THANX by Lisa Rubenstein

 PLATE 1 is "WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK" still image. The slideshow below displays PLATES 2-31 of Lisa's book.

Die Neue Elite ist das Volk

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Andreas Maria Jacobs

Die Neue Elite ist das Volk

Ephemeral Visual Graffiti

Digital projection of a series of red & black stencil type-faced lettering on a white background constituting of various subjective, erratic political - sometimes poetical - statements & slogans

Perceived and written during the final stages of the economical and financial downfall of Empyre in the years 2010-2011

Screened live at Beursplein, Amsterdam during Occupy Amsterdam November 10 2011

Photos by Belle Phromchanya



WOMAN LOSES JOB FOR BLOOMBERG/WARLORD COMPARISON

FROM YESLAB:

"Bloomberg rep" fired from market research firm for performance highlighting absent mayor's violent tactics...

An actress who played a Bloomberg representative in a satirical performance a block away from the mayor's E. 79th St. residence this past Sunday was fired from her job as an independent contractor at a market research consulting firm.

"They said my performance had put the company in an uncomfortable position," said Mary Notari, who learned of her firing from a phone call Monday afternoon. "The mayor has said ‘No right is absolute’—including, apparently, the right to poke fun at him for using violent force against his own people and for bending the law to do so.”

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Call to Design: The GOOD + Occupy Design Challenge

GOOD and Occupy Design invite you to create a design, icon, or infographic that shares the unifying spirit of the Occupy movement. Submit designs here for a chance to have your design printed and promoted by Occupy Design.

FOR MORE INFO, CLICK HERE.

The Specifics

Occupy Design is a grassroots project which creates open-source visual tools around a common graphic language to unite the 99%. We’re calling all techies, artists and designers to volunteer their talents by submitting an image that bolsters this objective through creative data visualization.

All submitted designs will be voted on by the community. We’ll use $750 from the GOOD Fund in order to bring the winning design to life: Occupy Design will print and distribute the winning design, AND we’ll send the winner their design printed on a vinyl weatherproof sign and several 11×17 prints as well as an Occupy Design t-shirt.

Submissions should include the image of the design and a brief written description. You do not need to include a project plan or description of how the image should be used.

Individuals and organizations can participate. Once projects are submitted, rally your friends, family and colleagues to get behind your effort and join the GOOD community in voting for the best design.

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Occupy Wall Street Map

(Illustration: Nathan Cepis/ANIMALNewYork)

From: http://animalnewyork.com/

A New Day Begins At Occupy Wall Street

A New Day Begins At Occupy Wall Street from Claire on Vimeo.

8mm film by Claire Kelley

This Super 8 film was shot a half hour after police confiscated generators at Liberty Plaza and 24 hours before a snowstorm hit New York.

I showed it at the Detours film festival in Greece a few weeks ago
(http://www.festivaldetours.org/).

Claire

Poet-Bashing Police

Great American poet Robert Hass describes his Occupy experience in today's NY Times Sunday Review section.

NONE of the police officers invited us to disperse or gave any warning. We couldn’t have dispersed if we’d wanted to because the crowd behind us was pushing forward to see what was going on. The descriptor for what I tried to do is “remonstrate.” I screamed at the deputy who had knocked down my wife, “You just knocked down my wife, for Christ’s sake!” A couple of students had pushed forward in the excitement and the deputies grabbed them, pulled them to the ground and cudgeled them, raising the clubs above their heads and swinging. The line surged. I got whacked hard in the ribs twice and once across the forearm. Some of the deputies used their truncheons as bars and seemed to be trying to use minimum force to get people to move. And then, suddenly, they stopped, on some signal, and reformed their line. Apparently a group of deputies had beaten their way to the Occupy tents and taken them down. They stood, again immobile, clubs held across their chests, eyes carefully meeting no one’s eyes, faces impassive. I imagined that their adrenaline was surging as much as mine. 

Click HERE to read the rest of the story.

Concentric Circles

Occupennial co-organizer Paul McLean penned this essay on concentric circles and the structural dynamics of #OWS, plus related phenomena for his blog AFH2011. To read the essay, click the images above or below.

[NOTE: The final pre-publication draft version is HERE.]

Concentric Circles: A Conjecture about the Dimensional Nature of the Fast-Spreading Global Occupation, in Text and Images

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Interdiction is always a rule of the State; impossibility is a regulation of the real.” – Alain Badiou, “Highly Speculative Realism on the Concept of Democracy”

We’re living in a Post-9.17 World.

