i have been wanting to attend this reading group since it started but end up working every time. sunday afternoons would work for me.

and if you can get david g or sylvia f to come ask them to provide some background materials to distribute so we can discuss what they’ve been working on and want to discuss. i just read an essay by dg
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years
about historical cycles between credit and cash based economies and sf has this discussion of the idea of precarious work:
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/3074

caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation
by, sylvia federici

http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/calibanandthewitch

What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
They can set you up, they can
bust you, they can break
your fingers, they can
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can t walk, can’t remember, they can
take your child, wall up
your lover. They can do anything
you can’t blame them
from doing. How can you stop
them? Alone, you can fight,
you can refuse, you can
take what revenge you can
but they roll over you.

But two people fighting
back to back can cut through
a mob, a snake-dancing file
can break a cordon, an army
can meet an army.

Two people can keep each other
sane, can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation,
a committee, a wedge. With four
you can play bridge and start
an organisation. With six
you can rent a whole house,
eat pie for dinner with no
seconds, and hold a fund raising party.
A dozen make a demonstration.
A hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter;
ten thousand, power and your own paper;
a hundred thousand, your own media;
ten million, your own country.

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again after they said no,
it starts when you say We
and know who you mean, and each
day you mean one more.

–Marge Piercy

“Woman on the Edge of Time” by Marge Piercy
anarcha-feminist utopian novel

Anarchy Alive by Uri Gordon
The Fiction of a Thinkable World by Michael Steinberg
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (if it hasn’t been discussed already)

I hope to come next time.