Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: CCC, cream city collectives, eviction, fuck landlords, fuck rent, halloween, milwaukee, october, party time
Only days after I left Milwaukee, the CCC got an eviction notice. I was overjoyed to hear that there was a proper eviction party, as all landlords deserve, but rarely get.
“On the evening of October 31st, hurricane Sandy swept through the space which once housed the Cream City Collectives. All of the former CCC’s windows were smashed by the winds and many beer cans were not picked up.
An accountability process for hurricane Sandy’s fucked up manarchist shit will be held at the next Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair.
4 MORE YEARZ
4 MORE BEERZ
NO MOAR TEERZ”
http://incunabula.org/2012/11/hurricane-sandy-rips-through-milwaukee/
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anarchy, bash back, CCC, cream city collectives, insurrectionary, milwaukee, queer, violence
This event is taking place at the CCC (732 E Clarke St.) at 7pm Thursday June 14th. It is free.
Queer Ultra Violence: Bash Back! Anthology published by Ardent Press this February, is an analytical anthology that chronicles the (non)organization and militant queer tendency known as Bash Back! Although short lived, Bash Back! had an astonishing impact on both radical and queer organizing in the United States. Bash Back! took on gay assimilation, anti-queer violence, the queer radical establishment, and capitalism with a queer struggle that rejected traditional identity politics. The anthology compiles essays, interviews, and communiqués to document the new queer tendency spawned by the Bash Back! years.
As capitalism and the state are thrown into deeper and deeper crisis, queers and all others historically excluded from both formal economies and from the safety net of the nuclear family, will bear the brunt of the age of austerity. Reflecting critically on the past several years of radical queer action and imagination, the editors of Bash Back! Queer Ultraviolence will attempt to navigate queer space and potential in a world torn by crisis. Through this talk, Eanelli and Baroque will present a series of proposals for action and survival, taking as their starting point the position of queer autonomy and queer revolt against the State and Capital. This lecture will theorize queer gangs, self-defense networks, occupations, communes and a praxis of vengeance.
http://www.ardentpress.org/bashback
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anti-capitalism, block party, CCC, cream city collectives, food, history, may day, milwaukee, music
“So long as there is money, there will never been enough money for everyone” and in this spirit we share space, food and music with each other on May Day.
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anti-capitalism, capitalism, CCC, communism, communization, crises, crisis, democracy, meeting, riverwest, sic, theorie communiste
-Wednesday -April 4th -7pm -at the CCC (732 E Clarke St.)
An evening with MEETING / Sic an journal of the communising current
Featuring Léon de Mattis & Julie Maitrejean
In October 2008, the global financial system almost collapsed, putting the word “crisis” on the front page of every newspaper. In 2010 and 2011, the sovereign debt crisis and an atmosphere of unrest all over the world revealed an even more severe economic and social situation.
Commentators everywhere put the blame on the finance sector alone, implying that there is a “real economy” that, if better managed, would be the soil for a sustainable and fair system. But to us, crises are on the contrary indicators and reveal what usually goes undernoticed. The capitalist system constantly undergoes contradictions, and cannot but reinforce, on an ever increasing scale, what it is inherently : a relation of domination and exploitation.
How could revolts against this oppression ultimately give birth to a new world? This question has had many various answers in the past. The communisation current tries to provide an appropriate response to the present moment.
“In the course of the revolutionary struggle, the abolition of the division of labour, of the State, of exchange, of any kind of property; the extension of a situation in which everything is freely available as the unification of human activity, that is to say the abolition of classes, of both public and private spheres – these are all ‘measures’ for the abolition of capital, imposed by the very needs of the struggle against the capitalist class.” -‘Extrait de l’éditorial de Sic 1’
Léon de Mattis and Julie Maitrejean are French activists involved in the writting of Meeting/Sic, “International Journal for Communisation”. Léon de Mattis has been involved in the communisation project since the 2000s. He is the author of ‘Reflections on the Call’ and ‘What is communisation?’. He has also published two untranslated books : ‘Mort à la démocratie’ (2007) and ‘Crises’ (2012).
