Aigul Hakimova has been active in various movements for freedom of movement and the right to stay for 20 years. She has participated in and co-created collectives such as Social Centre Rog, Second Home and Infokolpa, which are involved in the migrant struggles in Slovenia and through the Balkan route. She lives in Ljubljana and currently works in the cultural association Gmajna, where she co-directs local and international projects. She has studied international relations and diplomacy in Kyrgyzstan and anthropology in Slovenia.
workshop
workshop
16.06
11:30
16.06
11:30
Europe’s double standards: The story of the Belarusian – Polish Border
Europe’s double standards: The story of the Belarusian – Polish Border
Europe’s double standards: The story of the Belarusian – Polish Border
Speakers:
Aigul Hakimova, Rut Kurkiewicz
Full description:
This workshop will look at two aspects of migration: the right to move and the right to stay.
Two paradigmatic cases will be the subject of discussion: The recent Belarusian-Polish border, where migrants struggled to enter the Schengen zone, and a longer-term Balkan route, which is the route for thousands to reach Western countries.
Both routes are defined by state and police violence and the autonomy of migration. The main actors are clear, but what about the others? So we try to go through the topics to clarify our understanding and the political dimension of migrants' struggles as a reference point of autonomy:
- To look at border movements beyond the hybrid narrative of attack;
- To see the point of view that is not only explained by the humanitarian crisis;
- Understanding the movement beyond the national propaganda produced by the West and the East;
- Avoiding the meta-narrative of contemporary geopolitics;
- Recognising the efforts of the movement beyond the accusations and military discourses;
- Why is the refugee movement the strongest subjectivity in terms of confrontation with the border regimes, and whose borders are they liberating?
- How do they find ways to resist, either territorially or by trying to survive?
Alba Sidera is a journalist specialized in the far-right and Italian politics, topics which she has been investigating for 13 years. Based in Italy since 2007, she is a correspondent for El Punt-Avui in Rome, as well as a collaborator in Contexto, Sapiens and Media.cat. Author of ‘Fascismo Persistente’, a radiography of Meloni and Salvini’s Italy (Saldonar, 2020) and co-author of 'Guía Práctica contra la extrema derecha' (Pagés Editors, 2022)
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:00
17.06
14:00
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Speakers:
Alba Sidera, Raquel Navarrete, Tiaré Gatti Mora
Moderation:
Cristina Cardín Coello
Full description:
Three feminist speakers will offer their expertise on how to fight the far-right back, both on social and traditional media. All of them have suffered the attacks of anti-feminist and bigoted cyberactivists, and know well their behaviors and how their ideas are easily spread online. Sites like Reddit, YouTube or Twitch are prominently masculine and social groups like the incels have been since the beginning creating communities against the feminists. Luckily, women won’t keep quiet.
Moderator: Cristina Cardín, Projects Coordinator at IR&D.
This workshop will be in EN.
Alberto De Nicola is a researcher in sociology, working on welfare, poverty and labor. He is an activist of the social space Esc Atelier and editor of the website Dinamopress.it. With Biagio Quattrocchi, he edited the book "Social Syndicalism. Struggles and Institutional Inventions in the European Crisis" with the Euronomade collective.
discussion
discussion
16.06
18:30
16.06
18:30
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:30
16.06
10:30
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Speakers:
Gala Kabbaj, Giorgio Anselmi, Maria Grazia Gabrielli
Moderation:
Andrea Malpassi
Full description:
After austerity, pandemic and international crisis, what future will Labour have in the Old Continent: workers rights and protection, risks, challenges and opportunities of the ongoing transitions. (In the framework of the ongoing ecological and digital transformations and in the context of the past years - led by neoliberal policies - what challenges are ahead of us and what actions we have to take in order for the world of Work to become central again in the construction of the future European society and of the new development model).
This workshop will be in EN/IT.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
Speakers:
Andrea Marikovsky, Heidi Meinzolt, Patrizia Sterpetti, Saskia Basa
Full description:
A participatory social art workshop. There is no peace without Care. Care is costly, most of the value generated though Care work does not appear in the official budgets, financial flows, or economic balances of national households.
But Care-works helps to survive crisis. It is expensive and investment in the care economy does not appear attractive within a capitalist logic since it does not allow accumulation. Investment in it is, however, a must if one looks at it from the viewpoint of citizens’ needs and the obligation to respect human dignity, two essential factors of positive peace. Care means taking responsibility, for nature, for others, for the future. If NO CARE – NO PEACE.
Our workshop opens up this idea giving time to each other, to small things, to conversations, to creativity, to conviviality. We invite you to be involved in a participatory play including art pictures. We will use them as tools to meet characters, conflicts and form of cooperation, and through dialogue create a new piece together.
This workshop will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
Speakers:
Angelica Romano, Luigi Ferrajoli (tbc), Sean Conner
Moderation:
Sergio Bassoli
Full description:
War, the returns of the far-right, sovereignisms: the trade union movement and civil society as pillars of our democracies. Interaction between trade unions, associations, social and political forces is necessary to build a bank against the comeback of far-right and to promote a Europe for peace: in the context of the “Manifesto of the International Network of Anti-Fascist Trade Unions”, what actions should be put in place for a free, inclusive, solidary and democratic Europe?
This workshop will be in IT/EN
Angelina Giannopoulou is an Athens-based political scientist, facilitator of transform! europe in the programme "European Integration and the Strategic Perspectives of the Radical Left" and collaborator of the Nicos-Poulantzas-Institute. Since 2019 she is a local councillor in the Athens Municipality.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
Barbara Steiner is a political scientist based in Vienna, the director of transform!europe and member of transform.at
discussion
discussion
17.06
18:00
17.06
18:00
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
She describes herself as a popular educator and political activist. She currently focuses on the role of TNCs in economy and politics in the context of neoliberal globalisation. Her expertise and major interests are on the protagonisms of social, feminist, anti-racist, migrant and refugee movements as crucial agents of transformative change. Brid comes from Ireland, has extensive working experience in the different regions of the global south. She holds a BA in Literature and a post graduate degree in Education from the National University of Ireland and a Masters in Women’s Studies from the University of Westminster.
assembly
assembly
15.06
19:30
15.06
19:30
Introductory Assembly
Introductory Assembly
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:00
16.06
10:00
Challenging Corporate Power and Capitalism
Challenging Corporate Power and Capitalism
Challenging Corporate Power and Capitalism
Speakers:
Brid Brennan, Tatiana Moutihno
Full description:
This participatory space will focus principally on the struggles challenging Corporate Power with a brief introductory framing on current capitalism and neoliberalism looking at “Europe in its “Peripheries” and at Europe-Global South contexts. The debate will further focus on campaigns such as: The Just Cause-the case vs ENI (Italy); the experience of the garment industry struggles in Serbia; and the Global Campaign - Dismantle Corporate Power: the struggle to regulate TNCs at the UNHRC and of corporate capture of global governance and the multilateral system. There will be opportunity also to exchange on other campaign experiences.
We will also explore the obstacles to building transnational solidarity and exchange on strategies that go beyond our silos and strengthen convergences that can more effectively challenge corporate power.
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
“Solidarity Forever!” Working Poor and Social Unionism
“Solidarity Forever!” Working Poor and Social Unionism
“Solidarity Forever!” Working Poor and Social Unionism
Speakers:
CLAP
Full description:
Thirty years of neo-liberal policies, the economic crisis since 2007, the pandemic, and finally the war has radically transformed the labor market. As an exception, precarious work is now the norm. Contractual and wage insecurity make union organization increasingly complicated. That is why it is necessary to rethink the union, the strike, and the forms of struggle in the workplace and in society. The workshop aims to promote the confrontation and connection between trade union experiments that, in various ways, attempt to organize the working poor.
