Occupy Wall Street invites you, the 99%, down to the Financial District for three days of education, celebration and resistance.
September 15, 16 & 17, 2012
On #s17 Follow the Money, All Roads Lead to Wall Street
Cultural Center REX, Jevrejska 16, Belgrade, Serbia
Friday, 31st of August, 7pm, 2012
Participants: Corina L. Apostol, Maja Ciric, Pavle Cosic / KORNET,
Nikola Radic Lucati, Vladan Jeremic, Selman Trtovac, Vesna Milosavljevic
/ SEEcult.org, Stefan Tiron, Noa Treister, The Bureau of Melodramatic
Research, Marica Radojcic, Rena Rädle.
The 3rd ArtLeaks Working Assembly will be facilitated by Corina Apostol, The
Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Stefan Tiron and Vladan Jeremic.
"My 'Wahlen sind Betrug' ('Elections are a Con') poster project was selected in November 2011 by a jury using an exemplary open process for the TKI open competition by TKI (Tiroler Kulturinitiativen) on 'No theme'. For the first time in the 10-year history of TKI open, the province of Tyrol (Austria) denied funding for an artistic work selected by a jury of experts.
ReadToday, Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files -
more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries
and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012.
This workshop follows on from the Moving Forest event on July 4 as a coda, giving a time for reflection and for developing the argument and experience of the work along other lines. It involves participants, organisers and guests, and people from CCW, CCS, RADA and activists, artists and others from across the sprawl.
ReadA twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art
opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of
disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground; a
one-day coda of debate.
Presented by AKA the CASTLE
ArtLeaks invites you to a public working assembly around the issues that are at the core of the group's mission - exposing instances of abuse, corruption and exploitation in the art world. This is the official public launch of our platform, which began to operate in September 2011, and will be followed by a series of debates and workshops in the near future. These present a unique opportunity to engage more directly with conditions of cultural work that affect not only artists but creative workers in general: those from the traditionally creative fields as well as those generally involved in cultural production.
ReadApril 19, 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ON-THE-BRINK BANK STILL NOT YOURS (YET)
Dow Jones posts fake release for two hours; bank gets fake website blacklisted, briefly
Bank of America executives, investors, and opponents alike reacted with
surprise to yesterday's news - posted for two hours on Dow Jones Newswire
and elsewhere - that the mammoth financial institution, realizing it was
heading for a taxpayer bailout, was asking Americans to start thinking
about what they'll do with the bank once they own it, and to start
advertising that vision too.
What is #M1GS?
Worldwide, May 1st is traditionally a 'Workers' day - a day of Labor
Solidarity, and a public holiday. It's a day to celebrate and march in
support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the
worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass
unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who
do not own the '99%' of the world's resources, and in solidarity with
the im/migrant movements of May 1st, we decided to declare May 1st, 2012
a People's General Strike.
LONDON - Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files - more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods.
ReadThis debate in the frame of the International Film Festival Rotterdam's
Power Cut Middle East programme, takes a look at the images, both moving
and still, that have come from the Middle East like a huge wave in the
past few months. Due to the increase of mobile phone films and photos,
we have a great deal of material whose origin is uncertain. It seems
authentic, but who is coming to blows with whom? And who has made the
films and taken the photos? Regimes are also aware of this, and use it
to their advantage. Are we seeing actors, paid demonstrators, real
people? How do we read and interpret these images?
This discussion explores tactical media in contemporary culture and social movements. In response to a deep economic, political, and cultural crisis, new social movements are challenging the dominant political and economic order. Tactical media, David Garcia says, has emerged through, 'the impact of the rise of small-scale DIY media, tools and networks in art, social and political activism, and the rise of new social movements.' How can tactical media connect with and re-contextualise the traditional methods of propaganda and create new alternative forms of action for the future?
ReadAn all day performance event at Duarte Square, 6th and Canal
On Saturday, December 17th, noon, Occupy Wall Street - with support from more
than 1400 faith leaders, elders of the civil rights movement, prominent
artists and community members - will gather at noon in Duarte Square,
downtown Manhattan, for an all day performance event. This event is part
of a call to re-occupy in the wake of the coordinated attacks and
subsequent evictions of occupations across the nation and around the
world.
Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries.
It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass
interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors,
including for 'political opponents' are a reality.
#OCCUPYXMAS kicks off with Buy Nothing Day, on November 25 / 26.
Buy nothing day / a 24 hour moratorium on consumer spending / north america nov 25th, international nov 26th.
adbusters.org/bnd
Facebook Event | Twitter #N17 | Direct Action Resources
On Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall
Street movement, we call upon the 99% to participate in a national day
of direct action and celebration!
"We take from the rich and give to the poor.
Alright you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
We're living through a magical moment ... #OCCUPYWALLSTREET has catalyzed
into an international insurgency for democracy ... the mood at our
assemblies is electric ... people who go there are drawn into a Gandhian
spirit of camaraderie and hope for a new kind of future. Across the
globe the 99% are marching! You have inspired more than you know."
From the sit-ins on the Kasbah Square in Tunis to the tents on
Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, from the encampments on the Puerta del
Sol in Madrid to Syntagma Square in Athens, from the Wisconsin Uprising
to Occupy LA, from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Liberty Plaza in New York -
there is an incredible movement of occupations growing in this year of
2011.
International public seminar and evening screening program on the recent outbursts of social protest and their media strategies, hosted by De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, Friday September 30, 2011.
An open-source, revolutionary screen on Tahrir Square
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