Building a Gift Economy: Experiences from Catalonia’s Autonomous Infrastructure

Building a Gift Economy: Experiences from Catalonia’s Autonomous Infrastructure

Learn about the ideas and the practices surrounding the Libertarian Infrastructures Gathering, an initiative in Catalonia that seeks to create an intergenerational, communal struggle, and resist the eternal dynamics of isolation, capitalist co-optation, or activist burn-out, all the while encouraging and strengthening the projects that allow us to reclaim our lives by meeting our needs through self-organization and mutual aid.

This talk will address questions of strategy in confrontations against the State and capitalism, debates surrounding the gift economy and alternative currencies, conflicting visions of formal or informal organization, imbalances between urban and rural modes of action, models for how to build healthy networks, and ideas for revolutionary projects.

February 3rd – 2-4 PM

Student Building (IU Campus)

Room 150

Printable PDF: gifteconomy

Bloomington People’s History Poster Series

These were released last summer but the digital files were only recently sent our way.  Most of the posters below will be in both .jpg (for online viewing) and .pdf (for printing) formats and are sized for tabloid (11×17) printing.  As far as we know, the project is still under way and open to submissions.

1.  Sit-in by the Black student community and United Anti-Racist Movement against the Little 500, 1968.

2.  The Black Market / People’s Park, 1968.

Printable .pdf: theblackmarket

3.  Resistance to I-69, 1990-Present

Printable five page .pdf:  I-69.

4.  Some Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front actions, 1997-2003.

Printable .pdf: ecoaction

5.  The Prometheus Treesit, 2001

Printable .pdf: prometheustree

6.  Samantha Jane Dorsett, 1975-2009.

New Films Series: Unrest

PDF for printing: unrest.

Solidarity Call-in Tomorrow with Westville Prisoners

Print and distribute everywhere, in 8.5×11 halfsheets:  westvillesolidarity.

Background (including words from the prisoners):

Tuesday January 14th 8am – Emergency Call-in Day

On Monday, January 13th, Indiana prisoners being detained in Westville

Correctional Facility began to refuse the nutritionally deficient,

unappetizing cold sack lunches they have been forced to endure over the

past several months and have issued a call for solidarity. A mass call-in,

starting at 8am on Tuesday, is being planned to put pressure on IDOC

officials and Aramark Correctional Services to reinstitute hot lunch

trays.

Mass assembly towards a campus strike…

A printable 11×17 poster: strike_tabloid.

Microphone Demo Against Repression this Tuesday, May 15th

We’re calling for a public demonstration in response to the series of arrests at Occupy demonstrations, of anarchist comrades, and those involved in various local struggles.  Rather than accept this flurry of legal cases and police harassment or shift responsibility to those individuals facing charges, we believe it’s vital to socially contest state repression.

Meet at noon at People’s Park (Kirkwood and Grant) for music, hanging out, and flyering.

Court dates are at 1.30 and 2 pm at the Courthouse.

A new poster and two-sided flyer about the recent repression and examining the police strategy can be found here and here.

IU Art Auditorium OCCUPIED – Get over here!

BREAKING NEWS:

IU Art Auditorium is currently being Occupied, get down here ASAP!  There will be food, hanging out, movies, discussions, and anything else your heart desires.

The auditorium is located in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, the building on your left when you come into the traffic circle at the dead-end of 7th st on campus.  The auditorium is the first room on your left when you walk in the front door.

For blow-by-blow action, follow @OccupyIU

We’re having an indoor demo!

CrimethInc. WORK Book Tour Coming to Bloomington Oct. 28th

From CrimethInc.:

After so much technological progress, why do we have to work more than ever before? How is it that the harder we work, the poorer we end up compared to our bosses? When the economy crashes, why do people focus on protecting their jobs when no one likes working in the first place? Can capitalism survive another century of crises?

Our newest book, entitled Work, addresses these questions and a great many more. To answer them, we had to revisit our previous analysis of employment and develop a more nuanced understanding of the economy. We spent months studying obscure history and comparing notes about how we experience exploitation in our daily lives, slowly hammering out a grand unified theory of contemporary capitalism.

Join us for a high-energy discussion of how capitalism has changed over the past several years and what it means for workers.  We’ll scrutinize recent examples of resistance in the US and overseas to propose anti-capitalist strategies for the 21st century.

 

The event will be at 7pm on Friday, October 28th, at Boxcar Books (408 e. 6th st, Bloomington, Indiana).  Free!

Here’s the poster for the event:

printable .pdf  WORK

[ pssst it’s legal size, so don’t be surprised if it prints weird.  ]

Bloomington: Consider it Occupied!

The occupation(?) has begun!  Come down to People’s Park RIGHT NOW!  Or tomorrow!  Or anytime, really!  Bring ideas, signs, food, tents, sound system (anyone got a PA?), and whatever else you can think of, the park is an autonomous space to do with what you please.

Here are some more posters for your enjoyment.

Non-Violent Violence

Non-Violent Violence

Non-Violent Violence

Non-Violent Violence

Non-Violent Violence