Please join us to celebrate the release of John Kim’s new book, Rupture of the Virtual. The book release is accompanied by a free interactive version for the digital commons.
Sat, Aug. 13, 2016 ⁄ 10:00am–8:00pm
Sgt. Kroll Goes to the Office: A (Comic) Book Sprint Intervention
“I ain’t some fucking lame-ass, young-ass punk working state trooper you’re dealing with here; I’m just going to charge you. If you beat it, you beat it.
You know what? I don’t care. You’re 15 years old and you’re riding in stolen cars; it don’t matter to me. You know what? You’re going to be a statistic.”
The last few years, if not more so, have revealed to an ever growing public the systemic problems and continuing aggressions embedded within the Minneapolis Police Department. These tendencies are never more apparent than within the character and conduct of Police Union president, Lieutenant Bob Kroll.
Whether in his role as the union representative for the Minneapolis police force or prior, as an aggressive and outspoken officer, Lt. Kroll has again and again shown his contempt for the citizens of Minneapolis and its elected officials.
Not long ago Red76‘s editor, Sam Gould, was leaked a transcript of an interrogation that, then Sgt., Kroll conducted with a fourteen year old African-American boy accused of stealing a car. The tenor of condescension and contempt evident in Sgt. Kroll’s interaction with this young man, a juvenile, is telling of his character and what it desires.
As a means to create and distribute a portrait of Lt.Kroll’s beliefs, methods, and personal conduct Beyond Repair and Uncivilized Books are gathering a group of Twin Cities based comic artists and illustrators at the shop for an all day (comic) book sprint.
if you are not familiar with the framework of a book sprint, it’s easy to understand: a group of people gather to produce a book in one day, start to finish. In this instance we will gather at Beyond Repair at 10am. Coffee will be provided. We’ll use the transcript of Kroll’s interrogation as if it were a screenplay. The illustrators will be provided a number of pages to illustrate, using the interrogation transcript as their dialogue. Once finished we will scan all the pages, print them on the Risograph in the shop, and collectively compile them into a finished comic – all in one day!
Our comic will be distributed far and wide throughout MPLS for free. Anyone present is welcome to take as many issues as they can handle to pass around.
If we are to work towards truly human centered government and policing, transparency, dialogue, and criticality is key in achieving this goal. By producing this comic we hope to engage in exactly that type of behavior – illustrating and making accessible the roles, conduct, and character of those who are, in name if not deed, there to protect, serve, and represent the whole of us as citizens.
Fri, Aug. 26, 2016 ⁄ 7:00–9:00pm
Book Release… Against the Picture – Window: A Time of the Phoenix Compendium & My Singularity
Please join Beyond Repair and Society Editions at The White Page Gallery for the release of Society’s first two publications of poetry at the intersection of political speech: Against the Picture – Window: A Time of the Phoenix Compendium and My Singularity, a new chapbook by Minnesota-based poet, Sun Yung Shin.
Poems will be read. Books will be on offer. Drinks on hand.
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TIME OF THE PHOENIX
Time of the Phoenix was a series of chapbooks produced and circulated around the Uptown area of Chicago and further afield from the late 1960s to the mid-70s, which served as a platform for the urban white poor of the neighborhood. Through poetry and other verse, authors articulate their lives in relation to police abuse, living in poverty, domestic violence, addiction and more. A vehicle for a voiceless population to find voice with one another, Time of the Phoenix was a tactical action in print devised by the Young Patriots—a group of radicalized, young southern white migrants living in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Along with “organizing in their own” through projects such as the chapbook series, the YPO went on to help form the Rainbow Coalition with the Young Lords, and Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers.
Working with founding YPO member, Hy Thurman, Society Editions has published Against the Picture – Window: A Time of the Phoenix Compendium, a collection of original works which appeared in Time of the Phoenix, as well as original photographic documents, interviews, commentary, and contemporary poetic works which speak across history and experience to the voices which originally appeared in the chapbook series.
MY SINGULARITY
My Singularity brilliantly graphs the myth of Pinocchio onto the contemporary flux of human identity amid advances in artificial intelligence and the human genome project, crafting a deeply felt extended metaphor for the physical body as site of meaning, a screen onto which multiple stories are at all times being projected. Sun Yung Shin’s intelligence and empathetic reach appear infinite as she imbues a wooden puppet with the kind of pathos we normally reserve for ourselves. The poem demonstrates an ethos at work typified by W.B. Yeats’s claim that “the quarrels we have with others are rhetoric / The quarrels we have with ourselves is poetry.” Allowing the latter to show itself is no small feat in a political climate that engenders discord and factionalism at every turn. Her poem searches the identity of the orphan, the manufactured psyche, the worker, and locates the vulnerable body of the nation-state as it exists as a living, breathing organism.
My Singularity is a single poem published as a chapbook by Society Editions.
SOCIETY EDITIONS
Society is a construction, dismantled and reformed daily, yearly, through our perceptions and public pronouncements, either shouted or whispered. As an expandable publishing platform, Society concerns itself with the intersection where poetry meets speech and where private and public life collide. Society is timely and agile, responsive and responsible, paper and air.
If poetry can act as an ethical barometer of a population in time, Society changes with you and you change Society. Society is a response and then a record.
As an imprint, through a yearly almanac, individual books, chaplets, posters, actions, programs, et al, Society aims to pick away and uncover the role and possibilities of poetry as public speech, how abstract, or seemingly obtuse, texts can engage and decipher very real and timely issues around public life and power.
