Life Despite Capitalism
by - 08.10.2004 16:38
LIFE DESPITE CAPITALISM.
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October.
London School of Economics.
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(Holborn tube, central line)
For more detailed information, see 
http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
Life Despite Capitalism is a project/forum to approach the question of alternatives to capitalism in the here and now not "after capitalism" has been abolished. This means a capacity to do and relate to each other, in ways rooted in dignity, respect and common access to resources.
Confirmed speakers and participants include:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, from groups and networks such as Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples' Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . .and many others . . .
Programme
SATURDAY 16 October 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Initial PLENARY: Talks on power, commons, excesses, participatory democracy and networks and presentation of workshops (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 "Roots" (Clement House): in these six workshops we will discuss the various experiences of commons, of reclaiming powers and constituting communities:
Virtual Commons (Room D106): gift and free software, communication, enclosure of freeware.
"Public Services" as commons (Room D109): experiences and visions in transport, education, health.
Food as commons (Room D111): reclaiming the food we eat, agriculture, and fishery.
Workplace commons (Room D206): struggles of precarious workers, creative work, labour internationalism and solidarity.
Free movement as commons (Room D209): migrants as political subjects, patterns of solidarity within and across communities.
Commons "outside" capitalism (Room D211): indigenous experiences and visions, autonomous zones.
16:30-18: 30 "Swarm" (Clement House): Five workshops recombining participants, cross pollinating along themes of "powers" (Room D109), "commons" (Room D111), "networks, (Room D206), "democracies" (Room D209) and "creative excesses" (Room D211).
SUNDAY 17 October 2004
9:30 -12:30 Final PLENARY (Hong Kong theatre) Reports back from workshops by both invited speakers and participants and proposals for future initiatives.
Structure
The opening plenary will allow a series of speakers to rapidly evoke half a dozen very diverse kinds of commons which will be discussed in the first series of workshops. Other speakers will present reflections on the powers we exercise in our doing, the democratic forms of grassroots participation we employ that we will discuss and problematise in the workshops and final plenary.
After the first plenary, we have two rounds of simultaneous workshops followed by a final plenary. The first round of workshops, called "ROOTS", will develop the various experiences of commons and therefore of reclaiming our powers and communities, as they apply to particular themes: virtual communication commons, "public services" as commons, food as commons, workplace commons, and free of movement as commons. Speakers introduce the issue trying to address what these commons are, and how and to what extent these commons represent a challenge to capital, how and to what extent it is capital that rides these commons, and what are the possible challenges ahead. Life history experiences are shared, questions and insights discussed.
The second round of workshops, called "SWARM", will allow the participants in the first round to recombine along broad conceptual themes such as "powers", "commons" and "democracies" and reflection on "moments of creative excesses" with which our struggles change the culture and context of our lives. In this set of workshops, the people and themes of the previous workshop will cross-pollinate. Each workshop would be also given the task to come up with proposals for further work, action and initiatives.
In the final plenary we will have both space for report back from the workshops and collective reflection. There will be a report back from both series of workshops. Then both invited speakers and participants will comment, problematise issues, and critically engage with the discussion of the. Speakers in particular will be asked (to paraphrase Foucault) not to impose their ideas, but to use their skills to note and give volume to the ideas emerging from the collective. Hopefully proposals for future initiatives and practices will take form, common ideas thus integrating themselves in the discourses of our concrete struggles.
Having no simultaneous translation equipment and limited time, the plenary will be primarily in English. Speakers in other languages will be translated into English. Informal translation groups will be organised for non-english speakers.
Weaving discourses of empowerment
In our effort to weave together new political discourses that approaches the question of alternatives to capitalism, we are aware the importance that discourses and the values they embed have in guiding social action, outreach and help "mobilise" and constitute new social relations across the social body. Discourses select things, decide what is important to pursue, and what is not important, what comes first and what comes last. In the discourse we want to develop, we believe that the values of our final ends are not distinct from the organisational means we employ. It is on this basis that we problematise the world around us and the practices we ourselves pursue.
