The 2011 Disorientation has been around the UDistrict for a couple months, and now it's online!
The Ruckus (dis)orientation guide to the University of Washington is an inversion of college orientation guides: it orients you about communities and cool activities around UW, and the things that are actually useful to know. It disorients you from the university administration’s intended plan to sell you an alienated mass-production education while draining you like the capitalist vampires they are. We made this because we feel it took years for us discover many great things around this campus; so we’ll pass along the results from years of accidents and serendipity.
Includes articles on survival, campus organizing, the Seattle music scene, polyamory, consent, tuition hikes, anti-Sodexo sit-ins, the Canadian tar sands, poverty, Joe Hill, unions, Seattle newspapers, DIY publishing, anti-sweatshop organizing, El Salvador, the School of the Americas, Decolonize/Occupy Seattle, and a community calendar.
Here is a PDF for reading, and a PDF for printing!
In an interview, Mr.Strain, you have stated that those who do brilliant study and analysis need not be good at organizing and actually executing actions. In the video of the protest you appear to have accomplished both and set an example for armchair intellectuals. Both play vital roles and no doubt complement each other. However if you can play both roles, the outcome is bound to have more integrity as the action springs from the source itself. It leaves little scope for misinterpretation or misuse of an idea. I do hope you have the necessary sense of self-preservation to question archaic ideas incrementally. Chipping at its edges bit by bit. Until its illegitimacy is exposed.
ReplyDeleteA dreamy drifter.
Dear RUCKUS and University of Washington, Students and Alumni,
ReplyDeleteI hope you will pay attention to this event on January 20th, 2012.
I have read and seen where they expect "record crowds" for black Friday shoppers.
Now, - you would not here that about a planned rally and demonstration of and for democracy, would you? I am having a meeting December 10th at the Capital Hill Library to start planning and organizing for this event. I hope you will research it on the Internet and not listen to just me, their are a lot of people already involved. I am meeting with the Federal Courthouse security and getting an idea of how this could be set up at the Courthouse. Permits for a free speech rally, a parade, and a special events permit will be obtained by me or someone at the meeting. I hope you will attend and participate in this event! Please let any other interested people or organizations know about this event being planned, it will be a celebration of democracy, they may not want to miss it.
thanks,
Kenn Dzaman
January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts!
Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark this date — Occupy the Courts — a one day occupation on Friday January 20, 2012, of the Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States and as many of the 89 U.S. District Court Buildings as we can. (I am inspired by Doctor Martin Luther King who said; "a true revolution of values", ... "there comes a time when silence is betrayal"., "people are not gonna be silenced".). Move to Amend will lead the charge on the judiciary which created — and continues to expand — corporate personhood rights.
Please Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood at:
movetoamend.org
It's Time to GET MONEY OUT of politics
Bailouts. War. Unemployment. Our government is bought, and we’re angry. Now, we’re turning our anger into positive action. By signing this petition, you are joining our campaign to get money out of politics. Our politicians won’t do this. But we will. We will become an unrelenting, massive organized wave advocating a Constitutional amendment to get money out of politics.
Please sign the petition!
http://www.getmoneyout.com/
Occupy The Courts - January 20th, 2012
There is a meeting Saturday December 10th, 2011, from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm at the Capitol Hill library branch at 425 Harvard Ave. E., in Seattle. This meeting is for the demonstration being planned January 20th, 2012; at the Federal Courthouse at 700 Stewart street in Seattle. ( People and organizations involved, permits, porta potties, promotion, organizing, staging, sound, event speakers, entertainment, first aid, water, and stuff.)..The meeting room is reserved and holds 50 people and I would love to fill it up! Please inform interested people and organizations!) (This event is not sponsored by the Seattle public Library. )
Please help distribute this information to interested groups and people. I feel the unions, democratic party, republican party, churches, student groups, and "others" need to be informed this is happening. Please help communicate this meeting and demonstration in Seattle! If you can get this event posted to any community events calendars - that would help!
This is a post that I am updating as I have more information.
http://open.salon.com/blog/kennspace/2011/10/28/corporate_occupation_of_the_united_states_1