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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Okupying with Alegría
On the 30th of August, up to 200 people occupied a residential building in Sevilla, subsequently providing housing for 5 families. Supported by 15M Sevilla, the building taken was recently constructed, but empty and had passed to the bank Bankia … Continue reading
The contagion of rebellion
From the protests of working class neighbourhoods in Sevilla (tercera información), to the occupation of residential buildings for housing those made homeless (Corrala de Vecinas La Alegría), to the call for a general strike by the CGT, CNT and Solidaridade … Continue reading
Posted in News blog
Tagged 15M, CGT, CNT, General Strike, Solidaridad Obrera, spain, Spanish Revolution
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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
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
La ciudad de los Fotógrafos
A beautiful documentary by Sebastián Moreno (2006) of Chilean photographers’ chronicles of/intenventions in Pinochet’s Chile (in spanish) …
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
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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Tagged Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Quebec Student Movement, revolution
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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 …
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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Tagged Land Okupations, Okupations, Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as, spain
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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 →