“Radical Gotham” – New York City, Just Like You Pictured It
Submitted by Alan W Moore on Sep 8 2017 09:51
Review of Tom Goyens, ed., Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City (2017). Describes the essays on 19th-20th century anarchist groups at first by ethnicity and the newspapers they produced in NYC – Johann Most and the Germans; Saul Yanovsky and the Jews; Luigi Galleani and his Italian followers; and the Spanish circle around El Despertar. Also a chapter on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Post-WWII, the essays discuss the Why? group of post-WWII anarchists; the Living Theatre; Black Mask/Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers; the artist Gordon Matta-Clark; the ABC No Rio cultural center; and finally anarchism in Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2011
Since the first day that Zuccotti Park was occupied there has been a shadowy figure haunting Occupy Wall Street. The anarchist. Who is this anarchist? What role has she played in the Occupy Movement? What would Occupy be without him?
UnOccupy the prisons: challenging Wells Fargo's investment in private prisons
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Jul 4 2015 03:05
Video from a 2011 joint action between Occupy Wallstreet and Take Back the Land to target Wells Fargo's investment in the private prison system.
Climate populism and the People’s Climate March
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Sep 10 2014 15:41
Large demonstrations are planned to push for action on climate change. Here we discuss the potentials and pitfalls of climate populism.
Accompanying: Pathways to social change - Staughton Lynd
To better understand the impact of social movements in recent years, this analysis distinguishes strategies of social change into two parts.
The promise of an anarchist anthropology: the three burials of the anarchist project - Natalia Buier
In this article, anthropologist Natalia Buier discusses David Graeber’s proposition of an anarchist anthropology. She focuses on three key issues: Graeber’s understanding of ethnography and its role within the politics of anthropology, his reading of the anarchist tradition, and his involvement with the Occupy Wall Street movement as a concrete example of the limitations of the political project of an anarchist anthropology. The argument of the article is that Graeber’s representation of the discipline of anthropology, together with his partial reading of the anarchist tradition, run counter to a political and analytic focus that centralizes the notions of class and exploitation.
Occupy (occupied media pamphlet series) - Noam Chomsky
With urgency and clarity, Noam Chomsky speaks with the movement as it transitions from occupying tent camps to occupying the national conscience
Making the future: Occupations, interventions, empire and resistance - Noam Chomsky
Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years.
Pedlars of reformism and the Occupy movement
A brief look at three of the ideologists pushing reformist ideas within the Occupy movement
The lessons of 2011: Three theses on organisation
Rodrigo Nunes looks at the social movements of 2011 and their implications for organising, rejecting the opposite conceptions of the vanguardist party and the loose virtual network.
