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A Madrid May: A rebellion´s music
The general assemby of 15M Madrid in Sol, celebrating the 3 years of the movement, was opened and closed by performances of the orchestra and choir La Solfónica, born in the wake of the of the first protests in the … Continue reading
A Madrid May: 15M – A school without walls
The assembly in Puerta del Sol marking the 3rd anniversary of the 15M movement begins with presentations on the current economic crisis, that falls to the responsibility of the Economics and Justice groups of Sol, a heritage of the original … Continue reading
An anniversary of lives in movement: Spain’s 15M
The upcoming 15th of May marks a commemoration, not of anniversary of a past reality, but of a present, in movement. Spain’s 15M, over three years, has multiplied, proliferated, metamorphosised; to become not larger in numbers, but in deeper in … Continue reading
Recuperation as eviction, resistance as occupation
“Spain shows again that it has regained the confidence of the markets.” (Le Monde 04/05/2014) The interest rate on the spanish debt, at ten years, has dropped below 3%, Madrid’s stock market registers an increase in value of 25.58% over … Continue reading
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Tagged Occupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, spain
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Occupy everthing!
To the question “What is property?”, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously answered, “It is theft”. That it could be taken for a right was already a conceptual confusion, for unlike liberty, equality, integrity of person, the “right” to property was not unqualified. … Continue reading
All power to the plenums: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s insurrection
Generalised self-management is simply the totality in accordance with which the councils unitarily inaugurate a style of life based on permanent and collective imagination … Raoul Vaneigem … power does not define itself only by its capacity to make itself … Continue reading
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Tagged bosnia and herzegovina, Communism, insurrection, rebellion
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The ethics of disobedience: 22M Madrid, The March of Dignity
A state is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.” … Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, … Continue reading
Rule by murder: For Berkin Elvan
; The State and Capitalism do not kill by accident, consequence of inattention or moral failure. The domination and appropriation of human creativity can only be violent, whether it be the violence of its law, institutionalised, or the violence of securing it. … Continue reading
Nuit et Brouillard: For Alain Resnais
In memory of Alain Resnais who died this last March the 3rd … In 1933, Walter Benjamin could write of the technology of war unleashed upon those who fought during WWI, that it destroyed human experience, the very thing which … Continue reading
A Madrid May: resistance, escraches, occupations – the struggle for a commons
In February, 2013, a 47 year old woman walked into a bank in Almassora, Castellón, poured inflammable liquid over herself, and then set herself afire, screaming as she did so: “Look at what you have done to me! You have … Continue reading →