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About the 2391 Qualification
The City and Guilds 2391-10 has no formal candidate entry requirements, however, it is really intended for experienced people who may already be working in the electrical industry or who already hold the 2392. The 2391 is not aimed at non-qualified electricians or those who do not have relevant experience in inspection and testing. Candidates without the relevant experience and/or qualifications should consider the 2392-10 qualification first, which is the Level 2 Certificate in Fundamental Inspection, Testing and Initial Verification. They should also try to obtain industry experience if possible.
Candidates wishing to take the 2391-10 qualification would be strongly advised to obtain the 17th Edition first, which demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of the 17th Edition IET Wiring Regulations (BS7671).
The 2391 qualification is intended to enable the candidate to develop the necessary understanding and technical knowledge relating to the inspection, testing and certification of electrical installations.
About the 2391 Exam
To obtain the 2391 qualification, candidates are required to complete one written and one practical assessment.
We'll deal here with Unit 301 which is the written examination.
The written (or theory) part of the 2391 exam comprises of two sections, Section A and Section B and a total time limit of 2.5 hours applies.
Section A consists of 20 short questions which are worth a total of 60 marks (3 marks each). Each question may be divided up into three parts (a,b and c), with each part being worth 1 mark. Some questions may be divided into 2 parts. In this case, one part of the question will be worth 1 mark and the other part 2 marks.
As can be seen from the chart, Section A is made up of questions from three key subject areas:
* Preparation for inspection and testing (3 questions)
* The inspection process (2 questions)
* Testing (15 questions)
In Section A you will generally encounter questions relating to Health and Safety and both statutory and non statutory documents relevant to inspection and testing.
You will also likely encounter questions relating to performing certain tests and specifically, how to carry out the test and the correct order that the test should be carried out.
You will need to know what expected readings are and how to verify results (adjusting BS7671 max values by rule of thumb before comparison to measured values, etc) You will also need knowledge of the individual test instruments (answering "a multi function tester" will get you no points).
You will need to know what documentation needs to be completed by the tester for different types of work.
Some of these questions will be relatively easy but some will be worded in such a way that may make them difficult and obscure. It would appear that whoever sets the questions opens Guidance Notes 3 at a random page and sets a question on a sentence that first jumps out at him. It is therefore imperative that you read Guidance Note 3 as much as you can. No one passes 2391 without revising.
It is vastly important that you use the correct terminology as people loose a lot of marks by using terms such as:
Electricity at Work Act, Health and Safety at Work Regulations, Minor Works Certificate, Periodic Certificate.
All of the above would get you no points as they are not the correct terminology.
The biggest mistake people seem to make is to spend too much time in Part A. The best advice may be to read these questions and if you know the answer fine but DO NOT dwell on the ones you're not sure about, miss them out and come back to them later.
Section B consists of 6 structured, long-answer questions.
A lot of marks can be gained or lost on this section. As can be seen from the chart, each of these 6 questions is worth 10% of the overall marks so if you run out of time and miss one out it could be very costly!
You will be generally be given a scenario which will give details of an electrical installation including the type of supply and earthing arrangements. There will usually be around 15 lines for you to read and there may also be charts or tables giving information on the circuits used.
You will be asked about the tests/inspections required and how you would carry them out. There may be calculations where you need to find Pfc, Zs, Insulation Resistance values with circuits tested in parallel etc. All the information needed for the calculations will be given.
You may also be asked to make fully labelled drawings of earth loop impedance paths for different supply systems.
It is important to make sure that you have fully understood the question and wise to go back and read the scenario again. The chief examiners report suggests that students are giving answers which are relevant to 2391 but not answering the question which has been set. This may result in no points being awarded for that answer. You do not get extra points for waffling or providing general information, be to the point and make sure your answer is correct to the question.
Many students find the last 6 questions are easier than the previous 20 short ones. The problem is being able to transfer the knowledge from your head onto the paper. Never assume that the examiner will "know what I mean" as you will only gain marks if you can clearly demonstrate, by your answers, that you are competent in the theory of the 2391.
Important 2391 Tips:
* Take into account the number of marks available for each question
(A question which carries 1 mark will require a much simpler answer than one carrying 15 marks)
* Answer the question
This may seem obvious, but many students fail due to misunderstanding what is being asked and what is required. Read the question carefully and provide the correct response.
* Note the wording of the questions and structure your answer accordingly.
The question may contain words such as: STATE, LIST, EXPLAIN WITH THE AID OF A DIAGRAM, EXPLAIN BRIEFLY, SHOW ALL CALCULATIONS etc. You should bear this in mind when answering. For example, EXPLAIN BRIEFLY would require a brief explanation, usually no more than one or two sentences, STATE may be a short statement and may even be only a few words or less. Others such as SHOW ALL CALCULATIONS are self explanatory, but a correct answer without showing the calculations would only gain a small percentage of the actual marks available for that question.
* Use the correct terminology
Apply the terms used in BS7671 such as'circuit ptotective conductors', 'main protective bonding' etc. Using general terms such as 'earthwires' or 'cross bonding' will not gain you any marks.
* Read Guidance Note 3 thoroughly - it will help you.
* Read the scenario in Section B thoroughly and highlight the key pieces of information it contains.
* Read each question CAREFULLY - do not rush.
* Allow approximately 1 hour for Section A (20 questions) and the remaining hour and half for Section B (6 questions)
* Take a scientific calculator, pens and pencils into the 2391 exam with you. A highlighter may also be useful.
* Attempt to answer every question
Good Luck with your 2391 exam and don't forget to look out for the new 2394 and 2395 qualifications!
Topic / Outcome |
No of Questions |
Marks |
% |
Section A |
Preparation for inspection and testing |
3 |
9 |
6 |
Inspection |
2 |
6 |
4 |
Testing |
15 |
45 |
30 |
Section B |
Preparation for inspection and testing |
Inspection |
6 |
90 |
60 |
Testing |
Totals |
26 |
150 |
100 |


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Using estimates derived from Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) markets, described in a technical appendix, this weekly report provides two measures of the probability of consumer price index (CPI) deflation through 2017.
One measure of the probability of deflation for the 2012–17 period is 0 percent, where it has been most days since early February this year. The 2013–18 deflation probability, based on the 5-year TIPS issued last month and the 10-year TIPS issued in July 2008, is also 0 percent.
Prices of Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) with similar maturity dates can be used to measure probabilities of a net decline in the consumer price index over the five-year period starting in early 2013 or the five-year period starting in early 2012.
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Our challenge was to create solutions that helped DART stations become social and economic centers.
Three Lions: An English Food Truck
Developing the brand of an English food truck to appeal to Americans.
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Keeping the mid-century modern baseball jewel sparkling.
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I bought these on a whim, they "looked good" and were in the right size/color for me (4"/pearl white). I wanted to try them on Bass Pro deadly 5 war path A-rig, and since it was an "experiment bait"...I didn't want to spend $8-$9 a pack. So at $3 for 8 pieces, I was content. I rigged 'em up on 1/8oz ProJigs (Tail cut down) and the action was rediculous...6 hours later I had landed over 70 fish and only had to replace 3 baits. They were very durable, soft, and had crazy tail action at the slowest retrieve speeds. I am sold on Berkley Havoc products, and their $3 price tag...seriously? Thanks Berkley!
