Feeling the Movement

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Feeling the Movement. What is the Movement?. Rebecca Solnit. Uri Gordan. What is the Movement?. Deborah Gould. Richard Ivan Jobs. An Inventory of Movement. Thinking Movement. Feelings that move us Media and Contagion Transformational Encounters. Feelings that Move us. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Feeling the Movement

What is the Movement?

Rebecca Solnit Uri Gordan

What is the Movement?

Deborah Gould Richard Ivan Jobs

Author Barriers Accelerators

Solnit

Gordon

Gould

Jobs

An Inventory of Movement

Thinking Movement

1. Feelings that move us

2. Media and Contagion

3. Transformational Encounters

Feelings that Move us

Woomera Detention Center

Woomera, Australia 2002

Woomera Dentention Centre, 2002 still from film Through the Wire by Pip Starr

“For many detainees, this is the closest they

have come to ordinary

Australians.  Tears begin to flow on both sides of the

fence.” 

Woomera, Australia 2002

“The sound is just as tumultuous, techno beats adding urgency to the militant hubbub, the rhythmic chants of “freedom,” passionate wailing from behind bars, and semi-official speeches, casually forceful or rigidly shrill, by those activists who briefly step aside to mark their place in History. “

-Jack Wilson

Friendship Park, San Diego – Tijuana

LATEST NEWS: Border Patrol redesigns Friendship Park with limited access and no human touch.

San Diego – Tijuana, 2009

“To engage in direct action you have to feel enough passion to put your values into practice; it is literally embodying your feelings, performing your politics.”

-John Jordan

Media & Contagion

“[an] intensification of political passion in which people with very different interests are linked together by feelings aroused and organised to saturate the most public, global issues.”

-Linda Kintz

On 8 June 1972 a South Vietnamese aircraft accidentally dropped its napalm payload on the village of Trang Bang. With her clothes on fire, Kim Phuc ran out of the village with her family to be airlifted to hospital.

Anti-Vietnam War Protest, Paris 1972

• Media act as amplifiers of affect, ideas and emotion• Affect increases rapidity of communication• Extends its reach to almost global

(Anna Gibbs)

Transformational Encounters

I took out my old boltcutterMy hands could hardly wait.I snipped towards her, she snipped to me,We both could see the common free,Oh Lily of the arc lights,A' snipping in the rain.

…Closer to the silosMy heart began to quiverWas it Lily, the fear, the cold,the base or just a shiver?

Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, 1981-1985

Occupy Ottawa, 2011

Occupy Ottawa, 2011

Two women who witnessed the eviction from the side lines, reflected on their experiences of the night:

Woman 2: It was really quiet at night at 3 o'clock in the morning, and there is big fat snow is like coming down, and beautiful white snow everywhere and our friends were being dragged to the snow because they are singing in the fountain like it was just so real. I was just like why. Woman 1: I was so angry. Woman 2: [The police] just stand there, and look right through you, and it felt inhumane that's what it felt like, it felt like these people weren't acting with human nature towards you. They looked at you like they didn’t care …hundreds of them standing and just looking, watching people be dragged away…