We are a group of students who acted to establish the occupation of the Study Center at 90 Fifth Avenue that began on Thursday, November 17th. Our enthusiasm for the occupation was grounded in our ambitions to open an autonomous space in support of the Occupy movement, which had recently suffered an ill-explained and hasty [...]
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Statement from some occupiers regarding the end of the city-wide student occupation at the New School study center at 90 Fifth Ave.
Posted in 90 Fifth Avenue, America, New York, NYC, occupation, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, protest, student movement, student occupation, the New School, tuition hikes on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Naomi Wolf is no Wall Street occupier either
Posted in America, bankers, banking, banks, essentialism, feminism, gender, How to Occupy the moral and political high ground, Naomi Wolf, New York, NYC, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, politics, protest, revolution now, shock doctrine, The Observer on November 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I think I am going to get more involved in Occupy Wall Street, in whatever way I can. I have been provoked. I hear that if you can’t join them, you beat them. Yes, I was provoked, first, by Pierce Penniless’s excellent call to participation, and then – this morning – by Naomi Wolf’s appallingly [...]
If a climate changes in the wood and no one sees it … a Wednesday morning freak-out largely about Keystone XL
Posted in America, climate change, climate justice, Democrats, Keystone XL, Obama, tar sands on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I suppose you will have heard by now: the ‘Democrats’ (how can that word not stick in the craw at this stage?) do not defend the environment, or the beings who live ‘in’ it, from climatic disaster, pollution, biodiversity loss and food or water crisis. When a show of resistance is required against Big Oil, [...]
politics away from home
Posted in America, communicative power, family, marriage equality, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, politics, shock doctrine, Zizek on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I attended a politics seminar this week that was solely about Occupy Wall Street (hurrah! etc) but which ostensibly addressed communicative power, and which I think threw up questions about the so-called public/private spheres. Deva Woodly, the seminar convenor, circulated a working paper by herself that outlined striking differences between the political fates of the [...]
Beyond ninety-nine-percentism: dreaming of actually occupying Wall Street and not being frightened of ‘revolution’
Posted in America, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet on October 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One notable feature of OWS is its participants’ lack of hesitation in using the term ‘revolution’. Here comes the revolution! This is the first step of the revolution! Get up, get down, the revolution is in this town! You won’t stop our revolution! etcetera, etcetera. Distinguishing from these assertions of a revolution that has arrived, what [...]
‘Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives out free healthcare: you’re thinking of Jesus’ – some more impressions of New York
Posted in America, bankers, Brooklyn, cycling, Liberty Plaza, monogamy, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, protest on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Extreme colour-coding: the people selling coffee are probably black; the people buying, probably white. The people cleaning the street: black. The people wearing suits on Wall Street: white. The farmers in the Union Square market: white. The supermarket check-out employees: black. Maybe Hispanic. The woman sitting against a lamp-post with a cardboard sign reading ‘Tired [...]
Wall Street was already an illegal occupation
Posted in America, bankers, banking, banks, Liberty Plaza, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, revolution now on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A blog post for Bright Green – by Sophielle (http://lasophielle.com) contact: sophie.anne.lewis@gmail.com (+1) (0) 646 789 2629. Sophielle was at Oxford until mid-2011, being an activist with the Climate Camp and the anti-cuts movement, studying Environmental Policy; she is now studying Politics at the New School. Insofar as its empty tarmac has most often been lined with standard [...]
The Brooklyn reliquary, & some New York City diary updates
Posted in America, Brooklyn, New York, NYC, reliquary on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m approaching the close of my first month in New York City. As everyone here has a dozen things to do on a daily basis, being in the ‘overload’ stage is a lonely experience. I mean to do those dozen things, but I am in a bit of a slough of despond – the first [...]
just 200 words on the liberal Communist problem
Posted in America on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hi New York. At this stage, I’ve badly bruised my coccyx and am having trouble walking; I have been stared at by a guy with an enormous erection on the subway; and I’ve initiated my first-ever relationship with a laundry. My first class at the New School featured Jay Bernstein (in a lecture on On [...]
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- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
- Waiting now for nine arrestees at today's o4o sing-along-auction-blockade to be released at (cont) http://t.co/6gl6SUiL ~ 2 weeks ago
- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
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