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Very good product for the price, the action is good.
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I have used these Berkley Havoc Subwoofers since November 2012 and I have caught bass with them everywhere that I fish. I used them mostly as a topwater bait rigged with just a 5/0 worm hook. The bass cannot resist these soft plastic baits. These baits give off a great gurgling and buzz action when on a steady retrieve. I have caught bass in 55 degree water with these baits. Great action and bait for the price!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by FellowFisherman Great lure
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Another Surprise: On Time Departure
The lack of travel woes continues. Our flight from BWI departed on time. At least at BWI, the lines for checking bags were normal, and the security lines were short and quick - of course, I was leaving mid-day, so I missed the normal crush in the early AM and early PM.
There were signs everywhere mentioning the "no liquids" rules, but there weren't any checks that I saw either - other than the X-Rays at security, no one looked in any of my bags or asked me any question. The only annoyance was the return of "take your shoes off" time.


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RONY Bridges was waiting on a Subway train at St Enoch station when he noticed a chap with a notebook running along the platform and writing down numbers when a train came in.
GLASGOW is now the third most attractive destination in Britain according to holiday website TripAdvisor, with Edinburgh dropping out of the top 10.
A DIARY story reminded Stewart MacKenzie in Newlands of his grandmother visiting from Shrewsbury some years ago and being taken by his Scottish grandmother on the annual women's guild mystery bus tour.
GRANDCHILDREN continued.
THE shocking weather in Scotland has sent many folk to travel agents booking summer holidays in the sun.
MORE on Americans.
NEWS that people are spending less money on home improvements reminds us of the Glasgow council official visiting a house in Blackhill, where he noted that the tenant had knocked through archways in all the rooms so that you could travel from the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom and back round to the living room.
A DUNBARTONSHIRE reader tells us he went for a haircut last week when there was a discount for pensioners.
OFFPANTS, the regulatory body for the pantomime industry, is to intervene in the independence referendum as concern grows about the performances of both the Oh Yes It Is and the Oh No It Isn't campaigns.
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TODAY'S topic is the inadvisability of conducting political campaigns in licensed premises.
IN a foretaste of future aviation, a Jetstream aircraft last month became the first to fly "unmanned" across UK airspace.
The Better Together campaign is in the process of asking 500 important questions in the days that remain before the independence vote.
Entirely on my own behalf, I have been in the veldt sampling Afrikaans food.
Just when you think Dame Helen Mirren could be held in no higher esteem does she not appear on a Soho street dressed as the Queen to tell a noisy band to pipe down.
The UK Independence Party and not the Scottish National Party may be the most significant factor for a Yes victory in the 2014 referendum.
So Alex Salmond is "honoured" to be the "first First Minister" to go before committee conveners to answer questions about his new legislative programme.
George Osborne has had the careworn look of the chastened gambler of late.
The Scottish voluntary sector is made up of 45,000 organisations, of which half are registered charities.
When Chief Superintendent David O'Connor, the president of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents, told his annual conference this week that the number of Scotland's councils should be reduced from 32 to about half that number, he made a welcome contribution to the debate about the future of local government in a time of diminishing resources.
In fairness, the Scottish Government's paper on the economic case for independence is not intended as a policy document.
It is time to stop labelling children in care and start listening to them.
It will go down as one of the most bitter and hard-fought battles ever fought within the Church of Scotland.
At first glance last year's Scottish tourism figures looked disappointing.
Bill Brown's warning that independence presents the biggest financial risk of voters' lives is correct in...
The Colin Mainds case has been extensively covered over recent weeks but a number of key questions need to be...
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Lots of work getting done this week, for serious. We've already got two new designs available as ADW Themes in the market right now (free and pro)! The first is a lot closer to home seeing as how the Earth keeps on throwing Earthquakes at us. Tha Crack combines bright colors with the disastrous after effects of nature's wrath making an equally pleasant, yet disturbing visual experience. This one will definitely shake things up in your homescreen setup.
The second theme out is a clean, stark set that is devoid of color; its white! With a name matching the style, Tha Whiteout is sure to please those who like a minimalist, clean setup. Combine the icons with the wallpapers that have been chosen for it and you've got some seriously good looking homescreens. I swear!
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Vaxcel Lighting VL35474BN Brushed Nickel Tuscan Four Light Down Lighting 35.5" Wide Bathroom Fixture from the Monrovia Collection
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Vaxcel Lighting VL35474 Four Light Bathroom Fixture from the Monrovia Collection
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Technical Abstract: Several studies have been conducted to describe rill or concentrated flow hydraulics. However, most of these studies used data obtained from either laboratory experiments or field sites located on gently sloping crop lands. The data sets in the few rangeland field studies conducted did not cover a variety of hillslope angles and generally focused on slope gradients less than 20%. The lack of studies with steeper slopes resulted in misinterpreting the slope gradient impact on concentrated flow hydraulics, as sites with different slopes have different soil and vegetation cover characteristics. This study examines the characteristics of rangeland concentrated flow hydraulics as a function of vegetation and ground cover using field experimental data from diverse vegetated rangeland sites of the western United States. These data span a wide range of slope angles (6%-66%), soil types, and vegetative cover. Many of the sites exhibit some degree of disturbance, such as wild fire, prescribed fire, tree mastication, and/or tree cutting. The data were divided into two sets, gently sloping (<20%) and steeply sloping (>20%). Analyses were performed on each data set separately as well as on the combined data set. For the complete data set, concentrated flow occurred on less than 26% of the gently sloping plots and on more than 70% of the steep plots. The results showed that the Darcy-Weisbach roughness coefficient (f) had no significant correlation with vegetation and ground cover variables on the gently sloping sites. However, roughness coefficient f was positively correlated with vegetation and ground cover on steep rangelands (R2=0.53, n=439). The power relation relating the flow width (w) to the discharge (Q) was statistically different on the gentle and the steep sites. A multi regression equation for estimating the width of the concentrated flow as a function of flow discharge, slope, and vegetation cover was developed (R2=0.62, n=360), where the variation of slope alone explained 39% of the variation of f (partial R2=0.39).


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Slowdown in U.S. Imports: Blip or Trend?
14281 Thu, 04/17/2008 - 2:50pm
It may be a statistical blip, an early irrelevance or the start of something big, but January's data (the latest available) on the United States' imports of non-apparel textiles show a slight decline in the rate of both dollars and units, compared with the same month a year ago. A similar situation holds for apparel.
The reason January's figures compel more than a passing glance is that they appear to confirm a trend that began in 2005.
In units, for example, although U.S. imports in 2005 were 6.8 percent above those imported the previous year, that growth was less than half the pace of 2004.
The unit rate slowed even more in 2006, down to 2.7 percent. And last year, U.S. imports of non-apparel textiles grew less than 1 percent.
Measured in dollars, the picture was similar if not identical, as the rate of growth slowed steadily from 2005 to 2007. And by January, import growth stalled almost completely, at $1.853 billion.