Society Editions is co-edited by Mary Austin Speaker, Chris Martin, and Sam Gould
Fri, Sep. 2, 2016 ⁄ 7:00–8:00pm
Drummer’s coming to town!! We’re so excited to be hosting a performance on the Greenway with our old friend, Lisa Schonberg and her new duo – with Anthony Brisson – Coordination.
They’re written out a percussion score, which they’ll perform on the Greenway. The printed score will be available at the shop.
Here’s some info on them…
Coordination is the Portland-based duo of Anthony Brisson (Psychomagic) and Lisa Schonberg (Secret Drum Band, Kickball). Together they craft performances that include aspects of noise, improvisation, and pop, using synthesizers, guitars, samples and drums.
For this performance, they drafted a graphic score based on the motions and emotions of a day of work, and then composed the music accordingly. Beyond Repair will be printing these scores, which will be available at the performance.
Sat, Oct. 1, 2016 ⁄ 12:00–2:00pm
Power Learned from Paul: On Paul Wellstone’s Radical Pedagogy
Please join us at Beyond Repair at 12 PM on Saturday, October 1, 2016, for a release event featuring the Wooden Leg Press reprint of Dan S. Wang’s memoir-essay about Paul Wellstone.
The text was originally written as a letter to a friend, an attempt to describe what he had learned from Paul Wellstone in the classroom. It turned into an essay about political power, political science as experimentation, and the expansive vision of political action that Paul Wellstone embodied.
What did you learn from Paul Wellstone? Were you a student of his? Did you work in his office or for his campaign? Did you know him only through the media? Were you too young to remember much about him?
Join artist, writer, printer, and former student of Paul Wellstone’s, Dan S. Wang for a low key afternoon of conversations of political education in general, and Wang’s in specific as it regards to his understand of Wellstone’s teaching.
Fri, Oct. 14, 2016 ⁄ 7:00–9:00pm
On Streetopia and Creative Counter-Measures Towards Gentrification: A Talk and Conversation with Erick Lyle
Beyond Repair‘s Crisis Logic and the Reader series presents: Erick Lyle, reading from and discussing his book Streetopia!
(This event will take place at Moon Palace Books: 3260 Minnehaha Ave)
After San Francisco’s new mayor announced imminent plans to “clean up” downtown with a new corporate “dot com corridor” and arts district–featuring the new headquarters of Twitter and Burning Man–curators Erick Lyle, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich brought over 100 artists and activists together with residents fearing displacement to consider utopian aspirations and plot alternative futures for the city. The resulting exhibition, Streetopia, was a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in venues throughout the city, featuring daily free talks, performances, skillshares and a free community kitchen out of the gallery. This book brings together all of the art and ephemera from the now-infamous show, featuring work by Swoon, Barry McGee, Emory Douglas, Monica Canilao, Rigo 23, Xara Thustra, Ryder Cooley and many more. Essays and interviews with key participants consider the effectiveness of Streetopia’s projects while offering a deeper rumination on the continuing search for community in today’s increasingly homogenous and gentrified cities.
Crisis Logic and the Reader: As sociological studies and our own experiences have shown us, crisis manifests relationships and modes of action uncommon outside of states of disruption. Egalitarianism, collaboration and cooperation, crisis highlights utopic possibilities in the midst of the destruction of the day-to-day.
But along with crisis comes anxiety. That boost of adrenaline, beneficial in small immediate doses, fracturing our clarity and composure over time.
Crisis Logic and the Reader, an area of inquiry centered at Beyond Repair this fall, promotes the notion of the “social life of reading” as a long-term, daily alternative to the logic which arises out of singular moments of crisis. This collective, and distributed, conversation will take form in multiple locations around the Twin Cities from Oct. – Dec. 2016, through talks, symposium, publications, art installations and more at Beyond Repair, St. Catherine’s University, Minnesota Institute of Art, and further afield.
Sat, Oct. 15, 2016 ⁄ 2:00–8:00pm
Surround Sound: A Neighborhood Record Lathe Fundraiser
Join the folks who facilitate Beyond Repair, the 9th Ward publication experiment, for a day long festival of music, food, and more to benefit the refurbishment of a new piece of equipment for the shop: a mid-century record lathe able to produce vinyl records in real time. When up and running our lathe will, in just the same fashion that Beyond Repair publishes books, zines, and posters everyday, be able to lathe vinyl records. Moving around the ideas and desires, sounds and voices, of 9th Ward residents as well as compatriots further afield our lathe will assist in producing an ever expanding Anthology of 9th Ward Folkways! Noise! Mariachi! Cumbia! Dhaanto! Hip Hop! Voices and experiences that define our lives here in the ward together as neighbors.
Tiny Diner has generously donated the proceeds of food and drink to the fundraiser, and has opened their space for day long festivities. Among more to come, Eastlake Brewery has generously dontated beer for the occasion!
Current Beyond Repair resident Derek Maxwell will unveil and make use of his home-made sound system during Surround Sound, inspired by the early dub and hip-hop systems that brought neighbors far and wide together in celebration and resistance from Kingston to the South Bronx.
Long-time collaborator and neighbor Steven Matheson has organized a stellar and growing ensemble of performers, which so far include:
American Cream
IE
AD/VR
Steve Palmer
Paul Metzger
Bullhead City
Paul Fonfara
More news, ideas, and performers to come!
