artactivism on Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:10:31 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Call for J18 material |
>Dear J18 folks, Street Reclaimers and assorted rebels, > >Some people in London Reclaim the Streets are putting together a booklet >about transnational activism which will include a lot about the June 18th >global actions. It will be part of a series of 3 booklets published by >Verso about and by Reclaim the Streets. (not academic recuperation but >inspirational agitprop written by activist themselves - you may have heard >about this project last year, its the same project which got put on ice >leading up to June 18th - but its really happening now and is due out at >the end of 2000) . > >We are desperate for images , texts, leaflets, posters, agitprop, ideas, >rants - whatever you might have that could be part of this booklet which >tells the story of your actions and process leading up to J18 ( or related >stuff) . The booklet looks at the increasing globalisation of protest >concentrating on various grassroots direct action networks such as Peoples >Global Action (PGA) and the two international days of action the May 16th >Global Street Party (1998) and the June 18th day of action in Financial >centres (1999) > >It will analyse the rise of transnational activism, enabled by the internet >and global activist gatherings such as the Zapatista inspired encuentros. >and document the extraordinary June 18th 1999 international day of action >in Financial and banking districts, which was perhaps the largest and most >diverse day of action against global capital. > >If you have anything please send it to > >Reclaim the Streets book project >c/o Sebastian Budgen >6 Meard Street >London W1V 3HR >UK > >we will send you a free copy of the book when it is published. > >cheers > >JJ > >PS if you wish to know more about this project don't hesitate to email me. # distributed via nettime-l: no commercial use without permission of author # <nettime> is a moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # un/subscribe: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and # "un/subscribe nettime-l you@address" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org/ contact: <nettime@bbs.thing.net>