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Beware of False Friends: Reflections on TIME’s praise of ‘The Protester’
Last week Time Magazine announced The Protester as its person of the year. Celebrating individuals fighting for equality and democracy around the world, this year’s most important person followed in the footsteps of facebook founder and entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Zuckerberg … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, corporate media, financial crisis, M15, occupy wall st, precarious labour, Tahrir, Zizek
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How to Draw Capitalism? Iconography and the Occupy Movement
Last Wednesday the Creative Resistance Research Network hosted the first ‘How to Draw Capitalism‘ workshop at Occupy Finsbury Square. Sat in a circle as the sky drew dark and air turned cold, a dozen occupiers huddled around a splattering of … Continue reading
Posted in Workshop
Tagged creative resistance, design, financial crisis, occupyfs, occupylsx
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Evictions Build Resilience: Lessons from Past Protest Camps
“We have given the women a reasonable amount of time to make their protest, but they are trespassing and they must go.” -Cyril Woodard, Chairman of the Recreation and Amenities Committee Newbury Weekly News, Greenham, 21 Jan 1982 “Now is … Continue reading
Posted in occupy, protest camps, security and policing
Tagged evictions, financial crisis, occupy oakland, occupyfs, occupylsx, police repression, squatting
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Protest Camps: A Great British Tradition
On the steps of St. Pauls Cathedral last Saturday, hunched over a cup of tea, the grumbled disdain of a British protester could be heard, “Here we go again, borrowing from America.” Yet while the Occupy movement may have started stateside, … Continue reading
Posted in protest camps
Tagged financial crisis, Greenham Common, occupy lsx, occupy wall st
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Place-based Protest: A Theory-Slam on Occupy Wall St
This protest is place-based yet does not seek to claim place as property. It enacts a ‘reclamation of space’ yet not in the form of confrontation or taking back. It is not a means of defence against colonialist theft, damaging … Continue reading
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Tagged financial crisis, occupy wall st, radical architecture
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Reflection on the London Riots
The Youth of the Middle East rise up for basic freedoms. The Youth of London rise up for a HD ready 42″ Plasma TV #londonriots Top Tweet, Day six. Despite the onslaught of corporate, independent and citizen media analyses saturating the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, financial crisis, London Riots, twitter
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