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"Hi Oliver.

What strange times to be alive hey?!

I've sure we'll see more of these kind of art..."

"Hi Thomas, really nice to hear from you!
I know what you mean. We left the post online for a day an..."

"I remember seeing the post appear, but didn't read it due to the sensationalised title of it. I've s..."

Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?

"I like this initiative a lot Stephen. Somehow I just got the opportunity to look into it now. Same q..."

Night surf

Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?

Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?
Few days ago a member of our Memefest social network has on our web site published an Openblog post ...

Goodnight and Good Luck: a Letter to My Colleagues.
* a random selection of some Australian university advertisements


We are publishing this letter...

Creative activism and Corona Virus. Ways to do activism in times of social distancing. Check it out bellow:

https://c4aa.org/2020/03/dont-cancel-creative-activism-and-coronavirus?mc_cid=14c0623d33&mc_eid=0284349c62

Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism’

Naomi Klein explains how governments and the global elite will exploit a pandemic.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmqyk/naomi-klein-interview-on-coronavirus-and-disaster-capitalism-shock-doctrine?utm_campaign=sharebutton

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary
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The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting

Edited by: Alex Wardrop and Deborah Withers

2014

There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.

Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.

We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care.

http://hammeronpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PHA_Final.pdf

The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/

Thieves in Our Home World Premiere at Capitol Theatre in Melbourne!
With strong feelings we are announcing the world premiere of Thieves in Our Home!

Thieves in Our ...

Blueprints for Change Manual

Blueprints for Change Manual
We're launching the first edition of the Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaignin...

Merry Christmas everyone! As the holidays center so much around food, family and community we'd like to give you a little gift.

Produced by Goucher student Kylie Miller, hosted by Kylie Miller and Tashi McQueen, Featuring Eric Jackson and Floyd Godsey this podcast presents the amazing and inspiring work on Food Apartheid our brothers and sisters at the Black Yield Institute in Baltimore are doing.

The podcast is one of the many outcomes of Baltimore's Food Apartheid, a collaboration between Goucher College, Black Yield Institute and Memefest, which happened in November in Baltimore.

https://goucherstudentradio.com/2019/12/03/baltimores-food-apartheid-a-podcast-about-black-yield-institute/

francaformenti63
2 years, 7 months ago

Very interrsting!!!❤️

Montreal friends, come and join us this coming Wednesday:

Members of the Memefest Network were recently in Baltimore, USA working with the Black Yield Institute and students at Goucher College tackling the subject of Baltimore's Food Apartheid. Food Democracy/Food Sovereignty has been a focus of Memefest's work over the last few years and it was a special opportunity for us to work with Black Yield, an amazing community organisation based out of Cherry Hill who seek to "Cultivate Self-Determination Through Black Land & Food Sovereignty".

Memefest's Oliver Vodeb and Vida Voncina, who will be visiting Montreal, alongside Kevin Lo (LOKI/Memefest) are interested in presenting a public debrief and discussion on the work done with BYI and Goucher, as well as the Memefest Network and project more broadly. We invite those interested in design and media activism, radical pedagogy, food justice (and more!) to join us for a casual "salon" at LOKI's studio.

See more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/571852240242300/

danielmarcus
2 years, 8 months ago

Great that you are doing this!
--Daniel

oliver
2 years, 8 months ago

Of course... and there will be more. When are we printing all the rest of the materials?

The Hong Kong protests are incredibly significant for many reasons. Not only are they exceptional as people are protesting more than six months, it is also the tactics that the protesters use that are highly sophisticated.

Here is a good article about the many subversive cultures emerging from the HK uprisings:

https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITIONS-TACTICS/0100B0790FL/index.html