On TUESDAY, December 6th at NOON at 16 Beaver, we host the Bristol Radical History Group (UK) to share our experiences of living, working, and organizing in these days, months, and years of crisis, to consider the effect of austerity on both sides of the Atlantic, and explore forms of resistance currently emerging. What will the future hold? And what chances are there of a further generalization of sectoral and community struggles?
The event will be at 16 Beaver at 12PM. See UPCOMING EVENTS and SEMINARS for information.
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Tagged with #ows, 16 Beaver, Austerity, Bristol Radical History Group, Occupy Wall Street, Radical History.
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December 5, 2011
With friends and comrades around the 16 BEAVER GROUP, THIS IS FOREVER is hosting Beyond Good and Evil Commons, a 3 DAY SEMINAR investigating the politics of debt and commons in contemporary social struggles.
The seminar runs from THURSDAY, August 18th to SATURDAY, August 20th. Start times are listed below. For full schedule including a description of the seminar and list of suggested readings, see UPCOMING EVENTS and SEMINARS.
Thursday, August 18th, doors at 4pm
Friday, August 19th, doors at 4pm
Saturday, August 20th, doors at 1pm
RAGS make paper
PAPER makes money
MONEY makes banks
BANKS make loans
LOANS make beggars
BEGGARS make
RAGS
Click here to download Introductory Remarks for the Seminar, with schedule and recommended readings.
[NOTE] The seminar is free but reservation is encouraged and can be sent, along with other inquiries, to seminars[AT]16beavergroup.com. A special website dedicated to the seminar has been created and is the best place to follow changes or updates.
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Tagged with 16 Beaver, Class Struggle, Commons, Crisis, David Graeber, Debt, Everyday Resistance, George Caffentzis, Militant Research, Seminar, Silvia Federici.
Comrades and collaborators of THIS IS FOREVER have assembled an online journal for the investigation of struggles in Japan amidst the nexus of state-capitalist and ecological disaster.
While we are observing the new impetus of global uprising against capitalism and the state, the catastrophic situation is arising in Japan. Triggered by the earthquake and tsunami of maximal scale, Northeastern part of Honshu has been devastated by the increasing number of losses and refugees, and the worsening nuclear disaster. The activity of the planet has shown not only its unequivocal nonhuman force but also the degree in which our societies and their apparatuses forged by capitalism are relying on, merging with, implicated in and expanding over the planet in an extremely ominous manner. What the so-called natural disaster is showing on this occasion is nothing but the implication of the apparatus in the environment and its fatal effects.
In this situation, we intend to translate, quote and analyze as much information as possible from Japanese into English, and translate your encouragements, comments, suggestions, analysis, proposals and anything written in English into Japanese for the vantage point of the people struggling there and everywhere.
For more information, see the site: http://jfissures.wordpress.com/ and the updates and writings posted by the J-Fissures Editorial.
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Tagged with Class Struggle, Crisis, Everyday Resistance, Japan, Publication, Sabu Kohso.
On SUNDAY, May 22nd at 7pm, THIS IS FOREVER is hosting a book launch at Bluestockings for Maria Mies’ recent publication “The Village and the World: My Life, Our Times.”
Activist-researcher, writer and ecofeminist, Maria Mies is one of the world’s original thinkers. Combined memoir and political tract, “The Village and the World,” packs in seventy-seven years of militant living: from the peasant origins of German village childhood to the world of the Indian subcontinent, from international campaigns to groundbreaking theory and feminist organizing. Silvia Federici, autonomist feminist thinker and close collaborator, will present on behalf of Mies, connecting issues of her life and times to urgent political questions of the day.
Maria Mies’ achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of “housewifisation”, the violence of colonisation and profound writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, she fights the General Agreement on Trade in Services, she fights against the patenting of life and tackles reproductive and genetic engineering as well as food security, but she never gives up hope that there is an alternative to present day injustice and exploitation; that “the good life” is possible. Her books include Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Stage
Silvia Federici is a scholar, teacher, and internationally renowned activist of autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is the author of Caliban and the Witch and editor of several books including Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its Others.
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Tagged with Maria Mies, Self-Reproducing Movements, Silvia Federici.
