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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
La Marcha Negra de los mineros en España
On the 22 of June, coal miners from the Asturias, Castilla and León, and Aragón set off on a march on Madrid, in protest against the closing of the mines. Video and text about the strike and the march … Continue reading
Banks are bailed out and Families are evicted: Okupations under 15M’s spain
15M, almost since its beginning, has joined other social movements to prevent the eviction of families from houses that they can no longer aford, as a consequence of unemployment. It is a politics of okupation, which in itself, or … Continue reading
The Poetic Imagery of Yiannis Biliris
… a photograph is not only an image, an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real … Susan Sontag The photography and video of Yiannis Bilris of the protests/insurrection … Continue reading
Posted in Film, News blog, Poiesis
Tagged Art and Revolution, greece, Yiannis Biliris
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Between Protest and Creation: 15M’s spain
How do we stop making capitalism? How do we free our doing from the labour by which we create and re-create a world that is killing us? John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power The Long … Continue reading
Posted in News blog
Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, greece, labour, LGBT, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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The Poetry and Music of Pablo Hasél
When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginning is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a … Continue reading
News from nowhere: 15M’s spain
Merely negative action inevitably engages with capital on capital’s own terms, and on capital’s terms we shall always lose, even when we win. …The problem of struggle is to move onto a different dimension from capital, not to engage with … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Alternative Economies, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Reelnews reports: “It’s still like being in a war zone – Immigrants in Greece”
The state governs through division and exclusion. It is an identity constructing machine that establishes the border between those who belong and those who do not. For those who fall outside its’ rule, outside of the rule of all states, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascism, greece, migration, racism
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From Russia with Love, An American Spring
Occupy Wall Street is given a russian stage from which to speak, to perform, to contest … the beauty of what politics can be … American Spring 1 American Spring 2 … a further Occupy media … Occupy.com
Universidad Nómada on 15M
One of the most important contributions to the reflection on 15M, to date, is a collection of essays entitled Democracia Distribuida organized by the Universidad Nómada. Ideally, the endeavour should be made to translate the texts to english, but time … Continue reading
Reform or Revolution in 15M’s spain
… when a company, corporation or state is not considered a legitimate partner for negotiation, then it makes no sense to appeal to that authority for a negotiated settlement. Judith Butler, Tidal 2 The old question of reform or … Continue reading →