In the last two decades, neoliberal globalisation has carried out massive attacks on public goods and services of various kinds. Going beyond privatisation, this agenda has commodified and individualised more spheres of life -- e.g. public spaces, collective skills, education, etc. By analogy to the original Enclosures of common land, these attacks can be understood as new enclosures of present-day commons, where the state acts as a prime agent. At the same time, the neoliberal agenda has eliminated or marginalised social-democratic forms which previously mediated between the state and civil society. Despite the semblance of choice and diversity, we are also witnessing a flattening of difference, a homogenisation of every commodity from food to software.
On the other hand, in recent years the anti-capitalist forces have grown in strength and coordination. They have developed new social forms and international networks of resistance and struggle, which go beyond demands upon the state. In all their diversity, these struggles are posing the question of commons, empowerment and grassroots democracy.
We understand all forms of struggle as rooted on some types of community, whether newly created forms brought about by struggles, or existing communities who defend themselves from enclosures and attacks. Often struggle develops communities for articulating alternatives and for appropriating resources as a collective good, in ways independent of state authority or antagonistic to it. Other times, existing communities develop struggles that in turn changes the nature of communities and their mutual relations.
Communities and commons are therefore the basis for the exercise of social powers at whatever scale of social action. Commons suggest alternative, non-commodified means to fulfill social needs, e.g. to obtain social wealth and to organise social production of whatever type. Commons are necessarily created and sustained by communities, i.e. by social networks of mutual aid and solidarity. As our movements have shown, commons and the process of people's empowerment that creates them cannot be separated from the learning practices of direct democracy, horizontality, participation, and inclusiveness to decide what are the goals and modalities of social production.
Rather than falsely counterpoise the state to the market, our strategies of struggle can identify the state-market nexus as the problem and develop strategic alternatives around extending new types of commons, strengthening and creating corresponding communities and problematising the forms of relations within them. Such activities can make "alternatives" relevant and real to many people not yet drawn into the anti-capitalist movement, yet engaged in processes of production of commons. Indeed, the commons as a contemporary project has the problem of being either invisible (the electromagnetic spectrum), criminalized (file swapping, freedom of movement), co-opted in the competitive race (workplace commons), sentimentalized (as in the real estate mania for "commons" in housing estates and shopping malls) or the immediate product of crisis (and hence taken as transitory - until capitalism takes hold - and marginal as in the urban gardens of the planet which feed in part about 20% of the world's populations). It needs a common voice. It is time we go for it!
LA VIE MALGRÉ LE CAPITALISME
Samedi 16 et dimanche 17 octobre
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(Holborn Line, Central Line)
Pour plus d'informations, voir http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
La Vie Malgré le Capitalisme est un projet/forum pour discuter des alternatives au capitalisme ici et maintenant, et non pas « après » son abolition. Cela implique une capacité de faire et d'être en relation les uns aux autres enracinés dans la dignité, le respect et l'accès de toutes et tous à des ressources communes.
IntervenantEs et participantEs confirméEs :
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, de groupes et réseaux tels que le Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples's Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . . et beaucoup d'autres.
Programme
Samedi 16 octobre 2004
9 :30 -12 :30 Plénière introductive : Interventions multiples sur les thèmes des ateliers, ainsi que sur le pouvoir, les communs, les « excès » créatifs, la démocratie participative et les réseaux (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
14 :00 -16 :00 « Racines » (Clement house): Dans ces six ateliers nous discuterons de diverses expériences de communs, de reconquête de pouvoirs et de constitution de communautés.
Les communs virtuels (Room D106) : le don et les logiciels libres, la communication, la clôture contre les logiciels libres.
Les « services publics » comme biens communs (Room D109) : expériences et visions du transport, de l'éducation et de la santé.
La nourriture comme bien commun (Room D111) : récupérer notre nourriture, agriculture et pêcheries.
Le commun au travail (Room D206) : luttes des précaires, le travail créatif, l'internationalisme ouvrier et la solidarité.
La liberté de déplacement, la Terre comme bien commun (D209) : les migrants comme sujets politiques, formes de solidarité dans et entre communautés.
Les communs « hors » du capital (Room D211) : expériences et visions des peuples indigènes et de zones autonomes.
