SIERRA CLUB TO ENGAGE IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ORGANIZATION’S HISTORY TO STOP TAR SANDS

butterfarts:

Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Contact: 
Maggie Kao, 202-675-2384


Sierra Club to Engage in Civil Disobedience for the First Time in Organization’s History to Stop Tar Sands


San Francisco, CA — The Sierra Club Board of Directors has approved the one-time use of civil disobedience for the first time in the organization’s 120-year history.  

Recognizing the imminent danger posed by climate disruption, including record heat waves, drought, wildfires and the devastation of superstorm Sandy, the Sierra Club board of directors has suspended a long-standing Club policy to allow, for one time, the organization to lead a group of environmental activists, civil rights leaders, visionaries, scientists, and other high-profile individuals in a peaceful protest to dirty and dangerous tar sands.  The action will be by invitation only and is being co-sponsored by 350.org.

“For civil disobedience to be justified, something must be so wrong that it compels the strongest defensible protest,” said Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director.
“We are watching a global crisis unfold before our eyes, and to stand aside and let it happen — even though we know how to stop it — would be unconscionable.  As the president said in his inaugural address, ‘to do so would betray our children and future generations.’”

“The Sierra Club has refused to stand by. We’ve worked hard and we have had great success - helping establish historic fuel economy standards for cars and trucks, stopping more than 170 coal plants from being built, securing the retirement of another 129 existing plants, and helping grow a clean energy economy. But time is running out, and the stakes are enormous.  We can’t afford to lose a single major battle. The burning of dirty tar sands crude is one of those major battles.  That’s why the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors has for the first time endorsed an act of peaceful civil disobedience,” said Brune.

“The recent decision made by the Board of Directors is not one we take lightly,” said Allison Chin, Sierra Club President.  “As a nation, we are beginning to achieve significant success in the fight against climate disruption.  But allowing the production, transport, export and burning of the dirtiest oil on Earth now would be a giant leap backwards in that progress.  The Board is answering the urgency of this threat with our decision to engage, for one time, in civil disobedience.”

The Sierra Club will continue to use all other legitimate tools and channels to protect the nation’s water, air, land and people from polluters, and will focus intensely on moving the nation to safe, clean energy alternatives and away from the fossil fuels that have caused the climate crisis.

(Source: complexcelerycress)

3 months ago  2 notes

Unist’ot’en Camp: Exercising Indigenous Sovereignty to Fight Back Against Pipeline Development Info-night and discussion

Saturday, January 26th 5:30 pm
House of In-Correction
9323 108 A avenue 


The Unist’ot’en Camp is a resistance community whose purpose is to protect sovereign Wet’suwet’en territory from several proposed pipelines from the Tar Sands Gigaproject and shale gas from Hydraulic Fracturing Projects in the Peace River Region.

The Unist’ot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) along with other strong uncompromising allies will stop this destructive path, for the future generations, for the biodiversity, and for solidarity with our neighbours living amidst the heavy impacts in the Tar Sands Affected areas in Northern Alberta, and regions heavily affected by Fracking Natural Gas and Shale Oil, as well as communities impacted by Refineries, Pipelines, and Fuel Terminals and Port Expansions.

The House of In-Correction, Edmonton chapter, is hosting one of the camp members to come and share with edmontonian comrades. Attend to learn about what is happening at camp, how you can be in solidarity, and how a cross-continental alliance is being formed to develop pro-active pipeline resistance strategies. 

- Bring a small dish to share if you are able to.

- Walking distance from Stadium station and the #5 and #9 bus. 

- Regretfully, this space is not fully accessible. If you have concerns or needs to be met in order for you to attend comfortably, please reach us on this page for further contact. 

- Please not the HoI is a cat-friendly dwelling :)

love and sol, 

HoI

fb event here 

3 months ago  4 notes

The HoI Presents! Summer updates and information

Hello you fearless fiends, 

Firstly— thank you for your patience! We’ve been busy (and disorganized) here at the HoI, but all for the better. Some major shifts have been happening in the house— including welcoming two new radical pals into the mix! Our artist-in-residence has been brewing up a tasty concoction, and the sunshine has been plentiful (and no mosquitoes yet?!).

