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May 20, 2013
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priceofliberty: nightbringer24: priceofliberty: So I guess Sweden is on fire? Any link to the news this is supposed to be from? Sorry, here you are! Riots in Stockholm suburb over police shooting Gangs of youth apparently angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man have hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb, forcing the evacuation of an apartment block. Police spokesman Lars Bystrom says around 50 youths were involved in the riots early Monday in the suburb of Husby, west of Stockholm. He says three officers were injured by rocks and several cars and buildings were damaged. No arrests were made. Bystrom says the youths also set light to a parking garage, compelling police to evacuate residents from an adjacent apartment block. They could return home after a couple of hours. Husby resident Ali Muzelef told Swedish radio protesters felt they had not been heard after the shooting earlier this month.

priceofliberty:

nightbringer24:

priceofliberty:

So I guess Sweden is on fire?

Any link to the news this is supposed to be from?

Sorry, here you are!

Riots in Stockholm suburb over police shooting
Gangs of youth apparently angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man have hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb, forcing the evacuation of an apartment block.

Police spokesman Lars Bystrom says around 50 youths were involved in the riots early Monday in the suburb of Husby, west of Stockholm.

He says three officers were injured by rocks and several cars and buildings were damaged. No arrests were made.

Bystrom says the youths also set light to a parking garage, compelling police to evacuate residents from an adjacent apartment block. They could return home after a couple of hours.

Husby resident Ali Muzelef told Swedish radio protesters felt they had not been heard after the shooting earlier this month.

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Tags: riot Sweden Stockholm police

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May 20, 2013
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"Every society is founded on a crime committed collectively, but the deed (the anguish and revulsion it provokes) is subsequently denied by those who most benefited from it. Complicity and denial are constitutive of morality, whose concern for utility is merely there to suture the wound."

— Sylvère Lotringer, from his introduction to Bruce Boone’s translation of Georges Bataille’s On Nietzsche (via dagseoul)

Tags: society founding crime complicity denial morality Nietzsche Bataille Lotringer

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May 19, 2013
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Money = Garbage But why would money be a kind of garbage, you may ask. Because, as Christof Asendorf has noted, money only becomes freely mobile once it has been stripped of its actual character. Money can become anything and this makes it nothing – the equivalent of waste matter ready to be re-fashioned into a new form. Or otherwise money, as Freud noted, is actually like shit (i.e., human garbage): not only because it is alienated from the person (like excrement is from the body), but also because the separation allows its further development into something that persists on its own – it gets everywhere because of the very absence of concrete properties. Money is like garbage in its formlessness, its existence outside of the parameters of human time (crucially, in so far as its value does not necessarily depend on immediate temporal constraints), and not least because it is in constant transformation. - John Scanlan, On Garbage, pp. 15-16

Money = Garbage

But why would money be a kind of garbage, you may ask. Because, as Christof Asendorf has noted, money only becomes freely mobile once it has been stripped of its actual character. Money can become anything and this makes it nothing – the equivalent of waste matter ready to be re-fashioned into a new form. Or otherwise money, as Freud noted, is actually like shit (i.e., human garbage): not only because it is alienated from the person (like excrement is from the body), but also because the separation allows its further development into something that persists on its own – it gets everywhere because of the very absence of concrete properties. Money is like garbage in its formlessness, its existence outside of the parameters of human time (crucially, in so far as its value does not necessarily depend on immediate temporal constraints), and not least because it is in constant transformation.

- John Scanlan, On Garbage, pp. 15-16

Tags: shit money capitalism garbage alienation time waste

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May 19, 2013
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May 18, 2013
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Debt

forgottenness:

“Being indebted to a bank hides the fact that there is a relation of exploitation. As a debtor, you don’t appear any longer as a worker. Debt is very mystifying. It brings about a change in the management of class relations. This is what is at stake in the ideology of ‘self-investment’ and ‘micro-entrepreneurship’, which pretends that we are sole beneficiaries of our education and our reproduction, and occludes that the employers, the capitalist class, benefits from our work. Debt also has a disaggregating effect; it isolates us from other debtors, because we confront the banks as individuals. So, debt individualises, it fragments the class relation, in a way that the wage did not. The wage in a sense was a sort of common. It recognised not only the existence of a work relation but of a collective relation strengthened by a history of struggle. Debt dismantles both. We see it with the struggle of students indebted because of their education loans. Many feel guilty, they have a sense of failure when they cannot repay that would be unthinkable in a wage struggle. There, you know you are exploited, you know your boss, you see the exploitation, you have your comrades. Whereas as a debtor, you say ‘oh my god I miscalculated,’ ‘I took more money than I should have’ etc.”

~ “Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici,” Mute, 7 March 2013

Tags: debt wage labor exploitation Silvia Federici education struggles

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May 18, 2013
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omnia-sunt-communia:

Silivia Federici Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Film of the Public Lecture by Silvia Federici about her new book: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (PM Press, 2012)

Written between 1974 and the present, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. In this talk Silvia outlines the ideas within this book in a clear and lucid way. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction. Beginning with Federici’s organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons

Presented by Bristol Radical History Group
http://www.brh.org.uk/

Tags: Silvia Federici feminism revolution alienated labor

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May 18, 2013
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"Women were accused of being unreasonable, vain, wild, wasteful. Especially blamed was the female tongue, seen as an instrument of insubordination. But the main female villain was the disobedient wife, who, together with the “scold,” the “witch,” and the “whore” was the favorite target of dramatists, popular writers, and moralists. In this sense, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1593) was the manifesto of the age. The punishment of female insubordination to patriarchal authority was called for and celebrated in countless misogynous plays and tracts. English literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period feasted on such themes. Typical of this genre is John Ford’s ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore (1633) which ends with the didactic assassination, execution and murder of three of the four female characters. Other classic works concerned with the disciplining of women are John Swetnam’s Arraignment of Lewed, Idle, Froward, Inconstant Women (1615); and The Parliament of Women (1646), a satire primarily addressed against middle class women, which portrays them as busy making laws in order to gain supremacy over their husbands. Meanwhile, new laws and new forms of torture were introduced to control women’s behavior in and out of the home, confirming that the literary denigration of women expressed a precise political project aiming to strip them of any autonomy and social power. In the Europe of the Age of Reason, the women accused of being scolds were muzzled like dogs and paraded in the streets; prostitutes were whipped, or caged and subjected to fake drownings, while capital punishment was established for women convicted of adultery."

— Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically)

Tags: patriarchy feminism Silvia Federici Shakespeare misogyny

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May 16, 2013
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kalisherni: mutinousmindstate: Image by Anirvan Chatterjee circa 2013. dalit panthers !!!!!!

kalisherni:

mutinousmindstate:

Image by Anirvan Chatterjee circa 2013.

dalit panthers !!!!!!

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May 14, 2013
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classwaru: Student Protests in Chile “Demonstrators try to stop a police vehicle armed with a water cannon, during clashes with riot police near the Chilean Congress where President Sebastian Pinera was delivering his State of the Nation address to the National Congress in Valparaiso, Chile, on May 21, 2011.” (AP Photo/Carlos Vera) via The Atlantic For a recent article on the privatization of education in Chile, and struggles against it, see: “No to Profit”: Fighting Privatization in Chile by Lili Loofbourow “During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, education, previously considered a public good, was commodified and repackaged as a private investment yielding purely private gains. But since student protests began in 2006, Chileans have been trying to get their education back.” 

classwaru:

Student Protests in Chile
“Demonstrators try to stop a police vehicle armed with a water cannon, during clashes with riot police near the Chilean Congress where President Sebastian Pinera was delivering his State of the Nation address to the National Congress in Valparaiso, Chile, on May 21, 2011.” (AP Photo/Carlos Vera) via The Atlantic

For a recent article on the privatization of education in Chile, and struggles against it, see: “No to Profit”: Fighting Privatization in Chile
by Lili Loofbourow
“During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, education, previously considered a public good, was commodified and repackaged as a private investment yielding purely private gains. But since student protests began in 2006, Chileans have been trying to get their education back.” 

Tags: Chile rebellion trees resistance privatization student movement anarchist insurrection anti-state

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May 14, 2013
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selchieproductions: Brazilian Indians forced to leave mega-dam site© Survival International The Brazilian authorities have evicted Indians from the Belo Monte dam site, where they were protesting for their land rights. Representatives of eight tribes had been occupying the area, demanding that the government respect their right to their ancestral land and to be consulted about projects that will affect them, and that the construction be stopped immediately. The government initially responded to the protest by preventing journalists, lawyers, and food entering the occupation site. A judge then ruled that the Indians could be forcefully removed. Belo Monte is currently being built despite widespread opposition by thousands of indigenous people, who warn it will devastate their land and reduce fish stocks, a crucial part of their diet. Its construction was illegally approved, without the consent of the local population. The Indians, including representatives of the Kayapó, Arara, Juruna and Asurini tribes, have held numerous protests in recent years, and have stated that they will defend their lands against the project at all costs. They have warned that if the construction goes ahead, the Xingu river will become ‘a river of blood’. In an open letter published on 2 May they declared ‘We are the people who live in the rivers where you want to build dams. We are the Munduruku, Juruna, Kayapó, Xipaya, Kuruaya, Asurini, Parakanã, Arara, fishermen and peoples who live in riverine communities. We are Amazonian peoples and we want the forest to stand. We are Brazilians. The river and the forest are our supermarket. Our ancestors are older than Jesus Christ.’

selchieproductions:

Brazilian Indians forced to leave mega-dam site
© Survival International

The Brazilian authorities have evicted Indians from the Belo Monte dam site, where they were protesting for their land rights.

Representatives of eight tribes had been occupying the area, demanding that the government respect their right to their ancestral land and to be consulted about projects that will affect them, and that the construction be stopped immediately.

The government initially responded to the protest by preventing journalists, lawyers, and food entering the occupation site. A judge then ruled that the Indians could be forcefully removed.

Belo Monte is currently being built despite widespread opposition by thousands of indigenous people, who warn it will devastate their land and reduce fish stocks, a crucial part of their diet.

Its construction was illegally approved, without the consent of the local population.

The Indians, including representatives of the Kayapó, Arara, Juruna and Asurini tribes, have held numerous protests in recent years, and have stated that they will defend their lands against the project at all costs. They have warned that if the construction goes ahead, the Xingu river will become ‘a river of blood’.

In an open letter published on 2 May they declared ‘We are the people who live in the rivers where you want to build dams. We are the Munduruku, Juruna, Kayapó, Xipaya, Kuruaya, Asurini, Parakanã, Arara, fishermen and peoples who live in riverine communities. We are Amazonian peoples and we want the forest to stand. We are Brazilians. The river and the forest are our supermarket. Our ancestors are older than Jesus Christ.’

(via rematiration)