16 :30 - 18 :30 « Essaims » (Clement house): Cinq ateliers pour recombiner participantEs et idées selon des thèmes transversaux : « les pouvoirs » (Room D109), « les communs » (Room D111), « les réseaux » (Room D206), « les démocraties » (Room D209) et « les excès créatifs » (Room D211).
Dimanche 17 octobre 2004
9 :30 - 12 :30 Plénière finale (Hong Kong theatre). Retours des ateliers des participants et d'intervenants. Propositions pour l'avenir.
LA VITA A DISPETTO DEL CAPITALISMO
Sabato 16 and Domenica 17 Ottobre.
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(fermata della metropolitana di Holborn, sulla central line)
Per maggiori informazioni si veda http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
"Vita a dispetto del capitalismo", è un progetto/foro dedicato ad affrontare la questione delle alternative al capitalismo nel "qui ed ora", e non "dopo" che capitalismo è stato abolito. Questo implica una capacita' di fare e dei rapporti sociali radicati nella dignita', rispetto e accesso comune alle risorse sociali.
Relatori e partecipanti confermati includono:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, provenienti da gruppi e networks come Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples's Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . .e molti altri . . .
Programma
SABATO 16 Ottobre 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Plenaria iniziale: Interventi sui temi del potere, beni comuni, eccessi, democrazia partecipativa e networks e presentazione dei gruppi di lavoro (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Pranzo
14:00-16:00 "Radici" (Clement House): in questa serie di sei gruppi di lavoro si discuteranno varie esperienze di beni comuni e di riappropriazione dei nostri poteri e formazione di comunita':
Beni comuni virtuali (Stanza D106): Il dono e software libero, comunicazione, recinzioni del freeware.
"Servizi pubbici" come beni comuni (Stanza D109): Esperienze e prospettive nei trasporti, educazione, salute.
Cibo come bene comune (Stanza D111): riappropriazione del cibo che mangiamo, agricoltura e pesca.
"Comuni" sul lavoro (Stanza D206): lotte dei lavoratori precari, lavoro creativo, internazionalismo e solidarieta'.
Liberta' di movimento come bene comune (Stanza D209): migranti come soggetto politico, forme di solidarieta'.
Comuni "fuori" dal capitalismo (Stanza D211): Esperienze indigene e visioni, zone autonome.
16:30-18: 30 "Sciame": Cinque gruppi di lavoro che ricombinano i partecipanti, permettendo la contaminazione reciproca sui temi di "poteri" (Room D109), "comuni" (Room D111), "networks, (Room D206), "democrazie" (Room D209) e "eccessi creativi" (Room D211).
Domenica, 17 Ottobre 2004
9:30 -12:30 Plenaria finale (Hong Kong theatre) Resoconti dai gruppi di lavoro da parte dei partecipanti e alcuni relatori. Proposte per iniziative future.
LEBEN TROTZ KAPITALISMUS
Samstag 16. und Sonntag 17. Oktober.
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(Holborn tube, central line)
Für mehr Einzelinformationen, bitte gehen Sie zu: http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
"Life Despite Capitalism" ist ein Projekt/Forum, das die Frage über Alternativen zu Kapitalismus hier und jetzt, und nicht "nachdem Kapitalismus" abgeschafft ist, erörtert. Das bedeutet die Fähigkeit zu handeln und miteinander umzugehen, in einer Art und Weise, die verwurzelt ist in Würde, Respekt und in einem gemeinsamen Zugang zu unseren Mitteln.
Bestätigte SprecherInnen und TeilnehmerInnen schliessen ein:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman; Gruppen und Netzwerke wie Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples' Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . .und viele andere . . .
Programm
SAMSTAG 16 October 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Anfang-Plenum: Gespräche über Macht, Gemeingüter, kreative Exzesse, teilnehmende Demokratie und Netzwerke und Präsentationen der Workshops (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Mittagspause
14:00-16:00 "Wurzeln" (Clement House): in diesen sechs Workshops werden wir die verschiedenen Erfahrungen der Gemeingüter, die Zurückeroberung der Macht und die Bildung der Gemeinschaften entwickeln.
