Dry River Announcements

Saturday 4/26 at Dry River: Of Friends And Worldwinds

Of Friends & Whirlwinds:
Inquiry, Movements & Constituent Imagination

a discussion on research, radical politics & creating social change

Saturday 26 April 4pm @ Dry River
740 N. Main St. @ University Blvd.; www.dryriver.org
Donations for the space & those traveling.

A series of talks on inquiry and movements from the upcoming journal "In the
Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements" and
in celebration of the AK Press collection Constituent Imagination: Militant
Investigations / Collective Theorization.

From the ivory tower to the barricades! Radical intellectuals explore the
relationship between research and resistance. - from Constituent
Imagination

With Conor & Craig of Team Colors, Jeff Juris (Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at ASU West, member of CAROB [Central Arizona Radicals Opposing
Borders] and the ASU West Border Justice Group), and a presentation from the
Progressive Librarians Guild: UA Chapter.

Talks include:

Team Colors
Conor Cash - "In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests,
Movement, and Movements:
Craig Hughes - "DIY and the Movement Beyond Capitalism in the United States"
(An expansion on his article in Constituent Imagination)

Jeff Juris:
"Bridging the Divide between Activism and Research: Militant Ethnography as
a tool for social transformation" (An expansion of his article in
Constituent Imagination)

Progressive Librarians Guild: UA Chapter
An introduction to the group and brief talk about the national organizations
Radical Reference and Progressive Library Guild, of which the UA Chapter is
part.

Constituent Imagination: www.akpress.org <http://www.akpress.org>;
In the Middle of a Whirlwind: www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info
<http://www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info>;

For more information: kevin@warmachines.info

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ON TEAM COLORS:
Team Colors is a collective engaged in militant research to provide
strategic analysis for the intervention into everyday life. Our purpose
is to explore questions of everyday resistance, mutual aid, the imposition
of work, social reproduction, class composition, community participation,
and 'the commons' - by creating engaging workshops and the producing
provocative written documents and articles. Currently Team Colors is based
Brooklyn NY, Portland, OR, and Tucson, AZ. Our approach has come from our
involvement in community organizing projects, community dialogs, and
resistance activities in the countries largest suburb of Long Island, New
York. www(dot)warmachines(dot)info

ON JEFF JURIS:
Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department
of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. He received
his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in May
2004, and has also served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the USC Annenberg
School for Communication. His forthcoming book, Networking Futures: the
Movements against Corporate Globalization (Duke University Press, 2008),
explores the cultural logic and politics of transnational networking among
anti-corporate globalization activists in Barcelona, including their
participation in transnational networks such as Peoples Global Action and
the World Social Forum. He has also published several articles regarding
this topic and the relationship between new digital technologies and
grassroots social movements. Most recently, he has conducted fieldwork at
the United States Social Forum, and is planning a new ethnographic research
project on grassroots media activism and autonomy in Mexico.

Dystopia Film Frenzy Continues this weekend!!

This weekend brings you the second half of the Dry River Dystopia Film Frenzy - a veritable cornucopia of films that depict worlds even more screwed-up than our own - lessons to learn from in our fight for an alternative to this unjust and violent system we live in.

All films are by donation ($3 suggested) and may be followed by topical and spirited discussion. Accompanied by tea and popcorn!!

Friday April 11
7pm: Zardoz (1974)
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Starring Sean Connery as Zed, who wears nothing but a red diaper and red suspenders throughout the film!
Warning: graphic violence.

9pm: Brazil (1985)
In this classic Terry Gilliam film, a bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

Saturday April 12:
3:30 - Soylent Green (1973)
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. stars recently dead NRA prez Charelton Heston - come help us celebrate...

Sunday April 13:
3:30 - Minority Report (2002)
In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.
The second in our series based on Phillip K. Dick stories, and the second in our series with overblown actors with crappy politics starring as cops (Charleton Heston in Soylent Green and Tom Cruise here)

Can't Jail The Spirit! (saturday april 5) and One More Night At The Barricades (sunday april 6)

Two Big Events This Weekend at Dry River!!

