Sunday 17 November: 14.00-15.30 (two simultaneous sessions) 1. Media, Communication, Outreach This session will explore the many ways in which movements relate to both mainstream and social media. How did the movements reach the wider public? How did they develop new technologies themselves? What forms of face-to-face communication were essential? The speakers represent a mix of experiences and positions vis-à-vis the media. Some of them engage with the mainstream media in creative and subversive ways, others develop humorous campaigns with a spectacular elements to attract the attention of the public as well as mainstream media, while still others develop alternative channels of communication to reach the public through social media, video and blogs or by designing software and hardware tools to facilitate communication within, between and from the movements. Not an Alternative (New York City, US), Leonidas Martin (Enmedio, Barcelona, Spain), Salma Said (Mosireen, Cairo, Egypt), Hassen Hajbi (Revolutionary Cultural Movement , Tunis, Tunisia) with Jerome Roos (ROARmag.org) as discussant. 2. Reinventing the Strike Over the past two years several new trends in strike organization have emerged. Instead of strikes that are organized through the mechanisms and leadership of trade unions, recently many strikes have been called for and coordinated by movements such as Occupy, the 15 May movement, the movement of the squares, anarchists, autonomists, and independent workers. This has resulted in “social” strikes that targeted not only production but also consumption with total shut down of large industry in and small businesses due to massive refusal to work, but also to consume. At the same time in countries where unions are heavily limited due to legal frameworks that forbid general strikes or cooperation between unions, movements such as Occupy have successfully utilized loopholes in safety regulations to organize port shutdowns. The rise of the movements of the squares has created a new political force that can call for strikes and organize not only employed members of unions, but also the unemployed, non-unionized, and precarious workers. This panel focuses on these new trends and looks at how these can be coordinated and expanded in the future. Tim/Javier (Oakland, US), M (Barcelona), Nauss Steeves (Montreal, Canada), with Brandon Jourdan as discussant. Sunday 17 November 2013: 16.00-18.00 Closing Plenary: The Permanent Crisis Keynote: Paul Mattick Jr. The global economic crisis has affected nearly everyone in every corner of the globe. In his book Business as Usual , Paul Mattick Jr. explains the global economic crisis in relation to the development of the world economy since World War II, framing it also as a fundamental example of the cycle of crisis and recovery that has characterized capitalism since the early nineteenth century. In this closing plenary, Paul Mattick Jr. will discuss the ongoing crisis of capitalism and what it might mean for global social movements. Additional Program at open spaces around the City : Wednesday 13 November 2013: Joe’s Garage Pretoriusstraat 43 1092 EZ Amsterdam joesgarage.nl 3pm till evening: Open space, Lonely Collective Day Cafe 8pm: Critical Student Evening. Speakers: Frank Lopez (subMedia.tv) & Naus Steves on student strikes in Montreal and fracking in New Brunswick (Canada).
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