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EuroMayDay
EuroMayDay is a transnational demonstration of precarious and migrant people held the First of May in more than a dozen European cities.
ReadCleaners for a Better Future
This is a struggle for better conditions and for the right to fight!
ReadHolding Out for Un-alienated Communication
"In August 1996, we called for the creation of a network of independent media, a network of information. We mean a network to resist the power of the lie that sells us this war that we call the Fourth World War. We need this network not only as a tool for our social movements, but for our lives: this is a project of life, of humanity, humanity which has a right to critical and truthful information."
These were the words of Subcomandante Marcos, speaking in 1997 from Chiapas in the midst of the Zapatistas' guerrilla information war against the Mexican state and the neocolonialism reflected in NAFTA. Marcos's powerful statement and Zapatista stories of struggle were circulated from the jungle of Chiapas on mailing lists, listservs, and websites, capturing the imagination of activists around the world and galvanizing a wave of new grassroots media projects. Perhaps no project more purely embodied this response than the Indymedia network, which was launched in November 1999 at the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings and quickly grew into a global network of news websites.
Enter the Swarm: Anonymous and the global protest movements
Felix Stalder explores the swarm politics of the 'endlessly fascinating Anonymous story' in an essay written for Le Monde Diplomatique, where it appeared in a slightly edited version and under a different title.
This version of the text was originally distributed via the international nettime mailing list.
CAE: Framing Tactical Media
Anyone involved with "tactical media" (TM) before its famed christening in 1996 at the Next Five Minutes had to know that naming this cultural/political tendency was going to have some very negative repercussions. The naming was the first step in doing what TM feared the most°Xclaiming cultural territory doomed to house haunting archives. Once given an official title, so many nasty processes could begin - most significantly, the construction of historical narratives. So many narratives already exist explaining this ephemeral, immediate, specific, and deterritorialized process of cultural production that seemed so urgent to so many radical subjects in the early 90s.
Ferguson 1 Year Later: We're Still Living In Crisis
By Rika Tyler, Hands Up United Director
The commemorative anniversary weekend of the death of Michael Brown Jr. has come to an end. Weekend warriors are packing their bags and heading home. It was a beautiful and uplifting weekend, but we knew it wouldn't last. After all the silent marches, vigils, memorials, sermons and concerts, people in the street are still screaming,"No justice, No peace!" because we're still living in a state of crisis.
Hands Up United: #WhichEmergency?
State of Emergency?
On Monday, August 10th 2015, St. Louis County Exec Steve Stenger called a State of Emergency. We fired back to challenge this statement and demand the state to answer #WhichEmergency? Because we've been living in a state of crisis for 400 years!
Join our campaign! #WhichEmergency
make world paper 2
The World Social Forum, organized twice in Porto Alegre 2001 and 2002, not only prompted a flurry of autonomous self-organization, crossborder organization, and creative media interventions. It also initiated an intense process of analysis and reflection on the tricky question of a 'global' dynamic of self-organization.
ReadContestational Robotics
Keywords: robots / contestation / public space / expression management
Social Media and the UK Riots: "Twitter Mobs", "Blackberry Mobs" and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism
"One formula [...] can be that of the mob: gullible, fickle, herdlike, low in taste and habit. [...] If [...] our purpsoe is manipulation - the persuasion of a large number of people to act, feel, think, known in certain ways - the convenient formula will be that of the masses". - Raymond Williams
ReadThe Californian Ideology
"Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will"
- Naum Gabo [1]
Hollaback #Harassmentis
What is Hollaback?
The real motive of street harassment is
intimidation. To make its target scared or uncomfortable, and to make
the harasser feel powerful. But what if there was a simple way to take
that power away by exposing it? You can now use your smartphone to do
just that by documenting, mapping, and sharing incidents of street
harassment. Join an entire community ready to Hollaback!
Sarai Reader 08: Fear
Modernity's great promise - the freedom from fear, now lies in ruins.
One can argue that this vision was always compromised - modernity
(especially in the form that emerged in the West, under Capitalism)
always hid its own fears, and hid from its own fears - the fear of
epidemics, of urban panic, of the homeless multitude and of criminal
activity. This led to a drive for transparency: for separating the civic
from the criminal, the civilised and the barbaric peoples, the human
from the non human, life from the machine.