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 [...]
‘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 [...]
Tim and I discuss youth, newness, social movements, politics, tactics, and how the 80s fucked us
Posted in campaigning, culture, protest, revolution now, Zizek on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had a conversation with a friend (New Internationalist author of Counterpower 2011, forthcoming) that went like this. I’ve reduced it from about 4,000 to about 2,000 words by excising the gossipy or irrelevant bits, but yes – that is still quite a lot of words. The reason I’m posting it is because I’m hoping [...]
The supposed ‘carnage’ in central London is not the real violence. Recoil aghast if you will at the real thugs and bullies slashing the public sector
Posted in protest, tagged anarchists, black bloc, demonstrations, Fortnum & Mason, London, March 26th, march for the alternative, protests, resist 26, riots, Ritzkrieg, Trafalgar on March 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The shop-fronts and banking facades of Central London are covered in paint splashes, splintered holes, and Anarchist As. This The Telegraph is all too keen to point out today with a silent, smug video online of various sequences from the clean-up in the aftermath of yesterday’s protests. Spotting that video (in which you can see BAME cleaning [...]
A quick journalism review re: Fortnum & Mason (UK UNCUT) on Saturday March 26th, day of rage against the cuts
Posted in protest, tagged anti-cuts, Fortnum and Mason, journalism, London, March 26th, misreporting, protests, reporting, riots, the cuts on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Before I write anything personal about yesterday’s day of action (or rage) against the cuts, I thought I’d take five or ten minutes to jot down some of the differences in the egregiously bad, reprehensibly biased journalism coming out about the Fortnum & Mason occupation organised by UK Uncut in the context of the rioting [...]
“The 26th of March will be like the Iraq march” … some points about possibility and inheriting
Posted in campaigning, protest, tagged cuts, Iraq, London, march, March 26th, march for the alternative, protest, stop the war on March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The TUC march coming up (26th March, central London, do not, whatever you do, miss this) is “for the alternative” - http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/ – and it is billed in many quarters as about to summon turn-out as big as the march against the Iraq war. Interesting, isn’t it? When the Iraq march is synonymous with the futility [...]
An acquaintance emailed me to object to my Facebook featured quote (“Charity degrades and demoralises…” Zizek) – a condensed response
Posted in culture, protest, revolution now on January 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
An acquaintance, a well-meaning liberal, took enough offence at my Facebook profile’s featured quote from Zizek, about how charity has become our greatest aspiration – capitalism with a human face – to write to me to tell me that I was wrong. On the contrary, she said, charity was the one beautiful thing on Earth. [...]
One Eviction … One new occupation … BREAKING NEWS – Oxford residents open a new social space in resistance to #Tesco
Posted in culture, protest, squatting on December 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We are happy to announce the birth of a new social centre in Oxford! As of today the once derelict Fox and Hound pub on Abingdon Road/Donnington Bridge Road has reopened for the use of the local community as a space for free cultural expression and the growth of solidarity in a climate of austerity. [...]
Wouldn’t you say, folks, that The Coming Insurrection appears to be coming, coming – come? Updated notes on ‘women and the cuts’, the student uprisings, and the context of ‘Cablegate’
Posted in campaigning, education cuts, protest on December 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It is a season to be proud on the Left. The autonomous movement is er snowballing out on the whitened streets. Splatterings of mustard adorn riot cops’ helmets; black bruises adorn the bodies of the young; graffiti-ed blazons of ‘R E V O L U T I ON’ adorn the stone facades of Westminster, Leeds, [...]
The Oxford Education Campaign occupies the Rad Cam. The University closes the Bodleian as a whole; the occupiers are under pressure. A call to rally around free education in the square.
Posted in education cuts, protest, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The occupiers of the “#RadicalCamera” (oh how this makes me happy) are using free education as a vehicle for their ideological battle against the neoliberal marketisation of higher education. Their Twitter account is @occupiedoxford, their website is http://occupiedoxford.org, and their Facebook profile is Rad Cam. They are maintaining the library, they are educating each other [...]
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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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