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AVI ALPERT, NANCY FRASER, GABRIEL ROCKHILL and ANNIKA THIEM, Capitalism and the State: Machete Confrontation at Occupy Philadelphia/ SV, You Can’t Go Home Again, and Other Messages from the Ideology Machine/ CR, Beneath the Beach, the Sidewalk?/ Autumn practices; Vacate X; But if these are the means, then to what purpose?/ ÇETIN GüRER, On Angela Davis’s Visit to Occupy Philly: Call for Diversity within Philly and Solidarity with Oakland/ RT, Political Disobedience/ WILL CAVERLY, Concrete Idealism: Philadelphia’s Agora

Eric McDade is adrift, fending off bitey sea-critters and exchanging fluids with the great sea, while trying to focus all his powers on the difficult task of conveying a cogent thought or two.

He is taking on more than he is letting go of. He is sinking.

Intersections: Race, Class, Gender and the Occupy Movement

Tuesday, 8 November, 5 p.m. at the Occupy Philly Library

Machete Group Members Avi Alpert and Gabriel Rockhill in dialogue with Annika Thiem

Continiung our Confrontations series in experimental Public Pedagogy in support of the Occupy Together Movement, the Machete Group proposes a collective symposium on “Intersections: Race, Class, Gender and the Occupy Movement.” Building on classic readings by Angela Davis and Cornel West, we will bring to the fore the question of who is the 99%. Through these readings and the discussion that develops, we aim to foster critical dialogue while at the same time foregrounding the point that paying attention to race, class and gender is not divisive, but rather can help strengthen the movement. We hope to engage with various voices trying to understand how our different social positions can come together to make a lasting and sustainable movement.

Although it is not a requirement for participation, the texts of reference are available for download below. A limited number of hardcopies will also be made available at the Occupy Philadelphia Library.

Download Angela Davis “Class and Race in the Early Women’s Rights Campaign” (432KB)