microRevolt reBlog 2012-09-10T00:35:03Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2012, cat Knit for Defense cat 2012-09-10T00:35:03Z 2012-09-10T00:03:09Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.798 2012-09-10T00:03:09Z At long last I'm posting about my new artwork Knit for Defense which premiered at the Renwick Gallery this summer in DC as part of 40 Under 40: Craft Futures exhibition curated by Nicholas Bell (up July 20, 2012... K4D_TITLE.jpg

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At long last I'm posting about my new artwork Knit for Defense which premiered at the Renwick Gallery this summer in DC as part of 40 Under 40: Craft Futures exhibition curated by Nicholas Bell (up July 20, 2012 - Feb 2013).

Here's an interview with Jenny Gill of Creative Capital In Focus Cat Mazza's Knit for Defense

I have a little sound bite in Neda Ulaby's story Are All Young Artists 'Post-9/11' Artists? that aired today on NPR's Weekend Edition.

Review in Washington Post

Link to show at Renwick Gallery

The soft cover catalog with Sabrina's Gschwandtner's artwork (!) on cover is available on Yale University Press. It includes nice essays including "body craft: preaching, performance, and process" by Julia Bryan-Wilson.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum's has acquired the piece for permanent collection.

]]> Senate Republicans block Paycheck Fairness Act cat 2012-06-06T16:22:37Z 2012-06-06T16:21:48Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.796 2012-06-06T16:21:48Z WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats lost a key vote Tuesday to expand rights of working women to challenge employers on pay discrimination, but the issue will likely linger until at least the November elections as women’s issues take a prominent role... WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats lost a key vote Tuesday to expand rights of working women to challenge employers on pay discrimination, but the issue will likely linger until at least the November elections as women’s issues take a prominent role in hotly contested races across the country. link

]]> Who owns your tweets? cat 2012-04-28T15:44:48Z 2012-04-28T15:44:00Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.795 2012-04-28T15:44:00Z A judge's decision to uphold a subpoena for an Occupy arrestee's Twitter account raises serious privacy issues... A judge's decision to uphold a subpoena for an Occupy arrestee's Twitter account raises serious privacy issues

]]> Aminul cat 2012-04-13T15:39:34Z 2012-04-13T15:36:19Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.794 2012-04-13T15:36:19Z Aminul was a senior organizer at the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS) and a local leader for the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF). ILRF has worked with BCWS and BGIWF for many years. They have been a... Aminul was a senior organizer at the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS) and a local leader for the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF). ILRF has worked with BCWS and BGIWF for many years. They have been a critical force in the effort to defend workers' rights in a country known for sub-poverty wages, deadly factory fires, and repression of the right to organize. LINK to support full Investigation Necessary in Murder of Aminul Islam

]]> Hershey's Child Labor: Chocolate Company To Source Independently Certified Cocoa By End of 2012 cat 2012-02-09T01:06:43Z 2012-02-09T01:04:11Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.793 2012-02-09T01:04:11Z Reports of Hershey's using child labor in its cocoa fields have been widespread, and the publicity hasn't been kind. In the past year, the Raise The Bar campaign, aimed at calling attention to Hershey's child labor issues, has been putting... Reports of Hershey's using child labor in its cocoa fields have been widespread, and the publicity hasn't been kind. In the past year, the Raise The Bar campaign, aimed at calling attention to Hershey's child labor issues, has been putting pressure on the company to change its supply chain practices. Many of the efforts fell on deaf ears but recently it sounds like the chocolate company finally started listening.

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]]> Art & Politics One in the same for Moscow Feminist Punk Band cat 2012-02-07T18:27:58Z 2012-02-07T18:20:31Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.792 2012-02-07T18:20:31Z Eight women stood in a line opposite the Kremlin, neon balaclavas hiding their faces, fists pounding the air in rugged defiance. Before police carted them off, the members of Pussy Riot managed to shout their way through a minute-long... Russian-all-girl-punk-gro-007.jpg

Eight women stood in a line opposite the Kremlin, neon balaclavas hiding their faces, fists pounding the air in rugged defiance. Before police carted them off, the members of Pussy Riot managed to shout their way through a minute-long punk anthem: "Revolt in Russia – the charisma of protest / Revolt in Russia, Putin's got scared!" LINK TO Guardian article (via Malav)