Two months + 1 after the #OccupyWallStreet movement (and it is one, now) congealed in Zuccotti Park, a sketch of the New World Order is in order. Last August, those of us who took Badiou’s seminar at the European Graduate School witnessed this trajabadore philosopher map infinity and finitude, using set theory, to assert a vision of the universe in which series of derivative values constituted a whole that itself existed as a beautiful, animated array of derivative components. The Omega of Badiou and the sets of finite phenomena, which are Its expression, are hinged in a conjecture. #OWS is such a conjecture: a being-event that impossibly de-regulates the real, and defies the parameters of superimposition. But how does such a moment work?

It’s my contention that Time is the only Object, and everything else is Subject. I asked Badiou during a coffee break whether Philosophy needed Art. It had become clear to me that art required the love of wisdom, the evaluative functions of philosophy, after encounters with the likes of Kittler, Lotringer, Agamben, Ronnell, Badiou and others. What wasn’t clear was whether philosophy, which could think about anything it seems, needed art. Badiou said, “Philosophy needs art, now.” I would suggest that #OWS proves this, because perceptually we appear to be spanning dimensions, and on this side of the void that attaches to progressive perceptual consciousness, we seem to have returned to the beginning. In the beginning there were concentric circles...

Occupy Wall Street: It Ain’t Over Yet

Occupennial co-organizer Chris Cobb wrote this essay for his SFMoMA blog. To read the essay in its entirety, click HERE.

Surely Fox and other news media wouldn’t deliberately try to smear a legitimate grassroots movement opposing such things as financial industry corruption, media corruption and bias, and political corruption? No of course not, the news is always fair and balanced.

OWS Library: “Books are like people”

To read the terrific chronicle about the #OWS Library, posted by Mira Schor on her blog "A Year of Positive Thinking," click the image.

When the NYPD raided the Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park this morning, they tossed  the 5,554 books that were assembled from donations into The People’s Library, an extemporaneous institution with a proper librarian and its own website,  into dumpsters.

According to the story as reported this morning on mediabistro.com: “According to the city’s eviction notice, the “property will be stored at the Department of Sanitation parking garage at 650 West 57th St.” But the librarians dispute this: “it was clear from the livestream and witnesses inside the park that the property was destroyed by police and DSNY workers before it was thrown in dumpsters.”

The People’s Library, set into the North East corner of the Park near the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street, was one of the most beautiful aspects of the occupation site...

SUNDAY, 11/20: Yes Men lab drum circle at Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.

Massive 24-hour DRUM CIRCLE and JAM SESSION party starting tomorrow, Sunday at 2pm, outside Mayor Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.

Tie-dye, didgeridoo, hackeysack welcome! No shirt, no shoes, no problem! And if you don't have talent, don't worry: FREE DRUM LESSONS offered! Also on offer: collaborative drumming with the police!

Even though this is a 24-hour drum circle, don't be late! The mayor loves evictions. Who knows what'll happen? In any case, there'll be an afterparty in world-famous Central Park right afterwards.

Please spread this announcement (www.yeslab.org/drumcircle) as far and fast as you can!

Occupy Printed Matter - November 19, 12-5PM

this Saturday (11/19) from noon to 5pm, we will be continuing our Occupy Printed Matter action.

We will be decorating their window with a new display of Occupy Wall Street art and occupying the sidewalk in front of their store with art…perhaps silkscreening this week, perhaps sign-making, perhaps life drawing, perhaps a visit from Occupy Legoland.

If anyone would like to contribute work–work small enough to be hung in a living collage in a store window, or from part of the adjoining ceiling space, or sculptures with a small enough footprint to fit on a relatively narrow sill–we will be evaluating and striving to accept as many submissions as possible at Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue between 22nd & 23rd, from 12-5pm tomorrow.

Remember Liberty Square!

Painting by Katherine Gressel

16 Beaver Teach-Ins, Sunday 11/20/11

Sunday - 11.20.11 -- Two Events -- Two Teach-Ins -- One Horizon

Event I -- Demystifying the Economic Crisis

What: Teach-in / Discussion with Paul Mattick

When: 4pm
Where: moved to 90 5th Avenue
Who: Free and open to all
For details please visit: http://allcitystudentoccupation.com

Some friends will be convening a series of analyses around the economic crisis. This, first in the series, Demystifying the Economic Crisis, will be with Paul Mattick (Adelphi, Philosophy) - author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism (2011)

To what do we owe the misery and economic hardship currently sweeping the globe, giving birth to a number of social movements including that of Occupy Wall Street? Reckless banks? Human greed? Amoral politicians? Financial speculation? Partial answers at best, bourgeois obscurities at worst. Come join in a discussion which seeks to expand the discourse circulating throughout the current US occupation movement.

