Del Monte Manor Evictions and the Gentrification of Seaside

Recently, TerraCorp, the property management company for Seaside’s Del Monte Manor, served eviction notices to six units of residents due to their alleged participation in a rap video that was filmed on the premises without their permission. Del Monte Manor is the largest low-income housing residence on the Monterey Peninsula. With only 192 units, this speaks to the lack of regard for the growing housing crisis in the Peninsula and region as a whole. Seaside resident and video participant Michael “Da Bigg Homie” McKinney wrote a piece that gives a pointed (and on point) critique of the Monterey County Weekly report of the evictions. He clarifies, from his perspective, the tragedy of these events. McKinney states that the Weekly misrepresented the rap video as promoting violence and gang rivalry when it was in fact a call for unity in the wake of the murder of a Seaside resident.

Thinking Critically about Society Summer 2016 Seminar Series

Hey there you lovers of social theory and philosophy – Old Capitol Books is teaming up again with the Direct Action Monterey Network to bring a series of seminars on critical and political theory to downtown Monterey.

This summer’s seminars are facilitated by a collection of artists, professors, and students who live and work on the peninsula, covering the topics of Transgender Anarchism, Marxist-Feminism, Queer Theory, and Transnational Feminism.

Paul Simons Talk on Rojava, Kurdistan, and ISIS

Monday 7 December 2015, 7pm: The Direct Action Monterey Network will be hosting Paul Simons who has recently returned from Rojava, where local grassroots and militias are fighting against ISIS. He has documented his journey in his Dispatches which are published in Modern Slavery.

Thinking Critically about Society Summer 2015 Series!

The Direct Action Monterey Network and the Monterey Community Education Project work together to organize theThinking Critically about Society (TCAS) seminars, hosted by Old Capitol Books.

ARCHIVE: Events: Thinking Critically about Society Spring 2014 Seminar Series

Old Capitol Books, together with the Direct Action Monterey Network & the Monterey Community Education Project are reviving the Thinking Critically About Society Seminar Series, with a revival of some popular seminars from the past and a few new ones.

ARCHIVE: DAMN & Old Capitol Books in Go! Magazine

Direct Action Monterey’s Thinking Critically about Society Seminar Series in Go! Magazine

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We’re super excited to have been featured in the recent issue of Go! Magazine, from the Monterey Herald.

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ARCHIVE: “GIVE A D.A.M.N. – Revolutionaries Among Us”

Local Activist Group Helps Students Think Critically about Society

Tyler Gidney, Staff Reporter
FGIDNEY@CSUMB.EDU

What do poetry readings, discussions about radical political texts, prisoner correspondence groups, a literary zine, Palestinian solidarity and the Monterey County Cop Watch have in common? They are all projects of the activist collective called the Direct Action Monterey Network, or D.A.M.N for short.

In the back of Old Capitol Books in historic downtown Monterey, surrounded by the musty smell of millions of pages of knowledge on ten-foot-high shelves, the D.A.M.N group discusses topics that range from political and social theory to matters of local homelessness and police violence.

D.A.M.N. is described by its members as “a forum for anarchists, feminists, socialists, and other anti-authoritarian revolutionaries in the Monterey and Salinas area to find each other, discuss ideas and news and take action!”

The group, which consists of several former and current CSUMB students and faculty…

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Fire All Cops!

On February 22nd, 2014 a CSU Monterey Bay police officer arrived at a student’s apartment because the student was supposedly trying to commit suicide.