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Democracy and the Commons (lecture w. Dario Azzellini)

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….

Screening: Sí, Se Puede: Seven Days at PAH Barcelona

‘SÍ SE PUEDE. Seven days at PAH Barcelona’ is a daily account of Barcelona‘s Platform of People Affected by Mortgage in what could be a week of its tireless activity. Departing from the concrete and the everyday, the documentary tries to explain the complexity and diversity of a movement that has spread throughout the state and has been a real challenge for civil society to government policies and financial institutions after the economic and human disaster which marked the bursting of the housing bubble.

Grassroots Struggles for a New Economy: Learning from Greece, pt.2

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…

“Getting our shit together”: Organizing for Radical Social Change – Dialogues on the Radical Imagination, 3 of 3

April 17, 2011

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June 16, 7pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen St. Halifax NS As a far-right tide rips across the continent and the country, and as the forces of austerity mobilize against social justice around the world, what do we need to do to achieve a different political landscape? More precisely: how can we best mobilize to…

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