from lizo "Hello all, At the pot luck on July 31 we decided that we want to continue to have workshops and groups as liberation school and then some of us met about ongoing activities including a reading group and a political prisoner letter writing group. If you have other ideas to propose, workshops you want to run or collaborate on etc. please check in with Skira or email the list. Also we are planning to have another general meeting in early October sometime so stay tuned or suggest a time. Also we talked about how not everyone wants every group to require or revolve around reading or writing, so it would be great if someone wants to start a movie night or discussion group or yoga or art or. . . ?! The political prisoner letter writing group will be twice a month on Wednesdays from 6:00- 8:00. The first one is next week August 21, then Sept 4, then Sept 18... There will be writing materials available and you can show up at anytime to write a letter. The reading group will be twice monthly on Tuesdays from 7:30- 9:30. The first one is next week August 20, then Sept 3 and Sept 17. The pdf of the reading for the first group is available through the link at the bottom of this email. You do not have to read the text to be a part of this group, this is an open conversation that we will base on the readings. "LALIBSCHOOL Reading group will be a twice monthly meeting experimenting with the meanings and potentials of radical texts and histories, specifically queer and trans histories and texts that are anti-colonial and anti-capitalist. We will begin the group with the book “Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.” The time to be spent on this text will be decided at the first meeting, and all subsequent texts will be chosen by the group, with rotating facilitation. The first sessions of reading group, called Witches’ Sabbath, will use Federici’s text which t focuses on the gendered persecution of women, queers, gender non conforming people, the homeless, and those involved in resistance movements in medieval europe and in colonized south america. Federici focuses on the persecution of those deemed witches or heretics in the middle ages as a systematic and violent imposition of social order onto the european peasantry—creating gender roles that forced people into wage labour, indentured servitude, slavery, & colonization. Using the concepts of Heresy and Witchcraft these initial sessions will focus on the content and implications of the text, as well as ways we see heresies and subversive powers in our own times. We will experiment with text as a living thing—discussing the way the text changes us, inspires us, and possesses us—if we feel so moved. We wish to use text as both information and incantation, as a performative prompt, and as an invitation to re-enter the realm of ritual, collective thinking. With this initial text we will attempt to identify the role of radical texts in our lives, and the role of our lives in our various communities. We will examine what heresy is in a capitalistic culture and society and how activists can pursue the self-sufficiency and subversive and influential powers implied by the idea of witchcraft. {This is not in pursuit of a literal religion, but a response to the various histories of state repression and persecution of those who defy hegemony and seek a life of group autonomy.} We will also frame our readings with the idea of reading as a ritual that can shape our future selves —as individuals who seek to work in community and in struggle. We will experiment with various responses to text through discussion, group writing projects, and the creation of rituals and possibly public actions." text can be found here: libcom.org/library/caliban-witch-silvia-federici "
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:14:38 +0000
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