The World Trade Organisation (WTO)meeting is taking place in Cancún, Mexico, from Tuesday 9th to Sunday 14th September

SEPT 13TH is INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST WTO

At “sustainable living” in denmark and after, there was much debate as to where globalisation and trade issues come into the “architecture and sustainability” debate.
This saturday will be a chance for you to find out more, test your ideas, get involved. Things will be going on in your area- look around your streets for posters

”Another World Is Possible: We have before us a choice–the world of
militarism and corporate globalization, or a world built on global
solidarity, rooted in a foundation of democracy, dignity, sustainability,
and cooperation. This fall we have an opportunity to bring our vision to
life, through a series of actions and campaigns that will build toward a
better world.”
is from san francisco based Global Exchange, an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political and social justice.
www.globalexchange.org is their website

news.bbc.co.uk
is a bbc report called “WTO protesters: Where are they now?”

www.indymedia.ie
is an excellent article “The Rise of Open Source, Network-Based Movements” written by an IMC ireland person

Conall O’Caoimh, project coordinator with Comhlamh, is an NGO observer on the official Irish government delegation and he reports daily to NEAR fm 101.6 from Cancún. You can listen to him on radio @ 1.30pm (north dublin only) or download his reports from NEARfm website www.nearfm.ie

easa.antville.org
was an earlier piece posted to this EASA site “make trade fair- a call on all EASA community to get involved” posted by myself when working with IMC-oxford before EASA003, it was removed by the webmaster as the view then was that “trade and gloabalisation has nothing to do with architecture”
does it?

see also indymedia cancun, to find out about stuff as it happens
cancun.mediosindependientes.org

posted by duncan
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:08:16 GMT

hi everyone
I get some rest after few days running after time…



The last week-end was pretty good. Johanness and three other belgians were there to visit the funkin french team, to visit “La condition Publique”, and to buy whatever stuffs from the braderie of Lille…


Team
First, last thursday, the french team; the border´s crosser from Dortmund, Liege, and Brussel; some students from Lille attracted by the noise made by easa003, allltogether had this large meeting with the few bosses from La Condition Publique… Manu Barron, the big one, Laurent the 2004 one, Pascale the money one, and Bill the material one… Those people have just few things to see with the organisation of easa in fact. They are leading this machine of culture for now few years… And Manu accepted last december after Bornholm, to housed us …


As you may know , for 2004 Lille will be European Capital of Culture and the building and all the projects inside is part of it…


Projects
I-Land, a Jamaican Festival, from April 2004, and Extra-mundi, a small utopias festival, from september 2004 with the presence of artist from Barcelone, Genoa, and Brussel (Recycl´Art). As you see easa, is just between and will influence and be influenced by the organisation (as almost a part of it, the debat is open ) of the festival of small utopias.


(Hi)Story.
Although La Condition Publique keep a serious desire of independance from the shinny and brillant side of the european Capital of Culture. The general cultural project of this place has (and is) another (hi)story. The building, “La Condition Publique” use to be an indutrial and arrogant place where were stocked the wool balls to be bought by the numerous textil factories of the city of Roubaix…. The building was (and still) completely integrated in the life of the neighborhood. Today, the textil is gone and the whole rich economy of the city with it. Social problem, depression. The city-hall is now betting on culture and architecture, and dared to start enormous works to turn it onto a 10 000m2 factory of culture.




The 04 september meeting was good indeed, we start to set up the working group and soon the english part of the internet site will be on line. Now the main deal and work is to know where we´ll sleep… We have two options , In the first days of october, this problem will be sliced and decided. From that, you will now more about the theme


?.theme ? you have to read between lines

….Well…. ok


“Micropolitan, Metropolitan” was imagined a lot before finding La Condition Publique.
The initial task is to speak about a story of one single man facing a 1 million inhabitant metropole. Then…. then next episode in october….


comments?
jerome






posted by jerome
Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:52:10 GMT

hola chicos

i just passed my first week in this huge and amazing city buenos aires. at the moment my biggest goal is to find an apartment. hopefully ill find one soon…

the university (Universidad de Buenos Aires) is great. an old fucked up concrete building next to the national airport.
by chance i met a girl called carmela who got in contact with elea and is now something like the nc of buenos aires. she told me about the meeting in venezuela in october. she´s going to go there and asked me if im gonna join her.
i think so… BUT: the fee is about US$ 300.- and the flight is about US$ 700.- and the whole event lasts just ONE week……….. thats something to think about.

dont know how im going to collect that huge amount of money, maybe im gonna open an account and ask you to chip in ;)

cu,
mark0

posted by paradeiser
Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:08:59 GMT

please, all go to www.notcpa.org, read (the faqs) as long as you can prevent yourself from getting sick.

my kind regards to george and aldous.

duncan, may be you have to refocus on something else, now.