Event II -- Art, Work, and Occupation

What: Teach-in / Discussion with Greg Sholette
When: Sunday, 11.20.11 at 7:00PM
Where: 16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
Who: Free and open to all

The evening's event will be a teach-in and discussion with artist, critic, and educator Gregory Sholette concerning the history of artistic
engagements with the politics of work since the 1960s. While focused on past traditions and initiatives, the presentation will open onto a group discussion of more recent artistic, theoretical and political developments related to concepts such as precarity, post-Fordism, immaterial labor, the cognitariat, and what Greg himself has called "dark matter." This
discussion will consider how these histories and concepts might be (re)activated relative to the Occupy movement, including but not limited to that of New York City as it enters a "post-Zuccotti" phase following the eviction of November 15th. Report-backs and reflections from November 17th actions are more than welcome following Greg's presentation.

Here are some points and questions devised in collaboration between Greg and 16 Beaver for possible discussion following his presentation:

1. What does the phrase "art worker" mean today, and how does it relate to the broader field of cultural labor that is so crucial to driving the uneven geographical development of cities such as New York?

2. In what ways have art and cultural workers more broadly contributed to the discourse and practice of occupation over the past two months? How have they been involved with the framing, staging, and messaging of the overall movement, on the one hand, while also beginning to organize themselves qua workers under the umbrella of "the 99%"?

3. How has the advent of the Occupy movement challenged art workers to recalibrate their relationship to the networks, economies, organizations, and institutions involved with the production and consumption of art and culture in some form of another?

4. What would it mean to "occupy the art world"? Does this question make any sense without a moment of self-recognition in which we see ourselves as a kind of culturally-redundant surplus to the very system that stamps out the professional passport for "artist" in first place? Are these very designations not complicated by the structural dynamics of precarious labor itself, in which many artists simultaneously work as art handlers, assistants, interns, janitors, students, adjuncts, parents, and beyond? How might an interrogation of the identity-card "artist" open up new possibilities of alliance and coalition with workers and activists in extra-artistic fields?

5. What is the ultimate goal of organizing art workers? Is it just about making things more fair by redistributing the art world's "real estate"? or should it not also address a deeper set of questions concerning time, labor, and value relative to the disciplinary imperatives of
neoliberalism? How do we negotiate in ideological and organizational terms the fact that the entrepreneurial models of subjectivity mandated by neoliberalism often appeal to an image of artistic flexibility, autonomy, and ingenuity, as exemplified by Richard Florida's infamous paradigm of the "creative class"? What if any new forms of class consciousness might the Occupy movements entail for workers in the artistic field in
particular and the cultural field more generally?

6. If the work of artists today somehow embodies and models the flexible, precarious, socially cooperative yet competitive, professional, cognitive, immaterial, relational, affective dimensions of the post-fordist worker; then what might an inquiry into the specific conditions or qualities of such a work imply or reveal for contemporary political struggles?

More information about these events: http://www.16beavergroup.org/11.20.11.htm

Occupy Yourself

Occupy Yourself… We are living Installations

The Movie

Michael Alan 

In solidarity with the occupation of Liberty Square

AT Judson Church entrance  

55 Washington Square South

Saturday, November 19th, 7pm till 10pmish

Free

a film about change, the limits of freedom, and an attack on fear. Working with the human body, metamorphosing into a living breathing installation that demonstrates we can withstand anything put onto us. Through intricate connections and juxtapositions in the guise of random chaos, these living installations transcend the injustices of the material world by employing these same materials upside down. We are more than property. We are more than buildings. We are part of Life. Living, breathing potential fire. With the ability to do anything. This is about people, not about businesses, faceless corporations or technology.

Through the simplest materials mixed and smashed, masks, multiple textures, stolen objects, and cut-up drawings rearranged artist Michael Alan adds on to his team of friends, and family. These fearless art activists armed, activated Glue-sprayed flesh joins together, splattered to combine into one boundless, self-aware living work of awarness. This artistic expression is in direct response to the confusing, uncertain and downtrodden world we all seem to experience. Occupy Yourself is a call to all individuals to become aware that limits are self-imposed and can be changed by going beyond barriers, thinking outside what you what should do, and joining together to overcome our imagined adversaries.

