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I Write What I Like

SELECTED WRITINGS
by Steve Biko

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Like all of Steve Biko’s writings, those words testify to the passion, courage, and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid. They also reflect his conviction that black people in South Africa could not be liberated until they united to break their chains of servitude, a key tenet of the Black Consciousness movement that he helped found […]

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17 D’ABRIL JORNADA DE LLUITA

Aquest dimecres 17 d’abril es convoca un JORNADA DE LLUITA, en què coincideixen tres accions en defensa de les Universitats Públiques Catalanes, i és necessària la màxima participació de totes en la pràctica del suport mutu per aconseguir victòries sobre els nostres llocs de treball. Us convidem a participar de les següents convocatòries i a persistir en la lluita durant les properes setmanes i mesos, fins a construir una Universitat realment Pública, Popular i Democràtica.

8h- Concentració a Plaça Universitat en el moment de celebració del Consell de Govern de la Universitat de Barcelona.

12.30h- Concentració a la plaça Cívica de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona per exigir que el rectorat faci efectives les mesures aprovades pel claustre en el marc dels dos dies de vaga estudiantil.

Aturem els acomiadaments, desobeïm el règim.

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Roma Media Archive

Roma Media Archive is an ongoing participatory media project to which the Roma and non-Roma artists, activist organisations and communities are invited to contribute various documentary and art materials that reflect the contemporary Roma situation today. The contributions vary from photography series, video documentaries, art performances, research projects and other digital materials that reflect on certain urgent issues related to specific events or to the general situation in regard various Roma communities in Europe or in other parts of the world.

This project was originally initiated by Suzana Milevska, a theorist and curator, who is based in Skopje, Macedonia. She has invited a worldwide range of participating artists, to share their archives, as testimonials of their research endeavours, in solidarity with the Roma people.

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Decolonize Berlin, a lecture and discussion with Noa Ha & Nika Zablotsky

Contemporary Berlin fashions itself to be a “European metropolis”. In 1884, Berlin was host to the so called “Berlin Africa conference”. Colonialism is over? Coloniality is deeply engrained in Berlin. Informed by their experience as co-organizers of the “Decolonize the City!” conference in Berlin in September 2012 Noa Ha and Nika Zablotsky will discuss processes of Decolonization as a sustained political practice. Departing from the position that discussions of the city have so far only insufficiently addressed who is being displaced, controlled and marginalized, they foreground an queer anti-racist analysis which emphasizes the everyday struggles and resistance of postcolonial immigrants and people of color who are most affected by racist police violence, deportation, exploitation and discrimination in the education system, which they fight back since many years. This lecture will point to prospects of Decolonization of and in Berlin.

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The Johannesburg Salon, Volume 5

Edited by Achille Mbembe

The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism is an experiment in global conversation based in the South. Located in Johannesburg, we seek to be a critical node in the re-territorializing of global intellectual production. We are a centre for theoretical work that takes seriously a position in the South while addressing international conversations and problématiques. We take the labour of theory and criticism to be significant political work that is crucial to the experimentation in social forms.