TOTW: Anarchist land projects
Topic of the Week - This week we are setting up camp, getting out the cameras, logging into social media from a satellite and gathering together around the bonfire to talk about anarchist land projects.
Topic of the Week - This week we are setting up camp, getting out the cameras, logging into social media from a satellite and gathering together around the bonfire to talk about anarchist land projects.
From New York Times By Penelope Green | June 11, 2022
His concept of a “temporary autonomous zone” became an inspiration for protests like Occupy Wall Street and for gatherings like Burning Man.
Peter Lamborn Wilson, a counterculture intellectual, anarchist, poet, musicologist and utopian who coined the term “temporary autonomous zone,” which became a cri de coeur for the organizers behind both Burning Man and Occupy Wall Street — as well as for ravers, cyberpunks and other late-20th-century antiestablishmentarians — died on May 23 at his home in Saugerties, N.Y. He was 76.
We’re mostly made of water. This week we’re exploring anarchist ideas and their relationship to water. Is there such a thing? Do you have a relationship to water? Do you define it as such or something else? What is your anarchist hot take about water?
From Robert Graham
Here is another excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Anarchist Current, a history of anarchist ideas.
From en.squat.net, original from Attaque in French
Why We Attacked the Zad
Notre-Dame-des-Landes (France)
The Zad was our pirate ship, the mother of all Zads. It emerged in a time with no way out and it was as if the world became a little more bearable. Like a brief glimmer of light, a possibility breaking through the thick, sticky fog of our future. For those of us who lead full and busy lives, off the beaten track, it was the knowledge that there would always be a place to welcome us if we were on the run. A place where the state would never come for us. A place where we would always find allies to feed us, to clothe us, to hide us in the folds of its hedges.
From CrimethInc.
The Story of an Armed No-Cop Zone in Atlanta
A Documentary Film
From avtonom.org
Festival will be organised in Helsinki from 11th to 14th of June.
The modern situation requires a change in the aesthetic and conceptual forms of expressing the real. Another incentive to rethink representation and tactics was the pandemic and macro-political vulnerability, rallies and waves of new political repression in Russia and Belarus, which affected all aspects of our life. After the worldwide "apocalypse", we will meet under a new slogan - "Feast After the Plague".
from BialysTurbo Caravan via Contra Info, English translation by Anarchist News
BialysTurbo Caravan's action-packed exciting Travel diary with pictures!
A riot on wheels, mobile defiance in a time of lockdown, a Temporary Autonomous Zone, a fight for a noble cause...
Where will they go next?
Stay tuned to find out!
From Verso Books by Alexander Dunlap
L’Amassada Eviction One Year Later
From Avtonom, Finland
Please note that because of border closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival will most likely be postponed to the spring or summer of 2021, and held under a different name. The new festival date will be announced no later than December 1. On December 1, we will share information about how to apply for a Finnish visa and crossing the border.
As of now: From 7 to 9 of January, in Helsinki, the annual cultural and political festival "Father Frost against" will take place. Here, on a politically neutral territory, we together (organizers / participants / guests) will create a temporary autonomous zone free from hierarchical forms of interaction and discrimination. The festival is organized by local activists, as well as participants from various horizontal initiatives, libertarian, left-oriented and anarchist communities in Russia and the post-Soviet area.