So long, PhillyIMC! (Updated)

PhillyIMC is now no more. For a long period, members of the group that maintained the site and contributed stories had been going off to do other things and moving on in their lives one by one. The real problem was that the Philadelphia Independent Media Center never came up with a way to recruit new members, so when people left, there was just one less member to do the work of maintaining the site.

Video training by Messages in Motion

This are some photos from the video training that Laura from Messages in Motion conducted for organizer folks that want to create their own media. take the media in your own hands, thanks Laura!!!

check messages in motion project really rad!

http://messagesinmotion.com/

LAVA Library Back Open Again!!

After a longish hiatus, we're back open. FInally!  Please come by, as usual we have computers with internet access, books, toys, etc.etc. 

We're starting slowly with Thursdays from 4-9pm - same time as our weekly food giveaway, but soon we'll be expanding our regular hours. Volunteers welcome!

Graphics for all workshop by Santiago Armengod

Mexican artist Santiago Armengod (Justseeds, Cordyceps, Escuela MArtires del 68)  came to Philly in middle of August and presented a hands on workshop to build radical graphics with a low income budget. The intention of this workshop was to share skills with organizers that need to build skills and resources to support their struggles.  Here are some pics from the event!!!

You can check Santi's work at the Justseeds site:

http://www.justseeds.org/artists/santiago_armengod/

Occupy Philly - July 4th weekend

Franklin Park

Selma James, Fulvia Serra and Phoebe Jones

selmaLast Wednesday Selma James started off her book tour for Sex Race and Class at LAVA. The book is a collection of her writings over the years which helped form autonomous feminist thought that we now know and helped provide a refreshing alternate current in marxism which challenged authoritarianism, party politics and the left's failure to acknowledge unwaged work as a place for struggle against capital.

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Get to know your defenestrator event at LAVA

Some pics from last Friday Meet Your Defenestrators event! Performing were Little X Little and SGNLS.

Dissecting Capitalism: Contemporary Labor and Workplace Struggles

with Salar Mohandesi and Sean West Wispy

Once again, a great and well attended session by the Occupy Philly Education and Training Working Group, this time focusing on the changing face of work and how we resist it.

First off was Salar on the how work and our work environments have changed in response to out struggles against it.

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Next up, Sean West Wispy talked about some of his own experiences as a labour organizer inside and outside of unions.

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Primitive Accumulation at LAVA!!

More good stuff from the last couple weeks of Occupy Philly's Dissecting Capitalism series.

Part II: This Financial Crisis
With Mark Kuperberg and Julie Maitrejean

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Part III: The Historical Rise of Capitalism and Corporations

In this video, Ariane Fisher breaks down primitive acumulation and Jerry Krantman muses on corporate personhood.

More great events are coming up! Every Wednesday night at LAVA!

Dissecting Capitalism at LAVA

February 1st a packed crowd turned out at LAVA to hear Alex Knight and George Caffentzis do an introductory breakdown of capitalism, event one of a 10 week series on Dissecting Capitalism.

George Caffentzis, who some may know from his writings with Midnight Notes (including Promissory Notes, much discussed around LAVA circles a couple years back) started it off giving a historic breakdown of the development of capitalism.

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Next up, Alex Knight, blogger at End of Capitalism and protagonist at Occupy Philly spoke on capitalism as an abusive relationship, his theory on the impending end of capitalism and what he sees as our current mode of Zombie Capitalism.

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The night ended with a long and interesting Q and A:

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