Discussion on “Squats, Social Centers and Autonomous Spaces” at Tamiment Library, NYU for the Anarchist Book Fair, NYC April 2011 Now Online

This excellent multi-generational discussion on “Squats, Social Centers and Autonomous Spaces” at the Tamiment Library, New York University, held for the Anarchist Book Fair, NYC April 2011 – was recently Youtubed by the organizer, Sebastian Gutierrez in several segments starting at: "Squats, Social Centers and Autonomous Spaces - I".

Hanging Out: That's What It's About

I've been abandoned by my host in Hamburg – something about a birthday party in the countryside... He rode a horse for the first time. So I wander down to the Gängeviertel, an artists' occupation in Hamburg Mitte (central city). I've blogged this place before, on my summertime research visit here last year. It was occupied in '09 by artists who already had studios in this crumbling complex of low-rise buildings. It's a block of 19th century workers' housing, very quirky architecture. (That's the photo, ca. 1900, above.) In the past it was nothing special – but now it is. It's the last of its kind in central Hamburg. Yesterday it was lunchtime, and everything was closed. There's nowhere down there to eat. The workers on the giant building projects which ring the Gängeviertel are gobbling lunch in a tiny takeout sandwich shop. By now I really have to pee, and face the prospect of choosing a place to eat simply because it has a toilet. (Ah, age...) But at the Gängeviertel I find a high-mounted compost toilet! Perfect – it's a feminist project; I'm not exactly sure how or why... some fool pissed in the sawdust anyhow.
I find a nice lunch special up the street at Happi Sushi, a family run shop very unlike the main run of office worker takeout joints. Upon returning I find Regina opening her shop at the Gängeviertel. It's full of artists' works very low-priced, postcards, etc. – souvenirs of the artists' complex. Regina is an old-time San Francisco squatter who's been in Hamburg for 15 years. In the bay area, she worked with Rene Castro and Project Artaud. (Dunnno about anything about that, but the name is right by me; I love Antonin.) Contrary to what we thought when we were doing our show there last week, it turns out Rote Flora had an “art club” upstairs 10 years ago. It's been forgotten by present users. (Later I'm told it was more like a bar, with drinks and sketching, and it moved out.)
We are chatting and along comes C., a guy I met last year who loves the Gängeviertel. He's into a jazz festival in Morocco, a charming guy who's lived an adventurous life as a “permanent beginner.” We have a coffee, and he tells me stories of sailing on the Mediterranean, eating crab with ganja pancakes... the cafe smells of hashish. It's the place where you can lose your whole day... Regina and C. tell me about an art circus that passed through here from Lisbon on its way to Paris – “Arte Ocupa.” Things could really get rolling, if I can hook up with those guys. Now I am packing packing for Paris. Popped by Frise artists' house in Altona where I stayed in the summer to say hello to Sabine Mohre, my host then. She says Gängeviertel may get the chance to buy their squat – in Hamburg, that's how they say “we love you.”

Photo: Brauerknechtgraben um 1900, in the Gängeviertel
posted on http://hummel-hummel.blog.de

LINKS:

