Call-out meeting for Grant St. Music Co-Op – TUESDAY

There will be an open meeting for anyone interested in getting involved with the Grant Street Music Co-op on Tuesday April 8th at 6pm.  Bring ideas!  The co-op is located in the Alley behind SOMA in Bloomington.

Hope to see you there!

Two Talks Next Week by Peter Linebaugh

Social Rupture in Little Egypt: Presentation on the Campus Strike in Carbondale

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Indiana Memorial Union Dogwood Room @ 4:20pm.

Social Rupture in Little Egypt: Reflections on the Faculty Strike at Southern Illinois University, the Limits of Union Organizing, and the “Corporatization” of the University.  The last workshop of the all day “OUR-IU” conference.

Film Series

Cinema Against The Existent (PDF)

Sunday, November 11th at 2pm: Lucio (2007)- The true story of the humble bricklayer from Navarre who foiled banks and forged documents, aiding some of the most important struggles of the 20th century. Spanish and french with English subtitles.

Monday December 3, 6:30pm: In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni (1978)- “No wising up and no settling down.” Situationist Guy Debord’s autobiographical memoir of anti-art and social war. French with English subtitles.

Sunday, December 9th, 2pm: If…(1968)- “War is the last possible creative act.” A rebellious group of friends declare open war against their prestigious British public school. Hilarity ensues.

All films will be shown in the Main Auditorium of the Monroe County Public Library.

A Participant’s Account of the October 26 Anti-Repression Night Demo

An account and analysis found elsewhere and reposted here:

This past Friday (October 26), a small but wily group of anarchists and other angries took to the streets in a show of solidarity with those facing state repression. The specific call out for the march was to express solidarity with Grand Jury resisters Matt, Maddy, and KteeO, to rally against the criminalizing of the homeless population in Bloomington, and to convey ongoing solidarity with those who still carry charges from the anti-prison noise demo last new years.

Music blared as we took the streets downtown, holding together in tight formation. Pairs and threes sporadically broke away from the group to hand out fliers, wheatpaste posters, put up stickers, confront journalists, or set off small fireworks. We made a quick stop to yell at the jail, and then made our way south, taking all three lanes of College Ave. At this point, undercover cops who had been zigzagging around town on foot tailing the march grabbed two comrades, one of whom was in the process of spray painting “BURN THE PRISONS” on a wall. The two were quickly de-arrested and made getaways, much to the chagrin of the burly undercovers. Unable to put any humans behind bars, they settled for snatching and destroying our sound cart.

Shaken but undeterred, the march quickly regrouped and lit torches. Confronted with flaming torches and angry chants, the undercover cops quickly retreated and were replaced by other police followed from a distance. A few bar-goers bolstered our spirits as they popped out to shout Fuck the police! Our voices held strong with chants and yells until we approached a punk venue, shouting The punks: up ’em! The pigs: fuck ’em! A crowd of excited punks greeted us as the door, many expressing sadness that they had missed out on the fun. Despite blaring sirens and the appearance of even more cops, we were able to safely disperse among the crowd waiting for the show outside.

Chilean Student Protests: Discussion (Indianapolis)

Block Party Reportback

From Anarchist News:

A festive march took the streets of Bloomington, Indiana on Sunday afternoon, June 10th. This event was for the June 11th day of solidarity with Marie Mason and Eric McDavid, as well as longterm anarchist prisoners in the U.S. and internationally. The parade (complete with a drum line and banners) marched through downtown, making a stop at the Jail to make a ton of noise and try and communicate solidarity with those trapped inside.

The group proceeded to take over all three lanes of traffic on one side of the main square downtown. Couches were pulled into the street, caution tape was strung across all lanes of traffic and barbeque grills were lit. A water balloon fight ensued, and a cop-car-shaped piñata was hoisted. The space was held for about 15 minutes without incident when the pigs, who had passively tailed the march for its duration, got out of their cars and began to encroach upon the revelers.

When the party crashers threatened to wreck our shit, the group moved to take over the adjacent lawn of the old courthouse building for a party that lasted into the early evening. Some highlights of the party included several live bands and dj’d music, more piñatas (one shaped like a jail with pictures of Marie and Eric in the windows, to be broken free), fireworks, BBQ and picnic foods, parlour games, and temporarily erected graffiti walls. A banner was dropped off a building across the street reading “FREE MARIE MASON, FREE ERIC MCDAVID, EARTH FIRST!”).

Solidarity statements periodically read over the P.A. were loud enough to be heard through all of downtown. These statements expressed solidarity with Eric and Marie, gave information and history about June 11th, discussed locally relevant cases such as the Tinley Park 5, and read excerpts from Down, a new book about long-term prison rebels in Indiana state prisons. A statement was also read expressing solidarity with prisoners of the Greek state who are being held and charged as terrorists, just as Eric and Marie are. We also acted in solidarity with comrades in Turkey from Yeryüzüne Özgürlük Derneği (Freedom to Earth Association), British prison rebel John Bowden, as well as Andrzej Mazurek, the last remaining imprisoned comrade from the Greek riots of December 2008, who will appear before the court tomorrow to appeal an 11-year sentence, as well as many other comrades who are imprisoned across the U.S. and the globe.

Here in Bloomington, ensuring lasting support for Marie feels especially important– Marie was a member of the radical environmental and anarchist communities here for many years, and her absence is palpable here as in many other places. I-69, a superhighway project she fought against, is currently in the first stages of construction, after a 20+ year battle against it’s existence. Marie’s continuing struggle inside prison informs and strengthens the struggles we carry on outside, and vice versa- we stand adverse to the daily and systemic violence of capitalism, which creates both the environmental devastation that Marie fought against and the prison walls that hold her captive. The state has taken her away from us for now, but they will never erase her from our hearts and minds.

We can’t wait for tomorrow!
-Anarchists

BLOCK PARTY!!

There’s gonna be a super fun BBQ/Block Party here in Bloomington as part of the international day of solidarity with Marie Mason, Eric McDavid and longterm anarchist prisoners.  It’s gonna be awesome!  Music, hangin’ out, and rumor has it there might even be a piñata… but you didn’t hear it from us.

 

Mass Assembly – TONIGHT

If you’re getting into debt…

If you’re against campus austerity…

If you’re angry about tuition hikes…

If you’re sick of being powerless and disorganized…

If you distrust the representative organizations that don’t represent you…

Then take a first step by attending the MASS ASSEMBLY

This assembly is called by Occupy IU, but it’s an open initiative. Anyone who wants to organize and take action against campus austerity should come, preferably with their own proposals .

The goal is not to create a new organization but to collectively construct a strategy for reversing tuition hikes, rising student debt, privatization, and the campus apathy that enables everything else.

In order to launch the kind of campus-wide struggle necessary to transform IU, we want to bring together hundreds of people to speak out and offer their ideas. Not just students, but anyone who works at or uses IU.

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT, 5.30 pm, IU Art  Museum Lawn.

 

Update, 3pm: A little gift, a little inspiration, for our comrades-but-students ❤