[Educationforall] Demand Nothing Occupy Everything Film Series at UCSD

[Marcos Perez]

> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:40:37 -0800
> Subject: Demand Nothing Occupy Everything Film Series at UCSD
> From: rokheshti at gmail.com
> To: ucsd-faculty-coalition at googlegroups.com
> 
> Please publicize
> 
> 
> Demand nothing, Occupy everything: a Primer on Neoliberalism and its
> Discontents
> 
> "Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything" is a film series examining
> neoliberalism, one of the roots of the current economic crisis
> affecting
> universities around the world, and the strategies that social
> movements
> have been using to respond to and push back against neoliberalism. The
> series considers the possibilities for political action today, as well
> as
> its limitations. The films in the series range from documentation of
> political actions to examinations of political theory and fictional
> accounts of important moments of political unrest. The topics range
> from a
> historical view of student actions in the 60's to an international
> view
> considering actions around the world and a selection of recent videos
> spread virally through social networks online.
> 
> Each film night will begin with a short talk by Micha Cárdenas or a
> guest
> speaker to situate the film in the context of the current social
> situation
> across the University of California, but also at universities around
> the
> world. Specific focus will be given to personal experiences with these
> movements, the effects of neoliberalism on education and to efforts to
> reimagine what education could be.
> 
> All screenings will take place at the Visual Arts Facility (VAF)
> Performance Space from 7-9pm.
> 
> Tuesday, Jan 12 -
> 
> And the War Has Only Just Begun by Tiqqun
> Excerpts from La Haine by Kassovitz
> Excerpts from If... by Lindsay Anderson
> Los Angeles UCLA Student Protest
> Student Occupation of New School
> UCSC Occupation - Friday Night
> ASTRONAUTS SEE UC STRIKE FROM SPACE
> 
> Tuesday, Jan 19 -
> 
> Excerpts from Un Granito de Arena
> The Potentiality of Storming Heaven - on the Greek Student Occupations
> Excerpts from Tout Va Bien by JP Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard
> UC Berkeley Protests at Wheeler Hall Part 2
> UC Berkeley Budget Protest. The Wheeler Frontlines
> Occupied Berkeley: The Taking of Wheeler Hall
> 
> Tuesday, Feb 2 -
> 
> Semiotics of the Kitchen by Martha Rosler
> Excerpts from the Fourth World War
> Excerpts from The Take
> Okupa! by Micha Cárdenas
> Can Dialectics Break Bricks? by René Viénet
> UCSC Occupation #4 - Kerr Hall - Fri
> 
> "Why No Demands?
> 
> First, because anything we might win now would be too insignificant.
> Countless times past student struggles have worked months and years –
> striking and occupying buildings and mobilizing thousands upon
> thousands
> of people – only to win back half of what they had already lost, a
> half
> that was again taken away one or two years later... If we set our
> horizons
> higher – free education, a maximum salary differential of, for
> instance, 3
> or 5, a university managed by faculty and students and workers – then
> we
> must realize, immediately, that nothing short of full-scale
> insurrection
> could ever achieve this. And if we were strong enough to bring the
> existing order tumbling down around us, why would we stop short and
> settle
> for the foregoing list?
> ...This is why we make no demands. Because we want to be in solidarity
> with all who are oppressed and exploited. We will not say who they are
> in
> advance. They will define themselves by rising up and standing with
> us."
> 
> - Anti-Capital Projects: Questions and Answers
> http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/anti-capital-projects/
> 
> 
> 
> Organized by Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez and Elle Mehrmand of
> the
> b.a.n.g. lab.
 		 	   		  
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