Virtuelle Gemeingüter (Room D106): Geschenkte und freie Software, Kommunikation, Eingrenzen der 'Freeware'.
"Öffentliche Mittel" als Gemeingüter (Room D109): Erfahrungen und Visionen in Transport, Bildung und Gesundheit.
Essen als Gemeingut (Room D111): Die Zurückeroberung des Essens, das wir essen; Landwirtschaft und Fischerei.
Arbeitsplatz als Gemeingut (Room D206): Die Kämpfe der prekären ArbeiterInnen, Kreative Arbeit, Internationale Arbeit und Solidarität.
Bewegung ohne Grenzen als Gemeingut (Room D209): MigrantInnen als politische Subjekte, Merkmale der Solidarität innerhalb und unter den Gemeinschaften.
Gemeingüter "ausserhalb" Kapitalismus (Room D211): Erfahrungen und Visionen von Einheimischen, autonome Zonen.
16:30-18: 30 "Schwärme": Fünf Workshops, wo TeilnehmerInnen neu zusammenkommen, das gegenseitige "Bestäuben" im Themenbereich "Mächte" (Room D109), "Gemeinüter" (Room D111), "Netzwerk", (Room D206), "Demokratien" (Room D209) und "kreative Exzesse" (Room D211).
SONNTAG 17 October 2004
9:30 -12:30 Abschluß-PLENUM. (Hong Kong theatre) Berichterstattung von Workshops, von eingeladenen SprecherInnen und TeilnehmerInnen und Vorschläge für kommende Initiativen.
VIDA A DESPECHO DEL CAPITALISMO
Sabado 16 y Domingo 17 Octubre.
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(metro Holborn, central line)
Para mas informaciones, ver http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
Vida a despecho del capitalismo es un proyecto/foro dedicado a la cuestion de las alternativas al capitalismo nel 'aqui y ahora', y no nel 'despues' de su abolicion. Esto implica una capacidad de hacer y relaciones sociales radicadas en la dignidad, el respecto y el accesso comun a los recursos sociales
Ponentes y participantes confirmados incluyen:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis
Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, membr@s de grupos y redes como Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples's Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS . . . centre for the study of global ethics . . .y much@s otr@s . . .
Programas
SABADO 16 Octubre 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Plenaria inicial: Intervenciones sobre los temas del poder, bienes comunes, exceso, democracia participativa y networks y presentacion de los grupos de trabajo (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Almuerzo
14:00-16:00 "Raices" (Clement house): en esta serie de seis grupos de trabajo si discutiran varias experiencias de bienes comunes y de riapropriaciones de los nuestros poderes y formaciones de comunidad:
Bienes comunes virtuales (Sala D106): El regalo y el software libre, comunicacion, encerramiento del freeware.
"Servicios publicos" como bienes comunes (Sala D109): Experiencias y perspectivas en los transportes, educacion, salud.
Comida come bien comun (Sala D111): reapropriacion de la comida que comemos, agricultura y pesca.
"Comunes" nel trabajo (Sala D206): luchas de los trabajadores precarios, trabajo creativo, internacionalismo y solidariedad.
Libertad di movimiento como bien comun (Sala D209): migrantes como sujeto politico, formas de solidarietad.
Comunes "fuera" del capitalismo (Stanza D211): Experiencias indigenas y visiones, zonas autonomas.
16:30-18: 30 "Sciame": Cinco grupos de trabajo que recombinan l@s participantes, permetiendo la contaminacion reciproca sobre los temas de "poder" (Sala D109), "comunes" (Sala D111), "networks", (Sala D206), "democracia" (Room D209) e "excessos creativos" (Sala D211).
Domingo, 17 Octubre 2004
9:30 -12:30 Plenaria final (Hong Kong theatre) Relatos de los grupos de trabajo de la parte de l@s participantes y algun@s relator@s. Propuestas para inciativas futuras.
Confirmed speakers and participants include:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, from groups and networks such as Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples' Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . .and many others . . .
