These are intense weeks in Barcelona and for this it took us a bit of time to formulate a proposal to the KLF for meeting in September. Our proposal is to hold the meeting of the KLF on the 16-18 of September in Barcelona in concomitance with the a broader euromediterranean meeting to discuss about the Autumn starting from the mobilisations of the 15Oct.
We propose to build together a common space for euromediterranean social movements in September where to share info on mobilisations and to prepare an interconnected agenda for the struggles of Autumn. To the KLF we want to propose an agenda for Friday 16 and Saturday 17 of September, following from the discussion in Paris, to keep developing our common projects on autonomous and radical knowledge and against the austerity. Here goes a first proposal and the link to the Crabgrass group where we are starting to discuss the definition of the programme for the KLF-Meeting
More in general, from Barcelona we are trying to contact different networks in Europe and the North of Africa to propose to participate in this HubMeeting. Aside of common discussions, we are offering the possibility to hold here in Barcelona autonomous meetings on the same days.
We can offer logistic and support for networks that want to converge in Barcelona from the 15 of September to the 18 of September.
For this is important to let us know at 15shubmeeting@gmail.com your participation and the will of holding meetings, workshops etc.
KLF Meeting
Following from the Paris meeting, we propose to have two different session for working – first, parallel meetings of the different groups emerged in Paris and in the following months (i can think about KAFKA-Fanzine, Website, Tunisian meeting, and we can go on adding an abstract for each group in the crabgrass). Second a general session in which each group could report back to the general meeting and in which we could discuss about the common action of the KLF and the next meeting that possibly will be hold in Tunis.
PLEASE NOTE: DRY-Bcn can take charge of the logistic of this meeting (rooms, sleeping, possibly translations), but the organization of discussions, materials etc needs to be assumed by the KLF and worked out in the next weeks. We propose to use the space of the Crabgrass to discuss
1. Workshops
2. Agenda of the General Meeting
For Meeting Logistics, please refer to the logistic group on https://red.democraciarealya.es/pg/groups/59275/15s-hub-meeting/
Hub Meeting
The Hub Meeting is being organized in this online group
We just add down the call for the meeting. If you want to participate, please inscribe yourself on the red.democraciarealya.es network to work together.
Finally we want to warmly invite you to participate. This Spring has been emotioning and inspiring but we think the Autumn to come will be a crucial moment for building grassroots mobilizations able to hack power and to start the construction of new forms of radical and autonomous social organization. In the same spirit that lead us in Paris we want to materially affirm and show everybody that the struggles in the North of Africa, in the Middle East and in Europe are the same struggle: against austerity and for taking our power back.
For this meeting, discussing, and collaborating through out our differences is crucial and this is why we want to open a space of discussion where convergence doesnt mean ‘unification’ but ‘dialogue, alliance’ in a struggle against common enemies and to take back what is our!
WE WON’T PAY FOR YOUR CRISIS!
KLF-BcnGroup in collaboration with DRY-Barcelona
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Dear friends and comrades,
For those of us who have experienced 15M movement firsthand, last weeks have been intense. Our daily life has been happily colonized by radical and diffuse political practices, which has been capable of initiating the debate and showing the advanced state of decomposition of representative politics and its servility to economic interests.
For those of us who have experienced 15M movement firsthand, last weeks have been intense. Our daily life has been happily colonized by radical and diffuse political practices, which has been capable of initiating the debate and showing the advanced state of decomposition of representative politics and its servility to economic interests.
Today, new mobilizations are occurring in many places which continue with the long fall of fighting and struggle against austerity policies and the later spring of revolts blossom in Iceland and the Mediterranean shores.
Next autumn, lots of conflicts will cross the world. Attempts to stop radical and democratic movements in the Arab world, and the sanction of austerity policies in Europe, are the closest examples to us. But we know they are not the only ones. We are experiencing together an attack to global society which targets existence as to make it precarious in the interests of a very restricted and dominant elite.
In the European frame, all these austerity and cutting policies directly affect the foundations of different forms of the European welfare state, which in spite of their differences are the result of many previous struggles. The rights we currently enjoy were not granted by the dominant political class throughout the time. It was social movements which achieved the incorporation of a more human and fair perspective of society through mobilizations and other actions. Nobody has given us anything for free; we cannot tolerate anyone to snatch the political and social conquests accomplished so far. We have a historical legacy to defend together.
