Introducing – Pil and Galia Kollectiv, one sixth of Mute's ensemble music column covering sonic adventures across genres and time. Email: info AT kollectiv.co.uk
No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes. By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles
Submitted by pass the icepick on Friday, 9 October, 2009 - 14:33
Ret Marut
The obedient shopper subverts their role to disrupt the circulation of commodities... flash mobs enter the terrain of class conflict.
"A flash mob ... is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse." (Wikipedia.)
Submitted by Nathan_Coombs on Saturday, 26 September, 2009 - 12:20
Nathan Coombs
The famous Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky once described the experience of exile for a Russian as “nostalghia” – he insisted that the word not be translated into proper English, but rather retain the Italian translation of the Russian word "??????????." For Tarkovsky, who evinced a peculiar brand of medievalist Russian nationalism throughout his work, a Russian leaving their homeland would experience a form of spiritual and physical death; and, indeed, the central character, the semi-autobiographical poet, Andrei Gorchakov, does actually die at the end of his film Nostalghia.
Submitted by Ben on Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 - 00:38
Loren Goldner / Ansel at Mediahacker
Podcast: S. Korea workers’ 77-day factory occupation broken by violent police assault: http://www.mediahacker.org/2009/08/podcast-ssangyong-workers-occupation/ An interview with Loren Goldner about the epic Ssangyong workers struggle in Korea which ended with a brutal assault by police last week - chronically under-reported in mainstream and alternative media but surely one of the largest and most militant workers' occupations since the beginning of the crisis.
Submitted by anthony on Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 - 22:02
Vestas workers in occupation
VESTAS WORKERS BESIEGED BY RIOT POLICE
(Updated Press Release)
Workers staging a sit-in at the soon-to-close Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight are being starved out by police.
The police, many inside the factory and dressed in riot gear, have denied food to the workers who took over the factory offices last night, to protest the closure of their factory. The police, operating with highly questionable legal authority, have surrounded the offices, preventing supporters from joining the sit-in, and preventing food from being brought to the protestors.
Submitted by Mavis on Monday, 22 June, 2009 - 09:31
Occupier
| 21.06.2009 09:28 | Migration | Workers' Movements
A look at the results of the occupation of SOAS which took place in response to the immigration raid against cleaners employed by ISS. Produced collectively by some of the activists who took part in the occupation.
Culture Clubs -
By Anthony Davies and Simon Ford
Sept 2000
New Labour orthodoxy maintains, in line with its predecessor, that public private partnerships are the only way forward economically. Transport, health and education have been the most controversial new enterprise zones, but is the cultural sector's restructuring any less absolute?
