New School is Re-occupied, Students Are Arrested

We support any kind of civil, peaceful disobedience against power. We believe that the only way to constitute a true democracy, is to develop a strong sense of scepticism against governing bodies. We beleive participation, conflict, and dialogue. If there is no resistance, there is no democracy, a very simple equation.
When New School students was [...]

Turk Devleti Sansuru

“BU SİTEYE ERİŞİM ENGELLENMİŞTİR”
Turk hukumeti (Pakistan, Cin ve diger yari demokratik veya teokratik devletler gibi) bazi sitelere ulasimi kapatti. Tabii ki cesitli yazilimlar  ile bu sansurun ustesinden gelmek mumkun: Tor: anonymity online http://www.torproject.org/ sitesine giderek gerekli programi yukleyin ve talimatlari takip edin, dilediginiz siteye ulasin.  Bunun gibi anti demokratik uygulamalarin ardi kesilmesi icin   dusuncelerinin (her nasil [...]

Networked Cultures – The Dialogues (May to December 2008)

xurban_collective contributed to a book project “Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space“  co-edited by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer.
It includes essays by Adrian Blackwell, Marina Grzinic, Irit Rogoff and AbdouMaliq Simone, and conversations with Özge Açıkkol, Azra Aksamija, Ayreen Anastas, Ricardo Basbaum, Jochen Becker, Matei Bejenaru, Ursula Biemann, Sylvie Blocher, Stefano Boeri, [...]

Sent by: Emily Jacir thru Shobak

To: shobak@idash.org
Today’s Shobak includes a series of links to Qana
killings, sent by New York/Ramallah based Palestinian
artist Emily Jacir.
I really have no notes to add today….
In Bengali there is a phrase:
“Olpo shok e kathor
Odhik shok e pathor”
[With some sorrow you writhe in pain
When sorrow is too much, you turn to [...]

Updates on Lebanon – DONT FORGET GAZA

From: emily
Sent: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: Updates on Lebanon – DONT FORGET GAZA
Firstly, please check out this new site. There are constant updates on the situation in Lebanon as well as dispatches and diaries:
http://electronicLebanon.net
For Palestine go to:
www.electronicintifada.net
Report: 92 Palestinians killed, 326 injured, in last ten days of Israeli attacks on Gaza
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