Nov: Occupy, books, videos and more

Newsletter:

D. Azzellini, Eng

http://www.azzellini.net

Dario Azzellini's newsletter in English

(see website for Spanish or German newsletter)
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0. Before

1. New books - "Occupying Language", book about occupy and the practices of the new movements (English); "Ours to master and to Own" in German: "Die endlich entdeckte politische Form - Fabrikräte und Selbstverwaltung von der russischen Revolution bis heute" (German)

2. Reviews (English, Spanish, Dutch and Indonesian)

3. Press articles (Spanish, German and Italian)

4. Academic articles (Portuguese)

5. Videos and Audios (English, German and Spanish)

6. Events (Bern/CH, Leipzig/Germany, Buenos Aires/Arg)

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0. Before

Dear friends and comrades, colleagues, brothers and sisters (and all inbetween)!

I started a newsletter in English. I have been sending a German and an English newletter to subscribers for a few years now. The Spanish newsletter has some 4600 subscribers and the German newsletter around 1600.

Since I am publishing more and more in English I have decided to start also an English newsletter. It contains inormation about my newest publications, interviews, conferences etc. and most of th times a "before" where I comment recent events.

I send the newsletter every 1 or 2 months. So no worries to get trapped in an endless mailing flood...

If you are not interested into the newsletter you can easily unsubscribe. If you like it, I would be happy you spread the possiblity to subscribe to my newsletter on my website among your friends.

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I am in facebook now! I gave up my resistance to "social media" and you can find me on facebook. Visit me and we become "friends".

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You can see my comments on the Venezuela elections on Deutsche Welle English program, scroll down, see 1

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The German translation of "Ours to master and to own" will finally be published in November (according to the publisher Neuer ISP Verlag):

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All the best,

Dario

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„Occupying Language“ by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini
Zuccotti Park Press (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)
128 pág., ISBN-13: 9781884519093, 9.95 $, Septiembre 2012

While the gobal Occupy movement is widely seen as unprecedented, its language and organizing practices are shaped and inspired by diverse historical precedents in the United States and around the world. Sitrin and Azzellini introduce the reader to the theory and practices of the movement and explore linkages and connections toward the dream of a common language of struggle, justice, democracy and liberation.

It was September 19, a group of twenty of us were standing in a circle in NYC’s Liberty Plaza, discussing what it means to facilitate an assembly, and what the role of facilitators is and can be. At one point I said, “Our role is to help create the most horizontal space possible.” A young woman asked, “What does that mean—horizontal?” Another young woman responded, “You know, what they did in Argentina,” and then another asked what that was.

Explored are concepts such as Territory, Assembly, Dignity and Popular Power, and relationships such as Horizontalism, Autogestión (self-organization), and protagonism. These forms of organization and ways of relating are described based on over a decade of practice and experience in Latin America, from the origins of horizontalidad with the popular rebellion in Argentina, to the concept of Territory, grounded in Bolivia and Brazil, or the construction of Popular Power in the Consejo Comunales in Venezuela and the understanding of our many diversities, creating a world in which many worlds fit, of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico.

PRAISE:

“Occupying Language uses the vocabulary of new and emergent movements around the world to highlight the striking similarities of the practices and visions. Movements from the Zapatistas in Mexico and mobilizations for popular control in Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil, to the Arab Spring, the European and Israeli Summer, and Occupy, have made inclusiveness a priority and have insisted that the voice of every participant be heard and treated with respect. They have pursued a vision of democracy as based on direct participation and on solidarity among the vast majority, cognizant of social and national divisions but creating a unity among differences. Those who identify with these movements should read this book for its beautiful and insightful evocation of an emergent radical perspective and for the hope that this book conveys that a new movement of movements can play a pivotal role in bringing about urgently needed change. This book is also crucial reading for those who would like to understand why so many in the new movements are more interested in occupying public spaces and insitutions, and remaking them through democratic participation, than in making demands on governments dominated by remote and resistant elites.”

Barbara Epstein, University of California, Santa Cruz

“There are words that are rocks. Rocks, like geological layers, which have accumulated over decades of struggles, and are colored with meanings irreducible to capitalist power. Rocks heavy with hope. Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini show how these rocks are moved – rolling them against masters, police, and the ideologists of neoliberalism. Occupy language!”

Antonio Negri

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2551

http://zuccottiparkpress.com/occupyinglanguag.html

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"Die endlich entdeckte politische Form - Fabrikräte und Selbstverwaltung von der russischen Revolution bis heute" (alemán)

Dario N. Azzellini / Immanuel Ness, Neuer ISP Verlag

To be published December 4, 2013!

