December 2010

More than 300 Justice United delegates from active congregations, associations, and neighborhoods operating in Orange County will gather to advance and celebrate public agreements with elected and private leaders.

 Agenda also includes the kick off of our new county-wide listening campaign that will involve hundreds of Orange County residents with the goal of generating a new Justice United agenda for 2011.

All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation. But what exactly is radical imagination? Come join Stevphen Shukaitis for a discussion of his book Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (Autonomedia, 2009), which explores the potentials and limits of collective imagination in social movement organizing.

“Imaginal Machines explores with humor and wit the condition of art and politics in contemporary capitalism. It reviews the potentials and limits of liberatory art (from surrealism to Tom Waits) while charting the always-resurgent creations of the collective imagination. Shukaitis exhibits a remarkable theoretical breadth, bringing together the work of Castoriadis, the Situationists, and autonomous Marxism to define a new task for militant research: constructing imaginal machines that escape capitalism. Imaginal Machines is truly a book that makes a path by walking.” – Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation

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Join Internationalist Books and Community Center and Croatan Earth First! for our monthly Earth First! movie screening. This month's selection is "River of Waste"

“This documentary exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in the nation’s modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Scientists have even called the practices of these companies as mini Chernobyls. In U.S. and around the world, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by a large number of toxins and by dumping large amounts of sewage into the environment. The film shows the vast impact these companies make on the environment and public health and focuses on the individual lives that have been damaged and destroyed because of these farms.”
– Entertainment Weekly

More information and a trailer at Croatan Earth First!: http://croatanearthfirst.wordpress.com/ .

For more information about Internationalist Books and Community Center, visit www.internationalistbooks.org. 

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