Date: April 25th, 2008

Of Friends & Whirlwinds:
Inquiry, Movements & “Constituent Imagination”

a discussion on research, radical politics & creating social change

Saturday 26 April 4pm @ Dry River
740 N. Main St. @ University Blvd.; www.dryriver.org
Donations for the space & those traveling.

A series of talks on inquiry and movements from the upcoming journal "In the
Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements" and
in celebration of the AK Press collection Constituent Imagination: Militant
Investigations / Collective Theorization.

“From the ivory tower to the barricades! Radical intellectuals explore the
relationship between research and resistance.” - from Constituent
Imagination

With Conor & Craig of Team Colors, Jeff Juris (Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at ASU West, member of CAROB [Central Arizona Radicals Opposing
Borders] and the ASU West Border Justice Group), and a presentation from the
Progressive Librarians Guild: UA Chapter.

Talks include:

Team Colors
Conor Cash - "In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests,
Movement, and Movements:
Craig Hughes - "DIY and the Movement Beyond Capitalism in the United States"
(An expansion on his article in Constituent Imagination)

Jeff Juris:
"Bridging the Divide between Activism and Research: Militant Ethnography as
a tool for social transformation" (An expansion of his article in
Constituent Imagination)

Progressive Librarians Guild: UA Chapter
An introduction to the group and brief talk about the national organizations
Radical Reference and Progressive Library Guild, of which the UA Chapter is
part.

Constituent Imagination: www.akpress.org <http://www.akpress.org>;
In the Middle of a Whirlwind: www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info
<http://www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info>;

For more information: kevin@warmachines.info

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ON TEAM COLORS:
Team Colors is a collective engaged in militant research to provide
&#147;strategic analysis for the intervention into everyday life&#148;. Our purpose
is to explore questions of everyday resistance, mutual aid, the imposition
of work, social reproduction, class composition, community participation,
and 'the commons' - by creating engaging workshops and the producing
provocative written documents and articles. Currently Team Colors is based
Brooklyn NY, Portland, OR, and Tucson, AZ. Our approach has come from our
involvement in community organizing projects, community dialogs, and
resistance activities in the countries largest suburb of Long Island, New
York. www(dot)warmachines(dot)info


ON JEFF JURIS:
Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department
of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. He received
his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in May
2004, and has also served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the USC Annenberg
School for Communication. His forthcoming book, &#147;Networking Futures: the
Movements against Corporate Globalization&#148; (Duke University Press, 2008),
explores the cultural logic and politics of transnational networking among
anti-corporate globalization activists in Barcelona, including their
participation in transnational networks such as Peoples Global Action and
the World Social Forum. He has also published several articles regarding
this topic and the relationship between new digital technologies and
grassroots social movements. Most recently, he has conducted fieldwork at
the United States Social Forum, and is planning a new ethnographic research
project on grassroots media activism and autonomy in Mexico.