Summer Update 2013

Hi friends, it’s been a long time since we’ve been in touch with y’all with an update. As you may know in the Fall of 2011 we were “rentrified” out of our Williamsburg storefront, and thanks to the support of you and others in our extended family we relocated to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Since then, we’ve been busier than we’ve ever been in our 9 year history. Here’s a sampling from the last 2 years:

* We dialed back public programming and event curation for a spell, and ramped up our work as an arts collective and production company, producing visual communications anonymously in support of the Occupy movement and other mobilizations. Some of that work can be seen here, and here, and even here.

* We’ve written some articles about the politics of representation in social movements, and the idea of organizing around a “name in common”.

* We’ve expanded our team. We birthed a new comrade and collaborator, just 20 inches tall and a real pistol. Occupy Baby (aka Mila Amie Economopoulos Jones) came into this world like a true direct actionista, as evidenced by the lights, sirens and media cameras…this child has a bigger google footprint than most folks we know. We also welcomed new collaborators Jodi Dean, Anjali Cadambi, Lucky Tran, Jonathan King, and Victoria Sobel, as well as interns Mon Iker and Josh Yoder.

*We’re incubating new projects. We’re excited to be working with Occupy Homes Minnesota and Occupy Homes Atlanta on their anti-foreclosure and eviction defense efforts, and in 2014 we’ll launch the biggest project we’ve worked on to date, relating to climate change and natural history museums.

Amidst all that, we’ve been missing you. And so we’re thrilled to start hosting public events again. As always, our programming lies at the intersection of art, activism, and theory, bringing together filmmakers, artists, activists, and academics, with an aim toward putting theory into practice.

We hope you can join us for our inaugural event in the new(ish) space on Thursday, August 29 at 7pm. Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh from the Global Uprisings team will screen their latest film about Occupy Gezi Park and the Taksim Commune. Event deets on Facebook here.