http://das-gaengeviertel.info/

the-toilet-project.tumblr.com

http://www.arte-ocupa.vipulamati.org/

We Squat – House Projects, Collective Factories and Scholars in Berlin

Berlin! The big city, just like I pictured it. The style here knocks me out. And the trains get me lost. But the place is very doable on a bicycle, so I got one, a fat tire clunker that was just fine. The Squatting Europe (SQEK) conference was a blast. Most of us bunkered up all together at the Rote Insel, a “house project” squatted in 1981 southwest of Mitte (central city) in -----------. The place was big, with screaming murals on the outside, graffiti and radical posters all up inside it. Lots of Basque stuff – the nationalist movement that spawned ETA, an armed clandestine group – and “antifa” (anti-nazi, anti-fascist) slogans and decor. The house logo is an AK-47 between two palm trees! But really, most of that militance seems to be in the past. R----, who showed me around the house when I arrived, is a little embarrassed by that logo, and all the really hardcore posters are yellowed and peeling... Which doesn't mean these guys don't go on the streets when the state fucks with their movement. Rich folks' cars do sometimes get burned and bank windows get broken when a long-term house project gets evicted by the court so a developer can get to work. There was one of these dust-ups not too long ago, actually.
We, however, was in like Flynn, staying in the visitors' quarters of the house project. Gunejt, a resident from Istanbul, cooked a splendid meal for us on the first night, working from almost nothing it seemed. I bought a couple bottles of red wine, very cheap and good here in a city of beer, but a real luxury for the guests at the Rote Insel. Gunejt – it's pronounced like a French “Jeunait” maybe – is a trained photographer who worked archeological sites and now is cooking to get by in Berlin. A sharp cookie and a sweetheart. His brother lives in a community of “overnight houses” in Turkey. In these towns he said, is “the craziest architecture you ever saw.” The overnight houses are traditionally legal – if you build a house on unused land during one day's time, you can stay. In practice, the government often sends soldiers to evict them. “They do what they want,” Gunejt said.
The next day, the rest of the crew rolled in. Lynn from Vermont, Edward (mujinga.net) from the Brighton-based Cowley Club, Miguel and Elly from Madrid (CSOA Casa Blanca and Critical Mass, respectively), and Daniel from France with his partner. Tisba, who organized the conference on-site, showed up and jawed with R----, our host. They had never met; all had been arranged through someone else. This is the nature of good connections in the culture of resistance – they are fast and firm.
The conference was amazing. I have never been to anything like it (and I've been to beaucoup). We heard each other's papers, and responded carefully and insightfully. Nearly every conversation was meaningful. We lunched on-site at a kitchen run by a street theater company. Then we were also toured! The Rote Insel had their bar night and Voku – peoples' kitchen – on Monday night as always, and they told us the story of their house. The next day we were toured through an even older squat-based house and collective working project, the Regenbogen Fabrik (Rainbow Factory). Our grinning host with the red bandana was simultaneously translated by two young historians as he told of the 19th century factory yard and houses behind. These had been painstakingly renovated with a good deal of sustainable technology over the course of decades. Among the projects in the factory is a woodshop and a bike shop. Both do conventional work, but they are run collectively and they are open to a public to participate and learn these crafts. The Regenbogen also has a beautiful “sofa cinema” – a large room full of yes, couches – with 16mm and 35mm projection and a theatrical video beamer. This project actually was burned out by neo-nazis some years ago. I wonder why it is the dream factory that is seen as so threatening; the Surrealists of Paris also endured a fascist attack on their cinema in the 1930s. Regenbogen Fabrik's most successful money projects are a cafe and a hostel. I'll try this charming cooperative compound on my next visit.
