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Upping the Anti #6

April 15, 2008 - 7:37pm — ander



Issue #6 of Upping the Anti is being launched in Toronto at the Concorde Cafe, (937 Bloor St W. at Ossignton) on May 8th, 2008. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the journal or to distribute the journal in your community or organizations, please email uppingtheanti@gmail.com so that we can add you to our list of local distributors. This issue of the journal is 204 pages long and we are selling single copies for $10 including postage. If you want 5 or more copies for distribution, the journal is $5 per copy, and we'll cover the postage. Journal articles and PDF files will be uploaded to the website in a staggered process over the next few months.

Our mailing address where you can send your $10 in well concealed envelope for a copy of the journal is: Upping the Anti, 998 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H9. If you live in the US or elsewhere, please order our journal through AK Press as it costs us too much to mail it to you from Canada. Please continue reading this post for the full table of contents of this issue and the introduction to this issue.

Upping the Anti #5

September 29, 2007 - 12:42am — ant




Issue #5 of Upping the Anti is now being distributed. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the journal or to distribute the journal in your community or organizations, please email uta_distro@yahoo.ca so that we can add you to our list of local distributors. This issue of the journal is 212 pages long and we are selling single copies for $10 including postage. If you want 5 or more copies for distribution, the journal is $5 per copy, and we'll cover the postage.

Our mailing address where you can send your $10 in well concealed cash to for a copy of the journal is: Upping the Anti, 998 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H9. If you live in the US or elsewhere, please order our journal through AK Press as it costs us too much to mail it to you from Canada. Please continue reading this post for the full table of contents of this issue and the introduction to this issue.

Upping the Anti #3

April 23, 2007 - 5:11pm — ant

A new submission guide is available for UTA. Issue 4 coming in May of 2007. Deadline for submissions is March 1st.



Issue #4 of Upping the Anti is being launched in Toronto on May 1st, 2007. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the journal or to distribute the journal in your community or organizations, please email uta_distro@yahoo.ca so that we can add you to our list of local distributors. This issue of the journal is 182 pages long and we are selling single copies for $10 including postage. If you want 5 or more copies for distribution, the journal is $5 per copy, and we'll cover the postage. The full text of our first issue is available here. Journal articles and PDF files will be uploaded to the website in a staggered process over the next few months.

Our mailing address where you can send your $10 in well concealed cash to for a copy of the journal is: Upping the Anti, 998 Bloor St. West, P.O. Box 10571, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 4H9. If you live in the US or elsewhere, please order our journal through AK Press as it costs us too much to mail it to you from Canada.

3rd Issue of Upping the Anti coming out in early November

October 28, 2006 - 12:32am — ant

Dear friends,

We are happy to announce that the third issue of Upping the Anti will be going to press in late October of 2006.

This issue will feature a rich assortment of content focusing on anti-imperialist struggles. We are printing interviews with Aijaz Ahmad on the anti-imperialism of our times, William Robinson on contemporary anti-capitalist struggles in Latin America, and Taiaiake Alfred on colonialism and indigenous resistance in Canada today. Our articles include: Isabel McDonald writing on Canadian complicity in the occupation of Haiti, Tom Keefer reporting on the significance of the Six Nations struggle for anti-capitalist activists, Andrew Thompson engaging with the arguments of Richard Day’s “Gramsci is Dead”, and RJ Maccani assessing the rise of the Zapatistas and the lessons to be drawn from their experience in the changing political terrain of Mexico.

Public Forum in Caledonia: Moving Beyond Conflict and Blame: Why Canadians Should Support Six Nations Land Rights - Sept 30th,

September 26, 2006 - 4:45pm — ant

Community Friends for Peace and Understanding with Six Nations Presents:

Moving Beyond Conflict and Blame: Why Canadians Should Support Six
Nations Land Rights.


A PDF file of the poster is available by clicking here.

A panel discussion on the background to the Douglas Creek Estates
reclamation and the possibilities for peace, justice and reconciliation
between Canada and Six Nations.

September 30th 2006, 1pm-4pm

At the McKinnon Park Secondary School (91 Haddington Street) in Caledonia.

Speakers:

Jan Watson, Caledonia resident, member of Community Friends.

Kate Kempton, a lawyer with Olthuis Kleer Townshend in Toronto, with
expertise in indigenous peoples' rights, environmental and social
justice law.

