Tag Archives: assemblies

Kali Akuno: “The Floyd rebellion: pathway to a revolution?”

Posted on June 30, 2020 by

“The Floyd rebellion, if followed by a general strike and People’s Assemblies, can blossom into an instrument of dual power that could radically transform society.”

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Alex Kostantopoulos: “The Law of the Zapatista: A Presentation about the Laws Passed by EZLN”

Posted on December 18, 2019 by

“In the autonomous municipalities of Zapatistas, laws that are passed from the Council of Governance are not enforced by police or a judicial system but through a way that treats offenders as members of the community.  Justice is delivered by the authorities of the Zapatistas. They resolve issues among the members of the community and also between Zapatistas and non-Zapatistas.”

Posted in autonomy, governance, justice, law, Nota Bene, rights

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lundi matin: “A strange time/weather”

Posted on December 18, 2019 by

“Furio Jesi distinguishes between revolt and revolution, which cut across two different times. Revolt is not an aborted revolution. Revolt is the time of myth, a time that bursts in, that breaks historical causality. … The revolutionary parties or any structured organisation are thus incapable of taking part in the revolt and even less of directing it because their actions are part of the long time, of causal time, where each act is taken in the game of means and ends. Each action has a purpose and a certain effectiveness. Revolt suspends this machine of means and ends, this mechanical calculation of the movements of revolutionaries and the reactions of the adversary. We throw ourselves headlong into the revolt. We go there with method and patience in the revolution.”

Posted in anarchism, justice, Nota Bene, power, revolt, violence

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Julius Gavroche: “From extinction rebellion to desirous rebellion”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by

“From the Extinction Rebellion movement, we learn that we are in the midst of an ecological emergency.”

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Two statements that have appeared amidst the gilets jaunes “movement”

Posted on December 18, 2018 by

“All contemporary anti-capitalist movements must abandon the self-illusion of being intrinsically opposed to capitalism; whatever such movements may emerge, they will constitute themselves in the very struggle to destroy/escape capital.  The heterogeneity of contemporary social movements also condemns all possibility of representation.  The gilets jaunes possess the virtue of self-consciously embracing this condemnation or refusal.  The question then is what is to follow.”

Posted in autonomy, crisis, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, power, resistance, revolt, the common

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“Call from the Yellow Vests of Commercy to set up popular assemblies”

Posted on December 11, 2018 by

‘Here in Commercy, in the Meuse, we have been operating from the beginning with daily popular assemblies, where each person participates equally. We organized to block entrances to the city and service stations, and filtering road blocks. In the process, we built a cabin in the central square. We meet there every day to organize ourselves, decide next actions, interact with people, and welcome those who join the movement. We also organize “solidarity soups” to live beautiful moments  together and get to know each other. In equality.’

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Jodi Dean interviewed by Alfie Bown

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

It gets interesting when people fight over the description of a particular crowd: is this a crowd, with some potential connection to the people struggling for freedom and equality, some connotation of the masses who are right to assemble and demand, or is it just a violent mob?  The fight over the description of the crowd is opened up by the crowd itself. A crowd amasses. Now, what does this mean? This depends on the perspective from which the crowd is viewed. From say, a conservative perspective, a perspective that fears the people, that worries about the disruptive capacity of the many, a crowd might look like a mob. From a communist perspective, this same crowd might look like the revolutionary people bringing a new Commune into being.

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Luke Mergner: Review of Jodi Dean’s “Crowds and Party” (2016)

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

On collectives and the suspension of the individual ego:  ‘Dean judges Occupy, in which she participated, and other global protest movements to have failed. … How should the Left organize political movements to avoid the traps of neoliberal subjectivity?  Dean’s central themes are announced in the title: crowds and party. … She seems to exhort us: Look at how crowds let us transcend our individuality and difference. Look at how crowds demonstrate a collective will. … Using Occupy as her example, she argues that crowds cannot survive long enough to create real political change. … An “affective infrastructure” drives her description of the party and the romanticism that colors it. It is the ability to subsume individuals into a collective that links the crowd and the party.’

Posted in defeat, democracy, governance, Nota Bene, power, resistance, the Left, Uncategorized, Žižek

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Paul Mason: “Demonstrations matter – they create the kind of power politicians despise”

Posted on March 28, 2017 by

People are back in the streets:  ‘Crowds of protesters form lasting connections – and their later revolts always surprise elites. … The point is not that “mass action works” – it rarely does, on its own. The point is that it’s not futile.’

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Judith Butler interviewed on “Acting in Concert”

Posted on March 7, 2017 by

On the conditions and purposes of political action:  “For me, the crowds that matter are those that seek to assert the accountability of the state to the people it claims to represent, and to activate that popular dimension of democratic politics that has the power to legitimate or delegitimate a regime that seeks to lay claim to authoritarian control.”

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