Next we were toured through Kreuzberg by Carla and Armin, two historians of the movement. Carla showed us sites that have figured in the redevelopment of the district in the tangled history of struggle between the forces of capital and the peoples' resistance. That sounds so lame and old hat... But, like the conference papers, you will have to visit the House Magic website in the coming weeks and months, or wait for the book, to learn more! Actually maybe not – a show is being planned about the squatting movement in Kreuzberg for one week in early September. I expect it will be amazing. Already it is amazing that in fact there is no book on the squatting movement in Berlin! A handful of novels have been written. And a number of archives are bulging with material – zines and flyers and posters and videos. But the story of this decades long resistance to top-down urban redevelopment has simply not been told. It will be as new to most young Berliners as to the rest of the world.
The SQEK meetings were held in the New Yorck Bethanien, a big social center in an old hospital that was squatted several years ago. (That story is told on the House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence website, and in zine #1 – it searches up easy.) NYB will host some version of the Hamburg show that is now at the Rote Flora – when and how ain't yet clear. I booked out of the Rote Insel to stay with A-----, a graphic designer who is working at the NYB and will help arrange the show. He's made some knockout graphics for the Mediaspree campaign, an attempt to hold back the privatization of the Spree riverbank. We cycled by a quaint old Bauwagenplatz – a trailer encampment – along the Spree this morning. They host a beer garden and stage during the summer months. A----- said the camp faced a cooperative living development that had been built by well-to-do people. Despite the announced good intentions of these bourgeois, A----- felt the days of the encampment were numbered. Someone can make a lot of money there, right? Yeah. I had a chance to return to the Kreuzberg museum where I had seen a beautiful book “Wagenburg: Leben in Berlin” about these encampments. It is a portfolio of prints – maybe made in the museum's spacious book arts workshop – celebrating the free-living style of these gypsy-type encampments.
On my last day here I breakfasted in the Bateau Ivre cafe (drunken boat; a reference to Rimbaud). It's on the former “squatter village” square near the Bethanien. Then I visited a spot we had passed in the tour, the Oh 21 bookshop. We had been told this shop was the continuance of a squat infoshop. So are many bike shops in Berlin continuing from the open workshop days of squatting. Oh 21 had a nice poster in the window of a moose kissing a camel – it advertises a forthcoming event queer and transgender people for which they are a sponsor. I bought a copy of Alexander Kluge's epic film on Marx and Eisenstein, hoping it is subtitled in English. (The Goethe Institut showed this over three days in New York City recently.) I also picked up a back copy of “Interim,” a cheap-printed radical zine that happened to have an article on the New Yorck Bethanien in it. I asked if this was the same magazine that the police had confiscated at the Schwarze Risse (black crack) bookstore in the Mehringhof? They told us this story of the police in the bookshop, and I could scarcely believe it. In these days of e-info, why bother to bull into a bookstore? Yes, she told me. They had been five times to the Oh 21 to do the same thing. Zounds! Old habits die hard...
There is too much more to tell of this intense exposure to the deep squatting culture of Berlin – and I am not really taking a rest after the pressure cooker. Today I am off to Hamburg to see and talk about our show at the Rote Flora...

