[P2P-F] Fwd: Second Issue of Stir online now!

Tue Aug 16 06:17:03 CEST 2011

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From: Jonathan Gordon-Farleigh <ukunderground at aol.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:11 AM
Subject: Second Issue of Stir online now!
To: contact at p2pfoundation.net

Hi,

The second issue of Stir is now online at www.stirtoaction.wordpress.com -
please share with your readers at P2P.

Cheers,
Jonny Gordon-Farleigh

Second Issue:

*Return of the Public?*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/return-of-the-public-interview-with-dan-hind/>
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*Interview with Dan Hind

The public may well have made its return to the political stage but the real
question is whether it can come back in its own right rather than as the
docile invention of a financial elite?

*Sod It! Radical
Gardening?*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/sod-it-radical-gardening/>
by George McKay

‘Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks’.
But how can a garden be an attack, a flower a critique, a trowel an agent of
social change?

*Food Justice — Changing ‘there’ by changing
here*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/food-justice-changing-there-by-changing-here/>
by Matthew Steele

I remember as an undergrad reading Ivan Illich’s 1968 speech to American
students working in Mexico and having the once-clear vision of my life’s
path confused. Illich’s rather simple, passionate, and poignant criticism
has stayed in the back of my consciousness ever since.

*Don’t Defend the University, Transform
It!*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/dont-defend-the-university-transform-it/>
by Amy Clancy

The future of the university hangs in the balance and the instinct to defend
it against a wholesale attack seems to be an obvious response. But what is
it that so many rush to defend?

*The Prejudice Against
Prometheus*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/the-prejudice-against-prometheus/>
by Alberto Toscano

As the last echoes of a bullish neoliberalism fade, and we are asked to
accustom ourselves, indefinitely, to austerity’s hair-shirts, it’s worth
reflecting on whether the attitudes learnt over the past few decades retain
within them the resources for effective opposition.

*Grow a Grocery!*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/grow-a-grocery-2/>
by Debbie Clarke

Back in the early 90s, Unicorn Grocery’s founders felt frustrated at their
lack of shopping options, and aimed to create the kind of place where they
wanted to shop themselves—where their needs were met and their ethics not
sold out. And so Unicorn was born.

*Mobilisation vs Pacification in Brazil’s
Favelas*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/mobilization-versus-pacification-in-brazil%e2%80%99s-favelas/>
by John Gledhill

Brazilians really are crazy about football, and poor Brazilians are as
pleased as everyone else that Brazil is hosting the 2014 World Cup (and 2016
Olympics). Yet families who built their own homes on land to which they did
not have secure title also worry about being forcibly relocated because of
urban redevelopment in preparation for 2014.

*Bound by Law? Tales from the Public
Domain*<http://stirtoaction.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/bound-by-law-tales-from-the-public-domain/>
Reviewed by Rashmi Rangnathi

Can a tree and its properties be copyrighted, and those who customarily use
it be criminalised? Can the girl scouts be sued for singing copyrighted
songs such as “Puff the Magic Dragon” around the campfire? Recently, a
corporation trademarked the phrase ‘Radical Media’. With the increasing
privatisation of our cultural assets, can we change the system that allows
corportations to own our intellectual products?

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