the provisional university
No Borders Ireland Gathering
August 26-27, 11am-7pm, Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvidere Court, Dublin 1
On Friday 26th and Saturday 27th of August, Seomra Spraoi will be host to the first gathering of the No Borders network to take place in Ireland.
No Borders campaigns struggle alongside those effected for freedom of movement, for the freedom for all to stay in the place which they have chosen, against repression and the many controls which multiply the borders everywhere in all countries. This gathering is working towards establishing a network of individuals and grassroots organisations within Ireland and abroad who are working on the questions of migrants and asylum seekers.
Read more here
Weekend at City Arts: series of talks and workshops
Come down to the old City Arts building this weekend (friday and saturday) to discuss NAMA, public space and the university!
Talking Shop 6: The Citizen
Monday 25 July, 7pm Seomra Spraoi
The idea of the citizen has a long and ambigous history. In the Campaign for the Old City Arts Building we have been using this term to talk about ourselves as political actors and as people with rights, specifically the right to use empty NAMA buildings. But while citizenship can be used in this way, to talk about people’s politics as opposed to the state, it also raises important questions. For example, many people are excluded from official citizenship on the basis of nationality or race. Citizenship also describes the legal relation between people and the state, a relation which many people oppose.
In this Talking Shop we’ll talk about the idea of the citizen and question the politics wrapped up with that term.
Talking Shop 5: Debt
The two suggested texts, which should provide a starting point for discusion, are David Graebers ‘Debt: The First Five Thousand Years’ and the recent Documentary by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Hatzistefanou called ‘Debtocracy’.
The Graeber text gives a breif history of debt from an anthropological point of view, conecting its inception to a history of slavery and state sanctioned violence.The documentary focuses on Greece’s particular crisis in the context of the recent history of IMF and World Bank intervention. Particular highlights are an explanation of the concept of ‘odious debt’ and Equador’s unorthodox handling of their sovereign debt in 2006.
David Graeber, ‘Debt: The First Five Thousand Years’: http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years
Debtocracy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxPo-lInk
Campaign Launch Video
For those who missed the launch of the Campaign for the Old City Arts Building on June 11, video of talks which took place can be found here:
http://campaigncityarts.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/campaign-launch-video/
