... at the WSM site. April 11th - 13th, looks like a great programme.
Update: Selma James is coming. If you missed her at CEESA last year, now's your chance!
Friday 28 March 2014
Tuesday 25 March 2014
Whistleblowers, GSOC and the "rape tape"
Good analysis of the links between the current whistleblower scandal and the treatment of the women involved in the 2011 recording of Corrib gardai discussing raping protestors here.
Sunday 23 March 2014
Capacitar workshop on healing and transformation, March 31st
Capacitar: Workshop in Healing and Transformation
Monday 31 March 2014, 4.30 - 7.30pm
Venue: Room ACE1, Ground Floor, Rowan House, north campus, NUI Maynooth (#48 on map here).
This workshop will introduce participants to Capacitar practices including Tai Chi movement, breathing exercises, visualization, finger holds, acupressure protocols, energy exercises and much more. Taught in over 30 countries worldwide, Capacitar is an intensive, hands-on program of holistic wellness practices for individuals and agencies who serve traumatized people and others in need. The Capacitar practices are effective for self-care as well as for use with individuals and groups in peace building, education, mental health, social work and community service. Capacitar incorporates theory and practice in multicultural and popular education methodologies, enabling participants to teach what they have learned to others.
Orla Quinn is facilitating this workshop as part of her assessment process to become a qualified Capacitar trainer. Orla has been practicing Capacitar for a number of years and over the last year, has started to facilitate Capacitar workshops with work colleagues on a weekly basis. Orla travelled to Peru and Colombia in Sep 2013 as part of a wider programme on peace building and trauma recovery to co- facilitate Capacitar workshops with colleague and Capacitar trainer, Patty Abozaglo.
This workshop is free and open to the general public. Please RSVP Orla at this email address or call 0862596775 to confirm your attendance. Feel free to use the attached flyer to advertise the event further.
For more information on Capacitar visit Capacitar International at www.capacitar.org
Monday 17 March 2014
Disarm the markets: launch of Attac Ireland
Disarm the Markets: Launch of Attac Ireland with a public talk by Esther
Jeffers (University
of Paris VIII and European Attac Network) and IFSC walking tour with Conor McCabe.
Where: Room 4-027, Dublin Institute of
Technology, Aungier Street, Dublin 2
When: Saturday 5th April, 2pm.
Attac is an international movement working towards social, environmental
and democratic alternatives to neoliberal globalisation. Founded in France in
1998, it fights for the
regulation of financial markets, the closure of tax havens, the introduction of
global taxes to finance global public goods, the cancellation of debt, fair
trade, and the implementation of limits to free trade and capital flows (see www.attac.org).
5th
April marks the launch of the Irish chapter of Attac. Attac Ireland is
delighted to welcome Esther Jeffers who will speak at the
event. Esther is a
lecturer at the University of Paris VIII and a specialist on shadow banking and
finance in the Euro area.
Esther’s talk will be followed by an open meeting for anyone
interested in becoming involved with Attac Ireland. This meeting will provide
an opportunity for people to learn more about Attac, and to discuss how Attac
Ireland could be developed to challenge financial power and injustice through
education and activism.
These events will be followed on Sunday morning 6th
April, with a walking tour of the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC) by Dr
Conor McCabe (UCD School of Social Justice). Time tbc.
Wednesday 12 March 2014
Book launch "Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements", March 27
Dr Theresa O'Keefe's book Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements will be launched at 8 pm in Dublin on the evening of the 27th March, 2014.
The book documents how and why women became active in the armed Irish republican movement including an examination of their roles within the IRA. Based on personal interviews, it explores the ways in which republican activism fostered feminism in many women and how this newfound 'republican feminism' was positioned relative to the broader women's movement in the north of Ireland.
The book will be launched in Dublin by Brid Connolly of the Department of Adult and Community Education and is supported by the Department of Sociology.
DJ Bambina will be on the decks.
Update: Venue the Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey St., Dublin 1.
Info and directions: https://www.facebook.com/events/762239163801344
The book documents how and why women became active in the armed Irish republican movement including an examination of their roles within the IRA. Based on personal interviews, it explores the ways in which republican activism fostered feminism in many women and how this newfound 'republican feminism' was positioned relative to the broader women's movement in the north of Ireland.
The book will be launched in Dublin by Brid Connolly of the Department of Adult and Community Education and is supported by the Department of Sociology.
DJ Bambina will be on the decks.
Update: Venue the Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey St., Dublin 1.
Info and directions: https://www.facebook.com/events/762239163801344
Friday 7 March 2014
"Occupy: a moment of global awareness". Barbara Karatsioli, Maynooth, Monday 24 March
Occupy, a moment of global awareness
Barbara Karatsioli
The ‘Occupy Movement’ has had significant global impact, mobilizing thousands of people across the world. The movement is also a moment of global awareness, a point I clarify by applying my research on the Occupy Wall Street movement in March-April 2012 to the drones deployed up to then in faraway wars waged by the USA. I show how the drone breaks down the distinctions between war and peace, interconnecting through violence the different spaces of capital, from production to resistance. Throughout the presentation, I raise questions of methodological approaches to social movements, especially in the articulation of local and global processes and questions of reflexivity.
