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Thursday January 01 1970

"Living the Great Refusal" - strategies for living without capitalism instead of existing within it

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice author Friday May 02, 2014 12:17author by Deborah - The Vegan Information Project Report this post to the editors

A consensus-based workshop to explore the theory, ethics, and practicalities of resistance to an oppressive system.

The Great Refusal is a concept associated with the political theorist Herbert Marcuse who was an influential member of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. This talk and workshop will look at Marcuse's position and apply it to 21st century capitalist oppression.

1. A short introductory talk on political theorist Herbert Marcuse's concepts of the "great refusal" and the "liberated imagination," and how they are not only relevant but essential to our understanding of living as vegan anarchists in a speciesist capitalist world. Q&A to follow.

2. Discussion and workshop on Marcuse's theory and its relevance to our own lives and struggles as activists, with reference to the following issues:

"False needs" and consumer culture - identifying and combating this most insidious form of capitalist tyranny.
The capitalist invasion - of our space, communities, bodies and minds: how it defines us and how to redefine ourselves.
"Ivory tower revolutionaries" vs community building? - how to reject hypocrisy while connecting with others living under the system.
Marcuse's "radical consciousness" - how to make this aspiration a reality, and make freedom in a world of unfreedom.
Practical strategies/ideas for creative resistance and how to implement them.
Personal stories of living outside the system and fighting the system, sharing experience and real life techniques.

Related Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/886684968014779/

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   The best article I've found about intersectionalists     vg    Wed Apr 30, 2014 21:17 
   Better not be another intersectionalist talk     fred    Sat May 03, 2014 07:33 
   understand befor you critisize .     angelcake    Sun May 04, 2014 14:36 
   threatened by thinking outside of the box????     Viva La Vegan    Sun May 04, 2014 14:48 
   Important Clarification - Immediate     Fred Johnston    Sun May 04, 2014 14:57 
   @The Real fred     fred fan    Sun May 04, 2014 22:38 
   Beware of splittists     Blaise    Mon May 05, 2014 08:39 
   are anarcha-feminists being 'divisive ' ???     angelcake    Mon May 05, 2014 10:18 
   Don't Blame Intersectionality     Freddie    Mon May 05, 2014 17:47 
 10   so it begins     fred    Mon May 05, 2014 18:01 
 11   stop smearing veganism. Vegans are not intersectionalists     vegan    Mon May 05, 2014 18:34 
 12   Talking passed one another     Roger Yates    Mon May 05, 2014 22:28 
 13   ok in theory. In practice it is a divisive disaster, as the previous links show     vegan    Tue May 06, 2014 12:00 
 14   Roger     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 12:04 
 15   dialogue not insults , pleas comrades !     angelcake    Tue May 06, 2014 12:36 
 16   Devil Cake     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 12:52 
 17   @fred fan     angelcake    Tue May 06, 2014 12:53 
 18   Devil Cake     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 13:01 
 19   no need for intersectionalist individualism     fred    Tue May 06, 2014 14:13 
 20   outraged     viva la vegan    Tue May 06, 2014 15:10 
 21   viva la legan     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 15:28 
 22   I object to the false link being made between this transectionalism group and veganism     vegan    Tue May 06, 2014 17:10 
 23   @vegan     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 17:29 
 24   response...     fred    Tue May 06, 2014 17:38 
 25   Angry and threatening     Roger Yates    Tue May 06, 2014 18:11 
 26   @Roger     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 18:44 
 27   London Catholic Worke     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 21:22 
 28   Bourne Again     Roger Yates    Tue May 06, 2014 21:38 
 29   @Roger     fred fan    Tue May 06, 2014 22:31 
 30   No empathy?     Roger Yates    Tue May 06, 2014 23:17 
 31   Nothing to fear     Roger Yates    Wed May 07, 2014 00:55 
 32   Intersectional Theory and Intersectional Practice     Roger Yates    Wed May 07, 2014 01:03 
 33   @Roger     fred fan    Wed May 07, 2014 01:51 
 34   Julian Assange     fred fan    Wed May 07, 2014 02:16 
 35   arrogant asumptions     angelcake    Wed May 07, 2014 07:50 
 36   Mr. Angry     Roger Yates    Wed May 07, 2014 09:42 
 37   creativ resistanse , not internet hysteria !     angelcake    Wed May 07, 2014 09:45 
 38   Devil Cake     fred fan    Wed May 07, 2014 11:48 
 39   Come On Fred's Friend     Roger Yates    Wed May 07, 2014 13:28 
 40   not the greatest comparison ever...     vegan    Wed May 07, 2014 13:47 
 41   Roger     fred fan    Wed May 07, 2014 13:49 
 42   @ fred fan     angelcake    Wed May 07, 2014 14:02 
 43   some questions..     fred    Wed May 07, 2014 14:12 
 44   Devil Cake     fred fan    Wed May 07, 2014 14:21 
 45   Thanks Vegan     Roger Yates    Wed May 07, 2014 14:59 
 46   The Holocaust Analogy     Roger Yates    Wed May 07, 2014 15:14 
 47   some answers ...     angelcake    Wed May 07, 2014 15:34 
 48   @ vegan     angelcake    Wed May 07, 2014 15:35 
 49   @roger     vegan    Wed May 07, 2014 15:50 
 50   no thanks     vegan    Wed May 07, 2014 16:03 


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