Tag Archives: 15M

Žižek dreaming, or Žižek, the dialectical trickster

“…one should learn the art of recognizing, from an engaged subjective position, elements which are here, in our space, but whose time is the emancipated future …” Slavoj Žižek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Reflecting on the year 2011, a year … Continue reading

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The tides of change: spain’s “mareas”

On the 17th of February, over half a million people took to the streets of spain’s cities in a protest against cuts to the budget of the country’s public health services.  It was but only the most recent example of … Continue reading

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Creating Revolution: 15M through images

Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does.  It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world.  The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading

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The insurrection of occupations

(photograph by Olmo Calvo) As the violence of State-Capital displays itself in spain – 6 million unemployed, cuts to public social services, 500 hundred daily home evictions, with their attendant tragedies of homelessness, destroyed families, suicides – the defense of … Continue reading

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Strikes against Capitalism

ParkeHarrison Flying Lesson (2000) The State is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another.  It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. Gustav Landauer The struggle … Continue reading

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Rebelling against property: the PAH

The PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, predating the emergence of 15M in spain has been, with 15M’s neighbourhood assemblies in various cities, been one of the most emblematic protagonists in the popular efforts to resist the power of … Continue reading

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The war of okupations

Toute différence entre formes-de-vie est une différence éthique.  Cette différence autorise un jeu, des jeux.  Ces jeux ne sont pas politiques en eux-mêmes, ils le deviennent à partir d’un certain degré d’intensité, c’est-à-dire, aussi, à partir d’un certain degré d’élaboration. … Continue reading

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15Ms spain: the struggles of okupation …

Madrid15M is the newspaper of the neighbourhood and popular assemblies of the city associated with the movement.  This common, public space serves to share expereinces, give example and contribute to create the plurality that is this movement.  What follows is … Continue reading

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15M’s spain: A revolution that continues …

(Sketch by Enrique Flores, here for his blog) There must be anarchy, there must be – if the revolution is to become and remain alive, real, and powerful – the greatest possible awakening of all the local passions and aspirations; … Continue reading

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News from 15M’s spain

  With billions of euros in public money going to save spain's banks (and trillions to save the banks of the US, UK, Ireland and Greece, to mention but these countries), while salaries, pensions, education, health and other public services … Continue reading

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