In the Middle of a Whirlwind
Hi All – I’ve written my first long piece since the Clamor Pamphlet and it’s now up online. It’s part of an ambitious project by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Team Colors, a web journal or magazine called “In the Middle of a Whirlwind.” Their announcement about it is below.
My essay is on some of the ideas that have influenced my current thinking around media in the U.S, called, “Media and Activism: Creating and Maintaining Effective Movement Media.” In it I talk about some of the people who I think are doing critical thinking and writing in this area, such as Michael Albert, Sut Jhally, Stephen Duncombe, and Bob Ostertag, with a special nod to the INCITE collective for their book, “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded.”
In the Middle of a Whirlwind:
2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements
A one-off online journal of theory, art, activism and organizing out now!
www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info
Coordinated by: Team Colors Collective
Published by: The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press
In the Middle of a Whirlwind (Whirlwinds) inquires into current organizing
efforts in the United States, and through that process, assembles a
strategic analysis of current political composition as a tool for building
political power.
Whirlwinds’ strategic context is this summer’s RNC and DNC protests; through
these documents and the discussions that erupt from them we hope to directly
impact the anti-Convention organizing. In a larger sense, and in the
long-term, Whirlwinds is intended to provide a set of useful documents for
contemporary radical organizing. Each essay and interview addresses the
issues of movement, working class power and composition, and/or gives
strategic insight into organizing, and the strengths and weaknesses of
current movement/s in the U.S.
Contributions From:
Jen Angel | Bay Area Radical Health Collective | Bluestockings Books, Café
and Activist Center (written by Malav Kanuga) | George Caffentzis | Chris
Carlsson | Maribel Casas-Cortest & Sebastion Cobarrubias (Counter
Cartographies Collective) | Emma Cosse (Act-up Paris) | CrimethInc. | Direct
Action to Stop the War | Domestic Workers United & Right to the City
Alliance (written by Harmony Goldberg) | Family Farm Defenders | Silvia
Federici | Michael Hardt & El Kimobo in conversation | Brian Holmes | The
Icarus Project | IWW Starbucks Workers Union | “I Want To Do This All Day:
Redefining Learning & Reinventing Education” (Audio Documentary) | El
Kilombo Intergaláctico | Latino Health Outreach Project (written by Jennifer
Whitney) | Peter Linebaugh | Brian Marks | Daniel McGowan | Stevie Peace
(including an interview with Critical Resistance) | Philly’s Pissed & Philly
Stands Up (written by Timothy Colman, Esteban Kelly & Em Squires) |
Roadblock Earth First! | Gigi Roggero (Edu-Factory) | Maggie Schmitt
(Precarias a la Dervia) | Ben Shepard | Basav Sen | Smalltown, USA Workers
Center | smartMeme | $pread Magazine | Brian Tokar | Daniel Tucker (AREA
Chicago) | Ultra-red | US Federation of Workers Cooperatives | United States
Social Forum (Documentation Committee; written by Marina Karides) | Art by:
David Azzellini & Lize Mogel, Kristine Virsis of Just Seeds, Brett Bloom of
Temporary Services, USSMEAC. | Interviews with: Ashanti Alston (interview by
Team Colors), Robin D. G. Kelley (interview by Ben Holtzman) and
Unconventional Action (National), Recreate ’68 (Denver) & RNC Welcoming
Committee (Twin Cities).
team colors said,
June 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm
we love jen angel… thanks for posting this and joining us in the middle of a whirlwind!