Die endlich entdeckte politische Form« ist das aktuell reichhaltigste und umfassendste Werk zu Arbeiterkontrolle, Fabrikräten und Selbstverwaltung von der russischen Revolution bis heute.

»Die endlich entdeckte politische Form ist das aktuell reichhaltigste und umfassendste Werk zu Arbeiterkontrolle und Selbstverwaltung. Es bietet eine grundlegende Darstellung von Arbeiterbewegungen im Verlauf von Aufständen, direkter Aktion und Fabrikbesetzungen unter einer Brandbreite verschiedener Gesellschaftssysteme. Ich kann diese Arbeit entschieden empfehlen. Sie bietet weltweite Beispiele für Arbeiter im Kampf um Gerechtigkeit und Macht, von der Pariser Kommune bis zur Gegenwart.« Gary Younge, Kolumnist, The Guardian»

http://www.azzellini.net/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/die-endlich-entdeckte-politische-form

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2. Reviews (English, Spanish, Dutch and Indonesian)

To Walk Asking Questions Nicholas Mirzoeff on Occupying Language

This is the theme of a fascinating new book, Occupying Language, by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini in the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series. The authors situate the present Occupy movement in the context of the insurgent movements in Latin America over the past quarter of a century. From this perspective, to occupy is to walk asking questions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-mirzoeff/occupying-language-asking-questions_b_1869457.html

http://www.nicholasmirzoeff.com/O2012/

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2551

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Occupying Language: Inside the Global Revolutions, September 14, 2012

An excerpt from Occupying Language, by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini, part of the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series

An Invitation to a Global Conversation: Occupying Language is an open conversation. Through it, we invite you to join us to explore insurgent movements that have been organizing in Latin America over the past twenty years, and to connect key concepts and language from those struggles with what is new and beautiful in the social relations being created by people’s movements in the United States today. There are of course many similarities with preceding forms of organization and mobilization, especially with the movement for global justice of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

http://www.alternet.org/occupying-language-inside-global-revolutions?page=0%2C0

http://www.azzellini.net/en/buecher/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/rezensionen/occupying-language-inside-global-revolutions

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Workers' Control: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation - November 8, 2012

Dan La Botz about 'Ours to Master and to Own', by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Ed.) Haymarket Books, 2011

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2429

http://newpol.org/node/703

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"Cooperativas y socialismo. Una mirada desde Cuba… y la promesa del “ nuevo cooperativismo cubano” von Marcelo “Liberato” Salinas | Red Observatorio Crítico, octubre 5, 2012 über “De las cooperativas a las empresas de propiedad social directa en el proceso venezolano” von Darío Azzelini.

http://www.azzellini.net/es/buecher/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/rezensionen/cooperativas-y-socialismo-una-mirada-desde-cuba%E2%80%A6-y-l

http://observatoriocriticodesdecuba.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/cooperativas-y-socialismo-una-mirada-desde-cuba-y-la-promesa-del-nuevo-cooperativismo-cubano/

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Arbeidersmacht door de eeuwen heen

Door Brian Droop about 'Ours to Master and to Own', by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Ed.) Haymarket Books, 2011

Sinds het begin van het kapitalisme hebben arbeiders zich verzet met blokkades, demonstraties en stakingen. Soms gingen ze nog een stap verder en maakten zij zich meester van het productieproces, buiten de bazen om. Dit is het onderwerp van Ours to Master and to Own.

Dit artikel verscheen eerder in De Socialist 239, maart 2012 en in http://socialisme.nu/blog/ - 31 oktober 2012

http://www.azzellini.net/en/buecher/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/rezensionen/arbeidersmacht-door-de-eeuwen-heen

http://socialisme.nu/blog/nieuws/27493/arbeidersmacht-door-de-eeuwen-heen/

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Kontrol Buruh Dalam Lintasan Sejarah

Coen Husain Pontoh, City University of New York (CUNY), about Ours to Master and to Own, by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Ed.) Haymarket Books, 2011

KETIKA krisis ekonomi meledak di Amerika Serikat (AS) pada 2007, di kalangan kiri serentak muncul perdebatan seru di dua ranah: pertama, perdebatan mengenai sebab-musabab terjadinya krisis; dan kedua, bagaimana solusi terhadap penyelesaian krisis ini. Pada yang pertama, krisis ini kembali membuka perdebatan lama mengenai penyebab krisis antara pendekatan konsumsi kurang (underconsumption/stagnation), pendekatan jatuhnya tingkat keuntungan (the falling rate of profit), pendekatan struktur sosial akumulasi (social structure of accumulation/SSA), dan pendekatan mengenai dampak dari persaingan internasional (foreign competition).

