feel free to pass on to those that enjoy politics with their music,
DC is the place to be.
- jon
For Immediate Release
ULTRA-RED DEBUT "N30", A SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION EP AT MASSIVE STREET
MOBILIZATION TO SHUT DOWN THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND WORLD BANK.
To lend its collective din to the cry for economic democracy, the audio
activist organization Ultra-red will premiere its new four-track EP, "N30"
on the streets of Washington DC during the mobilization to shut down the IMF
and World Bank.
Working with organizers of the mass-protests, Ultra-red has distributed a
limited edition self-produced CDR to guerrilla DJs and micro-radio
activists. "N30" features three dance tracks composed in the minimal house
genre. Every sound on the EP is taken from location recordings made during
the 40,000 person mobilizations against the WTO in Seattle, Washington. The
fourth track on "N30" is a breathtaking ten minute soundscape compiling
acoustic events from the November 30th protest.
Ultra-red hopes these tracks contribute to the carnival of resistance in the
Washington DC streets while simultaneously invoking the spirit of solidarity
that has brought together protesting workers in the overdeveloped and
underdeveloped worlds. Ultra-red invites those interested in hearing this
special release to the streets of the US Capitol where "N30" will receive
its exclusive premiere.
On April 16 and 17, 2000 thousands of activists from around the world will
be gathering in Washington DC to protest the neoliberal economic policies of
the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Attracting activists
from numerous social justice movements in the US and worldwide, these
protests express a broad-based resistance to the ways in which policies of
both institutions are detrimental to human rights, the environment and labor
rights.
The stateside swell of protests beginning with November 1999s massive
shut-down of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, comes as a result of
long-standing neoliberal policies at long last coming home to roost. For
decades, third world countries in the tricontinental Africa, Asia and South
America have felt the harsh effects of IMF and World Bank privatization
schemes, local currency devaluation, land grabbing by transnational
corporations and massive military investment. With the advent of the World
Trade Organization in the early 1990s, the brute force of globalization
began to be felt by workers in the United States.
The level of outcry against anti-democratic, monopolistic global capitalism
reached a groundswell with last years famous "Battle In Seattle" when rank
and file activists and workers literally barricaded delegates to the WTO
ministerial talks. On April 16 and 17, those same activists will be joining
their brothers and sisters in the underdeveloped world to shut down the
annual summits of the World Bank and IMF the other two heads in the hydra
of corporate-dominated global capitalism. Reactionary defenders of the
global order, both liberals and conservatives, characterize global resisters
as blind to the benefits of free trade. The stinging truth is that the
benefits only reach the wealthiest while the majority whether in America or
in countries like Bolivia, bear the savage effects of the manic upward
redistribution of wealth and environmental devastation.
For more information on the April 16 and 17 mobilizations
http://www.a16.org/
For more information on Ultra-red, contact their Information secretary
dontr@earthlink.net
http://www.comatonse.com/ultrared/
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JON BERRY PR
n. american contact for:
Force Inc., Mille Plateaux, Ritornell, Position Chrome
631 e.11st. #22, nyc 10009 ph/fx 212 353 2656
http://www.force-inc.com http://www.mille-plateaux.com
ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN!
NOW . 2000:
FORCE INC. - Jake Mandell, Exos 'Eleventh'
MILLE PLATEAUX - Ultra-Red, Clicks& Cuts v/a:
new vinyl: FT4 - SCSI9-9, FIM182 - Sutekh,
MP76 - Pluramon "reservoir" ; remixes by Christian Vogel, Chris
Daniel, Thomas Brinkmann, Pantytec
FEBRUARY 22.2000.
MILLE PLATEAUX - Ihan 'Iota'
FEBRUARY 29.2000.
FORCE TRACKS - Mathias Schaffhauser
RITORNELL - Autopoieses "Live A Noir"
MARCH 2000.
MP - Vladislav Delay, Alva.Noto, GAS, FIM - Twerk, RIT - Dean Roberts
PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!!!
Jon Berry <JBERRY@nyc.rr.com>
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