Mon, Nov. 14, 2016 ⁄ 3:00–5:00pm
Crisis Logic & the Reader: An Experimental Symposium
A last minute reminder that Crisis Logic & the Reader opens today. Sam will be giving a lecture on how the “social life of reading” might work as a durational alternative to crisis logic this afternoon at 3pm. Tomorrow Matt Olson and I will be in conversation regarding the radical gesture of love and its complications, and Thursday Monica Haller and I will be discussing issues of race and identity and its relationship to the environment. Closing things out, on Thursday evening, Michael Gallope, Meredith Gill, and the rest of their fantastic group, IE, will be playing us out for the week on Derek Winston Maxwell‘s community supported sound system. Join us!!
Fri, Jan. 13, 2017 ⁄ 7:00–9:00pm
Beyond Repair & Eastlake Craft Brewery are collaborating towards an on-going platform to democratically fund neighbor devised and implemented projects for the 9th Ward that energize creative strategies supporting well-being and personal freedom against racism, xenophobia, misogyny and all that other pile of crap that seems to be, increasingly, a-okay nowadays.
Join us on Jan. 13th at the brewery. Tell your friends. Drink some delicious beer. Propose a project. Win some money. Do some good with it. Come back next time and tell us what’s what.
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Get Brewing! : A Micro Funding/Brewing Platform Supporting Neighborhood Creative Engagement for Defense and Wellness in South Minneapolis
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Beyond Repair and Eastlake Craft Brewing have devised a micro-grant presentation platform – Get Brewing! – established to promote and support creative social engagement around defense and wellness in the 9th Ward neighborhoods of Powderhorn, Central, and Phillips. Modeled after FEAST (“a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically” fund project proposals) Get Brewing! invites 9th Ward neighbors to individually or collaboratively propose projects that imaginatively address how we, as neighbors, can care for, assist, and protect one another within this moment of unease.
Every other Friday at 7pm, starting January 13th, drop by Eastlake for a beer. Propose a project, or simply listen in on the great ideas of your fellow neighbors. Proposals will be voted on by all in attendance. With $2 from every full-size beer sold to participants that evening going into the Get Brewing! fund, the winner walks away with that night’s profits to help support the realization of their idea. Winners return at the next gathering of Get Brewing! to share what they’ve done.
Within a moment where distrust and fear, hate crimes, and general unease are at a fever pitch, models and actions that address how we care for one another, as well as ourselves, are not simply a good idea, but vital social tools for mental health and personal freedom in advance of crisis. Get Brewing! creates a social space to critically address these concerns and highlight methods of support for one another from the ground up. With communal intent we, as neighbors, can energize ideas that benefit us all, starting with our neighbors most at risk within a climate of heightened aggression and intolerance.
Have a beer!
Come up with an idea!
Commit to one another!
Repeat as necessary!!
Sun, Jan. 15, 2017 ⁄ 12:00–4:00pm
Anarchy is Female: Workshop and Gathering
Organized by: Crystal Quinn, Alexa Horochowski, & Beyond Repair
Based on inherent feeling towards what is and what exists around us, the battle against this patriarchal culture, is inherently female.
Around the rallying cry “Anarchy is Female” all are invited to come together for a printing event and skill / knowledge / experience share. Throughout the day we will be printing multiple different Anarchy is Female designs to be used for the inauguration protests within the city and throughout the US, including the Million Women’s March in D.C.
Furthermore…
Matchbook Club:
As a quick reaction to the recent electoral let down, a group of female artists have come together to create. Started out as a “book club”, they quickly shifted into a loving and creative space to discuss and create. For this event, the Matchbook Club will have matchbooks for take-away, as well as a handful of posters that respond to harassment in a non-violent way. Words are our friends. We have to start somewhere and we have to keep moving.
Make Flag / Burn Flag:
Many citizens are feeling disillusionment, anger, and frustration after an ugly election where expressions of xenophobia, racism and misogyny flared and threaten to become normalized. Burning a flag is considered “symbolic speech” and protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. In conjunction with the exhibition “BLEED & BURN ” Alexa Horochowski invites participants to make their own, small flags with personalized statements, to be burned independently.
The Exhibition, “BLEED & BURN,” is on view at The Soap Factory, January 14-21, 2017.
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All are invited to utilize the space in and around Beyond Repair to consider and convene their ideas on creative resistance to misogyny and patriarchy.
Sat, Apr. 1, 2017 ⁄ 2:00pm–3:30am
Municipalism and the Lives We Make: Governing Outside of the Electorate
On Saturday we begin our first in a continuing conversation on the Spanish Municipalism movement and the possibilities of translating the movements experiences and social tools into an overtly American context.
Please join us for an overview on municipalism through the work of Barcelona en Comu with Alan Moore, along with Skype contributions from Marc Herbst, artist / publisher of Mortgaged Lives: From the Housing Bubble to the Right to Housing by Ada Colau and Adriá Alemany, and writer Bue Rübner Hansen, author of the essay Building Power in a Crisis of Social Reproduction.
Sun, Jun. 18, 2017 ⁄ 2:00–4:30pm
Municipal Research Group: Second Assembly
We need a new way of doing politics, not just new politicians:
A politics that is really by and for the people.
A politics that works to combat economic inequality.
A politics that works for the common good.
A feminized politics, driven by collective intelligence and concrete action.
A politics with racial justice at its heart.
A participatory politics, where people have power more than once every four years.