Can't Jail The Spirit!
A night of Presentations, Film and Solidarity!
Saturday April 5th, 2008 6:30pm
(w/ delicious potluck dinner)

Featuring Speakers:

Matt Hart
from Anarchist Black Cross Federation
of Los Angeles on the importance of political prisoner
support works and the success and failures of building
of 22 years of prisoner aid after the death Kuwasi
Balagoon, ex-Black Panther, a member of the Black
Liberation Army, a New African anarchist.

Kevin Van Meter
from Team Colors Militant Research Collective of New
York will be presenting on Daniel McGowan of the Green
Scare, the defendants from Stop Hunington Animal
Cruelty (SHAC 7), and other recent arrests in the US.

He will be presenting the films "SHAC and SHAC 7" and
"Green Scare: Illuminating the New War on Dissent"

Conor Cash
from Team Colors Militant Research Collective of New
York will be discussing his previous experience as a
defendant during political persecution in 2001, as
well as presenting thoughts on radical politics,
organizing, and prisoner support.

Josh Banno
from Dry River Collective will be discussing his
previous experience as an Anarchist Black Cross
prisoner supporter, and his experience as a defendant
during political persecution in 2004.

There will be a delicious potluck dinner, as well as a
facilitated workshop on How to Write a Prisoner!

Please bring books to donate to Arizona prisoners!

A Dry River Collective Event - with Read Between the
Bars, Together with Anarchist Black Cross Federation
of Los Angeles and Team Colors Militant Research
Collective.

$5 Donation or books requested

and this Sunday at 4pm:
Brad, One More Night At The Barricades
When Mexican paramilitary forces shot Brad Will in the chest, killing him, his camera fell from his hands. But it didn't stop recording. It continued moving from hand to hand, telling Brad's story, as well as the story of the movement of movements that he was a part of. From the squats of New York to the forests of Oregon, from the anti-globalization protests in Seattle, Prague, Quebec to the popular uprising in Oaxaca, Brad's camera paints us a picture of what his life was about, and what so many of his friends continue to struggle for.
Brazilian filmmaker Miguel will be present.

Six-Day Dystopia Film Frenzy begins tonight!!!

Tonight is the beginning of a 6-Day, 8-film extravaganza of films that depict worlds even more screwed-up than our own - lessons to learn from in our fight for an alternative to this unjust and violent system we live in.

All films are by donation ($3 suggested) and will be followed by topical discussion. Tea and popcorn available.

Dry River Dystopia Film Series

Friday March 28
7pm: Idiocracy
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

9pm: Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (1982)
In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth.

Saturday March 29:
3:30 pm - Farenheit 451
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

Sunday March 30
3:30pm - Metropolis (2001)
An anime retelling of the classic Fritz Lang film from the 30s, this version of Metropolis is also inspired by the pages of the classic comic book "Astro-boy" by Osamu Tezuka. Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.

Friday April 11
7pm: Zardoz (1974)
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Starring Sean Connery as Zed, who wears nothing but a red diaper and red suspenders throughout the film!
Warning: graphic violence.

9pm: Brazil (1985)
In this classic Terry Gilliam film, a bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

Saturday April 12:
3:30 - Soylent Green (1973)
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. stars NRA prez Charelton Heston...

Sunday April 13:
3:30 - Minority Report (2002)
In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.
The second in our series based on Phillip K. Dick stories, and the second in our series with overblown actors with crappy politics starring as cops (Charleton Heston in Soylent Green and Tom Cruise here)

FLOOD Festival at Dry River going on NOW - Saturday & Sunday

Sorry for the late notice, but music, film, paintings, sculpture, and more is happening right now through Sunday evening at Dry River.
Dozens of artists, both local and visiting from out of town, are in the house

The festival will open up at 10:00 both days for the gallery and fun but music won�t start right away:

Saturday Feb. 23

1:50-2:20 Dlyn
2:40-3:10 Launch Code
3:30-4:00 Beatnick Dream Vacation
4:20-4:50 Krylenko
5:10-5:40 Oracle Art Ensemble
6:00- 6:30 Jessica Meyers
6:50-7:20 Great Job
7:40-8:10 The Mongeese
8:20-8:30 Jenny (Dance)
8:40-8:50 You're Crazy (Film)
9:20-9:50 Golden Alphabet
10:10-10:40 Impossible Map
11:00-11:30 Neglect

Sunday Feb. 24

12:00-1:15 TWINKLE jam session, coordinated by Matt: foma_stuppa@email.com (everyone is invited to participate!)

