Dear Friends:

Hanon Reznikov, Judith Malina's husband and the co-director of The Living Theatre since Julian Beck's death in 1985, passed away last night. He suffered a stroke a little more than two weeks ago, followed this week by pneumonia.

To send cards or notes of condolence to Judith here is the address:

Judith Malina
The Living Theatre
19-21 Clinton Street
apt 203
phone: 212-397-9301

Email: contact@livingtheatre.org

As is Jewish custom, no flowers. However, baskets of fruit or other edibles are accepted.

Guy Debord's Widow Threatens NYU Professor with Copyright Violation

Professor Is Accused of Infringing the Copyright of a Man Who Opposed
Copyright

By ANDREA L. FOSTER, http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i33/33a01603.htm

Guy Debord, a Marxist philosopher who died in 1994, was no fan of
private property. But apparently his widow is one.

A lawyer representing the widow, Alice Becker-Ho, has threatened
Alexander R. Galloway, an associate professor of culture and
communication at New York University, with legal action. Mr. Galloway
says the lawyer has sent him a letter demanding that he stop
distributing his online war game, which the lawyer says infringes a
copyright held by the Debord estate. The French philosopher had created
a similar board game 30 years ago.

Living Theatre's Hanon Resnikov Hospitalized

The Living Theatre wants you to know that Hanon has suffered a stroke. He is currently at Beth Israel Hospital, with Judith by his side. He faces a difficult recovery with his customary tenacity.

Our theatre work continues with a European tour of our Obie Award-winning production of "The Brig" opening in Berlin next week, and here in New York we will let you know about our summer program of films and musical events, followed by our next production in the Fall.

"We Have Won"
Copenhagen Free University

The Copenhagen Free University ceased its activities by the end of
2007 and in connection with the abolition of the institution we have
written the following statement:

WE HAVE WON!

In the spring of 2001 we demanded: All Power to the Copenhagen Free
University. We had just opened a free university in our home in the
Norrebro district of Copenhagen. This impossible demand was put
forward in the form of a manifesto intended to provoke and unsettle
the collective imaginary and open new potential paths of action. We
wanted to take power.

West Virginia Church Now Home to "Armed Joy" Collective
By Daniel Friend, Shepherdstown Chronicle

SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — Shepherdstown’s Old Episcopal Church at 113 N. Church
St. — arguably the oldest church in West Virginia — is now home to a group
of young tenants calling it the Armed Joy Collective House.

Naming their home of two months after the 1977 anarchist pamphlet “Armed
Joy” by Italian activist Alfredo M. Bonanno, the six collective house
occupants hope to foster a sense of community and self-sufficiency in
Shepherdstown.

Jules Dassin, Filmmaker on Blacklist, Dies at 96
By Richard Severo, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/movies/01dassin.html?ei=5070&en=b71f41...

Jules Dassin, an American director, screenwriter and actor who found success making movies in Europe after he was blacklisted in the United States because of his earlier ties to the Communist Party, died Monday in Athens, where he had lived since the 1970s. He was 96.

A spokeswoman for Hygeia Hospital confirmed his death but did not give a cause, The Associated Press reported.

Crisis From Internal Split in News & Letters Committees

Statement from the Marxist-Humanist Tendency of News and Letters Committees - March, 2008

Dear Friends,

We are writing to alert all readers and friends of a serious crisis afflicting News and Letters Committees (N&LC)—a crisis that places its very existence in jeopardy.

In response to philosophic disputes within N&LC over the past several years, an organized group within N&LC has usurped control of the organization and is acting in complete disregard of the democratically approved perspectives and principles that have defined it since it founding in 1955 as a decentralized, non-hierarchical group based on the unity of worker and intellectual, theory and practice, and philosophy and organization. Those wanting to continue our democratic and humanist heritage have formed the Marxist-Humanist Tendency of N&LC. It constitutes almost half of the membership of N&LC, and we appeal to you to support us in our effort to reverse the crisis that threatens America’s only Marxist-Humanist organization.

HAMBURG´S SUBVISION IS TRYING TO COOPT INTERNATIONAL
"OFF" ART PROJECTS

A generously state-funded project with leading Hamburg art-institution figures at its helm is planning to showcase international "off" art - "new forms" of artistic activity that have developed at "far remove from the big art-fairs“ - in Summer 2008.
Great news? Have you, or acquaintances, already been invited?

Just one minute, please.

Under

http://www.wirsindwoanders.de/files/demo.php

Iraqi-born "Virtual Jihadi" Artist's Show Shut Down in Troy, NY

An Iraqi born artist, now US citizen, Wafaa Bilal's work was shut down at the West Hall Art Department Gallery and will now be reopened tomorrow (March 11), but conservative public pressure threatens to close it once again.

Wafaa escaped from Iraq in the early 1990's risking his life by crossing the Iraq/Kuwait border and is now a professor at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. He was invited to RPI as part of the art department artist residency program and is exhibiting a work entitled "Virtual Jihadi" that consists of a "hacked" version of another commercial video game called "Quest for Saddam." In the real game players target the ex-Iraqi leader, in Wafaa's modified version the artist casts himself as a suicide bomber who gets sent on a mission to assassinate President Bush Jr.

"It feels like a military camp, not an educational institution," Bilal, 41, said Thursday night.

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