Action

OccupyYourself the movie will project on the Church entrance of Judson, were the political asylum is being held for the occupiers. Project it onto the entrance, then repeat and project many times, giving positive messages throughout the night to whoever shows. Everyone is asked to meet at 7pm at entrance of the church for a night of peace, and positive celebration of life. 

Michael Alan, Garry Boake, in solidarity with the Occupation of Liberty Square invite you for a night of Old time projection, awareness, and fun.This is a peace full action symbolizing Freedom and a pause in time, a new start, The entrance of the church represents a new beginning. OccupyYourself, Live Now, lets all get activated. Projection on the streets is a way to speak to the world around you. 

Cast and crew:  Garry Boake, Dave Modello, Theresa Magario ™, Michael Alan

Steev Perez, Raquel Mavecq, Kim De'ville, Kenny Scharf, Worm Carnevale, Teddi Rogers, Raquel Echanique, Dylan Morgan, Dave1,

Jarvis Jun Earnshaw, Emil BN,  George Marango, Nick Greenwald, Ana Andrade,  Julie Turner and many more



DISKJAMMY #8: CALL FOR COLLAB

CLICK THE IMAGE TO GO TO SEE THE PROSPECTUS.

#OCCUPYTHISMIXTAPE!!

A note from Jesse Darling:

Hi there,
I make a collaborative digital mixtape project inspired by the principles of bricolage, open-source and P2P data-sharing. It's always a jam and it's always a kind of experiment: each Diskjammy mixtape is a compilation of songs submitted by different people, from all over the world, in response to a brief. This brief takes the form of a particular theme or idea, and I try to keep these broad and universally resonant.

The theme for Diskjammy #8 had to be #occupy, or: "what are YOU fighting for?"

I'm looking for people's original music, spoken word, first-person accounts - or just favourite protest songs, good jams, music that represents this moment. I know there's been a lot of singing around Zucotti & environs - I wonder if you might post up the call for submissions, and help me make the mixtape-that-is-a-snapshot-of-a-movement. The greater the range and diversity of submissions, the better.

Let me know what you think.
Love & solidarity,
Jesse.

FROM THE PROSPECTUS:

What are YOU fighting for?


I want your songs of rage, your battle-cries, your protest songs; I want the new young soldier, the voice of a generation; I want the song that speaks of what has made you angry again, even after ten years or twenty; I want the song that wordlessly expresses all you care about. I want the song whose harmonies suggest new models for non-hierarchical self-organization. I want your tracts. I want voice recordings made in your bedroom or on your bike; I want you to identify, and express, what kind of a war we're fighting, and to speak your part in it - in your own words or someone else's, with beats or countermelodies, with silence, with breaks, with speech, with sound.

The mixtape is the quintessential token of exchange in a gift economy wherein love is the common currency (for a person, for an idea, or for the music itself). This seems appropriate enough given that the mechanisms of market capital are breaking down on all sides. "Something has been going on between the left earphone and the right earphone of this generation that represents a profound change in attitude" (Paul Mason, as before). I look forward to hearing it in mine.


[somewhat arbitrary but strictly enforced]
** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25/11/11 ** 

Occupy Records

Image added to OR website by DISCOJANE!

Occupy Records

What we're doing at Occupy Records is creating a platform to facilitate the connection between artists and fans who are involved with or inspired by the global Occupy movement.

Up until this point, there has been a lot of great music that's been created but no central place to share it or find it.  Thus, our initial goal is to encourage everyone - artists, music fans, activists, and anyone interested to join the community, share and connect with each other.

Going forward, we're going to be facilitating a series of releases of original music inspired by the Occupy movement that will benefit the cause, along with events, original video content, and other cool stuff. 

The ultimate goal is to have Occupy Records develop into its own self-sustaining media portal, allowing an organic global culture to flourish without interference from corporate interest.

Please enjoy the site, use it to share everything that inspires you, and spread the word.

Occupy Design

Click the image to learn more about Occupy Design, download images and find inspiration and visualization for 99% art and action.

#OWS Screenprinting Lab

Click the image to visit the Screenprinting Lab archive at Flickr.

Ken Jacobs Screening, Nov 13 2011

The night before the raid

OCCUPY CINEMA