1:50-2:20 Bazooka
2:40-3:40 The Paper Tigers (L.A.)
4:20-4:50 Paul Nezda
5:10-5:40 Trauma
6:00-6:30 Lightening White Bison
6:50-7:20 Skinwalkers (PHX)
7:40-8:10 Six Pick up Sticks
8:30-9:00 Bad Weather California (Denver)
9:20-9:50 Charismatic Megafauna

Gallery Artists
Jessica Meyers
Lexi Coburn
Cycledelic Zia
Abril Castillo
Samantha
Mike Sousa
Beth Foster
Kimya
Christina Moreno
Charlene
Kevin Barbro
Ryan Preble
Ruben Rodriguez
Griffen
Nicholas Luna
Miriam Naweed

The Dancer:

Jenny

The Poet:

Ryan Rogers

The Filmmaker:

David Bragi

Money isn't everything and Dry River is trying to work outside the capitalist system, but we gotta pay the rent and other expenses. No one will be turned away for financial reasons. However, this is a community event, created and supported by the community. If you aren't able to pay the $5-20 sliding scale cover, ask at the door about other ways you can contribute to the event. There's always something that needs to be done.

Borderlands Electropop at Dry River, Saturday July 26: Mono Mono, Disney Fever, Charismatic Megafauna, and more!!

This Saturday, January 26 at 9pm, join us for a special night of awesome sounds featuring the spanglish electropop stylings of Mono Mono, from San Diego.
Mono Mono sings catchy songs about living in 2 cultures, about his dislike for the border wall, spanish/english body part translation, and more.

With special Tucson guests Disney Fever, Charismatic Megafauna, and God of the Sea, along with DJ zkSID from San Diego.

see http://myspace.com/monomono
and Disney Fever: http://www.myspace.com/conspectro
and DJ zkSID: http://www.myspace.com/zkzirko

view the full-color poster here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steev/2199339057/

As usual at Dry River, this is an all-ages show, and donations are encouraged to help support the space, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Friday, January 25: Pirate Cinema

World Premiere of Tucson Pirate Cinema
~where all our films be rated Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!~

(Our first screening after our microcinema rennovation project - new projector, new screen, popcorn, tea, and more!!)
Friday January 25th, 7pm
Featuring:
Sebastian J.F.�s Info-Wars
This documentary explores the world of internet and media activism and investigates the
tactics of groups like the Yes Men and ��ark.
Terry Gilliam�s Time Bandits
This visually stunning and surreal classic charts the bizarre and hilarious adventures of a
young British kid and 6 dwarfish thieves who travel through time using a map they stole
from God to collect treasure�seriously.
@ The Driver River Radical Resource Center
Located on 740 N. Main St. � on the corner of Main St. and University Ave.
Your source for independent, non-commercial, anti-capitalist fun and entertainment!
As usual, this event is by donation - your support is appreciated.
more info: www.dryriver.org
www.piratecinema.org

This week, mostly closed

Good Hello, Dry River Fans, Friends, and Family,

This is just a quick note to let you know that this week, contrary to the usual Events Buddy mailing on monday, the space will most likely not be very open at all this week of November 5-11.

You might think this is because we're sleeping off the enormous tired that we got from our super awesome Dry River 2-year Anniversary Party last weekend. And this would be partially true; but more importantly, many collective members are going to be busy and out of town, attending the No Borders Camp in Calexico/Mexicali.
See http://noborderscamp.org for more details. If you're not doing anything, you might want to show up. It's important stuff.

