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Protest Camps Hosts Roundtable to Announce its contract with Zed Books
Before the Arab Spring, our work on the transnational history of protest camping was generally regarded as “too niche”, or “quirky activist stuff for idealists”. But by April 2011, as Tahrir Square became an international sign that perhaps another world … Continue reading
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
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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
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Tagged financial crisis, Greenham Common, occupy lsx, occupy wall st
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Occupy LSX Day Six: Excerpt from a Social Media ‘Scrapbook’
Day Six at Occupy LSX Brought students from my uni. They were full of questions, the kinds of questions that make you smile and stumble, rambling over words. Where there is at once so many points to make and a … Continue reading
Posted in alternative media, occupy, protest camps, protest camps, social media
Tagged creative resistance, occupy lsx, occupy wall st
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Protest Camps featured by the Canadian Centre for Architecture
CCA Says “The Protest Camps project, by Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Patrick McCurdy, looks at an increasingly visible typology of struggle in uprisings and social struggles around the world, from Tahrir Square to Syntagma Square, and from Puerta del Sol to … Continue reading
Posted in In the Media, protest camps
Tagged CCA, infrastructures, radical architecture
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Protest Camps is interviewed in the latest issue of FUSE Magazine
For its special issue on Egypt and the Arab Spring, Fuse editor Gina Badger asked Anna Feigenbaum to share her insights on social media and social change. Drawing on her research and teaching, Dr. Feigenbaum challenged the idea that social … Continue reading
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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Protest Camps presents at ‘Greenham Remembered’
On Sunday Anna Feigenbaum spoke at ‘Greenham Remembered,’ a 30th anniversary event celebrating the lives and legacies of Greenham women. Anna’s presentation focused on UK protest camps since the 1980s, drawing out parallels between camps and describing how strategies and tactics can … Continue reading
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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