Tag Archives: occupy the city

Gentrification: The city as a field of appropriation, dislocation and segregation

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection on gentrification as capitalist dispossession, from a friend of Autonomies … On the 14 the of June of 1989, Bruce Bailey, tenants activist in New York city, was murdered, his dismembered body abandoned in a … Continue reading →

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Istanbul: Urban renewal as primitive accumulation

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

(Yuksel Arslan) Capitalism’s need for wealth extraction in an increasingly urbanised human space can only force it to turn upon itself, to consume itself, in gestures of commodity autophagia.  But if cannibalism could once serve as a mode of sacrificial … Continue reading →

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The dispossession of urban commons: Istanbul

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

(Photograph by Ufuk Akari) Don’t say it’s the necessary result of historical, social, and economic conditions – I know!  My head bows before the thing you mention.  But my heart doesn’t speak that language. Nazim Hikmet, The Epic of Sheik … Continue reading →

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Insurrection in the city: Gamonal Resists

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

…the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing. David Harvey, Rebel Cities The greater part of the human species now dwells in cities; more correctly, in urban spaces, which for the most part exist in a … Continue reading →

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Updates from Greece

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Enjolras Sanchez

If War is the Health of the State, attacking Immigrants is one of its Psychotic Pleasures: see the scenes of organized hatred through the link: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2012/04/20/delta-police-and-under-covers-brutally-beat-up-migrant-on-the-street-video/ Repressive forces in Athens attack the Exarcheia district http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2012/04/20/hands-off-the-vox-social-centre-statement-by-the-social-centre-collective/ Attack on Exarcheia Anarchist Social … Continue reading →

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