[-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything?

[Cara Baldwin]

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/21/18629828.php


On 11/21/09 10:24 PM, "Cara Baldwin" <feralysis at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> Cynthia Walker "Approximately 300 supporters outside Kerr Hall."
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> On 11/21/09 12:31 PM, "micha cardenas / azdel slade" <azdelslade at gmail.com>
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>> I think its curious how all of these websites, like the Tarnac 9, the
>> invisible committee calling for uc occupations and the necrosocial all
>> have the same wordpress theme...
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>> 2009/11/20 nicholas knouf <nak44 at cornell.edu>:
>>> And on this point, a text by a group at Berkeley on "The Necrosocial":
>>> 
>>> http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/
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>>> Their interrogation of the role of high theory, capital, and the
>>> University qua Institution is extremely cogent at this moment.
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>>> nick
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>>> Marco Deseriis wrote:
>>>> Hi Micha,
>>>> 
>>>> yes, thank you for sharing those precious links.
>>>> 
>>>>> At UCSD, very few students, faculty and staff that I've talked to knew
>>>>> about or support the strike do. Myself and a handful of other faculty,
>>>>> staff and students are striking, but is the very idea of a strike not
>>>>> viral but more based in monolothic constituencies and factory models
>>>>> of labor?
>>>> No, I just think that after 3-4 decades of resting on dreams of unabated
>>>> growth Americans (and Californians in particular) need to be re-educated
>>>> and reawakened as to what it means to lose one's job, as to what it
>>>> means to fight for it, and what it means to risk of losing your job for
>>>> defending it. So thank you for taking on this rather humongous task ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> To me it is not a matter of virality but of culture. People in Latin
>>>> America, Asia, Europe and all over the world keep going on strike for
>>>> defending their jobs, demanding higher wages, security on the workplace,
>>>> etc. It is only in this country that three decades of brainwashing have
>>>> led to the obliteration of historic memory (the cancellation of May1st
>>>> being the most notable example), and to the perception that going on
>>>> strike is somehow out of fashion.
>>>> 
>>>> In actual fact, there exists a growing global movement to defend public
>>>> education, and to build an entirely different model of knowledge
>>>> sharing. You are probably familiar with this site:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.edu-factory.org
>>>> 
>>>> which reports the news of 15 arrests at UCLA:
>>>> 
>>>> 
http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&>>>>
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>>>> d=240:students-arrested-at-ucla&catid=34:struggles&Itemid=53
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>>>> and whose picture eloquently show the response of public authorities to
>>>> this growing mobilization.
>>>> 
>>>>> Perhaps the spreading occupations are more viral? I wonder
>>>>> about this as I start going on strike tomorrow and join actions at
>>>>> UCSD...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Well, it is not up to me to say that strikes and occupations are just
>>>> two sides of the same coin.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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