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Celebrations and Conflicts: Protest Camps and their vulnerabilities
In this guest blog, Maxine Newlands situates the recent arson attack against Camp Florentine into a broader history of protest camps as vulnerable spaces, from Greenham to ZAD. Protest camps remain one of the strongest forms of activism in the … Continue reading
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Tagged camp florentine, Greenham Common, Twyford Down, vulnerability, ZAD
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Protest Camps and White Cubes
How might activist-art be supported rather than undermined by the visibility and space offered by contemporary cultural institutions? Reporting on the Truth is Concrete festival in Graz, Austria, guest blogger Gavin Grindon looks at recent trends that bring protest camp … Continue reading
Occupy Research Collective Convergence – 30 June 2012
On Saturday 30 June 2012 The Occupy Research Collective held its first convergence meeting at UCL. The collective emerged out of series of reading groups on topics relevant to the movement. Participants decided to take their discussions a step further by … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, consensus, creative resistance, future of occupy, occupylsx, tactics
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Protest Camp Workshop Roundup
On the 26th June 2012 40 researchers and activists gathered at Leicester University for a one-day workshop on protest camp. It was jointly organised by the protest camp collective, the department of geography and the School of Management at the … Continue reading
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Tagged affect, horizontalism, spatial politics
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Protest Camps on Canal Savior with Chris Hedges
Protest Camps on Canal Savior with Chris Hedges
Anna Feigenbaum & Patrick McCurdy will appear on Canal Savior’s airing of Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement. The first episode features journalist and author Chris Hedges on April 17, 2012 at 19:00 and April 18, 2012 at 14:00. The following week, episode 2 broadcasts the panelists’ discussion on topics including anonymous, social media, black bloc tactics and police brutality. It airs on April 24, 2012 at 19:00 and April 25, 2012 at 14:00.
Workshop Announcement: (Re)thinking Protest Camps: governance, spatiality, affect and media
Booking is now open for this free one day workshop, “(Re)thinking Protest Camps: governance, spatiality, affect and media” to be held on Tuesday 26 June 2012 at the University of Leicester, UK. Instructions and an online form to reserve a place … Continue reading
Can Occupy survive its representation?
Can the Occupy movement survive its representation? This was one of the questions asked of us during the McGill Occupy workshop. The question essentially sought to open a discussion around Slavoj Žižek’s speech at Occupy Wall Street warned activists not … Continue reading
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Tagged media frames, occupy canada, occupy wall st
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OCCUPY TALKS TORONTO: Indigenous Perspectives on the Occupy Movement
Ali Hugill reports from Occupy Talks Toronto for protestcamps.org The vocabulary of occupation has recently gained a global political prominence for the Left. Those of us calling ourselves the ‘99%’, who – with varying degrees of radical fervour – broadly … Continue reading
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Tagged ali hugill, indigenous justice, occupy canada, occupy toronto
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Protest Camps to speak at Occupy event with Chris Hedges
On Friday January 27, 2012 Protest Camps’ Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick McCurdy will host workshops at the media@mcgill sponsored event Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement. Anna’s workshop Feeling the Movementwill look at how feelings and … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, affect, Chris Hedges, media frames, occupy ottawa, occupy wall st, occupylsx, tactics
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The Future of Occupy and Movement Sense-making
At a recent workshop hosted by Tent City Uni outside St. Paul’s, a group of campers and folks working in the broader Occupy movement came together to reflect on the current climate of the movement and what the future might hold. In … Continue reading
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Tagged future of occupy, movement building, occupylsx, tent city uni
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