Knit balaclava pattern here LINK

]]> Paper Tiger Exhibition OpeningCelebrating 30 Years of Collective Media Art, Activism and Analysis cat 2012-02-02T07:02:01Z 2012-02-02T06:59:31Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.791 2012-02-02T06:59:31Z Roarrrr... It's 30 years since the first "reading" of the New York Times by Herbert Schiller in October 28, 1981, the initial live transmission of Paper Tiger Television. Miraculously the ever-renewing collective is now celebrating their roaring history with an... Roarrrr... It's 30 years since the first "reading" of the New York Times by Herbert Schiller in October 28, 1981, the initial live transmission of Paper Tiger Television. Miraculously the ever-renewing collective is now celebrating their roaring history with an exhibition, a conference and series of events. Last spring, the many tapes, backdrops, photos, funding proposals, and meeting notes of the vast Tiger archive were donated to the Fales Library, a special collection within Bobst Library at NYU (always open to the public without an NYU pass!). To celebrate this acquisition, Fales is hosting an exhibition from February 3 (Save the date!) until May 4, 2012 in their third floor gallery. LINK

]]> Print and Demand #2 cat 2012-01-31T16:53:06Z 2012-01-31T16:50:20Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.790 2012-01-31T16:50:20Z On November 7, [2010] Triple Canopy presented Print & Demand #2, the second in an ongoing series of conversations exploring how print culture is being changed by the manifold forms of online publication and how public spaces are being constituted... On November 7, [2010] Triple Canopy presented Print & Demand #2, the second in an ongoing series of conversations exploring how print culture is being changed by the manifold forms of online publication and how public spaces are being constituted around those forms. The discussion, which took place at The NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, included James Goggin, Jiminie Ha, and Rob Giampietro, and was moderated by Triple Canopy creative director Caleb Waldorf. It focused on the role played by design in shaping digital forms of publication: How are certain tropes of print publication—and the reading and viewing experiences they have engendered—being translated for new media (while others are being jettisoned entirely)? How has the shift from graphic design to user design, with its focus on interaction and interface, changed the way publications function? LINK

]]> Free Vector World Maps cat 2012-01-31T16:52:32Z 2012-01-29T02:27:10Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.789 2012-01-29T02:27:10Z LINK... free-vector-world-map.gif

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]]> Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour cat 2012-01-16T17:42:28Z 2012-01-16T17:41:05Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.788 2012-01-16T17:41:05Z Link... Link

]]> Bread and Roses Strike 100 years ago cat 2012-01-14T19:49:18Z 2012-01-14T19:44:43Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.787 2012-01-14T19:44:43Z The International Labor Rights Forum posted a "Garment and Textile Worker Organizing, Then and Now" handout for the 100 year anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike in Lawerence, Massachusetts. Here's the link. Thanks Liana.... 396preview.jpg

The International Labor Rights Forum posted a "Garment and Textile Worker Organizing,
Then and Now" handout for the 100 year anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike in Lawerence, Massachusetts. Here's the link. Thanks Liana.

]]> Happy New Year cat 2012-01-04T15:46:38Z 2012-01-04T15:43:11Z tag:microrevolt.org,2012:/reblog//1.785 2012-01-04T15:43:11Z The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft travels to the Asheville Art Museum is on view through March 2012. It was reviewed in the Journal of Modern Craft which I'll post once I get it. Link... The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft travels to the Asheville Art Museum is on view through March 2012. It was reviewed in the Journal of Modern Craft which I'll post once I get it.

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]]> Outsourcing air traffic control cat 2011-11-24T07:59:54Z 2011-11-24T07:50:20Z tag:microrevolt.org,2011:/reblog//1.784 2011-11-24T07:50:20Z Trade unions and church groups in the Philippines have joined together in calling a boycott of Philippine Airlines and Air Philippines in solidarity with the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA). ... The PALEA union likens its struggle to that of... Trade unions and church groups in the Philippines have joined together in calling a boycott of Philippine Airlines and Air Philippines in solidarity with the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA).
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The PALEA union likens its struggle to that of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) union in 1981. Those familiar with U.S. labor history will recall: when 13,000 air traffic controllers went on strike, Ronald Reagan fired the union supporters and broke the union. As a result, the bargaining power of American workers and labor unions was severely undermined. Let’s act together for a better future for airline workers who are facing job loss and state-sponsored repression today. Now is the time to join with PALEA in their call for justice.

