Monday, August 3, 2009
Readings on the G20
http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=19408
Why Pittsburgh Might have been chosen to host the g20
"Pittsburgh Hosting g20 summit" (Talks about the rise and fall and recovery of pittsburgh)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/g20-pittsburgh-us-hosting_n_208735.html
From the Resist G20 Group
'Meet the G That Killed Me'
http://resistg20.org/sites/resistg20.org/files/zines/g20_zine.pdf
Twenty People Commanding 6.7 billion
http://resistg20.org/node/60
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Financial Crisis Movie Night - July 21st
July Selection:
Disobeying the Banks: The story of Enric Duran, a Catalan anti-capitalist activist, and his daring act of "financial civil disobedience"--492,000 euros worth of loans donated to social movements
The Secret History of the Credit Card: 2004 frontline expose on deregulation and deception in the credit card industry.
There will be a tutorial on how to obtain a free credit report after the movies.
Details
Tuesday July 21st
7 p.m.
Lava Space
4134 Lancaster Ave.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Financial Crisis Audiovisual Night Tues June 30th
A one night documentary series on the financial crisis
7 p.m. Tues June 30th
LAVA Space
LAVA Space 4134 Lancaster
Available on #10 Trolley
Come stare at a screen and learn about the financial crisis...you don't event have to read! We'll be watching a 12 minute documentary entitled 'The Credit Crisis Explained' followed by a longer AV presentation called 'An Anarchist Analysis of the Credit Crunch'
Come hungry for information....and popcorn!
For more information check out the Philly Economic Crisis Reading Group blog
Monday, June 22, 2009
Proposal for Video Night, 30 Jun
I think it would be cool to try to meet next next Tuesday (30 Jun) and watch two videos on the current credit crisis. I think we said we were going to meet the first and third Tuesday of the month, so it might make since to do a video with no readings and get back to readings on 7 Jul. We should invite other people and make popcorn two!
The first is called 'The Crisis of Credit Visualized' and is an animated short that explains the workings on the credit crisis. 12min. (Thanks to Jason for finding this!)
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
The second is a from a member of Ireland's Worker Solidarity Movement, an anarchist organization. From October 2008. 65min
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Next time we meet?
Monday, June 8, 2009
The End of Gold Standard
"The Late Bretton Woods System"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system#Late_Bretton_Woods_System
"The Nixon Shock"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
5 May Planning Meeting Notes
What we want to learn in this study group
- Causes of the Financial Crisis
- Progression/stages of capitalism
- Banks/credit unions
- “Stress tests”
- Credit card debt
- consumer credit
- What is: 1)hyperinflation 2)deflation 3)stagflation
- Wages and the crisis
- City budget/social services
- Taxes/types of taxes
- Fiscal policy/The Federal Reserve
- Immigration/US-mexico relations
- Informal economy
- Privatization
- Regulation of the financial system
- What is money?
- Develop a critique of capitalism
- Envision alternatives/other systems
- Personal empowerment
- New perspectives/ability to talk to people
- Better Organizing
- Preserving and expanding social services
- Fighting to win/strategies/vulnerabilities
- The role of the gov't in the financial system
- Philly property market
- Teach-in
- Zine on unemployment and immigration
- Population shifts in philly / displacement
- City budget / taxes
- Study of what kind of businesses operate in Center City?
- Blog
- readings
- Speeches by Obama
- Multimedia