Without further ado, here are the updates!

~ There have been a lot of solidarity gatherings/events around the Quebec student protest. It’s been really exciting to speak with people and bond over our concerns on this topic. Walking through the city seeing little red squares every which way… painted, pasted, pinned onto shirt pockets… the murmuring is no longer quiet. We are rising up! Hoo boy, excitement!

~ The HoI crew attended the book launch for Beautiful Trouble: a tool box for revolution… which is an excellent book/tool kit/reference resource////etc. Really really great. Highly recommended! Proudly added to our  library :)

~ The Jungle reading group has taken some time off. We were finding it difficult to get people to gather for it— despite countless voices of interest and support. A bit of a bummer, but I guess this is the Edmonton epidemic! We are working on a cure… In the meantime, we continue to host our awesome zine library + online files for sharing. If you are interested in taking a peek, let us know! We’d be happy to hook you up. 

~ Big news item…. our house is being sold! But we’re only moving about 4 blocks away, and the new space has a lot more potential. So be on the lookout for the next HoI Space launch extravaganza! (Also…. the house is super “cheap”as far as real estate goes (gross, yes) But if you were in the market… there you have it!)

~ Our Network of Domestic Spaces (NoDS) artist in residence (A.I.R) “Skinny Straps”has been working away developing a great project centered around sustainable, pro-active, and healthy activism! Centered around climate issues- such as the Tar Sands, the project is looking miiiighty fine! You can find info about it on the next entry and at www.trustresistance.wordpress.com

Alright, those are the main updates to be had… anything you wanna ask or chat about, you can contacts us at hoi@riseup.net

All the best in your mischief!

-HoI

11 months ago 

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THE JUNGLE: A DISCUSSION GROUP (OR FREE-SCHOOL FOR TRAMPS)

Dear Comrades

Please join us for:

The Jungle - The in-correct reading group with bread and a Mighty Thin Stew. Pull up a milk crate, stop your belly aching and chew on some creative resistance! Kneading the sour dough of dissidence and searching for the white bean of truth in the grey stew of the everyday, we will be reading/discussing a text and associative themes in the cozy centre of the HoI.
This event will be happening each week with a new radical text to be discussed. Some themes are: creative resistance & tactic, community resilience, social permaculture, art & activism, anarchism, autonomous communities, class struggles and movements, vagrancy, law, living good and looking for a space to find each other. If you have a recommendation for a reading or would like to join us to cook for the jungle we’d love to hear from you!
Join us!
Merrymeet xxxx,
xxx Ave, Edmonton    
on the hour of 18.00 (6pm), every monday unless otherwise noted.

RSVP appreciated, so we know how many milk-crates and soup spoons we need!
For address or directions: email alex(dot)felicitas(at)gmail(dot)com
Yours in Creative resistance
Alex and Alex

Why call a reading group a jungle?

The common meeting ground of both hoboes and tramps was the “jungle”. The jungle was a campsite, usually located outside of town near the railroad tracks. The jungle was a place where everyone was welcomed as long as they obeyed the rules. In the jungle, there was food, a place to sleep, and companionship. Both hoboes and tramps lived in a state of constant hunger, and rarely did either ever get enough food. The main meal, which was usually the main event of the day, was served in the evening, and was usually a large stew called “Mulligan Stew.” Unless one was hurt or ill, to share in the meal one had to contribute. Those who did not bring food had to work as chefs or gather firewood, and everyone was required to clean up after himself. 

‘Many tramps and hoboes were self-educated and widely read in economics and political philosophy. After dinner, the men would often sit around the fire and share not only their political views and discuss social issues, but they would also tell stories about the adventures they had lived, the fast trains they had ridden, and the jails they had been in. They spent a great deal of time sharing their knowledge of daily survival: which policemen and judges to avoid, which towns were friendly and which were hostile. Because hoboes and tramps were constantly on the road and had no access to telephones, telegraphs, or the mail, they developed a complex system of communication. There was a system of signs used to let hoboes and tramps know whatever a “friend” felt was important for another friend to know. There were signs to let newcomers know where they might find a friendly or hostile reception, directions to a welcoming place, or warnings for hostile dogs, police, or thieves.