This workshop will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
Income and its declinations: European experiences compared
Income and its declinations: European experiences compared
Income and its declinations: European experiences compared
Speakers:
Ci vuole un reddito
Full description:
The pandemic emergency first, and the war later, had a very hard impact on the weakest groups, worsening a context already deeply marked by social inequalities. In fact, since 2020, labour incomes have shrunk again, unlike those of the highest brackets: today in our country, the 40 richest billionaires hold the equivalent of the net wealth of the 30% of the poorest and poorest, or 18 million adults. Data that show how poverty and inequality in our country go together, while the rising cost of living only increases the distance between the poorest and richest income classes.
In a world of work characterised by the growth of low value-added jobs, the boom of involuntary part-time work, the spread of undeclared work and precarious contracts, with low wages and the absence of a minimum wage, rising housing costs, the slimming down of municipal social services, Italy remains one of the very few countries to have no income measures after the abolition of the “Citizenship income” by the new Government. With all its limitations, in recent years the “Citizenship income" has played a key role in the social stability of our country: it has protected a significant segment of the population by enabling them to cross the poverty line and make ends meet.
Through a comparison with other countries and with realities aligned against exploitation and for minimum incomes and wages, the campaign Ci vuole un reddito (It takes an income) questions us on how to oppose the vision of a precarious world of work and proposes principles to adopt a minimum income in Italy as well.
moderators and speakers: activist of the Campaign “Ci vuole un reddito” (It takes an income)
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:00
17.06
14:00
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Speakers:
Alba Sidera, Raquel Navarrete, Tiaré Gatti Mora
Moderation:
Cristina Cardín Coello
Full description:
Three feminist speakers will offer their expertise on how to fight the far-right back, both on social and traditional media. All of them have suffered the attacks of anti-feminist and bigoted cyberactivists, and know well their behaviors and how their ideas are easily spread online. Sites like Reddit, YouTube or Twitch are prominently masculine and social groups like the incels have been since the beginning creating communities against the feminists. Luckily, women won’t keep quiet.
Moderator: Cristina Cardín, Projects Coordinator at IR&D.
This workshop will be in EN.
Dafne Yeltekin (she/her) is an Italian-Turkish/Kurdish researcher born and raised in Italy. She has a background in Middle Eastern studies, specifically postcolonial studies and identity politics. She just received her Master’s Degree in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at the New School. Her research lies at the intersection of climate justice, migration justice, border politics, securitization, militarization, necropolitics, decolonization and abolition. She is a co-author of Abolishing the War on Climate: Pathways for Collective Ecological Security which explores false solutions behind the climate security approach and presents three intersecting ways forward for climate justice. She is also the author of Militarised adaptation? How the Global South is Adopting Climate-security Approaches, a discussion paper in collaboration with the Transnational Institute.
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:00
16.06
10:00
Unpacking the climate-breakdown militarism nexus
Unpacking the climate-breakdown militarism nexus
Unpacking the climate-breakdown militarism nexus
Speakers:
Dafne Yeltekin, Edwick Madzimure
Full description:
Climate change is here, affecting regions all over the planet and constituting a factor of insecurity for hundreds of millions of people. Yet, little is done to stop irreversible damage to the delicate balances of our planets ecosystems. Specially those countries which are responsible for the greatest part of the emissions today but also historically, are discussing adaptation and mitigation of climate change effects in a militarized context. At the same time the military industry, as well as the world greatest armies are one of the major polluters of our earth. In this workshop we will highlight the connection of militarism to the climate breakdown and we will discuss possible ways to break this vicious cycle
spokesman for the factory collective GKN
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, Hillary Wainwright, Marco Bersani, Pietro Cardelli, Vito Scalisi
Full description:
The workshop will present the case of resistance and struggle of the men and women workers of GKN after the mass layoff (442 people) on July 9, 2021, suddenly communicated through whatsapp messages and emails, despite the fact that GKN was a solid and profitable factory.
The goal of ownership-an investment fund-is to further maximize profits by relocating the company to a country where labor costs are lower than in Italy.
The timely mobilization of the workers and the Florentine and Tuscan social fabric sets in motion a unique experience of social and union struggle capable of creating a community of sharing that includes all the local civil society with national and international cultural and solidarity circuits.
The workshop will present GKN's new industrial project for the production of cargo bikes, the results of the GKN for Future crowdfunding campaign, and the next steps in a struggle that, amidst ups and downs, is not yet over.
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, spokesman for the factory collective GKN
Marco Bersani, national coordinator of Attac Italia
Pietro Cardelli, Arci Firenze secretariat
Vito Scalisi, Arci Roma president
Hillary Wainwright, Transnational Institute and Redpepper magazine
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
Davide Pignata is an intern for tranform!Europe with a focus on migration and European borders. He is the contact person for the ASCS 'Borders' project.
social activity
social activity
15.06
20:30
15.06
20:30
We are prisoners of the Polish State, public viewing and Q&A
We are prisoners of the Polish State, public viewing and Q&A
We are prisoners of the Polish State, public viewing and Q&A
Speakers:
Rut Kurkiewicz
Moderation:
Davide Pignata
Full description:
Public viewing of the documentary. Since summer 2021 Poland is facing the so-called “refugee crisis”, on our border with Belarus. Russia and Belarus are the only European countries, who are giving visas to the Middle East and Africa. Naturally, it happened that the new migration path was discovered. It goes through polish forest and swamps. Despite so many deaths, it’s still the safest way to reach Europe. In the documentary we are telling the stories of Middle Eastern refugees, who came to Poland, and instead of getting protection, they were locked up in detention camps. They faced violence, hunger, no medical help, abuse, racism. They were running the hunger strikes, to protest and fight for their rights- basic human rights for respect and safety. Polish detention camps, refugee camps, are literally prisons, where people who commit no crime are kept for months, in horrific conditions.
The documentary and the Q&A will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
Dottie is Head of Policy and Advocacy for Global Justice Now since January 2017. Her work in social movements and NGOs spans 30 years. She currently works on and writes about corporate accountability, climate change, migration, trade and investment, China and other related economic justice concerns. She is originally from the Philippines and has lived in The Netherlands, Germany, Thailand and South Africa before moving to the UK. She previously worked with the Transnational Institute (TNI), African Women Unite Against Destructive Resource Extraction (WOMIN), Focus on the Global South (an Asian regional organisation), Asienhaus Deutschland and the Institute for Popular Democracy in the Philippines. She also worked as guest lecturer in MA Development Programs in universities in Asia and Germany.
discussion
discussion
17.06
18:00
17.06
18:00
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
Edwick Madzimure is a Development Practitioner with a unique background in rural development, gender and the empowerment of women and girls. She is the Founding Director of WILPF Zimbabwe which she started in 2016. As part of her work, Edwick facilitates grassroots community climate change education awareness, human rights education, and gender-based violence activism. She advocates for the implementation of the Women Peace and Security Agenda and facilitates trainings on the localisation of the UNSCR 1325 in grassroots communities. She holds an Honours Degree in History and International Studies and an MA in Development Studies. She is currently studying towards a PhD in Development Studies with a thesis focused on rural women livelihoods and water scarcity. Edwick is on a mission to transform communities from socially constructed systems that contribute to the exclusion of the youth and women from development processes.
