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Call for papers - " Interface: a journal for and about social movements"

The militant-academic journal "Interface" is recieving contributions on the theme "Movement Internationalism(s)". The accepted papers are expected to be published on november, 2014. The deadline for submissions is May, 1, 2014. More information can be gathered here.

Good News: "Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest", V. 1, N.1 has been launched!

It’s now available the first volume of the periodic “Contention”. Its main goal is to publish scientific articles focused on protests and social movements. More details bellow: http://contentionjournal.org

An interesting social research about the use of Twitter within the moviment “Los Indignados”

The study presented bellow lists and debates some data from an empiric researched focused on the electoral Spanish period in 2011. According to them, social networks such as twitter tend to provide substantial help, in order to achieve interactions between grassroots members. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~nv240/papers/twindignados.pdf

Understanding the Black Bloc tactics

A Swedish activist documentary made on 2003 is a providential initial approximation to the Black Bloc theme. The whole video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmuWecIQos&noredirect=1

Understanding the Brazilian June

The website Marxismo 21 compiled a significant amount of texts related to the comprehension of the crowed public protests that blowed up the Brazilian streets in June 2013. The full content can be read bellow: http://marxismo21.org/junho-2013-2/

Understanding Occupy NY

The Berkley Journal of Sociology organized a widely forum with critics, rehearsals, commentaries and scientific-social researches about the Occupy New York. Texts from authors like Wendy Brown, Craig Calhoun, Mike Davis and David Harvey can be found on the link bellow: http://bjsonline.org/2011/12/understanding-the-occupy-movement-perspectives-from-the-social-sciences/

Breno Bringel analyses the Brazilian protests

In a concise article published on the newspaper Brasil de Fato, professor Breno Bringel. from IESP/UERJ, indentifies the mutal and peculiar aspects found on recent Brazilian protests, comparing them with other movements like Occupy NY and Puerta del Sol. The whole text can be read bellow: http://www.brasildefato.com.br/node/13374

Sérgio Amadeu and Tiago Pimentel’s study faces the repercussion of brazilian protests on facebook.

Coming up with pioneer methods Sérgio Amadeu and Tiago Pimentel produced a rich research about the ideas and information, related to the protests, circulation. The ones fighting for a reduction on the public transportation fee occurred in São Paulo between may and june of 2013. http://revistaforum.com.br/blog/2013/06/mapeamento/

Who are the followers of the Black bloc’s tactics in Brazil?

On the link below, professor Rafael Alcadipani summarizes final considerations of an on-going empirical-qualitative study. It deals with the protesters and demonstrators who adopt the black bloc’s tactics. Check it out: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/opiniao/2013/08/1327177-rafael-alcadipani-para-entender-a-violencia.shtml

A picture of the intelectuallity since the protests: from left to right, Costas Douzinas and Jürgen Habermas.

Costas Douzinas: "The abstract denunciation of protests for their violence combines the defence of the status quo with historical ignorance". 

Jürgen Habermas: "The youth revolts in Spain and Great Britain are a portent of the threat to social peace". 

As a Brazilian singer should say:
"Which is the peace that I don't want preserve for try to be happy?"