Turbulence at the European Social Forum, Istanbul 1-4 July
The 2010 European Social Forum (ESF) will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, from Thursday 1 – Sunday 4 July. We’ll be there with hundreds of copies of Issue 5 of the magazine. If you can help us hand out copies, or if you would like to get hold of one (or more) to take home with you, get in touch. We will be Tweeting live from the Forum using the hashtag #esf2010 and invite other Tweeters to use the same. (See also the #esf2010 Twitter feed below). Let us know if any of you hear of alternatives being used.
Check back in here closer to the event itself and we’ll have details about the events that we’re going to be participating in. We’re also pleased to announce that a Turkish translation of our editorial article, ‘Life in Limbo?‘, published in Issue 5 of Turbulence, will also be published soon. As ever, it will also be available online here.
For information about our activities at the US Social Forum (22-26 June), click here.
ESF Logistical Information
The international 2010 ESF website is: www.esf2010.org and a Turkish language site can be found at www.sosyalforum.org
The ESF process’ website is here, and it contains information about both previous European social fora, as well as the preparation of this year’s event.
According to the European Social Forum Facebook page, the proposed locations of the 2010 ESF are Santralistanbul (Bilgi University) and Sutluce Congress Center, which are around 3km from one another.
Update: Turbulence Events at the US Social Forum
Turbulence will be at the United States Social Forum in Detroit from June 22-26, 2010. We’ll be there with hundreds of copies of the magazine. If you can help us hand out copies, or would like to get a bundle to take home with you, get in touch! As ever, our email address is editors@turbulence.org.uk
We are also going to be involved with at least three events at the Forum, the details of which are as follows:
Event 1: Join in the Whirlwind: A Cooperative Panel on Research and Movement Building
For the past three years the Team Colors Collective has been asking organizers, activists, artists, and theorists — Will you join us in the middle of a whirlwind? — as we have sought to understand the current composition and strength of radical movements in the United States. In utilizing the metaphor of a whirlwind to describe the myriad of struggles that are taking place currently and those that have been blowing across the planet over the past decade, Team Colors has conducted an inquiry and examination of movements in the United States. In cooperation with other organizers and activists, we will present during this two-hour workshop, on the importance of research to movement building as we seek a return radical community organizing—toward making a revolution possible!
With Team Colors members, Chris Dixon, Michal Osterweil (from Turbulence), and other friends.
Wednesday 23 June, 2010, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Cobo Hall: O2-42
Event 2: Collaborative Investigation (Co-Razonando) in Times of Crisis: Bridging North and South, Activism and Academia
This workshop is part of a collaborative effort between activist-researchers and researching-activists in the Americas to develop new concepts and practices adequate to the multiple, intersecting crises that characterize our times. We recognize that the inadequacy of old concepts and theories of social change contributes to crisis. While most in the mainstream look to policy experts, scientists and academics for solutions to the ecological, food, energy, economic, and political crises of our day, we believe that social movements are producing the most creative responses. Building on our different experiences within movements as well as international projects of militant or collaborative investigation, we will discuss the importance of spaces and projects to cultivate new conceptual and practical frameworks for pursuing activist work. The panel will combine the diverse experience and approaches of our presenters with collaborative media projects including Turbulence: Ideas for Movement (a critical transnational magazine) and community gardening projects in rural and urban areas (North and South). Following brief presentations the workshop will use small group work to explore other potential sites for collaborative investigation.
Thursday 24 June 2010, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: WSU Manoogian, 906 Warren
Event 3: New World from Below Book Party – During the US Social Forum!
Celebrate recent radical publishing with AK Press, Autonomedia, Institute of Anarchist Studies, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, Microcosm Publishing, Team Colors Collective, PM Press and others.
Beer and wine will be served; books will be available for sale; and a short presentation from current radical authors will take place at 8pm, including:
- Benjamin Holtzman, editor of, SICK: A Collaborative Zine on Physical Illness (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)
- Cindy Milstein, author of, Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press, 2010)
- Josh MacPhee, editor of, Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (PM Press, 2009)
- Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, authors of, Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas (Microcosm Publishing, 2010)
- Team Colors Collective, editors of, and contributors to Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States (AK Press, 2010)
- Michal Osterweil, editor of Turbulence: Ideas for Movement and What Would it Mean to Win? (PM Press, 2010)
Friday 25th June , 7.00pm-9.00pm
Location: New World from Below Convergence Center, Spirit of Hope Church, 1519 Martin Luther King Dr., Detroit, 48208 (Corner of MLK and Trumbull, www.spiritofhopedetroit.org
UPDATE: We will be tweeting from the USSF via http://twitter.com/turbulence_mag You can follow us there, as well as keeping track of other tweets from the Social Forum posted with the hashtag #USSF in the widget below.
Turbulence Editor, Rodrigo Nunes, Interviewed in Cochabamba About Turb_05
Turbulence editor Rodrigo Nunes was interviewed at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba for the Chilean website El Ciudadano, which published an edit of the interview here. The conversation covered themes raised by the latest issue of Turbulence, ‘And now for something completely different…?’ (Spanish version here), as well as impressions on the conference and the present state of global mobilisations, and what challenges and potentials may lie ahead in the next few crisis-ridden years.
New Team Colors Volume on US Social Movements
A new book edited by Team Colors Collective, ‘Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States’ (AK Press: June 2010) is now available for pre-order here.
We wrote the following blurb for the inside cover,
“Uses of a Whirlwind is an important contribution to an emergent, yet still sparse body of literature working to critically engage and rethink what it means to make political interventions today, in a world characterized by crises, uncertainties, and complexities. Not only is it one of the few collections of texts to do so grounded explicitly in the United States, it also brings crucial topics and perspectives often excluded from political and activist analyses to the fore. It argues that care and cultivating durable and holistic activist practices and communities are vitally important parts of any truly radical political project.”
More information about the book can be found here.
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