From portland indymedia: Shut Down Downtown Tacoma! We want to show the powers that be, that a homeland security detention center will not be tolerated in our communities and in our region. This will be in solidarity with the No Borders camp that will be happening the same week down south. We plan on sending a very visible, clear message by not allowing business as usual to happen on these days.

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At noon on Oct 19, over 150 people filled the narrow street in front of ICE, demanding an end to raids and deportation of immigrants driven to the US by policies like NAFTA and IMF/World Bank programs.

http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/11/imf_ice_it_begins.mp3

Soon, the cops forced everyone onto the sidewalk(people complied so as not to endanger immigrants in the crowd), and this led to a speech about a "narrow space for democracy" in the US...

I'm moving my blog. So, if you've been reading my blog, please go over to my new site, Techno Tranny Slut. I want to switch to WordPress because its a better blogging platform than drupal. Also, I don't feel like I write enough about borders to post here all the time. I only post 1 in 5 or even 1 in 10 posts about borders. Best of all, the new blog will have anonymous comments, so please post a comment and say hi if you've been reading my blog and plan to continue!

Techno Tranny Slut - http://technotrannyslut.com

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Tags: blog, lotu5, drupal, borders

I'll be at this event, which should be amazing. If you're there, drop me an emai or say hi!

artivistic 2007 [ UN.OCCUPIED SPACES ]

Tags: bordermigraion immigration indigenous montreal clown artivist media occupation creativeresistance

From my friend and advisor Ricardo Dominguez and conspirators and collaborators. I added one of the short stories as well...

PARTICLES OF INTEREST: TALES FROM THE MATTER MARKET
(a b.a.n.g lab project)
by
Ricardo Dominguez and Diane Ludin (Principal Investigators)
Tristan Shone, Nina Waisman and Caleb Waldorf (Lead Researchers)

http://pitmm.net/

Nomadic new york counters Manhattan’s restless flow of money with “decelerated” in-between spaces. Their performance art refuses spectacle. It takes on a political dimension through the formation of temporary collectives which occupy spaces in new ways. The artists open up New York and Berlin through their nomadic coming and going, their avoidance of fixed structures. In Berlin they will tell us a story of life in the global metropolis, a story that we all have in common.

For the market, nanoparticles hold the 21st century’s great promise. For critics, they are a vision of pure horror, as long as the toxicological risks are not known. The era of unregulated nanocapitalism has already dawned, with these smallest of particles being used today in cosmetics, fabrics and dyes. Ricardo Dominguez, founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and initiator of virtual sit-ins on the Zapatista resistance, sees his art as explicitly politically commissioned. He and Diane Ludin invite the public to a multimedia lecture-performance with two leading nanotechnologists that will provide insight into the stories of the global particle market. Knowledge is action!

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2007/new_york/veranstaltungen_14292/Veranstaltungsdetail_1_15249.php

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"Who wants to get fucked by a robot?"

I'm in SF this weekend going to Arse Electronica. If you're interested in the intersection of art, technology and sex you should definitely drop by the conference.

Last night was the first event and it was really amazing. Even though it was rather disorganized, with lots of improvisation and not so hot scheduling, there were two great performances. The Electronic Orifice Orchestra demonstrated their kegel instruments, which are inserted into orifices and played by varying pressure on your kegel muscles. Their costumes were awesome.

Definitely the highlight of the evening, though, was the Kink.com demo of Fucking Machines...

I'm so excited about Arse Electronica, which I'm going to tomorrow, driving up to sf. But, I had a long day, so I'll just give you a link to read more...

http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/

I'll be passing out "coming soon" flyers for SharingIsSexy.org, read more here...

Xkcd webcomic on online sexism

Click the link, there's more! Its so awesome! So true. So funny.

On this topic, check out the hackmeeting in sf on oct 13-14. We finally secured a location! Its a continuation of the discussions we started at freEtech 2007 (photos, an early announcement) around technology and race/class/gender/queerness. I'm driving up from sd, anyone wanna come with me?

Hey Free SkoolersThere is an open meeting this Sunday at 3pm. During this meeting we willbe making the new Fall Schedule, planning our outreach efforts in CityHeights and surrounding neighborhoods, discussing funds and workshop/classexpenses, on-going projects and addressing concerns and ideas that peoplehave.

If you haven't joined us yet for a workshop or class, or have wanted to start a class or offer a workshop we would love to hear more and meet withyou. The Free Skool is made up of all the participants from our classesand workshops and everyone has an equal voice. This open meeting is alsoan opportunity for new people to have a voice in the efforts we make...

The CIRCA Boredom Patrol shows up at a Borders bookstore, to protect Jim Gilchrist, who is doing a book signing! But somehow the corporate media follows us there and tries to probe the clandestine depths of the rebel clown army! Ha! http://circasd.org

Backdoor Border Vigilante

Tags: clown, clowning, rebelclowning, circa, boredompatrol, migration, immigration, border, borders, usmexicoborder, sandiego