The Crisis of Everything Everywhere — Day 9
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or WELCOME TO THE NEW PARADIGM
A midwinter retreat, a modular molecular seminar with Everyone
Day 9
The Open
We are still keeping this day open to see what will be needed and called for. Overall, we would like to try and arrive at some conclusions and formulate together some of the questions as well as clarities that may have emerged over the 9 days.
12:00PM
We went very late on Saturday night, ending our discussions at 2:00am, so we will begin our last day of discussions at 12:30. Doors will open the doors at 12:00.
Among the sessions on this day, we are organizing
— one session on spain …
This session is dedicated to some friends who have been involved in the May 15 movements in Spain. Since some of them have just returned from Spain, they will be joining us to discuss the kinds of reflections those involved with these movements have also been making over the last month.
— How has the May 15th movement put in crisis the traditional ways of acting and thinking politically? — How has this crisis affected the traditional roles of the the activist and the intellectual?
— How can we think the relations between the initial “acampadas” and the collective structures and mobilizations that followed them?
— Should we think of the May 15th movement more as a “mental and emotional state” than as a social movement?.
— one session on ecology and how occupy touches even the smallest towns in the US
Where does OWS meet the environment? Claire Pentecost and Sarah Lewison ask how to integrate ecological issues to the movement against rapacious banks, corrupt corporations and unconscious consumers. To focus the discussion we go to the heartland — Carbondale, Illinois — where the Compass collective will be holding public hearings on the crimes of Monsanto. The economy is the food we eat, the air we breathe, the earth we share with everyone.
— a session on questions and perspectives
‘Communization’ with Daniel Marcus
‘Alternative Banking’ with Jim Costanzo
‘How one might talk’ with all of us and possibly Michael Taussig
We will try to articulate together some of the central questions this retreat has raised for those who have been taking part in it.