new book- Mortgaged Lives (Vidas Hipotecadas)- etc. et. al.
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Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Feb 6, 2014, 5:18:07 PM2/6/14
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In light of post-occupy/post-plaza organizing, we're proud to release this useful book....
Mortgaged Lives
by Ada Colau and Adrià Alemany
translation by Michelle Teran
Originally published in Spanish under the title Vidas Hipotecadas
Mortgaged Lives accounts for the anti-crisis organizing of the PAH,
La Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages)
about the project and free online download here-
http://www.joaap.org/press/mortgagedlives.html
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1. On Mortgaged Lives
2. On Authors and Translators
3. Short note on Spain- policing dissent
4. Books, Here and There
5. Elsewheres...
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1. Mortgaged Lives
http://www.joaap.org/press/mortgagedlives.html
by Ada Colau and Adrià Alemany
translated by Michelle Teran
Free English PDF download
http://www.joaap.org/press/pah/mortgagedlives.pdf
0riginal Spanish version published by Cuadrilatero de Libros, Barcelona, 2012
"The book’s approach; a first-person account which situates itself as a manifesto and how-to manual for a citizens’ movement in order to develop the necessary tools and strategies to deal with a society in crisis. I felt it could serve as a useful resource for a non-Spanish speaking audience"
- from the English Preface written by Michelle Teran
The right to housing has been systematically violated: difficulty in accessing housing, despite being a fundamental right, now holds back hundreds of thousands of families who demand a fairer system.
Written by 2 of the founders of the PAH, Mortgaged Lives explains the causes and names the names of those who are responsible for the Spanish mortgage crisis and its broader situation. Moreover, they reveal the fights carried out by the PAH through first-person accounts, and offer advice and resources for defending the right to housing and in avoiding abuses of power by the banks and financial institutions.
The PAH (http://afectadosporlahipoteca.com/) is Spain-based activist network with a large, diverse and active membership that uses bank and home occupations, escraches and other forms of dissent to fight for the right to a home.
The PAH brings together people and those in solidarity with people who find it difficult to pay back their mortgage or who find themselves in a process of eviction due to unpaid mortgages. They are "a group of people who, unaffiliated with any party, recognize that […] the current legal framework is designed to guarantee that banks cash in on debt, while at the same time the law gives no protection to the people with mortgages who are unable to cover their payments due to reasons such as unemployment or rising fees/interests'."
The PAH meets in assemblies that go through the different cases of people affected by the mortgage crisis and laws, to offer advice and mutual aid in order to give both practical and emotional support.
The Spanish Government hads contested the EU's awarding of the PAH the European Citizen’s Prize 2013 because of their distaste for the fact that the PAH demand that politicians respond to the people's needs.
Free download only.
Printed book not yet available.
The PAH brings together people and those in solidarity with people who find it difficult to pay back their mortgage or who find themselves in a process of eviction due to unpaid mortgages. They are "a group of people who, unaffiliated with any party, recognize that […] the current legal framework is designed to guarantee that banks cash in on debt, while at the same time the law gives no protection to the people with mortgages who are unable to cover their payments due to reasons such as unemployment or rising fees/interests'."
The PAH meets in assemblies that go through the different cases of people affected by the mortgage crisis and laws, to offer advice and mutual aid in order to give both practical and emotional support.
The Spanish Government hads contested the EU's awarding of the PAH the European Citizen’s Prize 2013 because of their distaste for the fact that the PAH demand that politicians respond to the people's needs.
Free download only.
Printed book not yet available.
http://www.joaap.org/press/mortgagedlives.html
By Ada Colau and Adrià Alemany
Prologues by Gerard Pisarello and José Coy
Original Spanish version published by Cuadrilatero de Libros, Barcelona, 2012.
Spanish download here
By Ada Colau and Adrià Alemany
Prologues by Gerard Pisarello and José Coy
Original Spanish version published by Cuadrilatero de Libros, Barcelona, 2012.
Spanish download here
English translation published by The Journal of Aesthetics& Protest 2014.
Mortgaged Lives is a translation project initiated by artist Michelle Teran
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2. On Authors and Translators
Ada Colau. co-author
Ada Colau is a Spanish social activist and one of the co-founders of the PAH. She is the PAH's current spokesperson. She is also a philosopher. She co-wrote "Sí se Puede: Crónica de una Pequeña Gran Victoria."
