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Tonight’s the night, folks! Join the City as Commons group and Beyond Repair for the opening of What Can a City Be? A Municipalist Gathering. We will begin two days of conversations and workshops tonight at the Carlson School at UMN (info below) with a panel discussion considering “from below organizing” from international, national, and indigenous perspectives with our guests Carol Maziviero (São Paulo, Brazil), Daniele Tognozzi (Berlin, Germany), & William “Naawacekgize” Quackenbush (Ho-Chunk Nation / Wisconsin).

The conversations that we, as the City as Commons group, have been hosting over the last year have been invigorating. Opening up multiple avenues of thought regarding how we come together, building power across difference, and what it means to be “neighborly” in our present, deeply contentious moment. I’m extremely excited to bring more people into this conversation to see where it grows.

I hope to see you this evening, and if you can’t make it, please take a look at the schedule in full to see what other events you might attend.

(https://www.facebook.com/events/2050318378519995/)

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THURSDAY, MARCH 22

Panel Description

7-9pm
@ Carlson School 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.

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).

Mar. 22, 2018 · 1:50pm· Resident Weirdo· ∞

The Walker Art Center asked a small group of artists for book recommendations in response to the upcoming Trump presidency, here’s a shortlist off the top of my head:

Conflict is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman
Strike Art by Yates McKee
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty-One Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Imagevirus by Gregg Bordowitz
Rebel Cities by David Harvey
Stokely Speaks: from Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Charmichael (Kwame Ture)
In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs by Stephen M. Ward
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism  by Hakim Bey
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study by Fred Moten & Stefano Harney
Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group
Show & Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material edited by Julie Ault

Jan. 11, 2017 · 4:16pm· Resident Weirdo· ∞

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