Coming Up at LAVA:

LAVA Library training
Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 1:30pm

Join us on April 8th at 1pm for an extensive LAVA Library training! Learn what LAVA’s about, how to staff the space, check out books, sign up new members, computer help, opening up and closing etc.

Selma James, Fulvia Serra and Phoebe Jones

selmaLast Wednesday Selma James started off her book tour for Sex Race and Class at LAVA. The book is a collection of her writings over the years which helped form autonomous feminist thought that we now know and helped provide a refreshing alternate current in marxism which challenged authoritarianism, party politics and the left's failure to acknowledge unwaged work as a place for struggle against capital.

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Get to know your defenestrator event at LAVA

Some pics from last Friday Meet Your Defenestrators event! Performing were Little X Little and SGNLS.

Dissecting Capitalism: Contemporary Labor and Workplace Struggles

with Salar Mohandesi and Sean West Wispy

Once again, a great and well attended session by the Occupy Philly Education and Training Working Group, this time focusing on the changing face of work and how we resist it.

First off was Salar on the how work and our work environments have changed in response to out struggles against it.

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Next up, Sean West Wispy talked about some of his own experiences as a labour organizer inside and outside of unions.

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Primitive Accumulation at LAVA!!

More good stuff from the last couple weeks of Occupy Philly's Dissecting Capitalism series.

Part II: This Financial Crisis
With Mark Kuperberg and Julie Maitrejean

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Part III: The Historical Rise of Capitalism and Corporations

In this video, Ariane Fisher breaks down primitive acumulation and Jerry Krantman muses on corporate personhood.

More great events are coming up! Every Wednesday night at LAVA!

Dissecting Capitalism at LAVA

February 1st a packed crowd turned out at LAVA to hear Alex Knight and George Caffentzis do an introductory breakdown of capitalism, event one of a 10 week series on Dissecting Capitalism.

George Caffentzis, who some may know from his writings with Midnight Notes (including Promissory Notes, much discussed around LAVA circles a couple years back) started it off giving a historic breakdown of the development of capitalism.

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Next up, Alex Knight, blogger at End of Capitalism and protagonist at Occupy Philly spoke on capitalism as an abusive relationship, his theory on the impending end of capitalism and what he sees as our current mode of Zombie Capitalism.

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The night ended with a long and interesting Q and A:

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Corporate Crime Comics

The paper copy of this comic book is no longer available from Kitchen Sink Comics, but here's a scan of the issue (About 15 megabytes). If you were to find a paper copy of the comic on the comics back issues market, it's worth $18.

Occupy Philly - 6 Oct to 30 Nov

One of the first things I did when we were discussing an Occupation in Philadelphia was to visit the site of the original Occupation, the one near Wall Street.

patches!

We now have LAVA patches! They're hand-silkscreened in West Philly on canvas and unused bedsheets with found ink.

Finally, you can represent your favorite community space on your book bag, jacket, pants, and even your long underwear! Get in touch if you would like one, or just come by!

Our library has gone space age!

After countless hours, LAVA's lending library has been entered into an online database. Thats 2,378 books! Simply go to to this website to see our entire library,  or go here to browse by category. 

Fall Cleaning

 

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