Hi everyone,

There now is a London area web calendar for progressive events at the new London Indymedia web site -
http://londonontario.indymedia.org

You can get to the listings for the current month through links off of the main page of the Indymedia web site,
or by going here: http://londonontario.indymedia.org/?q=event

Anyone can add event listings to the calendar -- with or without an account on the site.  Anyone also can post without entering a name, let alone a real one.
To add an event listing click "Post to the site" (near the top left) and then click "Event".

(That process is almost identical to posting events at the London Commons.  The setup of the two sites should be even more in synch in the near future; on the Indymedia site we'll probably be changing the way you enter the "Body" text.)

Any event postings that are ...
pro- environmentalism  and/or  pro- peace  and/or  pro- social justice  and/or  pro- genuine democracy
... should be appropriate,
though we may not accept event postings with strong ties to political parties.  The calendar also likely will be very local.

I mention what the editors will and won't "accept" because additions to the calendar will be reviewed by us after they're posted (though anyone on the site can view them in the meantime; they're not kept in a queue).  We may remove postings.  If anything is removed from the calendar it will be moved to the "Hidden posts" section, which you can get to through a link near the top left.  (Advertising spam is an exception -- we usually just delete that.)  Ideally we wouldn't hide any posts, but there is a broadly progressive mandate behind the web site that we work to uphold.

Canadian Copyright: A CITIZEN'S GUIDE, Laura J. Murray & Samuel E. Trosow (Between the Lines, 2007; $24.95)

"When did copyright law become sexy?"

So asked the Globe and Mail's Ivor Tossel in a piece headlined How did copyright become cool?

 So.. I was checking the hours for the London Public Library, and it turns out they have a new website.

I think it's a drupal website.
Which is pretty cool.

Can anyone confirm?

check it out :  

http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/ 

(note: a hint was the little dude on the tab)

 check it check it check it check it check it check it check it check it check it check it check it check it check it

http://thelondonbridge.ca/home.html

Here's one for the comic book nerds out there. Was it the green goblin or spiderman? The fall or the web?

How did Gwen Stacey Die?

London Indymedia is calling out for submissions for print! Articles on current political issues that our pertininet to the London community are desired and will most likely get first priority. Send submissions to londonontario.indymedia@gmail.com
Submission will be due on September 27th unless posted otherwise.
Also, come to the next meeting on September 28th at Ruby’s café!

"Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartedness into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality. " -Emma Goldman

REVOLT!

Addressed to young men and women preparing to enter the professions, An Appeal to the Young was first published in 1880 in Kropotkin's paper, La Revolte, and was soon thereafter issued as a pamphlet. An American edition was brought out by Charles H. Kerr in 1899, in the wake of the great Anarchist's first U.S. speaking tour; his Memoirs of a Revolutionist was also published (by Houghton-Mifflin) that year. A new edition in Kerr's "Pocket Library of Socialism" appeared in 1901; just after Kropotkin's second U.S. tour. (In Chicago, he had been introduced to a large audience by Clarence Darrow, a close associate of the Kerr Company.) Yet another Kerr edition in the 1910s went through many printings, and was still on the Kerr list well into the 1930s.

Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math - An anonymous reader writes "So how long should a copyright be valid for? A Cambridge student has stepped into the discussion with a dispassionately calculated estimate of the optimal period a copyright should be granted. Ars' point of view: 'Neither the US nor the UK are in any danger of rethinking copyright law from scratch, but if they were looking for guidance in how to set up their systems, Pollock has it. He develops a set of equations focused specifically on the length of copyright and uses as much empirical data as possible to crunch the numbers. The result? An optimal copyright term of 14 years, which is designed to encourage the best balance of incentive to create new work and social welfare that comes from having work enter the public domain (where it often inspires new creative acts).' The original paper is available (pdf) online.[slashdot.org]

Copyright in Canada last for 50 years after the death of the author.  That means that contemporary culture is locked off to us.  You gotta go pretty far back to find works that can be expanded or remixed legally without paying license fees.

The Sky Dragon Community Development Co-operative is a wonderful reminder that the movement is alive and well. 

"Sky Dragon Community Development Co-operative Inc. is an incorporated non-profit worker-cooperative dedicated to the goals of progressive social and environmental change. In pursuit of these goals, we have established a meeting space in Hamilton in which people can become educated and empowered to make changes in their own life and within the broader community. We seek to facilitate this change by providing environmentally and socially-conscious consumer and life-style alternatives, by strengthening the local economy, and by helping build community and civic capacity amongst Hamiltonians from diverse backgrounds.
We strongly believe that people have the will and the desire to make a positive difference in the world, and that there is a need for cooperatives and other progressive organizations to facilitate this desire. What better place to start than here…what better time than now?"