An open source, flexible politics, that can be adapted to the contexts of our big cities and our rural communities.
An ethical politics, with zero tolerance for corruption and cronyism.
Join us on Sunday, June 18 @ 2pm for our second meeting on Municipalism. We will be meeting at, of course, The Future (2223 E 35th St).
During this meeting, we’ll get to know each other and discuss a draft statement of principles (quoted above) being written by US activists working with Barcelona en Comú international to define municipalism in a way that’s relevant and responsive to the US context.
We’ll use this meeting to talk with each other and to read, discuss, reflect and critique the document. We’ll send this feedback back to the working group as an illustration of the participatory politics we are striving to create.
A full first draft is still being prepared. We will distribute it before the meeting.
Time / Location
When:
Sunday, June 18
2pm
Where:
The Future
2223 E 35th St
Minneapolis, MN 55407
See you at the Future!
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Didn’t get the memo? What is Municipalism?
As we slip deeper into a presidential crisis, we direly need new social and political ideas. Municipalism is a social movement inspired by the idea of creating a new relationship between people and power: Municipalism isn’t about electing better politicians. Municipalism is about changing the relationship between institutions, social movements and citizens. Elected representatives are just the institutional branch of a movement that is based in the streets and neighborhoods, where the real power resides. Municipal movements work both inside and outside of institutions, building dual power and creating concrete solutions. Municipalism depends on active, organized and independent social movements that support representatives to enact their demands – and push them when they don’t… Find out more by coming to the meeting.
Tue, Oct. 3, 2017 ⁄ 7:00–9:00pm
Assembly Reading Group
Come join the Municipalism Research Group in reading Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s newest book, Assembly. We’ll be meeting at Beyond Repair for two evenings, with a lecture at Macalester College on the book, by Michael Hardt, in between.
The book relates to themes that we’ve discussed in the group so far, in particular, how to organize ourselves democratically outside of currently existing forms of representation? How do we build transformative forms of assembly and decision-making structures that rely on the broadest democratic base?
If you need a copy of the book get in touch. Also, we’ll have copies to give away of the new, municipalism centered, issue of Lumpen Magazine.
October 3, 7pm at Beyond Repair – Reading group (pgs 1 – 70)
October 6, 4:30 – Lecture by Michael Hardt (John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College)
October 10 at Beyond Repair – Reading group (add details)
Sat, Oct. 21, 2017 ⁄ 8:00pm
With Radical Love & Fierce Resistance Radio
In concept and habit Beyond Repair was established to respond to the relationships that form through its being present. That means that things should change when things are changing. And so we have exciting news to share and hope that you’ll join us to see it into being.
Drop by on Saturday and Sunday evening, Oct. 21st & 22nd as we begin to transform the space in the Midtown Global Market so that we can house With Radical Love & Fierce Resistance Radio, our new neighborhood micro-broadcasting platform. Basically it’s a barn raising… for a radio station.
We have some ideas of how we’d like to build the space out, but we’d love your input as we transform the shop, creating a DJ booth, lounge, and new entrance.
What’s more, we want to tell you about what the future holds and how you can take part. Become a DJ at the station, tell us about your ideas for new, free printed projects to circulate around the neighborhood, and hear about the new parallel space we’ll soon inhabit, just down the Greenway from the MGM, which we’re calling Assembly (more on that soon).
Bring some tools if you got’em and ideas on how you want to get involved.
Sun, Nov. 19, 2017 ⁄ 2:00–3:30pm
Municipalism and its Meanings: A Reading
Everyday the thought becomes clearer and more urgent: we need a new way of doing politics, not just new politicians. That’s why you should join us at Assembly, the new space for local gatherings that strive to create realizable political alternatives.
We have lots of ideas for activities for this assembly. We will be distributing, reading and discussing Lumpen Magazine issue 130 (Chicago): The Municipalism Issue, a primer on international activities and activism around municipalism, especially focused on activities here in the US. In attendance will be a few locals who were involved in writing and organizing the issue. In addition, we’ll have updates about the Catalonian independence movement and the municipalists’ role in it, and news about upcoming lectures, gatherings and other activities around municipalist capacity building here in the Twin Cities.
We need a new way of doing politics, not just new politicians:
A politics that is really by and for the people.
A politics that works to combat economic inequality.
A politics that works for the common good.
A feminized politics, driven by collective intelligence and concrete action.
A politics with racial justice at its heart.
A participatory politics, where people have power more than once every four years.
An open source, flexible politics, that can be adapted to the contexts of our big cities and our rural communities.
An ethical politics, with zero tolerance for corruption and cronyism.
Sun, Jan. 28, 2018 ⁄ 2:00–3:30pm
A Conversation w/ DeeDee Halleck and Marisa Holmes
The Municipalist Research Group is bringing two influential media activists who have been part of radical and direct democracy movements: DeeDee Halleck (founder of Paper Tiger Television, Deep Dish Satellite Network and Democracy Now! TV) and Marisa Holmes (Occupy & Strike Debt). DeeDee and Marisa will join us in conversation about their work, including topics ranging from media politics in the age of Trump, feminism, public access, radical media, DIY aesthetics and more…
About the group: we’ve been organizing meetings, reading and research activities to collectively learn about and examine ideas around municipalism. Basically, municipalism asks questions about how to organize ourselves democratically outside of currently existing forms of institutional representation; and how to build transformative kinds of assembly and decision-making that rely on the broadest democratic base. So far, we’ve arranged readings and talks with and about Alan Moore, activists with Barcelona en Comu, Michael Hardt, Kathy Weeks, and others and there’s much more to come.
