Translation of an article by Manuel Castells, originally published in La Vanguardia, 21st January 2012. The indignados movement that burst forth in 2011 in Spain, Europe and the United States is a breath of fresh air in…
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Occupying Dublin: Considerations at the Crossroads
Another global wave of critique and resistance would come, I told myself and anyone who asked. For many years I watched and waited. Not passively, but actively, keeping alive the social memory of movements past,…
Hostile and Notorious: The Conditions of Private Property | MARK PASCHAL – Viewpoint Magazine
Hostile and Notorious: The Conditions of Private Property | MARK PASCHAL – Viewpoint Magazine Very good essay here on the conditions around private property and how this relates to the occupy movement, specifically the recent occupations…
Michael Perelman | Occupy Chico State
Michael Perelman | Occupy Chico State Good interview with Michael Perleman for his local NPR station which he would have given to a Occupied Chico State teach-in broadcast if the location for the talk hadn’t…
‘Another World Is Possible’ Event @ Irish Seed Savers Centre in Scariff, Co Clare on Sat Dec 3
As Eyre Square remains ‘Occupied’ by citizens anxious to change the way the system works, the Scariff-based Irish Seed Savers Association (ISSA) and Galway One World Centre (GOWC) are hosting an all day gathering which…
David Graeber: Occupy and Anarchism’s Gift of Democracy
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…
Occupy Dame Street: A positive development but lacking a class understanding
On 8 October 2011 a group of people pitched tents on the plaza outside the Central Bank in Dame Street and began a protest against Irish and international finance. Inspired in part by events in…
Getting beyond Dame Street – DCTU and Occupy v SWP from farce to tragedy
This was originally posted yesterday on Anarchist Writers. Republished with permission. What do you do when the people making the right arguments are manipulative idiots who have so alienated people that opening their mouths amounts…
Leading With The Chin
The progressive political parties represented in the Dáil, Assembly and Council chambers around the country have been slow to understand the potential opened up by the Occupy movement. During the recent Presidential election, with all…
We have a dream: towards a Euro-Mediterranean social strike
The following was first published in Spanish by Madrilonia, a Madrid-based blog that writes about and participates in social movements. Madrilonia has been involved in the 15-M movement, which began with the mass protest organized by Real…
We have a dream: towards a Euro-Mediterranean social strike
We have a dream: towards a Euro-Mediterranean social strike This text was written by Madrilonia, a Madrid-based blog that writes about and participates in social movements. Madrilonia has been involved in the 15-M movement, which…
Otherwise Occupied
It appears that progressive political parties are holding back from overt support for the Occupy protests around the world in general and Ireland in particular. Perhaps it is because they see the occupiers lacking in…
Sins of the Father
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