Berlin Conference on Squat Research, March 29-31 // Solidarity Show at Rote Flora Open Now

We're going to Berlin! The SQEK group – Squatting Europe Research Collective – is having a conference at the New Yorck in the Bethanien occupation in Kreuzberg, West Berlin. SQEK is described in this text from the June 2010 London meeting (I blogged it), “Squatting Europe is a research network focusing on the squatters' movement. Our aim is to produce reliable and fine-grained knowledge about this movement not only as an end in itself, but also as a public resource, especially for squatters and activists. Critical engagement, transdisciplinarity and comparative approaches are the bases of our project. The group is an open transnational collective (Squatting Europe Kollective, SQEK) whose members represent a diversity of disciplines and fields of interest seeking to understand the issues associated with squats and social centres across the European Union.”
It's militant research – an academic trend that a 2009 seminar in New York laid out, complete with bibliography, including the texts in David Graeber and Stevphen Shukaitis (eds), Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007). And the New Yorck Bethanien is a good place to have it. It's a recent occupation in the old hospital complex in Kreuzberg. Their website explains, “On June 11th 2005, residents and collectives of the house project 'Yorck 59' squatted 2 floors of the southern wing of the Bethanien, this happening just 5 days after being evicted violently by more than 500 cops from the Yorck Street 59. Since then, many new collectives and groups joined the project, in spite of repression and threats of eviction. One of them being the 'Initiative Zukunft Bethanien', which in June 2006 handed over more than 14.000 signatures to the district government - to call for an open cultural, artistic, political and social centre in the Bethanien and to prevent the buildings privatization.”
I have been very busy – and Michel Chevalier busier still, making this show in Hamburg which is up now: "Nicht das Neue, nicht das Alte, sondern das Notwendige," a No Wave Squatter Punk (Anti)Art Ausstellung, March 21-April 3, 2011. This is an exhibition at the Rote Flora (Red Flower), an occupied theater in Hamburg, Germany on the occasion of their negotiation for renewal of permission to use... In other words, a solidarity show with this center for independent political culture. The show consists largely of art information sent from New York City by agents of Colab and ABC No Rio that show a continuous history of radical culture in that global city.
Michel enthuses: “For two weeks an attempt will be made to put as much life and sense as possible into a mythical era that has not yet been fully understood: the tumultuous last gasps of musical and art rule-breaking in the capital of the twentieth century. In the first week, the Rote Flora will house an historical panorama (prints, books, posters, zines, videos, records) of the radically anti-commercial music, film and art-collective production that evolved in several low-income (and crumbling!) neighborhoods of New York City in the late seventies and early eighties. These people were not rule-breaking formalists of the ivory-tower type. Their struggles included attacks on the organization of society through norms, repression, and neoliberal "urban renewal" plans, and their gritty gallows-humor and clear focus was a karate kick against the sunny amnesia, the return to the 1950s, that Reagan and his friends in the consciousness industry propagated with their overwhelming means. Most of the rule-breakers we look back on said goodbye, forever, to normal careers and even, in the case of the many featured artists who were also squatters, to physical safety.
“In the second week, the previous artifacts will be supplemented by the more recent research and concerns of some of the "survivors" of this time and place, in particular the information project undertaken by Alan Moore (Colab, ABC No Rio), dedicated to raising awareness of Social Centers in squatted buildings worldwide, of which the Rote Flora is an example. Moore's new book on politicized collectives between 1969 and 1985 will also be included in the exhibition, and he will come for a talk at the Rote Flora on April 3rd. Our program will be further amplified by food from the Volksküche, a DJ battle, video screenings, a performance by Deus Ex Machina (Berlin), and a satirical DIY treatment of a wealthy Hamburg polit-kitsch painter. This project is the first attempt to collect these materials on this scale in Europe.”
I can't wait to see it!
MEANwhile, very cool and dire action on the left and right in London – Squattastic group is mobilizing against the upcoming anti-squatter law push. (Many cool Nils Norman-esque posters on their blogspot). And the Really Free School is rolling along, being very smart and engaged. (No gods, no schoolmasters – only you and alla youse.) Wunderbar dass todos geht fort – hulloo! hulloo!

