The year starts with energy:
Universidad Nómada
,
Exit-BCN
and
Ateneu Candela
are organizing from today Thursday January 8 and for three days, the
Call for a European meeting of social centers Barcelona/Terrass
a
, which has the collaboration and support of the
MACBA
(something that many people seem to assume with absolute naturalness, as if it were the most normal thing in the world…).
The idea of the call arose, as explained in the complete presentation text that we copied after the Continue reading directly from the Universidad Nómada website, during another meeting that took place last June in the social center
Rog
of Liubliana; and a third edition is proposed during the spring, to be held in Rome, and in which they want to discuss the “networks
of self-training and the emergence of free universities.”
“Network is Coming.
Social centers – in their different forms and declinations – have been in the last twenty years one of the most significant common words in autonomous movements all over Europe. The fil rouge connecting multiple experiences from north to south, from east to west has represented the constitution of self-managed spaces – for culture, rights and socialization – as political counter-powers capable of challenging the hegemony of the state, of the parties and of the market. Since the 80s, the right to housing, underground cultures and anti-hierarchical policies have been the major focuses of these spaces and have led them to mix with each other the counter-memories that besiege Europe and to experiment with new battlefields for social and urban rights, for emancipation and political expression from below.
The networks at European level have been growing in recent years, allowing the development of common lexicons, militant strategies, exchange and constructive criticism as well as a translocal coordination of initiatives for an autonomous coordination of struggles on a global scale. The combination and composition of difference, the ability to translate experiences from one site to another and mutual respect have enabled the constitution of permanent links and alliances between experiences and also the constitution (virtual and non virtual) of coordination spaces with variable geometries of participation.
Starting from this stratification of experiences, the emerging projects of social centers are experiencing profound mutations, new ways of acting in the urban space. The metropolis is today a laboratory for new typologies of social centers: as embryonic universities of cognitive workers in the emerging framework of the production of knowledge, as nascent prototypes of social biosindicalism in the new framework of precarious work, not only for self-defense but also to claim new social and urban rights in the post-colonial and post-industrial city; and finally as autonomous processes trying to configure new forms of cooperative organization capable of making common the subjective surplus and capable of resisting expropriation and spoilage in the contemporary composition of living work.
In this framework, several social centers met last June in Ljubljana – in the Rog social center – for a preliminary articulation of a network between these new experiences. At the Ljubljana meeting, beyond the connection and exchange, we felt the need to open spaces for the collective discussion of some issues. That is why we decided to organize two meetings to continue advancing on the issues that were discussed.
In the first meeting, organized by Exit-Bcn and Ateneu Candela at the beginning of January 2009, we will discuss new forms of unionism in the European framework, and the strategies of autonomous projects for resources and fundraising. In the second meeting – the proposal is to hold it in the spring of 2009 in Rome – we will discuss self-training networks and the emergence of free universities. Finally, it will be the space to discuss and invent perspectives for networking and forms of network cooperation between autonomous spaces.
FIRST PART PROGRAM: SEMINAR ON BIOSINDICALISM. January 8, 9, Macba, Barcelona
Thursday, January 8
16H. Workshop Experiences of biounionism for transnational social rights Coordinators:
CS Rog (Ljubljana) – Office of Social Rights (Terrasa)
Participate:
Freefighters (Belgrade)
Clandestine Railroad (Madrid)
Associazione de Difesa Lavoratori (Padua)
Ods-Centro Vecinal Pumarejo (Seville)
VdeVivienda (Barcelona)
7.30 pm. Round Table.
Organizing the imperceptible: practices emerging in the crisis
Speakers:
Barbara Beznec and Andrej Kurnik, Rog (Ljubljana)
Valery Alzaga, SIEU, Justice for Cleaners Campaign
Nicolás Sguiglia (CIM-REDI)
Exit-Bcn, Barcelona
Friday, January 9
4pm. Workshop
Experiences of self-organization for cognitive production
Coordinators:
ESC Atelier occupato (Rome), SALE Docks (Venice)
Participate:
Traficantes de Sueños (Madrid)
EXGAE (Barcelona)
Coordinacion de intermitentes y precarios de Île-de-France (Paris)
Casa invisible (Malaga)
Hackademy (Madrid)
Universidade Invisible (Coruña)
7.30pm H Round Table
Social rights in times of precarity: new waves in the metropolis
EXGAE (Barcelona)
Gerald Raunig, eipcp, Vienna
Alberto de Nicola, Esc, Rome
Marco Baravalle, S.A.L.E Docks, Venice
Tomas Herreros (Universidad Nómada)
SECOND PART: WORKING SESSION ON NETWORKING BETWEEN POLITICAL SPACES AND SOCIAL CENTERS, January 10, Ateneu Candela, Terrassa
11h. Discussion on mobility and «Erasmus from below». Work proposal.
13h. Discussion on self-training and seminar program: work proposals
18h. Political Discussion. Making Europe with the struggles / Institutions of movement in the crisis.