Thu, Mar. 22, 2018 ⁄ 7:00pm
What Can a City Be? (A Municipalist Gathering)
Since the 2016 presidential elections, the Twin Cities based “City as Commons” group has been meeting to discuss, learn and find out more about municipalism, a form of political organization gaining popularity around the world, based on assemblies of neighborhoods, practicing direct democracy, as an alternative to the centralized state. A goal of the group has been to develop collaboration among academics, activists, and artists interested in urban governance and social reproduction in the Twin Cities and to put them in conversation with colleagues across North America, Europe, and South America who are studying, and/or experimenting with, municipalist forms of governance.
In a two day series of talks, panel discussions and workshops, learn more from local artists, academics, activists, and thinkers, along with three international and rural activists and scholars whose work has explored these issues:
Carol Maziviero (São Paulo, Brazil) – Researcher on insurgent urbanism, and urbanism in the digital age from the Architecture School of the São Judas Tadeu University in São Paulo.
Daniele Tognozzi (Berlin, Germany) – Artist, activist and urban studies researcher from Spatial Strategies at KHB Weißensee (http://raumstrategien.com/) and Tesserae Urban Social Research (http://www.tesserae.eu/).
William “Naawacekgize” Quackenbush (Ho-Chunk Nation / Wisconsin) – Indigenous activist and scholar, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation (http://ho-chunk.com).
THURSDAY MARCH 22 7-9pm
Location: Carlson 1-123 University of Minnesota (West Bank)
“Cities as Commons? Exploring Municipalist Movements in International and Rural Contexts”
Talks and panel discussion with Carol, Daniele, and Bill that will invite comparisons between international and rural perspectives on municipalism, including topics such as direct democracy, social power and reproduction, organizing bottom up movements, rural-urban divides, and the rise of democratic alternatives to the centralized state.
Panel Discussion with: Carol Maziviero, William “Naawacekgize” Quackenbush, Daniele Tognozzi
FRIDAY MARCH 23 1-3:30pm
Location: 1219 University Ave SE (University Baptist Church / http://www.ubcmn.org/)
“What is Possible? Sharing Housing Rights Strategies Across Rebel Cities”
Based on his experiences organizing neighborhoods against the commercial development of Berlin, Daniele will lead a workshop in collaboration with Twin Cities based neighborhood organizers that will demonstrate how international activists and artists can learn from each other about tactics for bottom up organizing of municipalist movements.
Workshop led by Daniele Tognozzi, Kristen Eide-Tollefson (Preserve Historic Dinkytown), Erich Wunderlich (community organizer)
FRIDAY MARCH 23 3:30-6pm
Location: 2854 Columbus Ave (Beyond Repair – Assembly)
Social mapping with Carol Maziviero:
Carol Maziviero will lead a workshop on collective mapping, where participants will use cartography to explore socio-cultural and urban issues of a particular urban area. In the workshop, through a collaborative process, participants will subvert the concept of the map and take ownership of their own territories, building local networks, and helping reveal new possibilities for social action and cooperation.
War is Trauma Pop-Up Exhibit:
War Is Trauma is a portfolio of handmade prints produced by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative in collaboration with the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). This portfolio transpired out of a street poster project, from November 2010, which a number of Justseeds artists provided graphics for “Operation Recovery” – a campaign to stop the deployment of traumatized troops and win service members and veterans right to heal. Posters were pasted in public, replacing many corporate advertisements, to focus public attention towards the issues not being discussed – GI Resistance, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual assault in the military or Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The action led to another collaboration between Justseeds and IVAW – an “Operation Recovery” booklet published by Printed Matter in NYC and currently the War is Trauma portfolio. For this project over 30 artists from Justseeds, IVAW, and our allies have each created a print that addresses “Operation Recovery,” its larger goals of supporting service member and veterans right to heal, GI resistance, challenging the culture of militarism in the US, and ending the war in Afghanistan. A total of 130 portfolios have been created that we hope inspire 130 exhibitions that can act as a starting point to bring different people together – veterans, civilians, Iraqis, Afghans, and others to dialogue on issues. – IVAW & Justseeds
FRIDAY MARCH 23 6:30-8:00
Location: 3715 Chicago Ave. S (CTUL)
“Imagining the Just City: Movements Across Difference”
We all know that the city is an amalgam of subjects, but how is that played out, and how can we begin to move past certain powerful subjects objectifying others in an attempt to create a “common narrative?” With a nod towards pioneering queer activist Harry Hay and his ideas on subject-subject consciousness, our conversation considers the benefits of a heterogeneous city and how municipalists can create the conditions for subjecthood to thrive and for multiple narratives to flourish simultaneously.
