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FOURTH MEETING MINUTES

WHEN: Wednesday, March 1st, 2006 at 6:30pm
WHERE:City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, room 5414.
Reading and Discussion: First Half of David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, (opens in pdf). Thanks to Prickly Paradigm Press for putting the text under the Creative Commons (copyright-less).
Also worth noting:Brecht Forum Class The Meaning of Revolution Today? Thursday, February 16 7:30 - 9:30 pm 6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Ayça Çubukçu & David Graeber

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THIRD MEETING MINUTES

okay... the meeting was attended by Keith, Yvonne, Will, Michael, Abe and Michelle, who (sort of) facilitated.

AGENDA:
1- clarifying facets the group will entail
2- the wikipedia
3- email listserv
4- readings
5- next meeting date and time

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1- other substantive decisions regarding the group will be made when more people are present, when ideas are brought for consideration, etc. for right now, there's discussion and readings... we felt as though people might be interested in guided or announced discussion topics as they relate to the book chosen... eg "if you assign the book, they will read and come..."

Yvonne then made a point i believe the room to have been in concensus with: expand the group to balance research, and of course activism (like FREE CUNY (?) some ideas of such included: working w/union struggles, tuition struggles in cuny as well as getting anarchist courses offered, and education outside of the group- like a free university, groups in open spaces with free courses offered...(or perhaps we could start with something like a teach-in?)

2- wikipedia
the wiki can be used for dissemination of information, education etc... anyone can edit the wiki, and there's a discussion section as well for any topic in the wiki, or also can be used as an extension of group reading discussion for those unable to attend a meeting.

Yvonne proposed a skillshare for wiki-techno-proficiency so everyone can be empowered to use it as a collective tool; also she suggested that a group be assembled to maintain the wiki (anyone can still edit and add to it though)

3- mailing list
most people seemed fine with a unified list, and the list is designated as one for both discussion and announcements. Keith pointed out that for announcement-only listservs, some may want to sign up for the nycanarchist listserv. also- if people choose to opt out of this list, we can put up pertinent announcements on the wiki page for people to check at their own behest.

4- readings
many suggestions were thrown out, for the purposes of brevity we decided to highlight the following, hoping to span different fields of anarchist thought: "quiet rumors" - an anarco-feminist compilation from the DarkStar collective "transcritique"- by Karitooni (please correct the spelling if wrong) "fragments of an anarchist anthropology" - by david graeber "political philosophy of post-structural anarchism"- by todd may "change the world without taking power"- by john holloway and a selection by Reclu(??) who was a 19th century anarchist geographer (if i'm missing anything or got something wrong, please apend my list)

4- the next meeting will be....(drum roll please...) MARCH 1 @ 6:30

the reading for the march 1 reading will be...(ibid...) DAVID GRAEBER'S "fragments of an anarchist anthropology" - *the first half* of the book to be discussed then.

IMPORTANT- i believe we decided that the next meeting will be in room 5414 instead as the lounge traffic was distracting at times, but i'm fairly certain another email will go out closer to the date reminding the list of the time and place.

also- at one point we discussed tangentially having a panel at the left forum that reflects anarchist tradition... i've recently been to that site and saw mr. graeber as a confirmed speaker... does anyone know if that is the panel, the specifics of the panel, and if it's been given a time slot as of yet?

okay, i think that's complete.

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SECOND MEETING

WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 2nd 2006 at 6 PM
WHERE: City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC. Room 6112, Sociology Department Lounge on the sixth floor.
Directions and maps available from http://www.gc.cuny.edu/about_gc/directions.htm. For more information, see the listserv at http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/anarchisms. Proposals for the agenda:
1) Mission of the Anarchisms Research Group
2) Internet wiki incl. editorial roles, thinking about the future scale
3) Facilitation training
4) Doctoral Student Council incorporation at CUNY
5) Participation in the Left Forum
6) Anarchist theory classes at CUNY and other schools
7) Reading or study group (see the one at the New School below)
8) Seminar or workshop series

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FIRST MEETING MINUTES

CUNY students call for the formation of a new student group to pursue interests in anarchist theory and practice, and to advance its legitimacy in the academy.

The new CUNY student group, which is applying for DSC incorporation, has three proposed aims:
1. TO PROMOTE THE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORY, PLURALITY, AND TRAJECTORY OF ANARCHISM AS A THEORY AND PRACTICE;
2. TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANARCHIST RESEARCH AND THEORY AT CUNY AND IN THE ACADEMY; AND
3. TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF ANARCHISM WITHIN CUNY AND IN THE ACADEMY.

The inspiration for the CUNY student group is the proposal submitted by UK students to form a Specialist Working Group for Anarchism in the British Political Science Association.

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NEW SCHOOL ANARCHIST READING GROUP

New School Anarchist Reading Group:
Introductory Planning Meeting: Thurs, 4pm, Jan 26th - 80 Fifth Ave - Room 802
The time for the reading group will probably be Thursdays 4-6, but we might change it depending on peoples schedules.
Possible readings:
Anarchist Theory - proudhon, bakunin, kropotkin, malatesta, goldman, berkmann, rocker, parsons, bookchin, magon, karatani, newman, may, alston, ervin.
Anarchist History - europe, north america, mexico, cuba, s. africa, chinese.
Problems in Anarchism - heirarchy, borders, law, states, capitalism, war, norms, religion, property, work.
Themes - zapatismo, horizontalism, direct democracy, consensus, black anarchism, anarcha-feminism, autonomous marxism, anthropology, direct action, anarcho-syndicalism.
We'll probably pick some topics and read a short essay for each week. It would be impossible to cover everything that interests us, so hopefully, this will be the beginning of an ongoing endeavor . . .
Here's a syllabus from UCSC by Maia Ramnath on A Global History of AnarchismOnline Reading Group of David Graeber's
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of our own Dreams.

ONLINE READING GROUP

David Graeber's Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value.

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Last edited on May 9, 2006.