Human Rights and Trade Union Activist Yacine Zaïd Abducted in Algeria: Act Now!

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Human Rights Activist, IUF representative in Algeria abducted

October 1, 2012

Act now. Please help secure Yacine’s release.

On 1 October, Algerian IUF [International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations] representative and human rights activist Yacine Zaïd was picked up off the street in Hassi Messaoud in the Ouargla province by unidentified men in a white Nissan 4×4 vehicle and has not been seen since. His location at this time is unknown. Zaïd had earlier been beaten upon being  taken into custody by Algerian police prior to his release and subsequent abduction.

The IUF believes that Yacine Zaïd’s well-being and perhaps even his life is at risk because of his outspoken work in defence of human rights in Algeria and his long-standing defence of workers’ rights, now as an IUF representative in that country.

The IUF calls on the Algerian authorities to act immediately to secure the release of Yacine Zaïd, guarantee his security and restore his full rights. We also call on authorities to investigate the matter fully and bring those responsible to justice.

You can help. Please send a message to the Algerian Government immediately to secure the safe release of Yacine Zaïd.

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Chto delat. What is to be done?

http://www.chtodelat.org/

Publisher: Chto delat

Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a

workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg,

Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod.

Since then, Chto delat has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper on

issues central to engaged culture, with a special focus on the relationship

between a repoliticization of Russian intellectual culture and its broader

international context. These newspapers are usually produced in the context

of collective initiatives such as art projects or conferences.

Beginning with the first issue of 2009, Chto delat No. 01-25 "On the Use of

Art," we have decided to parallel our work on the newspaper with a thematic

webjournal that collects a selection of texts that were important in

articulating the issue's conception. We will also be using this space to

publish expanded versions of texts too long to be published in the newspaper

in full, as well as texts did not fit in the paper.

This web-magazine will contain texts in English and Russian mostly, and of

course, we will be making an effort to translate everything in the course of

time. We also plan to expand each issue of this journal to expand

constantly, as new texts and translations are added.

Email: chtodelatnews [at] googlemail [dot] com

Content freely accessible online.

Current Issue: #02-26 2009

Date: 22 September 2009

Without you

I'm going to go into the fir trees
There where I last saw her
But the evening is throwing a cloth upon the land
and upon the ways behind the edge of the forest
And the forest it is so black and empty
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more

Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren't worth it

On the branches in the ditches
it's now silent and without life
And breathing becomes oh so hard for me
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more

Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren't worth it without you

Without you

Without you

Without you

Without you

Slavoj Žižek at The Creative Time Summit

http://www.versobooks.com/events/520-slavoj-zizek-at-the-creative-time-summit

October 12, 2012—October 13, 2012

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts

Slavoj Žižek at The Creative Time Summit

Creative Time has commissioned and presented ambitious public art projects with thousands of artists throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and now even in outer space.

Slavoj Žižek, author of Less than Nothing and the upcoming The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, will be one of the keynote speakers at the fourth annual Creative Time Summit at NYU’s Skirball Center in New York City on October 12-13. Curated by Nato Thomspson, since 2009 the Creative Time Summit has brought international artists, curators, critics, scholars, and activists to discuss art and its transformative effect on politics.

Creative Time Summit 2012: Confronting Inequality will focus on global economic inequity and boasts presenters including Mike Daisey, Jeff Chang, Suzanne Lacy, Josh MacPhee, Hito Steyerl and Rebel Díaz.