OAS 9.2012 Conference Call Notes [By Jez Bold]

Jez’s notes from yesterday’s conference call to prep for Jenjoy’s OAS presentation at the Black Mountain conference this weekend. Workshopping the presentation at Bat Haus tonight from 7-9pm…

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Conference description: 

RE-VIEWING BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 4: Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy: a weekend gathering of scholars, practitioners and artists coming to Asheville to discuss, present and experience topics and workshops related to the forward-thinking ideas of Buckminster Fuller with some presentations addressing other topics related to Black Mountain College. 

InterOccupy Arts Call [#A18]

Beautiful Trouble: tools for innovative creative direct action

The just released book, Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, pulls together the deepest learnings and most innovative creative direct action tactics from Occupy and allied movements. Come hear Matt Smucker, Mark Read and Samantha Corbin -- three of the book's key authors as well as core members of Occupy -- along with co-editor Andrew Boyd -- unpack the insights of the book.

There will be breakouts sessions where *everyone* will have a chance to explore the tools offered in the book and apply them to the challenges YOU are currently facing in your organizing efforts.

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InterOccupy Arts Call [#3/21]

Spring Resurgence: A Season of Resistance!

InterOccupy Arts Call | Wed March 21 | 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific 

As Occupy and 'The 99%' movement comes through its first winter, a historic amount of beautiful resistance and transformation is ready to burst onto the scene! Join this call to connect with artists and organizers from a range of actions and projects about to bloom. Come ready to hear and share exciting projects to cultivate and multiply your own! 

Register for the call

Presentations:

• National Trainings and Direct Actions | 99% Spring; Joy Cushman - New Organizing Institute
•  Strategic Arts Organizing|  modules from a new guidebook; Dave Mitchell - "Beautiful Trouble" co-editor
•  Occupy Their Homes | Shareholder Spring; Ben Master - United NY
•  The Commons are Everywhere | Occupy Town Square; Lucky - OWS Town Squares affinity group
• ...and more to be announced soon!

There will be breakouts sessions where we will all have a chance to discuss and share plans to make our spring stronger, and continue to build the occupy movement. 

If you have never registered for one of these calls, register here (we recommend doing it now, as last minute registrations don't always work). 

• http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/IVA91224TZC71GD2
• http://interoccupy.org/natartscall/
• Find us on Facebook!

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• NOTES from the last "Open Dialogue" Interoccupy Arts Call: http://interoccupy.org/minutes-national-arts-call-2812/
• JOIN the National InterOccupy Art Google Group: https://groups.google.com/group/national-occupy-art?hl=en



revTALKS: Ezequiel Adamovsky - (SO@H), MAR8 7-8pm

Ezequiel Adamovsky (from Argentina): experience comes from the extraordinarily radical process that the Argentinians went through during their crisis. Their political system was more or less paralyzed and was seen as irrelevant, and people's GAs sprang up all over the country. He was heavily involved in the “Asambleas” movement (a grassroots phenomenon emerging in Argentina after the Rebellion of 2001), and he is involved in a number of collectives of global resistance and the World Social Forum.

His recent book (May 2011) entitled Anti-Capitalism Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical newspapers, and in the jungles and the streets. From Marx through the Battle of Seattle and beyond, Adamovsky traces the beliefs and politics of the major figures in the anticapitalist tradition and explores modern experiments in building different ways of living, in the process providing an indispensible primer for anyone interested in finding alternatives to the so-called "best system we have"—and anyone interested in joining the fight.

revTALKS

• revtalks.org
• https://twitter.com/#!/RevTalks
• www.facebook.com/RevTalks
• www.livestream.com/revtalks (watch online)

SPATIAL OCCUPATION @HYPERALLERGIC

• spatial-occupation.tumblr.com
• hyperallergic.com

RSVP: ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com

Thursday, March 8 7-8PM

Hyperallergic HQ:
181 N 11th St #302
Brooklyn, NY 11211

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InterOccupy Arts Call |#F22 |: 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific

InterOccupy Arts Call | Wed Feb 22 | 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific 

Artists as Bridges: How are artists connecting Occupy and other movements for economic and social justice?

As Occupy and 'The 99%' movement expands, it continues to deepen its connections with communities and issues of all kinds. On this call, we will hear from artists who are doing powerful, innovative work of 'bridging', using the unique power of art, music, performance and spectacle, to connect Occupy to new issues and communities, and vice versa.   

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Tonight's Interoccupy Call & Online Survey!

 If you had all the Occupy artists in one room - and you could ask them one question - what would it be?

Tonight, we are going to do something a little different. We are changing up our format for this InterOccupy Arts Call to focus on open dialogue around the questions that interest you the most. It's a chance to spark a nationwide discussion on the questions you've been keeping to yourself, or saying in smaller circles. It's an opportunity to involve everyone, and get feedback from people across the world. 

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NATIONAL OCCUPY ARTS CALL -- Occupy 2.0: The Next Phase

NATIONAL OCCUPY ARTS CALL -- Occupy 2.0: The Next Phase

Wed, Jan 25th at 10pm EST/7pm PST

To register for the call, go to: http://bit.ly/x7WM1S

(You only have to register once, so if you registered for the first call, that call-in information is all you need)

The Occupy movement started with encampments in public and private space, but Occupy communities across the country have been exploring what the next direction of the movement will look like. Art and culture has taken a lead role in many of the varied and innovative answers to the "next phase" question. How art is supporting or leading these efforts will be the topic of this next national Occupy arts conference call. Please join us!

We are looking for presenters for this call. If you are doing art and culture work that supports moving the Occupy movement in new directions, please let us know if you would like to present on the call. Just send a short description of your project with the project's contact info and web presence to: InterOccupyArt@gmail.com  If you know of artists whose Occupy work fits this theme, please forward this to them.

And everyone should feel free to post ANY Occupy art projects they are working on to our new InterOccupy Art Facebook page! (And "Like" the page while you're at it!): http://www.facebook.com/InterOccupyArt

Moving forward,

InterOccupy Arts Call Planning Committee