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*Slight Update* Our fundraising event and screening of RED ARMY/PFLP: Declaration of World War will be this Sunday from 4-7 with the screening set to begin at 5pm! Tickets are sliding scale $10-30 with all tickets above $20 including the RED ARMY/PFLP zine from @other.forms (swipe to for pictures!) and stickers by @lekerleks ! Also delicious food will be provided by @yesyasminekitchen included in the price of admission! Folks will be encouraged to stay after the film to hang out, eat and drink a beverage and discuss. We will be listening to the now sold out mixtape by @jmacphee “Patience Has Limits: Palestinian Songs and Solidarity”. See you Sunday!

Now available: Los Torogoces de Morazán: Sonic Rebellion in El Salvador by Benito Chica Argueta (Sebastián Torogoz) 🇸🇻 🔊 🚩 📬 purchase online for shipping or pickup via link in bio 🎻 purchase in-person in Madison, Cleveland, or Chicago during our Sebastián Torogoz tour dates 🪢 all proceeds to social and solidarity movements in El Salvador The “musical expression of the Salvadoran revolution,” Los Torogoces de Morazán were born in the mountains of Morazán in eastern El Salvador. Comprising oral testimony from Benito Chica Argueta (Sebastián Torogoz), a founding member of the group, in addition to firsthand accounts by others who collaborated with the collective, SONIC REBELLION IN EL SALVADOR is a compilation of historical events transformed into songs which filled a people in struggle for liberation with hope. In parallel with Radio Venceremos, the clandestine radio network operated by Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the group gave a voice to the voiceless during times of great adversity throughout the armed conflict in El Salvador. Using historical memory as a tool against forgetting, and by intertwining music and moving testimonies, the Torogoces’ songbook rebels against a politics of forgetfulness—one which seeks to impose silence and the denial of liberation and peace, both past and present. In solidarity, organization, and struggle from Morazán to Chicago: ¡prohibido olvidar! La memoria transforma el dolor en esperanza La muerte en vida La impunidad en justicia Memory transforms pain into hope Death into life Impunity into justice With contributions by: Benito Chica Argueta (Sebastián Torogoz), Pilar Vázquez de Prada, Paco Fernández Segura, Rogelio Ponseele, Domingo Tobar Ramírez (Melo), Paolo Lüers, José Márquez, Marcelo Cruz Cruz, Editorial Revolucionaria del Pueblo “Ernesto Amaya,” Jesús Orta Ruiz (El Indio Naborí), and Jacob Lindgren. Published by Alma de Izote (@almadeizote ) and Other Forms (@other.forms ). ISBN 978-1-7340943-6-7

CHICAGO!!—Additional details on the International Solidarity Market: Join us today from 4PM-8PM at 3339 S Halsted St. See the slideshow for the schedule, roster, and some materials you can expect to find at the market. At 6:30PM, we’ll have a special report back by organizers from El Salvador and Guatemala on the state of the movement and what anti-imperialists can do here. See you all tonight!

🍉From Aug. 1st to Aug 31st, when you donate to any campaign in our linktree @queerasians4gaza .You can email us at ([email protected]) with a screenshot of your donation and have your name/alias put into a raffle for a chance to win a gift bundle curated with pieces from artists in our mutual aid community. 🍉We value and respect your privacy. Donations can be made anonymously, and your email info will never be shared publicly, nor with anyone not involved in this event. 🍉We will do $15 per draw, so the higher your donation sum, the higher your likelihood of winning will be. Feel free to participate as many times as you can! After the last day to participate, we will pick 5 lucky winners 👏👏👏👏 🍉Please note that we currently only ship to North America. We apologize for any inconvenience, but hope that no matter where you are in the world, you can still do your part to support these Palestinian families and support Palestinian people’s right to self-determination! Cover artwork by Palestinian artist @the.artist.neighborhood 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

👏MARK YOUR CALENDAR👏 Counter-Signals 5: Systems and Their Discontents Launch of the new issue by @other.forms 🗓️June 20, 2024, 6pm 📍Gerichtstrasse 45, 13347 🗣️The event will be held in English ✨Free entry Along with a general discussion of the themes of the new issue, contributors Mac Herbst @time_forevero2 and Scott Holmquist @holmquistphotos will present their project “Really Green—a speculatively Criminal and Green Ecology” on the archiving and writing the history of the radical political-economy/ecology of marijuana growing in Northern California. Join us for a conversation with authors and readers in celebration of the new issue! We look forward to seeing you there! ✨ Photos by @other.forms

calling london comrades! join us and kaiya waerea and nick thoburn and john komurki at mayday rooms friday 14 june 7pm for a discussion of counter-signals 5 SYSTEMS AND THEIR DISCONTENTS let's break it down! sign up at the link in bio [image is collage of aspen 1970 eco conflict collective]

Counter-Signals 5: Systems and Their Discontents New York launch. 7:00 April 27 at a83 gallery 83 Grand street NYC. Join us for a conversation with authors and readers in celebration of the new issue. see you there

Other Forms (@other.forms ) ist/sind ein mobiles Forschungs- und Designkollektiv, das an den Schnittstellen von Architektur, Grafikdesign und Verlagswesen arbeitet. Other Forms ist/sind Jack Henrie Fisher und Alan Smart und eine fluide Gemeinschaft von Kollegen und Kameraden: Schriftsteller, Designer, Künstler, alte und neue Freunde, sympathische Fremde und unerwartete Verbündete, die sich in den Umlaufbahnen der Praxis begegnen. Die Publikationen von Other Forms durchkreuzen die politischen Ökonomien der Medien und untersuchen die implizite Gegenseitigkeit und die Antagonismen von Materialien, Texten und Ästhetik in der Produktion und Reproduktion politischer Kommunikation. . Other Forms is/are a mobile research and design collective working in multiple intersections of architecture, graphic design, and publishing. Other Forms is/are Jack Henrie Fisher and Alan Smart and a fluid community of colleagues and comrades: writers, designers, artists, old and new friends, sympathetic strangers and unexpected allies encountered in orbits of practice. Criss-crossing political economies of media, Other Forms’ publications investigate the implicit mutuality and antagonisms of materials, texts, and aesthetics in the production and reproduction of political communication. @other.forms . . . 📷 @other.forms — #artisticpublishing #artbookfestival #politicalcommunication #otherforms #theshelf #sprengelmuseum

find us in friendly fire at the ny art book fair, now. new texts and images to provoke the art book masses. say hi and tell us what's up, it's been a while!

dear friends, I am writing to share a struggle that is taking place at my daughter's public school in Chicago and to ask for your support. The community garden and ecology program at Waters Elementary has been an incalculably wonderful space of sociality and pedagogy in the school and our community, built from a neglected urban corner of public infrastructure in Chicago with over 25 years of communal labor. It is in grave danger now of being defunded and reformulated by CPS (Chicago public school administration). This garden has found many ways to thrive with very little money and much love and voluntary work over the years. CPS has decided to cut its meager budget by 30%. This cut would be disastrous. We are fighting this neoliberal discipline and organizing our community in defense. Please consider signing our petition (url at the end of this post). This will help our struggle. You can learn more about the garden and its rich history and illuminating curriculum at /. Get in touch if you have any questions or want to find ways to help. Thank you friends! /p/raise-your-voice-for-waters-ecology

as a suspense building prelude to the publication announcement of the new extra large scapegoat issue (c/a/n/a/d/a delineating nation state capitalism) here's a partial array of what came before. other forms is so happy/honored to have worked with the scapegoat architecture, landscape, and political economy collective since ... 2012? following the amazing work of @cairolexicon . such an important and rare space within (and without) the architecture discipline for sustained anti capitalist critique. stay tuned for the next

Miss Read opens today at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. that's in Berlin. come by and say hi to Alan at the Other Forms table. and on Sunday join Alan and Erica Overmeer for a conversation about print and politics which I'm sure will be wild