The document discusses the sustainability of alternatives and alternative activism. It touches on several topics including sustainability reporting, direct action protests, social media campaigns, critiques of cultural capitalism, tar sands issues, archiving activism, and representing collective voices versus individual voices. The document raises questions about what alternatives aim to achieve and whether their impact needs to be sustained over time.

1. The sustainability of alternative
Jennifer M. Jones
http://mc539.posterous.com

2. Last week
! Activism project
! Plan, design and implement a social
media campaign
! Directed study: reflection on project

3. Previously...
! Submitted manifestos (feedback due
next week!)
! Researched and proposed projects
! need, opportunity, problem

4. Coming up
! NOW: Start producing
! NEXT: Guest workshop @citizenseye
! By week 9: Present work to class
! By week 11: Be ready to write up your
work

5. SUSTAINABILITY
(etc.)

6. Resources

7. Resilience

8. Digital Economy

9. Cultural Capitalism

10. Critique of cultural capitalism
Slavoj Zizek

11. Sustainability as “Green-Washing”

12. Tar sands

14. VANOC Sustainability Report

15. Sustainability of the
altenrative

16. Does it need to be?

17. Direct action
(UK UNCUT)

18. Hashtags
clicktivism?

19. Ephemera AS Action

20. Ephemera is transitory written and printed matter not
intended to be retained or preserved

21. But what did you want to
achieve?

22. Archive

23. “Anarchists on rampage”

24. or

25. Collective imaging
Flickr

26. Documenting the alternative

27. Voice of one vs voice of
Many

28. Critiquing the alternative.