frightened, michael

posted by liptec
Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:16:00 GMT

Hi everyone

Juste a word about the next next year. It will be an urban easa as you know it. The theme will be “Metropolitan / Micropoltitan”, so how to live in a town of 1 million people with a human scale…
We work hard to set up all the organization and the main workshop. It will be about the minimum living in a big town (or another thing, maybe a surprise)…
the idea is that we will live with people of the city. To divide their life, experiments and emotions and to work together. 500 easa with 1 million people…
All your remarks and suggestions are the welcomes…
Thanks (and sorry for my english)

posted by greg
Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:51:25 GMT

EQUAL EARTH

THE WORLD OF TODAY AFTER 2000 YEARS OF CORRUPTION
corrupt economists/accountants/lawyers/architects/civil engineers/directors/managers/media people and just about all so-called professors

In corrupt Britain this global press-release has been censored and prohibited

Based on the 2000 year old falsehood that humans are the sole masters of the planet Earth it could be said that there is nothing wrong in the world other than the socio-economic-environmental disparities that arise from quantum economics: the poor must live in ever smaller, denser, polluted, traffic-riddled, wastelaid mass housing slums far removed from the greenbelts of the corrupt/exploiting professional/business classes whose “careers” thrive on the increasing consumption quantum of the increasing masses whose ignorance is only compensated by the ever larger quantum of hardware/software/construction/infrastructure which substitutes their original identity/affinity as a fellow species of mammals within a system of global bio-diversity which evolved over millions of years.
Meat-eating peace activists have for decades queried the essence and rights of bio-diversity on the basis of why care for wildlife and its habitat as long as humans are at war with each other – failing to understand that peaceful co-existence amongst one species is not possible without peaceful co-existence amongst all species.
The global development/social activists have also failed to understand that quantum development effectively deprives fellow species of their rightful ancient habitat and progressively destroys the innate co-existential ecological balance which was the global life support system comprising photosynthesis, an unpolluted atmosphere and adequate living space/habitat for all species.
The evolution of life over millions of years has been corrupted by the humans since the beginning of the industrial age when quantum replaced natural limits and a need for ever more humans was artifically created first to mass-produce and later to mass-consume what is now mass-produced by automation/computerisation/robotisation.
Mass-consumption has been fostered/sponsored and ingrained in the human psyche as a lifestyle/raison d’etre by the simple expedient which is in itself the consequence of quantum economics; i.e. the fact that there is nothing left on the planet which could be peacefully enjoyed without noisy, all-pervading mass-shopping/mass-congregation. Only the corrupt professional/business “elite” can afford the relative peace and tranquility of the remaining greenbelt financed with the money they make from greed/vanity/snobbery and the skills they pass on to each other in destroying the planetary life support system through massive quantum/no limits over-proliferation of the rapacious ideology that drives the global chaos and bio-diversity/habitat inequity.
In a last ditch attempt to avoid socio-economic collapse/disintegration the “educated elite” have corrupted national micro- and global macro-economics by the simple expedient of debt-financing the quantum economics which employs the underclasses knowing that this would effectively enslave them to total subservience and compliance and take their mind off any other issues. Debt-riddled/low pay humans have no time for bio-diversity/habitat preservation nor environmental/ecological concerns whilst the “corrupt elite” knows that the quantum consequences arising from the debt-financed mass-consumption frenzy causes irreversible damage to the planetary life support system through habitat and bio-diversity destruction.
The greatest deception perpetrated by the “corrupt elite” is the totally false pretence that “ever more development, debt and economic growth” will eventually eradicate poverty and benefit all humans when they already know that multiplying the consumption quantum of one industrialised nation human by all 6500 million humans increasing at 80 million p.a. would literally wipe out what’s left of the natural habitat/forests, wildlife and resources while drowning the planet in pollution and waste.
This corrupt development/debt/economic growth-ideology is being sold as a “win win” scenario in that to the simpleton both the underclasses and the “corrupt elite” profit from each other: ignoring the fact that the entire global future of the planet is being depleted with total disregard for future generations of all forms of life.
This conscious, deliberate, intentional madness/crime is being perpetrated in the name of gods now better known as politicians which have been invented/voted into power to absolve the humans from their self-serving criminal activities and force them into ever more of the same.
In Architecture – the corrupt profession which prostitutes itself to the global imbalance and resulting money/debt oversupply by plastering the natural habitat with rubble from planet-destruction on behalf of the unscrupulous developers: the vandalism of a Corbusier or Mies Van der Rohe et al reflects the egocentric brutalism of the 20th century human.
The fact is that without debts humans would have to exist within their limits therefore humans would have to limit their numbers and share the planet, its resources and habitat equitably with all life. Instead we have now a global economy where massive individual, corporate, state and government debt mountains must drive massive underlying inflation masqueraded as “economic growth” to minimise the debt impact; i.e. debt which is constantly refinanced with more debt which drives the ongoing global breeding frenzy as ever more debt must be divided by ever more humans and their economic quantum activities.
The so-called “free market economy” is only free for those who make short-term financial gains: the real cost is borne by the global life support system which is collapsing from the quantum impact of human activities.
Since 1950 some 4000 million additional surplus humans are feeding the “corrupt elite” with a reason to demonstrate money-making planet destruction proclivity. Expansive money-making that must be recycled into the local/global economy, bolstered by unprecedented debts which finance the limitless, corrupt global economy.
Originally debt constituted the assets/savings of depositors and a balance existed between the two. Now banks are lending in excess of 1000 times the amount of their deposits in a gigantic global debt explosion which does nothing other than to finance the extermination of global bio-diversity, the destruction of the shared global habitat, massive pollution, resource depletion, wastelaying and resultant life support system checkmate.
The self-evident stupidity/arrogance of the “corrupt elite” and their meaningless/material wasted lives is highlighted by the absurdity of their mutual support conspiracy whereby short-term profit, “economic growth”, the “free market economy” and so-called ambitions and achievements are applauded over long-term co-existential equity and freedom between all forms of life.
As long as humans continue to corrupt themselves with their insane “invented god” ideology with which they falsely empower themselves and set themselves above all life and consider only what suits the breeding and over-proliferation of ever more humans all hopes of an equitably sustainable future are in vain and all pretensions to that effect a contrick on global society.
This contrick on global society is manifested in the educational system which compartamentalises subjects without cross-reference or context so that corrupt economists/accountants/lawyers/architects/civil engineers/directors/managers/media people and just about all so-called professors don’t know the first thing about the necessity for ecological co-existential balance between bio-diversity, habitat and human activity.
Indeed they even have made a moneyspinning business out of the global environmental destruction; a rapidly growing money supply which comes from planet destruction and a rapidly growing money supply that goes back into planet destruction. In their ultimate corrupt form they pricetag wildlife and plants by their “economic” value to humans.
It is not unreasonable to say that if humans want to self-destruct; why not let them carry on. However, it is grossly unethical, immoral and criminal to exterminate, destroy and annihilate fellow species and their habitat at the same time.
If humans want to live in deserts let them share the deserts with the desert fauna and flora yet it is criminal to turn the rest of the planet into deserts simply to accommodate ever greater masses of surplus humans whose sole purpose in life is to actively participate in the grotesque self-destruction scenario.
The sick career ambitions of the achievement/money driven humans must stop now: there can be no further development or construction or economic growth.
They must be re-educated into environmental awareness, ecological appreciation and habitat/wildlife regenerative activity with the clear und unequivocal understanding that all humans must drastically reduce their numbers of births and economic quantum impact if anything is to make sense.

