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 [...]
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 [...]
the Occupy Wall Street “We are the 99%” solidarity march
Posted in New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet on October 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Good morning Britain, good evening New York City, Bad revolutionary alert: I’m not at the protest. I am too ill to stay on the march. By most accounts I’m missing a 50-60,000-person ruckus in the Broadway/Fulton Street/Wall Street area around Liberty Plaza. The NYPD are pulling out the orange mesh and the horses and the [...]
‘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 [...]
Evolutionary Psychology Still Sucks (At Dawn)—a radical polyamorous critique of Chris Ryan & Cacilda Jethá’s Sex At Dawn “phenomenon”
Posted in Chris Ryan, essentialism, feminism, gender, love, monogamy, nature, New York, NYC, polyamory, sexuality on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Unlike the subject material, this critique is genuinely written by two people: Carl van Tonder and Sophielle. We each contributed about half the verbiage, and have carefully edited each other’s work. It has been challenging to work so collaboratively (apart from anything else, wasting a lot of time wasted waiting for PrimaryPad to fix their [...]
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 [...]
Cycling in New York, or: a scream from the brain of one bicycle-powered enemy of the motorpolis
Posted in cycling, megacities, New York on September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I got my bike 16 days ago for $80 at Time’s Up – the indispensable cycling collective cum environmentalist grassroots shaper of urban landscapes and spearhead of Critical Mass in NYC. I got a helmet for $150. (From Continuing Cycles near Tompkins Park, ave B.) Seriously. So the drôlerie du jour for Carl et autres is obviously [...]
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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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