World Riots 24/h

A facebook page that shows and discuss the riots and protests all over the world.

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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/