posted by vandalism
Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:11:26 GMT

Sitting here listening to the Afenginn cd, which is a wonderful method to enliven a dreary brain. However I have two of their CDs, and I vaguely remember somebody giving me the extra one on the night they played for safe keeping. So if anyone is desperately searching for it I may have it. I guess I’ll get about 20 replies to this.

posted by mochael
Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:45:41 GMT

Matthieu is under way to make a digital version of the easa´97train movies…. Actually, and as far as I know there is 3 versions of this movie…
jerome

posted by jerome
Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:35:43 GMT

today is the day. i’m going to BsAs – as i was very busy organizing my trip the last two weeks after easa i didn’t manage to process all requests. especially the conatcs site in the blog is not update with the nc-list. sorry for that, but i just hadn’t enough time, it would be very nice if there is someone willing to do that, just tell me and i’ll send you the nc-list.

i probably will be disconnected for some time, but i try to be online again as soon as possible!

the good news:
diesel (the fency shop) was convinced about sustanability and changed their policy after easa2003 – i took this picture in vienna, but i hope this new style will be spread trough diesel all over the world ;)



posted by paradeiser
Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:20:59 GMT

i heard that you had some movies from the recent easa-meeting. can you tell me where to download them?

p.s : what’S the interpret of your homepage’s ‘girls.mp3’ track ? i adore this song.

michael

posted by liptec
Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:47:04 GMT

First thanx for the movies Jelk and your comments following those photos..Nice!
As easa is moving further and new events are on the horizont (INCM in Ljubljana), there’s another thing I would like to ask for. Does anyone has a final report from INCM on Bornholm? What about the guide? There’s still only the old version from Malta that I have…and as far as I remember we did some changes. So if anyone has something or knows where to get all that, please let me know. :)
Tx
spela

posted by spela
Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:50:27 GMT

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background-image:url(http://www.antville.org/img/easa/background-image.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position:10px 45px;
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posted by paradeiser
Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:32:53 GMT

i hope you like the face-lifting i made. if not please tell me.
i tried to make it easier to get an overview of the frontpage.
as i cant check it on all platforms and browsers please tell me any troubles or strange things you notice.

furthermore i’d like to ask you
what display-resolution do you use to view this page?

Total: 28 votes

your participation helps me to optimize the site.

thx,
mark0

posted by paradeiser
Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:00:08 GMT

hello,
i need some suggestions for satelite dish systems with the best download speed because my cable simply doesn’t work anymore,it’s almost 1,0 k and dying…
even satelite tv kits,but with high speed and reliable ones, i don’t want to see anymore outages.
rgds
babici

posted by babici
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:26:56 GMT

hi…
The french team thanks the organizers, and put up some pics on the net. archimusic.free.fr
A bientôt…

posted by greg
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:12:08 GMT