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Introducing –
Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
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covering sonic adventures
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No Room to Move
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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


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Going Nowhere or Staying Put? Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 18 November, 2009 - 17:55
Neil Gray

Forced out of the areas they occupy, the involuntary subjects of urban gentrification confront a double challenge: the need for housing, and the need to radicalise campaigns beyond the parliamentary liberalism of rights discourse - writes Neil Gray in his extended report of last August's Right to Stay Put conference in Manchester

 

 


An explosive force of freedom News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Tuesday, 30 June, 2009 - 11:32
Os der ikke findes (We who do not exist)

Three communiques from party organisers of a recent street party in the centre of Copenhagen's shopping district which became a riot. The party was held as part of an anti-gentrification festival Undoing the City which took place in Copenhagen 7-10 May 2009. http://www.openhagen.net/spip.php?page=statisk&id_article=109. Thanks to JJ and JKB for english translation An explosive force of freedom by Os der ikke findes (We who do not exist) May 15th 2009 Street Dancing Part 3 Communiqué No.


The Omelette Maker Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 23 June, 2009 - 11:23
Benedict Seymour

From a canal path confrontation comes bobo redemption. A docu-fiction by Benedict Seymour

 

The hipster was riding home from work along the canal path, past the yuppie apartments. The light was beautiful through the clouds and everything had a magical sheen in the aftermath of the rainstorm.

 


Ten Thousand to March on S’bu Ndebele in Protest at eMacambini Evictions News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Monday, 8 December, 2008 - 17:36
eMacambini Anti-Removal Committee

Re-posted from: http://www.abahlali.org/node/4584

Ten Thousand to March on S’bu Ndebele in Protest at eMacambini Evictions

Tuesday, 25 November 2008
eMacambini Anti-Removal Committee Press Statement

Ten Thousand to March on S’bu Ndebele in Protest at eMacambini Evictions

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2008
Time: 10:00
Route: From Isithebe airstrip to the Mandeni Municipal Offices


Duck! You Regeneration Sucker Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 11 November, 2008 - 16:31
Neil Gray

David Panos & Anja Kirschner's film, Trail of the Spider, allegorises the public-private land-grab known as ‘urban regeneration' using the form of the Spaghetti Western. This is no shallow postmodern genre surfing, writes Neil Gray, but a passionate re-engagement with history for the sake of the present

 


Rising East - the crunch issue News & Analysis
Submitted by saladofpearls on Friday, 19 September, 2008 - 11:04
Rising East

This (fairly) recent issue of Rising East looks useful in a whatever happened to the Thames Gateway after the credit crunch kind of way... from illiquidity to mud; following the crisis downriver

 

The July issue of Rising East Online


Liverpool – Culture of Capital Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - 11:02
Leo Singer and Clara Paillard

 Reporting on the conference Capital, Culture and Power in Liverpool, Leo Singer and Clara Paillard crash the regeneration party and pose some difficult questions for its hosts

- Stuck in its glare we lose sight of structure

Roy Coleman speaking of Liverpool's urban patriotism

 


Demonstration against council sell-offs on Frampton Park Estate, E9. News & Analysis
Submitted by Ben on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 00:41
E9

DEMONSTRATE at Hackney Town Hall!

Say NO to selling off our land!

6 – 7 pm Wednesday the 23rd of July 2008


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