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Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (6)
We have begun to recognize that for our movements to work and thrive, we need to be able to socialize our experiences of grief, illness, pain, death, things that now are often relegated to the margins or the outside of … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (5)
Peter Gelderloos (Counter Punch 14/10/2011) analyses the spanish 15M and the north american Occupy movements, drawing comparisons and contrasts. At the heart of his reading is the contention that what is, or was, most radical in both was the creation … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (4)
… communism will be material or it will be nothing. It will be a set of immediate practices, immediate satisfactions, or nothing. If we find discipline and organization, it will come from what we do, not what we think. Research … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Alternative Economies, Arab Spring, capitalism, Crisis, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (3)
Occupy Oakland exemplified what for many was the most radical expression of the north american Occupy movement, a radicalness that speaks of the political history of the city. Having begun with a protest camp at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on October … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (2)
Text from a flier produced by US anarchist group Crimethinc (07/10/2011), for participants of the Occupy movement. Support and solidarity! We’re inspired by the occupations on Wall Street and elsewhere around the country. Finally, people are taking to the streets … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (1)
If Occupy Wall Street began with the occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York City on September 17th, 2011, it quickly spread to other cities in north america and beyond, making it the largest “anti-capitalist” protest movement on the continent … Continue reading
Territorialising solidarity: Okupied refugee squats in Athens
In the early hours of the 24th of August, the housing squat for refugees and migrants, Notara 26, in Athens was the target of an incendiary attack. The molotov and gas-bottle bombs caused serious material damage and could have killed … Continue reading
Struggles for space: Anarchism, architecture and anarchitecture (1)
If there is no art without architecture (for are not most of what we call the “fine arts” housed?) and if architecture is the arkhi-chief-master tekhne-art and the architect the master tekton-artist-artisan-builder, then the anarchist should find little affinity with … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Colin Ward
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In Memoriam: For Hande Kader
Amid the violent and often murderous repression in turkey against dissidence, against leftist political militants, ethnic and religious minorities, intellectuals, journalists, academics, LGBT activists also find themselves targeted by public authorities and para-State political and religious groups. On the 8th … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Sharing reflections on a fifth anniversary (7)
Theorising social movements is a hazardous adventure; even more so when these movements reject “representation”, which can be taken to include “theoretical representation”. Without anyone being able to speak “for” or “on behalf of” Occupy, for it lacks leaders or … Continue reading →