Among the top exporters of non-apparel textiles to the United States, only China showed an increase in units in January. And China's increase was less than 3 percent.
Pakistan, the second-largest exporter in January, shipped 172 million units here during the month, down 20 percent. India's shipments were down 2 percent, Mexico's down 7 percent, Canada's down 26 percent.
The slowdown has not gone unnoticed abroad. A commentary on the situation appearing in The Indian Express, reprinted on India's Yarns and Fibers Exchange Web site on Jan. 19, noted that "The worst is not yet over for [India's] textile industry. … With the U.S. accounting for nearly 35 percent of the total textile exports from [India], any slowdown in its biggest market will have direct consequences back home." The story went on to note that "The falling consumer spending in the U.S. would affect retailing and drag down their [the U.S.'s] textile import volumes from India." One likely consequence, the author wrote, was the layoff of some 150,000 Indian workers.
It has become a cliche that when the United States sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. The impending recession, which some observers, like Warren Buffett, argue is already here, gives credence to that aphorism, at least in the realm of global textiles. — Nathan Weber


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Friday, November 7, 2008
5:00 to 8:00 p.m. RAT opens! Registration/housing sign-in;
"bookfair" begins (and runs throughout weekend)
8:00 to 10:00 p.m. OPENING PANEL
Cultures of Contention: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
Emily Forman and Dara Greenwald
Saturday, November 8, 2008
7:30 to 8:45 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 to 10:15 a.m. SESSION ONE
Anarchism, Permaculture, and Radical Ecology
Stephen Polk and Pavlos Stavropoulos
Remembering Utopia: Anarchist Ideals in the Inception of the Kvutza and Kibbutz
James Horrox, with Andréa Maria as respondent
The "Anti-Proletariat" against Enclosure
Scott Uzelman
"Impossible Is Nothing": China, Tibet, and the 2008 Olympics
10:30 to 11:45 a.m. SESSION TWO
Tracing the Anzaldúan Body
Ellen Chenoweth
Real Utopia: An Anarchist Philosophy of Participation
Thomas Nail, with Sean Parson as respondent
Anarchism, Decolonization, and Indigenous Political Systems
Pavlos Stavropoulos
From Housing to Anarchism: Challenging Private Property Rights through Urban Activism
Andrea Gibbons and Shiri Pasternak
11:50 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 to 2:45 p.m. SESSION THREE
Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War (film and discussion)
Wobblies and Zapatistas
Andrej Grubacic, Ramsey Kanaan, and Cindy Milstein
Art as Micropolitical Anarchism
Olive McKeon, with Lindsay Caplan as respondent
The Abolition of the State
Wayne Price
3:15 to 4:45 p.m. SESSION FOUR
Infoshop as Anarchist Institution?
James Generic, Kate Khatib, Ramsey Kanaan, and John Duda
The Multitude Disrupts Downtown: Mass Action in Financial Centers--Recent Practice and Theories of Class
Carwil James
Going Global: Scaling Up Anti-militarist and Anti-imperialist Movements
Jeffrey Sasha Davis
Autonomy, Composition, and the Radical Imagination
Stevphen Shukaitis
Our Dreams, Their Ballot Box: A Critical Appraisal of Anarchist Organizing against the DNC/RNC
David Combs, Emily Forman, Alex Bradley, Cindy Milstein, and Andrew Willis Garcés
5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Dinner
6:00 to 7:45 p.m. Black Sheep Books Open House
8:00 p.m. onward Short music set by Spoonboy; welcome to RAT and the IAS; short music set by Spoonboy; and two hours of dancing with DJ Ta$temaker
9:00 to 10:00 p.m. SESSION FIVE
Reading "Letters of Insurgents"
SW and Onto
Sunday, November 9, 2008
7:30 to 8:45 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 to 10:15 a.m. SESSION ONE
All Hail the Vanguard!
Charles Weigl
New Perspectives on Anarchism
Nathan Jun
Infinite Demands and Responsibility: Anarchist Ethics Reloaded
Ryan Robert Mitchell
10:30 to 11:45 a.m. SESSION TWO
Walking the Walk: Beyond Self-management, But Not Without It
Kiki Tropea and Joshua Stephens
Kwangju against the State, 1980
Todd Tavares
The Everyday Anarchist
Laura Portwood-Stacer, with Andrew Willis Garcés as respondent
Do Capitalists Fear Direct Action? (Anti)Capitalist Struggles
DT Cochrane and Jeff Monaghan
11:50 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 to 2:30 p.m. CLOSING PANEL
Post-election and in the Midst of Economic Crisis, What's an Anarchist to Do?
Facilitators and/or panelists TBA
Panel Descriptions
Cultures of Contention: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
Emily Forman and Dara Greenwald
This multimedia panel will present vivid examples, from the past and present, of antiauthoritarian cultural production and local infrastructure building during moments of social movement mobilization. The panelists will draw from their day-to-day organizing efforts and explorations of radical history to pull out inspiring practices that might shed light on the questions that haunted us in the streets at the DNC/RNC convergences, and that haunt us in the urgent political present: Desire or survival? De-normalization or articulation? Reinvention or revival? This panel should expand the role of culture as a social catalyst in times of crisis, and should give us a bit of hope for transversal strategies and collective creativity in the days to come.
Emily is an artist, activist, researcher, and serial collaborator. Her organizing activities range from public interventions and convergences to media production and popular education about struggles for spatial justice and self-determination. She is a coeditor of the publication Trashing the Neoliberal City: Autonomous Cultural Practices in Chicago.
Dara is a PhD candidate in electronic art at RPI. She recently co-organized (with Josh MacPhee) the exhibit Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to Present. Dara has spoken at previous RAT conferences about art, politics, and public space.
Anarchism, Permaculture, and Radical Ecology
Stephen Polk and Pavlos Stavropoulos
As we witness the continual co-optation of ecology by an authoritarian neoliberal global capitalism characterized by the hyperalignment of wealth and political power, decreasing access to space, and disappearing ecologies, it's time to rethink theory and practice within radical ecology. Utilizing the theoretical framework of social anarchism, we will explore permaculture as a practical tool that emphasizes social and ecological integration through design methods based on observance and replication of nature, diversity, egalitarianism, and decentralized, autonomous control of communities along with their environment and resources. What can permaculture teach us about strategy and place in designing ecologically scaled neighborhoods and communities? How can anarchism help bring out the implicit radical and liberatory potential of permaculture? How can a radical ecology resist the de-radicalizing phenomenon of cultural appropriation? Drawing on theory as well as real-life examples, we will critique contemporary anarchist practices while calling for a new radical ecology.
Stephen is an active member in Denver's anarchist community. He has been living collectively in renters' collectives for the last four years; is cofounder and co-organizer of Denver Radical Urban Gardeners; and is involved in a collective land and house-buying project. Stephen is also a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Denver in the political science department.
Pavlos is a community activist on indigenous solidarity, anarchist, environmental, and local struggles, and the cofounder of the Woodbine Ecology Center, which focuses on sustainable communities and indigenous perspectives. He is completing has masters in political science on indigenous political systems at CU-Denver.
