Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
David Graeber: Occupy and Anarchism’s Gift of Democracy
“As the history of past movements all make clear, nothing terrifies those running America more than the danger of true democracy breaking out. As we see in Chicago, Portland, Oakland, and right now in New York City, the immediate response to even a modest spark of democratically organised civil [...]
Fiscal Crisis, or the Neo-Liberal Assault on Democracy? | Judith Butler
Judith Butler writing for the Greek Left Review…
Rather, neo-liberalism works through producing dispensable populations; it exposes populations to precarity; it establishes modes of work that presume that labour will always be temporary; it decimates long-standing institutions of social democracy, withdraws social services from those who [...]
Michael Roberts has a very good post on the appointment of the technocrats, Lucas Papademos in Greece and Mario Monti or Giuliano Amato in Italy, who are supposed to lead Greece and Italy through those “much needed reforms” that these countries need to reduce their oh so troubling debt levels. The ‘reforms’ or austerity, are [...]
Tomorrow is Carnival at OccupyDameStreet. Earlier today I listened to George Atherton reading Manuel Castells’ essay on nolesvotes, the acampadas, the 15-M movement and the processes of real democracy being explored in Spain - I highly recommend it. The audio and text are on adbusters.org. The essay was translated by Hugh Green.
Here’s the schedule for [...]
Beware of the technocrati | Eurointelligence
Interesting comment from Eurointelligence…
This is quite a brilliant comment by Robert Shrimsley of the Financial Times. He makes the point that there is now a possibility of technical government – led by Lucas Papademos in Greece, and Mario Monti in Italy, both former high ranking EU officials. While European officials may [...]
It is worth reading this long and very thoughtful post from Andrew Flood at Anarchist Writers on the decision making processes (that should be a plural) involved in the Occupy Movement, but with particular reference to OccupyDameStreet, which Andrew has been active in from time to time, either by speaking at the OccupyUniversity, adding his [...]
The Praxis and Pedagogy Group at GradCAM and The Irish Debt InfoGraphic Project present: Debt of Democracy with David Malone
Talk by David Malone, author of Debt Generation who blogs as Golem XIV given on Friday 21st of October 2011 in Dublin.
Part 1
David Malone @ Praxis & Pedagogy, GradCAM Part 1 from GrandBoy on Vimeo.
Part [...]
Vultures Circle Europe’s Debt Mountain | Financial Times
As grip of austerity tightens further making Ireland more hellish for ordinary working people living here, it’s also fast becoming a paradise for vulture hedge funds.
‘Ireland may not be the worst hit country of the eurozone’s periphery, but for many distressed debt funds the Emerald Isle is fertile [...]
I’m sure like me, readers of this have been consumed with the great debate going on in Ireland at the moment. Apart from the rain and receding flood waters, it’s all anyone wants to talk about. Of course the outcome of this discussion will be seen in the very near future, but still its good [...]
In general social and political movements need good writers who in gathering their thoughts on what is a dymanic situation in the all important early stages of that movement manage to provide for others the means to focus on its most important aspects. It requires an understanding of the wider situation which has spurred the [...]