Adrià Alemany. co-author
Adria Alemany is father, activist and economist and a member of the PAH. He co-wrote "Sí se Puede: Crónica de una Pequeña Gran Victoria."
Michelle Teran. translator
Born in Canada, Michelle Teran is an artist living and working in Berlin. She is currently developing a performance and feature-length film on the financial and housing crisis in Spain, following the lives of four women living in Madrid who have experienced eviction. ubermatic.org
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Mortgaged Lives is a translation project initiated by artist Michelle Teran
________________________________
2. On Authors and Translators
Ada Colau. co-author
Ada Colau is a Spanish social activist and one of the co-founders of the PAH. She is the PAH's current spokesperson. She is also a philosopher. She co-wrote "Sí se Puede: Crónica de una Pequeña Gran Victoria."
Adrià Alemany. co-author
Adria Alemany is father, activist and economist and a member of the PAH. He co-wrote "Sí se Puede: Crónica de una Pequeña Gran Victoria."
Michelle Teran. translator
Born in Canada, Michelle Teran is an artist living and working in Berlin. She is currently developing a performance and feature-length film on the financial and housing crisis in Spain, following the lives of four women living in Madrid who have experienced eviction. ubermatic.org
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3. Short note on Spain- policing dissent
There is a persistant buzz in places these days that decide its a-ok to crush people's dissent.
Spain, for example, is riding that train by proposing new laws that would levy fines for participating in unauthorized protests, publishing images of police, or interrupting public events. Journalists have allready been arrested for such infractions.
"Demonstrating near parliament without permission could result in a fine as high as 600,000 euro (US$824,040), while insulting a police officer could cost a demonstrator up to 30,000 euro ($41,202)."
sources: Guardian, RT
Meanwhile, this gem just came through on the wire regarding Turkey's new tightening of the information channel known as the internet (source).
There is a persistant buzz in places these days that decide its a-ok to crush people's dissent.
Spain, for example, is riding that train by proposing new laws that would levy fines for participating in unauthorized protests, publishing images of police, or interrupting public events. Journalists have allready been arrested for such infractions.
"Demonstrating near parliament without permission could result in a fine as high as 600,000 euro (US$824,040), while insulting a police officer could cost a demonstrator up to 30,000 euro ($41,202)."
sources: Guardian, RT
Meanwhile, this gem just came through on the wire regarding Turkey's new tightening of the information channel known as the internet (source).
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4. Book, here and there
Ours
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Spaces Catalog- basically sold out, a bookstores might have a copy or two.
The Architecture of Mineralization by Etienne Turpin on that topic, the anthropocene.
Theirs
Review copies that we're finding kinda hard to put down (ie. they are all really good)
Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments in Education Edited by Tim Ivison & Tom Vandeputte. Great editing and design and really extra-appreciated Sean Dockray's article.
Undoing Property? Edited by Marysia Lewandowska & Laurel Ptak. More book titles with question marks please. Please?
Theirs
Review copies that we're finding kinda hard to put down (ie. they are all really good)
Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments in Education Edited by Tim Ivison & Tom Vandeputte. Great editing and design and really extra-appreciated Sean Dockray's article.
Undoing Property? Edited by Marysia Lewandowska & Laurel Ptak. More book titles with question marks please. Please?
Undermining by Lucy Lippard. If we were comic book editors, we'd just say " 'nuff said."
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5. Elsewheres...
Friends recently released en-vivo a Future Memorial For Nafta on the Tijauna/San Diego border.
The Yes Men's YesLab's Action Switchboard Project. 1-800-CallForAdvice On Creative Actism Campaigns.org.edu.com
Radical Practice of Collective Care
Thanks to the Llano Del Rio Group for their help at the Printed Matter's Recent Los Angeles Art Book Fair. (thanks Printed Matter, too)!
The Yes Men's YesLab's Action Switchboard Project. 1-800-CallForAdvice On Creative Actism Campaigns.org.edu.com
Radical Practice of Collective Care
Thanks to the Llano Del Rio Group for their help at the Printed Matter's Recent Los Angeles Art Book Fair. (thanks Printed Matter, too)!
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