You can find latest eye-opening report on the nexus of how Militarism has impoverished the African Continent, placing it at the Epicentre of the Climate Crisis here: https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WILPF_Climate-of-Insecurity_Web58-1.pdf
discussion
discussion
15.06
18:30
15.06
18:30
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:00
16.06
10:00
Unpacking the climate-breakdown militarism nexus
Unpacking the climate-breakdown militarism nexus
Unpacking the climate-breakdown militarism nexus
Speakers:
Dafne Yeltekin, Edwick Madzimure
Full description:
Climate change is here, affecting regions all over the planet and constituting a factor of insecurity for hundreds of millions of people. Yet, little is done to stop irreversible damage to the delicate balances of our planets ecosystems. Specially those countries which are responsible for the greatest part of the emissions today but also historically, are discussing adaptation and mitigation of climate change effects in a militarized context. At the same time the military industry, as well as the world greatest armies are one of the major polluters of our earth. In this workshop we will highlight the connection of militarism to the climate breakdown and we will discuss possible ways to break this vicious cycle
Federica Giardini is a feminist scholar and activist working at the university of Roma Tre, where she has initiated diverse autonomous spaces on gender and ecological issues. Among the publications, the collective book La natura dell’economia. Femminismi, economia politica, ecologia (Deriveapprodi 2020).
workshop
workshop
16.06
11:30
16.06
11:30
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Speakers:
Federica Giardini, Nela Porobic
Moderation:
Heidi Meinzolt
Full description:
This workshop will explore different forms of reproduction and care, seeking to understand how our practices can best be connected to overall demands for social justice, environmental sustainability, and equality between people and countries. We seek to explore how these practices can be (re)shaped and used to confront and resist capital accumulation, capitalist exploitation, and oppression. We strive towards grounding the workshop in our collective experience and knowledge. With that in mind the workshop will be a space for dialogue, exchange of experiences and co-creation and visioning of how reproduction and care for a just, sustainable, and solidary world can look like.
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
discussion
discussion
17.06
18:00
17.06
18:00
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Francesco Martone (Italy/Ecuador) is chair of the Assembly of Judges of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature (Quito), spokesperson of In Difesa Di (Italy) and an associate of the TNI. He has been Senator of the Italian Republic (2001-2008). His areas of work are: environmental defenders, anti-extractivism struggles, indigenous peoples, rights of nature and contemporary arts
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Speakers:
Francesco Martone, Gastivists, NO TAP
Moderation:
Sofian Philip Naceur
Full description:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further boosted the expansion of fossil gas extraction as gas is now being marketed as the transition fuel for a green new deal. Pipeline and fracking projects formerly opposed with partial success by communities and movements are being revived for the sake of the “energy security” of imperial states. While Algeria, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean are being turned into transit hubs for the EU’s gas supply, resistance movements in Italy, Argentina or Algeria are confronted with significant challenges such as the increasing securitization of public spaces and state repression.
A significant amount of fossil fuel projects worldwide were stopped thanks to popular resistance. Yet anti-fracking movements in Argentina or Algeria and struggles against fossil gas pipelines in Italy or elsewhere are being criminalized, outmaneuvred or oppressed by governments and the industry. The majority of cases of killings or threats to human rights defenders worldwide relate to environmental cases, many of which involved in protests against mining or fossil fuels. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a renewed run on fossil gas extractivism is looming, forcing local and transnational resistance groups to coordinate actions, resistance and strategies of self-defense quickly. Our workshop wants to offer a space to challenge the “security” approach to energy transition, share experiences in relevant struggles as well as tools to resist criminalization to more effectively counter such projects today and in the future and learn from past defeats.
This workshop will be in EN.
Graduated from a Bachelor in Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and a Master's Degree in International Security Studies at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa) and the University of Trento, works as an IT security analyst for NTT Data Italia. Her research focus concerns primarily the study of fake news regarding migration and the role of government and civil society organizations in combating xenophobia and racism in the media.
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
A future without us? AI, data and digitalisation
A future without us? AI, data and digitalisation
A future without us? AI, data and digitalisation
Speakers:
Fulvia Teano, Yasha Maccanico
Full description:
How are technological advances utilized nowadays? Is facial recognition an innocent tool to have fun with photo filters and AI a way to unleash creativity? And what about social media? How does digital transformation of news and media, and also AI impact the world of fake news, and what are the relevant implications on both social media diffusion and fact-checking organizations' practices? In this workshop, we will discuss the use of technologies and digital environments in border control and migration management, as well as in surveillance and repressive media apparatuses and try to sketch out alternatives and counterstrategies.
Gala Kabbaj is transform! europe's facilitator of the Working Group Radical, Far and Populist Right and a research coordinator in Espaces Marx. She holds a master degree in Geography from La Sorbonne. Her work focuses on social movements and electoral studies.
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:30
16.06
10:30
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Speakers:
Gala Kabbaj, Giorgio Anselmi, Maria Grazia Gabrielli
Moderation:
Andrea Malpassi
Full description:
After austerity, pandemic and international crisis, what future will Labour have in the Old Continent: workers rights and protection, risks, challenges and opportunities of the ongoing transitions. (In the framework of the ongoing ecological and digital transformations and in the context of the past years - led by neoliberal policies - what challenges are ahead of us and what actions we have to take in order for the world of Work to become central again in the construction of the future European society and of the new development model).
This workshop will be in EN/IT.
Gastivists is an anticapitalist and transfeminist collective that supports movements against fossil gas and that fight for social justice!
You can follow their work here:
https://www.gastivists.org/
https://www.instagram.com/gastivists_collective/
https://www.instagram.com/gastivists.ita
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Speakers:
Francesco Martone, Gastivists, NO TAP
Moderation:
Sofian Philip Naceur
Full description:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further boosted the expansion of fossil gas extraction as gas is now being marketed as the transition fuel for a green new deal. Pipeline and fracking projects formerly opposed with partial success by communities and movements are being revived for the sake of the “energy security” of imperial states. While Algeria, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean are being turned into transit hubs for the EU’s gas supply, resistance movements in Italy, Argentina or Algeria are confronted with significant challenges such as the increasing securitization of public spaces and state repression.
A significant amount of fossil fuel projects worldwide were stopped thanks to popular resistance. Yet anti-fracking movements in Argentina or Algeria and struggles against fossil gas pipelines in Italy or elsewhere are being criminalized, outmaneuvred or oppressed by governments and the industry. The majority of cases of killings or threats to human rights defenders worldwide relate to environmental cases, many of which involved in protests against mining or fossil fuels. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a renewed run on fossil gas extractivism is looming, forcing local and transnational resistance groups to coordinate actions, resistance and strategies of self-defense quickly. Our workshop wants to offer a space to challenge the “security” approach to energy transition, share experiences in relevant struggles as well as tools to resist criminalization to more effectively counter such projects today and in the future and learn from past defeats.
This workshop will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:30
16.06
10:30
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Speakers:
Gala Kabbaj, Giorgio Anselmi, Maria Grazia Gabrielli
Moderation:
Andrea Malpassi
Full description:
After austerity, pandemic and international crisis, what future will Labour have in the Old Continent: workers rights and protection, risks, challenges and opportunities of the ongoing transitions. (In the framework of the ongoing ecological and digital transformations and in the context of the past years - led by neoliberal policies - what challenges are ahead of us and what actions we have to take in order for the world of Work to become central again in the construction of the future European society and of the new development model).
This workshop will be in EN/IT.
workshop
workshop
16.06
11:30
16.06
11:30
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Speakers:
Federica Giardini, Nela Porobic
Moderation:
Heidi Meinzolt
Full description:
This workshop will explore different forms of reproduction and care, seeking to understand how our practices can best be connected to overall demands for social justice, environmental sustainability, and equality between people and countries. We seek to explore how these practices can be (re)shaped and used to confront and resist capital accumulation, capitalist exploitation, and oppression. We strive towards grounding the workshop in our collective experience and knowledge. With that in mind the workshop will be a space for dialogue, exchange of experiences and co-creation and visioning of how reproduction and care for a just, sustainable, and solidary world can look like.
