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first tuesday of the month! potluck! woo hoo! come hang out and bring/eat food (preferably vegan and wheat free). make friends with the nice people (and the glowery people will just sit quietly in the corner for the duration ). the reading is “locked up” by Bonanno. then 9/14 we will be continuing the theme [ READ MORE ]
so last tuesday was the end of the insurgent summer campaign, and we kept up with it all the way through. for the future, we discussed some topics that we were interested in looking into, and the first of them is queer theory – so we’ll be reading toward the queerest insurrection.i expect we’ll be [ READ MORE ]
we’re now on letters 9. last week we had some of the notorious child sexuality discussion (the conversation that doesn’t stop giving), as well as revisiting the devil and mythology. [ READ MORE ]
we’re back to reading two letters a week, so for the 3rd we’re reading yarostan 7 and sophia 7. also lee brought in an article by john moore from the magazine social anarchism #20 called prophets of the new world:chomsky, bookchin, & perlman. http://www.socialanarchism.org/mod/magazine/display/23/index.php remember, this is also potluck week. bring vegan food! come at 7pm! [ READ MORE ]
the readings are going awesomely, we continue to have lively conversations. last week we talked about objects vs subjects and of course about work. i hope that we can start doing brief recaps of the whole book at the beginning of each reading group, for the people who haven’t been able to keep up (or [ READ MORE ]
we had a lovely and exciting time three days ago – talking about writing as representation and the question of illegalism, what is really revolutionary behavior. and the food was good too. for the 13th we’ll be reading the fifth letter by yarostan (sophia’s fifth letter will be the following week, since the letters are getting longer). [ READ MORE ]
oops. late this week. we’re still on letters of insurgents (letters five), and this week is the potluck also. we have gluten-free, fermentation free, nut free and mostly folks are vegan, so you have been informed… 7pm for food; 8pm for discussion. come and chat and disagree and agree and get excited! woo hoo! [ READ MORE ]
we’re continuing with the amazing Letters of Insurgents, the third pair of letters. there continue to be blog entries and oddly chosen pictures at insurgentsummer.org. also, copies of letters of insurgents are now available for those of us who like to hold the book in our sweaty little hands. on 6/22 we had a solid showing, including [ READ MORE ]
the first two letters (yarostan and sofia)… from letters of insurgents. check out the audio at http://www.audioanarchy.org/letters.html the best pdfs are at the anarchist library http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Sophia_Nachalo_and_Yarostan_Vochek__Letters_of_Insurgents__part_01_10_.html and commentary at insurgent summer http://insurgentsummer.org/ [ READ MORE ]
we’ll continuing the reading of intro to civil war, which had an extremely lively start last night… last night was a lot of explanation and questions, next week will perhaps be more about how this french theory/philosophy is relevant to what we’re doing or would like to be doing in our lives. there was confusion about [ READ MORE ]