The first of a two-part report-back on austerity and grassroots movements in Greece by Larry Haiven and Max Haiven, who recently visited the country to meet with organizers and activists developing the solidarity economy. This first session provides background, context and analysis of the current state of affairs, including an introduction to the nation's recent history and the European context, the birth and monstrous life of "the crisis," the recent cycles of social movements, the rise (and fall?) of the left-wing…

The second of a two-part report-back on austerity and grassroots movements in Greece by Larry Haiven and Max Haiven, who recently visited the country to meet with organizers and activists developing the solidarity economy. This presentation explores a number of grassroots movements that are seeking to reinvent economic and social life in Greece. From factory occupations to social centres to solidarity clinics to local economic networks to refugee solidarity initiatives, Greece is not only a laboratory of austerity, it is also…

DEMOCRACY AND THE COMMONS: How communities around the world are taking control of their work, their neighbourhoods and their lives. https://www.facebook.com/events/1194771910546091/ A Free public talk by Dario Azzellini: Scholar, author, film-maker, political activist and assistant professor, Johannes Kepler University, Austria. (http://www.azzellini.net/) (co)Author of: * THEY CAN'T REPRESENT US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (w. Marina Sitrin) * OURS TO MASTER AND TO OWN: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present (w. Immanuel Ness) * AN ALTERNATIVE LABOUR HISTORY:…