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05.05.2012
David Graeber author of Debt- first 5000 years, one of the texts we use in this years Friendly competition outlines, is interviewed by Uprising Radio. Graeber speaks about the history of Debt, its current role and also about the Occupy movement in which he was involved from the very beginning.
The other video is his lecture on the same theme. Both are very well worth watching. Graeber is a in…
27.04.2012
¿Cómo crees que el dinero trabaja para vos?
Green City Energy (Energía Ciudad Verde) y Musclebeaver le dan la respuesta en esta animación
Para más información por favor visite: http://www.bewusst-investieren.de/
Campaña realizada por: http://www.greencity-energy.de/
Año: 2010
MUSCLEBEAVER son Andreas Kronbeck & Tobias Knipf, viven en Munich/Alemania
Trabajan como equipo desde 2005 e…
27.04.2012
para ver el documental completo / to see full documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP591bZNc0I
27.04.2012
21.04.2012
Economist Steve Keen ("As an economist, I do something very unusual: I treat money seriously.") is one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis and now he says we are already in a Great Depression. He says the way to escape it is to bankrupt the banks, nationalise the financial system and write off people's debt.
Keen speaks also about the impact of economic universi…
08.03.2012
My friends from SMETUMET (the name is a wordplay from TRASH and ART in Slovenian) group are working on a very interesting project (again:)!
Grafitti for blind people.
At the beginning of next week they will held a workshop in Maribor where they will produce slogans in BRAILLE signs made with BRAILLE printer on used surfaces with blind people and than will stick them on different spots in the c…
17.01.2012
As a Sociologist I am happy to see that the big and most important body of the profession- The International Sociological Association is currently led by Michael Burawoy. He is engaged in a particular approach to sociology called "Public Sociology" which encourages the discipline to engage in "explicitly public and political ways with issues stimulated by debates over public policy, political act…
04.01.2012
MEMEFEST, in conjunction with OCCUPY BRISBANE and The Free University of (Occupied) Brisbane Presents:
OCCUPY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SPACE:
Response-Ability, Socially Responsive Media and Communication Workshop
Participants will include members of the Brisbane Memefest Collective, members of Occupy Brisbane Media Working Group and other participants or supporters of Occupy Brisbane.
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25.11.2011
Few days ago, students in solidarity with the worldwide Occupy movement peacefully protested at University California Davis. What happened became news around the world. It showed the nature of a big part of the corporate University systen through the naked violence that was employed that very day on campus. It showed how far a University system can go to preserve it's corporate status quo. It sho…