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ABANDON ALL HOPE

By destroy all

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“The possessions of the rich are stolen property.”

 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon  

(French Politician and Journalist, 1809-1865)

JAZ

By JAZ

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"'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect."

- Emma Goldman

CAREFREE VACANT PROPERTY

Carefree vacant property (Leegstand zonder zorgen with English subtitles) 

from Abel Heijkamp

7 Dutch people of the 2 largest anti-squat agencies Camelot property management and Ad Hoc property management are followed to investigate what are the consequences of not having renters rights.

Who are using the services of anti-squat agencies? and how do politicians, housing experts, lawyers and others involved judge this rising phenomenon.

Temporary tenants/guardians, who are often unable to find a home on the housing market, are placed in empty buildings to prevent squatting and disrepair. By becoming guardians, tenants find themselves in a position where they have almost no rights. For instance, the special type of ‘’licence agreement’’ stipulated can be ended without any reason at two weeks notice, the domestic peace is not respected,

people may not throw parties and may not talk to the press without prior permission. More than 30 rules violate the European Convention of Human Rights.

The documentary makes visible this hidden reality and tries to stir up the debate around what are better ways of dealing with empty properties.

In The Netherlands the documentary has stirred a big public debate in parliament and in the media.

Anti-squat agencies are rapidly spreading in Europe and are already active in The Netherlands, England, Belgium, France, Germany and Ireland.

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"Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all."  

--August Spies, Haymarket anarchist

PHAT TRUCK POST

THE RUM DIARY

American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.

.. cancel my agenda, this is what I am watching tonight now that the DVDRIP is out.

giyf.

DANCECULT

The Aesthetics of Protest in UK Rave

By Ramzy Alwakeel (Independent scholar)

Abstract

Informed by the conceptualisation of an "aesthetic politics" around largely unlawful rave and dance scenes in Britain between the late-1980s and mid-1990s, this article explores negotiations between these EDMCs and the British Parliamentary and legal establishments. Two case studies will inform the argument that rave culture effects a "performative protest". That is, Autechre's response to the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act and the work of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in the late-1980s will be discussed in order to suggest that rave can be considered a speech-act that immediately communicates its own refusal to submit to authority. It will be suggested that rave's responses to power structures derive from the internal dynamics of its own aesthetic politics. I shall conclude that rave has often functioned as a potent political vehicle on its own terms, but that the embrace of its own multiplicity safeguards it against exhaustion by any single agenda.

FULL TEXT HERE (DANCECULT)

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MAKING A NOISE

Making a Noise – Making a Difference: Techno-Punk and Terra-ism

By Graham St John (University of Queensland)

This article charts the convergence of post-punk/post-settler logics in the techno-punk development in Australia. Exploring how punk would become implicated in the cultural politics of a settler society struggling for legitimacy, it maps the ground out of which Labrats sound system (and their hybrid outfit Combat Wombat) arose. It provides an entry to punk through an analysis of the concept of hardcore in the context of cultural mobilisations which, following more than two centuries of European colonisation, evince desires to make reparations and forge alliances with Indigenous people and landscape. To achieve this, the article traces the contours and investigates the implications of Sydney’s techno-punk emergence (as seen in The Jellyheads, Non Bossy Posse, Vibe Tribe and Ohms not Bombs), tracking the mobile and media savvy exploits of 1990s DIY sound systems and techno terra-ists>, aesthetes and activists adopting intimate and tactical media technologies, committing to independent and decentralised EDM creativity, and implicated in a movement for legitimate presence.

Keywords

techno, anarcho-punk, hardcore, sound systems, postcolonialism, Sydney techno-punk scene

Contents

Making a Difference

Hardcore: Intimate and Tactical

Knowing the Score: EDM and Tactical Dance

"Improtopia": Sydney Techno-Punk

Party-Machine: Vibe Tribe

Techno Circus and Desert Punks

Conclusion

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.

If you're a man, you take it"

- Malcolm X

FRESH ROA

By ROA

KRAKEN WAAROM NIET?

Kraken, waarom niet? from Stoorzender.tv on Vimeo.
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Short dutch documetary on squatting. (dutch only). A bit outdated because it's made in the months before the law against squatting was passed 2 years ago. Still contains some good arguments though!

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WINTER CONSPIRACY

More info @ http://www.winterconspiracy.cz/

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CAPITALISM IS NOT IN CRISIS

Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the "austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many more!

The 2008 "financial crisis" in the United States was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft of public money in history.

Instead, the rich forced working people across the globe to pay for their "crisis" through punitive "austerity" programs that gutted public services and repealed workers' rights.

Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.

This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.

Special attention is devoted to the crisis in Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.

It may be their crisis, but it's our problem.