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
Speakers:
Andrea Marikovsky, Heidi Meinzolt, Patrizia Sterpetti, Saskia Basa
Full description:
A participatory social art workshop. There is no peace without Care. Care is costly, most of the value generated though Care work does not appear in the official budgets, financial flows, or economic balances of national households.
But Care-works helps to survive crisis. It is expensive and investment in the care economy does not appear attractive within a capitalist logic since it does not allow accumulation. Investment in it is, however, a must if one looks at it from the viewpoint of citizens’ needs and the obligation to respect human dignity, two essential factors of positive peace. Care means taking responsibility, for nature, for others, for the future. If NO CARE – NO PEACE.
Our workshop opens up this idea giving time to each other, to small things, to conversations, to creativity, to conviviality. We invite you to be involved in a participatory play including art pictures. We will use them as tools to meet characters, conflicts and form of cooperation, and through dialogue create a new piece together.
This workshop will be in EN.
A TNI Fellow since 1986, Hilary is a sociologist who earned her BPhil from Oxford University. She works as an independent activist-researcher and journalist. She is a founding editor of Red Pepper(external link).
A socialist feminist activist, with strong connections to the labour movement, Hilary has been a long-time advocate of participatory democracy. She served as Deputy Economic Advisor to Ken Livingstone at the Greater London Council from 1982, where she founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council. In 2017, she was invited to join the UK Labour Party’s ‘Community Wealth Building Commission’, involving inter alia trade unions, cooperatives, community organisations and progressive municipal representatives. Its mission was to build on the positive experience of Preston Council using public procurement to protect and improve local jobs, advance community well-being, and strengthen democratic control. Participatory democracy for community wealth building has been the red thread throughout Hilary’s activist life. She has documented resurgent democratic movements in many countries, analysing the lessons for progressive politics.
Hilary is Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies, Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford; an Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies in the UK; and member of the International Advisory Panel of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, a trade union think tank in the UK. She has also been a visiting professor and scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles; Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Todai University, Tokyo. The author of many articles and books
discussion
discussion
15.06
18:30
15.06
18:30
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, Hillary Wainwright, Marco Bersani, Pietro Cardelli, Vito Scalisi
Full description:
The workshop will present the case of resistance and struggle of the men and women workers of GKN after the mass layoff (442 people) on July 9, 2021, suddenly communicated through whatsapp messages and emails, despite the fact that GKN was a solid and profitable factory.
The goal of ownership-an investment fund-is to further maximize profits by relocating the company to a country where labor costs are lower than in Italy.
The timely mobilization of the workers and the Florentine and Tuscan social fabric sets in motion a unique experience of social and union struggle capable of creating a community of sharing that includes all the local civil society with national and international cultural and solidarity circuits.
The workshop will present GKN's new industrial project for the production of cargo bikes, the results of the GKN for Future crowdfunding campaign, and the next steps in a struggle that, amidst ups and downs, is not yet over.
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, spokesman for the factory collective GKN
Marco Bersani, national coordinator of Attac Italia
Pietro Cardelli, Arci Firenze secretariat
Vito Scalisi, Arci Roma president
Hillary Wainwright, Transnational Institute and Redpepper magazine
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
Ibai Atutxa studies relations of domination in the Basque Country, the violent construction of contemporary Europe, and processes of criminalization under Franco’s dictatorship. He teaches in the University of the Basque Country and holds two PhD: one in Communication from the University of Valencia and the other one in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In 2022 he published the book “The Barbarians and the Civilized. A Materialist Handbook of Basque Struggles.”
lecture
lecture
15.06
18:00
15.06
18:00
Countering Capitalist Security
Countering Capitalist Security
Countering Capitalist Security
Speakers:
Ibai Atutxa
Full description:
In Spain, criminal law connects with the broader dispositif of security operating too often as a criminal law of the enemy. This criminal law has made part of the Basque Country torturable and allowed emancipatory practices to be dismissed as savage and anti-democratic. This, in turn, operates dialectically and establishes who belongs and who doesn’t in the capitalist population. Who needs to be protected and who needs to be protected against. Those who imagine and act for a life beyond capitalism, are easily dismissed as threats. Ibai Atutxa’s lecture is a search for a radical imagination that allows for the current logic of counter-conducts to operate in an alliance.
discussion
discussion
15.06
18:30
15.06
18:30
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
Imen Louati has worked as a researcher on several several topics including access to water, renewable energy, free trade agreements and the influence of financial institutions on public policies. She is currently a program manager on political ecology at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s North Africa Office in Tunis.
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
Towards a Future without Sovereign Debt
Towards a Future without Sovereign Debt
Katerina Anastasiou is the facilitator of the chapters Migration and Global Strategy in transform! europe. She is active in various grass roots groups in Austria and Europe. Her focus is militant organizational practices and communication.
opening
opening
15.06
17:00
15.06
17:00
Welcome to the Future Factory!
Welcome to the Future Factory!
assembly
assembly
15.06
19:30
15.06
19:30
Introductory Assembly
Introductory Assembly
discussion
discussion
16.06
18:30
16.06
18:30
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
assembly
assembly
16.06
19:30
16.06
19:30
Assembly – Open Discussion
Assembly – Open Discussion
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
assembly
assembly
17.06
17:00
17.06
17:00
Assembly – Organizing for Change: common spaces for systemic alternatives
Assembly – Organizing for Change: common spaces for systemic alternatives
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
Speakers:
Angelica Romano, Luigi Ferrajoli (tbc), Sean Conner
Moderation:
Sergio Bassoli
Full description:
War, the returns of the far-right, sovereignisms: the trade union movement and civil society as pillars of our democracies. Interaction between trade unions, associations, social and political forces is necessary to build a bank against the comeback of far-right and to promote a Europe for peace: in the context of the “Manifesto of the International Network of Anti-Fascist Trade Unions”, what actions should be put in place for a free, inclusive, solidary and democratic Europe?
This workshop will be in IT/EN
Maha Ben Gadha is a researcher and senior regional economic program manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s North Africa Office in Tunis. Her current work consists of supporting relevant actors in economic policymaking, in particular regarding issues of economic and monetary sovereignty.
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
Towards a Future without Sovereign Debt
Towards a Future without Sovereign Debt
Manja Petrovska is a PhD researcher based between Amsterdam and the
Balkans, studying the intersections of border control, neocolonialism,
and humanitarian imperialism. Her work focuses on the border security
industry and the neoliberal rationalities shaping border and migration
policies.
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
Speakers:
Manja Petrovska, Matthias Monroy, Nidžara Ahmetašević
Full description:
EU border externalization has expanded across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and even Latin America. However, These policies first began to take shape nearly thirty years ago in a region today defined by EUrope as the "Western Balkans" the EU’s dangerous hinterland, and its most proximate security threat. The borders of the Balkans have long been influenced by colonial European powers, dating back to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 which saw the diplomatic division of the peninsula into nation-states. This, in turn, influenced the Congress that partitioned Africa and triggered the scramble for the continent. This historical pattern also extends to border externalization policies, where the region has served as a testing ground for the EU's border externalisation strategies, with lessons and practices subsequently exported to other places. Our workshop will focus on EU border externalisation in the Balkans, looking at the critical role played by non-state actors such as ICMPD, FRONTEX and IOM.