Around these campfires they would also sing songs, recite poetry, and create their own individual works of art: the hoboes would whittle while the tramps would carve.

JUNGLES PAST:
Week 1——-The text - “Bread and Puppets” by Peter Schumann can be read HERE. 
Here are some themes that when reading the text it may be helpful to think about:
Art and/ or Protest as ritual
Performance as revolt
The value of creative resistance as a tactic
The spectacles of protest and the spectacles of art
Accepted modes of protest as complicit actions obeying authorities guidebook toexpressing ourselves
Folk traditions in relation to food, craft, art and performance
Personal experiences of relationships to food, art, protest and how they may relate to one another
If you find yourself wanting a bit more on the subject, you might check out David Graebers essay - the phonomenology of puppets (though we won’t specifically be discussing this text).
Some things to think of for Monday:
- Creative Resistance
- Historical events and working groups
- Anti-capitalism
- Carnival as resistance
- Tools for resistance
- Criticism of contemporary activism
- YES vs NO attitude
- Direct action
Here are some extra things to investigate, if you fancy, after reading the essay:
- Situationalist International
Week 3——- Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin:
http://libcom.org/library/mutual-aid-peter-kropotkin
(this is the whole book, but a look at the intro is a good starter for
discussions!)
An extract of A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit
that can be found here:
http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/falling-together/
And finally, The Warm Fuzzies, a (children’s) tale that explores the
notion of economy of scarcity vs economy of abundance:
http://www.claudesteiner.com/fuzzy.htm
Discussion ideas:
What happens when we are confronting disaster?
In the face of the economical and ecological crisis, how to recover our
collective ability to develop community-driven solutions, mutual aid
responses? To create an anticapitalist economy of abundance? How to meet
the need for (economical) safety with solidarity, to spread the desire for
meaning over money?
We would like this discussion to take into account the specific context of
Alberta and the Tar Sands exploitation, creating one of the largest source
of employment and income for the Albertan population as well as one of the
most ecologically destructive and socially unjust industry on the planet.
How can we address this major dilemma, here and everywhere it is played in
a similar way?
“Crazy people, agitators, rebels, disobedients, subversives, witches,
street, grafiteras, anarchists, feministas, Lesbians and
heterosexuals; married and unmarried; students and clerks;
Indians, chotas, cholas, birlochas, and señoritas; old and young;
white and coloured, we are a fabric of solidarities; of identities,
of commitments, we are women, WOMEN CREATING.”
- Mujeres Creando

1 year ago  1 note

5:ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM

It’s official! The House of In-Correction Residency space is fur-eel. Get on it!

http://www.nodsproject.com/spaces/house-correction

We are a one story house with a basement. We have a very fluctuating flow of guests and so you might have a full furnished bedroom to yourself(ves) or, at the very least, a make shift bedroom in the basement (we have lots of extra sleeping gear, including mattresses). There could be a small working studio space if required, including the garage space. We are pet and plant friendly and a mostly vegetarian household. 

Now, conceptually… 
The House of In-Correction (HoI), began in Cambridge in the summer of 2011 in response to our residency at Green Hall (via NoDS residency!). The House was provoked by research into The Vagrancy Act of 1822 in the UK but our research and inspiration has now extended beyond this. How do laws like the Vagrancy Act shape the time we spend in social spaces, and how we find one another and form radical friendships?



We will have social space to work and relax, beverages and refreshments, an info library on arts, activism, permaculture topics, space to show films, to read readings, to make noise, to have a good time and to get serious. 

At the House we value the ephemeral (temporary community), and contest traditional notions of owned spaces and property while celebrating creative tactics of re-interpreting and re-performing the role of civilian. We are building, collaboratively, an inclusive and participatory social practice where we challenge cultural and systemic hegemony. We want to make art that supports positive social, political, and personal development if not outright transformation! 

The House of In-correction is in perpetual construction. For its time in Edmonton, Alberta- we encourage the use of the residency as a convergence space for creative activism targeting the pressing issue of the Alberta tar sands. Applicants should feel free to apply as they will, and we are easily excited by most things. 