Remembering Utopia: Anarchist Ideals in the Inception of the Kvutza and Kibbutz
James Horrox, with Andréa Maria as respondent
Noam Chomsky once observed that the early kibbutz movement "came closer to the anarchist ideal than any other attempt that lasted for more than a very brief moment before destruction," yet the kibbutzim, even as they existed before 1948, continue to receive little positive consideration from the anarchist Left. This talk hopes to provide an insight into the anarchist elements involved in the early years of the kibbutzim, discussing the impact of figures such as Peter Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer on the ideological self-understanding of the groups that contributed to the movement's inception, and how these ideologies found expression in the practical reality of the first collective communities. James will suggest some reasons why the example of the early kibbutzim is deserving of serious reevaluation from the anarchist Left, both as replicable models of Pareconic political economy in their own right and in terms of their historical role in the regional politics of Israel/Palestine.
James is the author of A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement, forthcoming in 2008 from AK Press. He is currently working on his doctoral studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Andréa is a member of the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. She is an ally in several decolonization struggles, and once wrote email from a kibbutz in Palestine. Some of her best friends are Israeli anarchists.
The "Anti-Proletariat" against Enclosure
Scott Uzelman
In Marxist visions of anticapitalist struggles, the concept "proletariat" refers to the working class of industrial capitalism, the revolutionary subject. By contrast, Scott will suggest we use it to refer to the power effect of capital's tendency to enclose alternative sources of life and subsistence such that a dependent population of human beings emerge that is compelled to sell its capacity to produce to those who control accumulated wealth or the means of production. Yet since the dawn of capitalism, communities have struggled against being or becoming proletarian. In this talk, Scott will use the concept "anti-proletariat" ironically to challenge the "hegemony of socialist strategy," so to speak. He will argue that the concept is useful in drawing attention to those moments of resistance (e.g., the MST in Brazil or the Zapatistas) that attempt to develop or protect sources of autonomy, and thereby disrupt the proletarian condition, one of the constitutive elements of the capital relation.
Scott is completing his PhD at York University in Toronto, and beginning a postdoctoral fellowship at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. His research and activism focuses on anticapitalist struggles for autonomy and self-/collective determination.
"Impossible Is Nothing": China, Tibet, and the 2008 Olympics
This summer, Onto was one of the forty-five internationals arrested and deported from China for participating in one of the many "Free Tibet" actions in Beijing during the Olympic Games. In this presentation, he'll talk about his experiences there, how and why they did it, and the politics of the Olympics and the Free Tibet movement. Along with this, Onto will focus on the hybrid meaning of Chinese capitalism today, its relation to our struggles here and struggles there, and why it presents a problem for anarchist analysis.
Onto hates borders, capital, and secret police. When he's not in a Chinese prison, he's a child care volunteer in New York City.
Tracing the Anzaldúan Body
Ellen Chenoweth
We will examine Gloria Anzaldúa's often-overlooked contributions as a theorist, focusing especially on her post-Borderlands formulations. Nepantla/nepantleras, the Coatlicue state, spiritual activism, el mundo zurdo, and conocimiento will all be presented before moving to a discussion of Anzaldúa's relevance and contributions to disability studies. We will think about and experiment with the idea of embodied knowledge as an alternative epistemology. How does it inform our work if we bring our bodies to the table? Where do the road maps that are Anzaldúa's legacy take us? What are the ways in which the body is silenced? How can our political activities help to dismantle the pervasive mind-body dichotomy? This session will involve a little bit of moving, writing, discussing, and questioning, among other activities.
Ellen is a graduate student in dance and women's studies at Texas Women's University, where she gets to roll around on the floor a lot. She loves thinking and dancing at the same time.
Real Utopia: An Anarchist Philosophy of Participation
Thomas Nail, with Sean Parson as respondent
Anarchism's theoretical problem today is that it has no positive philosophy. From Hakim Bey's "ontological anarchism," Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's "multitude," and Derridian "Deconstruction" to the practices of critical, postanarchist, postcolonial, and postmodern theory, a common thread can be followed: "There is nothing but chaos and becoming undermining every stable point of reference: every liberatory value is undermined no less than every hegemonic one." If anarchism as a philosophy is going to be taken seriously as a viable alternative to state and capitalist conceptual organization, it is going to have to consider, beyond monological philosophies of chaos and critique, its alternative conceptual features: its own philosophical vision. As a philosophical parallel inspired by Chris Spannos's Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press, 2008), this presentation develops several key philosophical concepts employed in Parecon, and their strength (against postanarchist concepts) for thinking through current participatory movements in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela.
Thomas is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Oregon, and an activist with and member of the Students Cooperative Association. He is currently involved in organizing a Parecon-based low-income housing cooperative in Eugene, Oregon.
Sean is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Oregon. His dissertation is titled "Insurgent Desires and Government Concerns: Prefigurative Politics, Projects for Autonomy, and American Political Institutions." He has also been involved in the radical environmental and anticapitalist movement for the last decade, and is currently involved in Eugene Rising Tide, Food Not Bombs, and Eugene CopWatch.
Anarchism, Decolonization, and Indigenous Political Systems
Pavlos Stavropoulos
Many North American precolonial indigenous political systems can be described as anarcho-communist, lacking institutions of coercive authority or private property. Yet we know more about the short-lived Paris Commune than about thriving political systems that existed for generations. Pavlos will argue that indigenous political systems offer a viable alternative to current statist and international systems of political organization. By reviewing select case studies we can understand the defining characteristics of these systems, which can inform both our daily politics and our long-term vision. In the process, we must look critically at the effects of colonialism and must ensure that anarchist analysis includes an explicit decolonization perspective.
Pavlos is a community activist on indigenous solidarity, anarchist, environmental, and local struggles, and the cofounder of the Woodbine Ecology Center, which focuses on sustainable communities and indigenous perspectives. He is completing has masters in political science on indigenous political systems at CU-Denver.
From Housing to Anarchism: Challenging Private Property Rights through Urban Activism
Andrea Gibbons and Shiri Pasternak
Private property holds a special place in the hearts of North Americans, and it is rooted particularly deep in the hearts and minds of the people living in the United States. Among other things it is one of the founding myths, the basis of much law, the principle raison d'etre of the police force, and the source of grave political and economic inequality. There is a general acceptance of its necessity among almost everyone. Except for us, a small minority, and to win anything we have to move others. This panel will look at organizing strategies around housing, ways to raise the conversation and move people to a deeper understanding of rights and land, and ways to begin dismantling the structures that have been created to maintain the wealth and power of the few.
Raised in Arizona, Andrea moved to Los Angeles, worked as a paralegal and researcher, and got her urban planning masters from UCLA. Becoming the lead organizer and researcher for SAJE, she organized tenants, reveled in popular education, uncovered slum housing empires, and helped create the Fugueroa Corridor Community Land Trust.
Shiri researches the colonial history of property rights, and is involved with several anti-property projects, including Abandonment Issues, a Toronto-based housing coalition pushing for a Use-It-or-Lose-it bylaw for vacant buildings.
Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War (film and discussion)
Shutdown (45 min.), directed by Beca Lafore, Helen Rasti, and Jonathan, uses the March 20, 2003, occupation and disruption of the San Francisco Financial District as a case study. The film casts a thoughtful eye on one of the most successful actions of the current antiwar movement, facilitated by Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW). Created to gain insight, inspire, and draw lessons, the movie tells the story of how social justice organizers and everyday people came together to plan and shut down the financial district of a major U.S. city. The film includes details of what made the action successful, followed by reflections from DASW participants on the many obstacles and failings of the organizing model and organizing culture (broken into themes such as race and gender inequality, lack of long-term strategy, and tyranny of the articulate and police repression). The film will be followed by a discussion.
Born and raised in New York City, Jonathan completed his BA at Hampshire College studying video making, history, and community organizing. He directed a number of short films and was awarded the Community Partnerships for Social Change Grant. Working for three years as an organizer for Peace Action West, he is also a journalist who has written wtih the Bay Area paper Frontlines, currently serves on the board of Education Not Incarceration, and works as a community organizer for SF Women against Rape.
Wobblies and Zapatistas: A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
Andrej Grubacic, Ramsey Kanaan, and Cindy Milstein
This panel revolves around the newly published book Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History (PM Press), coauthored by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic. This wide-ranging text is a provocative discussion of history, the new social movements, and where next. The panel, like the book itself, will focus on the complicated relationship between anarchism and Marxism. The panelists will interrogate the most pertinent questions that the authors have raised, including the (im)possibility of a synthesis between two political traditions; the relevance of class for contemporary antiauthoritarian politics; the relationship between revolutionary theory and practice, and the role of "intellectuals" in revolutionary politics.
Andrej is an anarchist dissident from the Balkans. He is a lecturer at the ZMedia Institute, a visiting assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco, and the editor of the forthcoming PM publication The Staughton Lynd Reader.
Ramsey founded AK Press--named after his mother--several decades ago. He cofounded PM Press-named after an utter failure of the collective imagination--a year ago.
Cindy, a (likely tired) RAT co-organizer, happily agreed to this panel for the sheer pleasure of conversing with Andrej and Ramsey.
Art as Micropolitical Anarchism
Olive McKeon, with Lindsay Caplan as respondent
The central question that Olive will address is how can one approach artworks as being moments of anarchism rather than being about anarchism. When examining the relationship between art and anarchism, one can view aesthetics works as a means to refer to or reflect on power and politics. In distinction to this perspective, Olive's precise interest is in works whose primary project is to create moments of micro-anarchism rather than refer to an anarchist politics existing somewhere else. Herbert Marcuse, among other theorists, has advocated an understanding of art as a domain of experimentation in which different social relationships can temporarily materialize and come to fruition. This talk will traverse a number of thinkers and artists who pursue this line of thinking: Nicolas Bourriaud's relational aesthetics, Obadiah Eelcut's experimental currency Noney, choreographer Anouk van Dijk's STAU, and others who are facilitating fleeting anarchisms.
Olive is currently a graduate student at New York University in the arts politics program.
Lindsay is a doctoral student in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches at Baruch College and is a member of the Autonomedia editorial collective.
The Abolition of the State
Wayne Price
Revolutionary anarchists and antistatist Marxists oppose all forms of domination and oppression: class, race, national, gender, sexual orientation, and so on. Important in maintaining all oppression is the state. Both anarchists and Marxists talk about abolishing the state. But what does this mean? What actually is the state? How could it be abolished? What could replace it? What lessons can be learned from past revolutions? How can our theories about the state affect our present-day organizing and thinking?
Wayne, a longtime revolutionary activist and writer, has been active in labor, human rights, and antiwar struggles, and is a member of the New York City local of the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists. He writers regularly for www.Anarkismo.net, the Utopian, and the Northeastern Anarchist, and is the author of the book The Abolition of the State: Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives.
Infoshop as Anarchist Institution?
James Generic, Kate Khatib, Ramsey Kanaan, and John Duda
Convened by members of the organizing committee of the 2006 Infoshop Gathering, this panel explores the history and development of the infoshop movement in the United States, with an eye toward illuminating the role the infoshops and autonomous spaces play in the larger anarchist and antiauthoritarian community. Drawing on a wealth of examples, culled from original research and personal experience, we intend to explore infoshops as anarchist interventions in the urban terrain, as potential sites of resistance to gentrification and displacement, and as laboratories for the exploration of new models for self-managed societies. What untapped possibilities and what innovative roles can infoshops play in the development of a more just society? What limitations are placed on infoshops by the uneasy position they hold as a point of contact between the mainstream and the radical Left? The results of this discussion will be integrated into the planning of the next Infoshop Gathering, tentatively scheduled for 2009.
James grew up on a sheep farm in Northeast Pennsylvania until moving to Philadelphia at age fourteen. He has been involved in the Wooden Shoe Books infoshop collective since 2000, and is involved with the Philadelphia chapter of Jobs with Justice.
Kate helped to sustain the Counter-Information Agency Infocafe in East Amsterdam before moving to Baltimore in 2003, where she helped to found Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, a collectively owned and democratically managed infoshop and cafe.
Ramsey has been a member of the (all-volunteer) Bound Together collective now for fifteen years, and was a cofounder (with other Bound Together folks) of the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, which will be entering its fourteenth year in 2009!
John learned about autonomous social centers helping to run ASCII, a squatted Internet cafe and computer lab offering free computer access and technology skill shares to the residents of Amsterdam. He is also a founding member of the Red Emma's collective in Baltimore.
The Multitude Disrupts Downtown: Mass Action in Financial Centers--Recent Practice and Theories of Class
Carwil James
What happens when mass direct action moves from targeting institutions to disrupting a city, from targeting decision makers to the political system itself? Carwil will look at the San Francisco antiwar effort in 2002-2004 as an arena where this shift tentatively happened. For a glimpse of larger-scale possibilities, he will turn to the growing creation of grassroots power in Bolivia--a trajectory that has led from rural base building to disruption to changing national political life. In these episodes, public anger physically interrupts "information-based" financial capital on downtown streets. Popular protest, conventionally focused toward state institutions, is widened to confront economic power and everyday complicity. As these interventions multiply, decentralized and participatory forms of organization are given space to grow. If this is a large-scale deployment of suddenly unalienated labor, what does this say about the class formation of those who carry them out?
Carwil researches strategies of grassroots autonomy and disruptive protest in Latin America as a CUNY Graduate Center anthropology student. He taught at the New College of California and participated in Direct Action to Stop the War, a directly democratic resistance effort committed to uprooting the system behind war and empire.
Going Global: Scaling Up Anti-militarist and Anti-imperialist Movements
Jeffrey Sasha Davis
Sasha intends to present a case study of the global anti-militarist and anti-imperialist organization "No Bases." As the name suggests, this is a worldwide network of local activist groups that struggle against the everyday violence of U.S. military bases in their communities. In the presentation, Sasha will examine the issues that come up when radical groups organize at the grassroots level while trying to maintain a nonhierarchical structures that retains local groups' autonomy. During the No Bases global conference in 2007, three major discussions developed that would be of interest to anarchist theorists/activists. There were debates over the extent of centralization for the organizational structure, the rhetorical framing of the activism (explicitly anti-imperialist or not), and the benefits and dangers of using nationalism and local calls for sovereignty when confronting U.S. militarism.
