The Crisis of Everything Everywhere — Day 5
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or WELCOME TO THE NEW PARADIGM
A midwinter retreat, a modular molecular seminar with Everyone
Day 5
The Feminist (re)Turn & Japan (in focus)
The fifth day will begin with a meeting with the Feminist Direct Action working group. This will be followed by a discussion with them about the need to construct a feiminst direct action group and what are some of the concerns or questions that have emerged within the occupy movements from a feminist perspective. We are working to also bring together different thinkers and activists committed to a feminist critique to explore and discuss the occupy movements from a feminist perspective. We will also be hosting a session that will try to bring together some reports from Japan, relating to Fukushima and questions that it may also raise and contribute to thinking about the relations of the dictatorship of finance to ecological and humanitarian disasters.
12-2PM
Feminist Direct Action Working Group Meeting
2:30-5:30PM
Feminism in the context of the Occupy Movements and the Movement of the Squares. We will attempt to open up a discussion of concerns, critiques, and implicit insights of feminism that resonate not only with a critique of capitalism and patriarchy, but directly touch on questions raised in and through the struggles of 2011.
6:00-7:30PM
This discussion will be organized around the relation to Native American history, traditional experiences and wisdom in the context of the Occupy movements.
Bill Record, from the Council of OWS Elders will speak about Native American Peace Principles which were the basis of the Iroquois Confederacy. Traditional Cultures lasted for thousands of years and during that time they developed sophisticated cultural models that sustained their people. Things like the Peace Principles, grief management, celebration, ceremony, storytelling, elder wisdom etc. He wants to ask: How can we look to Traditional Cultures for Positive Cultural Teachings that will assist the OWS Movement in its growth?
We will also have other guests who will speak to some of the questions they feel are important to be addressed from a Native American perspective.
Among the questions that we as a group are interested in:
What is our relation to subjugated knowledges and experiences? What is the ethical relation we could have with these knowledges and principles? In maintaining a relation with such principles, must one not also reckon with or address the current and historical injustices of the oppressed communities from which these knowledges emerge? How can contemporary movements address the unequal force with which those same communities today suffer the consequences of economic, social, political and ecological injustice ?
8:00-12PM
Fukushima in the Shadows of Occupy Since the conversations in the summer relating to the political developments ongoing in 2011, we have tried at the space to also remain vigilant to the catastrophe that is unfolding in Japan since the earthquakes, tsunami, and the subsequent nuclear fallout. As much as Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Portugal, the Common Good referendum in Italy, the struggles in Yemen, Syria, Lybia, …, the students protests in Chile, Puerto Rico, the uprisings in London, … Fukushima has underlined one of the key nodes where the ecological disaster confronting the entire globe meets the imperative for ‘growth’, ‘development,’ and ‘profits’ no matter the cost.
We will be joined by Marty Lucas, who will be presenting interviews from a trip this December and January in Japan where he conducted interviews with activists. We will also be joined by Yuko Tonohira who is one of the co-editors of j-fissures, an online collection and repository of translated texts relating to Fukushima and its aftermath