  Your Surroundings: 
We are right downtown and close to all amenities! Including an art supply store with great stuff and great prices. We can probably find you a bike for your stay- but public transportation is very easy if needed. The neighbourhood is one of the oldest ones in the city and is very multi cultural. We are close to the river valley, art gallery, central library, and more. 

The house has held many people in its time, and is constantly in flux. The best bet is to apply when you would like to come and we can go over details from there. 

Please get in touch if you have any further wonderments! The HoI is excited to meet you, future radical pal!

Location
Edmonton , Alberta Canada
Next Available Residency
Whenever!

(Source: complexcelerycress)

1 year ago  7 notes

3: MANIFESTO’S

MANIFESTO #1

Collaborating long distance between Canada and the UK has it’s obvious challenges. Sometimes, it is easy to lose steam and forget to be excited and passionate about the work we are doing. For this reason we decided to write manifestos to and for each other— to provide encouragement, to have a space to rant, to form new ideas, and more!

MANIFESTO #2

Written in the winter and spring (2011-2012). During this time Goodman boarded a cargo ship from Europe to North Carolina, where her adventures took her around and upwards through the north eastern USA. With some trouble, fun, and messy good times— the ol’ railway took her across the prairies to Edmonton, AB, Canada. The current ‘home’ of the HoI. While Felicitas awaited the arrival (on tenterhooks!), a cameo of far-feathered friends visited the HoI and made it warm with love and cheer, prepping it for it’s springly adventures!

1 year ago 

2: HYSTORY + ABOUT

Alex Felicitas and Alex Goodman started the House of In-correction in 2011. The House has no fixed address (outside of our hearts), but takes on temporary sites in various guises. A home for vagrants, for idlers, thinkers, wanderers, it is a different kind of half-way house. Welcome.

The House began in Cambridge in the early summer of 2011 in response to our residency at Green Hall, under the Network of Domestic Spaces. The House was provoked by research into The Vagrancy Act of 1822 in the UK but our research and inspiration has now extended beyond this. How do laws like the Vagrancy Act shape the time we spend in social spaces, and how we find one another and form radical friendships?

The House of In-correction is in perpetual construction. It will manifest in the beginning of 2012 in various contexts and spaces. This includes an incarnation in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Here it will function as a convergence space for creative activism targeting the pressing issue of the Alberta tar sands. We will have social space to work and relax, beverages and refreshments, an info library on arts, activism, permaculture topics, space to show films, to read readings, to make noise, to have a good time and to get serious.

At the House we value the ephemeral (temporary community), and contest traditional notions of owned spaces and property while celebrating creative tactics of re-interpreting and re-performing the role of civilian. We are building, collaboratively, an inclusive and participatory social practice where we challenge cultural and systemic hegemony. We want to make art that supports positive social, political, and personal development if not outright transformation!

 
At HoI individuals will not be exploited for the benefit of capitalist monoculture- but your cultural intricacies, conversation, and ideas will be welcomed and contribute to the embodiment of the structure itself. The House of In-correction is a mobile, expandable, utopian instrument for alter-globalization! Where you can spend time outside of producing or consuming it. To engage in exchange- not commerce- but through experience, skills, ideas, stories, drawings, hot toddies and more.



1 year ago 

1: LINKS + RESOURCES

Our other projects/involvements:

AAREVOLT
Alex Goodman - Encounters Participatory Art 
The HoI on The Network of Domestic Spaces
The Weekly Collective 
Fantastic Barph! 

Our pals:

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
The Haircut Before The Party
Alien Kiosk
Eclectic Electric Collective
Eric Moschopedis
urBARNia

The Network of Domestic Spaces: Residency project


Our interests:

Carnival: the secret resistance of joy: Essay
Guerilla Girls: Feminist masked avengers!!
Petropolis: Aerial perspectives on the Albertan Tar Sands
Art Threat: Culture and Politics 
Yes Lab

2 years ago  8 notes

SIERRA CLUB TO ENGAGE IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ORGANIZATION’S HISTORY TO STOP TAR SANDS

butterfarts:

Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Contact: 
Maggie Kao, 202-675-2384


Sierra Club to Engage in Civil Disobedience for the First Time in Organization’s History to Stop Tar Sands


San Francisco, CA — The Sierra Club Board of Directors has approved the one-time use of civil disobedience for the first time in the organization’s 120-year history.  

