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inside this issue: Volume 6 No. 2 Autumn 2002 Grant Awards & Updates... Volume 6, No. 2: Autumn, 2002 Update on the IAS... What's Happening: Books and Events ■ nilS^b^^fe 11 1 \&»\ : i ^ 2 ? 1 HTHJ llaMBHBBBH Grant Awards for activists in a wide array of book will be comprised of a movements worked to bring collection of stories of July, 2002: sweeping immediate resistance to capitalism changes in their areas of compiled over the last 15 central concern, while to S2000 to L.A. Kauffman years. Starting with first for her book-in-progress, simultaneously organizing hand experiences of the Direct Action: The Search themselves in a way Anti-Imperialist struggles l/> for Radical Renewal. Leslie consistent with their beliefs for national liberation in the is an accomplished writer in direct democracy and 1980's and 1990's (Ireland, and has been an activist for grassroots empowerment, Nicaragua, Kurdistan) he over 20 years. Many of her prefiguring the better society critiques the shortcomings of w r i t i n g s h a v e b e e n they hoped ultimately to these movements from a published in magazines such create". The book will radical, anti-authoritarian as the Nation, Mother Jones, provide tools to with which position. Communicating in and The Village Voice. we may reclaim the rich and a writing style which is Direct Action will provide a largely forgotten history of informal and engaging. comprehensive history of direct action movements, "to Ramor uses his own political direct-action protest in the make movements more travels and experiences to United States over the past effective, and to pose share stories of revolution, few decades. The work will fundamental challenges to resistance, and freedom. His draw on more than 100 the existing order and create stories express profound interviews she conducted models for a society based solidarity, compassion, and with organizers, as well as on mutual aid and respect". humor. He currently lives in using large amounts of Her projected date of New York and Chiapas. primary source material. completion is June, 2003. Projected completion date is Indeed, as both writer and December, 2002. activist deeply involved with S2000 to Ramor Ryan direct action, Kauffman has for his book Globalization intimate insight into "how and its Discontents. The PERSPECTIVES ON ANARCHIST THEORY Pose 2 IAS Update Perspectives on Welcome to the autumn 2002 Institute for the IAS will provide us the ability to Anarchist Theory Anarchist Studies newsletter "Perspectives continue awarding $8,000 in grants and on Anarchist Theory". This year marks the publishing Perspectives, our biannual IAS' 6th year in existence and we remain newsletter, which includes Autumn 2002, Vol 6 No. 2 as active as ever in our support for organizational updates, contemporary anarchist scholarship and our efforts to news and analysis. We will also maintain Newsletter of the Institute build a community of people interested our web site which has received over for Anarchist Studies in this work. Indeed, the last six years 30,000 "hits" thus far. This resource have been very busy for us. Over this offers information in nine different Editor. John Petrovato period the IAS has awarded 32 grants to languages (including the recent addition individuals throughout the world (a of Finnish in July) and enhances our Subscription Rates complete list of grants awarded is ability for community building. These (Two issues per year) included in this newsletter). goals shall be achieved despite the fact I A S D o n o r s - F r e e This July the Institute for Anarchist that we have been able to reduce our I n d i v i d u a l s - $ 5 Studies (IAS) Board awarded grants to administrative expenses by about 30%. I n s t i t u t i o n s - $ 1 0 two exciting writers: LA Kauffman and We thank everyone that has donated Bulk (25 Copies)- $25 Raymor Ryan. Speaking in voices very thus far to this years' funraising different from one another, these campaign. (Please make checks payable individuals, who are writers as well as to the Institute for Anarchist activists, are involved in numerous Please consider supporting our efforts Studies) projects and anti-authoritarian and become a contributor to the IAS. movements. Both writers are competent, Being the only institution that financially Disclaimer: the views ex creative, and committed to radical social supports anarchist writers, your pressed in Perspectives do not transformation. We congratulate them on contribution will help us continue this necessarily represent the views their awards and are very pleased to be work. The IAS had developed a track of the IAS as a whole. The ma given the opportunity to support their record of significant contributions in its terial in this newsletter is © the work. six years of operation. Our short and Institute for Anarchist