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Trade unions and church groups in the Philippines have joined together in calling a boycott of Philippine Airlines and Air Philippines in solidarity with the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA).

I’m writing to ask you to make your voice heard in support of this boycott. Let Lucio Tan, owner of both airlines, know that you won’t fly PAL or AirPhil until locked-out workers have been reinstated to their regular jobs.

Philippine Airlines is putting into place a plan to outsource its ground crew, which would result in deep pay cuts and job insecurity with the downgrading of employees from regular to contractual hires. On September 27, the PALEA union launched a protest at Manila airport that paralyzed the operations of Philippine Airlines. In response, Philippine Airlines and the government forcibly evicted the protesting workers. Since then, Philippine Airlines locked-out 2,600 airport services, catering and call center workers, and terminated them from their jobs on October 1. The workers have set up protest camps and are running continuous picket lines. They are calling for our solidarity.

It’s time to up the pressure. The company’s line, as quoted in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, is: “No amount of rallies, protest actions or letters of support/complaints from sympathetic groups both within and outside the country could change the fact that PAL has already spun off and outsourced its non-core businesses.” But we know that the airlines cannot withstand a boycott. PAL and AirPhil rely on end-of-year holidays travel for their profit line. If a large enough group of us join the boycott publicly, we will have an impact.

Take a moment to click here to send a letter to Philippine Airlines and the Philippine government.

The PALEA union likens its struggle to that of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) union in 1981. Those familiar with U.S. labor history will recall: when 13,000 air traffic controllers went on strike, Ronald Reagan fired the union supporters and broke the union. As a result, the bargaining power of American workers and labor unions was severely undermined. Let’s act together for a better future for airline workers who are facing job loss and state-sponsored repression today. Now is the time to join with PALEA in their call for justice.

In solidarity,
Brian Campbell
Director, Policy and Legal Programs
International Labor Rights Forum

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]]> Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz cat 2011-11-03T02:26:59Z 2011-11-03T02:25:41Z tag:microrevolt.org,2011:/reblog//1.781 2011-11-03T02:25:41Z The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series proudly presents Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaking on the subject: “The City on a Hill, Where it All Began” Friday, November 4th 1:30 p.m. Dewey Square Occupy Boston Encampment Corner of Summer and Atlantic Streets Roxanne... The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series proudly presents Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaking on the subject: “The City on a Hill, Where it All Began”

Friday, November 4th
1:30 p.m.
Dewey Square
Occupy Boston Encampment
Corner of Summer and Atlantic Streets

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born 10 September 1939) is an American academic, educator, feminist activist, and writer. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Dunbar-Ortiz is of partial American Indian background. She spent most of her youth growing up in the rural community of Piedmont, Oklahoma. Dunbar-Ortiz's grandfather was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, and for the Oklahoma Socialist Party during its brief era of success, between the beginning of statehood in 1907 and its repression following the Green Corn Rebellion of 1917.

She earned her Ph.D in History from UCLA in 1974. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was active in the anti-Vietnam War and radical left movements and worked closely with the SDS, the Weather Underground, and the African National Congress. She was also very active in the women's rights movement, and from 1968–1970 was a leading figure, along with Maureen Maynes, Dana Densmore and Betsy Warrior, in the radical feminist group, Cell 16.

In 1977, she and Jimmie Durham organised the Conference on Indians in the Americas in Geneva. She has authored a number of scholarly books and articles on Native American history, and has published three memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997); Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 (2002); and Blood on the Border (2005), which is about what she saw during the Nicaraguan Contra war against the Sandinistas in the 1980s. Outlaw Woman won recognition from the Organization of American Historians as a 2003 finalist for the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award in the field of American civil rights struggles. Her writing has also appeared in Monthly Review and The Nation, and on the CounterPunch website. She is presently Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward.

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