Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Canciones Andaluzas: El Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as

El Grito La elipse de un grito, Va de monte a monte. Desde los olivos será un arco iris negro sobre la noche azul. ¡Ay! Como un arco de viola el grito ha hecho vibrar largas cuerdas del viento. ¡Ay! … Continue reading

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How do we escape The Castle within us?

In an excellent article that appeared recently in Adbusters (07/09/2012), Andy Merrifield explores the difficulty of thinking/acting insurrection in a society-spectacle where the outside the system has vanished, where the inside is all that remains and where rebellion is the … Continue reading

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Québec Student Movement: Reform or Revolution

The Québec provincial legislative elections of last September 4, with a victory for the Parti Québécois, place the Quebec student movement before a crossroads: either to continue the struggle and expand it to broader concerns or accept the new minority … Continue reading

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La ciudad de los Fotógrafos

A beautiful documentary by Sebastián Moreno (2006) of  Chilean photographers’ chronicles of/intenventions in Pinochet’s Chile (in spanish) …

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A tentação do poder: Ocupar um congresso, ou não ocupar, eis a questão!

The following is an effort to intervene in a debate that arose recently in spain, among a great number of social movements, associations, collectivities, before a call by a group calling itself Plataforma ¡En Pie! to occupy the country's parliament … Continue reading

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The Revolution is Dead, Long Live the Revolution: Reflections on the Quebec Student Movement

As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history.                                                           Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History As Quebec universities … Continue reading

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Valtónyc: In solidarity

The Mallorcan singer/poet Valtonyc was arrested for “incitment to violence” and “offense to the crown”.  Released after some hours, this seemigly absurd act by spanish national police is not without its reasons.  In solidarity …

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Archipelagos of resistance/autonomy

… l’organisation autonome des sans-pouvoir peut en exercer une multiplicité qui, tout simplement, permettent de vivre mieux, et cela précisément parce que le pouvoir des sans-pouvoir n’est pas un autre pouvoir, « égal et opposé » au pouvoir ennemi, mais un ensemble … Continue reading

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15M’s spain: In the balance of protest and creation

15M continues to walk the limenal space between political contestation and the construction of other worlds … a space without identity, always in the making … the space of autonomy …

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Making worlds with casseroles: The quebec student movement

A collection of essays (Wi: Journal of Mobile Media: Out of the mouths of “casseroles”: textes qui bougent au rythme du carré rouge) speaks of the radical possibilities emergent within the Quebec student movement.  The perspectives and positioning on/in the … Continue reading

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