Barbara Karatsioli is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's University, Belfast. In her current project, the "Right to the City, Right to the State", Barbara explores the relation between social movements and peace/war. More particularly, she focuses on the relation between accumulation and conflict transformation in unsettled states such as Cyprus, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine as social movements - environmental, Occupy... - claim the resources of the city and of the state. She proposes to understand local processes of conflict transformation in relation to broader global processes.
ACE2, ground floor, Rowan House, north campus, NUI Maynooth
Mon 24 March, 2 - 3.30 pm. All welcome
Solidarity Books is closing
To all friends of Solidarity Books,
Unfortunately we have some bad news: Solidarity Books is closing on March 31st. Since opening in 2009 we’ve sold tons of radical literature, dozens of campaign groups have utilised our meeting and storage space, and we’ve hosted hundreds of talks, film showings, Veg Outs, and several book launches. It’s a volunteer-run, non-hierarchically organised effort, and we hope it has made a decent contribution to the battle of ideas in this era of neoliberal hegemony. However after four and a half years, the project is no longer viable for us. Our income has been struggling to keep up with expenses for quite a while, and our core organising group is unfortunately lacking the numbers and energy to turn that around.
Although we can’t keep Solidarity Books open, we hope that it won’t be long before other radicals open a space for radical books and resistance in Cork. Such projects can count on our support, unsold books, and whatever else we can do to help. Indeed a few of us would love to work with new people on a new radical space project for Cork, and anyone who’d like to start talking about such a project can forward their email to solidaritybooks@gmail.com or our facebook page, so we can put people in touch with each other.
As should be expected of a closing book shop, we’ll be having a closing down sale. And as should be expected of a closing anarchist book shop, we’ll be having a brilliant farewell party. Watch this space for more info on them; we’re thinking about 50% off for the former, and lots of ska music for the latter.
Solidarity Books could not have survived for so long were it not for the countless people who supported the bookshop in multiple ways. Many went out of their way to buy books and coffee from us, over a hundred people at some stage did the voluntary work of covering a shop shift, and lots of generous people donated us books, couches, and even mugs for tea. To all of them, we’d like to say a heartfelt thank you.
In this world of structured commodified social relations, solidarity is forcefully restricted to the family and “the nation” (i.e. showing solidarity with the nation’s elite). We hope in our books and in providing space for Occupy Cork, the Campaign Against the Household and Water Taxes, Cork Women’s Right to Choose, Anti-Deportation Ireland and many other groups resisting the insane logic of capitalism, that we have played a part in expanding the scope for human freedom, in building a world based on a solidarity among equals. It may have only been a few drops in an ocean, but, as Adam Ewing reminds us, an ocean is just a multitude of drops.
The Solidarity Books collective, March 2014.
Unfortunately we have some bad news: Solidarity Books is closing on March 31st. Since opening in 2009 we’ve sold tons of radical literature, dozens of campaign groups have utilised our meeting and storage space, and we’ve hosted hundreds of talks, film showings, Veg Outs, and several book launches. It’s a volunteer-run, non-hierarchically organised effort, and we hope it has made a decent contribution to the battle of ideas in this era of neoliberal hegemony. However after four and a half years, the project is no longer viable for us. Our income has been struggling to keep up with expenses for quite a while, and our core organising group is unfortunately lacking the numbers and energy to turn that around.
Although we can’t keep Solidarity Books open, we hope that it won’t be long before other radicals open a space for radical books and resistance in Cork. Such projects can count on our support, unsold books, and whatever else we can do to help. Indeed a few of us would love to work with new people on a new radical space project for Cork, and anyone who’d like to start talking about such a project can forward their email to solidaritybooks@gmail.com or our facebook page, so we can put people in touch with each other.
As should be expected of a closing book shop, we’ll be having a closing down sale. And as should be expected of a closing anarchist book shop, we’ll be having a brilliant farewell party. Watch this space for more info on them; we’re thinking about 50% off for the former, and lots of ska music for the latter.
Solidarity Books could not have survived for so long were it not for the countless people who supported the bookshop in multiple ways. Many went out of their way to buy books and coffee from us, over a hundred people at some stage did the voluntary work of covering a shop shift, and lots of generous people donated us books, couches, and even mugs for tea. To all of them, we’d like to say a heartfelt thank you.
In this world of structured commodified social relations, solidarity is forcefully restricted to the family and “the nation” (i.e. showing solidarity with the nation’s elite). We hope in our books and in providing space for Occupy Cork, the Campaign Against the Household and Water Taxes, Cork Women’s Right to Choose, Anti-Deportation Ireland and many other groups resisting the insane logic of capitalism, that we have played a part in expanding the scope for human freedom, in building a world based on a solidarity among equals. It may have only been a few drops in an ocean, but, as Adam Ewing reminds us, an ocean is just a multitude of drops.
The Solidarity Books collective, March 2014.
Monday 3 March 2014
Occupy and inequality in the US
Interesting post by Penny Lewis at the always-interesting Working-class perspectives blog.
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