Programme
SATURDAY 16 October 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Initial PLENARY: Talks on power, commons, excesses, participatory democracy and networks and presentation of workshops (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 "Roots" (Clement House): in these six workshops we will discuss the various experiences of commons, of reclaiming powers and constituting communities:
Virtual Commons (Room D106): gift and free software, communication, enclosure of freeware.
"Public Services" as commons (Room D109): experiences and visions in transport, education, health.
Food as commons (Room D111): reclaiming the food we eat, agriculture, and fishery.
Workplace commons (Room D206): struggles of precarious workers, creative work, labour internationalism and solidarity.
Free movement as commons (Room D209): migrants as political subjects, patterns of solidarity within and across communities.
Commons "outside" capitalism (Room D211): indigenous experiences and visions, autonomous zones.
16:30-18: 30 "Swarm" (Clement House): Five workshops recombining participants, cross pollinating along themes of "powers" (Room D109), "commons" (Room D111), "networks, (Room D206), "democracies" (Room D209) and "creative excesses" (Room D211).
SUNDAY 17 October 2004
9:30 -12:30 Final PLENARY (Hong Kong theatre) Reports back from workshops by both invited speakers and participants and proposals for future initiatives.
Structure
The opening plenary will allow a series of speakers to rapidly evoke half a dozen very diverse kinds of commons which will be discussed in the first series of workshops. Other speakers will present reflections on the powers we exercise in our doing, the democratic forms of grassroots participation we employ that we will discuss and problematise in the workshops and final plenary.
After the first plenary, we have two rounds of simultaneous workshops followed by a final plenary. The first round of workshops, called "ROOTS", will develop the various experiences of commons and therefore of reclaiming our powers and communities, as they apply to particular themes: virtual communication commons, "public services" as commons, food as commons, workplace commons, and free of movement as commons. Speakers introduce the issue trying to address what these commons are, and how and to what extent these commons represent a challenge to capital, how and to what extent it is capital that rides these commons, and what are the possible challenges ahead. Life history experiences are shared, questions and insights discussed.
The second round of workshops, called "SWARM", will allow the participants in the first round to recombine along broad conceptual themes such as "powers", "commons" and "democracies" and reflection on "moments of creative excesses" with which our struggles change the culture and context of our lives. In this set of workshops, the people and themes of the previous workshop will cross-pollinate. Each workshop would be also given the task to come up with proposals for further work, action and initiatives.
In the final plenary we will have both space for report back from the workshops and collective reflection. There will be a report back from both series of workshops. Then both invited speakers and participants will comment, problematise issues, and critically engage with the discussion of the. Speakers in particular will be asked (to paraphrase Foucault) not to impose their ideas, but to use their skills to note and give volume to the ideas emerging from the collective. Hopefully proposals for future initiatives and practices will take form, common ideas thus integrating themselves in the discourses of our concrete struggles.
Having no simultaneous translation equipment and limited time, the plenary will be primarily in English. Speakers in other languages will be translated into English. Informal translation groups will be organised for non-english speakers.
Weaving discourses of empowerment
In our effort to weave together new political discourses that approaches the question of alternatives to capitalism, we are aware the importance that discourses and the values they embed have in guiding social action, outreach and help "mobilise" and constitute new social relations across the social body. Discourses select things, decide what is important to pursue, and what is not important, what comes first and what comes last. In the discourse we want to develop, we believe that the values of our final ends are not distinct from the organisational means we employ. It is on this basis that we problematise the world around us and the practices we ourselves pursue.
In the last two decades, neoliberal globalisation has carried out massive attacks on public goods and services of various kinds. Going beyond privatisation, this agenda has commodified and individualised more spheres of life -- e.g. public spaces, collective skills, education, etc. By analogy to the original Enclosures of common land, these attacks can be understood as new enclosures of present-day commons, where the state acts as a prime agent. At the same time, the neoliberal agenda has eliminated or marginalised social-democratic forms which previously mediated between the state and civil society. Despite the semblance of choice and diversity, we are also witnessing a flattening of difference, a homogenisation of every commodity from food to software.
On the other hand, in recent years the anti-capitalist forces have grown in strength and coordination. They have developed new social forms and international networks of resistance and struggle, which go beyond demands upon the state. In all their diversity, these struggles are posing the question of commons, empowerment and grassroots democracy.
