What -- Stop the FTAA! Rally
Where -- Niagara Square, Downtown Buffalo, outside of Buffalo City Hall
When -- Saturday, November 22nd at Noon

Tons of Musical entertainment will be provided, featuring the 12-8 Path Band, the Buffalo chapter of the Raging Grannies (in their premiere performance!) and Jean Dickson. Join us and hear from workers from Tri-Co and Buffalo China who have lost their jobs, residents from Hickory Woods, elected officials, and local community groups. Props,puppets, and street theatre will be plentiful!

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is the expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to every country in in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, except Cuba. NAFTA has devestated communities throughout North America, including Buffalo; over 50,000 jobs have left New York State since NAFTA was enacted. If you think NAFTA has been a disaster for working families and the environment in the US, Canada, and Mexico, the FTAA (also known as NAFTA on Steroids) will be far worse.

This week, labor, environmental, human rights, and peace groups all over the nation will rally together in solidarity with thousands of people protesting the FTAA as it's being negotiated at the trade ministerial meeting in Miami and with those protesting human rights violations at the School of the Americas (SOA) in Georgia to stop this "Race to the Bottom" and to affirm that Another World Is Possible!

The WNY Fair Trade Coalition is a coalition of labor unions, environmental, community, and student groups. For more info on the rally, call Roger at 833-5416 or Charles at 894-2013.

We will also be doing a car caravan "Reality Tour" of Free Trade's Impact on Buffalo earlier that Saturday morning. Car caravan meets at 11 AM sharp at Buffalo China/ Oneida at 500 Bailey Avenue. For more info, call Mike or Emily at 882-6003.

Unfortunately, the new Elmwood Radio Station will be down today while I upgrade the server from Windows XP to Suse Linux 8.2.

Sory about the inconvenience.

featuring: Mark Bukowiecki, Sandra Guerreiro, Theresa Baker, Dianne Gilleece, and Isabella Pelissier

presented by blue garrote collective

Friday and Saturday, Nov 21 & 22 at 8pm

@ Rust Belt Books
202 Allen St.
Free (Donations welcome)

So we are having another German radio day. Please tune in and try on another flavor of radio. It is a crazy mix of Bau auf, Bau auf and Freddy Quinn and Nina Hagen to Bluemchen and Stefan Raab. There is even the DragonBallZ theme from German television. I like to think of it as Germany through the years, hahaha.

To tune in simply click on the link Elmwood Online Radio under the userPic. Alternatively, you can click this

Join us this Friday, Nov 21, 2003 at 8pm for two films that explore the image of power and the power of the image.

Where: Squeaky Wheel, 175 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14201
716-884-7172
www.squeaky.org (http://www.squeaky.org)
Admission: $5 members/$4 non-members



THE FILMS:

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD

(Diane Nerwen, video, color, 5 mins)

In The Thief of Baghdad (2003), Diane Nerwen continues her practice of appropriating arresting imagery from film and mixing it with politically charged dialogue. Condensing the beauty and exoticism of the mystical capital of Baghdad, she slips in a newly realized paradigm of domination. As in much of her work, Nerwen explores the allure of place, film's ability to reflect and create desire, as well as the conceit that the video's images and soundtrack are part of same narrative.


IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR

(Harun Farocki, 16 mm, 75 mins.) German with English subtitles.

The German-Egyptian filmmaker Harun Farocki is one of the most influential documentarians alive today. His thought-provoking work is not as much about events and people as it is about ideas and mechanisms in a larger cultural context. A meditation on vision and power inspired by photos of Auschwitz taken by American bomber pilots during WW2, IMAGES OF THE WORLD creates striking, deeply meaningful connections between military reconnaissance and the state of the world.

V-P Dick Cheney is in Buffalo today to take part in a $1000/per plate fundraiser. There will be people protesting in the circle. Currently, a van from every news station is there.

While Cheney is here to collect a $1000/plate, let's let him no there'll be no free lunch in Buffalo.

Where -- Park Lane Restaurant, Gates Circle, Buffalo

When -- Monday, November 17, 4:30 PM SHARP

Today we will be having live radio shows on and off today, tune in and check it out. If not there will be music.

There was a bug that was not letting new users log into and update their journals. It has since been fized and I hope to see updates on those journals soon. Sorry about th delay with getting you going :p

Staff

We have finally gotten our radio station up. We are going to be scheduling talk shows in the coming week. I will post them all in a journal called radio. If you have any ideas or would like to have a show on the web, we can arrange that just email me paul@elmwoodstrip.com

You can find the link under the elmwood picture to the right. Its called Radio Free Elmwood. Once you click it will download the streaming mp3 fiel to the desktop. I find it works really well with iTunes for Mac and PC. iTunes is a free player available from

It also works with winAmp and Audion player and I'm sure many others.

I had my brother test this on his dial-up at home. It seemed to work fine.

Here is a shortcut to that link:

Women in Black (WIB) is a worldwide network of women committed to peace with justice and is actively opposed to war and other forms of violence. Our demonstrations take the form of women (and men who support us) wearing black, standing in a public place in silent, non-violent vigils at regular times.

Screening: 3 new works (Documentary) on Friday Nov.14 at 7pm at Hallwalls

"Sold" (video, 5 min. 2003)
"Women In Black, Buffalo" (video, 50 min. 2003)
"Women In Black, New York City" (video, 20 min. 2003)