Occupy, Resist, Produce.

In relation to your previous post about managed decline I was reading a book by Naomi Klein called the shock doctrine. In the opening chapter she discusses how under neoliberal politic/economics a new form of disaster capitalism has emerged. Here capitalists take advantage of diasters, whether they be hyperinflation or tsunamis, to enforce privatisation, tax reductions, deregulation etc. She describes how after the new orleans floods the,

'public school system had been almost completely replaced by privately run charter schools. Before hurricane Katrina, the school board had run 123 public schools; now it ran just 4.

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

Another piece of work by Naoimi Klein that related directly to our project is her documentary film 'The Take'. The film adopts the subheading of occupy, resist, produce. A summary of the documentary is listed below,

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.

http://www.thetake.org/