In 2003, Sasha received a PhD from Penn State University. Over the past seven years, he has been doing research with activist groups at militarized sites in the Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and other places, while teaching at the University of Vermont and University of Hawaii.
Autonomy, Composition, and the Radical Imagination
Stevphen Shukaitis
What is the nature of the radical imagination? Drawing from autonomist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde arts, this presentation will explore the emergence, functioning, and constant breakdown of the resistant social imaginary. To invoke the potentiality and subversiveness of the imagination as underlying and supporting radical politics, over the past forty years, has almost become a cliché, a rhetorical utilization of that which is already in circulation. What does it mean to invoke the power of the imagination when it seems that is already in power (through media flows and the power of the spectacle)? By reopening the question of recuperation, the inevitable drive to integrate power of social insurgency back into the working of capital and the state, creating the possibility to explore a politics refounded against and through the dynamics of recuperation, to keep open an antagonism without closure that is continually composed and recomposed.
Stevphen is a lecturer at the University of Essex. He is a member of the Autonomedia editorial collective and is the editor (with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007). For more on his writing and projects, see http://stevphen.mahost.org.
Our Dreams, Their Ballot Box: A Critical Appraisal of Anarchist Organizing against the DNC/RNC
David Combs, Emily Forman, Alex Bradley, Cindy Milstein, and Andrew Willis Garcés
Many anarchists across the United States devoted a great deal of energy over the past year to organizing against the Democratic and Republic National Conventions in Denver and Saint Paul. This panel will bring together participants in the demonstrations from across the country for a critical discussion of the goals, strategy, and tactics of the mobilization. They will ask: What was effective? What wasn't? What lessons can be articulated and applied to future mobilizations? What did we forget along the way? What role do/can/should anarchists play in opposing electoral politics, and are national conventions and counterconventions the most effective moments to play that role? And what conclusions do we draw--collectively and as individuals--about the strategic, symbolic, or other value of investing time, energy, resources, and political passion in disrupting electoral spectacle?
David is an anarchist punk musician and activist from Washington, DC, who spent a good deal of time this past year organizing around the DNC/RNC protests in Denver and Saint Paul, and traveling the country doing workshops on anarchism and direct action. In some musical circles, he is known as Spoonboy.
Emily is an artist, activist, researcher, and serial collaborator. Her organizing activities range from public interventions and convergences to media production and popular education about struggles for spatial justice and self-determination. She is a coeditor of the publication Trashing the Neoliberal City: Autonomous Cultural Practices in Chicago.
Alex is a cofounder and current member of the Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG), an anarchist group based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For the past six years he has worked with POG on issues of global economic justice, local labor solidarity, and anti-militarization/military recruitment, combining education with direct action.
During the DNC in Denver, Cindy was deeply disturbed that she was "an anarchist," but has since regained her hope in that political identity--sort of. She's joyfully a member of the Black Sheep Books collective, an IAS board member, co-organizes RAT, and writes (slowly) on anarchism and direct democracy.
Andrew is an organizer in Washington, DC, focused on housing, labor, and immigrant rights issues, and international solidarity work. This fall, he's also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and looks forward to hanging with fam in Colombia when the semester's done.
Reading "Letters of Insurgents"
SW and Onto
SW and Onto read Letters of Insurgents this summer in between trips to occupied lands near and far. After reading it, it began to infect their conversations, their beliefs, and their relationship as well. The only way to cure this contagion is to spread it to others; they hope it works. Simply put, Fredy Perlman's Letters to Insurgents is the best anarchist book ever written. In this session, in homage to the folks at audioanarchy.org who recorded the whole book in mp3, SW and Onto will read aloud some of their favorite passages, sharing their personal and political stories of how it affects them. All of this is done in hope of starting a conversation of what it means to be insurgent today. People's own experiences with fiction and politics will be encouraged too.
SW is a bunny. Onto is a dragon.
All Hail the Vanguard!
Charles Weigl
Common sense declares anarchism opposed to vanguards. Scratch the surface of this truism, however, and things become more complicated. Historically, many anarchists have advocated vanguardist forms of revolutionary organizing. The categorical rejection of vanguards is a recent phenomenon in our movement. At times, there can be something pathological about this rejection: an attempt to escape rather than address contradictions inherent in what we do. Building a better world, and inspiring/convincing/educating others to do the same, is vanguardist by definition. Knee-jerk reactions to words like "vanguardism," without a clear understanding of what the term means, create a serious strategic impasse in which we not only lack the courage of our convictions but often deny ourselves the right to have convictions at all--while nonetheless constantly and guiltily working hard to propagate them. The goal of this discussion, then, is to find ways to productively work through the issues surrounding this debate.
Charles is currently a member of the AK Press collective. In the 1980s, he was a member of the Left Bank Books collective and taught at Tolstoy College. In between, he's been a cabbie, bartender, truck driver, furniture mover, and heavy drinker, among other things. He lives in Berkeley, with two grown-ups, one toddler, and a cat.
New Perspectives on Anarchism
Nathan Jun
New Perspectives on Anarchism (Lexington Press, spring 2009) is a collection of essays representing some of the best work in the contemporary study of anarchism. True to the spirit of its subject, moreover, contributors to the volume come from all over the world, and cover the widest possible range of disciplinary approaches and methodologies. This presentation explores some of the challenges that the editors faced in putting together the book as well as various issues broached within the book itself, such as the backlash against anarcho-primitivism, the emerging "historicism" among anarchist scholars, the alleged (re)turn toward syndicalism in U.S. anarchist movements, and so on.
Nathan is an assistant professor of philosophy and the Philosophy Program Coordinator at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He is coeditor with Shane Wahl of New Perspectives on Anarchism, and is the author of several articles and book reviews on political philosophy, ethics, and contemporary European philosophy. Nathan is also a long-standing political activist.
Infinite Demands and Responsibility: Anarchist Ethics Reloaded
Ryan Robert Mitchell
In a debate that ran across both Harper's magazine and the London Review of Books, Slavoj Žižek critiqued the anarchic politics in Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding (2007) as being defeatist for surrendering the game of state power to capitalism. Far more than a caustic book review, Žižek condemned anarchism and the politics of resistance for being parasitical to the state that ensures radicals the very right to resist. Drawing from the tradition of continental philosophy, Critchley's work centers on the conception of the ethical subject that is rooted in Otherness, and how this subjectivity leads to anarchic meta-politics that resist any attempts to impose order on it. Strangely absent from Critchley's work, however, is any sustained discussion of anarchist theory. Is Infinitely Demanding an example of the academic cool hunting of radical politics, as some claim, or does Critchley's work open up new avenues of discussion within the anarchist tradition? This presentation will examine the Žižek-Critchley debate as well as evaluate what Critchley's work has to offer anarchist theory and politics.