Recognizing the imminent danger posed by climate disruption, including record heat waves, drought, wildfires and the devastation of superstorm Sandy, the Sierra Club board of directors has suspended a long-standing Club policy to allow, for one time, the organization to lead a group of environmental activists, civil rights leaders, visionaries, scientists, and other high-profile individuals in a peaceful protest to dirty and dangerous tar sands.  The action will be by invitation only and is being co-sponsored by 350.org.

“For civil disobedience to be justified, something must be so wrong that it compels the strongest defensible protest,” said Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director.
“We are watching a global crisis unfold before our eyes, and to stand aside and let it happen — even though we know how to stop it — would be unconscionable.  As the president said in his inaugural address, ‘to do so would betray our children and future generations.’”

“The Sierra Club has refused to stand by. We’ve worked hard and we have had great success - helping establish historic fuel economy standards for cars and trucks, stopping more than 170 coal plants from being built, securing the retirement of another 129 existing plants, and helping grow a clean energy economy. But time is running out, and the stakes are enormous.  We can’t afford to lose a single major battle. The burning of dirty tar sands crude is one of those major battles.  That’s why the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors has for the first time endorsed an act of peaceful civil disobedience,” said Brune.

“The recent decision made by the Board of Directors is not one we take lightly,” said Allison Chin, Sierra Club President.  “As a nation, we are beginning to achieve significant success in the fight against climate disruption.  But allowing the production, transport, export and burning of the dirtiest oil on Earth now would be a giant leap backwards in that progress.  The Board is answering the urgency of this threat with our decision to engage, for one time, in civil disobedience.”

The Sierra Club will continue to use all other legitimate tools and channels to protect the nation’s water, air, land and people from polluters, and will focus intensely on moving the nation to safe, clean energy alternatives and away from the fossil fuels that have caused the climate crisis.

(Source: complexcelerycress)

Unist’ot’en Camp: Exercising Indigenous Sovereignty to Fight Back Against Pipeline Development Info-night and discussion

Saturday, January 26th 5:30 pm
House of In-Correction
9323 108 A avenue 


The Unist’ot’en Camp is a resistance community whose purpose is to protect sovereign Wet’suwet’en territory from several proposed pipelines from the Tar Sands Gigaproject and shale gas from Hydraulic Fracturing Projects in the Peace River Region.

The Unist’ot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) along with other strong uncompromising allies will stop this destructive path, for the future generations, for the biodiversity, and for solidarity with our neighbours living amidst the heavy impacts in the Tar Sands Affected areas in Northern Alberta, and regions heavily affected by Fracking Natural Gas and Shale Oil, as well as communities impacted by Refineries, Pipelines, and Fuel Terminals and Port Expansions.

The House of In-Correction, Edmonton chapter, is hosting one of the camp members to come and share with edmontonian comrades. Attend to learn about what is happening at camp, how you can be in solidarity, and how a cross-continental alliance is being formed to develop pro-active pipeline resistance strategies. 

- Bring a small dish to share if you are able to.

- Walking distance from Stadium station and the #5 and #9 bus. 

- Regretfully, this space is not fully accessible. If you have concerns or needs to be met in order for you to attend comfortably, please reach us on this page for further contact. 

- Please not the HoI is a cat-friendly dwelling :)

love and sol, 

HoI

fb event here 

The HoI Presents! Summer updates and information

Hello you fearless fiends, 

Firstly— thank you for your patience! We’ve been busy (and disorganized) here at the HoI, but all for the better. Some major shifts have been happening in the house— including welcoming two new radical pals into the mix! Our artist-in-residence has been brewing up a tasty concoction, and the sunshine has been plentiful (and no mosquitoes yet?!).

Without further ado, here are the updates!