Panelists: Jeremiah Bey Ellison (City Councilperson – Ward 5), Jennifer Newsome (Dream the Combine), Ginger Jentzen (15 Now, Socialist Alternative), Tina Sigel (Restorative Justice Community Action), Sarah Jane Keaveny (RN/BSN, mother, nurse, poet, activist, enthusiast)
Sam Gould (Moderator)
FRIDAY MARCH 23 8:30 – 10:30pm
Location: 2854 Columbus Ave. S
After Party @ Assembly with Hello Psychaleppo
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Desde las elecciones presidenciales del 2016, el grupo “Ciudad como Comunes” [or “City as Commons not sure if you want to translate this] ubicado en las Ciudades Gemelas se ha estado reuniendo para reflexionar sobre el municipalismo, una forma de organización política que está ganando popularidad en todo el mundo. El Municipalismo se fundamenta en un modelo asambleario en los barrios para practicar la democracia directa como una alternativa al estado centralizado. Uno de los objetivos del grupo ha sido desarrollar la colaboración entre investigadores, activistas y artistas interesados en la gobernanza urbana y en la reproducción social en las Ciudades Gemelas; también es deseo de este grupo poner a estos grupos en contacto con personas en América del Norte, Europa y América del Sur que están estudiando, y/o experimentando con formas de gobierno municipalistas.
En un encuentro de dos días basado en lecturas, mesas redondas y talleres, aprenderemos con artistas locales, investigadores, activistas y pensadores. También contaremos con la colaboración de tres investigadores y activistas internacionales y rurales cuyos trabajo han explorado estos temas:
Carol Maziviero (São Paulo, Brasil) – Investigadora en urbanismo insurgente y urbanismo en la era digital de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad São Judas Tadeu en São Paulo.
Daniele Tognozzi (Berlin, Germany) – Artista, activista e investigador de los estudios urbanos de Estrategias Especiales en KHB Weißensee (http://raumstrategien.com/) y de la Investigación Social Urbana de Tesserae (http://www.tesserae.eu/).
William “Naawacekgize” Quackenbush (Ho-Chunk Nation / Wisconsin) – Activista indígena e investigador, Oficial de Preservación Histórica Tribal de la Nación Ho-Chunk (http://ho-chunk.com).
THURSDAY MARCH 22 7-9pm
Location: Carlson 1-123 University of Minnesota (West Bank)
“Ciudades como Comunes? Explorando Movimientos Municipales en Contextos Internacionales y Rurales”
Lecturas y mesas redondas con Carol, Daniele, y Bill que invitarán a realizar comparaciones entre perspectivas internacionales y rurales sobre el municipalismo, incluyendo temas como: democracia directa, el poder social y la reproducción, la organización de movimientos ascendentes,las divisiones entre el campo y la ciudad y el ascenso de las alternativas democráticas al estado centralizado.
FRIDAY MARCH 23 1-3:30pm
Location: 1219 University Ave SE (University Baptist Church / http://www.ubcmn.org/)
“¿Qué es posible? Compartiendo estrategias sobre el derecho a un hogar en las ciudades rebeldes”
Basado en sus experiencias organizando barrios contra el desarrollo comercial de Berlín, Daniele dirigirá un taller en colaboración con activistas locales que defienden el derecho a una vivienda. Este taller explorará cómo los activistas internacionales y los artistas locales pueden aprender unos de otros sobre tácticas para organizar movimientos municipalistas ascendentes.
Taller dirigido por Daniele Tognozzi, Kristin Eide-Tollefson (Preserve Historic Dinkytown), Eric Wunder
FRIDAY MARCH 23 3:30-6pm
Location: 2854 Columbus Ave (Beyond Repair – Assembly)
War is Trauma Pop-Up Exhibit & Social mapping with Carol Maziviero
FRIDAY MARCH 23 6:30-8:00
Location: 3715 Chicago Ave. S (CTUL)
“Imaginando una ciudad justa: Movimientos a través de la diferencia”
Todos sabemos que la ciudad es una amalgama de sujetos, pero ¿cómo se desarrolla y cómo podemos salir de las dinámicas de poder que objetiviza y jerarquiza a la personas para crear una “narrativa común”? Teniendo en cuenta el gesto activista queer pionero de Harry Hay y de sus ideas sobre la conciencia del sujeto-sujeto, nuestra conversación considerareå los beneficios de la ciudad heterogénea y cómo los municipalistas pueden crear las condiciones para que prospere la subjetividad y para que narrativas múltiples florezcan simultáneamente.
Panelists: Jeremiah Bey Ellison (City Councilperson – Ward 5), Jennifer Newsome (Dream the Combine), Ginger Jentzen (15 Now, Socialist Alternative), Tina Sigel (Restorative Justice Community Action), Sarah Jane Keaveny (RN/BSN, mother, nurse, poet, activist, enthusiast)
Sam Gould (Moderator)
FRIDAY MARCH 23 8:30 – 10:30pm
Location: 2854 Columbus Ave. S
After Party @ Assembly with Hello Psychaleppo
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SOMALI TRANSLATION
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Tan iyo markii ay dhacday doorashooyinkii 2016, koox ka dhisan Magaalooyinka Mataanaha oo la yiraahdo “City as Commons ama Magaaladu waa Meel la Wada Leeyahay” ayaa shirar yeeshay si ay u falanqeeyaan, si ay wax u bartaan iyo sida ay dowlad hoose ahaan isu dhisi karaan, oo ururkan waa mid ku shaqeeya si siyaasadeysan oo dunida oo dhan aad loogu riyaaqay, iyadoo degaannada dadka magaalada la isu keenayo si ay uga qeybqaataan dimuquraadiyad toos ah oo ka beddelan midda dowladda dhexe. Hadafka kooxdan waa in la horumariyo wada-shaqeyn ka dhaxeysa aqoonyahannada, qabqableyaasha, iyo dadka farshaxanka ah ee daneynaya maamulka magaalada iyo abaabulka bulshada ku dhaqan Magaalooyinka Mataanaha, iyo in ay wadahadal la yeeshaan dadka dhiggooda ah ee ku dhaqan Waqooyiga Ameerika, Yurub, iyo Koonfurta Ameerika, kuwaasoo u dhuun duleela barashada iyo/ama tijaabinta qaababka ay u shaqeyn karto dowladaha hoose.
