[-empyre-] JOIN THE LOVE-IN!! STOP THE CRIMMIGATION! HALT LOVE’S LEGISLATION!

[rrdominguez at ucsd.edu]

Hola dear speeds and flows and inertias,

While I do understand the connections between terror-capital and the
de_linking of the body-as-inertia to one of the body-as-autogenesis
that for Virilio establish as some of the conditions of the current of
telematic-disasters and geo-castastrophies that (Art and Fear) as
performative
matrix of the "extreme" test drives in the landscapes to come before they
arrive.

But one must also ask if this disallows the possibility of creating
"critical gestures" that would allow a re-direction of the speed_flows
back towards the ethics of an inertia of bodies and data-bodies that
re-connect to a politics of love(s) - by offering an other form the
extreme that is not one of erasure but of one that calls forth
disturbances of connections - the currents of strange affinities calling
for
a "new earth" between the "gaps" of speeds and flows.

On this note here is call for our Electronic Disturbance Theater LOVE-IN.
Please join your speeds and flows with our inertias.

Test driving towards you now,
Ricardo

PLEASE PASS ON>>>>>>

JOIN THE LOVE-IN!!

VALUE FAMILY! STOP THE CRIMMIGATION! HALT LOVE’S LEGISLATION!

Ice ICE/Proposition 8 E-Action: A 3 Day Virtual Sit-In for
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!

FROM NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008

STOP THE LITERAL AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANT AND LGBTQ
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) FAMILIES!

STOP THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE SO-CALLED UNDOCUMENTED AND NON-NORMATIVE!

STOP THE DETENTION ABUSES OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES BY ICE!
STOP THE REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE SAME-SEX KITH AND KIN!

JOIN A 3 DAY GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ICE AND
PRO-CALIFORNIA PROPOSTION 8 GROUPS!

A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups
for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!

The Virtual Sit-In On ICE and Pro-8 Groups

STARTS
Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)

ENDS
Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)

JOIN THE E-ACTION BY CLICKING INTO:

http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html

ON THOSE DATES AND TIMES.

CLICK=ACTION

WHY ARE WE CALLING FOR THIS E-ACTION:

In the past few years we have witnessed and felt the sting of the
anti-immigrant movement in the United States, its violent targeting and
criminalization of immigrants.  The results: heightened levels of fear
among immigrants, escalated racialized violence perpetrated by civilians
against immigrant communities, and increased levels of detention and
imprisonment of migrants by local, state, and federal agencies. These
phenomena either performed or encouraged by the powers-that-be have
contributed to the massive separation of immigrant family across
time-space. Simultaneously in the past few years we have witnessed the
effects of other concerted attacks on the integrity of love’s many
manifestations—a rolling back of legislation that begins to recognize
same-sex family structures. The results: an embargo on family and love,
blocked adoptions, healthcare, unions. Whether one supports gay marriage
or not in the theoretical, the ongoing perpetuation of inequalities
presents a clear-cut case of human rights abuse. Queers of color know that
attacks on immigrant and LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer)
families are not distinct, but instead are clearly linked examples of the
U.S. right-wing’s “acts of transfer.” “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender immigrants and their families are uniquely vulnerable,” says
Rachel B. Tiven, Immigration Equality Executive Director, “detaining more
immigrants, with less judicial review, will put the lives of innocent
people at risk.” Don’t cede the category of “family”! Realize political
kinships and affinities! Bypass EITHER/OR politics, embrace BOTH/AND
coalitions!

This call for a virtual sit-in represents a two-pronged attempt to
gerrymander solidarity against the actions of the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security
established to allegedly guard national security by
targeting “criminals” and “terrorists,” and the actions of right-wing
organizations which devalue and terrorize families in their attempts to
define the category of Family in the narrowest terms imaginable.
Constructions of immigrant and queer families as violable are rooted in
long histories of aggression against humanity; which have and continue to
establish hierarchies of personhood. The forced biological reproduction of
slaves; the enforcement of boarding schools for indigenous children; the
banned migration of Asians beginning in the late 19th century and ending
in the mid 20th century; massive deportations during the 1930s and again
in the 1950s; systemic legislative and juridical “privileges of unknowing”
against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—these
American (sic) projects are but a few examples of the continuous violation
of “family values” in the United States. The contemporary separation of
immigrant and queer families resulting from state practices to police
internal and external borders is a piece with the long trajectory of
violence inflicted on so-called non-normative families. Join this
nonviolent direct action against ICE and Pro-California Proposition 8
Groups to speak out against BOTH recent atrocities against families AND
persistent violence(s) exacted on peoples with histories.

1] Senate Immigration Bill Removes Added Burden on Same-Sex Couples Sought
by House
http://www.hrc.org/1462.htm

2] Joseph Nevins on “Dying to Live: A Story of US Immigration in an Age of
Global Apartheid”
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/20/joseph_nevins_on_dying_to_live

3] Fear grips immigrants after raid at Mississippi plant
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2008-08-27-immigration-raid-mississippi_N.htm

4] Mexican’s Death Bares a Town’s Ethnic Tension
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/us/05attack.html

5] Immigration Prosecutions Hit New High
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102192_pf.html

6] Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States
Deportation Policy
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/us0707/

7] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcment
http://www.ice.gov/about/index.htm

8] Immigration Raids Trample the Constitution Without Securing the Nation
http://www.aclunc.org/news/opinions/immigration_raids_trample_the_constitution_without_securing_the_nation.shtml

9] American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16516865

10] Asian American History Timeline
http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html#3

11] Latinos in the United States: Invitation and Exile
http://modernlanguages.louisville.edu/spanish/classes/uslatino/latinos_carrasco.pdf

12] Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese on Approval of
Proposition 8
http://www.hrc.org/11522.htm

13] Ugly Betty Speak Out Against Prop 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9HfNwMKZ0E

14] Betty la Fea Hablan en Contra de Prop 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQf0kumpZQ&feature=related

15] Postville, Iowa Struggles on After ICE Raid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zCQHX9Lgg

THIS E-ACTION is an Artivist Performance by
Electronic Disturbance Theater

SPONSORED BY

Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance, Globalization, and Transnational
Exchange

Presented by The UCLA Center for Performance Studies
November 20-23, 2008
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html

Hosted by bang.lab CALIT2/UCSD
http://bang.calit2.net

A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups
for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!

STARTS
Midnight November 20th, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)

ENDS
Midnight November 23rd, 2008 - Pacific Coast Time (U.S)

JOIN THE E-ACTION BY CLICKING INTO:

http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/actions/actions.html

ON THOSE DATES AND TIMES.

CLICK=ACTION

FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS E-ACTION
Please contact: Ricardo Dominguez: rrdominguez at ucsd.edu



-- 
Ricardo Dominguez
Assistant Professor
Hellman Fellow

Visual Arts Department, UCSD
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
Principal Investigator, CALIT2
http://calit2.net
Co-Chair gallery at calit2
http://gallery.calit2.net
CRCA Researcher
http://crca.ucsd.edu/
Ethnic Studies Affiliate
http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics,
Board Member
http://hemi.nyu.edu

University of California, San Diego,
9500 Gilman Drive Drive,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0436
Phone: (619) 322-7571
e-mail: rrdominguez at ucsd.edu

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