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>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>>ULTRA-RED BRING "TRABAJO Y D?AS" TO PROGRESSIVE LOS ANGELES
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>>Los Angeles audio-activists Ultra-red will present a special 20-minute
>>presentation of their multi-media performance "Trabajo y d?as" at the
>>Progressive LA Network conference on Saturday, October 20, 3:00 p.m.
>>
>>The "Progressive LA: The Next Agenda Conference" will take place October
>>20
>>from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the California Science Center (700 State
>>Drive, Exposition Park).
>>
>>The conference is free of charge and lunch will be served. Space is
>>limited.
>>Please register on-line at www.progressivela.org or for more information
>>call 323-259-1412
>>
>>PROGRESSIVE LA: THE NEXT AGENDA CONFERENCE
>>On October 20th the Progressive Los Angeles Network (PLAN) and the
>>Institute
>>for America's Future will co-sponsor an important conference -- the Next
>>Agenda Conference -- designed to celebrate recent victories, build upon
>>Los
>>Angeles' progressive momentum, and link local issues with a national
>>progressive agenda. The conference will also help solidify a more
>>strategic
>>progressive movement in Los Angeles.
>>
>>When PLAN began two years ago to bring together a diverse group of
>>communities and local leaders in Los Angeles, the country and many local
>>communities were benefiting from a long period of relative peace and
>>economic growth. Today, after binding the wounds from the terrible events
>>of
>>September 11th, America is now facing a worsening recession. The policy
>>agenda we are advancing for investing in the region and its people is
>>essential to fighting the economic downturn and to building the kind of
>>just
>>society and solidarity we need in time of trial.
>>
>>ULTRA-RED'S "TRABAJO Y D?AS"
>>Ultra-red's performance "Trabajo y d?as (Social Factory No. 3)" grows out
>>of
>>a collaboration between Ultra-red and the musicians/organizers with Los
>>Jornaleros del Norte. Los Jornaleros is comprised entirely of immigrant
>>workers whose songs represent the struggles for work and dignity in Los
>>Angeles. In the context of "Trabajo y dias", the struggles of the
>>Jornaleros
>>(Spanish, "day laborer") find resonance in the larger struggles against
>>corporate-dominated globalization, racism and for labor rights. "Trabajo y
>>d?as)" combines field recordings, pre-recorded interviews with workers and
>>organizers, sound and image processing, and spoken word - cutting across
>>protocols of lap-top electronica, press conference polemics and panel
>>discussion dialectics.
>>
>>Founded in 1994, Ultra-red is a Los Angeles-based audio activist group
>>producing street actions, radio broadcasts, performances, recordings and
>>installations. Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social
>>relations,
>>the group's work radicalizes the conventions of electro-acoustic and
>>ambient
>>music. In practice and membership, Ultra-red endeavor to transgress the
>>borders between art and political organizing
>>
>>For "Trabajo y d?as," Ultra-red features the following members: Elizabeth
>>Blaney (artist, activist, community organizer, Union de Vecinos), Pablo
>>Garcia (musician, educator, community organizer, HeArt Project), Shannon
>>Noble (visual artist), Dont Rhine (musician, activist, Pride At
>>Work/AFL-CIO), and Leonardo Vilchis (artist, activist, community
>>organizer,
>>Union de Vecinos).
>>
>>To contact Ultra-red directly, email Dont Rhine at dontr@earthlink.net
>>
>>http://www.comatonse.com/ultrared/
>>
>>
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