Left Forum, June 7-9, 2013, Pace University, New York City

The book 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.

Professional preview: May 23, 2013

Txirbilenea Kulturgunea (Txabarri 6, Sestao, Euskal Herria)

Video Fórum: Control obrero en Venezuela

April 26th-28th, 2013, Historical Materialism Conference, New York City 2013
New York University, Silver Center, 31 Washington Place, New York, NY

Sunday, April 28th, 2013, 4pm-6pm, Session 6, panel C
Latin American Social Movements 14 Years Later: Experiences and Perspectives since 1998

Panelists: Marina Sitrin, Dario Azzellini, and Ximena García Bustamante
Chair: Greg Wilpert

'La construcción de un nuevo concepto de poder: “Democracia participativa y protagónica“, refundación republicana y sujeto revolucionario' en el marco del
Congreso Internacional: Venezuela después de Hugo Chávez

'Die Konstruktion eines neuen Machtkonzepts: Wie funktioniert die „Partizipative Demokratie“ gemäß der Verfassung von 1999?' Vortrag im Rahmen des Internationalen Kongresses: Venezuela nach Hugo Chávez

"Rights, Solidarity and Justice. Working People Organizing, Past and Present"
LAWCHA (Labor and Working-Class History Association) National Conference, New York City, June 6-8, 2013

Saturday, June 8, 2:15 - 4:00pm

Why organize on a higher level? How to avoid or reduce informal power structures? Who is organizing? What structure is helpful in order to organize beyond certain social strata and age? What have been successes and failures in the organizing process?

Marcus Graetsch and Dario Azzellini have been long time activists in Berlin. They will share their experiences of organization and coordination as local group (FelS, about 80 activists) and as a nation wide coordination structure (the IL with some 800 activists).

Selbstverwaltung und partizipatorische Ökonomie, Referat: Dario Azzellini im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe: Krise und reale Utopien 2.0

Spätestens seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 2008 ist klar geworden, dass die Verschränkung von Demokratie und Kapitalismus per se nicht zum „Wohle aller“ wirkt, sondern in der real existierenden (Post-)demokratie Experten, Lobby-Gruppen und vor allem Wirtschaftseliten die politischen Prozesse und demokratischen Institutionen zunehmend unterwandern und zu ihren Gunsten gestalten.