22h. MEGA PARTY. NO FEAR.
CALL FOR A EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL CENTERS BARCELONA/TERRASSA, 2009, January 8-10. Network is Coming.
Social centers – in their different forms and declinations – have been in the last twenty years one of the most significant common words in autonomous movements all over Europe. The fil rouge connecting several experiences from North to South, from East to West has been the constitution of self managed spaces – for culture, rights and socialization – as political counterpowers able to challenge the hegemony of the State, of the Parties, of the Market. Since the 1980s housing rights, underground cultures, anti-hierarchical politics have been the major focuses of these spaces and led them to crisscross the counter-memories haunting Europe and to experiment new fields of struggle for social and urban rights, for emancipation and political expression from below.
Networks on an european level have been rising through the last years, allowing the development of common lexicons, shared strategies, interchange and constructive critique as well as translocal coordination of initiatives for autonomous coordination of struggles on an international scale. The combination and composition of difference, the ability to translate experiences from one place to another and the mutual respect made possible both the constitution of permanent links and alliances between experiences and also the constitution of (virtual and non-virtual) spaces of coordination with variable geometries of participation.
Starting from this stratification of experiences, the emerging projects of social centres are experimenting deep mutations, new forms of acting in the urban space. Metropolis is today a laboratory for new typologies of social centres: as embryonic universities of cognitive workers in the emerging framework of the production of knowledge, as nascent prototypes of social unionism in the new framework of precarious labour, not only for self-defence but also for demanding new social and urban rights in the postcolonial and post-industrial city; finally as autonomous processes trying to configure new forms of cooperative organization able to make common the subjective surplus and able to resist expropriation and exploitation in the contemporary composition of living labour.
In this framework, several social centres met last June in Ljubljana – in Social Centre Rog – for a preliminary articulation of a networking among these new experiences. In Ljubljana meeting, beyond the connection and interchange, we feel the need to open spaces for collective discussion on some issues. This is why we decided to organize two open meeting on these topics.
The first meeting, organized by Exit-Bcn and Ateneu Candela in the beginning of January 2009, will discuss new forms of unionism in the european framework, and the strategies for resources and fundraising of autonomous projects. The second meeting – the proposal is to realize it in Rome in Spring 2009 – will discuss networks of self-formation and the emergence of free universities. Finally it will be the place to discuss and invent perspective for networking and net-forms of cooperation among autonomous spaces.
This is why we call for a Metting in Barcelona/Terrassa – on the 8th, 9th and 10th of January 2009. It will be divided in two parts: in the first days – in Barcelona – various panels will introduce a discussion on new forms of unionism with particular attention to citizenship, informal and precarious labour, cognitive production. The second part – in Terrasa on the 10th – will be for sharing experiences and discuss a first proposal about “alter” erasmus; the european production of spaces for self-education; the role of social centers as metropolitan tools of conflict, in the european framework and in the scene of global crisis.
PROGRAM First two days
SEMINAR ON BIO UNIONISM. January 8, 9. Macba, Barcelona
Thursday January 8th
4pm. Workshop
Experiences of biounionism for transnational social rights
Coordinators:
SC Rog (Ljubljana) – Oficinas de Derechos Sociales (Terrasa)
Interventions:
Freefighters (Belgrade) Ferrocarril Clandestino (Madrid), Associazione de Difesa Lavoratori (Padova), Ods-Centro Vecinal Pumarejo, V de Vivienda (Barcelona)
7.30 pm. Panel Organizing the imperceptible: practices emerging in the crisis
Interventions:
Barbara Beznec y Andrej Kurnik, Rog (Liubliana)
Valery Alzaga, SIEU, Justice for Cleaners
Nicolás Sguiglia (CIM-REDI)
Exit-Bcn, Barcelona
Friday January 9th
4pm. Workshop
Experiencies of self-organization for cognitive production
Coordinators:
ESC (Rome), Sale (Venezia)
Interventions:
Traficantes de Sueños (Madrid),
Exgae, (Barcelona),
Coordination des Intermittents et Précaires d’Île de France (París),
La Casa Invisible (Malaga)
Hackademy (Madrid)
Universidade Invisible (Coruña)
7:30 pm Panel
Social rights in times of precarity: new waves in the metropolis
EXGAE (Barcelona)
Gerald Raunig, eipcp, Vienna
Alberto de Nicola, Esc, Rome
Marco Baravalle, S.A.L.E Docks, Venice
Tomas Herreros, Universidad Nómada
Third day:
Working session. SOCIAL CENTERS AND POLITICAL SPACES NETWORKING.
January 10th. Ateneu Candela, Terrassa
11 am
Discussion on mobility and Erasmus. Draft Proposal on «The Other Erasmus».
1 pm. Discussion on self education. Draft proposal on transnational seminars/European University from Below.
6pm. Political Discussion: Making Europe throw struggles/ Movements Institutions in the Crisis.
10pm. MEGA PARTY. NO FEAR.“