Seit vielen Jahren kämpfen Mieter*innen und Mietervereine gegen die fortlaufenden Verschlechterungen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt. Die Idee einer Versorgung breiter Bevölkerungskreise mit bezahlbaren und lebenswerten Wohnungen hat sich zugunsten einer marktorientierten Versorgung gewandelt. Diese Entwicklung läuft nicht ohne Widerstand von Mieter*innen und Mietervereinen in zahlreichen Städten. Was aber fehlt ist eine systematische Diskussion grundsätzlicher Alternativen in der Mieten- und Wohnungspolitik, die über die derzeitigen tagespolitischen Diskussionen hinausgehen.

Presentation of "An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy" (Zed Books) edited by Dario Azzellini. The global financial crisis has led to radical forms of protest and new workers’ takeovers have sprung up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started production under worker control in January 2013. Later that year workers in Greece took over and managed a hotel, a hospital, a newspaper, a TV channel and a factory. The dominant revolutionary left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary during a transition to socialism.

Marx ist Muss 2015, Franz -Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin
 

With Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini

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

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,

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

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

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
 

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"

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.

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

Event & Discussion at Winston-Salem State University

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