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Hi all, below are the updated "minutes" such as they are. I think there are a few items for discussion. I'll post on the list as well.

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Radical Reference meeting
Pan African Market, Seattle

Cory Doctorow spoke about his activities with the EFF in advocating for fair use within the World Intellectual Property Forum, as well as DRM and the Broadcast Flag, at and event cosponsored by NYU Association for Computational Mathematics and Free Culture @ NYU. Though he was addressing himself to geeks, two civilians (his terms) from the NYC RR Collective found his talk very informative.

I was talking with a friend today about Rich Lowry, the "editor" of the National Review, and it reminded me of the editorial that Shinjoung and I wrote in response to one of Lowry's columns about librarians and the USA PATRIOT Act. So I thought I'd post our letter to the editor of the San Diego Tribune. And for fairness' sake, I've posted Lowry's original drivel below the fold (as it should be!). Read on:

Please join members of Radical Reference for a meal, a social, and some light business talk at 7:30 pm on Sunday, January 21, at Pan Africa Market:
1521 1st Ave (at Pike Street)

Somehow in the upgrade from Drupal 4.6 to 4.7 some (all?) attachments went missing. e.g. You go to http://radicalreference.info/amc/fact_presentation and it tells you to click download, but there's no download to click!

Gretchen, Melissa, and I from the NYC Local Collective have been helping organize and provide librarianly resources for the 1st Ever, 1st Annual (we hope!) NYC Anarchist Book Fair. It will be Saturday, April 14, 2007 from 11-7. We're looking for people to table and to talk.

Some of you may remember me posting about my delicious dream project of using delicious to build a radical reference reference shelf of Web resources. Well, as you can see by the delicious tags in the right column, the dream is becoming reality! Thanks Jenna for adding the del.icio.us block to the radref site!!

Most of the text below from The New School and Rhizome.org , but I did embellish a little and add some links.

Live Event and Webcast

Open Source on the Line
Monday, December 4, 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center,
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: $8, free to students and alumni with ID and members of Rhizome.org.

With their vast popularity, "open-source" platforms on the Internet are becoming a contested terrain. As part of its series, "The Public Domain," The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in association with Rhizome.org presents a panel discussion moderated by Christine Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, featuring

A friend just sent me this link to one of her and her partner's little holiday projects: https://marketspace.goodstorm.com/item/quimm/foot_soldier_in_the_war_on_christmas She's also working on a video with the same theme.

It's a sad day in the small and alternative press world. Clamor Magazine is no more.

What I liked best about Clamor is that it gave young writers and activists a chance to write for am established print publication, get paid a little, share their thoughts in the public commons, etc. It also got them and their opinions into ProQuest, a mainstream interdisciplinary database widely searched in academic libraries, via its inclusion in Alt-PressWatch.