~ There have been a lot of solidarity gatherings/events around the Quebec student protest. It’s been really exciting to speak with people and bond over our concerns on this topic. Walking through the city seeing little red squares every which way… painted, pasted, pinned onto shirt pockets… the murmuring is no longer quiet. We are rising up! Hoo boy, excitement!

~ The HoI crew attended the book launch for Beautiful Trouble: a tool box for revolution… which is an excellent book/tool kit/reference resource////etc. Really really great. Highly recommended! Proudly added to our  library :)

~ The Jungle reading group has taken some time off. We were finding it difficult to get people to gather for it— despite countless voices of interest and support. A bit of a bummer, but I guess this is the Edmonton epidemic! We are working on a cure… In the meantime, we continue to host our awesome zine library + online files for sharing. If you are interested in taking a peek, let us know! We’d be happy to hook you up. 

~ Big news item…. our house is being sold! But we’re only moving about 4 blocks away, and the new space has a lot more potential. So be on the lookout for the next HoI Space launch extravaganza! (Also…. the house is super “cheap”as far as real estate goes (gross, yes) But if you were in the market… there you have it!)

~ Our Network of Domestic Spaces (NoDS) artist in residence (A.I.R) “Skinny Straps”has been working away developing a great project centered around sustainable, pro-active, and healthy activism! Centered around climate issues- such as the Tar Sands, the project is looking miiiighty fine! You can find info about it on the next entry and at www.trustresistance.wordpress.com

Alright, those are the main updates to be had… anything you wanna ask or chat about, you can contacts us at hoi@riseup.net

All the best in your mischief!

-HoI

Vagrants play ball

Vagrants play ball

THE JUNGLE: A DISCUSSION GROUP (OR FREE-SCHOOL FOR TRAMPS)

Dear Comrades

Please join us for:

The Jungle - The in-correct reading group with bread and a Mighty Thin Stew. Pull up a milk crate, stop your belly aching and chew on some creative resistance! Kneading the sour dough of dissidence and searching for the white bean of truth in the grey stew of the everyday, we will be reading/discussing a text and associative themes in the cozy centre of the HoI.
This event will be happening each week with a new radical text to be discussed. Some themes are: creative resistance & tactic, community resilience, social permaculture, art & activism, anarchism, autonomous communities, class struggles and movements, vagrancy, law, living good and looking for a space to find each other. If you have a recommendation for a reading or would like to join us to cook for the jungle we’d love to hear from you!
Join us!
Merrymeet xxxx,
xxx Ave, Edmonton    
on the hour of 18.00 (6pm), every monday unless otherwise noted.

RSVP appreciated, so we know how many milk-crates and soup spoons we need!
For address or directions: email alex(dot)felicitas(at)gmail(dot)com
Yours in Creative resistance
Alex and Alex

Why call a reading group a jungle?

The common meeting ground of both hoboes and tramps was the “jungle”. The jungle was a campsite, usually located outside of town near the railroad tracks. The jungle was a place where everyone was welcomed as long as they obeyed the rules. In the jungle, there was food, a place to sleep, and companionship. Both hoboes and tramps lived in a state of constant hunger, and rarely did either ever get enough food. The main meal, which was usually the main event of the day, was served in the evening, and was usually a large stew called “Mulligan Stew.” Unless one was hurt or ill, to share in the meal one had to contribute. Those who did not bring food had to work as chefs or gather firewood, and everyone was required to clean up after himself. 

‘Many tramps and hoboes were self-educated and widely read in economics and political philosophy. After dinner, the men would often sit around the fire and share not only their political views and discuss social issues, but they would also tell stories about the adventures they had lived, the fast trains they had ridden, and the jails they had been in. They spent a great deal of time sharing their knowledge of daily survival: which policemen and judges to avoid, which towns were friendly and which were hostile. Because hoboes and tramps were constantly on the road and had no access to telephones, telegraphs, or the mail, they developed a complex system of communication. There was a system of signs used to let hoboes and tramps know whatever a “friend” felt was important for another friend to know. There were signs to let newcomers know where they might find a friendly or hostile reception, directions to a welcoming place, or warnings for hostile dogs, police, or thieves.

Around these campfires they would also sing songs, recite poetry, and create their own individual works of art: the hoboes would whittle while the tramps would carve.

