Events

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Social movements and the fight against authority

The lecture will take place in the social centre Aftonomo Steki in Exarcheia

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Commune or nothing: Dual power and popular self-organization in Venezuela and Latin America

With Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini

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Dario Azzellini, Venezuela and the Latin American Context: Revolutionary Populism?

One of the accusations often raised against former Venezuelan President Chávez (and also against other Latin American leaders) is that of populism. In occidental media discourse the term is used without further explanation and implies automatically a negative judgment. Nevertheless, Latin American populism has historically been different from traditional European populism.

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Κομμούνες ή Τίποτα! Δυαδική εξουσία και λαϊκή αυτοοργάνωση στην Βενεζουέλα

 

Την ίδια στιγμή που ο Ούγο Τσάβες εδραίωνε την ηγεμονία του στη Βενεζουέλα, οι κάτοικοι των λαϊκών συνοικιών είχαν εκπονήσει ένα σχέδιο αντικατάστασης του κράτους με μια ομοσπονδία των οριζόντιων δομών μέσα απο τις οποίες αυτοοργανώνουν τις ανάγκες τους. 

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Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini - Comuna Under Construction

'Comuna Under Construction' is an ethnography of self-organisation, a film which as part of a series of collaborations the artist Oliver Ressler carried out with Azzellini, takes a look at the everyday experiences of ordinary Venezuelan people. Since the initiation of a rhizomatic system of self-organizing - citizens come together to discuss local issues through a network of committees and subcommittees which empower people to initiate local development projects.

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Keine Position beziehen ist keine Kunst

Discussing a radical intellectual and radical art practice.
Vortrag von Dario Azzellini (Soziologe & Politikwissenschaftler, JKU Linz)

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Seminario: "Cooperazione produttiva nello spazio urbano"

Il presente seminario si intende come una prosecuzione ed un approfondimento tematico successivo al primo incontro, tenutosi nel mese di luglio 2014, dal titolo “Fabbriche recuperate: la ricostruzione di un territorio solidale”.

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ISOLA UTOPIA: RiMAFLOW AND ISOLA PEPE VERDE, CONCRETE UTOPIAS - A project by Isola Art Center

ISOLA UTOPIA: RiMAFLOW AND ISOLA PEPE VERDE, CONCRETE UTOPIAS
a project by Isola Art Center

in the context of
PRACTICES AS AN INTERSECTION IN A FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT
curated by Claudio Zecchi

Program:

10.30-17.00- Isola Utopia Video (a video review in loop, a web doc, books, prints etc) (click below to see the details)

17.00 From "Fight-Specific Isola" to "Isola Utopia"
Meeting with open debate
The concept of "Fight-Specific", Introduction by Antonio Brizioli.
Interventions by Andris Brinkmanis, Giusy Chechola, Elvira Vannini and others,

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Krise, Zwangsdelogierung und Wohnungslosigkeit: Ausmaß und Widerstand in Europa

Es diskutieren: Júlia Alsinet Caballeria (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipotéca - Plattform der von Hypotheken Betroffenen), Karin Baumert (Berliner Bündnis gegen Zwangsräumungen), Dario Azzellini (JKU Linz)

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Vom Süden lernen? Gesellschaften im und gegen den Sparzwang

Vom Süden lernen? Gesellschaften im und gegen den Sparzwang

Weiterbildungsveranstaltung der Abteilung Politik und Entwicklungsforschung, Institut für Soziologie, JKU Linz

Mi, 19.11.2014 und Do, 20.11.2014, Rep-Räume im Unicenter der JKU
mit Abendveranstaltungen am 25.11. und 1.12.2014 im Wissensturm Linz

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Slow Politics - What Europe Needs in the Age of Crisis

International Conference with the participation of Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini in Track 1

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European seminar: Socialization and Commons in Europe, How to build an Alternative Project?