http://www.azzellini.net/es/buecher/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/rezensio...

http://indoprogress.com/lbr/?p=28

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Workers' Control: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation - November 8, 2012

Dan La Botz about 'Ours to Master and to Own', by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Ed.) Haymarket Books, 2011

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2429

http://newpol.org/node/703

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To Walk Asking Questions

Nicholas Mirzoeff on Occupying Language

This is the theme of a fascinating new book, Occupying Language, by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini in the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series. The authors situate the present Occupy movement in the context of the insurgent movements in Latin America over the past quarter of a century. From this perspective, to occupy is to walk asking questions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-mirzoeff/occupying-language-asking-questions_b_1869457.html

http://www.nicholasmirzoeff.com/O2012/

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2551

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Occupying Language: Inside the Global Revolutions, September 14, 2012

An excerpt from Occupying Language, by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini, part of the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series

An Invitation to a Global Conversation: Occupying Language is an open conversation. Through it, we invite you to join us to explore insurgent movements that have been organizing in Latin America over the past twenty years, and to connect key concepts and language from those struggles with what is new and beautiful in the social relations being created by people’s movements in the United States today. There are of course many similarities with preceding forms of organization and mobilization, especially with the movement for global justice of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

http://www.alternet.org/occupying-language-inside-global-revolutions?page=0%2C0

http://www.azzellini.net/en/buecher/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/rezensionen/occupying-language-inside-global-revolutions

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"Cooperativas y socialismo. Una mirada desde Cuba…"

Marcelo “Liberato” Salinas | Red Observatorio Crítico, octubre 5, 2012

sobre “Cooperativas y socialismo. Una mirada desde Cuba", mención especial de "De las cooperativas a las empresas de propiedad social directa en el proceso venezolano” de Darío Azzelini.

http://www.azzellini.net/es/buecher/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/rezensionen/cooperativas-y-socialismo-una-mirada-desde-cuba%E2%80%A6-y-l

http://observatoriocriticodesdecuba.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/cooperativas-y-socialismo-una-mirada-desde-cuba-y-la-promesa-del-nuevo-cooperativismo-cubano/

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Arbeidersmacht door de eeuwen heen

Door Brian Droop about Ours to Master and to Own, by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Ed.) Haymarket Books, 2011

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Kontrol Buruh Dalam Lintasan Sejarah

Coen Husain Pontoh, City University of New York (CUNY), about Ours to Master and to Own, by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Ed.) Haymarket Books, 2011

http://www.azzellini.net/es/buecher/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/rezensionen/kontrol-buruh-dalam-lintasan-sejarah

http://indoprogress.com/lbr/?p=28

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3. Press articles (Spanish, German and Italian)

Comuna en construcción" y el desinterés y saboteo institucional a las Comunas y el control obrero

Hoy por la mañana recibí varios correos desde Venezuela de amig@s y camaradas informándome que "La Hojilla" del jueves 25 de Octubre mostró partes del documental "Comunas en construcción" que hice en 2010. Me alegra que por fin se hayan podido ver por lo menos partes en la televisión pública venezolana. Al mismo tiempo refleja la realidad institucional de Venezuela que otra vez se haya necesitado a Chávez que les diga a los medios que es importante.

http://www.azzellini.net/es/journalistische-artikel/comuna-en-construccion-y-el-desinteres-y-saboteo-institucional-las-comunas-y

http://www.aporrea.org

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"Control obrero y Consejos socialistas de trabajadores y trabajadoras (CST) en Venezuela", Nov. 2012

Dieser Artikel ist Teil des Dossiers: [especial] CONTROL OBRERO (s.27-31) der neuen Zeitschrift “Venezuelarekin bat!"

http://www.azzellini.net/en/node/2574

http://www.komiteinternazionalistak.org/index.php/es/especiales/venezuel...

