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More OccupyGezi images
Via AudioVision: Mustafa Seven [Flags of main Istanbul football teams, along with antifa flag] Engin Iriz @zehraseyyah Engin Iriz Taha Kabulantok Taha Kabulantok Engin Iriz Engin Iriz Mahir Uraz @zehraseyyah @zehraseyyah Related articles
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Tags: #bubirsivildirenis, #direngezi, #occupygezi, Besiktas, Engin Iriz, Gezi, Gezi Park, GeziPark, Instagram, Istanbul, Mahir Uraz, Mustafa Seven, photography, Taha Kabulantok, Taksim, Taksim Square, Turkey, zehraseyyah
Some of my favourite images from Gezi Park: [Translation: Antarctica is resisting] Aylin Geziparkı @aylinyrd Turkish protesters get creative: because statues are people too. #occupygezi #direngeziparkı #bubirsivildirenis Yiannis Βaboulias @YiannisBab The picture of the dervish protester in a gas-mask is already iconic. #occupygezi Source: statigr.am Source: statigr.am And some of my less favourite ones: Via: @sda_can Solidarity…
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Tags: #bubirsivildirenis, #direnankara, #direngezi, #direnizmir, #occupygezi, Gezi Park, Istanbul, Taksim Square, Turkey
Here are some reflections on antisemitism, populism and conpirationism in the Occupy movement: The Occupy Movement, Populist Anti-Elitism, and the Conspiracy Theorists by Spencer Sunshine in Shift. The Zeitgeist Movement and Occupy UK: An Anti-Globalisation Cult by Andrew Coates Occupy Wall Street and the perils of the big tent by Adam Holland Against conspiracy theories: Why our activism must […]
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Tags: national bolshevism, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Parti Solidaire Français, Thömas Werlet, Zeitgeist Movement
#Occupy!
Cross-posted from BobFromBrockley This is an age when political events are calibrated to Twitter, activists’ thoughts are punctuated with hashtags and the circulation of politics proceeds memetically. I have mainly been bemused by the wave of occupations emanating from Wall Street and franchised “globally” (i.e. to the other wealthy countries of the global North) on 15 […]
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Tags: Anti-capitalism, Doug Henwood, Julian Assange, Occupy Wall Street, OccupyLSX, OWS, Twitter, Wall Street, We Are The 99%
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Tags: Greece, Greek debt crisis, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Black bloc
In the UK, the Black Bloc has gotten a lot of media coverage and blog buzz because of the March 26 anti-cuts march where they appeared. Mostly, of course, it is liberal hand-wringing, conservative hysteria and the rest of the whole usual denunciatory arsenal of the law and order party. Myself, I think Black Bloc […]
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Tags: Black bloc, March 26, March for the Alternative, UK Uncut
Kentucky Fry the Tyrants!
Two great posts at John Eden’s fantastic Uncarved Blog. Colonel Gaddafi’s Kentucky Fried Britain On the 1986 occupation of Gaddafi’s London HQ. An extract: Hopefully Gaddafi will be gone by the time this post goes live. I certainly won’t miss him, but I will grudgingly admit that he brought a certain erratic charm to international politics. […]
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Tags: Colonel Gaddafi, Derek Holland, Libya, London, Muammar al-Gaddafi, National Front, Nick Griffin
The best of the Sunday papers
“Radical critique is not about exchanging compliments, but about looking at the limitations of movements which claim to be anti-capitalist and trying to contribute to their development. The task of over-emphasising the ’sexy and inspiring’ sides is better left to the various direct action conferences and gatherings, whose only purpose seems to be exactly that: […]
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Tags: Anselm Jappe, climate justice, Exit, Greece, insurrectionary anarchism, Krisis, marxism, Moishe Postone, Naomi Klein, pirate radio, Summer of Rage, value critique, Wu Ming
Mick Sweetman against the black bloc. And a follow-up here. (More on the black bloc here.)
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Anti-National Translation 