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I had forgotten that we (Sean Dockray, Jason Smith and Matteo Pasquinelli) published an edited version of the text we presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010 in the first issue of …ment.

I was reminded because …ment is doing an event this Wednesday, the 29th of June, in Neuköln that looks great.

Here is a link to their first issue.

Here is info about our contribution:

There is Nothing Less Passive than the Act of Fleeing
What follows is a condensed and edited version of a text for a panel that was presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010. The panel shared the same name as a 13-day itinerant seminar in Berlin organized by Dockray, Waldorf, and Fiona Whitton earlier that year, in July. The seminar began with an excerpt from Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War, which was co-translated into English by Smith; and later read a chapter from Pasquinelli’s Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons. Both authors have also participated in meetings at The Public School in Los Angeles and Berlin.Both the panel and the seminar developed out of longer conversations at The Public School in Los Angeles, which began in late 2007 under Telic Arts Exchange. The Public School is a school with no curriculum, where classes are proposed and organized by the public.

The text is available here.

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We (Cara Baldwin, Ken Ehrlich, Michael Wilson) recently relaunched Occupy Everything and held a session at TPS to inaugurate the event as part of the Practicalities of Revolt class (with Ken, Michael and myself). The initial goal for the redesign was simply to make the site more legible and easy to navigate. The other ideas were to develop an open-editorial system (think the TPS methodology, but replace classes with texts) and to develop a resource section of the website. The open-editorial system is forthcoming, but we did develop and initial framework for comrades to upload resources and save them to their own lists. This is still very raw at the moment, but sometime soon will become a bit more robust to work with.

Stay tuned.

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We are excited to announce the opening of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN. On 18 September at 19:00 we will hold an event at Program called The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN.

Earlier this summer THE PUBLIC SCHOOL organized a 13-day seminar in Berlin, There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing… The seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin, took the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonated with the site selected. Please visit the project web site for more information on our activities and discussion topics: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing.html

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a facilitator and offers the class to those who signed up.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL was started in 2007 in Los Angeles by Telic Arts Exchange.

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There will be several things that take place at The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN:

1. A committee member of the THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LOS ANGELES will briefly discuss its history and how it operates.

2. We will have a discussion about how the school could work here and what shape(s) it could take.

3. We will create class proposals.

4. We will talk some more!

Please join us to find out more about the school and find ways that you can participate, including joining the committee (D.A.N.) to help run the school here.

If you have questions please get in touch. Also, please sign up for an account here and afterwards try proposing some classes. To see the activities happening at the other schools, please visit here.

Look forward to seeing you all this weekend!

WHAT: The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN
WHERE: PROGRAM, Invalidenstrasse 115
WHEN: 18 SEPTEMBER 19:00 HR


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Below is a list of the propositions submitted to the OccupyEverything site for the 2010 U.S. Social Forum.