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"Laboratorio America Latina", Dario Azzellini, veröffentlicht in alfabeta2 n.23, s. 15, Oktober 2012 (Italiano)

http://www.azzellini.net/en/node/2575

http://www.alfabeta2.it/

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"Venezuela. Il controllo operaio", Dario Azzellini, veröffentlicht in alfabeta2 n.23, s. 17, Oktober 2012 (Italiano)

http://www.azzellini.net/en/node/2576

http://www.alfabeta2.it/

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Blinde Loyalität ist passé - Wahlnachlese Venezuela
von Dario Azzellini - ila, Nr. 360, Nov. 2012, S.44-46

Der Sieg von Hugo Chávez bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Venezuela am 7. Oktober fiel deutlicher aus, als es die deutsche Presse hätte vermuten lassen. Laut dem amtlichen Endergebnis stimmten 55,13 Prozent der WählerInnen (8 181122 Stimmen) für Chávez und 44,25 Prozent (6 566 712 Stimmen) für Henrique Capriles, den Kandidaten des breiten Oppositionsbündnisses. Die vier weiteren Optionen erhielten zusammen etwa 90 000 Stimmen, knapp über 0,5 Prozent. Von diesen schnitt der Trotzkist Orlando Chirino, der sich als linke Alternative zu Chávez präsentierte, mit 4137 Stimmen (0,02 Prozent) am schlechtesten ab. Chávez gewann in 21 von 23 Bundesstaaten (und verlor in Mérida und Táchira) sowie im Hauptstadt-distrikt. Chávez besiegte Capriles auch im Bundesstaat Miranda, wo Capriles Gouverneur ist.

http://www.azzellini.net/journalistische-artikel/blinde-loyalitaet-ist-p...

http://www.ila-web.de/aktuelles/letzteausgabe.htm

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'Die Propagandamaschine gegen Chávez', von Dario Azzellini

Gegen Venezuela läuft die größte Propagandakampagne seit dem Vietnamkrieg. Das ist wichtig. Es soll niemand wissen, was wirklich los ist in dem Land. Und je tiefer die Krise, desto größer die Lügen und Unterschlagungen in der Presse.

http://www.azzellini.net/journalistische-artikel/die-propagandamaschine-gegen-chavez

http://www.sozonline.de/2012/11/wahlen-in-venezuela/#more-6577

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'Warum Chávez gewonnen hat' - Dario Azzellini erklärt im Gespräch mit Alf Zachäus, warum Chávez gewonnen hat.

Gegen zahlreiche Unkenrufe der internationalen Massenmedien hat Hugo Chávez am 7.Oktober auch seine vierte Wahl zum Staatspräsidenten mit klarer Mehrheit gewonnen: 54,4% stimmten für ihn, 45% für seinen bürgerlichen Gegenkandidaten Capriles. Chávez ist seit 1999 im Amt. Die Wahlbeteiligung lag bei 81%. Vor allem die Armenviertel stehen nach wie vor fest zu ihm. Chávez gewann in 22 von 24 Bundesstaaten (er verlor in Mérida und Táchira). Chávez besiegte Capriles auch in Miranda, wo Capriles Gouverneur ist.

http://www.azzellini.net/interviews/warum-chavez-gewonnen-hat

http://www.sozonline.de/2012/11/wahlen-in-venezuela/#more-6577

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4. Academic articles (Portuguese)

"Movimentos e construção alternativa na Venezuela", Dario Azzellini, veröffentlicht in: Cemop, Nº 3, MAIO DE 2012, ISSN – 2236-4110, ss.40-62

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2578

http://www.memoriaoperaria.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79&Itemid=76

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"Movimientos y construcción alternativa en Venezuela", Dario Azzellini, pp. 375-410

in: Rodrigues, Fabiana C.; Novaes, Henrique T.; Batista, Eraldo L. (orgs.). Movimentos Sociais, Trabalho Associado e Educação para além do capital. Sao Paolo: Outras Expressões. ISBN: 978-85-6442-122-6

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2579

https://www.expressaopopular.com.br/livros/outras-expressoes/movimentos-sociais-trabalho-associado-e-educacao-para-alem-do-capital

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5. Videos and Audios (English, Spanish and German)

09.10.12 | 16:15 - 17:00 UTC | Deutsche Welle

Agenda: Chavez celebrates victory but where does Venezuela go from here? Currency woes trigger unrest in Iran but is the regime threatened? And two billion over 60s by 2050, is the world ready?
Chavez Victory - Socialist Revolution Rolling On?

Guest: Dario Azzellini, Political Scientist, University of Linz, Austria

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2584

http://www.dw.de/dw/0,,30415,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu6sRobzE4Q&

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09.10.12 | 18:15 - 19:00 UTC | Deutsche Welle

Agenda - Tres titulares, tres visiones

Venezuela, Chavéz reelegido por cuarta vez | Primer día internacional de la Niña | Cambio Demográfico, ¿una amenaza mundial?