LINKS:

Some materials from SQEK are at:
http://sqek2010.blogspot.com/

The SQEK program of talks, and my notes from the 2010 London conference are at:
https://sites.google.com/site/housemagicbfc/

This Is Forever militant and co-research seminar syllabus:
http://www.thisisforever.org/fall-seminar

New Yorck in the Bethanien
http://www.yorck59.net/

Squattastic posters are cool
http://squattastic.blogspot.com/

Really Free School
http://reallyfreeschool.org/?paged=2

“Prepare for the General Strike”

Eric Drooker's sticker for the IWW Madison is getting us ready -- "Be prepared for the General Strike if and when it is called..." (The feline lead in the picture is the anarchist 'sabo-cat.')
Now it continues... More and more Republican-controlled states in the U.S. are trying to break their public employee unions. (My information is mainly from the close daily reporting of democracynow.org newscasts.) A chief target is teachers. Maybe in a while teaching will become a job for which you only need to know how to read – like in Afghanistan, a country to which Slavoj Zizek recently compared the U.S.. In addition to the prolonged occupation of the Wisconsin statehouse in Madison, there have been other demonstrations at the statehouse in Michigan. Although the attack on the politically powerful public sector unions is happening in other states, Wisconsin's right wing is taking the hardest line. (Home of Joe McCarthy, after all.)
My mom is there, watching TV and fretting. Now, apparently, despite the flight of the Democratic legislators to avoid having to lose the vote, the governor's union-busting bill has passed due to some shifty parliamentary maneuvering. Already, over the years, unions in Wisconsin have been weakened by the corporate flight of jobs to other states, and overseas. For Wisconsin, the pauperization of the public education system spells an end to a future skilled workforce. The right now is closing in for the kill. If these chumps get their way, Wisconsin will become a right-to-work state, like Mississippi – ripe to exploit a non-union work force. The campaign is well-orchestrated. Now, paid advertisements are running, setting private sector workers against public sector union workers. Likely then big corporations like those controlled by the infamous Koch brothers will come in with lots of nice low-wage jobs. My mom is appalled. She says, “Everything I've taken for granted all my life” is over with. Everything is being dismantled so easily, and so fast. Now she can see how it went in the Weimar Republic with their famous vacillating socialists. Of course there is fightback, like the doomed Spartacists of Berlin. The ever-busy Edu-Factory website tipped me that the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee's theater building has been occupied by students resisting Governor Walker's planned cuts.
Yesterday, Wednesday, March 9, 2011, I listened to Naomi Klein speak to Amy Goodman. Klein is the author of “Shock Doctrine,” the classic text on how hypercapitalism uses crises to impoverish workers and privatize public goods. For the right, crisis is opportunity – and the economic crisis is their chance to push through legislative measures that strip workers of rights. It's the climax of a 50-year war against trade unions; public sector unions were the last union stronghold, and now they're going after it. For Klein, the mass mobilizations in Wisconsin are an example of how to resist the shock doctrine. Why would the troglodytes do it? Money, duh. All of these care-giving services, services that mainly women provide can be very profitable if they are privatized. Ultimately, it's a corporate coup d'etat: the government is dissolved, and a company takes over. (This has happened, she said, in Sandy Springs, Georgia.) You don't get to vote. But you still pay taxes. (Sound familiar? Hmm... 1776? Ask Aaron Burr.)
And our president? According to Klein, there's been a lot of denial about who Obama is. Mainstream organizations have been waiting to see what Obama was going to do. (Even as they withdrew support for political direct action.) And behold, he didn't really do very much to end the privatizing and exploitation.
Where can unions go? What can they do? I have always somehow believed in a syndicalist solution – contest the corporations on their own ground, like Mondragon in Spain. Already it seems the Alinsky Foundation, the Industrial Areas Foundation (which nurtured the Cesar Chavez's UFW in the 1960s) is moving in this direction, designing co-op health care, and co-op housing alternatives to foreclosures and the like. Organizers are at work and things are happening.
While it may be only art, a lot of aesthetic and conceptual thinking has gone into these kinds of ideas. The irrepressible Steve Lambert pumps his Anti Advertising Agency, which includes the Samaras Project, about alternative economies. This was run by Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald -- I am always amazed by the stuff these guys get up to. These and other artists are opening roads that others can travel. I mean, they are talking Venture Communism!
Last U.S. news concerns resisting the plans of Big $ U's -- In Florida, a classic tree-sitting occupation is one month old – defending the Briger Forest of Florida, upland pine scrub and home to endangered tortoise and fern. It is slated to be razed for the Scripps Institute biotechnology and bio-science facility. Everglades Earth First! calls for donations to support the tree-sitters.
Meanwhile, here on the continent, the Madrid social center Tabacalera has been closed for a week to hold a series of internal discussions. This weekend there is a seminar to consider the effects of the right-wing neoliberal city government of Madrid. Again, I will be out of town... And on the shining isle – A group calling themselves Topple The Tyrants have just occupied the £10m Hampsted Mansion of Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, in solidarity with the Libyan people and their struggle to overthrow the murderous Gaddafi regime. A spokesman for the group said “We didn't trust the British government to properly seize the Gaddafi regime's corrupt assets, so we took matters into our own hands.... The British government only recently stopped actively helping to train the Libyan regime in 'crowd control' techniques, through the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and a Midlands-based arms manufacturer, NMS Systems.” I'd say watch your asses – the Libyan secret police may try to shoot you – they did that before, during a protest at the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. Killed a young policewoman.

