How to Survive in the Woods

Conflict as opposed to innocent forms of participation: Conflict is not to be understood as a form of protest or contrary provocation, but rather as a micro-political practice through which the participant become an active agent insisting on being an actor in the forcefield they are facing. Thus, participation becomes a form of critical engagement. When participation becomes conflict, conflict becomes space. Re-inserting friction and differences into both the scale of the institution and the city bears the potential of micro-political forces that render conflict as practice. In this context, participation becomes a form of non-physical, productive violence.
- Markus Miessen

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Bank of AMerica Foreclosed by the 99%

Enmedio “reflecting capitalism”.
http://www.enmedio.info/12m-los-reflectantes-en-accion-fotos/#.T7JOFCNMkyF
http://www.vice.com/es/vice-news/15m-un-ano-despues

Week of action May 10-15. Culminates on Tuesday, May 15 at a 6pm convergence in Times Square. Spread the word!

This image is sized for social media—spread the word!

be the change you want to see

angetran:

Architecture of the future, build the change you want to see.

We’ve rebuilt our workshop and film set at Exit Art and will be working in the installation just as we do at our studio in Greenpoint. Come and visit, Tuesday—Sunday, Chelsea.

Saturday

Workshop:
DIY mobilization, hands on—occupy props!

Speakers:
John Hawke (interventionist) and
Dan Latorre (organizer Occupy Town Square).

Occupied Real Estate: Installation & Workshops @ Exit Art | not an alternative »

niicolebiitchiie:

#truth #99% #occupy (Taken with instagram)

signsforchange:

Feel Free to come over, get some info, we love to chat Signs for change at Occupy Sydney

The rush of witness media, so powerful… an ability to hold forces accountable that before could manipulate equally viable evidence because it lacked the visceral horror of sound and sight.

It’s important, but it’s inconsistent… I’m afraid of justice being reduced to the likeness of an episode of Cops. I’m grateful but fear public simplification. As they play captured audio over the radio as part of a report (rather than describing its content) I feel actively nauseous.

The young couple beside me comment how boring news is, and wonder why the laundry doesn’t play music instead.

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—	at the laundry

theinternationalscholar:

Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York dressed in baseball and cheerleading uniforms labelled The Tax Dodgers and Corporate Loopholes demonstrating on tax day. Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Spring has sprung

angetran:

Occupied

Been making a bunch of flyers with only a few hours turn around time. Flyers are intended to be printed on yellow paper.
Click to enlarge.

Radical Economies concept: construction, building, public infrastructure for the people free of private interest.

1T Day concept: Horror film posters, extreme frustration! (I have no small sum of student debt myself).

Dmitry Vilensky // In Defense of Representation

Rather than endlessly rehashing debates about how we can escape from the clutches of all power relationships, we should try to imagine and begin to establish new forms of power relationships that would be subordinated to the common good and that society would be able to control and change when they require revision.

Rather than endlessly appealing to the mythical consensus of direct democracy and assemblies that represent no one knows whom, perhaps it would be wise to worry about developing systems of representation, forms of hegemony, democratic centralism and elected institutions for organizing structures of another kind, ones based on the dialectic of participation and representation.

Rather than believing that people’s imaginations can be inspired only by the immediacy of actions “here and now,” we should try and create images representing situations “there and someday” that would inspire them to fight no less intensely and passionately than any “here and now.”

Together, all these things might lead us to experience an event in whose aftermath history’s course would run differently from the way it is now.

via www.chtodelat.org