A Summary Report of the ‘Occupy Innovation’ Roundtable at Rutgers University
Last week Protest Camps hosted a roundtable looking at issues of innovation and creativity in place-based social movement activism. We asked doctoral student and teacher Sean T. Leavey from the…
In this climate, direct action is what it takes
Protest Camp’s Anna Feigenbaum discusses No Dash for Gas‘ West Burton power station protest camp in the broader context of direct action and Climate Justice. As Hurricane Sandy swept up the Eastern seaboard of…
Binders full of Baudrillard: Are internet memes today’s Disneyland?
In 1981, Baudrillard wrote that “Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.” Last week in my History of Consumer Society and…
Collaborative Learning: Challenges and Best Practices
Yesterday’s Collaborative Learning workshop, sponsored by the HEA, brought together HE teachers from Winchester, Bournemouth, Birmingham, University College Falmouth and University of Huddersfield. Below are some of the shared challenges and…
Spontaneous Urban Design: An interview with 123 Occupy
“Someone mentioned to me recently the popular union slogan “8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for what we will”. I’ve been thinking over the course of my work with the occupy movement that people…
Protest Camps Hosts Roundtable to Announce its contract with Zed Books
Before the Arab Spring, our work on the transnational history of protest camping was generally regarded as “too niche”, or “quirky activist stuff for idealists”. But by April 2011, as…
How to Draw Capitalism? Iconography and the Occupy Movement
Last Wednesday the Creative Resistance Research Network hosted the first ‘How to Draw Capitalism‘ workshop at Occupy Finsbury Square. Sat in a circle as the sky drew dark and air…
Occupy LSX Day Six: Excerpt from a Social Media ‘Scrapbook’
Day Six at Occupy LSX Brought students from my uni. They were full of questions, the kinds of questions that make you smile and stumble, rambling over words. Where there…
Protest Camps is interviewed in the latest issue of FUSE Magazine
For its special issue on Egypt and the Arab Spring, Fuse editor Gina Badger asked Anna Feigenbaum to share her insights on social media and social change. Drawing on her…