Inspired by, and in solidarity with the Italians and their demo against Berlusconi’s education reforms an assemblage of life-size books are being constructed for this Thursday’s national demonstration against the cuts.
http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/
With Arts and Humanities a particular target for UK cuts this is a literal display of literary resistance. Please come and join the workshop at 5pm on Tuesday, Dec 7 at Space Studios (129-131 Mare St, Hackney)
We need materials!!! Please bring cardboard, gaffer tape, paint, brushes, poystyrene, foam, bubblewrap, knives, scissors….anything you can find.
If you are making a book at home bring it on the 9th to the ULU, Malet St, at 11.00am.
Books ready to protest include:-
The Magna Carta
Adorno – The Culture Industry
Luther Blisset – Q (out on loan from Italy)
Dante – The Inferno
Homer – The Odyssy (in symapthy with the Greeks)
Shelley – Frankenstein
Heller – Catch 22
Beckett – Endgame
Add your favourite titles…line them up on the 9th.
artsagainstcuts 
If I may suggest a book, Manituana by Wu Ming would be an even better choice than Q. It’s more popular in the UK. And it depicts radicals rioting in the streets of London.
for those of us who cant make it to the workshop, could you post a guide on how to make em so we can do it at home?
A life-sized book would be the size of a book. You mean human sized.
Some books that came to mind as appropriate for the front line – some for content, some just for title!
If Not Now, When?
Primo Levi
The Dispossessed
Ursula K LeGuin
Out of the Ghetto
Joe Jacobs
In Another Country
James Baldwin
It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
Down and out in Paris & London
George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Turn of the Screw
Henry James
for more inks on making shields:
Resources: Self-protection, armour & shields
http://www.wombles.org.uk/article20060323.php
Bodyhammer: Tactics and self-defence for the modern protester
http://www.wombles.org.uk/article2008041819.php
UK: Guide To Public Order Situations, updated January 2010
http://www.wombles.org.uk/article2010015807.php
This is quite wonderful. I’ll knock up an Orwell to bring, maybe ‘Why I Write’ 🙂
in solidarity with your protest
thank you from Italy