JUNGLES PAST:
Week 1——-The text - “Bread and Puppets” by Peter Schumann can be read HERE. 
Here are some themes that when reading the text it may be helpful to think about:
Art and/ or Protest as ritual
Performance as revolt
The value of creative resistance as a tactic
The spectacles of protest and the spectacles of art
Accepted modes of protest as complicit actions obeying authorities guidebook toexpressing ourselves
Folk traditions in relation to food, craft, art and performance
Personal experiences of relationships to food, art, protest and how they may relate to one another
If you find yourself wanting a bit more on the subject, you might check out David Graebers essay - the phonomenology of puppets (though we won’t specifically be discussing this text).
Some things to think of for Monday:
- Creative Resistance
- Historical events and working groups
- Anti-capitalism
- Carnival as resistance
- Tools for resistance
- Criticism of contemporary activism
- YES vs NO attitude
- Direct action
Here are some extra things to investigate, if you fancy, after reading the essay:
- Situationalist International
Week 3——- Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin:
http://libcom.org/library/mutual-aid-peter-kropotkin
(this is the whole book, but a look at the intro is a good starter for
discussions!)
An extract of A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit
that can be found here:
http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/falling-together/
And finally, The Warm Fuzzies, a (children’s) tale that explores the
notion of economy of scarcity vs economy of abundance:
http://www.claudesteiner.com/fuzzy.htm
Discussion ideas:
What happens when we are confronting disaster?
In the face of the economical and ecological crisis, how to recover our
collective ability to develop community-driven solutions, mutual aid
responses? To create an anticapitalist economy of abundance? How to meet
the need for (economical) safety with solidarity, to spread the desire for
meaning over money?
We would like this discussion to take into account the specific context of
Alberta and the Tar Sands exploitation, creating one of the largest source
of employment and income for the Albertan population as well as one of the
most ecologically destructive and socially unjust industry on the planet.
How can we address this major dilemma, here and everywhere it is played in
a similar way?
“Crazy people, agitators, rebels, disobedients, subversives, witches,
street, grafiteras, anarchists, feministas, Lesbians and
heterosexuals; married and unmarried; students and clerks;
Indians, chotas, cholas, birlochas, and señoritas; old and young;
white and coloured, we are a fabric of solidarities; of identities,
of commitments, we are women, WOMEN CREATING.”
- Mujeres Creando

5:ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM

It’s official! The House of In-Correction Residency space is fur-eel. Get on it!

http://www.nodsproject.com/spaces/house-correction

We are a one story house with a basement. We have a very fluctuating flow of guests and so you might have a full furnished bedroom to yourself(ves) or, at the very least, a make shift bedroom in the basement (we have lots of extra sleeping gear, including mattresses). There could be a small working studio space if required, including the garage space. We are pet and plant friendly and a mostly vegetarian household. 

Now, conceptually… 
The House of In-Correction (HoI), began in Cambridge in the summer of 2011 in response to our residency at Green Hall (via NoDS residency!). The House was provoked by research into The Vagrancy Act of 1822 in the UK but our research and inspiration has now extended beyond this. How do laws like the Vagrancy Act shape the time we spend in social spaces, and how we find one another and form radical friendships?



We will have social space to work and relax, beverages and refreshments, an info library on arts, activism, permaculture topics, space to show films, to read readings, to make noise, to have a good time and to get serious. 

At the House we value the ephemeral (temporary community), and contest traditional notions of owned spaces and property while celebrating creative tactics of re-interpreting and re-performing the role of civilian. We are building, collaboratively, an inclusive and participatory social practice where we challenge cultural and systemic hegemony. We want to make art that supports positive social, political, and personal development if not outright transformation! 

The House of In-correction is in perpetual construction. For its time in Edmonton, Alberta- we encourage the use of the residency as a convergence space for creative activism targeting the pressing issue of the Alberta tar sands. Applicants should feel free to apply as they will, and we are easily excited by most things. 