This workshop will be in EN.
national coordinator of Attac Italia
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, Hillary Wainwright, Marco Bersani, Pietro Cardelli, Vito Scalisi
Full description:
The workshop will present the case of resistance and struggle of the men and women workers of GKN after the mass layoff (442 people) on July 9, 2021, suddenly communicated through whatsapp messages and emails, despite the fact that GKN was a solid and profitable factory.
The goal of ownership-an investment fund-is to further maximize profits by relocating the company to a country where labor costs are lower than in Italy.
The timely mobilization of the workers and the Florentine and Tuscan social fabric sets in motion a unique experience of social and union struggle capable of creating a community of sharing that includes all the local civil society with national and international cultural and solidarity circuits.
The workshop will present GKN's new industrial project for the production of cargo bikes, the results of the GKN for Future crowdfunding campaign, and the next steps in a struggle that, amidst ups and downs, is not yet over.
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, spokesman for the factory collective GKN
Marco Bersani, national coordinator of Attac Italia
Pietro Cardelli, Arci Firenze secretariat
Vito Scalisi, Arci Roma president
Hillary Wainwright, Transnational Institute and Redpepper magazine
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
discussion
discussion
15.06
18:30
15.06
18:30
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
In today’s world, who are the secure, who are the dispossessed?
CGIL National Secretary
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:30
16.06
10:30
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Work creates the future of Europe
Speakers:
Gala Kabbaj, Giorgio Anselmi, Maria Grazia Gabrielli
Moderation:
Andrea Malpassi
Full description:
After austerity, pandemic and international crisis, what future will Labour have in the Old Continent: workers rights and protection, risks, challenges and opportunities of the ongoing transitions. (In the framework of the ongoing ecological and digital transformations and in the context of the past years - led by neoliberal policies - what challenges are ahead of us and what actions we have to take in order for the world of Work to become central again in the construction of the future European society and of the new development model).
This workshop will be in EN/IT.
Editor of the German civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag. After being in touch with military and police repression in the 90’s, I’m focussing on policing in the European Union, migration control, undercover cops, internet monitoring, surveillance and interception technologies, police gadgets, satellite intelligence, drones. I have been publishing in left-wing newspapers and online-media like netzpolitik.org or Golem.
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
Speakers:
Manja Petrovska, Matthias Monroy, Nidžara Ahmetašević
Full description:
EU border externalization has expanded across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and even Latin America. However, These policies first began to take shape nearly thirty years ago in a region today defined by EUrope as the "Western Balkans" the EU’s dangerous hinterland, and its most proximate security threat. The borders of the Balkans have long been influenced by colonial European powers, dating back to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 which saw the diplomatic division of the peninsula into nation-states. This, in turn, influenced the Congress that partitioned Africa and triggered the scramble for the continent. This historical pattern also extends to border externalization policies, where the region has served as a testing ground for the EU's border externalisation strategies, with lessons and practices subsequently exported to other places. Our workshop will focus on EU border externalisation in the Balkans, looking at the critical role played by non-state actors such as ICMPD, FRONTEX and IOM.
This workshop will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Speakers:
Francesco Martone, Gastivists, NO TAP
Moderation:
Sofian Philip Naceur
Full description:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further boosted the expansion of fossil gas extraction as gas is now being marketed as the transition fuel for a green new deal. Pipeline and fracking projects formerly opposed with partial success by communities and movements are being revived for the sake of the “energy security” of imperial states. While Algeria, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean are being turned into transit hubs for the EU’s gas supply, resistance movements in Italy, Argentina or Algeria are confronted with significant challenges such as the increasing securitization of public spaces and state repression.
A significant amount of fossil fuel projects worldwide were stopped thanks to popular resistance. Yet anti-fracking movements in Argentina or Algeria and struggles against fossil gas pipelines in Italy or elsewhere are being criminalized, outmaneuvred or oppressed by governments and the industry. The majority of cases of killings or threats to human rights defenders worldwide relate to environmental cases, many of which involved in protests against mining or fossil fuels. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a renewed run on fossil gas extractivism is looming, forcing local and transnational resistance groups to coordinate actions, resistance and strategies of self-defense quickly. Our workshop wants to offer a space to challenge the “security” approach to energy transition, share experiences in relevant struggles as well as tools to resist criminalization to more effectively counter such projects today and in the future and learn from past defeats.
This workshop will be in EN.
Nela Porobić is a feminist researcher and activist working out of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nela works with Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the focus of her work is researching and understanding, from a feminist perspective, the political economy of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and recovery. She looks at social, political, and economic consequences of contemporary peacebuilding interventions framed within a neoliberal understanding of peace.
workshop
workshop
16.06
11:30
16.06
11:30
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Feminist political economy: (re)imagining reproduction and care
Speakers:
Federica Giardini, Nela Porobic
Moderation:
Heidi Meinzolt
Full description:
This workshop will explore different forms of reproduction and care, seeking to understand how our practices can best be connected to overall demands for social justice, environmental sustainability, and equality between people and countries. We seek to explore how these practices can be (re)shaped and used to confront and resist capital accumulation, capitalist exploitation, and oppression. We strive towards grounding the workshop in our collective experience and knowledge. With that in mind the workshop will be a space for dialogue, exchange of experiences and co-creation and visioning of how reproduction and care for a just, sustainable, and solidary world can look like.
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
discussion
discussion
17.06
18:00
17.06
18:00
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
Collective Future Alternatives: can we stop climate breakdown?
Niamh Ni Bhriain coordinates TNI's War and Pacification programme, which focuses on the permanent state of war and pacification of resistance. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG).
Before coming to TNI, Niamh spent a number of years living in Colombia and Mexico working with civil society organisations and the UN in the areas of peace-building, transitional justice, the protection of Human Rights Defenders and conflict analysis. She also spent some time in Brussels doing political advocacy before European institutions related to the conflict in Colombia.
assembly
assembly
16.06
17:00
16.06
17:00
Assembly – Open Discussion
Assembly – Open Discussion
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Getting rich on war: Business is booming for the arms industry
Nidzara is an independent researcher and journalist from Sarajevo. Her work is focused on human rights violations, war crimes, post-war society and migrations
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
The future has no borders: Abolish the global apartheid regime
Speakers:
Manja Petrovska, Matthias Monroy, Nidžara Ahmetašević
Full description:
EU border externalization has expanded across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and even Latin America. However, These policies first began to take shape nearly thirty years ago in a region today defined by EUrope as the "Western Balkans" the EU’s dangerous hinterland, and its most proximate security threat. The borders of the Balkans have long been influenced by colonial European powers, dating back to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 which saw the diplomatic division of the peninsula into nation-states. This, in turn, influenced the Congress that partitioned Africa and triggered the scramble for the continent. This historical pattern also extends to border externalization policies, where the region has served as a testing ground for the EU's border externalisation strategies, with lessons and practices subsequently exported to other places. Our workshop will focus on EU border externalisation in the Balkans, looking at the critical role played by non-state actors such as ICMPD, FRONTEX and IOM.
This workshop will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:00
17.06
14:00
Art & Political Intervention
Art & Political Intervention
Art & Political Intervention
Speakers:
Ruth Katz, Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade
Moderation:
Nora Garcia
Full description:
Discussion on art and new narratives, imaginaries and languages for peace and security.
Speakers:
Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade - Stalker is a collective of architects and researchers that founded the Osservatorio Nomade (ON) that experiment and engage in actions to create self-organised spaces and situations.
Dr. Ruth Katz, Musician, educator, political activist, and part of One State Embassy, a multidisciplinary art and political collective that reinterprets a reality in which people who are coming from conflict & war zones actively work on bringing the different communities closer.