Studies. We also added a new board member to long term goals will build upon our the IAS in July: Darini Nicholas. Darini achievements and with careful planning, is an educator, feininist, and activist who hard work, and generous support of our IAS Board of Directors: resides in central Vermont She was bom allies, we will succeed in the Paula Emery, Rebecca DeWitt, and spent the first half of her life in Sri development and creation of our own Chuck Morse, Paul Glavin, Lanka. Today she teaches at Norwich unique spaces of scholarship. We are also pleased to state that we Cindy Milstein, Ashanti Alston, University, the Institute for Social Dan Chodorkoff, Ecology, and Johnson State College in continue to offer books to donors to the Darini Nicholas Vermont. Her focus of interest and work IAS. All contributors who make a Brooke Lehman has been with social problems, race and contribution of $25 or more are entitled ethnicity, the global economy, and the to choose from a large selection of books donated by Raven Used Books of General Director: social ecology of globalization. She has researched the impacts of neoliberal Massachusetts —a long time IAS John Petrovato policy on the lives supporter and distributor of high quality of indigenous and rural communities in radical literature. the South. Darini is currently an active It is our hope that the following years P.O. Box 482 board member with the Vermont will be even more successful than these Amherst, MA. 01004 Workers' Center and Volunteers with first six years. Building on our experience USA their Workers' Right Hotline. Her and collective work, the IAS shall continue to support anarchist E-mail: [email protected] background, learning, and experiences, will enable us to bring a broader , more scholarship, community building, and Web: http://flag.blackened.net/ias international perspective to our work the development of the anarchist vision. Phone: (413) 369-8037 and we welcome her to the board. The 2002 fundraising campaign is well John Petrovato underway. At the present time we are The IAS is a nonprofit, still attempting to meet the fundraising tax-exempt organization. goal of $14,000. Your 2002 donations to VOLUME 6 NO. 2 Page 3 Grant Updates Lorenzo Komboa Ervin has completed his re upcoming conferences: the annual Binghamton write of Anarchism and the Black Revolution: Out conference and also a conference on Rhizomes at law Essays on Race, Class and Struggle. This 270 York University in Canada. Both presentations will page document completes the 3rd edition of the eventually be available on-line. Further, Sean is work which has had an impact within the contem currently sending the manuscript to publishers for porary anarchist movement. The project greatly ex review. He was awarded $1000 in February, 2002. pands the depth and scope of earlier editions (which was only one-quarter in size of the current edition) Bill Weinberg reports that his research is going and includes a number of articles and essays written well for his book, Pachamama Betrayed: Ecologi between 1994 to the present. His five sections in cal Crime and Indigenous Resistance to the Andean clude 1) Anarchism defined; 2) Capitalism and Ra Drug Wars. He his currently focusing on the oil de cism: An analysis of White supremacy; 3) Anar velopment schemes which lie behind the Andean chism and the Black Revolution; 4) Pan-Africanism militarizaiton, and Washington's recasting of the or Inter-communialism?; and 5) Contradictions of conflict as part of the global war on terrorism since Race and Class. At this time, several radical left 9-11. Much has been compiled into an article and Anarchist publishing houses in the USA have printed in the most recent edition of Cornell Uni expressed interest in its publication. Lorenzo was versity's Native Americas Quarterly, and is on-line awarded $2000 in February, 2002. at http^/ww3report.com/amazonia.htmI . Further, he has also been engaged with public speaking on the issue, including a presentation at the Anarchist Joseph Lowndes has finished the essay "Unstable Antistatism: The Left, The Right, and the Forum in New York and the recent Renewing the Outlaw Josey Wales". Originally entitled Anarchist Tradition conference in Plainfield, Ver "Anarchism and the Rise of Rightwing Anti- mont. Verso has agreed to publish the book upon statism", his essay examines the diverse origins of completion. Bill was awarded $1000 in July, 2001. modern conservative antistatism in the U.S. through an analysis of the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Ali Sailer continues to work toward the comple Wales, and the book on which it was based. The tion of her book Voicing Exclusions): A Critical consolidation of a conservative politics in the 1970s Examination of Current Discourses on the "Anti- was achieve in part by the right's appropriation of Corporate Globalizaiton" Movement.