We understand all forms of struggle as rooted on some types of community, whether newly created forms brought about by struggles, or existing communities who defend themselves from enclosures and attacks. Often struggle develops communities for articulating alternatives and for appropriating resources as a collective good, in ways independent of state authority or antagonistic to it. Other times, existing communities develop struggles that in turn changes the nature of communities and their mutual relations.
Communities and commons are therefore the basis for the exercise of social powers at whatever scale of social action. Commons suggest alternative, non-commodified means to fulfill social needs, e.g. to obtain social wealth and to organise social production of whatever type. Commons are necessarily created and sustained by communities, i.e. by social networks of mutual aid and solidarity. As our movements have shown, commons and the process of people's empowerment that creates them cannot be separated from the learning practices of direct democracy, horizontality, participation, and inclusiveness to decide what are the goals and modalities of social production.
Rather than falsely counterpoise the state to the market, our strategies of struggle can identify the state-market nexus as the problem and develop strategic alternatives around extending new types of commons, strengthening and creating corresponding communities and problematising the forms of relations within them. Such activities can make "alternatives" relevant and real to many people not yet drawn into the anti-capitalist movement, yet engaged in processes of production of commons. Indeed, the commons as a contemporary project has the problem of being either invisible (the electromagnetic spectrum), criminalized (file swapping, freedom of movement), co-opted in the competitive race (workplace commons), sentimentalized (as in the real estate mania for "commons" in housing estates and shopping malls) or the immediate product of crisis (and hence taken as transitory - until capitalism takes hold - and marginal as in the urban gardens of the planet which feed in part about 20% of the world's populations). It needs a common voice. It is time we go for it!
LA VIE MALGRÉ LE CAPITALISME
Samedi 16 et dimanche 17 octobre
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(Holborn Line, Central Line)
Pour plus d'informations, voir
http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
La Vie Malgré le Capitalisme est un projet/forum pour discuter des alternatives au capitalisme ici et maintenant, et non pas « après » son abolition. Cela implique une capacité de faire et d'être en relation les uns aux autres enracinés dans la dignité, le respect et l'accès de toutes et tous à des ressources communes.
IntervenantEs et participantEs confirméEs :
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, de groupes et réseaux tels que le Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples's Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . . et beaucoup d'autres.
Programme
Samedi 16 octobre 2004
9 :30 -12 :30 Plénière introductive : Interventions multiples sur les thèmes des ateliers, ainsi que sur le pouvoir, les communs, les « excès » créatifs, la démocratie participative et les réseaux (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
14 :00 -16 :00 « Racines » (Clement house): Dans ces six ateliers nous discuterons de diverses expériences de communs, de reconquête de pouvoirs et de constitution de communautés.
Les communs virtuels (Room D106) : le don et les logiciels libres, la communication, la clôture contre les logiciels libres.
Les « services publics » comme biens communs (Room D109) : expériences et visions du transport, de l'éducation et de la santé.
La nourriture comme bien commun (Room D111) : récupérer notre nourriture, agriculture et pêcheries.
Le commun au travail (Room D206) : luttes des précaires, le travail créatif, l'internationalisme ouvrier et la solidarité.
La liberté de déplacement, la Terre comme bien commun (D209) : les migrants comme sujets politiques, formes de solidarité dans et entre communautés.
Les communs « hors » du capital (Room D211) : expériences et visions des peuples indigènes et de zones autonomes.
16 :30 - 18 :30 « Essaims » (Clement house): Cinq ateliers pour recombiner participantEs et idées selon des thèmes transversaux : « les pouvoirs » (Room D109), « les communs » (Room D111), « les réseaux » (Room D206), « les démocraties » (Room D209) et « les excès créatifs » (Room D211).
Dimanche 17 octobre 2004
9 :30 - 12 :30 Plénière finale (Hong Kong theatre). Retours des ateliers des participants et d'intervenants. Propositions pour l'avenir.
LA VITA A DISPETTO DEL CAPITALISMO
Sabato 16 and Domenica 17 Ottobre.