It is greatly encouraged by certainly not required that those attending familiarize themselves with a few texts prior to the event in order to facilitate more in depth discussions and understanding of the material being presented. They are: http://riff-raff.se/texts/en/sic1-what-is-communisation and http://libcom.org/library/reflections-call-lé-de-mattis
This event is free, but donations would be greatly appreciated to help pay for the lecturers travel expenses.
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: CCC, communism, dusan makavejev, film, karl marx, riverwest, scat, sexuality, sweet movie
“Scatological dinner parties in bizarre bohemian trenches, a candy shop that operates aboard an aquatic likeness of Karl Marx, and a beauty pageant with a gynecological finish, Dusan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie is a feverish, fantastical nightmare of crude indulgences. Although largely unknown even among cinephiles, Makavejev’s oeuvre is a violently provocative, sexually lewd and visually stunning collection of politically charged auteur cinema. Known as “a master of historical irony”, Makavejev crafted Sweet Movie in 1974 with a double-edged blade aimed at cutting apart capitalist bourgeoisie notions of individualism as well as communist ideals of collectivism. This exemplar of international radical seventies cinema is neither for the faint of heart nor humor.”
This film screening is FREE (you’re welcome to donate if you want, but don’t worry bout it). It is fairly obscene, though not exactly explicit, as a note for the faint of heart and eyes. It is happening at the CCC Monday January the 30th at 7pm.
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: autonomist, CCC, cream city collectives, elio petri, film screening, heaven, italia, italy, refusal of work, workers, working class goes to heaven
“Steeped in the volatile political conflicts taking place in Italy at the time, the Hot Autumn of 1969, the rejection of the compromises of the Italian communist Party (PCI), the refusal of work, factory and university occupations, Elio Petri’s film The Working Class Goes to Heaven explores the struggles in the factory in all their contradictions; between consumerism and work, alienation, libidinal desire, self-destruction and, potentially, collective action. The Working Class Goes to Heaven demonstrates an impressive and inspiring illustration of the exploitation of capital society and the alienation of workers under this system. It showed us how the ruling class manipulates the ideology into people’s mind by alienating them through work, and how the workers are exploited with and without being conscious of that. Furthermore, it also gives us a sketch of the futility of reformism and the issues which will be confronted in the process of revolution.”
December 18th 7pm at the CCC (732 E Clarke St.)
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: anti-authoritarian, bands, cats, CCC, cream city collectives, dance party, food, get rad, living and wrestling, milwaukee, music, riverwest
-hanging out
-beverages
-music
-games
-mischief
BANDS:
GET RAD (milwaukee)
http://www.myspace.com/getrad
LIVING AND WRESTLING (milwaukee)
http://livingandwrestling.bandcamp.com/
+1 tba
and Dance Party starting at 8pm”
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: 414, 5 years, 53212, 732 e clarke st, anarchy, anti-authoritarian, block party, CCC, cream city collectives, milwaukee, riverwest
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: CCC, class struggle, Frere Dupont, history, italy, milwaukee, not working, paris, precarias a la deriva, riverwest, strikes, theory, work
Saturdays at 1pm at the CCC (732 E Clarke St.)
May 14: ‘On the Poverty of Student Life’ & ‘Paris: May 1968’
May 21: ‘A Very Careful Strike’ by Precarias A La Deriva
May 28: ‘Class Struggle in Italy: 1960s and 1970s’
June 4: ‘Frere Dupont’s Notes On Revolt’
All texts will be available for free at the CCC in print form.
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: 732 e clarke st, CCC, collude, collusion, cream city collectives, knife, knife pen, knife pen collusion, milwaukee, pen, writers group
This is a site that collects some of the writing from a Milwaukee writers group that meets at the CCC every Sunday at 4pm. The group is open to anyone who wants to come, share writing they’re working on and receive feedback or work on writing exercises.
The ways of the pen and the ways of the knife, may they collude together.
http://knifepencollusion.tumblr.com/
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