Friday January 15th 7:00PM
Reportback from Two Social Movements in Spain and Argentina:
-Catalonia, Spain: We Can Live Without Capitalism
-Sienvolando: Snapshots of Art Actions, Popular Murals, and Collaboration through Networks
Presented by Scott Pinkelman and KellyAnne Mifflin, recipients of the Institute for Anarchist Studies grants.
@ Wooden Shoe Books
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Phila PA 19147
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-Catalonia, Spain: We Can Live Without Capitalism
This group carried out a well-publicized non-violent expropriation of
the finance industry in 2008 to promote region-wide alternatives to
capitalism. Based in a synthesis of theory about the current financial
order and alternative economies, We Can Live Without Capitalism has been
promoting a 'counterhegemonic economy' throughout Catolonia through
'fiscal disobedience,' cooperatives, alternative currencies, and squatting.
Visit their website at: http://www.sincapitalismo.net/
Scott is an organizer, translator, and writer. He works with the Philadelphia-based radical newspaper The Defenestrator (http://defenestrator.org ), and has given numerous popular education classes and workshops on economics
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Sienvolando: Snapshots of Art Actions, Popular Murals, and Collaboration through Networks
What's happening in Argentina eight years after the crisis and subsequent popular uprisings of 2001-2? This powerpoint presentation will explore the transition between a large-scale, yet contextually motivated movement to smaller but more permanent projects. KellyAnne will refer back to Argentina’s recent history, but will emphasize what work is going on now and how people are re-articulating their movements “post post-crisis.” Sienvolando is an art action group in La Plata, Argentina that responds to immediate events both at a local and global level by working within a loose informal network of social justice organizations, and providing the visual and creative component to various struggles. This takes many forms, such as single-day illegal murals in response to government inaction, repression, and structural violence, collaborative murals for community centers, stencils and graffiti during demonstrations, and woodblocks to print in the street at festivals. Sienvolando and the groups it collaborates with are smaller in scale than their horizontal predecessors, but they have had five years to practice, assess, and redefine what it means to work autonomously and collectively.
To find out more about Sienvolando, visit the group's website: sienvolando.blogspot.com
KellyAnne spent much of 2007 and 2008 participating in various community organizations in Buenos Aires. In 2008 she spent time painting and thinking with Sienvolando, and later wrote her undergraduate thesis on three art-centered urban social justice groups in the greater Buenos Aires area. She currently lives in Philadelphia.