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Climate Camp and Class News & Analysis
Submitted by Neon_Black81 on Saturday, 30 August, 2008 - 00:26
Adam Ford

Picture the scene. The setting sun is glinting off the visors of the police lined up in front of me. It's the second or third day of the weeklong Camp for Climate Action - already I've lost count - and for the second or third time since I last slept it looks as if the cops are about to invade. I've just bolted from the opposite end of the site, where I've helped dig a defensive trench at another gate. To my left, atop a red van, a woman who sounds scouser than scouse exhaustedly screeches words of encouragement into a megaphone and somehow dances to Radiohead.


'Finally Got the News' screening: reading material OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 - 15:08
unterschreber

Finally Got the News Saturday, June 28, 8pm, £0 The Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, Elephant & Castle, London SE17 Rare screening of documentary (dir. Steward Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner) on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, from wildcat movement to formidable independent workers organization, inside and outside the auto factories of insurgent turn-of-the-'70s Detroit.


Breakout and towards a history of Resistance in the UK 's Detention Centres OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 - 12:13
No Borders, Indymedia, Various

This post will eventually consist of a report on a meeting facilitated by NoBorders London - Resistance in the UK 's Detention Centres [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401807.html] [programme posted below] held on 24th June and links to to some of the materials circulated at the meeting covering the recent history of hunger strikes, revolts and organising within detention centres in the UK.


¡Fuera Ulises! - graphic interpretation of the events in Oaxaca Editorial content | Public Library
Submitted by anthony on Thursday, 19 June, 2008 - 20:37
Ana Nimo

¡Fuera Ulises!, is a new graphic interpretation of the events in Oaxaca from an antiauthoritarian and anarchist perspective.
The booklet is 6 pages in length, full color, and is a run down of the events of last year. The booklet is also very critical of the actions of ‘politicos’ within APPO to hijack the popular movement for it’s own ends.

From: http://www.collectivereinventions.org/


Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007 OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by BT on Monday, 28 January, 2008 - 12:14
Turbulence Collective

It’s night time and a man is crawling around on his hands and knees, looking for his car keys underneath a lamp post. A woman comes along and starts to help him. After they’ve been searching together for a while the woman asks the man: “Are you sure this is where you dropped them?”

The man replies: “No, I think I dropped them somewhere else.”

“Then why are we looking here?” she enquires.

“Because this is where the light is.”


Negotiating speech and organizational practices: field notes and reflections from two counter-G8 (2007) initiatives. OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by manuelaz on Saturday, 12 January, 2008 - 16:31
Anja Kanngieser/ Manuela Zechner

Based on empirical research around two events that happened in response to the G8 meetings in Germany in summer 2007, this paper examines relations between the organizational practice and the discourses that set up and guided both these events. One of them was a meticulously coordinated blockade action ("Block G8") close to Heiligendamm, and the other a theory-inspired "summit" calling initiatives to unalign from the education agenda of the G8. While the "Block G8" was an action with a clearly determined goal (blocking several roads), the outcome of “summit” was left open.


The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2007 OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by mute on Friday, 11 January, 2008 - 17:22
Loren Goldner

Loren Goldner will be giving a talk on the subject of the Korean working class at Housmans bookstore in Kings Cross, London at 6pm on Saturday 19th of January.

More details: http://www.metamute.org/en/Three-Talks-by-Loren-Goldner

ABSTRACT


Anti-Viruses and Underground Monuments: Resisting Catastrophic Urbanism in Saint Petersburg Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 10 January, 2008 - 17:48
Dmitry Vorobyev & Thomas Campbell

Saint Petersburg is besieged by elite-backed architectural mega-projects and micro-interventions. Dmitry Vorobyev and Thomas Campbell describe the dominant strains of 'renovation' and the popular resistance to them arguing that, in St. Petersburg, class conflict takes the form of opposed visions of urban renewal and historic preservation


The Pottinger settlement OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 06:21
Robert Neuwirth / Takebacktheland

Robert Neuwirth's urgently necessary 'Squattercity' draws attention to the Takebacktheland occupation in Miami, where on the site of a demolished block of cheap apartments the homeless are building and defending the housing that the 'market' and the state will never provide.  As Neuwirth suggests, imagine if this supposedly 'third world' phenomenon were to spread to New Orleans and...and...
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/

Thursday, January 04, 2007

The Pottinger Settlement


A walk in Oaxaca Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 06:03
Peter Linebaugh

Just what it says in the title: Peter Linebaugh and companions take a walk in Oaxaca in the aftermath of the state's bloody suppression of indigenous counter-power that may actually have posed a threat. 

From Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh01102007.html


January 10, 2007

A Twelfth Night Tale

A Walk in Oaxaca

By PETER LINEBAUGH


Mute Vol 2 #3 - Naked Cities – Struggle in the Global Slums Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Friday, 25 August, 2006 - 09:28

Unmasking the Zapatistas Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Friday, 4 August, 2006 - 15:21
Melancholic Troglodytes

No other group has had such a catalysing influence on the new political forms and tactics espoused by the anti-globalisation movement, yet there has been too little critical analysis of the Zapatistas' politics and the relationship of western activists to their guerilla icons. Melancholic Troglodytes review Mihalis Mentinis' book Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and What It Means for Radical Politics and discovers some ugly nationalist features behind the mask


Mexico on the brink: there's a riot going on OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Sunday, 2 July, 2006 - 03:04
John Ross

Overview of the exceptional extent and intensity of class confrontation going on in Mexico beneath the election circus.  From Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07012006.html

'Mexico on the Brink : there's a riot going on'

By JOHN ROSS

Mexico City, Mexico.


Movement OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by Ben on Thursday, 26 January, 2006 - 23:13
Giorgio Agamben
This piece is a bit old perhaps, but now that the movement presumably in question has gone from 'pretend it isnt there' to 'pretend it is' (see below), it may be useful for people considering where it has gone/ is going. More broadly it helps connect up Giorgio's ideas on biopolitics and gesture with Toni's ideas on multitude and joyful bodies etc via the Nazi nexus of Schmitt (incidentally, what didn't Schmitt define in the realm of political science?)
B


Free Speech Zones and Preemptive Detentions Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 8 February, 2005 - 00:00
Daniel Berchenko


Daniel Berchenko reports on recent developments in legal protest in the US and offers a critical analysis of the ‘state of inclusion’


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