Hugo Chávez será presidente de Venezuela por cuarta vez tras lograr una holgada victoria sobre su opositor Henrique Capriles. Chávez afronta un mandato para lo próximos seis años con las sombras de su última gestión y la incertidumbre de su enfermedad. Las elecciones confirman la fractura de Venezuela en dos proyectos políticos irreconciliables y su resultado tendrá repercusiones internacionales.

Invitado: Dario Azzellini, Doctor en ciencias políticas

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2585

http://www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,16263454,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aQT-8LWcdM

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Horizontalismo: Lenguajes de Ocupación en el Mundo - Audio

Con Marina Sitrin und Dario Azzellini, Agosto 2012, Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios CESU | Cochabamba, Bolivia (Español)

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2562

http://www.goear.com/listen/1b70edf/horizontalidad-lenguajes-de-ocupacion-marina-sitrin-y-dario-azrllini

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1.10.2012, amerika21.de, Radio Corax

"Erhebliche Ressentiments gegenüber der Regierung" - Interview mit dem Politikwissenschaftler Dario Azzellini zur Situation in Venezuela vor den Wahlen.

Dieser Artikel ist Teil des Dossiers: Präsidentschaftswahlen in Venezuela 2012

http://www.azzellini.net/interviews/erhebliche-ressentiments-gegenueber-der-regierung

http://amerika21.de/analyse/62165/erhebliche-ressentiments

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6. Events (Bern/CH, Leipzig, Buenos Aires /Arg)

22. November 2012 | 19:00 - 21:00 Hotel Bern | Zeughausgasse 9 | Bern | Schweiz

"Venezuela nach den Wahlen:
Welche Aussichten für Demokratie und gesellschaftlichen Wandel?"

Erhebliche Spannungen in Bolivien und Ecuador, erfolgreiche Putschs in
Honduras und Paraguay: Die gesellschaftlichen Veränderungsprozesse in
Lateinamerika sind bedroht. Am 7. Oktober 2012 stellt sich Chavez zum
vierten Mal einer Volkswahl. In welcher Situation befindet sich das
Land?

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Dario Azzellini, Sozialwissenschaftler und Autor, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

Walter Suter, ehem. Schweizer Botschafter in Venezuela und Wahlbeobachter 2012

Eintritt frei

http://www.azzellini.net/veranstaltung/venezuela-nach-den-wahlen-welche-aussichten-fuer-demokratie-und-gesellschaftlichen-wan

http://www.denknetz-online.ch

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26. November 2012 | 20:00 Cinémathèque Leipzig e.V. | Leipzig

"Comuna en construccion" von Dario Azzellini und Oliver Ressler -BRD/Österreich/Venezuela 2010, Dok, 94 min - OmU im Rahmen der Filmreihe "Utopia - Das Richtige im Falschen".

Das aktuelle Venezuela ist eine der letzten Hochburgen, welche den Wert einer Sache an seinem Wert für die Gemeinschaft misst. Es ist eine der wenigen sozialistischen Bastionen auf der Welt. Aber es ist auch ein Land, das sich noch immer im Prozess befindet zu verstehen, was das eigentlich bedeutet. Was Sozialismus ist.
Was die Möglichkeiten und Hindernisse dieses sozialen und politischen Wandels sind. Die aktuelle Situation dieses Prozesses der „bolivarischen Revolution“ wurde in dem Film COMUNA IM AUFBAU von den Regisseuren Dario Azzellini und Olivier Ressler festgehalten.

http://www.azzellini.net/en/node/2580

http://www.cinematheque-leipzig.de/index.php?seite=Start&film=4181

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13-14.12.2012 | Intercontinental Conference 'Peace, Disarmament and Social - Alternatives to Global NATO'

Palacio del Congreso Nacional | Hipólito Yrigoyen 1835 | Buenos Aires | Argentina

December 13th | 6pm | Dario Azzellini: "Private military contractors and
mercenaries: The privatization of war in Latin America".

http://www.azzellini.net/en/veranstaltung/private-military-contractors-a...

http://claei.org.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=447:pea...

http://www.no-to-nato.org/wp-content/uploads/buenos-aires-program-medium...

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Dr. Dario Azzellini

www.azzellini.net

Department of Sociology, Politics and Development Research
Johannes Kepler Universität (JKU) Linz
Tel. +43-732-2468-1545