In late October government and corporate officials will meet privately in Quito, Ecuador to try to impose the “Free” Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) on us. The FTAA puts more power and wealth in the hands of a few corporations and the governments they control, increasing poverty, disempowerment, poison air and water, militarization and misery in the Bay Area and across the Americas. The people of Ecuador and movements of the Americas — South, Central and North — are taking action to say “No the FTAA” and “Yes” to directly democratic, socially just and ecological local alternatives to the FTAA and a global corporatized system.
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RHYTHM FROM WRECKAGE:
New thoughts, new ways of thinking are impressed upon your retinas in this evening of kinetic engineering. Much likegenetic engineering of DNA strands,kinetic engineering of film/video sequences creates novel experiences for the viewer. Calculating glitches, wreckage wrangled into rhythms, tonight’s show features a live KIN-ATHLETIC battle of kinetic engineersreal-time re-constructions of Frankenstein films, plus new works by Carl Diehl, Sue Constabile and others!
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ONCE REMOVED
Boston-area video maker Julie Mallozzi traveled to China to meet her mother’s relatives for the first time, and discovered that they havefaced persecution, imprisonment, and even death during theircountry’s convulsive political movements. Her video “Once Removed”weaves together dreams, archival footage, and scenes from herrelatives’ lives to meditate on the complications of remembering andforgetting the past.