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(fermata della metropolitana di Holborn, sulla central line)
Per maggiori informazioni si veda
http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
"Vita a dispetto del capitalismo", è un progetto/foro dedicato ad affrontare la questione delle alternative al capitalismo nel "qui ed ora", e non "dopo" che capitalismo è stato abolito. Questo implica una capacita' di fare e dei rapporti sociali radicati nella dignita', rispetto e accesso comune alle risorse sociali.
Relatori e partecipanti confermati includono:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, provenienti da gruppi e networks come Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples's Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . .e molti altri . . .
Programma
SABATO 16 Ottobre 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Plenaria iniziale: Interventi sui temi del potere, beni comuni, eccessi, democrazia partecipativa e networks e presentazione dei gruppi di lavoro (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Pranzo
14:00-16:00 "Radici" (Clement House): in questa serie di sei gruppi di lavoro si discuteranno varie esperienze di beni comuni e di riappropriazione dei nostri poteri e formazione di comunita':
Beni comuni virtuali (Stanza D106): Il dono e software libero, comunicazione, recinzioni del freeware.
"Servizi pubbici" come beni comuni (Stanza D109): Esperienze e prospettive nei trasporti, educazione, salute.
Cibo come bene comune (Stanza D111): riappropriazione del cibo che mangiamo, agricoltura e pesca.
"Comuni" sul lavoro (Stanza D206): lotte dei lavoratori precari, lavoro creativo, internazionalismo e solidarieta'.
Liberta' di movimento come bene comune (Stanza D209): migranti come soggetto politico, forme di solidarieta'.
Comuni "fuori" dal capitalismo (Stanza D211): Esperienze indigene e visioni, zone autonome.
16:30-18: 30 "Sciame": Cinque gruppi di lavoro che ricombinano i partecipanti, permettendo la contaminazione reciproca sui temi di "poteri" (Room D109), "comuni" (Room D111), "networks, (Room D206), "democrazie" (Room D209) e "eccessi creativi" (Room D211).
Domenica, 17 Ottobre 2004
9:30 -12:30 Plenaria finale (Hong Kong theatre) Resoconti dai gruppi di lavoro da parte dei partecipanti e alcuni relatori. Proposte per iniziative future.
LEBEN TROTZ KAPITALISMUS
Samstag 16. und Sonntag 17. Oktober.
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(Holborn tube, central line)
Für mehr Einzelinformationen, bitte gehen Sie zu:
http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
"Life Despite Capitalism" ist ein Projekt/Forum, das die Frage über Alternativen zu Kapitalismus hier und jetzt, und nicht "nachdem Kapitalismus" abgeschafft ist, erörtert. Das bedeutet die Fähigkeit zu handeln und miteinander umzugehen, in einer Art und Weise, die verwurzelt ist in Würde, Respekt und in einem gemeinsamen Zugang zu unseren Mitteln.
Bestätigte SprecherInnen und TeilnehmerInnen schliessen ein:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis, Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman; Gruppen und Netzwerke wie Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples' Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics . . .und viele andere . . .
Programm
SAMSTAG 16 October 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Anfang-Plenum: Gespräche über Macht, Gemeingüter, kreative Exzesse, teilnehmende Demokratie und Netzwerke und Präsentationen der Workshops (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Mittagspause
14:00-16:00 "Wurzeln" (Clement House): in diesen sechs Workshops werden wir die verschiedenen Erfahrungen der Gemeingüter, die Zurückeroberung der Macht und die Bildung der Gemeinschaften entwickeln.
Virtuelle Gemeingüter (Room D106): Geschenkte und freie Software, Kommunikation, Eingrenzen der 'Freeware'.
"Öffentliche Mittel" als Gemeingüter (Room D109): Erfahrungen und Visionen in Transport, Bildung und Gesundheit.
Essen als Gemeingut (Room D111): Die Zurückeroberung des Essens, das wir essen; Landwirtschaft und Fischerei.
Arbeitsplatz als Gemeingut (Room D206): Die Kämpfe der prekären ArbeiterInnen, Kreative Arbeit, Internationale Arbeit und Solidarität.
