it is constructed which makes ninety percent of the parents i meet when they are being parents so unbearable to be around noah right and my nephew asa left in a gold mine turned museum 1 comments sunday december 14 2008 the baselessness of idealism la bas the halls rose in a pyramid becoming even more beautiful as one mounted towards the apex and representing more beautiful worlds finally they reached the highest one which was the most beautiful one of all for the pyramid...