Laba maalmood oo ah wadahadallo, doodo iyo tababarro gaar ah, oo aad ku baran doonto farshaxanka magaalada, qabqbleyaasha iyo indheer-garadka, kuwaasoo ay weheliyaan qabqableyaal ka socda caalamka, kuwa ka socda dhulka miyiga ah ee gobolka iyo aqoonyahanno sahamin ku sameeya arrimaha kor ku xusan oo kala ah:
Carol Maziviero (São Paulo, Brazil) – Cilmi-baare la socda kacdoonka magaaleyta magaalooyinka, magaalooyinka xilligan casriga ah, oo wuxuu ka socdaa kulliyad lagu barto naqshadeynta dhismeyaasha oo ku dhex taalla jaamacadda São Judas Tadeu University, magaalada São Paulo iyo Sheybaarka Siyaabaha kala duwan ee Magaaleynta Magaalooyinka.
Daniele Tognozzi (Berlin, Germany) – Farshaxan, qabqable iyo cilmi-baare ka tirsan culuunta takhasuska magaalada, oo waxa uu ka yimid Spatial Strategies oo ku taalla KHB Weißensee (http://raumstrategien.com/) iyo Cilmi-baarista Culuunta Bulshada Magaalada ee Tesserae (http://www.tesserae.eu/).
William “Naawacekgize” Quackenbush (Ho-Chunk Nation / Wisconsin) – Qabqable iyo aqoonyahan u dhaqdhaqaaqa dadka dhaladka Mareykanka ah, waana Hawl-wadeenka Keydinta Taariikhda Qabiil la yiraahdo Ho-Chunk (http://ho-chunk.com).
KHAMIIS, 22-ka MAAJO
Faahfaahinta Doodaha
7-da ilaa 9-ka fiidnimo
Carlson 1-123 University of Minnesota (West Bank)
“Cities as Commons? Magaaladu waa Meel la Wada Leeyahay, Sahaminta Dhaqdhaqaaqa Magaalada marka laga fekero miyi iyo magaalo, Caalamka oo dhan”
Wadahadalka iyo doodaha ay sameyn doonaan martida kala ah Carol, Daniele, iyo Bill waxaa la isugu barbar dhigi doonaa sida fikradaha kala duwan ee magaalooyinka, caalamka oo dhan iyo miyiga, oo mowduucyada waxaa ka mid ah dimuquraadiyadda tooska ah, awoodda bulshada iyo wax soosaarkooda, dhaqdhaqaaqyada abaabulka ah ee hoosta laga dhiso, kala-duwanaanta miyi iyo magaalo, iyo arrimaha soo kordhaaya ee ah wax lagu beddelan karo dimuquraadiyadda ka jirta dhinaca dowladda dhexe.
JIMCE, 23-ka MAAJO
Faahfaahinta Tababarka
1-da ilaa 3:30 galabnimo
Goobta:
University Baptist Church
1219 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
“Maxaa u Qabsoomi kara? Wadaagidda Qorhseyaasha Xuquuqda Guriyeyta Magaalooyinka Gadoodsan”
Waaya-aragnimadeeda waxa ka mid ah abaabulka deegaanno ka tirsan magaalada Baarliin si ay uga biya-diidaan dhisidda xarumo ganacsi, Daniele ayaa hoggaamin doonta wada-shaqeynta tababarka qabqableyaasha iyo farshaxannada arrimaha guriyeynta ee Magaalooyinka Mataanaha, waxay kala baran karaan qabqableyaasha caalamka kale, sida xeelado ah abaabul loo adeegsado in hoosta looga dhiso dhaqdhaqaaqyada dowladda hoose.
Tababarkan waxaa hoggaamin doona Daniele Tognozzi, Kristen Eide-Tollefson (Preserve Historic Dinkytown), Erich Wunder (meesha uu ka socdo? – weli lama oga)
3:30 ilaa 6-da galabnimo
@ Assembly
War is Trauma Pop-Up Exhibit
& Social mapping with Carol Maziviero
6:30 ilaa 8-da fiidnimo (Goobta waxay furnaan doonaa 6-da ilaa 9:30 fiidnimo)
Goobta:
CTUL
3715 Chicago Ave. S
6:30 pm
“Maskaxdaada ku sawiro Magaalo Caddaalad ah: Kala-Duwanaanta Dhaqdhaqaaqyada Jira”
Waxaan ognahay in ay magaalo kasta ku nool yihiin dadyow kala duwan, laakiin sidee bay u qabsan karaan dantooda, iyo sidee loo bilaabi karaa in laga tala baxo dadka awoodda sheeganaya ee dadka kale sandulle uga dhigaya in waxa la sameynayo ay yihiin “wax lay isku raacsan yahay?” Waa in loo jiheysto arrin uu bilaabay qabqable la yiraahdo Harry Hay iyo fikradihiisii oo ahaa qof kasta rabitaankiisa in la tixgeliyo, wadahadalku wuxuu manaafacaad u keeni doonaa dadka kala duwan iyo in ay dowladda hoose abuurto tixgelin uu qof kasta barwaaqo ku heli karo iyo in si isku mar ah loogu bullaalo waxyaabaha badan ee ay dadku isku raacsan yihiin.