Okay, that is all. See you next week.

Your friendly neighborhood radical resource center,

Dry River Collective

No Borders Camp Tucson Open Meeting This Sunday at Dry River

***announcement - please spread far and wide***

Between November 7-11 hundreds of people will gather in Calexico, CA and
Mexicali, BC for an action camp on the U.S. / Mexico border.

The No Borders Camp will include daily marches, vigils, forums, art,
circus and action. The goals of the camp include networking, developing
movement and collective action against borders, migration control and
neo-liberal capitalism. The organization of the camp has been
decentralized and binational. Anyone is invited to plan their own
projects, workshops, art, actions etc. We will also be organizing to take
care of our own needs, such as food, water, security, sanitation, medical
needs and infrastructure.

If you are interested in coming to the camp or learning more about it, we
invite you to a No Borders Camp Tucson Open Meeting 2pm on Sunday, October 21
at the Dry River Collective - 740 N. Main (at the corner of Main and
University).

We will be talking about the camp and how to prepare for it, meeting one
another, working on ride-shares, and connecting with folks who want to
work together on various camp-related projects.

for more information, visit www.noborderscamp.org or contact
info@blac.detritus.net.

p.s. come early at 12 p.m. for a Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
gaggle of a ho-down.

Thursday July 26 at Dry River: A Hole In The Wall

At Dry River, Thursday, July 26
Part 3 of a 3-week series of films on borders and freedom of movement from around the world.

Here in the U.S./Mexico borderlands we are steeped in our local migration struggles and controversies every day. However, what is happening in other parts of the world? Can we compare and contrast the ways that issues of migration, borders, transnational labor, and "free" trade are confronted and dealt with in other locales? This special series of 3 Thursdays in July brings you a variety of films recently collected in Europe as well as accompanying group discussions.

7pm: A Hole in the Wall - 60 min (2006)
This DVD of short films documens the Israel/Palestine wall and demonstrates what life is like for Palestinians under military occupation. Scenes shift from checkpoints to schoolyards to heartbreaking stories about how impossible ordinary living has become.

Discussion and presentation afterward on the current situation in the occupied territories by Sandy Marshall, Tucson activist who has recently visited there.

Free admission, donations appreciated.

Dry River Radical Resource Center, 740 N.Main (@University), Tucson

Thursday July 12 at Dry River: Forst

On Thursday July 12 at 7 pm we bring you the second installment of our 3-part Global Freedom of Movement film series: a unique and compelling documentary from Germany called Forst ("Forest"). This english-language film is an artistic though very moving look at immigrant refugees in Germany, made in partnership with The Voice Refugee Forum, Women in Exile, and the Caravan for the Rights of Migrants and Refugees.

Forst (50min, 2005) is a portrayal. The documentary tells about a forest in the middle of Europe far from the urban world and from civilisation which is home to a peculiar community of the banished � it is a world for the stranded. A diffuse system that still has total control makes sure that this world doesn�t show itself, that it doesn�t pop up in our reality and become a disturbance. In Forst the banished proclaim their own truth and tell the story of their empowerment. They slowly recall their identity as political refugees and start to make plans for their escape... The film shot on 16mm-B/W was made in cooperation with the refugees, who mostly play themselves. By way of fragmented interviews they tell the story of their powerlessness and their empowerment.

"...Some people were really angry, they had red eyes when they left the film. They were just shocked. The film shows isolation so clearly that many people just aren�t able to stand it. They refuse to accept that this problem really exists. I think that Forst is one of the most important references in the analysis of the refugees� situation and struggle..." Osaren Igbinoba, The Voice

Presented by BLAC, the BorderLands Autonomist Collective.
We'll follow the screening with group discussion about the film, migration and border issues in europe, and how they compare to our own situation here in the u.s./mexico borderlands.

more info about the film is here: http://www.forstfilm.com

7pm, Free admission, though donations are appreciated to keep Dry River in operation.

for more upcoming events be sure to check our online calendar:
http://dryriver.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar