Of Friends and Whirlwinds:
A Discussion of Social Relations and Social Struggle
to Release 'In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008
Convention Protests, Movement and Movement.'

Friday, May 23rd / 7pm
Bluestockings Books: 172 Allen St. (F Train to 2nd
Ave.)

Speakers:

Alex Samets (The Icarus Project
[www.theicarusproject.net])

Esteban Kelly (Philly Stands Up
[www.phillyspissed.net])

Harmony Goldberg (Right to the City Alliance Resource
Person [www.rightothecity.org])

Ben Shepard (NYC Activist and Writer)

Malav Kanuga (Bluestockings Books & Activist Center
[www.bluestockings.com])

About the Event:

On May 25th, Team Colors Collective, in collaboration
with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, will
launch a one-off online journal entitled 'In the
Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests,
Movement and Movements.' To release the journal and
contribute to discussions about movement building we
are organizing events around the country. In New York
City the release event will focus on issues of social
relations and social struggle. 

Through a discussion of organizing experiences and
analysis of current organizing projects, speakers will
address the following questions: 

*What is the capacity of our resistance as it is
currently constituted?  
*What role are contemporary social struggles playing
in resistance that is simultaneously creative and
critical of everyday social relations?
*How are contemporary social struggles building power
or using tactics that relate to, and intertwine with,
people's everyday lives? 
*How might we further explore and explode these
everyday relations in order to unlock the limitless
potentialities of new social modalities that
reorganize power?  

In the Middle of a Whirlwind site:
http://www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info

Team Colors Collective site:
http://www.warmachines.info

Journal of Aesthetics and Protest site:
http://www.joaap.org