Bewegung ohne Grenzen als Gemeingut (Room D209): MigrantInnen als politische Subjekte, Merkmale der Solidarität innerhalb und unter den Gemeinschaften.
Gemeingüter "ausserhalb" Kapitalismus (Room D211): Erfahrungen und Visionen von Einheimischen, autonome Zonen.
16:30-18: 30 "Schwärme": Fünf Workshops, wo TeilnehmerInnen neu zusammenkommen, das gegenseitige "Bestäuben" im Themenbereich "Mächte" (Room D109), "Gemeinüter" (Room D111), "Netzwerk", (Room D206), "Demokratien" (Room D209) und "kreative Exzesse" (Room D211).
SONNTAG 17 October 2004
9:30 -12:30 Abschluß-PLENUM. (Hong Kong theatre) Berichterstattung von Workshops, von eingeladenen SprecherInnen und TeilnehmerInnen und Vorschläge für kommende Initiativen.
VIDA A DESPECHO DEL CAPITALISMO
Sabado 16 y Domingo 17 Octubre.
Old Building (first plenary) and Clement House (workshops and final plenary). Aldwych.
(metro Holborn, central line)
Para mas informaciones, ver
http://www.lifedespitecapitalism.org
Vida a despecho del capitalismo es un proyecto/foro dedicado a la cuestion de las alternativas al capitalismo nel 'aqui y ahora', y no nel 'despues' de su abolicion. Esto implica una capacidad de hacer y relaciones sociales radicadas en la dignidad, el respecto y el accesso comun a los recursos sociales
Ponentes y participantes confirmados incluyen:
Jake Black, Reverend D. Wayne Love AKA, George Caffentzis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Massimo De Angelis
Olivier De Marcellus, Ana Dinnerstein, Viviane Gonik, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, John Jordan, JJ King, Nolasco Mamani, Sandro Mezzadra, Mercedes Moya, Jai Sen, Steven Shukaitis, Matthias Studer, Gavin Sullivan, Peter Waterman, membr@s de grupos y redes como Leeds May Day group, Globalisation from Below, Alabama 3, Mute magazine, Greenpepper magazine, Proceso de Communidades Negras (Colombia), Transform-Italy, Tavolo-migranti, The Commoner, Global Roots, Peoples's Global Action, Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA), Indymedia, Action populaire contre la mondialisation, COBAS . . . centre for the study of global ethics . . .y much@s otr@s . . .
Programas
SABADO 16 Octubre 2004
9:30 - 12:30 Plenaria inicial: Intervenciones sobre los temas del poder, bienes comunes, exceso, democracia participativa y networks y presentacion de los grupos de trabajo (Old Building/Old theatre, Houghton street).
12:30-14:00 Almuerzo
14:00-16:00 "Raices" (Clement house): en esta serie de seis grupos de trabajo si discutiran varias experiencias de bienes comunes y de riapropriaciones de los nuestros poderes y formaciones de comunidad:
Bienes comunes virtuales (Sala D106): El regalo y el software libre, comunicacion, encerramiento del freeware.
"Servicios publicos" como bienes comunes (Sala D109): Experiencias y perspectivas en los transportes, educacion, salud.
Comida come bien comun (Sala D111): reapropriacion de la comida que comemos, agricultura y pesca.
"Comunes" nel trabajo (Sala D206): luchas de los trabajadores precarios, trabajo creativo, internacionalismo y solidariedad.
Libertad di movimiento como bien comun (Sala D209): migrantes como sujeto politico, formas de solidarietad.
Comunes "fuera" del capitalismo (Stanza D211): Experiencias indigenas y visiones, zonas autonomas.
16:30-18: 30 "Sciame": Cinco grupos de trabajo que recombinan l@s participantes, permetiendo la contaminacion reciproca sobre los temas de "poder" (Sala D109), "comunes" (Sala D111), "networks", (Sala D206), "democracia" (Room D209) e "excessos creativos" (Sala D211).
Domingo, 17 Octubre 2004
9:30 -12:30 Plenaria final (Hong Kong theatre) Relatos de los grupos de trabajo de la parte de l@s participantes y algun@s relator@s. Propuestas para inciativas futuras.
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