  • Prop 1 – People’s seizure of Walmart, Inc. / Communize all Walmarts in State of California
  • Prop 2 – Occupy Disney / Common-ize Disney
  • Prop 3 – Truck Stop Autonomization Network Plan
  • Prop 4 – Guaranteed Minimum Income Act
  • Prop 5 – Green New Deal
  • Prop 6 – Lift All Travel Restrictions Across the Border with Mexico
  • Prop 7 – Legalize All Humans
  • Prop 8 – Common Fund for Public Education
  • Prop 9 – Outlaw Commercial Advertising
  • Prop 10 – Decriminalize Drugs
  • Prop 11 – Replace Money with Labor Vouchers
  • Prop 12 – Consumer Goods Priced According to Time Spent Making Said Goods
  • Prop 13 – Publicly-Owned Industry
  • Prop 14 – Democratic Decision-Making at Local, National and Union Levels
  • Prop 15 – Print Labor Value on Dollar Bills
  • Prop 16 – Abolish Usury / Criminalize Interest as a Form of Income
  • Prop 17 – Re-purpose 90% of U.S. Military for Domestic Public Works Projects Under Union Authority
  • Prop 18 – Land Tax on Rentable Value (High Threshold Exempting Farmers)
  • Prop 19 – Jubilee 2010 – Forgive all Non-Corporate Debt
  • Prop 20 – One year paid parental leave with guaranteed employment upon return
  • Prop 21 – Free day care and babysitting
  • Prop 22 – California Musician Corps (CMP) providing free music in parks, on street corners and beaches, kids’ birthday parties
  • Prop 23 – Maximum Income Cap (The Hollywood Gives Back Act)
  • Prop 24 – Government-subsidized health food coops in low income neighborhoods (The No Whole Foods Whole Paycheck Act)
  • Prop 25 – Disarmament for Social Satisfaction
  • Prop 26 – Technological Development for Social Satisfaction
  • Prop 27 – Economic Bill of Rights
  • Prop 28 – Democratisation of All World Financial and Economic System to Allow for Full Participation by All Countries (DAWFESAFPAC Now!)
  • Prop 29 – Re-distribute all existing bank assets to credit unions under worker/community control
  • Prop 30 – Public Ownership of All Large Databases
  • Prop 31 – The Immediate Abolition of All Private Health Insurance Companies through the Creation of a Single-Payer Health System (with full standard and alternative medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage for all)
  • Prop 32 – Public Ownership and Worker/Community Control of the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Prop 33 – Rent control for all rental units
  • Prop 34 – End to home foreclosures
  • Prop 35 – Public ownership and worker control of the airline industry
  • Prop 36 – Federally funded auto insurance
  • Prop 37 – Immediate transition to renewable fuels
  • Prop 38 – End to the expansion of the interstate highway system
  • Prop 39 – Fully-funded high-speed national rail system with low-cost access
  • Prop 40 – Fully-funded development of renewable fuels
  • Prop 42 – Fully-funded formation of non-profit land trusts and of socially owned, tenant controlled housing cooperatives
  • Prop 43 – Massive increase in Section 8 housing subsidies
  • Prop 44 – Fully-funded public housing construction project (low cost, scattered site, community-based, high quality housing)
  • Prop 45 – Student representation on all governing bodies at educational institutions
  • Prop 46 – Student, parent, and teacher control of curriculum formation, and in the hiring and dismissal procedures of school personnel, through the formation of local school/community committees
  • Prop 47 – An egalitarian, progressive educational system based on leading-edge research in non-authoritarian education modalities.
  • Prop 48 – Guaranteed incomes and grants for artists and performers
  • Prop 49 – Fully-funded libraries, museums, cultural centers, and historic sites
  • Prop 50 – Worker/community-owned public utilities
  • Prop 51 – Free Wi-fi for everyone
  • Prop 52 – Redefine economic theories of value so as to better account for immaterial labor
  • Prop 53 – Abolish the drinking age
  • Prop 54 – Violent social revolution
  • Prop 55 – The negation of the state and authority
  • Prop 56 – Free Revolutionary Discipline
  • Prop 57 – Abolish taxation by the state
  • Prop 58 – Workers and Community Self-Management. Period.
  • Prop 59 – Eco-Communes Now.
  • Prop 60 – Abolish Property.
  • Prop 61 – Time banks
  • Prop 62 – Let a million autonomous zones bloom
  • Prop 63 – Archaic revival
  • Prop 64 – Clear-eyed resistance without nostalgia
  • Prop 65 – Permanent revolution
  • Prop 66 – Evacuation of all corporate institutions
  • Prop 67 – Evacuation of all government institutions
  • Prop 68 – Evacuate everything
  • Prop 69 – Immediately establish a decentralized, federated society of smaller, autonomous communities
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Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere.

Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection?

Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.

The Public School is organizing a 13-day seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin. This seminar takes the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonate with the site selected. On 18 July The Public School and The Office will host an event to be held at Salon Populaire. The day will unfold as a series of participatory conversations and workshops.

Please join us in Berlin or at The Public School to sketch, scheme and build new imaginaries. (Los Angeles,PhiladelphiaNew YorkBrusselsParisSan JuanHelsinki)

Organized by Sean Dockray, Caleb Waldorf and Fiona Whitton

Here for more…

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