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Antiopic New Release: ULTRA-RED



NEW RELEASE FROM ANTIOPIC:
Ultra-red ¡AMNISTÍA!
AN003 CD-EP
http://www.antiopic.com/catalog/an003.html

"¡Amnistía!" is composed entirely from recordings made May Day, 2000 at
demonstrations for immigrant rights in New York City. Using these source
recordings as springboard, Ultra-red offer an urgent take on immigrant
workers' rights. Ranging in style from finely detailed minimal house to
amorphous soundscapes, this mini-suite ushers forth a direct plea for action.
Includes photo documentation of the demonstration, plus an essay by Ultra-red,
presented in English and Spanish.

"¡Amnistía!" is now available through the Antiopic website at
http://www.antiopic.com.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 2003
Ultra-red release the CD EP
¡AMNISTÍA! (Antiopic)

With this their first release of 2003, Ultra-red endeavor to place the
struggle of immigrants at the center of the movement for global justice. Based
entirely on site recordings made during pro-immigrant rights protests in New
York City on May Day 2001 (months before the attack on the World Trade
Center), the four-track EP "¡AMNISTÍA!" covers stylistically the full-range of
Ultra-red's electronica of dissent. Leading off with the latest in Ultra-red's
genre-defining agit-prop digi-house, the mini-album offers a direct action
approach to electronic ambience, DSP beats and site-recording collage. Through
each track the theme remains the same: immigrants within America's borders
demand access to democracy.

While the global justice movement has presently transformed itself into a
global peace movement, the subjects of these movements have been largely
limited to those in the bulls-eye of the US military. As a result, most peace
activists feel removed by thousands of miles those who will suffer from this
imperial war. And yet, like the global justice movement earlier, the peace
movement of the North has in its very midst those being targeted by imperial
ambition masked as domestic security.

For those of us who work on a daily basis with immigrant communities in the
US, it has become common place to hear of the surveillance of individuals,
religious institutions, political organizations and charities. Daily we hear
of mass arrests, detention and deportation of foreign nationals. Under the US
Patriot Act, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now folded into the
Department of Homeland Security) has established a special registry for all
men of Middle-Eastern descent. The registry has become a crucial mechanism for
the rounding up and immediate deportation of thousands of immigrants, many of
whom are students or individuals who have resided in the US for most of their
lives.

When the congress debated the US Patriot Act, most of its infringements on
civil rights were deemed unacceptable unless limited strictly to foreigners.
Today as we stand at the precipice of war, Attorney General John Ashcroft has
launched a new campaign for "homeland security." The proposed Domestic
Security Enforcement Act would make the distinction between citizen and
foreigner irrelevant. Under the new law, the Justice Department would have the
right to strip any US citizen of his or her citizenship should that person be
perceived as a security threat. A native-born American could suddenly (and
irreversibly) be deemed alien and subject to deportation if their political
activities or affiliations meet with Justice Department disapproval.

Even if the new law should fail to pass in congress, what it demonstrates is
the tenuous divide between citizen and foreigner. It is not simply a matter of
a foreigner's right to reside in the US, it is a matter of legal protection
and constitutional guarantee for all. Guarantees suddenly disposable in a
democracy greatly foreclosed by the demands of empire.

Amnesty, therefore, is not merely the cry of immigrants, it is a fundamental
struggle for all within this democracy.

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Founded in 1994, Ultra-red are audio activists producing radio broadcasts,
street actions, performances and installations. The group's work radicalizes
the conventions of electro-acoustic and ambient music to explore acoustic
space as enunciative of social relations. Ultra-red have released CDs and
albums on Comatonse Recordings (Japan), Mille Plateaux (Germany), True
Classical (Los Angeles), Beta Bodega (Miami) and FatCat Recordings (England).
For more information about Ultra-red visit their website at www.ultrared.org

To purchase copies of ¡AMNISTÍA!, visit the Antiopic website at:
http://www.antiopic.com

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Also available from Antiopic:

Need Thomas Windham "employment patterns"
http://www.antiopic.com/catalog/an001.html

David Daniell "sem"
http://www.antiopic.com/catalog/an001.html

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