Meeting: Wednesday, August 31st, 6PM

Of those that responded to the Doodle survey, the best time to meet is Wednesday evenings. So, we'll be meeting this Wednesday, August 31st, at 6PM in the Courtyard Cafe at the Illini Union.

At this meeting we'll get to know each other, and decide what we want to do this year with REAP. Some things we may want to discuss include: how to pick what we read, what topics to cover, how often we should meet, social activities, and anything else that comes to mind!

WHAT: First REAP meeting of the semester
WHEN: Wednesday, August 31st at 6PM
WHERE: Courtyard Cafe in the Illini Union

Fall 2011 Meeting Time Survey

http://www.doodle.com/w7w8zr44eux8h5s4

Now that the first week of class is nearly over and you have a better
idea of what your schedule is like, I think it would be a good time to
decide on when we should meet for REAP (anarchist reading group).

I have created Doodle so that we can decide on a time that works for
everybody. The times listed are the time the meeting would START, and
meetings generally last about 1.5hrs or 2hrs. In the past we have met
during the evening, which seems to accommodate the most people. For
this reason I have listed meeting start times between 4pm and 8pm in
half hour increments.

Please fill out the survey by this Sunday (August 28th) by following
this link: http://www.doodle.com/w7w8zr44eux8h5s4

Quad Day 2011

Look for us at Quad Day 2011 today! We'll probably be on the south side of the union, by the steam vent.

Battle of Algiers

Tonight, we watched Battle of Algiers and had a discussion about moving the meeting time for next semester and potential fundraising. This is our last meeting of the semester.

Potentials for resistance, indigenous, culturally and racially inspired, or otherwise.

The article I wanted to send out for this week is a blog post about
indigenous resistance. It's short and sweet.
http://propertyistheft.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/the-uprisings-of-the-indigenous/

There's more about non-Western anarchism here: http://en.wordpress.com/tag/anarchism-ethnicity-culture/

There's another article that can be seen as being more theory-based
that I thought was interesting if you read them together.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Aragorn___Locating_An_Indigenous_Anarchism.html

There's one last article that's been circulating among my facebook
friends about an illegal 18 hour rave that happened in London last
week. I thought it was pretty amusing the way partiers get discussed
as 'terrorist', how one picture is captioned 'violence' but it's just
some guy with a mask standing there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1325401/Illegal-London-rave-18-hour-spree-destruction-Royal-Mail-depot.html

Reading

The reading for this week is "As Beautiful as a Brick through a Bank Window: Anarchism, the Academy, and Resisting Domestication". I finally got it to work. A similarly cool reading is Nurturing Autonomy (http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Jamie_Heckert__Nurturing_Autonomy.html).

Newman's "Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics"

Last week, we read Newman's "Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics".