°When the ground shakes
From the UC Santa Cruz occupation. (A much better slogan than “We won’t pay for your crisis” methinks - and “No return to normal” is particularly good too.) Read the “Communiqué from an Absent Future”.
°Activism bound
Some of the talk given at SydneyU earlier this year, and posted in light of current ‘events’.
First, it’s not surprising that the emergence of a so-called global activism was accompanied by debates about activism as such. Much of this turns around the crisis which Brett alluded to earlier: the refinement of ‘crowd control’ techniques that involve massive and often pre-emptive repression, movements increasingly constrained by barricades, designated protest zones, lockdowns and ever-more severe controls on migration during such events. But these are, let’s say, the external conditions of that crisis; whereas the crisis of activism itself runs much deeper. Because activism too has its borders, and the shape of these are not all that different from those more famously exercised upon it. Though it’s important to note that the specific techniques and levels of force do differ, the contours of those limits are remarkably similar. 
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°Holy dam
The above photograph is from Martin Krenn’s collection, “Fortress Heiligendamm”. Heiligendamm was, of course, the focus of the most recent event in the calendar of summit and anti-summit. Krenn notes: “For the Group of Eight summit, Heiligendamm was turned into a high-security fortress. 7.5 miles long and 8 feet tall, a fence was designed to protect the leaders of the world’s eight richest countries. The G8 summit in Heiligendamm costed a round 92 million euros just for security.”
°Anti-APEC protests as nationalism
Paddy Gibson, from Solidarity, puts the argument that the anti-APEC protests should be little more than a prelude to the elections that are scheduled to occur soon after. Or, a ‘vote’ against the Liberal-National Coalition Government.
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After over month-long occupations of universities and protests throughout Greece - below a report from D, via edu-factory:
°The Oedipal depolitical
There’s to be an APEC meeting in Sydney in September. Sydney’s Stop the War Coalition, intent on even further depoliticisation, is gearing up for organising demonstrations that have little to do with APEC but are, instead, protests against Bush (who will be in town for the duration).
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