Nora García - graduated in Fine Arts and design teacher, lives in Madrid where she develops her feminist activism and cultural work. Her focus is on agitation & propaganda, internationalism and political communication.
social activity
social activity
17.06
20:30
17.06
20:30
Checkpoint performance
Checkpoint performance
Checkpoint performance
Moderation:
One State Embassy
Full description:
This performance creates a disturbance in the physical space as well as in the personal and interpersonal one. A border as a crossroad, divides the world into two: the world before and after, what is present and what is missed.
*As we are using Real life war and conflict zone material, this workshop might trigger persons with war and conflict zone trauma.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
Speakers:
Andrea Marikovsky, Heidi Meinzolt, Patrizia Sterpetti, Saskia Basa
Full description:
A participatory social art workshop. There is no peace without Care. Care is costly, most of the value generated though Care work does not appear in the official budgets, financial flows, or economic balances of national households.
But Care-works helps to survive crisis. It is expensive and investment in the care economy does not appear attractive within a capitalist logic since it does not allow accumulation. Investment in it is, however, a must if one looks at it from the viewpoint of citizens’ needs and the obligation to respect human dignity, two essential factors of positive peace. Care means taking responsibility, for nature, for others, for the future. If NO CARE – NO PEACE.
Our workshop opens up this idea giving time to each other, to small things, to conversations, to creativity, to conviviality. We invite you to be involved in a participatory play including art pictures. We will use them as tools to meet characters, conflicts and form of cooperation, and through dialogue create a new piece together.
This workshop will be in EN.
Arci Firenze secretariat
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, Hillary Wainwright, Marco Bersani, Pietro Cardelli, Vito Scalisi
Full description:
The workshop will present the case of resistance and struggle of the men and women workers of GKN after the mass layoff (442 people) on July 9, 2021, suddenly communicated through whatsapp messages and emails, despite the fact that GKN was a solid and profitable factory.
The goal of ownership-an investment fund-is to further maximize profits by relocating the company to a country where labor costs are lower than in Italy.
The timely mobilization of the workers and the Florentine and Tuscan social fabric sets in motion a unique experience of social and union struggle capable of creating a community of sharing that includes all the local civil society with national and international cultural and solidarity circuits.
The workshop will present GKN's new industrial project for the production of cargo bikes, the results of the GKN for Future crowdfunding campaign, and the next steps in a struggle that, amidst ups and downs, is not yet over.
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, spokesman for the factory collective GKN
Marco Bersani, national coordinator of Attac Italia
Pietro Cardelli, Arci Firenze secretariat
Vito Scalisi, Arci Roma president
Hillary Wainwright, Transnational Institute and Redpepper magazine
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
FEMEN Spain activist: For the last 3 years, she has taken part in direct and symbolic protests carried by this feminist and antifascist group, fighting for women’s and LGBTQ+ Rights. She co-directed the documentary “Desobedientes: La Historia de FEMEN en España” (2021). She graduated in Media & Communication, currently working in creativity and content creation for social media and corporate environments.
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:00
17.06
14:00
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Speakers:
Alba Sidera, Raquel Navarrete, Tiaré Gatti Mora
Moderation:
Cristina Cardín Coello
Full description:
Three feminist speakers will offer their expertise on how to fight the far-right back, both on social and traditional media. All of them have suffered the attacks of anti-feminist and bigoted cyberactivists, and know well their behaviors and how their ideas are easily spread online. Sites like Reddit, YouTube or Twitch are prominently masculine and social groups like the incels have been since the beginning creating communities against the feminists. Luckily, women won’t keep quiet.
Moderator: Cristina Cardín, Projects Coordinator at IR&D.
This workshop will be in EN.
Raúl Sánchez Cedillo is a philosopher, activist and translator who lives in Madrid. Since 1991 he has been collaborating with the post-operaist research and political networks, and has edited a number of works by Antonio Negri, Félix Guattari and others. He was active in the antimilitarist and Insumisión movement during the 1990s, and later in the okupación and Centros Sociales Okupados movement. He is a member of the first cyberactivism network in Spain, www.sindominio.net. Since 2000 he has been promoting new autonomous educational and political projects: Universidad Nómada and the Fundación de los Comunes.
Raul has recently published a new book which is titled : This war does not end in Ukraine, where he argues for a constituent peace, that would unite struggles transversally and could be essential for all us , in order to avoid a further escalation to a third world war.
https://jacobinitalia.it/senza-rivolta-il-pacifismo-e-sconfitto/
discussion
discussion
16.06
18:30
16.06
18:30
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Rut Kurkiewicz, born in 1987 in Warsaw. Journalist, feminist, mother of two daughters. For last few years, covering mostly the human rights and refugee topics.
social activity
social activity
15.06
20:30
15.06
20:30
We are prisoners of the Polish State, public viewing and Q&A
We are prisoners of the Polish State, public viewing and Q&A
We are prisoners of the Polish State, public viewing and Q&A
Speakers:
Rut Kurkiewicz
Moderation:
Davide Pignata
Full description:
Public viewing of the documentary. Since summer 2021 Poland is facing the so-called “refugee crisis”, on our border with Belarus. Russia and Belarus are the only European countries, who are giving visas to the Middle East and Africa. Naturally, it happened that the new migration path was discovered. It goes through polish forest and swamps. Despite so many deaths, it’s still the safest way to reach Europe. In the documentary we are telling the stories of Middle Eastern refugees, who came to Poland, and instead of getting protection, they were locked up in detention camps. They faced violence, hunger, no medical help, abuse, racism. They were running the hunger strikes, to protest and fight for their rights- basic human rights for respect and safety. Polish detention camps, refugee camps, are literally prisons, where people who commit no crime are kept for months, in horrific conditions.
The documentary and the Q&A will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
16.06
11:30
16.06
11:30
Europe’s double standards: The story of the Belarusian – Polish Border
Europe’s double standards: The story of the Belarusian – Polish Border
Europe’s double standards: The story of the Belarusian – Polish Border
Speakers:
Aigul Hakimova, Rut Kurkiewicz
Full description:
This workshop will look at two aspects of migration: the right to move and the right to stay.
Two paradigmatic cases will be the subject of discussion: The recent Belarusian-Polish border, where migrants struggled to enter the Schengen zone, and a longer-term Balkan route, which is the route for thousands to reach Western countries.
Both routes are defined by state and police violence and the autonomy of migration. The main actors are clear, but what about the others? So we try to go through the topics to clarify our understanding and the political dimension of migrants' struggles as a reference point of autonomy:
- To look at border movements beyond the hybrid narrative of attack;
- To see the point of view that is not only explained by the humanitarian crisis;
- Understanding the movement beyond the national propaganda produced by the West and the East;
- Avoiding the meta-narrative of contemporary geopolitics;
- Recognising the efforts of the movement beyond the accusations and military discourses;
- Why is the refugee movement the strongest subjectivity in terms of confrontation with the border regimes, and whose borders are they liberating?
- How do they find ways to resist, either territorially or by trying to survive?
Dr. Ruth Katz, Musician, educator, political activist, and part of One State Embassy, a multidisciplinary art and political collective that reinterprets a reality in which people who are coming from conflict & war zones actively work on bringing the different communities closer.
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:00
17.06
14:00
Art & Political Intervention
Art & Political Intervention
Art & Political Intervention
Speakers:
Ruth Katz, Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade
Moderation:
Nora Garcia
Full description:
Discussion on art and new narratives, imaginaries and languages for peace and security.
Speakers:
Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade - Stalker is a collective of architects and researchers that founded the Osservatorio Nomade (ON) that experiment and engage in actions to create self-organised spaces and situations.
Dr. Ruth Katz, Musician, educator, political activist, and part of One State Embassy, a multidisciplinary art and political collective that reinterprets a reality in which people who are coming from conflict & war zones actively work on bringing the different communities closer.