Rolf Gerstenberger, President, United Steelworkers Local 1005.

This event is being put on in the spirit of peace and togetherness and
is designed as a safe environment for discussion and exchange of ideas
about the possible ways that the issue of Six Nations land claims can be
peacefully and justly resolved. All open-minded people interested in
genuine discussion and dialogue are welcome.

Upping the Anti #1

April 1, 2005 - 1:39am — ant

The second issue of Upping the Anti will soon be ready for distribution as we are finishing the final touches on editing the manuscript. If you would like to help to distribute the journal, please email uta_distro@yahoo.ca so that we can add you to our list of local distributors and so we can know where the journal is being distributed. The full text of our first issue is available below. You can pick up the journal from local distributors in your area or you can download the entire journal as a PDF file from our website. There are two versions of the PDF file, one designed to be printed and read for personal use, and one layed out so that by photocoping it double sided you can make it into a pamphlet/booklet for local distribution. For instructions about how to reproduce the journal in booklet form, please click here. The homepage of the journal can be found here.

The NATO Occupation and Fundamentalism: An interview with Miriam of RAWA

August 19, 2008 - 9:28am — Gary

By Justin Podur, Z Net

ISLAMABAD – The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a women’s organization that runs underground schools and other projects, educates Afghan girls, runs a periodic journal, and agitates politically for women’s rights, human rights, secularism, and social justice in Afghanistan. From the 1979 Soviet invasion through to the 2006 closings of the camps, millions of Afghan refugees lived in Pakistan and many still do. While RAWA’s operations were always based primarily in Afghanistan, they have also had a strong presence in the Pakistan refugee community. I spoke to Mariam from RAWA in Islamabad when I was there in July 2008.

JUSTIN PODUR (JP): To begin, perhaps you could introduce readers to RAWA and its work in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

*RESISTANCE 2010!

August 19, 2008 - 9:19am — Gary

- No Olympics on stolen land!
- Disrupt and abolish the G8 and SPP
- Active support and solidarity for local struggles of self-determination,
justice and dignity*

[August 2008 - OTTAWA]

In the year 2010, three major international events will be taking place in
the Canadian state: the Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler (between
February 12-28); the G8 Leader's Summit in Huntsville, Ontario (most likely
in June or July); and the meeting of the NAFTA leaders as part of the
so-called "Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)" (date and location not
yet known).

Already, groups and individuals on the West Coast have come together under
the banner of "No Olympics on stolen native land." They have been organizing
and raising awareness, from an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist
perspective, against the 2010 Olympics, for several years. [More info
available at www.no2010.com and http://harrietspirit.blogspot.com/]

Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada"
have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West
Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some
organizers affiliated with the "People's Global Action" Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in
Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance2010", linking
anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the

Naomi Klien -- The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0

August 11, 2008 - 5:29pm — Gary

By Naomi Klein, Huffington Post, August 8, 2008

So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese government has seemed amazingly unperturbed. That's because it is betting on this: when the opening ceremonies begin friday, you will instantly forget all that unpleasantness as your brain is zapped by the cultural/athletic/political extravaganza that is the Beijing Olympics.

Like it or not, you are about to be awed by China's sheer awesomeness.

The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism — central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance — harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. Some call it "authoritarian capitalism," others "market Stalinism," personally I prefer "McCommunism."

The Movement is Dead, Long Live the Movement!

August 6, 2008 - 10:20pm — Gary

There’s a new big story: climate change. Tadzio Müller suggests a way for anticapitalists to deal with the issue’s urgency without falling into catastrophism or quietism. Fromhttp://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-4/the-movement-is-dead-long-live-the-movement/

R.I.P., or: the death of a movement
The movement’s dead! More precisely: the alterglobalisation movement as a common place for movements and ‘activists’ to meet and to become-other, together, linking their struggles under and against the common referent of neoliberal globalisation, is dead. Not that the particular struggles are dead. Nor have we seen the end of countersummit mobilisations: as I’m writing this, preparations for engaging the G8 in Japan are in full swing, and at every gathering of the radical and not-so-radical left, plans are busily being made to shut down one summit or another: the G8 in Italy in 2009; NATO’s 60-year birthday bash in France; and so on and so forth: countersummits-r-us?

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