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LINKS:

Eric Drooker's sticker for the General Strike in hi-res, English & Spanish:
http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2011/03/be_prepared_for_the_general_st.html

Reporting on the ongoing crisis of public employee unions:
http://www.democracynow.org/
(Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Naomi Klein speaks to Amy Goodman)

Aaron Burr Society – (re. 1776)
http://aaronburrsociety.org/aaron_burr_society_home.html

Anti Advertising Agency
http://antiadvertisingagency.com/

Venture Communism
http://www.telekommunisten.net/venture-communism

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee's theater building occupation
http://uwmoccupied.wordpress.com/

Briger Forest Tree Sit
www.ScrapScripps.info

Saif Gaddafi's London mansion occupied
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/03/475379.html

Lentil Stew at the White House

Much to tell, maybe, now I am in Madrid. I've been holed up writing, but made a few forays – to Tabacalera CSA on a busy night, buzzing with many immigrants there for a music night and African crafts show in the bar. It's a huge, busy social center with the disconcerting presence of uniformed security officers paid by the state. This is counter-culture and this is official. Wild. I was there to meet videotistas from Tabacanal, the on-site internet video project. They were to videotape some visiting South American cultural officials – I never got the details. But they were hidden in one of the many rooms, and no one seemed to know where. (The administration of this big CSA is straining the resources of the assembly, I am told.) This weekend AK KRaak video collective from Berlin is presenting there. I'll be in the mountains, sigh.
But I also escaped the writing cabin for a drink at the bar of Casa Blanca, a newer CSOA not far from the Reina Sofia museum. It's smaller than Tabacalera, of course – but no guards! I bought a t-shirt. The shirt lists the successive occupations that have culminated in this one: “06 La Escoba, 07 La Alarma, 08 Malaya” and “10 Casa Blanca.” Last night I returned, as the Madrid Critical Mass bicycle ride wound up there. (A related poster features a drooling wolf riding along above a prowling cat.) The post-ride party started with a giant bowl of lentils, rice and veggies. I didn't stay for the basement dance party...
Meanwhile, Back in School –
I'm getting promo from Edu-Factory for their February European Meeting of University Movements in Paris. Buckets of folks are going to discuss their struggles against austerity. (Their 2009 book, “Towards a Global Autonomous University,” is available as a PDF download in English, Spanish and Italian on their site.) Resisting austerity seems like small change compared to overthrowing the government – northern Africa is going wild... But folks all over now have to fight for their future.
A lot of ground-level action is also covered at Occupy Everything. They've got the scoop on the recent Paris occupation across the street from the president's house! They're crusty, too -- i love the "DIY Book Bloc" videotape, showing how to make a street shield from Italian UniRiot TV. (Maybe a little too crusty; I don't like gun show propaganda any more than the thought of professors packing turns me on...)
Even the E-flux crew has put out an interesting journal on the topic – with contributions from some of the newly emergent usual suspects: Paul Chan, Claire Bishop, Brian Holmes among the U.S. names. It's not exactly on the topic. In the best tradition of philosophical-critical perspective mongering, most essays circle around it – except for Gavin Butt's on “being boiled,” penned by the London cops during the recent demonstrations. That's low level brutality compared to Mubarak's police, but cut from the same bolt of repressive cloth. Still, I am glad that our egghead powers-that-be are coming around – you can follow the turnaround on E-flux news reports of demonstrations – from the anxious report of Prince Charles being jostled in his car in early December, to a major union leader's remarks on 12/30 that “workers should be inspired by student protests against higher tuition fees.'The magnificent students’ movement urgently needs to find a wider echo if the government is to be stopped,' McCluskey [of the Unite union] wrote in the Guardian newspaper today[12/30]. 'We have to be preparing for battle.'” Workers and students united – De Gaulle's nightmare...

Links:

Tabacanal TV project – in Spanish
http://blogs.latabacalera.net/tabacanal/

AK KRaak video collective – in German & English
http://akkraak.squat.net/
and Youtube user/akkraakantiquariat

Casa Blanca CSO, Madrid
http://www.csocasablanca.org/

Madrid Critical Mass – in Spanish
http://bicicritica.ourproject.org/web/

European Meeting of University Movements: Paris, 11-13 February 2011
http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/european-meeting-of-university-movements-in-paris-list-
of-participants/

Occupy Everything
http://incorporealcommittee.wordpress.com/

“DIY Book Bloc” video posted at:
http://occupyca.wordpress.com/

E-flux journal
http://www.e-flux.com/journal

E-flux art & education updates
http://www.artandeducation.net/updates/2011

The "Occupation Cookbook"

How long have I been asleep? The always excellent "news" at eipcp.net points to the impressive "Occupation Cookbook" produced in Zagreb, now online at slobodnifilozofski.org/?p=1915. Based on experiences in spring 2009, "The Occupation Cookbook or the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb" contains practical descriptions spiced with some theory of the way to organize the change we want to see.
They write, "The Occupation Cookbook is a 'manual' that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences that took
place in the spring of 2009 and lasted for 35 days. It was written for two reasons: to record what happened, and to present the particular organization of this action in such a way that it may be of use to other activists and members of various collectives if they decide to undertake a similar action. "The Cookbook" is currently being translated into several languages. At the moment, all but the final few chapters have been translated into English, and the Introduction has been translated into Spanish. (Although it seems also a German version is available.)
The website slobodnifilozofski.org has many texts, videos and photos, as well as links to other movements in Croatia and beyond.
Contents of the Cookbook:
Foreword by Boris Buden; Introduction
The Organization of Student Control at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
How to Organize a Plenum?; The Plenum; The Rules and Guidelines of the FHSS Plenum
Code of Conduct During the Student Control Over the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Plenum Minutes; Delegates and mandates
The Media Strategy, the Media Team and the Media Working Group
The Operational Tasks, Logistics and Security Team
The Program and the Program Team
The Inter-Plenary Working Group; The Plenum Technical Issues Working Group
The Document Analysis Working Group
The Mini-Actions Working Group
The Working Group for Spreading Direct Democracy
The Blog/Portal and the Blog Team
While it may seem a little socialist-technical (it is after all sort of dedicated to Lenin), this is an admirably coherent attempt to synthesize a code for successful peoples' action in the school.
Avanti!
Photo by: Damir Gamulin of “5 do 12″ (”The Eleventh Hour”) mini action in Zagreb city square.