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.

Discussion with authors Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini

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

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"

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

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

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
 

They Can’t Represent Us by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini is a fiery indictment of electoral politics and a riveting defense of real democracy.

The European Central Bank has now made borrowing money cheaper than ever. Its benchmark lending rate has been dropped to just 0.15%, and borrower banks will in the future pay penalties for parking money there. ECB President Mario Draghi hopes the move will encourage more lending to crisis-stricken EU Member States.But is that move too political in nature for Europe’s most important banker to make

In one month's time the Soccer World Cup kicks off in Brazil. But the country has a serious problem with violence in the poor urban neighbourhoods called favelas. And the problem is spreading: Brazil's tourist centres are increasingly affected. Angry people are using the World Cup to draw attention to the appaling conditions they are forced to live in and to the failures of their government.

Invitation to discussion on

Post-Chávez Venezuela: New Directions under the Presidency of Nicolás Maduro?

Saturday, May 31, 05:00pm - 06:50pm in Room 1.124

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York

Before Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuela in 1999, the barrios of Caracas, built provisionally on the hills surrounding the capital, did not even appear on the city map. Officially they did not exist, so neither the city nor the state maintained their infrastructure. The poor inhabitants of these neighborhoods obtained water and electricity by tapping pipes and cables themselves. They lacked access to services such as garbage collection, health care and education altogether.

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.