Ryan lives in Toronto, where he has been involved in various arts and community education projects. He is interested in the concept and theory of desire, and how it informs both radical politics and cinema. Ryan is currently obsessed with the films of Harry Dean Stanton.
Border Vigilantes, Boundary Enforcement, and Social Movements on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Decolonization Struggles in the Twenty-first Century
Jose Palafox
This talk will explore the origins and development of the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, and its relationship to the recent escalation of anti-immigrant violence. In response to both state violence and vigilante violence along the border, this talk will discuss and analyze the struggles by immigrant and border rights groups along the California and Arizona border region. Special attention will be given to revolutionary autonomous collectives in Nogales, Mexico, and Tijuana, Mexico. In this presentation we will watch portions of Jose's film New World Border (28 min., 2001) to give a visual representation of the social movements along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jose was born in Tijuana and grew up in San Diego, where he was involved in many DIY-political punk bands. He attended the University of California at Berkeley for undergraduate and graduate school (comparative ethnic studies and sociology), and currently is working on a new music project called "Baader Brains" as well as taking a break from full-time teaching to work in publishing at AK Press. He's published articles in Social Justice, Covert Action Quarterly, ColorLines, Z Magazine, Borderlines, Shades of Power, Left Turn, and Maximum RocknRoll.
Walking the Walk: Beyond Self-management, But Not without It
Kiki Tropea and Joshua Stephens
Within the anarchist tradition, worker self-management has functioned as a sort of conventional reconstructive economic vision. The history of experiments therein is both rich and well-worn. But as a container for social transformation, especially while so many destructive forces shape and speak through us--often well outside the sphere of production relations--is this model and the conversation it often produces adequate? What other questions might our chosen flavor of workplace organization pose? What is its relationship to the communities in which it is carried out? What is its role in movement building? What does it communicate to the social body outside the proverbial shop floor? Perhaps most important, what the hell do a bunch of dogwalkers know about any of this? Two members of the Brighter Days Collective (a worker-run pet care firm in DC) will explore these questions, based on their day-to-day work.
Kiki has somehow managed to drag herself, relatively recently, out from the bowels of fundamentalist Christianity and into the heart of the struggle for total liberation. She has spent the past three years living in Washington, DC, and throwing herself headlong into collective work spaces and the seedy underworld of antiauthoritarian politics.
Joshua lives down the street from Kiki. He likes coffee more than you do, and (as a professional dogwalker) is evangelically committed to the belief that bodily functions are hilarious. He is a founding member of the Brighter Days Collective, works with Critical Resistance DC, and is rumored to be on the IAS board.
Kwangju against the State, 1980
Todd Tavares
This presentation will focus on the historical background, immediate events, and lasting legacy of the spontaneous armed revolt of the citizens of Kwangju against the dictatorship of South Korea in 1980. Little-known outside of Korea, the Kwangju Uprising compares remarkably well to the Paris Commune, which occurred 109 years earlier. Kwangju was more than an antiauthoritarian revolt as the people built their own communal social order in the absence of experienced political leadership and programmatic ideology during their brief period of freedom from the state. The presentation will seek to open a discussion on anarchist interpretations of the historical events, what can be learned from this particular struggle, and how it informs and reinforces the principles of understanding and struggle for real human liberation.
Todd is a graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle pursuing a PhD in political science. He recently returned from South Korea, where he witnessed and participated in the largest and most peaceful anti-government demonstrations he had ever seen.
The Everyday Anarchist
Laura Portwood-Stacer, with Andrew Willis Garcés as respondent
Although it is sometimes said that there are as many anarchisms as there are anarchists, most of us can agree on the importance of bringing the principles and values of anarchism into our everyday lives. For some this may mean actively working against hierarchy within personal relationships; for others it may mean refraining from consumption practices that promote cruelty toward humans, animals, and the earth; for still others it may mean being part of an anarchist subculture that is identifiable by its stylistic markers. Though the rhetorical figure of the "lifestyle anarchist" is often invoked as an object of derision, Laura wants to take lifestyle seriously as a significant aspect of anarchist politics and identity. With this presentation, she hopes to generate discussion on what an "anarchist lifestyle" means to each of us, and what its place is within the anarchist tradition.
Andrew is an organizer in Washington, DC, working on housing, labor, and immigrant rights issues; international solidarity work; and bringing style back to lifestyle. This fall he's also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
Laura is a doctoral candidate in communication and cultural studies. She is currently working on a dissertation titled "Making the Anarchist Self: Culture, Lifestyle, and Radical Political Identity."
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How are we to judge the success of anticapitalist actions? How do we know if particular tactics are effective in undermining capitalist institutions? This panel suggests that the power theory of capital offers one means of assessment. According to this theory, capital is solely a financial entity and capitalists understand their own success differentially. The accumulatory struggle is an intracapitalist struggle; everyone and everything else is merely collateral damage. From the perspective of resistance, a successful campaign should cause a corporation to differentially de-accumulate. A broad array of groups use economic disruption campaigns for their organizing--from strikes or boycotts, to divestment, or overt and covert sabotage, and so on. How can we measure the impacts of these campaigns? Can the power theory of capital aid organizers in choosing tactics? The copresenters will explore these questions using the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign as a case study.
Currently a PhD student in Toronto, DT's days are busy with baby and partner. Through two degrees in economics, he developed a hatred for the neoclassical doctrine: capitalism's pseudoscientific ideology.
Jeff lives in Ottawa, where he is active with CKCU community radio, the local infoshop, and Books to Prisoners Ottawa.
Post-election and in the Midst of Economic Crisis, What's an Anarchist to Do?
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So you didn't vote--and it's hardly news that capitalism is all about bailouts for the wealthy. Still, an African American is now the president of a nation built on slavery, propelled in part by a dynamic electorally oriented activism. And global economic turmoil poses all sorts of challenges to grassroots organizers, working-class people, and theorists alike. In this last conversation at RAT, we'll set aside our more-antiauthoritarian-than-thou ennui and election week burnout to reflect on and debate how to assess, strategize, and organize in this moment.


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MPIC's Jose Lim leads group's infra expansion program
By Tina Arceo-DumlaoPhilippine Daily Inquirer
Being the chief executive officer of a 100-billion-peso-company such as Metro Pacific Investments Corp. does come with a generous compensation and benefit package that ordinary Filipinos can only dream of.
The posh corner office, substantial salary, hefty stock options, luxury company car with personal driver, regular first-class trips abroad and high stature in the private sector are just some of the perks reserved for the elite group of top executives.
But being at the helm of a publicly listed, top 100 corporation also means having to carry 24 hours a day and seven days a week a heavy burden of responsibility that has caused a number of executives to buckle under the weight of overseeing a group with thousands of employees.
The bone crushing pressure to significantly increase company profit every year to provide shareholders a substantial return on their capital and keep rabid competition at bay can prove to be too much to handle, even for senior top managers with top-notch credentials and extensive experience.
Fortunately for the Metro Pacific group of companies led by Manuel V. Pangilinan, MPIC president and CEO Jose Ma. K. Lim is not one of them.
