The European Social Center MovementBluestockings Sunday, May 3rd @ 7PM Alan Moore and Emily Piper Forman 172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington)
Organizers of "The European Social Center Movement Now and Then," an exhibit ABC No Rio, present the history of European squatted social centers and offer a model for reviving grass roots organizing and popular urban development in the United States.
"Resisting Degradations and Divisions" in South Africa S’bu Zikode interviewed by Richard Pithouse
S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic shackdwellers’ movement in South Africa that has committed itself to waging its struggles independently from party-political and NGO control.[1]
Richard Pithouse: What is your understanding of a living politics?
Reclaim the Heights! Bury the G8! Bring Your Shovels! The Diggers 2.0
APPEAL TO THE GLOBAL MULTITUDES: Seize this chance to build sustainable autonomous community structures! Capital merely engineers destruction and myths of future prosperity. Its crisis should be met with the shock and awe of the full energies of the multitude.
Break your backs creating a post-industrious commons! A call to the global multitude to descend upon Abruzzo for July 7-11, and help rebuild it in the image of the future!
"OVNI 2009: Rhizomes, Liberated Spaces" Abu Ali, OVNI 2009 Barcelona
[Editor's Note: This text introduces Barcelona's OVNI ARXIUS DE L'OBSERVATORI (Observatori de Video no Identificat) radical documentary film festival, May 26-31, 2009. Click above for archive and schedule of screenings.]
"Bail Out the People" Movement Announces Three Important Projects
ATTENTION ACTIVISTS AND ORGANIZERS! The Bail Out the People Movement is announcing three important projects:
Endorse the call | Become a local organizer/volunteer FIRST:
PROTEST THE G20 SUMMIT IN NEW YORK CITY! Saturday, September. 19 & Sunday, September 20, 2009 (tentative dates) ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE– BUT WE MUST FIGHT FOR IT!
Seven Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Banner-Hanging at Major Economies Forum Matt Leonard @ Greenpeace.org
"On Failure and its Possible Remedies" Wayne Spencer
In June 2007, when my text 'On Lice and Fleas' first appeared, one of the members of the partnership that writes under the pseudonym Monsieur Dupont asked me what I would do in the event of defeat. It would seem too soon to talk of defeat, but perhaps it is time to acknowledge and confront some measure of failure.
(1) HOW DO WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT TO SAY AND DO BY USING THE SAME BRAIN ALL AT ONCE? Monday, May 4, 2009, 5pm Judson Memorial Church Gymnasium Conceived by and moderated by Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik
French Precarity Struggles in the Crisis May 2nd, 7pmBluestockings Books 172 Allen St in Manhattan Part of the' This is Forever' series
Emmanuelle Cosse, former president of Paris ACT UP, will address how French struggles against precarity have been affected by, and responded to, the global capitalist crises. Cosse will emphasize movement tactics, strategies and composition in France, and the implications for precarity struggles elsewhere in Europe. Discussion to follow presentation.
Lindy Blake, Presidio 27 Mutineer, RIP
Dear Friends, Below is a beautiful tribute to Lindy Blake, one of the Presidio 27 mutineers, written by his friend and comrade Randy Rowland (who, along with Keith Mather, told the story of the Presidio 27 in "Sir! No Sir!"). Lindy died recently at his home in Canada, where he has lived since escaping the Presidio stockade in 1968.
Lindy's Great Escape
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