2. Experiments in Self-Organization: From Squares to Neighborhoods to Factories Over the past two and half years, a common organizing structure emerged in many of the neighborhoods, towns, cities and countries around the world. This structure became known as the ‘general assembly’: mass gatherings of people in public spaces where activists, workers, and communities could come together to make decisions in a less hierarchical and more decentralized way. This panel explores some of the many different forms of self-organization and horizontal decision-making that are being practiced around the world today to explore what the benefits and limitations of these models are as an organizing tool and as an alternative political structure. This panel will explore the radical content of these organizing models, which specific social relationships they challenge and how and why these models sometimes lose their content by looking at concrete examples of how they have functioned. Aylin Kuryel (Turkey), Dimitris from the Vio.Me. worker-run factory (Thessaloniki, Greece), Peter (Barcelona, Spain), Jasper Bernes (Oakland, US) with Andrej Kurnik (Maribor, Slovenia)as discussant.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:15:14 +0000