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Whose Music? Copyright Vs Community

With Mat Callahan

11 April 2012
7 PM

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road,
London
N1 9DX

Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden

With George McKay

18 April 2012
7 PM

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road,
London
N1 9DX

STIR - FEBRUARY 2012

This issue features an interview about political theology with 
philosopher Simon Critchley; an introduction to the new boardgame 
Co-opoly from Brian Van Slyke; a piece about the worker-cooperative 
OrganicLea by one of its members; a look at the work facilitated by 
Making Local Food Work; an article on the future of radical bookselling 
by manager of Housmans Bookshop Nik Gorecki; an exploration of the 
struggle between copyright and the internet battle by Glyn Moody; a view 
on how football can be used to promote social justice with Sam Bailey, 
and a look-back at the Occupy movement by activist Marianne Maeckelbergh.

Simon Critchley — Interview

JONNY GORDON-FARLEIGH

With the publication of his new book Faith of the Faithless, I spoke to 
philosopher Simon Critchley about why a counterfactual faith is so 
important to modern politics, why it offers an "archive of 
possibilities" for those involved in political transformation, why there 
is still an obsession with "big men", and what the the true political 
terrain is today...


Monopoly Presents the Problem. Co-opoly Offers the Solution.

BRIAN VAN SLYKE

In the classic game Risk, your goal is to dominate your rival players by 
killing them off and conquering their territories until your Empire 
stretches across the globe. In Monopoly, the “world's favorite family 
game brand” (according to publisher Parker Brothers), your goal is to 
dominate your rival players through economic obliteration until they are 
penniless while you literally own everything...


Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives Prize — To celebrate the UN’s Year of 
Cooperatives and the launch of the new boardgame Co-opoly, STIR is 
collaborating with the founders of Toolbox for Social Action and 
Education for a chance to win a boardgame (first place), and a Ten 
Reasons Why Co-ops Rock poster (second place).

The Faith of The Faithless Verso Giveaway

 We have joined up with Verso to give-away a copy of Simon Critchley’s 
new book The Faith  of The Faithless.

OrganicLea: Professional Radicals

NAOMI GLASS & CLARE JOY
OrganicLea stands out as an inspiring urban food project that grows 
everything: food and communities.  While many sustainable and 
food-focused programs are limited by the fact they only have volunteer 
staff, Organic Lea's vision to create jobs provides a practical 
transition from hobby radicals to "professional radicals".  If the food 
sector and organics are not automatically a promotion of equality, 
inclusion, mutual aid, and cooperation, then OrganicLea definitely is.

The Struggle Between Copyright and the Internet

GLYN MOODY

January 18, 2012 may well go down as a pivotal date in the history of 
the Internet – and of copyright.  For on that day, the English-language 
Wikipedia and thousands of other websites were blacked out or modified 
to protest against two bills passing through the US legislative system 
that were designed to fight copyright infringement.


Does radical bookselling have a future?

NIK GÓRECKI
This is an article looking at the future of radical bookselling and 
publishing. You’re reading it on a screen, it’s published in an 
online-only journal, I haven’t been paid to write it, and you aren’t 
paying to read it.  In order to access it you haven’t had to go to a 
physical location, or to interact with a human being, and when you close 
the tab on your browser it’ll take up no space in the material world. 
All of which has become so normal as to barely deserve commenting on.

Football Beyond Borders

SAM BAILEY

Football is more than just a competitive sport, and if we look beyond 
the multi-billion-pound football ‘industry’, with its widespread 
corruption, celebrity players, excessive consumption and clubs run as 
multinational businesses, then there are still many examples of football 
as ‘the people’s game’, using the power of football for a positive 
social cause.


Making Local Food Our Future

KATHERINE DARLING
Attempts to find solutions to the problems we face in the current 
climate of economic uncertainty, energy insecurity and environmental 
concerns can seem overwhelming. One of the biggest challenges we face is 
that of food security – leading food producers have warned that unless 
the UK urgently develops a food strategy we will be left relying on 
imported food and without a sustainable future for British food production.

Occupy the US

MARIANNE MAECKELBERGH

The year 2011 has breathed new life into horizontal models of democratic 
decision-making. With the rise of the take-the square movement and the 
occupy movement horizontal decision-making became one of the key 
political structures for organising responses to the current global 
economic crisis. While this decision-making process has arguably never 
been as widely practiced as it is today, it has also never seemed as 
difficult and complicated as it does today.

STIR is an online political magazine dedicated to presenting and 
promoting the communities and projects that are building new 
infrastrucutres and models for our education, health, music, sport, 
resources and other cultural assets.

Contact us (stirtoaction /at/ gmail.com)


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