While the bespectacled, soft-spoken CEO admits that he can indeed feel the weight on his shoulders, the 60-year-old tells SundayBiz that his yoke is made easier to carry by the support of professional managers who handle the day-to-day individual units that contribute to the bottom line of the infrastructure investment company.
MPIC has holdings in electricity distributor Manila Electric CO., water distributor Maynilad Water Services Inc. and toll operator Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. It also has investments in leading hospitals in Metro Manila and the provinces, including Makati Medical Center and Cardinal Santos Medical Center.
Its units have a combined workforce of over 14,000 employees.
Lim says he is lucky to be surrounded by "very capable" managers. He says that this enables him to devote half of his company time to developing the growth strategy for the group, instead of being caught up in the finer details of running the different companies.
He spends the other half of his time attending meetings of the board of the different companies under MPIC's wing and meeting with shareholders and potential investors.
"I just provide guidance in terms of policy direction but the team is so strong. The [senior executives] are very capable," says the young-looking Lim, who graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and has a Master in Business Administration from the Asian Institute of Management.
The latest financial results help support Lim's claim.
At the end of June this year, MPIC reported a consolidated core net income of P3.46 billion, up 30 percent from the P2.66 billion from the same period last year as every business delivered strong growth, particularly Maynilad, followed by Meralco and MPTC. The hospital group has also started to contribute.
"All our businesses achieved strong growth in profitability for the first half of the year. We are well placed for continued growth for the rest of 2012," Lim says in a disclosure on the company results for the first half.
There was a time, however, when what Lim saw on the spreadsheets that came his way were worrisome results.
In 1998, when the Asian currency crisis peaked, the former vice president for treasury of Fort Bonifacio Development Corp. saw the company saddled with as much as P13 billion in debt and slim prospects for significant sales.
He says that it became clear quite quickly at that time that difficult decisions had to be made, and one of them was to sell the stake in FBDC in 2003 and whip the company back into healthy financial shape.
FBDC's debt was brought down to a more bearable P6 billion after the sale, and trimmed even further after a series of financial transactions, including the delisting of Metro Pacific Corp. and the creation of a new company, MPIC.
"In the world of arbitrage, you tend to be detached and when you're detached, you can make decisions," says Lim, who eventually became CEO of MPC.
Having helped successfully steer the company's financial course toward recovery, Lim was moved from CEO of MPC to President and CEO of MPIC, the new vehicle for reviving the group's fortunes.
MPIC, which is 55 percent owned by the Hong Kong-based First Pacific group, was listed in 2006, and Lim's mandate since then has remained the same: To continue to grow the firm's portfolio and be involved in the infrastructure development in the Philippines.
As CEO of MPIC, he is a director in the following subsidiaries and/or affiliate companies: Beacon Electric Asset Holdings Inc., Metro Pacific Tollways Corp., Manila North Tollways Corp., Tollways Management Corp., Maynilad Water Services Inc., Medical Doctors Inc. (owner and operator of the Makati Medical Center), Davao Doctors Hospital (Clinica Hilario) Inc., and Landco Pacific Corp. (including several Landco subsidiaries).
He is also president of Metro Strategic Infrastructure Holdings Inc., which holds a minority ownership interest in Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. (Skyway).
With the group continuing to look for new areas to expand to, Lim will have even more items on his full plate.
But he is not complaining since the commitment is there for the group to be part of the country's growth story and contribute to making the Philippines infrastructure developments at par with that of its neighbors.
"I want MPIC to be an excellently managed holding company with a stellar portfolio of companies that contribute to society and concerned for the public's welfare," says Lim.
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Warm waters may muscle out mussels
Warming waters make it harder for mussels to get a grip. New research shows that the tough, fibrous threads that anchor the bay mussel Mytilus trossulus to its rocky intertidal digs are 60 percent weaker in 25° Celsius waters compared with their strength at 18° C, reported Emily Carrington of the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories. Mussels are constantly replenishing these fibers, which last about two months in winter and up to a month in summer. As the oceans warm, the range of the species may shift, or perhaps having weaker threads may mean that other species will muscle in on mussel territory, Carrington said February 16. — Rachel Ehrenberg
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What looks like wormholes in outer space is actually the cells of a worm-to-be. Scientists can witness this delicate choreography of roundworm cell division thanks to a new imaging technique called Bessel beam plane illumination, Eric Betzig of Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va., reported February 15. A light beam that doesn't scatter, the same sort as those in bar code scanners, sends a sheet of light sweeping through the side of a sample. As the embryo of the roundworm C. elegans divides — seen above at about the 12-cell stage — the technique reveals the protein myosin (green) contracting, pinching off daughter cells (cell membranes in blue). The approach can capture nearly 200 images per second without harming the cell, allowing scientists to shoot mini-movies of cellular processes. — Rachel Ehrenberg
Ridges fingered as tree-climbing aids
Detectives who use fingerprints to find criminals should be thankful that humans descended from tree-dwelling ancestors. The fine ridges that mark the skin of primates' hands and feet might have evolved because they helped the animals grip tree branches, anthropologist Nate Dominy of Dartmouth College reported February 16. Dominy and colleagues tested the idea using an artificial silicon finger with skin ridges. They dragged tree bark across the finger and measured the friction. When the bark's ridges were rubbed perpendicular to the finger's ridges, friction increased by 50 percent compared with tests when the bark and finger ridges ran parallel to each other. Dominy suggests the enhanced friction would have allowed early primates to more efficiently climb up and down trees. — Erin Wayman
Fingerprints: N. Dominy. Beyond vision: touchy-feely primates. American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. February 16, 2013.
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Thanks to Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the Senate version of the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act will include language that requires that the U.S. Department of Defense reconsider its blanket prohibition on U.S. military support and involvement in air shows, allowing for community engagement under certain conditions. An active and experienced general aviation pilot, Inhofe recognizes the devastating impact that sequestration has been having on the U.S. air show community as well as the damage it is doing to the local economies where air shows are held and the military's outreach to taxpayers and prospective recruits. "Air shows in the United States have a $1.5 billion economic impact on the communities in which the events are held. That impact has been significantly reduced this year by this blanket prohibition on the U.S. military's participation in local air shows," said John Cudahy, president of the International Council of Air Shows. "Senator Inhofe's initiative will come as a great relief to the hundreds of communities that benefit – both economically and in many other ways – by having air shows in their area. Needless damage was being done to our industry and it's encouraging to see our elected leaders taking pro-active steps to correct this problem." To see a press release issued by Senator Inhofe's office explaining a number of issues he championed in the National Defense Authorization Act, click here. |
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Canyon City, or Gitwinksihlkw, is one of the Nass Valley villages. It is home to a 400 year old suspension bridge. Up until 17 years ago this bridge was the only way in and out of the city. The bridge is just over a metre wide; therefore the only access was by foot. That meant the people living within the city would have had to carry anything they had across, meaning groceries, furniture, and any other necessities they had needed. The bridge is now restored, so if you have the time, feel free to check it out, along with the beautiful view of the river it comes with, and the 25 foot totem poles inside the city.
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