  Your Surroundings: 
We are right downtown and close to all amenities! Including an art supply store with great stuff and great prices. We can probably find you a bike for your stay- but public transportation is very easy if needed. The neighbourhood is one of the oldest ones in the city and is very multi cultural. We are close to the river valley, art gallery, central library, and more. 

The house has held many people in its time, and is constantly in flux. The best bet is to apply when you would like to come and we can go over details from there. 

Please get in touch if you have any further wonderments! The HoI is excited to meet you, future radical pal!

Location
Edmonton , Alberta Canada
Next Available Residency
Whenever!

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3: MANIFESTO’S

MANIFESTO #1

Collaborating long distance between Canada and the UK has it’s obvious challenges. Sometimes, it is easy to lose steam and forget to be excited and passionate about the work we are doing. For this reason we decided to write manifestos to and for each other— to provide encouragement, to have a space to rant, to form new ideas, and more!

MANIFESTO #2

Written in the winter and spring (2011-2012). During this time Goodman boarded a cargo ship from Europe to North Carolina, where her adventures took her around and upwards through the north eastern USA. With some trouble, fun, and messy good times— the ol’ railway took her across the prairies to Edmonton, AB, Canada. The current ‘home’ of the HoI. While Felicitas awaited the arrival (on tenterhooks!), a cameo of far-feathered friends visited the HoI and made it warm with love and cheer, prepping it for it’s springly adventures!

2: HYSTORY + ABOUT

Alex Felicitas and Alex Goodman started the House of In-correction in 2011. The House has no fixed address (outside of our hearts), but takes on temporary sites in various guises. A home for vagrants, for idlers, thinkers, wanderers, it is a different kind of half-way house. Welcome.

The House began in Cambridge in the early summer of 2011 in response to our residency at Green Hall, under the Network of Domestic Spaces. The House was provoked by research into The Vagrancy Act of 1822 in the UK but our research and inspiration has now extended beyond this. How do laws like the Vagrancy Act shape the time we spend in social spaces, and how we find one another and form radical friendships?

The House of In-correction is in perpetual construction. It will manifest in the beginning of 2012 in various contexts and spaces. This includes an incarnation in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Here it will function as a convergence space for creative activism targeting the pressing issue of the Alberta tar sands. We will have social space to work and relax, beverages and refreshments, an info library on arts, activism, permaculture topics, space to show films, to read readings, to make noise, to have a good time and to get serious.

At the House we value the ephemeral (temporary community), and contest traditional notions of owned spaces and property while celebrating creative tactics of re-interpreting and re-performing the role of civilian. We are building, collaboratively, an inclusive and participatory social practice where we challenge cultural and systemic hegemony. We want to make art that supports positive social, political, and personal development if not outright transformation!

 
At HoI individuals will not be exploited for the benefit of capitalist monoculture- but your cultural intricacies, conversation, and ideas will be welcomed and contribute to the embodiment of the structure itself. The House of In-correction is a mobile, expandable, utopian instrument for alter-globalization! Where you can spend time outside of producing or consuming it. To engage in exchange- not commerce- but through experience, skills, ideas, stories, drawings, hot toddies and more.



1: LINKS + RESOURCES

Our other projects/involvements:

AAREVOLT
Alex Goodman - Encounters Participatory Art 
The HoI on The Network of Domestic Spaces
The Weekly Collective 
Fantastic Barph! 

Our pals:

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
The Haircut Before The Party
Alien Kiosk
Eclectic Electric Collective
Eric Moschopedis
urBARNia

The Network of Domestic Spaces: Residency project


Our interests:

Carnival: the secret resistance of joy: Essay
Guerilla Girls: Feminist masked avengers!!
Petropolis: Aerial perspectives on the Albertan Tar Sands
Art Threat: Culture and Politics 
Yes Lab

SIERRA CLUB TO ENGAGE IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ORGANIZATION’S HISTORY TO STOP TAR SANDS
Unist’ot’en Camp: Exercising Indigenous Sovereignty to Fight Back Against Pipeline Development Info-night and discussion
The HoI Presents! Summer updates and information
THE JUNGLE: A DISCUSSION GROUP (OR FREE-SCHOOL FOR TRAMPS)
5:ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM
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2: HYSTORY + ABOUT
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