Nora García - graduated in Fine Arts and design teacher, lives in Madrid where she develops her feminist activism and cultural work. Her focus is on agitation & propaganda, internationalism and political communication.
Saskia (she/they) joined QCEA in August 2021. She leads QCEA’s Migration & Peace Programme, working to bring a peacebuilding approach to the whole migration journey.
She has contributed to a number of community-led initiatives to support displaced persons along migration routes in Turkey, France and Spain, and worked actively on issues such as migration detention, LGBTIQA* equality, and climate justice. She previously worked for the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), the Spanish Red Cross, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). She is passionate about imagining alternative, non-punitive and regenerative forms of responding to harm or disagreement and nurturing synergies between social justice causes.
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
No Care – No peace
Speakers:
Andrea Marikovsky, Heidi Meinzolt, Patrizia Sterpetti, Saskia Basa
Full description:
A participatory social art workshop. There is no peace without Care. Care is costly, most of the value generated though Care work does not appear in the official budgets, financial flows, or economic balances of national households.
But Care-works helps to survive crisis. It is expensive and investment in the care economy does not appear attractive within a capitalist logic since it does not allow accumulation. Investment in it is, however, a must if one looks at it from the viewpoint of citizens’ needs and the obligation to respect human dignity, two essential factors of positive peace. Care means taking responsibility, for nature, for others, for the future. If NO CARE – NO PEACE.
Our workshop opens up this idea giving time to each other, to small things, to conversations, to creativity, to conviviality. We invite you to be involved in a participatory play including art pictures. We will use them as tools to meet characters, conflicts and form of cooperation, and through dialogue create a new piece together.
This workshop will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:30
17.06
14:30
Resisting Praxis: Contemporary climate justice struggles
Resisting Praxis: Contemporary climate justice struggles
Resisting Praxis: Contemporary climate justice struggles
Speakers:
Scientist Rebellion, Ultima Generazione
Full description:
Activists from Scientist Rebellion and Ultima Generazione will expose some of the experiences they went through during the last months of civil resistance. From the actions in Rome to the protests in Germany, we'll talk about how to deal with police, politics, and despair. Summer is coming, let's brace ourselves!
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
Speakers:
Angelica Romano, Luigi Ferrajoli (tbc), Sean Conner
Moderation:
Sergio Bassoli
Full description:
War, the returns of the far-right, sovereignisms: the trade union movement and civil society as pillars of our democracies. Interaction between trade unions, associations, social and political forces is necessary to build a bank against the comeback of far-right and to promote a Europe for peace: in the context of the “Manifesto of the International Network of Anti-Fascist Trade Unions”, what actions should be put in place for a free, inclusive, solidary and democratic Europe?
This workshop will be in IT/EN
Sebastian Franco, economist (University of Fribourg-Switzerland) is a researcher at GRESEA (research group for an alternative economic strategy). He leads the Alter Summit network and previously coordinated the European Network Against the Commercialization of Health. He collaborates with the ENCO network (European Network of Observatories on Multinational Companies).
His work focuses on the commercialization of healthcare in Europe, in particular on the private companies that benefit from it, and on the nursing home sector. He is also interested in economic development issues, particularly in Latin America and China. Finally, he works with other GRESEA researchers on the MIRADOR database of multinational companies.
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
A just future: how to bring about a green transition
A just future: how to bring about a green transition
assembly
assembly
17.06
17:00
17.06
17:00
Assembly – Organizing for Change: common spaces for systemic alternatives
Assembly – Organizing for Change: common spaces for systemic alternatives
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:30
16.06
14:30
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
A free, democratic, anti-fascist Europe must be pacifist
Speakers:
Angelica Romano, Luigi Ferrajoli (tbc), Sean Conner
Moderation:
Sergio Bassoli
Full description:
War, the returns of the far-right, sovereignisms: the trade union movement and civil society as pillars of our democracies. Interaction between trade unions, associations, social and political forces is necessary to build a bank against the comeback of far-right and to promote a Europe for peace: in the context of the “Manifesto of the International Network of Anti-Fascist Trade Unions”, what actions should be put in place for a free, inclusive, solidary and democratic Europe?
This workshop will be in IT/EN
workshop
workshop
16.06
14:00
16.06
14:00
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Millennials and Politics: Attitudes and feelings of European youth
Speakers:
Angelina Giannopoulou, Carmelo Lombardo, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Flaminia Saccà, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Luca Massidda, Marco Palmieri, Melissa Mongiardo
Moderation:
Silvia Cataldi
Full description:
- Millennials and Gen Z in Europe: Political Participation and Left-Wing Politics - Angelina Giannopoulou, Lina Zirganou Kazolea, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos (Transform! Europe)
- Electoral Behaviors and Electoral Districts: Which Role of Young People? - Carmelo Lombardo, Melissa Mongiardo, Marco Palmieri (Electoral Observatory, Sapienza University of Rome)
- Social Network Electoral Campaigns and Leadership Styles - Luca Massidda (University of Tuscia), Flaminia Saccà (Sapienza University of Rome)
Sofian Philip Naceur is a journalist and former Cairo-based freelance correspondent, mostly working on Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and migration-related developments across North Africa and border regimes in the region. Since 2021, he works for the North Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Tunis, Tunisia.
lecture
lecture
16.06
18:00
16.06
18:00
Countering Border Regimes in Europe and Beyond
Countering Border Regimes in Europe and Beyond
Countering Border Regimes in Europe and Beyond
Speakers:
Sofian Philip Naceur
Full description:
The systematic violence against people on the move continues unabated while governments increasingly try to filter migration according to economic needs. Migration control policies and the “border management” approach have been turned into ever-present imperatives. As Europe will not change course, resistance movements in the Global South need to take a lead.
Restrictive migration control regimes are being spread around the world, international refugee law is being turned into an empty shell and the systematic violence against people on the move at the EU’s external border and beyond continues unabated. Governments weaponize migration for the sake of those in power and the stability of a globalized capitalist system, build on exploitation, social inequalities and oppression. There is no alternative to continue scandalizing this violence, yet imperial powers will not change track. To effectively challenge those border control regimes, resistance movements in Europe need to form inter-sectional alliances while struggles in the Global South need to take a lead.
This lecture will be in EN/IT.
discussion
discussion
16.06
18:30
16.06
18:30
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Fossil Gas Extractivism: Who Profits and Who Pays?
Speakers:
Francesco Martone, Gastivists, NO TAP
Moderation:
Sofian Philip Naceur
Full description:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further boosted the expansion of fossil gas extraction as gas is now being marketed as the transition fuel for a green new deal. Pipeline and fracking projects formerly opposed with partial success by communities and movements are being revived for the sake of the “energy security” of imperial states. While Algeria, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean are being turned into transit hubs for the EU’s gas supply, resistance movements in Italy, Argentina or Algeria are confronted with significant challenges such as the increasing securitization of public spaces and state repression.
A significant amount of fossil fuel projects worldwide were stopped thanks to popular resistance. Yet anti-fracking movements in Argentina or Algeria and struggles against fossil gas pipelines in Italy or elsewhere are being criminalized, outmaneuvred or oppressed by governments and the industry. The majority of cases of killings or threats to human rights defenders worldwide relate to environmental cases, many of which involved in protests against mining or fossil fuels. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a renewed run on fossil gas extractivism is looming, forcing local and transnational resistance groups to coordinate actions, resistance and strategies of self-defense quickly. Our workshop wants to offer a space to challenge the “security” approach to energy transition, share experiences in relevant struggles as well as tools to resist criminalization to more effectively counter such projects today and in the future and learn from past defeats.
