The Precarity Map is online!

http://www.precarity-map.net/

It is the first step of The WebRing for Communication and Militant
Research on
Precarity which intends to produce and share knowledge, experiences and
materials
among labour conflicts and life struggles around precarity.

The P_WR is an open platform and an evolving network connecting activism
already
involved in the EuroMayDay mobilisations. Its main aims are: to
visualize and
intensify the density of militant groups and struggles, to outline a
space for
debate, research and political action, and finally to construct common
practices,
concepts and notions for developing a militant co-research “with”
(instead of
“on”) precarious subjects and their/our struggles.

In the next time the map will be interactive and you could join directly
your
experiences. At now to connect your militant groups or struggle with the
Precarity
Map you can link the web site and fill the nod card.

Lets go, fill the cards and join the P_WR

... And we say: MayDay MayDay!

ART AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM

Capturing the Moving Mind, ARS 06 Kiasma Rear Window 20.4.-2.7.2006.

In September 2005 a meeting took place in the Trans-Siberian train. It gathered a pack of people ... artists, economists, researchers, philosophers, activists who were interested in the new logic of the economy (knowledge economy, attention economy, biopolitical economy), the new forms of war and politics (war against terrorism) and in the new cooperative modes of creation and resistance (precariarity, terrorist cells)... together in a space moving in time. Spatially moving bodies and bodies moving in time (through nine time zones) created an event, a meeting that not really 'was' but 'is going on'.

Capturing the Moving Mind exhibition tells about this organizational experiment. The exhibition at the Kiasma Rear Window is part of the ARS 06 exhibition. It weaves a connection between art and politics, between art as an act of resistance and economy as production of life. Today our thinking and emotional abilities, our imagination and subjectivity are increasingly put to work in economic production. That is why the question of art as an act of resistance and creation of new forms of autonomous and good life – a life in which our ways and acts of living are always about the possibilities of life – intervenes directly at the core of this enterprise. The question of experimental life and the critique of capitalism must today be seen as one.

Zapatista Network Call

To the compañer@s in every corner of the so-called US and Canada,

To all the peoples of the continent named America,

To the struggling Peoples of the Global South and the world,

To all the adherents of the Sixth Declaration, the Other Campaign, and the
International Campaign,

To the national and international alternative press

We, the Zapatista Network, are reaching out as a newly emerging “network of
networks” to invite companer@s in the so-called U.S. and Canada to “walk
together” as Zapatista grassroots and community-based groups who support the
Zapatistas and are inspired by Zapatismo. Our intent has been to create
spaces of
encounter so that diverse groups can share ideas, resources and projects
as part
of a larger process to strengthen each collectives’ work, solidarity
efforts, and
rebellion. We also aim to promote and support the formation of new Zapatista
inspired collectives. By saying “network of networks” we propose one of many
overlapping webs of resistance taking place all over the world.

Since January 1, 1994 when the EZLN declared ¡Ya Basta! Mexican and
International
Civil Society have responded in solidarity creating a broad base of
support. The
Zapatistas’ commitment to encounter and dialogue has made it possible to
collectively imagine “a world where many worlds fit.” Some communities
working in
solidarity with the Zapatistas have responded with aid, while others used
direct
action to help halt the military and state repression, drawing attention
to the
low intensity war directed against the Zapatistas. The response to the
Zapatista
rebellion has been unique not only in its diversity but its intensity.
Solidarity
efforts have served to keep people informed, provide material support, and
protest the cruel excesses of military and state repression. More
importantly,
communities around the world and in the US have pursued their own resistance
locally, attempting to imagine and realize a different way of doing politics.

In August 2004 the Committee of Indigenous Solidarity-DC-Zapatistas sent
out a
call to form a zapatista network in the U.S. and Canada that was initially
referred to as red “Plan Morelia-Polo Norte” (in response to and in
solidarity
with the Plan La Realidad-Tijuana in Mexico). This call was made in order to
construct one avenue of many for zapatista inspired groups in this region of
America to dialogue and construct networks of support. Of the Zapatista
related
collectives and groups who responded to this initial call, we began talking
together about encuentro, Zapatismo, Zapatista solidarity and how to reach
out to
others so that we all know that we are not alone.