Monthly Archives: May 2010
The Tower: A Songspiel
The Tower: A Songspiel, 2010 A film by Chto Delat This film is the final part in a trilogy of socially engaged musicals that the Chto Delat collective began work on in 2008. This cycle includes the video films Perestroika … Continue reading
“Who Would Ever Learn Philosophy to Make Money?”: Boycott Middlesex U Now!
Courtesy of Infinite Thought, here is a video, entitled “This is a movement now” and featuring a recent speech by Tariq Ali, about the protest campaign against the announced closure of the Middlesex University philosophy program. This is the first of … Continue reading
Letters from Tehran
Our comrade Vahid Valizadeh, writing in Vertigo on Tehran’s visual culture (in this case, a BMW ad on the city’s Hemmat highway): We think we are spoken to. Today’s god hails me. ‘I’ am invited to feel power, to experience pleasure. Obviously … Continue reading
Middlesex U: The “Crime” of Protest
This just in from Infinite Thought: Four students were suspended on Friday 21 May: Ali Alizadeh, Nicola Goodchild, Johann Hoiby, and Hoi Yen Voong. The suspension blocks them ‘from entering any part of the University’s premises without written permission’ from … Continue reading
Filed under activism, critical thought, political repression, student movements
La Huelga de la UPR (Videos)
Here are some lovely videos from the ongoing strike at the University of Puerto Rico, courtesy of the comrades at MRZine and Occupy California. Alberto Bartolomei, 2 horas en la Huelga de la UPR Raymond O’Brien, 1 Universidad : 1 Pueblo … Continue reading
Filed under activism, film and video, protests, student movements
No, no, no, no, no, no, Mr. Suit! (More on the Middlesex Philosophy Closure)
Sarah Amsler, “Saving Philosophy from the Suits”: However, the anaesthetized method of this closure is also a purifying and perhaps transformative revelation: the emperor has finally admitted there are no clothes. It is not about education or research or knowledge … Continue reading
Filed under critical thought, student movements
“In the Middle of a Reactionary Crowd”: Attacks on Journalists in the Moscow Region
Better late than never, we guess: the New York Times on the wave of assaults on opposition and muckracking journalists in the Moscow Region, including Mikhail Beketov and Yuri Grachev, in 2008–2009, and the “failure” of law enforcement officials to … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, political repression, Russian society
University of Puerto Rico under Siege
From Occupy California: 14 MAY 2010 HUMANITIES ACTION COMMITTEE TO STUDENTS AND CIVILIANS WORLDWIDE STATE OF PUERTO RICO LOCKS STUDENTS INSIDE UNIVERSITY Just yesterday, May 13th, the students of Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico ratified the … Continue reading
Middlesex Occupation Ends, Fight Continues
The occupation is over, the campaign continues At 8pm on Friday 14 May 2010, Middlesex University management served a High Court injunction to end a twelve-day student occupation of the Mansion building at Trent Park. The occupation began on Tuesday … Continue reading
Open Appeal from the Union of Inhabitants of the Kuzbass
http://vpered.org.ru/index.php?id=544&category=4 Nothing is known about the Union of Inhabitants of the Kuzbass, which has issued this appeal. We do not know whether it reflects the opinion of the hundreds of workers who blocked the railroad in Mezhdurechensk on the evening … Continue reading
