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Every Friday between noon and 10pm, Occupy Melbourne is reclaiming City Square for the people so we can rebuild our spirit of community, show people we're still here, still keen - and that we can change the world!
Join us for peaceful public assembly and political discussion.
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THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE:
12:30 "BILLIONAIRES AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS"
14:00 CREATIVE WORKSHOP - MAY DAY
15:00 OPEN MIC DISCUSSION
15:00 INTRO TO CRITICAL THEORY WEEK 8: MAURIZIO LAZZARATO
16:00 OCCUPY MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY: PLANNING MEET #2
17:00 GENDER RELATIONS WORKSHOP #1
18:00 DISCUSSION: THE FACEBOOK PROBLEM
18:30 INTRO TO THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT
19:00 PEOPLE'S CINEMA - THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
Locations:
Workshop 1: Sandbox, immediately under the stage
Workshop 2: Sandbox, in the middle of City Square
Grassroots: Grass area near Brunetti's
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BILLIONAIRES AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS
12.30pm till the fun stops..
Dress code: We rule the world.
Signs: Nuclear waste is good for capitalism - Tax the poor - The police keep us safe - Homeless go home! - Private prisons for the disobedient - Profits before people - Cheap labor: It’s a free market - No rights equals more riches
Other suggestions will be welcome.
Contact: Sinai Inbal
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CREATIVE WORKSHOP - MAY DAY
14:00 - Onwards @ The Tree
With many different groups planning different actions for May Day, we can all co-contribute to this by beginning to prepare signs and other decorations for what is potentially shaping up to be one of the biggest weekends of activism in recent history.
Bring paints, markers, sheets, banners and your creativity!
Be aware of the diferent actions that will be engaged this day, so we can get to make relevant visual terrorism.
'Artists are the ones able to inlfluence the others' (Salvador Dali) : why not coming with brand new ideas to revolution the revolution !
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INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THEORY - WEEK 8: MAURIZIO LAZZARATO - CRITIQUE OF COMTEMPORARY CAPITALISM
15:00–16:30 @ Grassroots
This course is designed to introduce participants to some of the basic concepts of a
number of modes of social and philosophical inquiry which are now generally
brought together under the heading ‘critical theory.’ It aims to present an historical
overview of leading figures of nineteenth and twentieth-century critical theory
including Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith
Butler, Jacques Derrida and Hannah Arendt. The course will also encourage
participants to discuss the issues that these thinkers raise. Each week will focus in
detail on a specific text by one of the authors mentioned...
1 Introduction: Modernity as an Age of Critique
2 Immanuel Kant – What is Enlightenment?
3 G. W. F. Hegel – Master/Slave Dialectic
4 Karl Marx – Alienated Labour
5 Friedrich Nietzsche – On The Genealogy of Morals
6 Gilles Deleuze – A New Image of Thought
7 Michel Foucault – The Subject and Power
8 Maurizio Lazzarato – Critique of Contemporary Capitalism
9 Judith Butler – Critique of Sex/Gender
10 Walter Benjamin – Critique of Violence
11 Jacques Derrida – Force of Law
12 Hannah Arendt – On Violence
Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/362248990469860/
Facebook Group/ Occupii Group (including Course Description document and
recordings)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/318477744871169/
http://occupii.org/group/introduction-to-critical-theory-occupy-fridays/...
Montana
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OCCUPY MELBOURNE: THE DOCUMENTARY - PLANNING MEET #2
16:00–17:00 @ Workshop 1
The tent city at City Square, the eviction, Treasury Gardens, Flagstaff Gardens, Tent Monsters, Father Bob's, Decentralisation, Occupy Fridays, Occupy TPPA, the Spokescouncil, the Court Case... the story of Occupy Melbourne up until now.
A collaborative attempt to retell the story of Occupy Melbourne, from its beginnings at City Square.
Calling all narrators, editors, spokespeople, filmers, photographers! This engine runs on people power so come along to join in the discussion and help shape it into a presentation that does our cause justice.
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GENDER RELATIONS WORKSHOP #1
17:00-18:00 @ Workshop 1
Basically the idea is to focus on stopping sexual violence, overt and subtle sexism, violence against women, and all forms of oppression of women.
