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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
Activist Exchanges: the Occupation of Squares and the Squatting of Buildings
Over the past two months of the Occupy Movement we have seen protesters move from reclaiming city squares to reclaiming foreclosed homes and disused buildings. In Spain, similar actions have been taking place for months. Activist-academics Miguel A. Martínez and … Continue reading
Posted in occupy, protest camps, social media
Tagged M15, Real Democracy, social centres, squatting
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Generation Occupy: The Demands May Not Be Televised, But Can They Still Be Heard?
We live in an age where it is socially acceptable, if not encouraged, to camp out overnight for the opportunity to hand over $500 for the latest piece of mass produced technology. Pictures of technophiles and devotees ecstatically clutching the … Continue reading
Posted in occupy, protest camps, social media
Tagged corporate media, N30, occupylsx, strikes
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Location, Location, Location: Spatiality and Protest Camps
The issue of spatiality for protest camps is a big one, especially for someone who is not trained as a Geographer. As my work usually deals with media representations, this is a daunting task. While media representation is a significant … Continue reading
Posted in occupy, protest camps
Tagged anti-roads, climate camp, G8, radical architecture, spatiality
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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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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’ Patrick McCurdy interviewed by CBC Radio on Occupy Ottawa
Patrick McCurdy of the Protest Camps Research Collective speaks with the CBC Radio about media frames, activist strategy, social media and police surveillance around the Occupy Movement in Ottawa and around the world. Dr. McCurdy discusses how the absence of a single … Continue reading
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Tagged media frames, occupy ottawa, occupy wall st
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Protest Camps Now on Twitter
You can now follow protest camps on twitter @protestcamps. We’ll be active during events with live updates and micro-commentary. Just about to head off to Occupy London Stock Exchange. #protestcamps, #OccupyLSX, #OccupyEverywhere.
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: a framework for understanding
Patrick McCurdy circulated our research collective’s response to Eric Kluitenberg’s post on The Tactics of Camping over <nettime> on July 1, 2011. In our preliminary framework for understanding Protest Camps we argue that protest camps must be seen–and studied–as a unique organisational … Continue reading