Because of these reasons, we are working, from the different DRY (Democracia Real Ya!) nodes, on the global mobilization on October 15th against austerity policies and to build real democratic practices from the bottom up. We would like October 15th to be a territory, inhabited and shared by many people, colectively built, where we can denounce the crisis of power and start building concrete alternatives against material conditions and precariousness of lifestyles.
We consider this to be done through meeting and debate among multiple networks, social movements and processes, which are challenging power arrogance in this common struggle cycle. That is why we propose building up a meeting together from 15th to 18th September. A kind of Hub Meeting where we can talk about this cycle of mobilizations and find possible connection, collaboration and convergence joints between the struggles in which we are taking part.
Because of all above stated, we offer, from Barcelona, to provide the necessary infrastructure which allow us to carry out the meeting and therefore to be able to share analysis, perspectives and strategies to design together a long fall against a global power which each and every day seems, in our opinion, closer to its own twilight.
The different networks, groups and movements, which want to take part in this meeting, will be also able to organize parallel and autonomous meetings everyday. They will have access to the necessary logistic means as places to gather and accommodation, etc (yet to determine)
Next autumn, lots of conflicts will cross the world. Attempts to stop radical and democratic movements in the Arab world, and the sanction of austerity policies in Europe, are the closest examples to us. But we know they are not the only ones. We are experiencing together an attack to global society which targets existence as to make it precarious in the interests of a very restricted and dominant elite.
In the European frame, all these austerity and cutting policies directly affect the foundations of different forms of the European welfare state, which in spite of their differences are the result of many previous struggles. The rights we currently enjoy were not granted by the dominant political class throughout the time. It was social movements which achieved the incorporation of a more human and fair perspective of society through mobilizations and other actions. Nobody has given us anything for free; we cannot tolerate anyone to snatch the political and social conquests accomplished so far. We have a historical legacy to defend together.
Because of these reasons, we are working, from the different DRY (Democracia Real Ya!) nodes, on the global mobilization on October 15th against austerity policies and to build real democratic practices from the bottom up. We would like October 15th to be a territory, inhabited and shared by many people, colectively built, where we can denounce the crisis of power and start building concrete alternatives against material conditions and precariousness of lifestyles.
We consider this to be done through meeting and debate among multiple networks, social movements and processes, which are challenging power arrogance in this common struggle cycle. That is why we propose building up a meeting together from 15th to 18th September. A kind of Hub Meeting where we can talk about this cycle of mobilizations and find possible connection, collaboration and convergence joints between the struggles in which we are taking part.
Because of all above stated, we offer, from Barcelona, to provide the necessary infrastructure which allow us to carry out the meeting and therefore to be able to share analysis, perspectives and strategies to design together a long fall against a global power which each and every day seems, in our opinion, closer to its own twilight.
The different networks, groups and movements, which want to take part in this meeting, will be also able to organize parallel and autonomous meetings everyday. They will have access to the necessary logistic means as places to gather and accommodation, etc (yet to determine)
To make the set-up of this meeting the most collective possible, we suggest that you use, as a shared space, the group “15S Hub meeting”:
To access this tool you must first log on at https://red.democraciarealya.es/ and join the “I” team where the “15S Hub meeting” subgroup is enabled.
As a first way to organize preparatory work, we suggest the following categories: Participating Groups and Networks; Contents; Working Methodology; Logistics and Calendar.
Participating Groups and Netwroks: a list of participants with a brief introduction.
Participating Groups and Netwroks: a list of participants with a brief introduction.
Contents: collecting proposals of workshops and issues threads.
Methodology: proposal and discussion of working methodologies with the tool online and for the meeting itself.
Calendar: organization of days and times of the meeting.
Logistics: available and necessary resources to carry out the activities and their management.
If you are interested in participating, we’ll appreciate if you can send us an email to 15ShubMeeting@gmail.com in order to construct a list of participants (and their networks) and to planify the resources that we need.
Hoping to meet you in Barcelona, and on the net,
DRY Barcelona
DRY appears in January 2011 as a citizen mobilization platforms coordinator within a context influenced by the silent Icelandic revolution, the Arab spring and the European mobilizations cycle against austerity policies, which are being implemented as an excuse for their necessity in the context of the current economic and financial crisis, which affects all of us. In this frame, DRY called for a first demonstration last May 15th (15M) to denounce that “we are not merchandise in bankers and politicians hands”. With this mobilization, the precarious ones -workers, students, pensioners, inmigrants…- and different social groups took politics back from the violence of Capital. DRY has actively participated in the “#acampadas” (campsites) movement. DRY supports and actively works on the building up of mobilizations on October 15th on a global level.
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