You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
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Un homme et un vase via the internet
Presented by MoCA and the LAB.
Saturday, November 23, 2PM at The LAB Miami
Workshop continues with informal presentations by media theorist Mckenzie Wark and Miami artists Adler Guerrier and Felice Grodin.
Local artists engage in an open discussion addressing issues of critique and media theory introduced in the previous evening’s lecture. Conversation is structured around modes of artistic production.
I am impressed.
Rolling Jubilee set up by Occupy’s Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before “abolishing” it, freeing individuals from their bills.
By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000.
[snip]We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: education, health care, and housing.
We also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and political domination.
There is a manual, to help.
Kasparov responding to Putin’s published New York Times op-ed.
I hope Putin has taken adequate protections. Now that he is a Russian journalist his life may be in grave danger!
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 12, 2013
via dailybeast
This can be listened to and not watched.
A talk by Eben Moglen with the Software Freedom Conservancy given at the Law of the Commons Conference March 13, 2009 at Seattle University and sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
Eben Moglen at re:publica.de