‘This Is Forever’ Event and Discussion Series returns in March 2010 to highlight, co-sponsor and coordinate a series of events in March.
The first event is FRIDAY March 11th at The Commons Brooklyn at 7PM on North African and Middle Eastern revolts.
See UPCOMING EVENTS and SEMINARS for information and a list of the next few events in the series.
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February 28, 2011
This Is Forever will be joining Godspeed You! Black Emperor for a number of shows during their Spring tour (in and near NYC and Chicago) with a literature table featuring AK Press, Autonomedia, Justseeds, and PM Press. The table support is in anticipation of a new TIF-related publishing project called Common Notions (PM Press imprint), which will be announcing its first titles in the coming year. More details on the tour and publishing project coming this spring. Stay tuned!
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Tagged with AK Press, Autonomedia, Common Notions, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Justseeds, PM Press.
This Is Forever is halting programming and organizing efforts for the fall in order to reorganize and lay the foundation for new projects in spring 2011. See you then!
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September 1, 2010
On Thursday, July 1st, THIS IS FOREVER Event and Discussion Series will be hosting Noel Ignatiev for a presentation and discussion of C.L.R. James’ classic essays “Every Cook Can Govern” and “The Invading Socialist Society.” Both essays can be found with an introduction by Noel in the recently published “A New Notion” (PM Press, 2010).
The event will be at Bluestockings Bookstore at 7PM. Discussion to follow.
Noel Ignatiev is a teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the editor of Lesson of the Hour: Wendell Phillips on Abolition and Strategy, the co-editor of Race Traitor and the author of How the Irish Became White. He lives in Boston.
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Tagged with Autonomy, C.L.R. James, Class Struggle, Crisis, Everyday Resistance, Noel Ignatiev, Radical History.
On Friday, May 7th, THIS IS FOREVER Event and Discussion Series will be hosting Conrad Herold for a presentation on the role of finance in class struggle today. The event will be at Bluestockings Bookstore at 7PM.
Can the Marxian framework comprehend the new, financialized, character of class struggle today? Despite important differences between Marx’s time and ours, there are also significant similarities. His was also an era of financial innovation, financial integration, and international financial crisis. Specifying what is new and what is not is a first step toward clarifying how Marx might analyze finance today. Likewise, examining how capital responded to financial crisis in the past can clarify where we may want to put our energies today.
Discussion to follow.
Conrad Herold is Professor of Economics and History at Hofstra University, New York. His research interest is contemporary Latin American Political Economy and Macroeconomics. He was born and raised in South America.
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Tagged with Class Struggle, Conrad Herold, Crisis, Finance, Midnight Notes.
On Sunday — 04.04.10, noon to 6PM — join us for Resurrecting a Revolutionary Cinema: The Hour of the Furnaces, a film screening and discussion co-presented by DocTruck, Libertad Gills, Red Channels, and the UnionDocs Collaborative and co-sponsored by Cinema Tropical and This is Forever.
On Easter Sunday we will present a daylong, open-ended, collaborative and community screening of Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas’ The Hour of the Furnaces. In organizing such an event the usual questions arise: what does a film about Argentina mean to us in the United States; what does a film from 1968 mean to us in 2010; and, more broadly, what is the function of a political film, a revolutionary cinema, in our contemporary cultural political and digitally mediated landscape.
The Hour of the Furnaces is historically seen as a benchmark, a landmark, of militant cinema; but with that it also becomes a remnant of a certain time and a place, a relic of a long-since-passed Zeitgeist. The danger
comes from the potential of presenting a memorial service; that the ceremonial structure of such an event will be an acting out, an anachronism.
The film’s tone, scope, scale, and exhibition demands necessitate a certain theatricality. Furnaces has a 4-hour running time, and three distinct parts with built-in intermissions designed for audience participation and open discussion. We will discuss all of this with a focus on the present. Coffee, tea, juice, bagels, and a simple brunch will be available throughout the day.
–The Hour of the Furnaces: Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism, Violence and Liberation -
Octavio Getino & Fernando Ezequiel Solanas,
1968, 230 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 230 minutes | Digital Projection
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Tagged with 16 Beaver, Militant Cinema, Militant Research, Radical History.