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Occupy May 1st General Strike
What is #M1GS?
Worldwide, May 1st is traditionally a 'Workers' day - a day of Labor
Solidarity, and a public holiday. It's a day to celebrate and march in
support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the
worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass
unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who
do not own the '99%' of the world's resources, and in solidarity with
the im/migrant movements of May 1st, we decided to declare May 1st, 2012
a People's General Strike.
May Day Forever
Convergence May 1
No Work May 1
Occupy May 1
May 1st everything stops
Thursday November 17th International Day of Action
Facebook Event | Twitter #N17 | Direct Action Resources
On Thursday November 17th, the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall
Street movement, we call upon the 99% to participate in a national day
of direct action and celebration!
UniCommon the revolt of living knowledge
Invent the future, reverse the present
The extraordinary months of struggle we experienced have changed us
profoundly, and at the same time have changed the students and the
precarious workers who have been animating with passion and continuity
the conflicts of the past two academic years. They have opened spaces
previously unthinkable, reversed temporality, reshuffled each one's
identity. From Paris to London and Rome down to the Mediterranean a
very solid spectre is haunting the world: a generation's rebellion
against the policies of austerity and cuts in education which
particularly affect young people, their future, the future of Europe
otherwise in decline.
From the Blogosphere to the Street: The Role of Social Media in the Egyptian Uprising
While the uprising in Egypt caught most observers of the Middle East
off guard, it did not come out of the blue. The seeds of this
spectacular mobilization had been sown as far back as the early 2000s
and had been carefully cultivated by activists from across the
political spectrum, many of these working online via Facebook, twitter,
and within the Egyptian blogosphere. Working within these media,
activists began to forge a new political language, one that cut across
the institutional barriers that had until then polarized Egypt's
political terrain, between more Islamicly-oriented currents (most
prominent among them, the Muslim Brotherhood) and secular-liberal ones.
Statement on Open Strike in the Cultural Sector in Lebanon
In solidarity with and participation in the popular uprisings taking place across Lebanon against the current systems of power, we the undersigned cultural organizations and structures collectively commit to Open Strike, and call for our colleagues in the cultural sector to join us.
ReadTactical Media and the End of the End of History
As a playful, do-it-yourself approach to media activism and new technologies, tactical media (TM) seemed to have some critical bite when it emerged in the mid-1990s. But is it still radical today?
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