City Strolls - events - meetings
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina.
"The social movements that exploded in Argentina that December not only transformed the fabric of Argentine society but also highlighted the possibility of a genuinely democratic alternative to global capital."
Author event - reading and discussion.
Sunday 7th October
6.30 - 8.30
Quaker Meeting House
38 Elmbank Cres
(opposite Charing Cross Station)
Glasgow
G2 4PS
Free entry - all welcome.
Marina Sitrin will be reading from her book,
Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina.
published by AK Press.
December 2001 marked the beginning of a popular rebellion in Argentina. After IMF policies led to economic meltdown millions of Argentineans poured into the streets to protest the freezing of their bank accounts, the devaluing of their currency and the bankruptcy of their state. This rebellion - of workers and the unemployed, of the middle class and the recently declassed - erupted without leadership or hierarchy. Political parties and newly emerged élites had no role in the movement that toppled five consecutive national governments in just two weeks.The social movements that exploded in Argentina that December not only transformed the fabric of Argentine society but also highlighted the possibility of a genuinely democratic alternative to global capital.
Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina is the story of those movements, as told by the men and women who are building them. Come and hear from the people who created the neighbourhood assemblies involving tens of thousands of active participants, who occupied the hundreds of factories run directly by workers.
Another world is possible!
...this event is co-hosted by
AK Press - www.akuk.com
City Strolls - www.citystrolls.com
Praxis (Glasgow) - www.praxisglasgow.wordpress.com
RIB - www.ribproject.org
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