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They Can’t Represent Us: Horizontalism & Direct Democracy Workshop with Marina Sitrin in Burlington, VT

As part of our ongoing efforts to engage with and learn from struggles in the Global South, TowardFreedom.com and the Peace & Justice Center will host Marina Sitrin for a workshop on direct democracy and horizontalism. She is a facilitator and co-author, with Dario Azzellini, of the recently published They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy.

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"They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy"

Marina Sitrin's & Dario Azzellini's Conference Tour "They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy" (Verso)

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They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

Discussion with authors Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini

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The global dimension of recent social movements

Dario Azzellini and Marina Sitrin, authors of "They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy", talk about the global dimension of recent social movements.

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Occupy, Resist, Produce - RiMaflow, film 2014, 34 min. by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler

Occupy, Resist, Produce - RiMaflow, film 2014, 34 min.
Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler

shown at
Salon Orizzonti Occupati, 24 — 30 September 2014
Utopia is secession without instructions.
Secession, Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Wien, Austria; www.secession.at

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They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

A Conversation
 
Sponsored by the Urban Democracy Lab, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Center for Artistic Activism
 

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"They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy"

Join authors Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini as they discuss how mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agenda—to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today.

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The new global movements and democracy

Department of Political Science and Law, Montclair State University

The new global movements and democracy

With Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini, authors of "They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy"

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They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

Book launch with authors Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini

They Can’t Represent Us! describes how the new global movements are putting forward a radical conception of democracy, often using the voices of the movement participants themselves. Mass movements in disparate places such as Greece, Spain, Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agenda—to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today.

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Marina Sitrin & Dario Azzellini: READING

They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

by Marina Sitrin & Dario Azzelini

Mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agenda—to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today.

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Rethinking Democracy and Representation: Occupy and Beyond

Rethinking Democracy and Representation: Occupy and Beyond,

a Conversation with Marina Sitrin, Dario Azzelini, Michael Hardt, Liz Mason Deese, and others

in the frame of the

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A Conversation on Occupy and Its Futures with Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzelini

A Conversation on Occupy and Its Futures with Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzelini, Authors of New Book: "They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy" (6pm; Peace and Justice Plaza)

in the frame of the

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Evening event downtown at the Elon University School of Law

Evening event downtown at the Elon University School of Law 201 N Elm.

Sponsored by Elon National Lawyers Guild and The Fund for Democratic Communities

 

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Event & Discussion at Winston-Salem State University

Event & Discussion at Winston-Salem State University

Monday. Sept. 8 - WINSTON-SALEM University, specific room TBA very soon!

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Filmvorführung: 5 Fabriken – Arbeiterkontrolle in Venezuela

Im Rahmen des „Cinéma la gauche“ präsentiert Die Linke Tempelhof-Schöneberg eine Filmvorführung mit anschließender Debatte in der Roten Insel.
 
5 Fabriken – Arbeiterkontrolle in Venezuela

Film: Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler,
Dauer: 81 Min., 2006
Sprache: Spanisch mit dt. Untertitel (OmU)
Samstag, 30. August 2014, 19.30 Uhr
in der Geschäftsstelle der Linken,
Feurigstr. 68, 10827 Berlin
(S1 Julius-Leber-Brücke, oder Bus 104, 204, 106)

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Räte weltweit: Eine kleine Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenselbstverwaltung

Mit Dario Azzellini

Auf dem Kongress Marx is Muss, 6.-9. Juni 2014 in Berlin

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Popular Assembly with Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini

They Can't Represent Us! authors in the park

In their new book, They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy, Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini explore the ongoing movements for participatory democracy across the globe.

For this unique event, participate with the authors in an assembly-style conversation about mass movements in Washington Square Park.

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They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy Book Launch

Join the authors Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini as they launch their new book!

While the excitement around Occupy Wall Street has diminished in the United States, dynamic movements of democratic participation continue to arise across the globe, calling on people to rethink and remake their relationships to each other and themselves.