Social Factory Ateneo 6-28-14

Compañerxs
 
We will convene the Universidad de la Tierra Califas' Social Factory Ateneo, Saturday, June 28, from 2 - 5 p.m. at Tierra y Mar (3411 E 12th St Ste 110; Oakland, CA 94601; b/t 35th Ave & 34th Ave in Fruitvale, East Oakland, close to Fruitvale BART) to continue our regularly scheduled reflection and action space and to explore some of the questions and struggles mentioned below.
 
In approaching the social factory as a category of struggle we note how it exposes capital’s efforts to displace the cost of reproducing the "worker" onto the community, household, and women. Thus, we recognize several key areas that we hope to explore together, relying on the ateneo as a convivial research and insurgent learning space. This arises from a shared commitment to explore community safety and engage regeneration projects across the Bay Area. By community safety we mean a collective project where our own efforts at justice, defense, and assembly are organized against and outside of the state. Community safety projects unfold in response and resistance to ongoing strategies of low intensity war directed at the spaces of the home and the street as well as the bonds of family and community.
 
For our second ateneo and as a way of situating community projects related to community safety and regeneration, we will focus on elaborating a politics of care or the number of ways that care has been increasingly privatized and militarized; interrogating the everyday dimensions of precarity such that the manufactured insecurity of work and home impacts all aspects of our everyday lives; and exploring the opportunities and wisdoms associated with community regeneration and the on-going struggles of re-weaving the social fabric.
 
 
North Bay Crew
 
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