Peter Lach-Newinsky
Profile Information
| Date Joined: | 4th April 2012 |
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Chapters: | Australia > New South Wales > Bundanoon |
| Bio: | Published poet, essayist, permaculturalist. Works a small farm with 120 old apple varieties. Also interested in ecology and social ecology, non-violent anarchism and libertarian socialism, critical social philosophy (e.g. the Frankfurt School), history, the social ramifications of Peak Oil and Climate Chaos, Zen and radical (no bullshit) mysticism. Interested in the poetic dimensions and imaginative spaces social movements open up, occupy, then often ossify. |
| Social Network Links: | http://peterlachnewinsky.wordpress.com |
| Other Political Affiliations: | none |
Blogs
Solidarity with Worker Self-management in Thessaloniki
Peter Lach-Newinsky
Workers at the Vio.Me factory (construction materials) in Thessaloniki in Greece have taken over the factory and started their first production-run under self-management on the 12th. This is "the first experiment in industrial self-management…
Human Survival and IOPS
Human Survival and IOPS Must admit I’ve got a little problem with IOPS at the moment. The way it’s going. Missing something. Like the end of the world, and I don’t mean the Mayan bullshit. I mean survival. The mounting…
Alternative Draft IOPS Mission Statement
Peter Lach-Newinsky [There have been some Forum conversations around the core IOPS statements. Some have argued for trying to make them easier to understand, more generally accessible, or more welcoming, or more exciting and attractive. Others…
The Way They Moved
Peter Lach-Newinsky The Way They Moved In the whorehouses on the dead outskirts of the River Plate, hard men invented the tango blind with the boredom of waiting for their taciturn…
A (Gulp!) of Utopia 2
[Sorry for double post, but it's a bit long because lineated like a poem, so have used smaller font to compress...This just reads on from where last post ended. Hate to hog space, but...] Liberty, Equality and Fraternity have now been extended…
A GULP (!) of Utopia
[Something between poetry and prose, a 'proem' perhaps. Cutting and pasting has done a few weird things to the spacing... but hope you can still enjoy. About vision, strategy, tactics...] A GULP (!) OF UTOPIA A map that does not contain…
24 Interim Thoughts on Interim IOPS
24 Interim Thoughts on Interim IOPS 1. Base truism: IOPS is not a global self-federation from below of strong grassroots movements 2. Thus maybe the IOPS paradox:…
Projects
Translating IOPS
A project to take the ideas of IOPS, chew them over and make them more accessible and pertinent for people that we would like to join or just like :) So - We like IOPS, we think it is important…
Ecological Action, Reconstruction & Theory Hub
The interim IOPS Vision seeks the facilitating of the 'ecologically sound reconstruction of society'. E.A.R.T.H. is an international affinity group, open discussion forum and resource library focussed…