Doodeyaasha:
Jeremiah Bey Ellison (City Councilperson – Ward 5)
Jennifer Newsome (Dream the Combine)
Ginger Jentzen (15 Now, Socialist Alternative)
Tina Sigel (Restorative Justice Community Action)
Su Hwang (Pending)
Sam Gould (Moderator)
After Party
Jimce
8:30 ilaa 10:30 fiidnimo
Goobta: 2854 Columbus Ave. S
@ Assembly w/ Hello Psychaleppo
Thu, May. 17, 2018 ⁄ 6:00–7:30pm
Laura Corcuera // The State of the Media in the Post 15M Spain
Join the City as Commons group, in collaboration with Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, as we host a presentation by writer, performer, and co-founder and member of the newspaper DIAGONAL, Laura Corcuera González de Garay.
Laura will speak about the media, performance, feminist activism and municipalist politics in post 15M Spain.
Located at Beyond Repair / Assembly
2854 Columbus Ave.
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Laura Corcuera González de Garay is a founder and member of the newspaper DIAGONAL, where she writes about science, sexual and gender diversity, LGBTQIA movements and performing arts, an area that she coordinates for the supplement Culturas. She has collaborated with the theater magazines Primer Acto and Artez. Since 2014 she has collaborated with the international magazine Punto y Coma.
She combines her work and communicative militancy with feminist activism and performance. She’s no taller than 5’2’’, but she has studied with great teachers like Jango Edwars, Phillipe Gaulier, Eric de Bont, Esther Ferrer, Antonia Baehr and el Odin Teatret, among others. Her last performative experience was realized in conjunction with the US collective La Pocha Nostra (Atenas, June 2015).
“I combine writing, journalism, performance, theater, and public dissemination of the sciences. I am a feminist activist of the interstellar precariousness, before being a salaried employee of highly respected State institutions. I demonstrate a spirit and vocation for public service; I am a creator of the imaginary institution of society, I can be a transformer for material and immaterial realities, I have a strong commitment to ethical practices, justice, beauty, and wealth distribution. I love the Mediterranean arc, southern Europe.”
Laura Corcuera González de Garay, has a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a master’s degree in Semiotics of mass communication, with the thesis “The scene as a tool of sociopolitical dynamization.” She was the Press Officer at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, (MNCN/CSIC) between 2005 and 2007, founded the Periódico del MNCN and the science news agency SINC (FECYT), where she worked as coordinator and chief editor from September 2007 to December 22, 2010.
Thu, Jun. 21, 2018 ⁄ 7:30–9:30pm
A Talk by Robby Herbst: Imagining A Different City/Llano Del Rio Rebel City Los Angeles
City as Commons Group Presents:
A Talk by Robby Herbst: Imagining A Different City/Llano Del Rio Rebel City Los Angeles
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In this talk spanning sociology, movement theory, and urban practices, Robby Herbst of the Llano Del Rio Collective will introduce the new Rebel City Los Angeles guide; presenting the ideas behind the guide, the evolution of the collective’s work, and share their vision for what the city can be.
The Rebel City Los Angeles guide answers the question, what would Los Angeles look like if vertical power as we know it disappeared?. The illustrated two sided guide helps users visualize the city from below, providing details of a developing infrastructure of people-centered institutions supporting human activities outside corporate dominion; from electricity, housing, education, medicine, and banking. Los Angeles born saint Vaginal Davis said “riding on the subway system and buses,,, are the Southland’s true barometer and soul of the city” and the guide hopes to help you take the temperature. Publication lists over 60 sites, and includes essays by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal and Robby Herbst. Rebel City Los Angeles is a part of the Llano Del Rio Rebel City Project.
Inspired by the 2015 movie Tangerine, the Spanish Municipalist Movement, and David Harvey’s book Rebel Cities, the illustrated two sided guide helps users imagine the city from below, providing details of an infrastructure of people-centered institutions supporting human activities outside corporate dominion; from electricity, housing, education, medicine, and banking. The publication lists nearly 100 sites and includes essays by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal and Robby Herbst. It is a part of the wider Rebel City Los Angeles project.
Rebel City Los Angeles guide is the 6th guide to Los Angeles created by the Llano Del Rio Collective. Previous guides include: Power Points, Utopias of So.Cal., An Antagonists Guide to the Assholes of L.A., Scores For the City, and A Map For Another L.A.
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Links:
Llano Del Rio Collective https://ldrg.wordpress.com
Robby Herbst http://cargocollective.com/robbyherbst
Sat, Jun. 23, 2018 ⁄ 10:00am–2:00pm
Rebel Kids: An Anti-Authoritarian Workshop for Children!!!
Join Robby Herbst (Llano del Rio Collective, former Journal of Aesthetics and Protest), Sam Gould (Beyond Repair, former Red76, Tools in Common), and their children (Louis, Honora, Esme, and Juniper) for an afternoon of tactical crafts and group conversation about how kids of all ages can work together to bring about a safe, caring, and critical world of the future, free from bullies, dunderheads, jackasses, litter bugs, fire starters, Nazis, and all who would tilt power in favor of the few over the many.
Come and enjoy barricade and shield building work shops, seed “bomb” cultivation, and training in Jedi Mind-Tricks.
Parents are welcome, as well as those who are young at heart.