This workshop will be in EN.
Stalker is a collective of architects and researchers that founded the Osservatorio Nomade (ON) that experiment and engage in actions to create self-organised spaces and situations
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:00
17.06
14:00
Art & Political Intervention
Art & Political Intervention
Art & Political Intervention
Speakers:
Ruth Katz, Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade
Moderation:
Nora Garcia
Full description:
Discussion on art and new narratives, imaginaries and languages for peace and security.
Speakers:
Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade - Stalker is a collective of architects and researchers that founded the Osservatorio Nomade (ON) that experiment and engage in actions to create self-organised spaces and situations.
Dr. Ruth Katz, Musician, educator, political activist, and part of One State Embassy, a multidisciplinary art and political collective that reinterprets a reality in which people who are coming from conflict & war zones actively work on bringing the different communities closer.
Nora García - graduated in Fine Arts and design teacher, lives in Madrid where she develops her feminist activism and cultural work. Her focus is on agitation & propaganda, internationalism and political communication.
workshop
workshop
16.06
10:00
16.06
10:00
Challenging Corporate Power and Capitalism
Challenging Corporate Power and Capitalism
Challenging Corporate Power and Capitalism
Speakers:
Brid Brennan, Tatiana Moutihno
Full description:
This participatory space will focus principally on the struggles challenging Corporate Power with a brief introductory framing on current capitalism and neoliberalism looking at “Europe in its “Peripheries” and at Europe-Global South contexts. The debate will further focus on campaigns such as: The Just Cause-the case vs ENI (Italy); the experience of the garment industry struggles in Serbia; and the Global Campaign - Dismantle Corporate Power: the struggle to regulate TNCs at the UNHRC and of corporate capture of global governance and the multilateral system. There will be opportunity also to exchange on other campaign experiences.
We will also explore the obstacles to building transnational solidarity and exchange on strategies that go beyond our silos and strengthen convergences that can more effectively challenge corporate power.
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
Tiaré Gatti Mora is a journalist who collaborates with a range of Spanish and Italian media and organizations, writing articles on issues relating to politics and culture and interviewing figures such as Jeremy Corbyn, Santiago Alba Rico and Stefania Maurizi. A King’s College London and Central Saint Martins graduate, her academic research focuses on comparative literature, film studies and political communication.
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:00
17.06
14:00
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Feminism in Social Media: Toppling the far-right agenda
Speakers:
Alba Sidera, Raquel Navarrete, Tiaré Gatti Mora
Moderation:
Cristina Cardín Coello
Full description:
Three feminist speakers will offer their expertise on how to fight the far-right back, both on social and traditional media. All of them have suffered the attacks of anti-feminist and bigoted cyberactivists, and know well their behaviors and how their ideas are easily spread online. Sites like Reddit, YouTube or Twitch are prominently masculine and social groups like the incels have been since the beginning creating communities against the feminists. Luckily, women won’t keep quiet.
Moderator: Cristina Cardín, Projects Coordinator at IR&D.
This workshop will be in EN.
workshop
workshop
17.06
14:30
17.06
14:30
Resisting Praxis: Contemporary climate justice struggles
Resisting Praxis: Contemporary climate justice struggles
Resisting Praxis: Contemporary climate justice struggles
Speakers:
Scientist Rebellion, Ultima Generazione
Full description:
Activists from Scientist Rebellion and Ultima Generazione will expose some of the experiences they went through during the last months of civil resistance. From the actions in Rome to the protests in Germany, we'll talk about how to deal with police, politics, and despair. Summer is coming, let's brace ourselves!
Valery Alzaga is a labor and migrant rights campaigner and organiser with more than 20 years of organising experience across a range of different sectors - including property services, care, transport, health, retail, IT, renewable energies and auto-manufacturing. She started as an organiser with the Justice for Janitors campaign before becoming the Property Service Director at Local 105 in Denver, where she also was the president of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. She then worked for SEIU’s global department helping win and implement breakthrough global cleaning and security organising agreements (ISS, Securitas, G4S). From 2008 to 2015 she was the European organising coordinator with the Change to Win European Organising Centre (CTW-EOC) based in Amsterdam, working with many European unions and sectors to help them develop their own strategic organising campaigns and programs - including FNV (NL), UNISON and Unite (UK), IG Metal and ver.di (DE), 3F (DK), Solidarnoc (PL), SATAWU (SA) and GUFS (ITF and UNI). Since 2015 she has worked in UK public sector unions organising anti-privatization and EU and non-EU migrant rights campaigns. From 2018 to 2021 Valery was a field campaign strategist and advisor to Barcelona and Catalynia en Comu in Spain. She has a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Denver, and the Libera Universita Internazionale Degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome, and studied at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS). She is a proud mom of two and a great fan of the arts, philosophy, quantum physics, and the beautiful game.
discussion
discussion
16.06
18:30
16.06
18:30
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Capitalism, Labor and Migration: contesting Europe’s Future
Vanessa Bilancetti is a transfeminist activist, a scholar in politics, a law and economics teacher in high school, and a Muay Thai lover.
Arci Roma president
workshop
workshop
17.06
10:00
17.06
10:00
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
A sustainable Future is Public: the example of GKN
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, Hillary Wainwright, Marco Bersani, Pietro Cardelli, Vito Scalisi
Full description:
The workshop will present the case of resistance and struggle of the men and women workers of GKN after the mass layoff (442 people) on July 9, 2021, suddenly communicated through whatsapp messages and emails, despite the fact that GKN was a solid and profitable factory.
The goal of ownership-an investment fund-is to further maximize profits by relocating the company to a country where labor costs are lower than in Italy.
The timely mobilization of the workers and the Florentine and Tuscan social fabric sets in motion a unique experience of social and union struggle capable of creating a community of sharing that includes all the local civil society with national and international cultural and solidarity circuits.
The workshop will present GKN's new industrial project for the production of cargo bikes, the results of the GKN for Future crowdfunding campaign, and the next steps in a struggle that, amidst ups and downs, is not yet over.
Speakers:
Dario Salvetti, spokesman for the factory collective GKN
Marco Bersani, national coordinator of Attac Italia
Pietro Cardelli, Arci Firenze secretariat
Vito Scalisi, Arci Roma president
Hillary Wainwright, Transnational Institute and Redpepper magazine
The zoom link for the simulteneous English/Italian interpretation is: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/81802689822?pwd=ZnI5QktKUEU0eTBPVDBHM0Q1TVdXdz09. To be able to listen to the interpretation in your preferred language in real time, make sure you have a device with the Zoom app and headphones with you.
Yasha has worked for Statewatch since 1998, providing news coverage, analysis and translations to link EU policies to events on the ground in the justice and home affairs field in several member states (UK, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and Portugal). He has extensive public speaking experience in civil society and academic contexts and in 2019 completed a PhD at the University of Bristol in Policy Studies on the topic of 'European Immigration Policies as a Problem: State Power and Authoritarianism'.
workshop
workshop
17.06
11:30
17.06
11:30
A future without us? AI, data and digitalisation
A future without us? AI, data and digitalisation
A future without us? AI, data and digitalisation
Speakers:
Fulvia Teano, Yasha Maccanico
Full description:
How are technological advances utilized nowadays? Is facial recognition an innocent tool to have fun with photo filters and AI a way to unleash creativity? And what about social media? How does digital transformation of news and media, and also AI impact the world of fake news, and what are the relevant implications on both social media diffusion and fact-checking organizations' practices? In this workshop, we will discuss the use of technologies and digital environments in border control and migration management, as well as in surveillance and repressive media apparatuses and try to sketch out alternatives and counterstrategies.