[-empyre-] Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything?

[davin heckman]

I know there are lots of strands of media and communication
documenting these events.  But I would like to invite people to post
relevant comments and citations on the following site:

http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/The+Post-Corporate+University

I think it would be great, even if someone wants to sling some links
and resources, so that we can sift through the information.

Davin

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Cara Baldwin <feralysis at earthlink.net> wrote:
> http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/21/18629828.php
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> 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."
>> #kerroccupation
>> about a minute ago · Comment · Like
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>> Cynthia Walker 9:51 "The barricades are up!"
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>> On 11/21/09 12:31 PM, "micha cardenas / azdel slade" <azdelslade at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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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...
>>>
>>>
>>> 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/
>>>>
>>>> Their interrogation of the role of high theory, capital, and the
>>>> University qua Institution is extremely cogent at this moment.
>>>>
>>>> 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&>>>>
> i
>>>>> d=240:students-arrested-at-ucla&catid=34:struggles&Itemid=53
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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