The group will be inclusive of gender, men and women both wanted at the group. Especially men who want to find ways to stop sexism and the trend of making women uncomfortable at Occupy.
All I ask is you come with an open mind, willing to accept that we are not all perfect and may be acting in ways which aren't conducive of gender equality.
People with ideas on how to combat sexism, making the Occupy movement more comfortable and open to women.
Anyone with suggestions of how to fix the problems currently facing Occupy Melbourne in regards to women feeling uncomfortable, women who feel comfortable enough to talk about their experiences which have made them uncomfortable at Occupy, and ways to combat these things, are not only welcome, but ENCOURAGED to come.
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/277502379002141/
REQUIRES: Milkcrates.
CONTACT: Kenji
BRING: Notebook, ideas, an open mind.
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DISCUSSION: THE FACEBOOK PROBLEM
17:00 - 18:00 @ Workshop 1
The Facebook Problem.
It's not the fact that anything you publish is technically no longer your intellectual property...
It's not the fact that NOSIC sit there watching you whilst eating their popcorn, like it's some fracking soap opera...
It's not the fact that the owner of Facebook is a 1%er wannabe...
The real Facebook problem seems to be the way we communicate with each other through it. Should we have more groups, with specific focus areas? Should we get rid of the mod group? Why do we have 2 Occupy Melbourne pages? Let's thrash these out in a friendly, constructive discussion...
Facebook Event Link: http://www.facebook.com/events/194876960626462
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INTRODUCTION TO THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT
18:30 - 19:00 @ Workshop 2
In the world today, societal decisions are essentially the responsibility of individuals or groups within the arena of politics or business; in fact you could say that politics and business are the governing entities of the social order as we know it.
Yet, in the mainstream, rarely do we hear any criticism of the foundation of the social operation itself. The present culture seems to unconditionally accept the socioeconomic paradigm without question. And politics and business are assumed to be a natural state of human affairs. Even in this world where these sociopolitical structures have brought about mass unemployment, poverty and starvation, mental health disorders, drug abuse resource depletion, environmental degradation, constant war (it seems we need?) and many other social and ecological problems – of which there are far too many to name.
Do these things sound natural, or inevitable to you? No?
What if the very game we are playing is actually the problem?
What if the very nature of these dominant institutions, politics, business, banking etc. and our methods for managing society are actually creating and reinforcing certain behavioral tendencies which are (to put it simply) unsustainable, destructive and not in the best interest for the planet or its inhabitants? Maybe this is so, yet we simply cannot see it.
Maybe it is time to consider alternatives.
We in TZM don't believe the Earth’s problems are unavoidable states of some kind of human nature or destiny, they are the result of our socio-political system and they can be eradicated.
Our problems have causes, and we aim to address those causes. And we think we can do this by transitioning to a Resource Based Economy (RBE).
For now TZM is mainly about raising awareness of these possible solutions. Zeitgeist Melbourne chapter runs events to this end, we have documentary screening nights, garden blitzes, regular meetups in the City, Dandenong and Northcote, newbie meetups and the annual Zeitgeist-Day in March.
https://www.facebook.com/zeitgeistmelbourne
http://www.meetup.com/zeitgeistmovementmelb/boards/view/viewthread?threa...
http://www.meetup.com/zeitgeistmovementmelb
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PEOPLES CINEMA - THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
19:00 - 20:30 @ Workshop 1
Free film screening of the hillarious and educational culture jamming film "The Yes Men Fix The World."
The Yes Men Fix the World is a 2009 English language documentary about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. Follow two daring and imaginative political activists - Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno - as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight how corporate greed is destroying the planet.
The film documents the following projects:
• US Chamber of Commerce and climate change
• Dow Chemical and Bhopal
• ExxonMobil Vivoleum
• Halliburton Survivaball
• HUD and post-Katrina public housing
• New York Times hopeful future edition
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If you want to help organise and build Occupy Friday, please feel free to join the organising groups:
Scheduling and planning: http://www.facebook.com/groups/156746491100773/
Community Outreach: http://www.facebook.com/groups/359850107364535/
Logistics and infrastructure: http://www.facebook.com/groups/248946365175994/