September 2010
1 post
This month's Mutation featuring....
Check out this month’s issue of The Mutation including ‘Social Centres Vs Campaigns: autonomy and conflict’; ‘Arts, politics, cuts and cracks’; and the 2nd installment of a three part series of interviews with Spanish social centre activists.
July 2010
3 posts
Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Durban Shack Dwellers'... →
The Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers) Movement began in Durban, South Africa, in early 2005. The movement’s key demand is for ‘Land & Housing in the City’ but it has also successfully politicised and fought for an end to forced removals and for access to education and the provision of water, electricity, sanitation, health care and refuse removal as well as bottom up popular...
“Everything interesting begins with one person in one place, though the places...”
– John McGahern
On the University →
This text was written to accompany the workshop in Cork. It is not complete or conclusive. It is the expression of questions and ideas that have emerged through different conversations. It marks the beginning of a collective effort to think about the university in a different way, opening up possibilities for different situations to emerge.
June 2010
5 posts
Better Questions at the Trash Culture Revue, Cork,... →
We’re organsing a workshop at the upcoming Trash Culture Review festival themutation.com/the-trash-culture-revue/ . The time and date for the workshop is 2.30pm-4pm at Meades (Downstairs) on Oliver Plunkett St.
Port Huron Statement of the Students for a... →
The Port Huron Statement is the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), written primarily by Tom Hayden, then the Field Secretary of SDS, and completed on June 15, 1962.
On the Poverty of Student Life →
A classic statement from 1966 of the problems facing students and academics, largely written by sociology postgrads.
